This page presents an overview of externally-funded research projects, in which members of the group are involved. Current projects are listed first. Projects are listed first by principal investigator, and then by start time.
Title |
P-people |
Grant details |
| Study of Source Features for Speech Synthesis and Speaker Recognition |
S. King |
British Council UKIERI Standard Award (04/07-03/11) |
| Automatic Target Cost and Database Design for Unit-selection Speech and Synthesis |
S. King |
EPSRC (04/07-03/10) |
| Investigation of 'streamed' (factored) models, with both hidden and observed factors |
S. King |
EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship (1/05 - 12/09) |
| Automatically-determined Unit Inventories for Unit Selection Text-to-Speech Synthesis |
S. King |
EPSRC (07/06-06/09) |
| Viennese Sociolect and Dialect Synthesis |
S. King |
Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) (4/07-3/09) |
| Sharing Acoustic Models Between Languages |
S. King |
CLSP-John Hopkins University (10/07-09/08) |
| Testing Evaluation of Speech Synthesis |
S. King |
EPSRC (1/05 - 12/07) |
| Simultaneous and Sequential Structure in Language |
D.R. Ladd |
Leverhulme Individual Research Fellowship (1/07 - 7/08) |
| Stress in Nilotic, a typological challenge |
D.R. Ladd, B. Remijsen |
AHRC Research Grant (9/05 - 8/08) |
| Dissociation of segments and intonation in the production of second language speech |
I. Mennen (QMUC) |
Brit. Ac. Small Research Grant (2/07 - 7/08) |
| Cross-language differences in pitch range |
I. Mennen (QMUC), F. Schaeffler (QMUC) |
ESRC Research Grant (9/06-9/08) |
| The phonetic details of speech variation and their impact on listener comprehension and attention |
S. Schaeffler (QMUC) |
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (5/07-4/08) |
| Ultrasound investigation of rhoticity |
J. Scobbie (QMUC) |
ESRC Research Grant (1/07 - 12/07) |
| An Edinburgh Speech Production Facility |
PI's: A. Turk, J. Scobbie (QMUC); co-PI's: W. Hardcastle
(QMUC), S. King, R. Lickley (QMUC), M. Pouplier (Munich), S. Renals; in addition, the following people are closely involved: Z. Campbell, E. Dubourg, C. Geng, C. Macmartin |
EPSRC (07-10) |
| The prosodic structures of Japanese and Korean: Cross-linguistic and intra-linguistic studies |
A. Utsugi |
JSPS postdoctoral fellowships for research abroad (1/07-1/09) |
Title |
P-people |
Grant details |
| Laryngeal Realism in Germanic Historical Phonology |
P. Honeybone |
AHRC Research Leave (01/06 - 05/06) |
| Efficient model-level integration of novel methods into HMM speech recognition |
S. King |
Scottish Enterprise Stanford Link (7/06 - 9/07) |
| Linear dynamical models for ASR |
S. King |
EPSRC (10/99-01/02) |
| Switching linear dynamical models for ASR |
S. King |
EPSRC (7/03-6/06) |
| Expressive Prosody for Unit-selection Speech Synthesis |
S. King |
Scottish Enterprise Stanford Link (1/04 - 12/06) |
| ASR using loosely-coupled HMMs with articulatory-acoustic features |
S. King |
Scottish Enterprise Stanford Link (1/04 - 12/06) |
| Intonational alignment and phonological vowel length in Southern British and Scottish English |
D. R. Ladd, A. Schepman (Abertay Dundee) |
British Academy (04-05) |
| Alignment of Fundamental Frequency Targets in English and Dutch |
D.R. Ladd, I. Mennen (QMUC) |
ESRC (98-00) |
| Phonetic and Phonological properties of Tonal Targets in Modern Greek Intonation |
D.R. Ladd |
ESRC (95-97) |
| Question intonation of untutored Italian learners of English |
I. Mennen (QMUC) |
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics research visitor grant (4/07-6/07) |
| An investigation of dysprosody in Foreign Accent Syndrome |
I. Mennen (QMUC) |
Brit. Ac. Small Research Grant (8/06 - 7/07) |
| An investigation into the effects of Lee Silverman Voice Therapy (LVST) on articulation in people with Parkinson's Disease using Electropalatography (EPG) |
I. Mennen (QMUC) |
NHS Highland Endownment Fund for Research and Development (6/05-6/07) |
| Dynamic Principles in Speech Production |
M. Pouplier, A. Turk |
6th Framework (EU) / Marie Curie Fellowship (12/04 - 11/06) |
| A dialect survey of the vocalic and prosoddic contrasts of Dinka |
B. Remijsen, D.R. Ladd |
Brit. Ac. Small Research Grant (7/05 - 6/07) |
| The Scottish Vowel Length Rule: Acoustics, Articulation and Acquisition |
J. Scobbie (QMUC), A. Turk |
ESRC (97-00)
|
| Cross-linguistic final lengthening patterns: Quantity and non-quantity languages |
A. Turk, S. Nakai |
Brit. Ac. Small Research Grant (05-07) |
| The Domain and Distribution of Durational Effects in Speech |
A. Turk, S. Isard |
EPSRC (96-99) |
| The development of acoustic cue weighting in speech perception |
A. Turk, C. Mayo |
Wellcome Trust (01-04) |
| Prosodic structures and processes in speech production |
A. Turk, S. Dimitrova |
AHRC Research Grant ('03-'06) |
| Stages of prosodic and segmental processing in speech perception |
A. Turk, S. Nakai |
Leverhulme Trust Research Grant ('03-'06) |
| Lexical and sublexical representations in spoken word recognition |
L. Wiget |
Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship (10/05 - 9/06) |
| Adapting Speech Synthesis to auditory ageing |
M. Wolters |
EPSRC/BBSRC (10/06-5/07) |
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