Catherine I. Watson

According to our database, Catherine I. Watson authored at least 38 papers between 1995 and 2023.

Collaborative distances:

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2023

Exploring Prosodic Features Modelling for Secondary Emotions Needed for Empathetic Speech Synthesis.

Jesin James, Balamurali B. T., Catherine I. Watson, Hansjörg Mixdorff

Sensors, March, 2023

Fostering Professionalism in Software Engineering: An Early-Exposure Approach.

Valerio Terragni, Catherine I. Watson, Nicholas Rowe, Nasser Giacaman

IEEE Softw., 2023

2022

Differences between listeners with early and late immersion age in spatial release from masking in various acoustic environments.

C. T. Justine Hui, Yusuke Hioka, Hinako Masuda, Catherine I. Watson

Speech Commun., 2022

The Development of a Labelled te reo Māori-English Bilingual Database for Language Technology.

Jesin James, Isabella Shields, Vithya Yogarajan, Peter J. Keegan, Catherine I. Watson, Peter-Lucas Jones, Keoni Mahelona

CoRR, 2022

Language Models for Code-switch Detection of te reo Māori and English in a Low-resource Setting.

Jesin James, Vithya Yogarajan, Isabella Shields, Catherine I. Watson, Peter Keegan, Keoni Mahelona, Peter-Lucas Jones

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022, 2022

Visualising Model Training via Vowel Space for Text-To-Speech Systems.

Binu Nisal Abeysinghe, Jesin James, Catherine I. Watson, Felix Marattukalam

Proceedings of the Interspeech 2022, 2022

2021

Empathetic Speech Synthesis and Testing for Healthcare Robots.

Jesin James, Balamurali B. T., Catherine Inez Watson, Bruce A. MacDonald

Int. J. Soc. Robotics, 2021

A Review of Automated Intelligibility Assessment for Dysarthric Speakers.

Andy Huang, Kyle Hall, Catherine I. Watson, Seyed Reza Shahamiri

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue, 2021

Comparing Speech Enhancement Techniques for Voice Adaptation-Based Speech Synthesis.

Nicholas Eng, C. T. Justine Hui, Yusuke Hioka, Catherine I. Watson

Proceedings of the Interspeech 2021, 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Brno, Czechia, 30 August, 2021

2020

Developing Resources for Te Reo Māori Text To Speech Synthesis System.

Jesin James, Isabella Shields, Rebekah Berriman, Peter Keegan, Catherine Inez Watson

Proceedings of the Text, Speech, and Dialogue, 2020

2019

Effects of sentence structure and word complexity on intelligibility in machine-to-human communications.

C. T. Justine Hui, Sahil Jain, Catherine I. Watson

Comput. Speech Lang., 2019

2018

Artificial Empathy in Social Robots: An analysis of Emotions in Speech.

Jesin James, Catherine Inez Watson, Bruce A. MacDonald

Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2018

An Open Source Emotional Speech Corpus for Human Robot Interaction Applications.

Jesin James, Li Tian, Catherine Inez Watson

Proceedings of the Interspeech 2018, 2018

2017

The Motivation and Development of MPAi, a Māori Pronunciation Aid.

Catherine Inez Watson, Peter Keegan, Margaret Maclagan, Ray Harlow, J. King

Proceedings of the Interspeech 2017, 2017

2014

Mappings between vocal tract area functions, vocal tract resonances and speech formants for multiple speakers.

Catherine Inez Watson

Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2014, 2014

2013

The effect of age and native speaker status on synthetic speech intelligibility.

Catherine Inez Watson, Wei Liu, Bruce A. MacDonald

Proceedings of the Eighth ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 2013

2011

The Effects of Synthesized Voice Accents on User Perceptions of Robots.

Rie Tamagawa, Catherine Inez Watson, I-Han Kuo, Bruce A. MacDonald, Elizabeth Broadbent

Int. J. Soc. Robotics, 2011

Phrases, Pitch and Perceived Prominence in Maori.

Laura Thompson, Catherine Inez Watson, Ray Harlow, Jeanette King, Margaret Maclagan, Helen Charters, Peter Keegan

Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2011, 2011

Adventures in <i>Mita-</i>reading: Examining Stress 'Rules' and Perception of Prosodic Prominence in the Māori Language.

