Tanja Kocjancic. Ultrasound investigation of tongue movements in syllables with different onset structure. In Proc. Eighth International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), December 2008. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

I. Steiner and K. Richmond. Generating gestural timing from EMA data using articulatory resynthesis. In Proc. 8th International Seminar on Speech Production, Strasbourg, France, December 2008. [ bib | Abstract ]

R. Barra-Chicote, J. Yamagishi, J.M. Montero, S. King, S. Lutfi, and J. Macias-Guarasa. Generacion de una voz sintetica en Castellano basada en HSMM para la Evaluacion Albayzin 2008: conversion texto a voz. In V Jornadas en Tecnologia del Habla, pages 115-118, November 2008. (in Spanish). [ bib | .pdf ]

Javier Tejedor, Dong Wang, Joe Frankel, Simon King, and José Colás. A comparison of grapheme and phoneme-based units for Spanish spoken term detection. Speech Communication, 50(11-12):980-991, November 2008. [ bib | DOI | Abstract ]

Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi, Kay Berkling, and Simon King. HMM-based synthesis of child speech. In Proc. 1st Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction (ICMI'08 post-conference workshop), Crete, Greece, October 2008. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Zhen-Hua Ling, Korin Richmond, Junichi Yamagishi, and Ren-Hua Wang. Articulatory control of HMM-based parametric speech synthesis driven by phonetic knowledge. In Proc. Interspeech, pages 573-576, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008. [ bib | .PDF | Abstract ]

Matthew P. Aylett and Junichi Yamagishi. Combining statistical parameteric speech synthesis and unit-selection for automatic voice cloning. In Proc. LangTech 2008, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Martin Tietze, Vera Demberg, and Johanna D. Moore. Syntactic complexity induces explicit grounding in the MapTask corpus. In Proc. Interspeech, September 2008. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Peter Bell and Simon King. A shrinkage estimator for speech recognition with full covariance HMMs. In Proc. Interspeech, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008. Shortlisted for best student paper award. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Songfang Huang and Steve Renals. Unsupervised language model adaptation based on topic and role information in multiparty meetings. In Proc. Interspeech'08, pages 833-836, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Junichi Yamagishi, Zhenhua Ling, and Simon King. Robustness of hmm-based speech synthesis. In Proc. Interspeech 2008, pages 581-584, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

C. Qin, M. Carreira-Perpiñán, K. Richmond, A. Wrench, and S. Renals. Predicting tongue shapes from a few landmark locations. In Proc. Interspeech, pages 2306-2309, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008. [ bib | .PDF | Abstract ]

J. Cabral, S. Renals, K. Richmond, and J. Yamagishi. Glottal spectral separation for parametric speech synthesis. In Proc. Interspeech, pages 1829-1832, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008. [ bib | .PDF | Abstract ]

Dong Wang, Ivan Himawan, Joe Frankel, and Simon King. A posterior approach for microphone array based speech recognition. In Proc. Interspeech, pages 996-999, September 2008. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Maria Wolters, Pauline Campbell, Christine DePlacido, Amy Liddell, and David Owens. Adapting Speech Synthesis Systems to Users with Age-Related Hearing Loss. In Beiträge der 8. ITG Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation, September 2008. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Joe Frankel, Dong Wang, and Simon King. Growing bottleneck features for tandem ASR. In Proc. Interspeech, page 1549, September 2008. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Gregor Hofer, Junichi Yamagishi, and Hiroshi Shimodaira. Speech-driven lip motion generation with a trajectory HMM. In Proc. Interspeech 2008, pages 2314-2317, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Simon King, Keiichi Tokuda, Heiga Zen, and Junichi Yamagishi. Unsupervised adaptation for hmm-based speech synthesis. In Proc. Interspeech, pages 1869-1872, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008. [ bib | .PDF | Abstract ]

Laszlo Toth, Joe Frankel, Gabor Gosztolya, and Simon King. Cross-lingual portability of mlp-based tandem features - a case study for english and hungarian. In Proc. Interspeech, pages 2695-2698, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008. [ bib | .PDF | Abstract ]

Vasilis Karaiskos, Simon King, Robert A. J. Clark, and Catherine Mayo. The blizzard challenge 2008. In Proc. Blizzard Challenge Workshop, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Junichi Yamagishi, Heiga Zen, Yi-Jian Wu, Tomoki Toda, and Keiichi Tokuda. The HTS-2008 system: Yet another evaluation of the speaker-adaptive HMM-based speech synthesis system in the 2008 Blizzard Challenge. In Proc. Blizzard Challenge 2008, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Peter Bell and Simon King. Covariance updates for discriminative training by constrained line search. In Proc. Interspeech, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Tanja Kocjancic. Tongue movement and syllable onset complexity: ultrasound study. In Proc. ISCA Experimental Linguistics ExLing 2008, August 2008. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Songfang Huang and Steve Renals. Using participant role in multiparty meetings as prior knowledge for nonparametric topic modeling. In Proc. ICML/UAI/COLT Workshop on Prior Knowledge for Text and Language Processing, pages 21-24, Helsinki, Finland, July 2008. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Junichi Yamagishi, Hisashi Kawai, and Takao Kobayashi. Phone duration modeling using gradient tree boosting. Speech Communication, 50(5):405-415, May 2008. [ bib | DOI | Abstract ]

Olga Goubanova and Simon King. Bayesian networks for phone duration prediction. Speech Communication, 50(4):301-311, April 2008. [ bib | DOI | Abstract ]

Junichi Yamagishi, Takashi Nose, Heiga Zen, Tomoki Toda, and Keiichi Tokuda. Performance evaluation of the speaker-independent HMM-based speech synthesis system "HTS-2007" for the Blizzard Challenge 2007. In Proc. ICASSP 2008, pages 3957-3960, Las Vegas, U.S.A, April 2008. [ bib | DOI | Abstract ]

