Centre for Speech Technology 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

  • Training Data 100%
  • Speech Recognition 100%
  • ChatGPT 100%
  • Learning Approach 50%
  • Generative Pre-Trained Transformer 3 50%

• PPLS Small Project Grant : Map Task to the Future

  Lai, C. (Principal Investigator)

  1/10/22 → 31/07/23

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

• UK-German Funding Initiative in the Humanities: Prosodic structure at the interface between language and speech

  Boegel, T. (Principal Investigator), Turk, A. (Principal Investigator), Lai, C. (Co-investigator) & Napoleao de Souza, R. (Researcher)

  AHRC

  1/02/22 → 31/01/25

  Project: Research

  • Controlled 100%
  • Fundamental Frequency 100%
  • Adjectives 100%
  • Salience 100%
  • Bi-gram frequency 50%

• CAPS-AI: Constructing the Agenda: Public Service AI in News and Media Production

  Jones, B. (Principal Investigator), Luger, E. (Co-investigator) & Bell, P. (Co-investigator)

  1/11/21 → 31/01/22

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Artificial Intelligence 100%
  • Public Utilities 66%
  • Action Research 50%
  • Media Production 50%
  • Public Service Medium 33%

• Young People and their Caregivers in Edinburgh and the Lothians: Covid-19 in their words

  Hall-Lew, L. (Principal Investigator), Cowie, C. (Co-investigator), Lai, C. (Co-investigator), Liu, S. (Co-investigator), Kerr, N. (Co-investigator), Gillespie-Smith, K. (Co-investigator), Sharpe, H. (Co-investigator) & Happer, R. (Co-investigator)

  1/03/21 → 31/07/21

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Edinburgh 100%

• Recording Life during a Pandemic: The Lothian Video Diary Project

  Hall-Lew, L. (Principal Investigator), Cowie, C. (Co-investigator), Alex, B. (Co-investigator), Lai, C. (Co-investigator), Kerr, N. (Co-investigator), Liu, S. (Co-investigator) & Llewellyn, C. (Co-investigator)

  25/05/20 → 31/07/20

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Corpus 100%
  • Imagining 100%
  • Diary 100%
  • COVID-19 100%
  • Lockdown 100%

• Foundations for expressive speech synthesis (year 2)

  King, S. (Principal Investigator) & Valentini Botinhao, C. (Principal Investigator)

  Non-EU industry, commerce and public corporations

  16/12/19 → 31/10/22

  Project: Research

• Foundations for expressive speech synthesis (year 2)

  King, S. (Principal Investigator) & Valentini Botinhao, C. (Co-investigator)

  Non-EU industry, commerce and public corporations

  16/12/19 → 31/10/22

  Project: Research

• Silent Speech Interfaces for all - recognising speech from ultrasound images of the tongue

  Ribeiro, M. S. (Principal Investigator)

  UK-based charities

  1/08/19 → 1/12/20

  Project: Research

  • Speaker 100%
  • Tongue 100%
  • Corpus 100%
  • Imaging 100%
  • Speech Articulation 100%

• Machine-assisted Transcription for Handwritten Gaelic Narratives

  Lamb, W. (Principal Investigator), Loxley, J. (Co-investigator), Alex, B. (Co-investigator), Sinclair, M. (Collaborator) & Muehlberger, G. (Project Partner)

  1/08/19 → 31/07/20

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Training Data 100%
  • Blog 100%
  • Natural Language Processing 100%
  • Speech Recognition System 100%
  • Handwriting Recognition 100%

• PPLS Small Project Grant: Speech Technology (ultrasound/video articulography)

  Richmond, K. (Principal Investigator)

  1/04/19 → 31/07/19

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Ultrasound Technology 100%

• Adapting end to end speech recognition systems

  Renals, S. (Principal Investigator) & Bell, P. (Co-investigator)

  Non-EU industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/02/19 → 31/01/22

  Project: Research

• ELG- European Language Grid

  Germann, U. (Principal Investigator) & Renals, S. (Co-investigator)

