Alistair Conkie

46 papers A 18B 1Misc 5Journal 5Unranked 15

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2025	Misc	`conf`	Compact Neural TTS Voices for Accessibility. ICASSP Kunal Jain, Eoin Murphy, Deepanshu Gupta, Jonathan Dyke, Saumya Shah, Vasilieios Tsiaras, Petko Nikolov Petkov, Alistair Conkie
2025	J	`jnl`	Compact Neural TTS Voices for Accessibility. CoRR Kunal Jain, Eoin Murphy, Deepanshu Gupta, Jonathan Dyke, Saumya Shah, Vasilieios Tsiaras, Petko Nikolov Petkov, Alistair Conkie
2021	—	`conf`	Combining speakers of multiple languages to improve quality of neural voices. SSW Javier Latorre, Charlotte Bailleul, Tuuli Morrill, Alistair Conkie, Yannis Stylianou
2021	J	`jnl`	Combining speakers of multiple languages to improve quality of neural voices. CoRR Javier Latorre, Charlotte Bailleul, Tuuli Morrill, Alistair Conkie, Yannis Stylianou
2020	Misc	`conf`	Generating Multilingual Voices Using Speaker Space Translation Based on Bilingual Speaker Data. ICASSP Soumi Maiti, Erik Marchi, Alistair Conkie
2020	J	`jnl`	Generating Multilingual Voices Using Speaker Space Translation Based on Bilingual Speaker Data. CoRR Soumi Maiti, Erik Marchi, Alistair Conkie
2020	Misc	`conf`	Scalable Multilingual Frontend for TTS. ICASSP Alistair Conkie, Andrew M. Finch
2020	J	`jnl`	Scalable Multilingual Frontend for TTS. CoRR Alistair Conkie, Andrew M. Finch
2017	A	`conf`	Siri On-Device Deep Learning-Guided Unit Selection Text-to-Speech System. INTERSPEECH Tim Capes, Paul Coles, Alistair Conkie, Ladan Golipour, Abie Hadjitarkhani, Qiong Hu, Nancy Huddleston, Melvyn Hunt, Jiangchuan Li, Matthias Neeracher, Kishore Prahallad, Tuomo Raitio, Ramya Rasipuram, Greg Townsend, Becci Williamson, David Winarsky, Zhizheng Wu, Hepeng Zhang
2015	—	`ch.`	Voice Sample Synthesis. Encyclopedia of Biometrics Juergen Schroeter, Alistair Conkie
2013	—	`conf`	Prosodically modifying speech for unit selection speech synthesis databases. SSW Ladan Golipour, Alistair Conkie, Ann K. Syrdal
2013	—	`conf`	Role of pausing in text-to-speech synthesis for simultaneous interpretation. SSW Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, John Chen, Srinivas Bangalore, Alistair Conkie
2013	A	`conf`	Unsupervised prominence prediction for speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH Mahnoosh Mehrabani, Taniya Mishra, Alistair Conkie
2012	B	`conf`	Building Text-To-Speech Voices in the Cloud. LREC Alistair Conkie, Thomas Okken, Yeon-Jun Kim, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio
2012	A	`conf`	Predicting Character-Appropriate Voices for a TTS-based Storyteller System. INTERSPEECH Erica Greene, Taniya Mishra, Patrick Haffner, Alistair Conkie
2012	A	`conf`	Word Prominence Detection using Robust yet Simple Prosodic Features. INTERSPEECH Taniya Mishra, Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Alistair Conkie
2011	A	`conf`	AT&T VoiceBuilder: A Cloud-Based Text-to-Speech Voice Builder Tool. INTERSPEECH Yeon-Jun Kim, Thomas Okken, Alistair Conkie, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio
2011	A	`conf`	Enriching Text-to-Speech Synthesis Using Automatic Dialog Act Tags. INTERSPEECH Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Ann K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie, Srinivas Bangalore
2011	—	`conf`	Spoken Dialog Challenge 2010: Comparison of Live and Control Test Results. SIGDIAL Conference Alan W. Black, Susanne Burger, Alistair Conkie, Helen Wright Hastie, Simon Keizer, Oliver Lemon, Nicolas Merigaud, Gabriel Parent, Gabriel Schubiner, Blaise Thomson, Jason D. Williams, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young, Maxine Eskénazi
2011	Misc	`conf`	Using F0 to constrain the unit selection Viterbi network. ICASSP Alistair Conkie, Ann K. Syrdal
2010	—	`conf`	Composite TTS voices. SSW Alistair Conkie, Ann K. Syrdal
2010	—	`conf`	Demonstration of AT&T "Let's Go": A production-grade statistical spoken dialog system. SLT Jason D. Williams, Iker Arizmendi, Alistair Conkie
