Andrew P. Breen

22 papers A 9Misc 1Unranked 11

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2015	A	`conf`	Pruning redundant synthesis units based on static and delta unit appearance frequency. INTERSPEECH Heng Lu, Wei Zhang, Xu Shao, Quan Zhou, Wenhui Lei, Hongbin Zhou, Andrew P. Breen
2010	—	`conf`	Refined statistical model tuning for speech synthesis. SSW Xu Shao, Vincent Pollet, Andrew P. Breen
2008	A	`conf`	Synthesis by generation and concatenation of multiform segments. INTERSPEECH Vincent Pollet, Andrew P. Breen
2004	A	`conf`	A database design for a TTS synthesis system using lexical diphones. INTERSPEECH Tanya Lambert, Andrew P. Breen
2003	A	`conf`	Implementing an SSML compliant concatenative TTS system. INTERSPEECH Andrew P. Breen, Steve Minnis, Barry Eggleton
2003	A	`conf`	Unit selection in concatenative TTS synthesis systems based on mel filter bank amplitudes and phonetic context. INTERSPEECH Tanya Lambert, Andrew P. Breen, Barry Eggleton, Stephen J. Cox, Ben P. Milner
2002	A	`conf`	Refocussing on the text normalisation process in text-to-speech systems. INTERSPEECH Andrew P. Breen, Barry Eggleton, Peter Dion, Steve Minnis
2000	A	`conf`	A system for the research into multi-modal man-machine communication within a virtual environment. INTERSPEECH Andrew P. Breen, Barry Eggleton, Gavin E. Churcher, Paul Deans, Simon Downey
2000	A	`conf`	Modeling visual coarticulation in synthetic talking heads using a lip motion unit inventory with concatenative synthesis. INTERSPEECH Steve Minnis, Andrew P. Breen
2000	A	`conf`	Using F0 within a phonologically motivated method of unit selection. INTERSPEECH Andrew P. Breen, James Salter
1999	—	`conf`	CART-based duration modeling using a novel method of extracting prosodic features. EUROSPEECH Paul Deans, Andrew P. Breen, Peter Jackson
1998	—	`conf`	A fast method of producing talking head mouth shapes from real speech. ICSLP Andrew P. Breen, O. Gloaguen, P. Stern
1998	—	`conf`	A phonologically motivated method of selecting non-uniform units. ICSLP Andrew P. Breen, Peter Jackson
1998	—	`conf`	Non-uniform unit selection and the similarity metric within BT's Laureate TTS system. SSW Andrew P. Breen, Peter Jackson
1998	—	`conf`	Overview of the maya spoken language system. ICSLP Simon Downey, Andrew P. Breen, Maria Fernández, Edward Kaneen
1996	—	`conf`	An investigation into the generation of mouth shapes for a talking head. ICSLP Andrew P. Breen, E. Bowers, W. Welsh
1995	—	`conf`	A simple method of predicting the duration of syllables. EUROSPEECH Andrew P. Breen
1994	—	`conf`	The BT Laureate text-to-speech system. SSW Andrew P. Breen
1992	—	`conf`	A comparison of statistical and rule based methods of determining segmental durations. ICSLP Andrew P. Breen
1991	—	`—`	An investigation into synthesis-by-analysis. Andrew P. Breen
1989	Misc	`conf`	Methods for dynamic excitation control in parallel formant speech synthesis. ICASSP David M. Howard, Andrew P. Breen
1987	—	`conf`	Segmentation of the speech waveform using differentiated first and second formant tracks. ECST Andrew P. Breen