Cassia Valentini-Botinhao


- Full list of publications: HERE



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C. Valentini-Botinhao, X. Wang, S. Takaki, and J. Yamagishi,"Investigating RNN-based speech enhancement methods for noise-robust Text-to-Speech" , in Proc. Speech Synthesis Workshop, Sunnyvale, US, 2016.
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C. Valentini-Botinhao, X. Wang, S. Takaki, and J. Yamagishi,"Speech Enhancement for a Noise-Robust Text-to-Speech Synthesis System using Deep Recurrent Neural Networks", in Proc. Interspeech, San Fransisco, US, 2016.
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C. Valentini-Botinhao, M. Toman, M. Pucher, D. Schabus and J. Yamagishi. "Intelligibility of time-compressed synthetic speech: compression method and speaking style", Speech Communication 2015
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L.-H. Chen, T. Raitio, C. Valentini-Botinhao, Z.-H. Ling, J. Yamagishi. "A Deep Generative Architecture for Postfiltering in Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis", Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, July 2015.
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C. Valentini-Botinhao, Z. Wu, and S. King.,"Towards minimum perceptual error training for DNN-based speech synthesis." In Proc. Interspeech. Dresden, Germany, Sept. 2015.
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Z. Wu, Valentini-Botinhao, C., Watts, O., and King, S., "Deep neural networks employing multi-task learning and stacked bottleneck features for speech synthesis” , in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2015.
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B. Uria, Murray, I., Renals, S., and Valentini-Botinhao, C., "Modelling acoustic feature dependencies with artificial neural networks: Trajectory-RNADE” , in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2015.
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L.-H. Chen, T. Raitio, C. Valentini-Botinhao, J. Yamagishi, Z.-H. Ling. "DNN-based stochastic postfilter for HMM-based speech synthesis", Proc. Interspeech 2014. Location: Singapore.
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C. Valentini-Botinhao, M. Toman, M. Pucher, D. Schabus and J. Yamagishi. "Intelligibility analysis of fast synthesized speech", Proc. Interspeech 2014. Location: Singapore.
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C. Valentini-Botinhao, J. Yamagishi, S. King and Y. Stylianou. "Combining perceptually-motivated spectral shaping with loudness and duration modification for intelligibility enhancement of HMM-based synthetic speech in noise", Proc. Interspeech 2013. Location: Lyon, France.
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M. Cooke, C. Mayo and C. Valentini-Botinhao. "Intelligibility-enhancing speech modifications: the Hurricane Challenge", Proc. Interspeech 2013. Location: Lyon, France.
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C. Valentini-Botinhao, E. Godoy, Y. Stylianou, B. Sauert, S. King and J. Yamagishi. "Improving intelligibility in noise of HMM-generated speech via noise-dependent and -independent methods", Proc. ICASSP, 2013. Location: Vancouver, Canada.
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Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King. "Can objective measures predict the intelligibility of modified HMM-based synthetic speech in noise?", Proc. Interspeech, 2011. Location: Florence, Italy.
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