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Paul Taylor
Researcher at University of Cambridge
Publications - 137
Citations - 9890
Paul Taylor is an academic researcher from University of Cambridge. The author has contributed to research in topics: Speech synthesis & Cyclophilin. The author has an hindex of 48, co-authored 129 publications receiving 9455 citations. Previous affiliations of Paul Taylor include University of Edinburgh & University of Dundee.
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Dialogue act modeling for automatic tagging and recognition of conversational speech
Andreas Stolcke,Noah Coccaro,Rebecca Bates,Paul Taylor,Carol Van Ess-Dykema,Klaus Ries,Elizabeth Shriberg,Dan Jurafsky,Rachel Martin,Marie Meteer +9 more
TL;DR: The authors proposed a statistical approach for modeling dialogue acts in conversational speech, i.e., speech-act-like units such as STATEMENT, QUESTION, BACKCHANNEL, AGREEMENT, DISAGREEMENT and APOLOGY.
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Text-to-Speech Synthesis
TL;DR: Text-to-Speech Synthesis provides an in-depth explanation of all aspects of current speech synthesis technology, and is designed for graduate students in electrical engineering, computer science, and linguistics.
Proceedings Article
Automatically clustering similar units for unit selection in speech synthesis.
Alan W. Black,Paul Taylor +1 more
TL;DR: A new method for synthesizing speech by concatenating sub-word units from a database of labelled speech by automatically clustering units of the same phone class based on their phonetic and prosodic context is described.
The Architecture of the Festival Speech Synthesis System
TL;DR: A new formalism for storing linguistic data in a text to speech system that describes the design goals when building a synthesis architecture, and some problems with previous architectures are described.