Cassia Valentini-Botinhao

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Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2025	J	`jnl`	Comparator Loss: An Ordinal Contrastive Loss to Derive a Severity Score for Speech-based Health Monitoring. CoRR Jacob J. Webber, Oliver Watts, Lovisa Wihlborg, David Wheatley, Johnny Tam, Christine Weaver, Suvankar Pal, Siddharthan Chandran, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao
2025	J	`jnl`	Speech Generation for Indigenous Language Education. Comput. Speech Lang. Aidan Pine, Erica Cooper, David Guzmán, Eric Joanis, Anna Kazantseva, Ross Krekoski, Roland Kuhn, Samuel Larkin, Patrick Littell, Delaney Lothian, Akwiratékha' Martin, Korin Richmond, Marc Tessier, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Dan Wells, Junichi Yamagishi
2024	A	`conf`	Experimental evaluation of MOS, AB and BWS listening test designs. INTERSPEECH Dan Wells, Andrea Lorena Aldana Blanco, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Erica Cooper, Aidan Pine, Junichi Yamagishi, Korin Richmond
2023	Misc	`conf`	Autovocoder: Fast Waveform Generation from a Learned Speech Representation Using Differentiable Digital Signal Processing. ICASSP Jacob J. Webber, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Evelyn Williams, Gustav Eje Henter, Simon King
2023	A	`conf`	Controlling formant frequencies with neural text-to-speech for the manipulation of perceived speaker age. INTERSPEECH Ziya Khan, Lovisa Wihlborg, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Oliver Watts
2023	J	`jnl`	Differentiable Grey-box Modelling of Phaser Effects using Frame-based Spectral Processing. CoRR Alistair Carson, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Simon King, Stefan Bilbao
2023	Misc	`conf`	Efficient Intelligibility Evaluation Using Keyword Spotting: A Study on Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement. ICASSP Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Andrea Lorena Aldana Blanco, Ondrej Klejch, Peter Bell
2023	Misc	`conf`	PUFFIN: Pitch-Synchronous Neural Waveform Generation for Fullband Speech on Modest Devices. ICASSP Oliver Watts, Lovisa Wihlborg, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao
2022	—	`conf`	AVSE Challenge: Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement Challenge. SLT Andrea Lorena Aldana Blanco, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Ondrej Klejch, Mandar Gogate, Kia Dashtipour, Amir Hussain, Peter Bell
2022	J	`jnl`	Autovocoder: Fast Waveform Generation from a Learned Speech Representation using Differentiable Digital Signal Processing. CoRR Jacob J. Webber, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Evelyn Williams, Gustav Eje Henter, Simon King
2022	A	`conf`	Predicting pairwise preferences between TTS audio stimuli using parallel ratings data and anti-symmetric twin neural networks. INTERSPEECH Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Manuel Sam Ribeiro, Oliver Watts, Korin Richmond, Gustav Eje Henter
2022	J	`jnl`	Predicting pairwise preferences between TTS audio stimuli using parallel ratings data and anti-symmetric twin neural networks. CoRR Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Manuel Sam Ribeiro, Oliver Watts, Korin Richmond, Gustav Eje Henter
2022	J	`jnl`	Puffin: pitch-synchronous neural waveform generation for fullband speech on modest devices. CoRR Oliver Watts, Lovisa Wihlborg, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao
2021	A	`conf`	Detection and Analysis of Attention Errors in Sequence-to-Sequence Text-to-Speech. Interspeech Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Simon King
2020	A	`conf`	Decoding Imagined, Heard, and Spoken Speech: Classification and Regression of EEG Using a 14-Channel Dry-Contact Mobile Headset. INTERSPEECH Jonathan Clayton, Scott Wellington, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Oliver Watts
2020	A	`conf`	Intelligibility-Enhancing Speech Modifications - The Hurricane Challenge 2.0. INTERSPEECH Jan Rennies, Henning F. Schepker, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Martin Cooke
2019	A	`conf`	Evaluating Near End Listening Enhancement Algorithms in Realistic Environments. INTERSPEECH Carol Chermaz, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Henning F. Schepker, Simon King
2019	—	`conf`	Measuring the contribution to cognitive load of each predicted vocoder speech parameter in DNN-based speech synthesis. SSW Avashna Govender, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Simon King
