The CSTR/Cereproc Blizzard Entry 2008: The Inconvenient Data. - J. Sebastian Andersson; Leonardo Badino; Oliver Watts; Matthew P. Aylett (Blizzard Challenge, 2008)

HMM-based synthesis of child speech. - Oliver Watts; Junichi Yamagishi; Kay Berkling; Simon King 001 (WOCCI, 2008)

HMM adaptation and voice conversion for the synthesis of child speech: a comparison. - Oliver Watts; Junichi Yamagishi; Simon King 001; Kay Berkling (INTERSPEECH, 2009)

Thousands of voices for HMM-based speech synthesis. - Junichi Yamagishi; Bela Usabaev; Simon King 001; Oliver Watts; John Dines; Jilei Tian; Rile Hu; Yong Guan; Keiichiro Oura; Keiichi Tokuda; Reima Karhila; Mikko Kurimo (INTERSPEECH, 2009)

The CSTR/EMIME HTS System for Blizzard Challenge. - Junichi Yamagishi; Oliver Watts (Blizzard Challenge, 2010)

The role of higher-level linguistic features in HMM-based speech synthesis. - Oliver Watts; Junichi Yamagishi; Simon King 001 (INTERSPEECH, 2010)

Roles of the average voice in speaker-adaptive HMM-based speech synthesis. - Junichi Yamagishi; Oliver Watts; Simon King 001; Bela Usabaev (INTERSPEECH, 2010)

Letter-based speech synthesis. - Oliver Watts; Junichi Yamagishi; Simon King 001 (SSW, 2010)

Synthesis of Child Speech With HMM Adaptation and Voice Conversion. - Oliver Watts; Junichi Yamagishi; Simon King 001; Kay Berkling (IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2010)

Thousands of Voices for HMM-Based Speech Synthesis-Analysis and Application of TTS Systems Built on Various ASR Corpora. - Junichi Yamagishi; Bela Usabaev; Simon King 001; Oliver Watts; John Dines; Jilei Tian; Yong Guan; Rile Hu; Keiichiro Oura; Yi-Jian Wu; Keiichi Tokuda; Reima Karhila; et al. (IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2010)

Unsupervised Continuous-Valued Word Features for Phrase-Break Prediction without a Part-of-Speech Tagger. - Oliver Watts; Junichi Yamagishi; Simon King 001 (INTERSPEECH, 2011)

Unsupervised Features from Text for Speech Synthesis in a Speech-to-Speech Translation System. - Oliver Watts; Bowen Zhou (INTERSPEECH, 2011)

The Simple4All entry to the Blizzard Challenge 2013. - Oliver Watts; Adriana Stan; Yoshitaka Mamiya; Antti Suni; Jose Martin Burgos; Juan Manuel Montero (Blizzard Challenge, 2013)

Lightly supervised GMM VAD to use audiobook for speech synthesiser. - Yoshitaka Mamiya; Junichi Yamagishi; Oliver Watts; Robert A. J. Clark; Simon King 001; Adriana Stan (ICASSP, 2013)

TUNDRA: a multilingual corpus of found data for TTS research created with light supervision. - Adriana Stan; Oliver Watts; Yoshitaka Mamiya; Mircea Giurgiu; Robert A. J. Clark; Junichi Yamagishi; Simon King 001 (INTERSPEECH, 2013)

Towards speaking style transplantation in speech synthesis. - Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba; Roberto Barra-Chicote; Junichi Yamagishi; Oliver Watts; Juan Manuel Montero (SSW, 2013)

Combining a vector space representation of linguistic context with a deep neural network for text-to-speech synthesis. - Heng Lu; Simon King 001; Oliver Watts (SSW, 2013)

Using adaptation to improve speech transcription alignment in noisy and reverberant environments. - Yoshitaka Mamiya; Adriana Stan; Junichi Yamagishi; Peter Bell 001; Oliver Watts; Robert A. J. Clark; Simon King 001 (SSW, 2013)

Unsupervised and lightly-supervised learning for rapid construction of TTS systems in multiple languages from 'found' data: evaluation and analysis. - Oliver Watts; Adriana Stan; Robert A. J. Clark; Yoshitaka Mamiya; Mircea Giurgiu; Junichi Yamagishi; Simon King 001 (SSW, 2013)

