Simon King
Professor
Researches speech synthesis and speech recognition, including acoustic models that represent speech structure.
Simon King's lab at Edinburgh works on speech recognition & spoken language, speech synthesis & voice and recognition, detection & segmentation. 14 papers since 2023, 7 at top venues, mostly ICASSP and Interspeech. 8 PhD students. 34 alumni.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 4/ year
- at T1 venues
- 50%
- PhD students
- 8
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 34
Papers by yearfrom DBLP, 2023–2026
- 1 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 3 papers2025 · T1 2
- 2 papers2024 · T1 1
- 8 papers2023 · T1 4
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICASSP, Interspeech
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Speech recognition & spoken language10 papers
- Speech synthesis & voice10 papers
- speech8 papers
- Recognition, detection & segmentation1 paper
- represent0 papers
Paper list
From DBLP.
20261 paper
20253 papers
- Interspeech (T1)Can We Reconstruct a Dysarthric Voice with the Large Speech Model Parler TTS? (opens in a new tab)
- Comput. Speech Lang.Refining the evaluation of speech synthesis: A summary of the Blizzard Challenge 2023 (opens in a new tab)
- Interspeech (T1)Segmentation-Variant Codebooks for Preservation of Paralinguistic and Prosodic Information (opens in a new tab)
20242 papers
20238 papers
- ICASSP (T1)Autovocoder: Fast Waveform Generation from a Learned Speech Representation Using Differentiable Digital Signal Processing (opens in a new tab)
- COGAI@IJCLRCognitive Load of Modern TTS Systems Under Noisy Conditions (opens in a new tab)
- ICASSP (T1)Do Prosody Transfer Models Transfer Prosodyƒ (opens in a new tab)
- ICASSP (T1)Ensemble Prosody Prediction For Expressive Speech Synthesis (opens in a new tab)
- Interspeech (T1)Intonation Control for Neural Text-to-Speech Synthesis with Polynomial Models of F0 (opens in a new tab)
- SSWSpell4TTS: Acoustically-informed spellings for improving text-to-speech pronunciations (opens in a new tab)
- SSWSynthesising turn-taking cues using natural conversational data (opens in a new tab)
- SSWUsing a Large Language Model to Control Speaking Style for Expressive TTS (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went34 listed
Apply to EdinburghFall 2027
Not announced yet
Informatics PhD
- Round
- Rolling (funding consideration)
- Opens
- —
- GRE
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- English
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- Fee
- none
Not yet confirmed for this intake.
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