  EU government bodies

  1/01/19 → 30/06/22

  Project: Research

  • University of Edinburgh 100%
  • News translation 88%
  • European Language 44%
  • Language Modeling 33%
  • translation quality 33%

• Foundations for expressive speech synthesis

  King, S. (Principal Investigator) & Valentini Botinhao, C. (Co-investigator)

  Non-EU industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/01/19 → 31/10/22

  Project: Research

• Foundations for expressive speech synthesis

  King, S. (Principal Investigator) & Valentini Botinhao, C. (Co-investigator)

  Non-EU industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/01/19 → 31/10/22

  Project: Research

• Spoken Dialogue Processing for Robot Companions 2019

  Lai, C. (Principal Investigator)

  Other

  1/11/18 → 31/10/19

  Project: Research

• Automatic Extraction of Rich Metadata from Broadcast Speech

  Renals, S. (Principal Investigator)

  UK-based charities

  1/10/18 → 30/09/22

  Project: Research

  • Feature Extraction Network 100%

• SpeechWave

  Renals, S. (Principal Investigator) & Bell, P. (Co-investigator)

  EPSRC

  1/03/18 → 21/05/22

  Project: Research

  • Speech Recognition 100%
  • Error Rate 44%
  • Automatic Speech Recognition 31%
  • Convolutional Neural Network 27%
  • Magnitude Spectrum 27%

• Empowering elderly people in conversations with healthcare professionals

  Grover, C. (Principal Investigator), Moore, J. (Co-investigator) & Renals, S. (Co-investigator)

  EU government bodies

  1/01/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

• Distant speech recognition of overlapping speech

  Renals, S. (Principal Investigator)

  UK industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/10/17 → 30/09/21

  Project: Research

  • Speech Recognition 100%
  • Input Sequence 56%
  • Performance Improvement 50%
  • Subsamplings 50%
  • Constrains 50%

• Systems for Cross-Language Information Processing, Translation, and Summarization

  Renals, S. (Principal Investigator), Bell, P. (Co-investigator) & Heafield, K. (Co-investigator)

  Non-EU other

  25/09/17 → 22/02/22

  Project: Research

  • Speech Recognition 100%
  • Mutual Information 100%
  • Supervised Method 50%
  • Semisupervised Model 50%
  • Low-resource Languages 50%

• Spoken Dialogue Processing for Robot Companions

  Lai, C. (Principal Investigator) & Alex, B. (Co-investigator)

  Non-EU industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/09/17 → 31/08/18

  Project: Research

• Ultrax2020: Ultrasound Technology for Optimising the Treatment of Speech Disorders

  Renals, S. (Principal Investigator)

  EPSRC

  1/08/17 → 30/11/21

  Project: Research

  • Therapy Session 100%
  • Computer Hardware 80%
  • Neural Network 73%
  • Ultrasound 40%
  • Classification 40%

• Ultrax2020: Ultrasound Technology for Optimising the Treatment of Speech Disorders

  Richmond, K. (Principal Investigator)

  EPSRC

  1/08/17 → 30/11/21

  Project: Research

  • Speech Articulation 100%
  • Speech Recognition 100%
  • Image Segmentation 100%
  • Motion Capture 100%
  • Supervised Method 100%

• SCRIPT : Speech Synthesis for Spoken Content Production

  King, S. (Principal Investigator)

  EPSRC

  1/12/16 → 30/11/19

  Project: Research

  • Membership Degree 100%
  • Membership Function 100%

• SCRIPT : Speech Synthesis for Spoken Content Production

  Yamagishi, J. (Principal Investigator), King, S. (Co-investigator) & Watts, O. (Co-investigator)

  EPSRC

  1/12/16 → 30/11/19

  Project: Research

  • Text To Speech 100%
  • Speech Waveform 92%
  • Neural Network 69%
  • Speech Synthesis 46%
  • Deep Neural Network 46%

