Simon King

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  MULTIMODAL SELF-SUPERVISED REPRESENTATION LEARNING FOR AUDIO GENERATION

  King, S. (Principal Investigator)

  1/10/22 → 31/03/26

  Project: Research

• MULTIMODAL SELF-SUPERVISED REPRESENTATION LEARNING FOR AUDIO GENERATION

  King, S. (Principal Investigator)

  ROCKSTAR Games UK LTD

  1/10/22 → 31/03/26

  Project: Research

• Finished

  Finding the limits of expressive speech synthesis using large speech models

  King, S. (Principal Investigator)

  L&Q Oasis Limited

  1/11/24 → 30/04/25

  Project: Research

• Consolidated Studentship Agreement (NLP)

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

  Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

  1/09/20 → 31/08/24

  Project: Research

• Two studentships in Natural Language Processing

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

  Non-EU industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/09/20 → 31/08/24

  Project: Research

  • Text To Speech 100%
  • Disciplinary Difference 100%
  • Published Research 100%
  • Knowledge Transfer 100%
  • Lexical 100%

• COBRA: COnversational BRAins

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

  EU government bodies

  1/02/20 → 31/01/24

  Project: Research

  • Speech Synthesis 100%
  • Text To Speech 77%
  • Bidirectional Encoder Representations From Transformers 29%
  • Textual Representation 22%
  • Synthetic Speech 22%

• COBRA: COnversational BRAins

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

  European Commission

  1/02/20 → 31/07/24

  Project: Research

  • Speech Synthesis 100%
  • Synthesis Model 66%
  • Legendre Polynomial 50%
  • Text To Speech 50%
  • Generative Model 50%

• Foundations for expressive speech synthesis (year 2)

  King, S. (Principal Investigator)

  Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd

  16/12/19 → 31/10/22

  Project: Research

• 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

• Foundations for expressive speech synthesis

  King, S. (Principal Investigator)

  Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd

  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

• 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

• 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

• 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%

• 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

• 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%

• 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 (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%

• 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

• 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%

• 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%

• INSPIRE - Investigating speech processsing in realistic environments

  King, S. (Principal Investigator)

  European Commission

  1/01/12 → 31/12/15

  Project: Research

• Simple4All: Speech synthesis that improves through adaptive learning

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

  EU government bodies

  1/11/11 → 31/10/14

  Project: Research

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  • Speech Synthesis 100%
  • Text To Speech 84%
  • Language Specific 36%
  • Deep Neural Network 36%
  • Speech Synthesizer 30%

• Natural Speech Technology

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

  EPSRC

  1/05/11 → 31/07/16

  Project: Research

  • Deep Neural Network 100%
  • Speech Synthesis 97%
  • Speech Recognition 76%
  • Text To Speech 45%
  • Recurrent Neural Network 45%

• PPLS Pilot Project: Hidden Markov Model (HMM)

  King, S. (Principal Investigator)

  1/12/10 → 30/06/11

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

• LISTA: LISTA- The Listening Talker (RTGS)

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

  EU government bodies

  1/05/10 → 30/04/13

  Project: Research

  • Synthetic Speech 100%
  • Speech 33%
  • Text To Speech 22%
  • Corpus 22%
  • language corpora 16%

• SCALE: Speech Communication with Adaptive Learning

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

  EU government bodies

  1/01/09 → 31/12/12

  Project: Research

  • Synthetic Speech 100%
  • Gaussian Mixture Model 100%
  • Gaussian Component 53%
  • Objective Measure 50%
  • Joints (Structural Components) 50%

• EMIME: Effective multilingual interaction in mobile environments. RTD Linked to RE7006

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

  EU government bodies

  1/03/08 → 28/02/11

  Project: Research

  • Speech Synthesis 100%
  • Text To Speech 43%
  • Speech Recognition 26%
  • Automatic Speech Recognition 20%
  • Speech Synthesis System 14%

• Study of Source Feature for speech synthesis and speaker recognition.

  King, S. (Principal Investigator)

  UK-based charities

  1/04/07 → 31/12/12

  Project: Research

• An Edinburgh speech production facility

  Turk, A. (Principal Investigator), King, S. (Co-investigator), Renals, S. (Co-investigator) & Richmond, K. (Co-investigator)

  EPSRC

  1/04/07 → 31/08/10

  Project: Research

  • Corpus 100%
  • Speaker 79%
  • Dialogue Form 62%
  • Edinburgh 50%
  • Articulation 50%

• Attaca: Automatic target cost & database design for unit selection speech synthesis.

