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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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Refining the evaluation of speech synthesis: A summary of the Blizzard Challenge 2023
Perrotin, O., Stephenson, B., Gerber, S., Bailly, G. & King, S., Mar 2025, In: Computer Speech and Language. 90, 101747.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Speech generation for indigenous language education
Pine, A., Cooper, E., Guzmán, D., Joanis, E., Kazantseva, A., Krekoski, R., Kuhn, R., Larkin, S., Littell, P., Lothian, D., Martin, A., Richmond, K., Tessier, M., Valentini-Botinhao, C., Wells, D. & Yamagishi, J., Mar 2025, In: Computer Speech and Language. 90, 101723.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Synthesising a corpus of Gaelic traditional narrative with cross-lingual text expansion
Lamb, W., Han, D., Klejch, O., Alex, B. & Bell, P., 24 Jan 2025, Proceedings of the 5th Celtic Language Technology Workshop. Abu Dhabi: ACL Anthology, p. 12–26 12 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Activities
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ISCA/ITG Workshop on Diversity in Large Speech and Language Models
Ross, A. (Contributor), Markl, N. (Contributor), Hall-Lew, L. (Contributor) & Lai, C. (Contributor)
20 Feb 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Watch your tone! Understanding prosodic variation in synthetic speech
Lai, C. (Invited speaker)
15 Jul 2024Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Across the prosodic dimension: Exploring spoken communication beyond text
Lai, C. (Keynote speaker)
1 Jul 2024Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Prizes
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ACL Best Special Theme Paper Award
Richmond, K. (Recipient), 22 May 2022
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Best student paper at Interspeech 2022
Wallbridge, S. (Recipient), Bell, P. (Recipient) & Lai, C. (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, M. (Recipient), Mayo, C. (Recipient), Valentini Botinhao, C. (Recipient), Stylianou, Y. (Recipient), Sauert, B. (Recipient) & Tang, Y. (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Speech Generation For Indigenous Language Education
Richmond, K. (Principal Investigator)
3/02/23 → 2/12/25
Project: Research
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MULTIMODAL SELF-SUPERVISED REPRESENTATION LEARNING FOR AUDIO GENERATION
King, S. (Principal Investigator)
1/10/22 → 31/03/26
Project: Research
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Gaelic Speech Recognition for Media, Education and Research
Lamb, W. (Principal Investigator), Alex, B. (Co-investigator), Bell, P. (Co-investigator) & Ó Maolalaigh, R. (Co-investigator)
31/03/23 → 30/03/25
Project: Research
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), Symington, B. (Data Collector), Llewellyn, C. (Data Collector), Fang, 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 NAM TIMIT Plus
Clark, R. (Creator), King, S. (Creator), Yang, C. (Creator), Yamagishi, J. (Creator) & Brown, G. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 2 Mar 2021
DOI: 10.7488/ds/2994
Dataset
Press/Media
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Prof Simon King and Dr Philipa Rewaj discuss the Speak:Unique project
King, S. & Rewaj, P.
4/12/16
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities