Simon King

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  Two studentships in Natural Language Processing

  King, S. & Richmond, K.

  Non-EU industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/09/20 → 31/08/24

  Project: Research

  • Models 100%
  • Research 88%
  • Speech Production 66%
  • Lecture 66%
  • Speech 66%

• Consolidated Studentship Agreement (NLP)

  King, S. & Richmond, K.

  Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

  1/09/20 → 31/08/24

  Project: Research

• COBRA: COnversational BRAins

  King, S. & Pickering, M.

  EU government bodies

  1/02/20 → 31/01/24

  Project: Research

  • Models 100%
  • Speech Synthesis 75%
  • Text-to-Speech 70%
  • Contexts 57%
  • Speech Perception 38%

• COBRA: COnversational BRAins

  Pickering, M. & King, S.

  European Commission

  1/02/20 → 31/07/24

  Project: Research

  • Legendre Polynomial 100%
  • Speech Synthesis 100%
  • High Correlation 33%
  • Synthetic Speech Quality 33%
  • speech corpus 33%

• Foundations for expressive speech synthesis (year 2)

  King, S. & Valentini Botinhao, C.

  Non-EU industry, commerce and public corporations

  16/12/19 → 31/10/22

  Project: Research

• Foundations for expressive speech synthesis (year 2)

  King, S.

  Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd

  16/12/19 → 31/10/22

  Project: Research

• Foundations for expressive speech synthesis (year 2)

  King, S. & Valentini Botinhao, C.

  Non-EU industry, commerce and public corporations

  16/12/19 → 31/10/22

  Project: Research

• Foundations for expressive speech synthesis

  King, S.

  Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd

  1/01/19 → 31/10/22

  Project: Research

• Foundations for expressive speech synthesis

  King, S. & Valentini Botinhao, C.

  Non-EU industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/01/19 → 31/10/22

  Project: Research

• Foundations for expressive speech synthesis

  King, S. & Valentini Botinhao, C.

  Non-EU industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/01/19 → 31/10/22

  Project: Research

• SCRIPT : Speech Synthesis for Spoken Content Production

  King, S.

  EPSRC

  1/12/16 → 30/11/19

  Project: Research

  • Decision Trees 100%
  • Hidden Markov Models 100%
  • Speech Synthesis 100%
  • Contexts 100%
  • Modeling 100%

• SCRIPT : Speech Synthesis for Spoken Content Production

  Yamagishi, J., King, S. & Watts, O.

  EPSRC

  1/12/16 → 30/11/19

  Project: Research

  • Text-to-Speech 100%
  • Speech Synthesis 79%
  • Synthesis 77%
  • Models 76%
  • Speech Waveform 67%

• Enriched communication across the lifespan

  King, S.

  EU government bodies

  1/10/16 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

  • Algorithms 100%
  • Speech 93%
  • Environment 46%
  • Revisions 46%
  • Reverberation 27%

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

  Watts, O. & King, S.

  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.

  1/07/16 → 31/07/16

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Speech Production 100%
  • Lecture 100%
  • Nomenclature 100%
  • Speech 100%
  • Reading 100%

• Delivering Personalised Synthetic Voices for Patients with MND

  King, S. & Yamagishi, J.

  UK-based charities

  1/05/14 → 30/04/16

  Project: Research

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

  Renals, S. & King, S.

  EU government bodies

  1/12/13 → 30/11/15

  Project: Research

  • Conversational Interaction 100%
  • Roadmap 100%
  • Environment Communication 33%
  • Stakeholders 33%
  • Security and Privacy 33%

• ROCKIT - Roadmap for Conversational Interaction Technologies (Other)

  Renals, S. & King, S.

  EU government bodies

  1/12/13 → 30/11/15

  Project: Research

  • Conversational Interaction 100%
  • Roadmap 100%
  • Environment Communication 33%
  • Stakeholders 33%
  • Security and Privacy 33%

• ROCKIT - Roadmap for Conversational Interaction Technologies (Management)

  Renals, S. & King, S.

