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Dr Darragh O'Brien
| Name: | Dr Darragh O'Brien |
|---|---|
| Phone Number | 5645 |
| Room: | L2.35 |
| E-Mail Address: | |
| Work Area: | Lecturer |
| Homepage | Personal Homepage |

Dr Darragh O'Brien
Research Interests:
Speech synthesis, speaker verficiation, speech recognition, prosodic modification.
Selected Peer Reviewed Journals
- O'Brien D. and Monaghan A. I. C. 2001. Concatenative speech synthesis based on a harmonic model. Ieee Transactions On Speech And Audio Processing, 9, 1, pp11-20.
Selected Chapters
- O'Brien D. and Monaghan A. I. C.. 2002. Shape Invariant Pitch and time-scale modification of speech based on a harmonic model. Improvements in speech synthesis., pp64-75.
- B. Kirkpatrick, D. O'Brien and R. Scaife, Feature transformation applied to the detection of discontinuities in concatenated speech, 6th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 01-JAN-07 - 31-DEC-07,
- S. Seufert and D. O'Brien, Machine learning for automatic defence against distributed denial of service attacks, IEEE International Conference on Communications, 01-JAN-07 - 31-DEC-07,
- B. Kirkpatrick, D. O'Brien, R. Scaife and A. Errity, On the role of spectral dynamics in unit selection speech synthesis, Interspeech 2007, 01-JAN-07 - 31-DEC-07,
- B. Kirkpatrick, D. O'Brien, R. Scaife and A. Errity, Spectral dynamics as a source of discontinuity in concatenative speech synthesis,, International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, 01-JAN-07 - 31-DEC-07,
- B. Kirkpatrick, D. O'Brien and R. Scaife, A comparison of spectral continuity measures as a join cost in concatenative speech synthesis, Irish Signal and Systems Conference, 01-JAN-06 - 31-DEC-06,
- B. Kirkpatrick, D. O'Brien and R. Scaife, Feature extraction for spectral continuity measures in concatenative speech synthesis, International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 01-JAN-06 - 31-DEC-06,
- O'Brien D. and Monaghan A. I. C., Shape-invariant pitch modification of speech based on a harmonic model., Eurospeech, 05-SEP-99 - 09-SEP-99, Budapest, Hungary, 1059 - 1062
- O'Brien D. and Monaghan A. I. C. , Shape-invariant time-scale modification of speech using a harmonic model., IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing., 15-MAR-99 - 19-MAR-99, Phoenix, Arizona.