Laura Thompson, Catherine Inez Watson, Ray Harlow, Margaret Maclagan, Helen Charters, Jeanette King, Peter Keegan

Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2011

2010

Improved robot attitudes and emotions at a retirement home after meeting a robot.

Rebecca McAulay Quinlan Stafford, Elizabeth Broadbent, Chandimal Jayawardena, Ulrike Unger, I-Han Kuo, Aleksandar Igic, Richie Wong, Ngaire Kerse, Catherine Inez Watson, Bruce A. MacDonald

Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2010

Deployment of a service robot to help older people.

Chandimal Jayawardena, I-Han Kuo, Ulrike Unger, Aleksandar Igic, Richie Wong, Catherine Inez Watson, Rebecca McAulay Quinlan Stafford, Elizabeth Broadbent, Priyesh Tiwari, Jim Warren, Joochan Sohn, Bruce A. MacDonald

Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2010

The effect of audience familiarity on the perception of modified accent.

Jonathan Teutenberg, Catherine Inez Watson

Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2010, 2010

2009

Expressive facial speech synthesis on a robotic platform.

Xingyan Li, Bruce A. MacDonald, Catherine Inez Watson

Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2009

Investigating changes in the rhythm of maori over time.

Margaret Maclagan, Catherine Inez Watson, Jeanette King, Ray Harlow, Laura Thompson, Peter Keegan

Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2009, 2009

Flexible and efficient harmonic resynthesis by modulated sinusoids.

Jonathan Teutenberg, Catherine Inez Watson

Proceedings of the 17th European Signal Processing Conference, 2009

Towards a flexible platform for voice accent and expression selection on a Healthcare Robot.

Aleksandar Igic, Catherine Inez Watson, Jonathan Teutenberg, Elizabeth Broadbent, Rie Tamagawa, Bruce A. MacDonald

Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop, 2009

2008

The English pronunciation of successive groups of Maori speakers.

Catherine Inez Watson, Margaret Maclagan, Jeanette King, Ray Harlow

Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2008, 2008

A Niuean variant of New Zealand English?

Donna Starks, Laura Thompson, Catherine Inez Watson

Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2008, 2008

Modelling and synthesising F0 contours with the discrete cosine transform.

Jonathan Teutenberg, Catherine Inez Watson, Patricia Riddle

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2008

2007

Age-related changes in fundamental frequency and formants: a longitudinal study of four speakers.

Jonathan Harrington, Sallyanne Palethorpe, Catherine I. Watson

Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2007, 2007

2005

Design and Development of a Speech-driven Control for a In-car Personal Navigation System.

Ying Su, Tao Bai, Catherine I. Watson

Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop, 2005

2000

Matching a tone-based and tune-based approach to English intonation for concept-to-speech generation.

Elke Teich, Catherine I. Watson, Cécile Pereira

Proceedings of the COLING 2000, 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference, 2 Volumes, July 31, 2000

1999

A profile of the discourse and intonational structures of route descriptions.

Sandra Williams, Catherine I. Watson

Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1999

1998

A kinematic analysis of new zealand and australian English vowel spaces.

Catherine I. Watson, Jonathan Harrington, Sallyanne Palethorpe

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Incorporating The 7th Australian International Speech Science and Technology Conference, Sydney Convention Centre, Sydney, Australia, 30th November, 1998

Some acoustic characteristics of emotion.

Cécile Pereira, Catherine I. Watson

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Incorporating The 7th Australian International Speech Science and Technology Conference, Sydney Convention Centre, Sydney, Australia, 30th November, 1998

Dynamic features in children's vowels.

Steve Cassidy, Catherine I. Watson

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Incorporating The 7th Australian International Speech Science and Technology Conference, Sydney Convention Centre, Sydney, Australia, 30th November, 1998

1995

The Development of the Otago Speech Database.

S. J. Sinclair, Catherine Inez Watson

Proceedings of the 2nd New Zealand Two-Stream International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Expert Systems (ANNES '95), 1995

Intelligent human computer interfaces and the case study of building English-to-Maori talking dictionary.

Nikola K. Kasabov, S. J. Sinclair, Richard Kilgour, Catherine I. Watson, Mark R. Laws, Diana Kassabova

Proceedings of the 2nd New Zealand Two-Stream International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Expert Systems (ANNES '95), 1995