  EU government bodies

  1/12/13 → 30/11/15

  Project: Research

  • Conversational Interaction 100%
  • Roadmap 100%
  • Environment Communication 33%
  • Stakeholders 33%
  • Security and Privacy 33%

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

  Renals, S., King, S., Koehn, P. & Osborne, M.

  EU government bodies

  1/02/12 → 31/01/15

  Project: Research

• EU Bridge - 'Bridges Across the Language Divide'

  Renals, S., King, S., Koehn, P. & Osborne, M.

  EU government bodies

  1/02/12 → 31/01/15

  Project: Research

• EU-Bridge

  Renals, S., King, S., Koehn, P. & Osborne, M.

  EU government bodies

  1/02/12 → 31/01/15

  Project: Research

  • Models 100%
  • Machine Translation 84%
  • Statistical Machine Translation 59%
  • Translation System 54%
  • Evaluation 52%

• INSPIRE - Investigating speech processsing in realistic environments

  King, S.

  EU government bodies

  1/01/12 → 31/12/15

  Project: Research

  • Speech 100%
  • Speech Synthesis 100%
  • natural speech 100%
  • Perceptual Effect 100%
  • Speech Production 42%

• INSPIRE - Investigating speech processsing in realistic environments

  King, S.

  European Commission

  1/01/12 → 31/12/15

  Project: Research

• Simple4All: Speech synthesis that improves through adaptive learning

  King, S. & Renals, S.

  EU government bodies

  1/11/11 → 31/10/14

  Project: Research

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  • Speech Synthesis 100%
  • Models 71%
  • Text-to-Speech 57%
  • Evaluation 46%
  • Speech 40%

• Natural Speech Technology

  Renals, S. & King, S.

  EPSRC

  1/05/11 → 31/07/16

  Project: Research

  • Models 100%
  • Speech Synthesis 87%
  • Deep Neural Network 74%
  • Speech Recognition 63%
  • Hidden Markov Models 41%

• PPLS Pilot Project: Hidden Markov Model (HMM)

  King, S.

  1/12/10 → 30/06/11

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

• LISTA: LISTA- The Listening Talker (RTGS)

  King, S., Mayo, C. & Renals, S.

  EU government bodies

  1/05/10 → 30/04/13

  Project: Research

  • Synthetic Speech 100%
  • Speech 50%
  • Models 29%
  • Text-to-Speech 29%
  • Contexts 28%

• SCALE: Speech Communication with Adaptive Learning

  King, S. & Renals, S.

  EU government bodies

  1/01/09 → 31/12/12

  Project: Research

  • Gaussian Mixture Model 100%
  • Synthetic Speech 75%
  • Models 50%
  • Objective Measure 50%
  • Vectors 41%

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

  King, S. & Renals, S.

  EU government bodies

  1/03/08 → 28/02/11

  Project: Research

  • Speech Synthesis 100%
  • Text-to-Speech 38%
  • Voice 31%
  • Speech Recognition 28%
  • Models 24%

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

  King, S., Clark, R. & Strom, V.

  EPSRC

  1/04/07 → 30/06/10

  Project: Research

  • Speech Synthesis 100%
  • Database Design 50%
  • Text-to-Speech 50%
  • Database 50%
  • Challenges 50%

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

  King, S.

  UK-based charities

  1/04/07 → 31/12/12

  Project: Research

• An Edinburgh speech production facility

  Turk, A., King, S., Renals, S. & Richmond, K.

  EPSRC

  1/04/07 → 31/08/10

  Project: Research

  • Speech Production 100%
  • Electromagnetic 93%
  • Dialogue 93%
  • Production 87%
  • Recording 75%

• Viennese Sociolect and Dialect Synthesis

  King, S.