2010	—	`conf`	Speech acts and dialog TTS. SSW Ann K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie, Yeon-Jun Kim, Mark C. Beutnagel
2008	A	`conf`	Improving preselection in unit selection synthesis. INTERSPEECH Alistair Conkie, Ann K. Syrdal, Yeon-Jun Kim, Marc C. Beutnagel
2006	A	`conf`	Expanding phonetic coverage in unit selection synthesis through unit substitution from a donor voice. INTERSPEECH Alistair Conkie, Ann K. Syrdal
2006	A	`conf`	Phonetically enriched labeling in unit selection TTS synthesis. INTERSPEECH Yeon-Jun Kim, Ann K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie, Marc C. Beutnagel
2006	A	`conf`	Six approaches to limited domain concatenative speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH Robert J. Utama, Ann K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie
2005	A	`conf`	Perceptually-based data-driven join costs: comparing join types. INTERSPEECH Ann K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie
2004	—	`conf`	Data-driven perceptually based join costs. SSW Ann K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie
2004	A	`conf`	Pronunciation lexicon adaptation for TTS voice building. INTERSPEECH Yeon-Jun Kim, Ann K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie
2002	A	`conf`	Automatic segmentation combining an HMM-based approach and spectral boundary correction. INTERSPEECH Yeon-Jun Kim, Alistair Conkie
2000	A	`conf`	Corpus-based techniques in the AT&t nextgen synthesis system. INTERSPEECH Ann K. Syrdal, Colin W. Wightman, Alistair Conkie, Yannis Stylianou, Marc C. Beutnagel, Juergen Schroeter, Volker Strom, Ki-Seung Lee, Matthew J. Makashay
2000	A	`conf`	Multimodal Speech Synthesis. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (I) Juergen Schroeter, Jörn Ostermann, Hans Peter Graf, Marc C. Beutnagel, Eric Cosatto, Ann K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie, Yannis Stylianou
2000	A	`conf`	Perceptually based automatic prosody labeling and prosodically enriched unit selection improve concatenative text-to-speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH Colin W. Wightman, Ann K. Syrdal, Georg Stemmer, Alistair Conkie, Mark C. Beutnagel
2000	A	`conf`	Preselection of candidate units in a unit selection-based text-to-speech synthesis system. INTERSPEECH Alistair Conkie, Mark C. Beutnagel, Ann K. Syrdal, Philip E. Brown
1999	—	`conf`	Interaction of units in a unit selection database. EUROSPEECH Mark C. Beutnagel, Alistair Conkie
1999	—	`conf`	Prosody recognition from speech utterances using acoustic and linguistic based models of prosodic events. EUROSPEECH Alistair Conkie, Giuseppe Riccardi, Richard C. Rose
1998	—	`conf`	Diphone synthesis using unit selection. SSW Mark C. Beutnagel, Alistair Conkie, Ann K. Syrdal
1998	—	`conf`	Exploration of acoustic correlates in speaker selection for concatenative synthesis. ICSLP Ann K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie, Yannis Stylianou
1998	—	`conf`	Parametric modeling of intonation using vector quantization. SSW Gregor Möhler, Alistair Conkie
1998	Misc	`conf`	TD-PSOLA versus harmonic plus noise model in diphone based speech synthesis. ICASSP Ann K. Syrdal, Yannis Stylianou, Laurie Garrison, Alistair Conkie, Jürgen Schröter
1998	—	`conf`	Three methods of intonation modeling. SSW Ann K. Syrdal, Gregor Möhler, Kurt E. Dusterhoff, Alistair Conkie, Alan W. Black
1994	—	`conf`	Optimal coupling of diphones. SSW Alistair Conkie, Stephen Isard
1992	—	`ch.`	Behaviour Based Robotic Assembly using Vision. Advances in Machine Vision Prabhas Chongstitvatana, Alistair Conkie
1990	A	`conf`	An uncalibrated stereo visual servo system. BMVC Alistair Conkie, Prabhas Chongstitvatana
1990	J	`jnl`	Design as intelligent behaviour: An AI in design research programme. Artif. Intell. Eng. Tim Smithers, Alistair Conkie, Jim Doheny, Brian Logan, Karl Millington, Ming Xi Tang