Oliver Watts - RankMe

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Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2025	A	`conf`	Anne Rowling Neurological Speech Corpus: clinically annotated longitudinal dataset for developing speech biomarkers in neurodegenerative disorders. INTERSPEECH Johnny Tam, Christine Weaver, Oliver Watts, Siddharthan Chandran, Suvankar Pal, Rowling Speech Consortium
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
2024	—	`conf`	Improving inner speech decoding by hybridisation of bimodal EEG and fMRI data. EMBC Scott Wellington, Holly Wilson, Foteini Simistira Liwicki, Vibha Gupta, Rajkumar Saini, Kanjar De, Nosheen Abid, Sumit Rakesh, Johan Gunnar Eriksson, Oliver Watts, Xi Chen, Damien Coyle, Mohammad Golbabaee, Michael J. Proulx, Marcus Liwicki, Eamonn O'Neill, Benjamin Metcalfe
2024	J	`jnl`	Voice Conversion-based Privacy through Adversarial Information Hiding. CoRR Jacob J. Webber, Oliver Watts, Gustav Eje Henter, Jennifer Williams, Simon King
2023	J	`jnl`	A systematic review and narrative analysis of digital speech biomarkers in Motor Neuron Disease. npj Digit. Medicine Molly Bowden, Emily Beswick, Johnny Tam, David Perry, Alice Smith, Judy Newton, Siddharthan Chandran, Oliver Watts, Suvankar Pal
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	Misc	`conf`	PUFFIN: Pitch-Synchronous Neural Waveform Generation for Fullband Speech on Modest Devices. ICASSP Oliver Watts, Lovisa Wihlborg, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao
2023	J	`jnl`	Performance of data-driven inner speech decoding with same-task EEG-fMRI data fusion and bimodal models. CoRR Holly Wilson, Scott Wellington, Foteini Simistira Liwicki, Vibha Gupta, Rajkumar Saini, Kanjar De, Nosheen Abid, Sumit Rakesh, Johan Gunnar Eriksson, Oliver Watts, Xi Chen, Mohammad Golbabaee, Michael J. Proulx, Marcus Liwicki, Eamonn O'Neill, Benjamin Metcalfe
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
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
2019	A	`conf`	Improving Speech Synthesis with Discourse Relations. INTERSPEECH Adèle Aubin, Alessandra Cervone, Oliver Watts, Simon King
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`	Using generative modelling to produce varied intonation for speech synthesis. SSW Zack Hodari, Oliver Watts, Simon King
2019	J	`jnl`	Using generative modelling to produce varied intonation for speech synthesis. CoRR Zack Hodari, Oliver Watts, 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	A	`conf`	Learning Interpretable Control Dimensions for Speech Synthesis by Using External Data. INTERSPEECH Zack Hodari, Oliver Watts, Srikanth Ronanki, Simon King
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`	A Hierarchical Encoder-Decoder Model for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis. INTERSPEECH Srikanth Ronanki, Oliver Watts, Simon King
2017	A	`conf`	Learning Word Vector Representations Based on Acoustic Counts. INTERSPEECH Manuel Sam Ribeiro, Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi
2017	A	`conf`	Nativization of Foreign Names in TTS for Automatic Reading of World News in Swahili. INTERSPEECH Joseph Mendelson, Pilar Oplustil, Oliver Watts, Simon King
2017	—	`conf`	The CSTR entry to the Blizzard Challenge 2017. Blizzard Challenge Srikanth Ronanki, Manuel Sam Ribeiro, Felipe Espic, Oliver Watts
2016	—	`conf`	A Demonstration of the Merlin Open Source Neural Network Speech Synthesis System. SSW Srikanth Ronanki, Zhizheng Wu, Oliver Watts, Simon King
2016	A	`conf`	A Hierarchical Predictor of Synthetic Speech Naturalness Using Neural Networks. INTERSPEECH Takenori Yoshimura, Gustav Eje Henter, Oliver Watts, Mirjam Wester, Junichi Yamagishi, Keiichi Tokuda
2016	J	`jnl`	ALISA: An automatic lightly supervised speech segmentation and alignment tool. Comput. Speech Lang. Adriana Stan, Yoshitaka Mamiya, Junichi Yamagishi, Peter Bell, Oliver Watts, Robert A. J. Clark, Simon King
2016	Misc	`conf`	From HMMS to DNNS: Where do the improvements come from? ICASSP Oliver Watts, Gustav Eje Henter, Thomas Merritt, Zhizheng Wu, Simon King
2016	J	`jnl`	Median-Based Generation of Synthetic Speech Durations using a Non-Parametric Approach. CoRR Srikanth Ronanki, Oliver Watts, Simon King, Gustav Eje Henter
2016	—	`conf`	Median-based generation of synthetic speech durations using a non-parametric approach. SLT Srikanth Ronanki, Oliver Watts, Simon King, Gustav Eje Henter
2016	—	`conf`	Merlin: An Open Source Neural Network Speech Synthesis System. SSW Zhizheng Wu, Oliver Watts, Simon King
2016	—	`conf`	Parallel and cascaded deep neural networks for text-to-speech synthesis. SSW Manuel Sam Ribeiro, Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi
2016	Misc	`conf`	Robust TTS duration modelling using DNNS. ICASSP Gustav Eje Henter, Srikanth Ronanki, Oliver Watts, Mirjam Wester, Zhizheng Wu, Simon King
2016	A	`conf`	Syllable-Level Representations of Suprasegmental Features for DNN-Based Text-to-Speech Synthesis. INTERSPEECH Manuel Sam Ribeiro, Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi
2016	—	`conf`	The CSTR entry to the Blizzard Challenge 2016. Blizzard Challenge Thomas Merritt, Srikanth Ronanki, Zhizheng Wu, Oliver Watts
