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Organisation profile
Organisation profile
The Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) is an interdisciplinary research centre linking Informatics and Linguistics and English Language.
Founded in 1984, CSTR is concerned with research in all areas of speech technology including speech recognition, speech synthesis, speech signal processing, spoken language processing, multimodal interfaces, and dialogue systems. We have many collaborations with the wider community of researchers in speech science, language, cognition, and machine learning for which Edinburgh is renowned.
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Profiles
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Peter Bell
- School of Informatics - Personal Chair of Speech Technology
- Institute of Language, Cognition and Computation
- Centre for Speech Technology Research
- Language, Interaction and Robotics
Person: Academic: Research Active
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Simon King
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences - Personal Chair of Speech Processing
- Centre for Speech Technology Research
Person: Academic: Research Active
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Catherine Lai
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences - Lecturer in Speech and Language Processing
- Institute of Language, Cognition and Computation
- Centre for Speech Technology Research
Person: Academic: Research Active
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Differentiable grey-box modelling of phaser effects using frame-based spectral processing
Carson, A., King, S., Valentini Botinhao, C. & Bilbao, S., 4 Sept 2023, Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects. Copenhagen, p. 1-8 8 p. (Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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A low-resource pipeline for text-to-speech from found data with application to Scottish Gaelic
Wells, D., Richmond, K. & Lamb, W., Sept 2023, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association: Interspeech 2023. Harte, N., Carson-Berndsen, J. & Jones, G. (eds.). Dublin: ISCA, p. 4324-4328 (Interspeech - Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Everyone has an accent
Markl, N. & Lai, C., Sept 2023, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association: Interspeech 2023. Harte, N., Carson-Berndsen, J. & Jones, G. (eds.). Dublin: ISCA, p. 4424-4427 (Interspeech - Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Activities
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Edinburgh Science Festival: What's in a voice?
Rebekka Puderbaugh (Presenter), Catherine Lai (Presenter), Johannah O'Mahony (Presenter), Emelie Van de Vreken (Presenter), Sarenne Wallbridge (Contributor) & Chau Luu (Presenter)
6 Apr 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Festival/Exhibition
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Prizes
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ACL Best Special Theme Paper Award
Richmond, Korin (Recipient), 22 May 2022
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Best student paper at Interspeech 2022
Wallbridge, Sarenne (Recipient), Bell, Peter (Recipient) & Lai, Catherine (Recipient), 22 Sept 2022
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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ISCA Award for the best paper published in Speech Communication (2013-2017)
Cooke, Martin (Recipient), Mayo, Cassie (Recipient), Valentini Botinhao, Cassia (Recipient), Stylianou, Yannis (Recipient), Sauert, Bastian (Recipient) & Tang, Yan (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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MULTIMODAL SELF-SUPERVISED REPRESENTATION LEARNING FOR AUDIO GENERATION
1/10/22 → 31/03/26
Project: Research
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Datasets
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Lothian Diaries Dataset 1 (May-September 2020)
Hall-Lew, L. (Creator), Cowie, C. (Data Collector), Lai, C. (Data Manager), Liu, S. (Data Collector), Markl, N. (Data Collector), McNulty, S. (Data Collector), Alex, B. (Data Collector), Llewellyn, C. (Data Collector), Kerr, N. (Data Collector), Elliott Slosarova, Z. (Data Collector), Klingler, A. (Data Collector) & Hall-Lew, L. (Owner), Edinburgh DataVault, 30 Sept 2022
DOI: 10.7488/7a22cc4b-87ec-4df3-a549-3b347fd4bca5
Dataset
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Listening-test materials for "Where do the improvements come from in sequence-to-sequence neural TTS?"
Valentini Botinhao, C. (Creator), Fong, J. (Creator), Watts, O. (Creator) & Henter, G. E. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 17 Nov 2020
DOI: 10.7488/ds/2952
Dataset
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CSTR VCTK Corpus: English Multi-speaker Corpus for CSTR Voice Cloning Toolkit (version 0.92)
Veaux, C. (Creator), Yamagishi, J. (Creator) & MacDonald, K. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 13 Nov 2019
DOI: 10.7488/ds/2645, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.03499.pdf
Dataset
Press/Media
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Prof Simon King and Dr Philipa Rewaj discuss the Speak:Unique project
Simon King & Phillipa Rewaj
4/12/16
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities