Centre for Speech Technology Research

Activities

Activities per year 2000 2009 2010 2012 2013 2014 2016 2017 2018 2019 2025

• 57 Invited talk
• 34 External Examiner or Assessor
• 17 Participation in workshop, seminar, course
• 17 Oral presentation
• 41 More
  • 9 Research and Teaching at External Organisation
  • 6 Participation in conference
  • 6 Public Engagement – Public lecture/debate/seminar
  • 4 Editorial activity
  • 4 Examination
  • 3 Hosting an academic visitor
  • 2 Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups
  • 1 Public Engagement – Festival/Exhibition
  • 1 Providing oral or written evidence for non-academic board, committee, working group or advisory panel
  • 1 Membership of peer review panel or committee
  • 1 Types of External academic engagement - Research and Teaching at External Organisation
  • 1 Other
  • 1 Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
  • 1 Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar

Activities per year

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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 2025

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course

• Watch your tone! Understanding prosodic variation in synthetic speech

  Lai, C. (Invited speaker)

  15 Jul 2024

  Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Across the prosodic dimension: Exploring spoken communication beyond text

  Lai, C. (Keynote speaker)

  1 Jul 2024

  Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Into the prosodic dimension: Finding meaning in the non-lexical aspects of speech

  Lai, C. (Invited speaker)

  24 Apr 2024

  Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Prosody, dialogue and (machine) expectations: exploring spoken dialogue understanding with speech and language technologies

  Lai, C. (Invited speaker)

  22 Apr 2024

  Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Watch your tone! Exploring prosodic variation with(in) speech and language technologies

  Lai, C. (Invited speaker)

  21 Mar 2024

  Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Doing Interdisciplinary Research

  Lai, C. (Invited speaker)

  20 Aug 2023

  Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Into the prosodic dimension: Finding meaning in the non-lexical aspects of speech

  Lai, C. (Keynote speaker)

  18 Aug 2023

  Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Miku Nishihara

  Richmond, K. (Host)

  7 Jun 2023 → 12 Sept 2023

  Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Hosting an academic visitor

• Edinburgh Science Festival: What's in a voice?

  Puderbaugh, R. (Presenter), Lai, C. (Presenter), O'Mahony, J. (Presenter), Van de Vreken, E. (Presenter), Wallbridge, S. (Contributor) & Luu, C. (Presenter)

  6 Apr 2023

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Festival/Exhibition

• PhD Internal Examiner

  Richmond, K. (Examiner)

  6 Mar 2023

  Activity: Examination types › Examination

• PhD Internal Examiner

  Richmond, K. (Examiner)

  8 Feb 2023

  Activity: Examination types › Examination

• UK and Ireland Speech Workshop 2022

  Lai, C. (Chair) & Bell, P. (Chair)

  5 Sept 2022 → 6 Sept 2022

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference

• Text-to-Speech evaluation in context

  Lai, C. (Invited speaker)

  28 Oct 2021

  Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Stable variation and the formality of pandemic discourse: The Scottish BIT vowel

  Hall-Lew, L. (Speaker), Göbel, J. (Speaker), Markl, N. (Contributor), Lai, C. (Contributor), McNulty, S. (Contributor) & Elliott Slosarova, Z. (Contributor)

  20 Oct 2021

  Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Lockdown in the Lothians: Insights from the Lothian Diary Project

  Liu, S.-J. S. (Contributor), Hall-Lew, L. (Contributor), McNulty, S. (Contributor), Markl, N. (Contributor), Lai, C. (Contributor), Alex, B. (Contributor), Llewellyn, C. (Contributor) & Gillespie-Smith, K. (Contributor)

  6 Oct 2021

  Activity: Consultancy types › Providing oral or written evidence for non-academic board, committee, working group or advisory panel

  File

• Variation in the Edinburgh KIT vowel

  Hall-Lew, L. (Speaker), Göbel, J. (Speaker), Cowie, C. (Contributor), Markl, N. (Contributor), Lai, C. (Contributor), McNulty, S. (Contributor), Klingler, A. (Contributor) & Elliott Slosarova, Z. (Contributor)

  10 Sept 2021

  Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Voices of lockdown: Using self-recorded Lockdown diaries to investigate phonetic change in Edinburgh and the Lothians

  Markl, N. (Speaker), Hall-Lew, L. (Speaker), Cowie, C. (Speaker), Lai, C. (Speaker) & McNulty, S. (Speaker)

  8 Jun 2021

  Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Spoken language processing: learning from more than just text

  Lai, C. (Invited speaker)

  8 Mar 2021

  Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• The Lothian Video Diary Project