2019	J	`jnl`	Normal-to-Lombard adaptation of speech synthesis using long short-term memory recurrent neural networks. Speech Commun. Bajibabu Bollepalli, Lauri Juvela, Manu Airaksinen, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Paavo Alku
2019	Misc	`conf`	Speech Waveform Reconstruction Using Convolutional Neural Networks with Noise and Periodic Inputs. ICASSP Oliver Watts, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Simon King
2019	—	`conf`	Where do the improvements come from in sequence-to-sequence neural TTS? SSW Oliver Watts, Gustav Eje Henter, Jason Fong, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao
2018	—	`conf`	Examplar-Based Speechwaveform Generation for Text-To-Speech. SLT Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Oliver Watts, Felipe Espic, Simon King
2018	A	`conf`	Exemplar-based Speech Waveform Generation. INTERSPEECH Oliver Watts, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Felipe Espic, Simon King
2018	J	`jnl`	Speech Enhancement of Noisy and Reverberant Speech for Text-to-Speech. IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process. Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Junichi Yamagishi
2018	—	`conf`	The CSTR entry to the 2018 Blizzard Challenge. Blizzard Challenge Felipe Espic, Avashna Govender, Manuel Sam Ribeiro, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Oliver Watts
2017	A	`conf`	Direct Modelling of Magnitude and Phase Spectra for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis. INTERSPEECH Felipe Espic, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Simon King
2017	J	`jnl`	Influence of speaker familiarity on blind and visually impaired children's and young adults' perception of synthetic voices. Comput. Speech Lang. Michael Pucher, Bettina Zillinger, Markus Toman, Dietmar Schabus, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Junichi Yamagishi, Erich Schmid, Thomas Woltron
2017	A	`conf`	Misperceptions of the Emotional Content of Natural and Vocoded Speech in a Car. INTERSPEECH Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Gustav Eje Henter, Junichi Yamagishi
2017	A	`conf`	Speech Intelligibility in Cars: The Effect of Speaking Style, Noise and Listener Age. INTERSPEECH Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Junichi Yamagishi
2016	—	`conf`	Blind speech segmentation using spectrogram image-based features and Mel cepstral coefficients. SLT Adriana Stan, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Bogdan Orza, Mircea Giurgiu
2016	J	`jnl`	Evaluating the predictions of objective intelligibility metrics for modified and synthetic speech. Comput. Speech Lang. Yan Tang, Martin Cooke, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao
2016	—	`conf`	Investigating RNN-based speech enhancement methods for noise-robust Text-to-Speech. SSW Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Xin Wang, Shinji Takaki, Junichi Yamagishi
2016	A	`conf`	Speech Enhancement for a Noise-Robust Text-to-Speech Synthesis System Using Deep Recurrent Neural Networks. INTERSPEECH Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Xin Wang, Shinji Takaki, Junichi Yamagishi
2016	Misc	`conf`	Testing the consistency assumption: Pronunciation variant forced alignment in read and spontaneous speech synthesis. ICASSP Rasmus Dall, Sandrine Brognaux, Korin Richmond, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Gustav Eje Henter, Julia Hirschberg, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King
2016	A	`conf`	Waveform Generation Based on Signal Reshaping for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis. INTERSPEECH Felipe Espic, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Zhizheng Wu, Simon King
2015	J	`jnl`	A Deep Generative Architecture for Postfiltering in Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis. IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process. Ling-Hui Chen, Tuomo Raitio, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Zhen-Hua Ling, Junichi Yamagishi
2015	A	`conf`	Are we using enough listeners? no! - an empirically-supported critique of interspeech 2014 TTS evaluations. INTERSPEECH Mirjam Wester, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Gustav Eje Henter
2015	Misc	`conf`	Deep neural networks employing Multi-Task Learning and stacked bottleneck features for speech synthesis. ICASSP Zhizheng Wu, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Oliver Watts, Simon King
