Matt Shannon

Position: PhD student in statistical speech synthesis

Acoustic modelling for statistical speech synthesis. For the first part of my PhD I was part of the EMIME (Effective Multilingual Interaction in Mobile Environments) project for personalized speech synthesis.

armspeech
Flexible python framework for probabilistic modelling of speech with a focus on autoregressive models. Allows the use of more complicated autoregressive-style output distributions than the HTS implementation below. Includes example experiments.
Autoregressive HMM for HTS
An implementation of the autoregressive HMM built on top of HTS (HMM-based Speech Synthesis System). It provides the ability to do embedded re-estimation, decision tree clustering and synthesis using the autoregressive HMM. An example of how to use this implementation is available (autoregressive HMM version of the HTS demo).

M. Shannon, H. Zen and W. Byrne (2011)
The Effect of Using Normalized Models in Statistical Speech Synthesis
Proc. Interspeech 2011
[ postprint | bib | slides ]
M. Shannon and W. Byrne (2010)
Autoregressive clustering for HMM speech synthesis
Proc. Interspeech 2010
[ postprint | bib | poster ]
M. Shannon and W. Byrne (2009)
Autoregressive HMMs for speech synthesis
Proc. Interspeech 2009
[ postprint | bib | slides ]
M. Shannon and W. Byrne (2009)
A formulation of the autoregressive HMM for speech synthesis
Technical Report CUED/F-INFENG/TR.629
[ pdf | bib ]
M. Shannon and M.J.F. Gales (2008)
Sampling Methods for Instantaneous Speaker Adaptation
MPhil thesis, University of Cambridge, UK
[ final with corrections | final | bib | slides ]

M. Shannon (Mar 2011)
The effect of normalization -- a case study in speech synthesis
Machine Learning RCC, University of Cambridge, UK
[ slides | talks.cam ]
M. Shannon and H. Zen (Jan 2011)
Modelling trajectories in statistical speech synthesis
Cambridge statistical speech synthesis (SSS) seminar series
University of Cambridge, UK
[ my slides | Heiga's slides | talks.cam ]
M. Shannon and S. Bratières (May 2010)
Topics in Statistical Machine Translation
Machine Learning RCC, University of Cambridge, UK
[ talks.cam ]
M. Shannon and W. Byrne (May 2010)
Autoregressive HMMs for speech synthesis
EMIME workshop, Cambridge, UK
[ slides ]
M. Shannon (Jan 2009)
A Hierarchical Bayesian Language Model based on Pitman-Yor Processes
Machine Learning RCC, University of Cambridge, UK
[ talks.cam ]

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