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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 - Reader
- Institute of Language, Cognition and Computation
- Centre for Speech Technology Research
Person: Academic: Research Active
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Learning speech representations with variational predictive coding
Yeh, S.-L., Bell, P. & Tang, H., 1 Jul 2026, In: Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 14, p. 1489–1504 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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An evaluation framework for Text-to-Speech voice reconstruction
Sanchez, A., Minixhofer, C., Richmond, K., Klejch, O., Bell, P. & King, S., 4 Jun 2026, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association. ISCA, p. 1-6 6 p. (Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Sexualised synthetic personas encode and amplify gendered power asymmetries through voice
Ross, A., Sanchez, A., Kanhov, E., Lai, C. & Székely, É., 4 Jun 2026, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association. ISCA, p. 1-6 6 p. (Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Open AccessFile
Activities
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Control, variation and bias in synthetic speech
Lai, C. (Invited speaker)
3 Jul 2026Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Language and Society Scotland: Language & AI
Hall-Lew, L. (Organiser), Ilbury, C. (Organiser), Lai, C. (Invited speaker), Sullivan, E. (Invited speaker) & Markl, N. (Invited speaker)
28 Nov 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Across the prosodic dimension: Exploring spoken communication beyond text
Lai, C. (Invited speaker)
11 Sept 2025Activity: 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 novel use of a digital method (2026 CDCS Digital Research Prizes)
Lamb, W. (Recipient), Klejch, O. (Recipient) & Bell, P. (Recipient), 19 May 2026
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Best paper award
Zheleznov, V. (Recipient), Bilbao, S. (Recipient), Wright, A. (Recipient) & King, S. (Recipient), 6 Sept 2025
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Projects
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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
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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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PPLS Small Project Grant : Map Task to the Future
Lai, C. (Principal Investigator)
1/10/22 → 31/07/23
Project: University Awarded Project Funding
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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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
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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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AI initiative gives Gaelic a foothold in the digital age
Lamb, W., Ó Maolalaigh, R., Alex, B. & Bell, P.
8/05/25
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press Release
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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