Dong Wang, Joe Frankel, Javier Tejedor, and Simon King. A comparison of phone and grapheme-based spoken term detection. In Proc. ICASSP, pages 4969-4972, March 2008. [ bib | DOI | Abstract ]

Junichi Yamagishi, Takao Kobayashi, Yuji Nakano, Katsumi Ogata, and Juri Isogai. Analysis of speaker adaptation algorihms for HMM-based speech synthesis and a constrained SMAPLR adaptation algorithm. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 2008. In print. [ bib | Abstract ]

Steve Renals, Thomas Hain, and Hervé Bourlard. Interpretation of multiparty meetings: The AMI and AMIDA projects. In IEEE Workshop on Hands-Free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays, 2008. HSCMA 2008, pages 115-118, 2008. [ bib | DOI | http | .pdf | Abstract ]

Ravichander Vipperla, Steve Renals, and Joe Frankel. Longitudinal study of ASR performance on ageing voices. In Proc. Interspeech, Brisbane, 2008. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Le Zhang and Steve Renals. Acoustic-articulatory modelling with the trajectory HMM. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 15:245-248, 2008. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Florian Gödde, Sebastian Möller, Klaus-Peter Engelbrecht, Christine Kühnel, Robert Schleicher, Anja Naumann, and Maria Wolters. Study of a speech-based smart home system with older users. In International Workshop on Intelligent User Interfaces for Ambient Assisted Living, pages 17-22, 2008. [ bib ]

Gabriel Murray, Thomas Kleinbauer, Peter Poller, Steve Renals, and Jonathan Kilgour. Extrinsic summarization evaluation: A decision audit task. In Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction (Proc. MLMI '08), number 5237 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 349-361. Springer, 2008. [ bib | DOI | .pdf | Abstract ]

F. Gibbon and C. Mayo. Adults' perception of conflicting acoustic cues associated with epg-defined undifferentiated gestures. In 4th International EPG Symposium, Edinburgh, UK., 2008. [ bib ]

Matthew P. Aylett and Simon King. Single speaker segmentation and inventory selection using dynamic time warping self organization and joint multigram mapping. In SSW06, pages 258-263, 2008. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Gabriel Murray and Steve Renals. Detecting action items in meetings. In Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction (Proc. MLMI '08), number 5237 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 208-213. Springer, 2008. [ bib | DOI | http | .pdf | Abstract ]

Kallirroi Georgila, Maria Wolters, Vasilis Karaiskos, Melissa Kronenthal, Robert Logie, Neil Mayo, Johanna Moore, and Matt Watson. A fully annotated corpus for studying the effect of cognitive ageing on users' interactions with spoken dialogue systems. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2008. [ bib ]

Giulia Garau and Steve Renals. Combining spectral representations for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 16(3):508-518, 2008. [ bib | DOI | http | .pdf | Abstract ]

J. Sebastian Andersson, Leonardo Badino, Oliver S. Watts, and Matthew P.Aylett. The CSTR/Cereproc Blizzard entry 2008: The inconvenient data. In Proc. Blizzard Challenge Workshop (in Proc. Interspeech 2008), Brisbane, Australia, 2008. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Volker Strom and Simon King. Investigating Festival's target cost function using perceptual experiments. In Proc. Interspeech, Brisbane, 2008. [ bib | .ps | .pdf | Abstract ]

Heidi Christensen, Yoshihiko Gotoh, and Steve Renals. A cascaded broadcast news highlighter. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 16:151-161, 2008. [ bib | DOI | http | .pdf | Abstract ]

Songfang Huang and Steve Renals. Modeling topic and role information in meetings using the hierarchical Dirichlet process. In A. Popescu-Belis and R. Stiefelhagen, editors, Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction V, volume 5237 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 214-225. Springer, 2008. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Leonardo Badino, Robert A.J. Clark, and Volker Strom. Including pitch accent optionality in unit selection text-to-speech synthesis. In Proc. Interspeech, Brisbane, 2008. [ bib | .ps | .pdf | Abstract ]

Gabriel Murray and Steve Renals. Meta comments for summarizing meeting speech. In Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction (Proc. MLMI '08), number 5237 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 236-247. Springer, 2008. [ bib | DOI | http | .pdf | Abstract ]

Sebastian Möller, Florian Gödde, and Maria Wolters. A corpus analysis of spoken smart-home interactions with older users. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2008. [ bib ]

Giulia Garau and Steve Renals. Pitch adaptive features for LVCSR. In Proc. Interspeech '08, 2008. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Maggie Morgan, Marilyn R. McGee-Lennon, Nick Hine, John Arnott, Chris Martin, Julia S. Clark, and Maria Wolters. Requirements gathering with diverse user groups and stakeholders. In Proc. 26th Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, Florence, 2008. [ bib ]

Leonardo Badino and Robert A.J. Clark. Automatic labeling of contrastive word pairs from spontaneous spoken english. In in 2008 IEEE/ACL Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Goa, India, 2008. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Alfred Dielmann and Steve Renals. Recognition of dialogue acts in multiparty meetings using a switching DBN. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 16(7):1303-1314, 2008. [ bib | DOI | http | .pdf | Abstract ]

Herve Bourlard and Steve Renals. Recognition and understanding of meetings: Overview of the European AMI and AMIDA projects. In Proc. LangTech 2008, 2008. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Laurent Besacier, Atef Ben Youssef, and Hervé Blanchon. The lig arabic/english speech translation system at iwslt08. In International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) 2008, pages 58-62, Hawaii, USA, 2008. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]