  King, S. (Principal Investigator), Clark, R. (Co-investigator) & Strom, V. (Researcher)

  EPSRC

  1/04/07 → 30/06/10

  Project: Research

  • Speech Synthesis 100%
  • Pitch accent 62%
  • Challenges 50%
  • Voice 50%
  • text selection 50%

• Viennese Sociolect and Dialect Synthesis

  King, S. (Principal Investigator)

  Other

  1/03/07 → 30/07/10

  Project: Research

• Data-driven articulatory modelling: foundations for a new generation of speech synthesis

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

  EPSRC

  1/11/06 → 30/04/10

  Project: Research

  • Speech Synthesis 100%
  • Synthetic Speech 75%
  • Synthesized Speech 58%
  • Model Structure 50%
  • Maximum Likelihood 50%

• Sharing Acoustic Models Between Languages

  King, S. (Principal Investigator)

  Other

  1/10/06 → 30/09/07

  Project: Research

• Efficient model-level integration of novel methods into HMM speech recognition

  King, S. (Principal Investigator)

  UK central government bodies/local authorities, health and hospital authorities

  1/07/06 → 29/02/12

  Project: Research

  • Multilayer Perceptron 100%
  • Speech Recognition 75%
  • Telephone 75%
  • Feature Recognition 50%
  • Dynamic Bayesian Network 50%

• ePhones: Automatically determined unit inventories for unit selection text to speech synthesis

  King, S. (Principal Investigator) & Aylett, M. (Researcher)

  EPSRC

  1/07/06 → 30/09/10

  Project: Research

  • Speech Synthesis 100%
  • text selection 75%
  • Orthographic 75%
  • Dynamic Time Warping 75%
  • Text To Speech 75%

• Edinburgh Speech Science Technology

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

  EU government bodies

  1/01/06 → 31/12/09

  Project: Research

  • Major Factor 100%

• TRAJECTORY MODELS FOR SPEECH PROCESSING

  King, S. (Principal Investigator)

  EPSRC

  1/08/05 → 31/10/05

  Project: Research

  • Automatic Speech Recognition 100%
  • Speech Recognition 100%
  • Acoustic Signal 33%

• TESSa: Testing Evaluation of Speech Synthesis (TESSa)

  King, S. (Principal Investigator)

  EPSRC

  1/01/05 → 31/12/07

  Project: Research

  • Speech Synthesis 100%
  • Synthetic Speech 87%
  • Multidimensional Scaling 62%
  • Evaluation Result 50%
  • Human Intervention 50%

• Streamed models for automatic speech recognition (EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship)

  King, S. (Principal Investigator)

  EPSRC

  1/01/05 → 31/12/09

  Project: Research

  • Speech Recognition 100%
  • Speech Synthesis 81%
  • Automatic Speech Recognition 53%
  • Multilayer Perceptron 42%
  • Spoken Language 40%

• Graphical models for automatic speech recognition

  King, S. (Principal Investigator)

  EPSRC

  1/04/04 → 31/08/04

  Project: Research

  • Dynamic Bayesian Network 100%
  • Feature Recognition 100%
  • Structural Approach 66%
  • Speech Recognition 66%
  • Neural Network 61%

• ASR using loosely-coupled HMMs with articulatory- acoustic features

  King, S. (Principal Investigator)

  UK central government bodies/local authorities, health and hospital authorities

  1/01/04 → 29/02/12

  Project: Research

  • Feature Recognition 100%
  • Dynamic Bayesian Network 100%
  • Neural Network 58%
  • Structural Approach 50%
  • Speech Recognition 50%

• Expressive Prosody for Unit-selection Speech Synthesis

  King, S. (Principal Investigator), Clark, R. (Co-investigator) & Steedman, M. (Co-investigator)

  UK central government bodies/local authorities, health and hospital authorities

  1/01/04 → 29/02/12

  Project: Research

  • Speech Synthesis 100%
  • Cost Function 66%
  • Evaluation Result 33%
  • Subjective Evaluation 33%
  • Human Intervention 33%

• Espresso-II: SWITCHING LINEAR DYNAMIC SPEECH MODELS

  King, S. (Principal Investigator)

  EPSRC

  1/07/03 → 30/06/06

  Project: Research

  • Dynamic Bayesian Network 100%
  • Feature Recognition 87%
  • Speech Recognition 50%
  • Observation Process 50%
  • Automatic Speech Recognition 50%

• Automatically-determined Unit inventories for automatic speech recognition

  King, S. (Principal Investigator)

  EPSRC

  1/01/03 → 31/12/05

  Project: Research

  • Speech Recognition 100%
  • Speech Synthesis 50%
  • Automatic Speech Recognition 50%
  • Phoneme 50%
  • Review Paper 50%