  Hall-Lew, L. (Speaker), Cowie, C. (Speaker), McNulty, S. J. (Speaker), Markl, N. (Speaker), Liu, S.-J. S. (Speaker), Lai, C. (Speaker), Llewellyn, C. (Speaker), Alex, B. (Speaker), Fang, N. (Speaker), Elliott, Z. (Speaker) & Klingler, A. (Speaker)

  8 Jan 2021

  Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• PhD Viva External Examiner

  Richmond, K. (Examiner)

  5 Mar 2020

  Activity: Examination types › External Examiner or Assessor

• Jing-Xuan Zhang

  Richmond, K. (Host)

  3 Feb 2020 → 30 Jul 2020

  Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Hosting an academic visitor

• ORGCon19 Scotland

  Lai, C. (Invited speaker)

  26 Oct 2019

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Public lecture/debate/seminar

• The Blizzard Workshop 2019

  King, S. (Organiser)

  23 Sept 2019

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course

• The 10th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop

  King, S. (Member of programme committee)

  20 Sept 2019 → 22 Sept 2019

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference

• Interspeech 2019

  King, S. (Member of programme committee)

  15 Sept 2019

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference

• Kouichi Katsurada

  Richmond, K. (Host)

  1 Apr 2019 → 30 Sept 2019

  Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Hosting an academic visitor

• In Articulation for Diversity

  Richmond, K. (Assessor)

  7 Mar 2019

  Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• PhD Pre-examiner

  Richmond, K. (Examiner)

  29 Jan 2019

  Activity: Examination types › External Examiner or Assessor

• Does “end-to-end” speech synthesis mean we don’t need text processing or signal processing any more?

  King, S. (Invited speaker)

  18 Jan 2019

  Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• External examiner for Maria del Carmen Magariños Iglesias

  King, S. (Examiner)

  2019

  Activity: Examination types › External Examiner or Assessor

• Speech Synthesis

  King, S. (Invited speaker)

  12 Dec 2018

  Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• PhD Viva Internal Examiner

  Richmond, K. (Examiner)

  7 Dec 2018

  Activity: Examination types › Examination

• Italian Institute of Technology (External organisation)

  King, S. (Assessor)

  20 Nov 2018 → 22 Nov 2018

  Activity: Membership types › Membership of peer review panel or committee

• PhD Viva Internal Examiner

  Richmond, K. (Examiner)

  13 Nov 2018

  Activity: Examination types › Examination

• Is identifying people using their voice a good idea?

  King, S. (Invited speaker)

  30 Oct 2018

  Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• SLSP 2018 invited talk: Does ‘end-to-end’ speech synthesis make any sense?

  King, S. (Invited speaker)

  15 Oct 2018

  Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk

  File

• The Blizzard Workshop 2018

  King, S. (Organiser)

  8 Sept 2018

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course

  File

• Speaker Odyssey 2018 keynote: Speaking naturally? It depends who is listening…

  King, S. (Keynote speaker)

  27 Jun 2018

  Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk

  File

• ULAB 2018 keynote: If you lose your voice, how can you speak?

  King, S. (Keynote speaker)

  11 Apr 2018

  Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk

  File

• Speaking naturally? It depends who is listening.

  King, S. (Invited speaker)

  22 Jan 2018

  Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Building new text-to-speech systems for lower-resource languages.

  King, S. (Invited speaker)

  17 Jan 2018

  Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• How can you speak, if you lose your voice?

  King, S. (Invited speaker)

  12 Jan 2018

  Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Speech Synthesis: Where did the signal processing go?

  King, S. (Invited speaker)

  10 Jan 2018

  Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• External examiner for James Attard

  King, S. (Examiner)

  2018

  Activity: Examination types › External Examiner or Assessor

• Channel Compensation in the Generalised VTS Approach to Robust ASR

  Loweimi, E. (Speaker), Barker, J. (Speaker) & Hain, T. (Speaker)

  11 Sept 2017

  Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• EUSPICO 2017 keynote: Speech Synthesis: Where did the signal processing go?

  King, S. (Keynote speaker)

  31 Aug 2017

  Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk

  File

• The Blizzard Workshop 2017

  King, S. (Organiser)

  25 Aug 2017

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course

  File

• Channel Compensation in the Generalised VTS Approach to Robust ASR

  Loweimi, E. (Speaker), Barker, J. (Speaker) & Hain, T. (Speaker)

  23 Aug 2017

  Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

• Interspeech 2017 invited tutorial: Deep Learning for Text-to-Speech Synthesis, using the Merlin toolkit

  King, S. (Keynote speaker), Watts, O. (Contributor), Ronanki, S. (Contributor), Wu, Z. (Contributor) & Espic Calderón, F. (Contributor)

  20 Aug 2017

  Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk

  File