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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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