• Enriched communication across the lifespan

  King, S. (Principal Investigator)

  EU government bodies

  1/10/16 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

  • Reverberation 100%
  • Priori Information 50%
  • Synthetic Speech 50%
  • Life Situation 50%
  • Impulse Response 50%

• Deployment of proof-of-concept speech synthesis system for the BBC World Service

  Watts, O. (Co-investigator) & King, S. (Principal Investigator)

  1/09/16 → 30/09/16

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

• Robust Broadcast Speech Recognition- (Datalab part)

  Renals, S. (Principal Investigator)

  UK industry, commerce and public corporations, UK central government bodies/local authorities, health and hospital authorities

  1/09/16 → 29/02/20

  Project: Research

  • Deep Neural Network 100%
  • Speech Recognition 100%
  • Neural Network 100%
  • Fully Connected Layer 28%
  • Speaker Recognition 25%

• Producing clearer speech for older drivers

  Yamagishi, J. (Principal Investigator) & Valentini Botinhao, C. (Co-investigator)

  Non-EU industry, commerce and public corporations

  15/07/16 → 14/07/17

  Project: Research

• PPLS Pilot Project: Proof-of-concept hybrid speech synthesis system, for the BBC World Service.

  King, S. (Principal Investigator)

  1/07/16 → 31/07/16

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Speech Synthesis System 100%
  • Text To Speech 100%
  • Target Language 66%
  • Subjective Evaluation 33%

• User Generated Dialogue System: uDialogue

  Renals, S. (Principal Investigator) & Yamagishi, J. (Co-investigator)

  Non-EU industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/04/16 → 31/03/17

  Project: Research

  • Recurrent Neural Network 100%
  • Dialog System 100%
  • Language Modeling 100%
  • Spoken Dialog System 100%
  • Spoken Dialogue 100%

• SUMMA - Scalable Understanding of Mulitingual Media

  Renals, S. (Principal Investigator), Birch-Mayne, A. (Co-investigator) & Cohen, S. (Co-investigator)

  EU government bodies

  1/02/16 → 31/01/19

  Project: Research

  • Machine Translation 100%
  • Speech Recognition 72%
  • Parsing 62%
  • Automatic Translation 62%
  • Recurrent Neural Network 57%

• Multi-domain speech recognition

  Renals, S. (Principal Investigator)

  Non-EU industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/09/15 → 28/02/19

  Project: Research

  • Speech Recognition 100%
  • Neural Network 100%
  • Feature Mapping 100%
  • Data Augmentation 100%
  • Broadcast Domain 100%

• User Generated Dialogue System: uDialogue

  Renals, S. (Principal Investigator) & Yamagishi, J. (Co-investigator)

  Non-EU other

  1/04/15 → 31/03/16

  Project: Research

  • Speech Synthesis 100%
  • Recurrent Neural Network 100%
  • Language Modeling 100%
  • Word Error Rate 100%
  • Filled pauses 100%

• Delivering Personalised Synthetic Voices for Patients with MND

  King, S. (Principal Investigator) & Yamagishi, J. (Co-investigator)

  UK-based charities

  1/05/14 → 30/04/16

  Project: Research

• User Generated Dialogue System: uDialogue

  Yamagishi, J. (Principal Investigator) & Renals, S. (Co-investigator)

  Non-EU other

  1/04/14 → 31/03/15

  Project: Research

  • Language Modeling 100%
  • Neural Network 57%
  • Recurrent Neural Network 50%
  • Conventional System 50%
  • System Component 50%

• ROCKIT - Roadmap for Conversational Interaction Technologies (Other)

  Renals, S. (Principal Investigator) & King, S. (Co-investigator)

  EU government bodies

  1/12/13 → 30/11/15

  Project: Research

  • Conversational Interaction 100%
  • Security and Privacy 33%
  • Information Space 33%
  • Environment Communication 33%

• ROCKIT - Roadmap for Conversational Interaction Technologies (Management)