2016	Misc	`conf`	Wavelet-based decomposition of F0 as a secondary task for DNN-based speech synthesis with multi-task learning. ICASSP Manuel Sam Ribeiro, Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi, Robert A. J. Clark
2015	A	`conf`	Deep neural network context embeddings for model selection in rich-context HMM synthesis. INTERSPEECH Thomas Merritt, Junichi Yamagishi, Zhizheng Wu, Oliver Watts, Simon King
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`	Knowledge versus data in TTS: evaluation of a continuum of synthesis systems. INTERSPEECH Rosie Kay, Oliver Watts, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Cassie Mayo
2015	A	`conf`	Sentence-level control vectors for deep neural network speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH Oliver Watts, Zhizheng Wu, Simon King
2015	—	`conf`	The NST-GlottHMM entry to the Blizzard Challenge 2015. Blizzard Challenge Oliver Watts, Srikanth Ronanki, Zhizeng Wu, Tuomi Raito, Attni Suni
2014	Misc	`conf`	Neural net word representations for phrase-break prediction without a part of speech tagger. ICASSP Oliver Watts, Siva Reddy Gangireddy, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Steve Renals, Adriana Stan, Mircea Giurgiu
2014	B	`conf`	RSS-TOBI - A Prosodically Enhanced Romanian Speech Corpus. LREC Tiberiu Boros, Adriana Stan, Oliver Watts, Stefan Daniel Dumitrescu
2014	J	`jnl`	Statistical parametric speech synthesis for Ibibio. Speech Commun. Moses Ekpenyong, Eno-Abasi Urua, Oliver Watts, Simon King, Junichi Yamagishi
2014	—	`conf`	The Simple4All entry to the Blizzard Challenge 2014. Blizzard Challenge Antti Suni, Tuomo Raitio, Dhananjaya Gowda, Reima Karhila, Matthew Gibson, Oliver Watts
2013	—	`conf`	Combining a vector space representation of linguistic context with a deep neural network for text-to-speech synthesis. SSW Heng Lu, Simon King, Oliver Watts
2013	Misc	`conf`	Lightly supervised GMM VAD to use audiobook for speech synthesiser. ICASSP Yoshitaka Mamiya, Junichi Yamagishi, Oliver Watts, Robert A. J. Clark, Simon King, Adriana Stan
2013	A	`conf`	TUNDRA: a multilingual corpus of found data for TTS research created with light supervision. INTERSPEECH Adriana Stan, Oliver Watts, Yoshitaka Mamiya, Mircea Giurgiu, Robert A. J. Clark, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King
2013	—	`conf`	The Simple4All entry to the Blizzard Challenge 2013. Blizzard Challenge Oliver Watts, Adriana Stan, Yoshitaka Mamiya, Antti Suni, Jose Martin Burgos, Juan Manuel Montero
2013	—	`conf`	Towards speaking style transplantation in speech synthesis. SSW Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Junichi Yamagishi, Oliver Watts, Juan Manuel Montero
2013	—	`conf`	Unsupervised and lightly-supervised learning for rapid construction of TTS systems in multiple languages from 'found' data: evaluation and analysis. SSW Oliver Watts, Adriana Stan, Robert A. J. Clark, Yoshitaka Mamiya, Mircea Giurgiu, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King
2013	—	`conf`	Using adaptation to improve speech transcription alignment in noisy and reverberant environments. SSW Yoshitaka Mamiya, Adriana Stan, Junichi Yamagishi, Peter Bell, Oliver Watts, Robert A. J. Clark, Simon King
2011	A	`conf`	Unsupervised Continuous-Valued Word Features for Phrase-Break Prediction without a Part-of-Speech Tagger. INTERSPEECH Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King
2011	A	`conf`	Unsupervised Features from Text for Speech Synthesis in a Speech-to-Speech Translation System. INTERSPEECH Oliver Watts, Bowen Zhou
2010	—	`conf`	Letter-based speech synthesis. SSW Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King
2010	A	`conf`	Roles of the average voice in speaker-adaptive HMM-based speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH Junichi Yamagishi, Oliver Watts, Simon King, Bela Usabaev
2010	J	`jnl`	Synthesis of Child Speech With HMM Adaptation and Voice Conversion. IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process. Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Kay Berkling
2010	—	`conf`	The CSTR/EMIME HTS System for Blizzard Challenge. Blizzard Challenge Junichi Yamagishi, Oliver Watts
2010	A	`conf`	The role of higher-level linguistic features in HMM-based speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King
2010	J	`jnl`	Thousands of Voices for HMM-Based Speech Synthesis-Analysis and Application of TTS Systems Built on Various ASR Corpora. IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process. Junichi Yamagishi, Bela Usabaev, Simon King, Oliver Watts, John Dines, Jilei Tian, Yong Guan, Rile Hu, Keiichiro Oura, Yi-Jian Wu, Keiichi Tokuda, Reima Karhila, Mikko Kurimo
2009	A	`conf`	HMM adaptation and voice conversion for the synthesis of child speech: a comparison. INTERSPEECH Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Kay Berkling
2009	A	`conf`	Thousands of voices for HMM-based speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH Junichi Yamagishi, Bela Usabaev, Simon King, Oliver Watts, John Dines, Jilei Tian, Rile Hu, Yong Guan, Keiichiro Oura, Keiichi Tokuda, Reima Karhila, Mikko Kurimo
2008	—	`conf`	HMM-based synthesis of child speech. WOCCI Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi, Kay Berkling, Simon King
2008	—	`conf`	The CSTR/Cereproc Blizzard Entry 2008: The Inconvenient Data. Blizzard Challenge J. Sebastian Andersson, Leonardo Badino, Oliver Watts, Matthew P. Aylett