  Other

  1/03/07 → 30/07/10

  Project: Research

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

  Renals, S., King, S. & Richmond, K.

  EPSRC

  1/11/06 → 30/04/10

  Project: Research

  • Speech Synthesis 100%
  • Models 65%
  • Synthesis 49%
  • Speech Synthesizer 47%
  • Initial Release 46%

• Sharing Acoustic Models Between Languages

  King, S.

  Other

  1/10/06 → 30/09/07

  Project: Research

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

  King, S. & Aylett, M.

  EPSRC

  1/07/06 → 30/09/10

  Project: Research

  • Speech Synthesis 100%
  • text selection 42%
  • System 42%
  • Segmentation 42%
  • Text-to-Speech 42%

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

  King, S.

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

  1/07/06 → 29/02/12

  Project: Research

  • Models 100%
  • Multilayer Perceptron 66%
  • Speech Recognition 50%
  • Telephone 50%
  • Classification 46%

• Edinburgh Speech Science Technology

  Wolters, M., King, S. & Renals, S.

  EU government bodies

  1/01/06 → 31/12/09

  Project: Research

  • Speech Synthesizer 100%
  • Models 100%
  • Speech 100%
  • Pulses 33%
  • Evaluation 16%

• TRAJECTORY MODELS FOR SPEECH PROCESSING

  King, S.

  EPSRC

  1/08/05 → 31/10/05

  Project: Research

  • Research 100%

• TESSa: Testing Evaluation of Speech Synthesis (TESSa)

  King, S.

  EPSRC

  1/01/05 → 31/12/07

  Project: Research

  • Speech Synthesis 100%
  • Evaluation 86%
  • Speech 69%
  • Synthetic Speech 47%
  • Speech Synthesis System 37%

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

  King, S.

  EPSRC

  1/01/05 → 31/12/09

  Project: Research

  • Models 100%
  • Speech Recognition 81%
  • Speech Synthesis 57%
  • Hidden Markov Models 41%
  • Detection 34%

• Graphical models for automatic speech recognition

  King, S.

  EPSRC

  1/04/04 → 31/08/04

  Project: Research

  • Dynamic Bayesian Network 100%
  • Feature Recognition 100%
  • Continuous Speech 50%
  • Representation 50%
  • Artificial Neural Network 44%

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

  King, S.

  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%
  • Continuous Speech 37%
  • Representation 37%
  • Models 37%

• Expressive Prosody for Unit-selection Speech Synthesis

  King, S., Clark, R. & Steedman, M.

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

  1/01/04 → 29/02/12

  Project: Research

  • Speech Synthesis 100%
  • Evaluation 49%
  • Synthesis 43%
  • Functions 35%
  • Bayesian Belief Network 23%

• Espresso-II: SWITCHING LINEAR DYNAMIC SPEECH MODELS

  King, S.

  EPSRC

  1/07/03 → 30/06/06

  Project: Research

  • Models 100%
  • Dynamic Bayesian Network 65%
  • Feature Recognition 63%
  • Hidden Markov Models 43%
  • Modeling 27%

• Automatically-determined Unit inventories for automatic speech recognition

  King, S.

  EPSRC

  1/01/03 → 31/12/05

  Project: Research

  • Speech Recognition 100%
  • Speech Synthesis 50%
  • Automatic Speech Recognition 50%
  • Models 35%
  • Model 35%

• Concatenative Speech synthesis using articulatory information.

  King, S.

  EPSRC

  1/07/02 → 30/06/05

  Project: Research

  • Speech Synthesis 100%
  • Speech 85%
  • Spectral Envelope 51%
  • Correlation 47%
  • Text-to-Speech 41%

• ROPA: SPEECH RECOGNITION

  King, S.

  EPSRC

  1/10/99 → 31/01/02

  Project: Research

  • Classification 100%
  • Speech Recognition 86%
  • Models 78%
  • Speech Recognition System 67%
  • Recognition 50%