  Renals, S. (Principal Investigator) & King, S. (Co-investigator)

  EU government bodies

  1/12/13 → 30/11/15

  Project: Research

  • Conversational Interaction 100%
  • Security and Privacy 33%
  • Information Space 33%
  • Environment Communication 33%

• ROCKIT - Roadmap for Conversational Interaction Technologies (Coordination/Support)

  Renals, S. (Principal Investigator) & King, S. (Co-investigator)

  EU government bodies

  1/12/13 → 30/11/15

  Project: Research

  • Conversational Interaction 100%
  • Security and Privacy 33%
  • Information Space 33%
  • Environment Communication 33%

• User Generated Dialogue System: uDialogue

  Yamagishi, J. (Principal Investigator) & Renals, S. (Co-investigator)

  Non-EU other

  1/04/13 → 31/03/14

  Project: Research

  • Speech Perception 100%
  • Filled pauses 100%
  • Speech Rate 100%
  • Synthetic Speech 100%
  • natural speech 80%

• Synthesis of Fast Speech/Speech Synthesis of Auditive:Lecture Books (SALB)

  Yamagishi, J. (Principal Investigator)

  EU other

  1/02/13 → 31/03/14

  Project: Research

  • Compression Method 100%
  • Synthesized Speech 50%
  • Game Playing 50%
  • speech corpus 50%
  • Linear Time 50%

• SIWIS: Spoken Interaction with Interpretation in Switzerland

  Yamagishi, J. (Principal Investigator)

  Non-EU-based charities

  1/12/12 → 30/11/16

  Project: Research

  • Speech Synthesis 100%
  • Deep Neural Network 75%
  • Text To Speech 75%
  • Level Representation 50%
  • Wavelet Transforms 50%

• Deep architectures for statistical speech synthesis

  Yamagishi, J. (Principal Investigator)

  UK industry, commerce and public corporations

  4/09/12 → 3/03/16

  Project: Research

  • Speech Synthesis 100%
  • Synthetic Speech 80%
  • Acoustic Feature 47%
  • Deep Neural Network 43%
  • Text To Speech 41%

• EU-Bridge Other - 'Bridges Across the Language Divide'

  Renals, S. (Principal Investigator), King, S. (Co-investigator), Koehn, P. (Co-investigator) & Osborne, M. (Co-investigator)

  EU government bodies

  1/02/12 → 31/01/15

  Project: Research

• EU-Bridge

  Renals, S. (Principal Investigator), King, S. (Co-investigator), Koehn, P. (Co-investigator) & Osborne, M. (Co-investigator)

  EU government bodies

  1/02/12 → 31/01/15

  Project: Research

  • Translation System 100%
  • Machine Translation 91%
  • Statistical Machine Translation 83%
  • Automatic Translation 68%
  • Syntactics 53%

• EU Bridge - 'Bridges Across the Language Divide'

  Renals, S. (Principal Investigator), King, S. (Co-investigator), Koehn, P. (Co-investigator) & Osborne, M. (Co-investigator)

  EU government bodies

  1/02/12 → 31/01/15

  Project: Research

• KTP between UEDIN and France Telecom R & D UK

  Bell, P. (Principal Investigator)

  UK industry, commerce and public corporations, UK central government bodies/local authorities, health and hospital authorities

  1/02/12 → 31/10/13

  Project: Research

• INSPIRE - Investigating speech processsing in realistic environments

  King, S. (Principal Investigator)

  EU government bodies

  1/01/12 → 31/12/15

  Project: Research

  • Speech Synthesis 100%
  • natural speech 100%
  • Limits 100%
  • Perceptual Effect 100%
  • Diagonal 100%

• inEVENT

  Renals, S. (Principal Investigator)

  EU government bodies

  1/11/11 → 31/10/14

  Project: Research

  • Speech Recognition 100%
  • Turn-Taking 88%
  • Multimedia 66%
  • Language Modeling 44%
  • Recurrent Neural Network 44%