The Simple4All entry to the Blizzard Challenge 2014. - Antti Suni; Tuomo Raitio; Dhananjaya Gowda; Reima Karhila; Matthew Gibson; Oliver Watts (Blizzard Challenge, 2014)

Neural net word representations for phrase-break prediction without a part of speech tagger. - Oliver Watts; Siva Reddy Gangireddy; Junichi Yamagishi; Simon King 001; Steve Renals; Adriana Stan; Mircea Giurgiu (ICASSP, 2014)

RSS-TOBI - A Prosodically Enhanced Romanian Speech Corpus. - Tiberiu Boros; Adriana Stan; Oliver Watts; Stefan Daniel Dumitrescu (LREC, 2014)

Statistical parametric speech synthesis for Ibibio. - Moses Ekpenyong; Eno-Abasi Urua; Oliver Watts; Simon King 001; Junichi Yamagishi (Speech Commun., 2014)

The NST-GlottHMM entry to the Blizzard Challenge 2015. - Oliver Watts; Srikanth Ronanki; Zhizeng Wu; Tuomi Raito; Attni Suni (Blizzard Challenge, 2015)

Deep neural networks employing Multi-Task Learning and stacked bottleneck features for speech synthesis. - Zhizheng Wu 001; Cassia Valentini-Botinhao; Oliver Watts; Simon King 001 (ICASSP, 2015)

Knowledge versus data in TTS: evaluation of a continuum of synthesis systems. - Rosie Kay; Oliver Watts; Roberto Barra-Chicote; Cassie Mayo (INTERSPEECH, 2015)

Deep neural network context embeddings for model selection in rich-context HMM synthesis. - Thomas Merritt; Junichi Yamagishi; Zhizheng Wu 001; Oliver Watts; Simon King 001 (INTERSPEECH, 2015)

Sentence-level control vectors for deep neural network speech synthesis. - Oliver Watts; Zhizheng Wu 001; Simon King 001 (INTERSPEECH, 2015)

The CSTR entry to the Blizzard Challenge 2016. - Thomas Merritt; Srikanth Ronanki; Zhizheng Wu 001; Oliver Watts (Blizzard Challenge, 2016)

Robust TTS duration modelling using DNNS. - Gustav Eje Henter; Srikanth Ronanki; Oliver Watts; Mirjam Wester; Zhizheng Wu 001; Simon King 001 (ICASSP, 2016)

Wavelet-based decomposition of F0 as a secondary task for DNN-based speech synthesis with multi-task learning. - Manuel Sam Ribeiro; Oliver Watts; Junichi Yamagishi; Robert A. J. Clark (ICASSP, 2016)

From HMMS to DNNS: Where do the improvements come from? - Oliver Watts; Gustav Eje Henter; Thomas Merritt; Zhizheng Wu 001; Simon King 001 (ICASSP, 2016)

Syllable-Level Representations of Suprasegmental Features for DNN-Based Text-to-Speech Synthesis. - Manuel Sam Ribeiro; Oliver Watts; Junichi Yamagishi (INTERSPEECH, 2016)

A Hierarchical Predictor of Synthetic Speech Naturalness Using Neural Networks. - Takenori Yoshimura; Gustav Eje Henter; Oliver Watts; Mirjam Wester; Junichi Yamagishi; Keiichi Tokuda (INTERSPEECH, 2016)

Median-based generation of synthetic speech durations using a non-parametric approach. - Srikanth Ronanki; Oliver Watts; Simon King 001; Gustav Eje Henter (SLT, 2016)

Parallel and cascaded deep neural networks for text-to-speech synthesis. - Manuel Sam Ribeiro; Oliver Watts; Junichi Yamagishi (SSW, 2016)

A Demonstration of the Merlin Open Source Neural Network Speech Synthesis System. - Srikanth Ronanki; Zhizheng Wu 001; Oliver Watts; Simon King 001 (SSW, 2016)

Merlin: An Open Source Neural Network Speech Synthesis System. - Zhizheng Wu 001; Oliver Watts; Simon King 001 (SSW, 2016)