2015	A	`conf`	Influence of speaker familiarity on blind and visually impaired children's perception of synthetic voices in audio games. INTERSPEECH Michael Pucher, Markus Toman, Dietmar Schabus, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Junichi Yamagishi, Bettina Zillinger, Erich Schmid
2015	J	`jnl`	Intelligibility of time-compressed synthetic speech: Compression method and speaking style. Speech Commun. Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Markus Toman, Michael Pucher, Dietmar Schabus, Junichi Yamagishi
2015	Misc	`conf`	Modelling acoustic feature dependencies with artificial neural networks: Trajectory-RNADE. ICASSP Benigno Uria, Iain Murray, Steve Renals, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, John Bridle
2015	—	`conf`	Phonetic segmentation of speech using STEP and t-SNE. SpeD Adriana Stan, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Mircea Giurgiu, Simon King
2015	A	`conf`	Towards minimum perceptual error training for DNN-based speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Zhizheng Wu, Simon King
2014	A	`conf`	DNN-based stochastic postfilter for HMM-based speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH Ling-Hui Chen, Tuomo Raitio, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Junichi Yamagishi, Zhen-Hua Ling
2014	A	`conf`	Intelligibility analysis of fast synthesized speech. INTERSPEECH Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Markus Toman, Michael Pucher, Dietmar Schabus, Junichi Yamagishi
2014	J	`jnl`	Intelligibility enhancement of HMM-generated speech in additive noise by modifying Mel cepstral coefficients to increase the glimpse proportion. Comput. Speech Lang. Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Ranniery Maia
2014	A	`conf`	Using linguistic predictability and the lombard effect to increase the intelligibility of synthetic speech in noise. INTERSPEECH Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Mirjam Wester
2013	A	`conf`	Combining perceptually-motivated spectral shaping with loudness and duration modification for intelligibility enhancement of HMM-based synthetic speech in noise. INTERSPEECH Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Yannis Stylianou
2013	J	`jnl`	Evaluating the intelligibility benefit of speech modifications in known noise conditions. Speech Commun. Martin Cooke, Catherine Mayo, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Yannis Stylianou, Bastian Sauert, Yan Tang
2013	Misc	`conf`	Improving intelligibility in noise of HMM-generated speech via noise-dependent and -independent methods. ICASSP Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Elizabeth Godoy, Yannis Stylianou, Bastian Sauert, Simon King, Junichi Yamagishi
2013	—	`—`	Intelligibility enhancement of synthetic speech in noise. Cassia Valentini-Botinhao
2013	A	`conf`	Intelligibility-enhancing speech modifications: the hurricane challenge. INTERSPEECH Martin Cooke, Catherine Mayo, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao
2013	—	`conf`	Using neighbourhood density and selective SNR boosting to increase the intelligibility of synthetic speech in noise. SSW Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Mirjam Wester, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King
2012	—	`conf`	Automatic detection of sigmatism in children. WOCCI Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Sabine Degenkolb-Weyers, Andreas K. Maier, Elmar Nöth, Ulrich Eysholdt, Tobias Bocklet
2012	Misc	`conf`	Cepstral analysis based on the glimpse proportion measure for improving the intelligibility of HMM-based synthetic speech in noise. ICASSP Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Ranniery Maia, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Heiga Zen
2012	—	`conf`	Evaluating speech intelligibility enhancement for HMM-based synthetic speech in noise. SAPA@INTERSPEECH Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King
2012	A	`conf`	Mel cepstral coefficient modification based on the Glimpse Proportion measure for improving the intelligibility of HMM-generated synthetic speech in noise. INTERSPEECH Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King
2011	A	`conf`	Can Objective Measures Predict the Intelligibility of Modified HMM-Based Synthetic Speech in Noise? INTERSPEECH Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King
2011	Misc	`conf`	Evaluation of objective measures for intelligibility prediction of HMM-based synthetic speech in noise. ICASSP Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King