ALISA: An automatic lightly supervised speech segmentation and alignment tool. - Adriana Stan; Yoshitaka Mamiya; Junichi Yamagishi; Peter Bell 001; Oliver Watts; Robert A. J. Clark; Simon King 001 (Comput. Speech Lang., 2016)

The CSTR entry to the Blizzard Challenge 2017. - Srikanth Ronanki; Manuel Sam Ribeiro; Felipe Espic; Oliver Watts (Blizzard Challenge, 2017)

Nativization of Foreign Names in TTS for Automatic Reading of World News in Swahili. - Joseph Mendelson; Pilar Oplustil; Oliver Watts; Simon King 001 (INTERSPEECH, 2017)

Learning Word Vector Representations Based on Acoustic Counts. - Manuel Sam Ribeiro; Oliver Watts; Junichi Yamagishi (INTERSPEECH, 2017)

A Hierarchical Encoder-Decoder Model for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis. - Srikanth Ronanki; Oliver Watts; Simon King 001 (INTERSPEECH, 2017)

The CSTR entry to the 2018 Blizzard Challenge. - Felipe Espic; Avashna Govender; Manuel Sam Ribeiro; Cassia Valentini-Botinhao; Oliver Watts (Blizzard Challenge, 2018)

Learning Interpretable Control Dimensions for Speech Synthesis by Using External Data. - Zack Hodari; Oliver Watts; Srikanth Ronanki; Simon King 001 (INTERSPEECH, 2018)

Exemplar-based Speech Waveform Generation. - Oliver Watts; Cassia Valentini-Botinhao; Felipe Espic; Simon King 001 (INTERSPEECH, 2018)

Examplar-Based Speechwaveform Generation for Text-To-Speech. - Cassia Valentini-Botinhao; Oliver Watts; Felipe Espic; Simon King 001 (SLT, 2018)

Speech Waveform Reconstruction Using Convolutional Neural Networks with Noise and Periodic Inputs. - Oliver Watts; Cassia Valentini-Botinhao; Simon King 001 (ICASSP, 2019)

Improving Speech Synthesis with Discourse Relations. - Adèle Aubin; Alessandra Cervone; Oliver Watts; Simon King 001 (INTERSPEECH, 2019)

Using generative modelling to produce varied intonation for speech synthesis. - Zack Hodari; Oliver Watts; Simon King 001 (SSW, 2019)

Where do the improvements come from in sequence-to-sequence neural TTS? - Oliver Watts; Gustav Eje Henter; Jason Fong; Cassia Valentini-Botinhao (SSW, 2019)

Decoding Imagined, Heard, and Spoken Speech: Classification and Regression of EEG Using a 14-Channel Dry-Contact Mobile Headset. - Jonathan Clayton; Scott Wellington; Cassia Valentini-Botinhao; Oliver Watts (INTERSPEECH, 2020)

Predicting pairwise preferences between TTS audio stimuli using parallel ratings data and anti-symmetric twin neural networks. - Cassia Valentini-Botinhao; Manuel Sam Ribeiro; Oliver Watts; Korin Richmond; Gustav Eje Henter (INTERSPEECH, 2022)

PUFFIN: Pitch-Synchronous Neural Waveform Generation for Fullband Speech on Modest Devices. - Oliver Watts; Lovisa Wihlborg; Cassia Valentini-Botinhao (ICASSP, 2023)

Controlling formant frequencies with neural text-to-speech for the manipulation of perceived speaker age. - Ziya Khan; Lovisa Wihlborg; Cassia Valentini-Botinhao; Oliver Watts (INTERSPEECH, 2023)

Performance of data-driven inner speech decoding with same-task EEG-fMRI data fusion and bimodal models. - 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; et al. (CoRR, 2023)

A systematic review and narrative analysis of digital speech biomarkers in Motor Neuron Disease. - Molly Bowden; Emily Beswick; Johnny Tam; David Perry; Alice Smith; Judy Newton; Siddharthan Chandran; Oliver Watts; Suvankar Pal (npj Digit. Medicine, 2023)

Improving inner speech decoding by hybridisation of bimodal EEG and fMRI data. - 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; et al. (EMBC, 2024)

Voice Conversion-based Privacy through Adversarial Information Hiding. - Jacob J. Webber; Oliver Watts; Gustav Eje Henter; Jennifer Williams 001; Simon King 001 (CoRR, 2024)