Electronic Engineering

Research Interests:

Concatenative Speech Synthesis / Speech Perception / Virtual-Physical Musical Acoustics / DSP /

Selected Peer Reviewed Journals

• BLEAKLEY C SCAIFE R. 1995. NEW FORMULAS FOR PREDICTING THE ACCURACY OF ACOUSTICAL MEASUREMENTS MADE IN NOISY ENVIRONMENTS USING THE AVERAGED M- SEQUENCE CORRELATION TECHNIQUE. Journal Of The Acoustical Society Of America, 97, , pp1329-1332.

Selected Non-peer Reviewed Journals

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• Kirkpatrick B. O'Brien D. Scaife R. Errity A., On the Role of Spectral Dynamics in Unit Selection Speech Synthesis, Interspeech 2007 (Eurospeech), 27-AUG-07 - 31-AUG-07, Antwerp, Belgium
• Kirkpatrick B. O'Brien D. Scaife R., Feature Transformation applied to the Detection of Discontinuities in Concatenated Speech, In: P. Wagner, J. Abresch, S. Breuer, W. Hess ed.6th ISCA workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW6), 22-AUG-07 - 24-AUG-07, Bonn, Germany, 17 - 21
• Kirkpatrick B. O'Brien D. Scaife R. Errity A., Spectral Dynamics as a Source of Discontinuity in Concatenative Speech Synthesis, 15th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP), 01-JUL-07 - 04-JUL-07, Cardiff, Wales
• Kirkpatrick B. O'Brien D. Scaife R., Feature Extraction for Spectral Continuity Measures in Concatenative Speech Synthesis, International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), 18-SEP-06 - 21-SEP-06, Pittsburgh, USA
• Kirkpatrick B. O'Brien D. Scaife R., A Comparison of Spectral Continuity Measures as a Join Cost in Concatenative Speech Synthesis, Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC), 28-JUN-06 - 30-JUN-06, DIT, Dublin
• Prys D. Williams B. Hicks B. Jones D. Ní Chasaide A. Gobl C. Berndsen J. Cummins F. Ní Chiosáin M. McKenna J. Scaife R. Uí Dhonnchadha E., Speech Processing Resources for Welsh and Irish, Workshop on "First Steps for Language Documentation of Minority Languages", 4th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), 24-MAY-04 - 30-MAY-04, Lisbon, Portugal
• A. Smeaton M. Morony G. Quinn R. Scaife, Taiscéalaí: Information Retrieval from an Archive of Spoken Radio News., 2nd European Conf. on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL), 19-SEP-98 - 23-SEP-98, Heraklion, Crete
• R. Scaife C. Bleakley W. Hogan, Use of Speaker-Specific Data in Vocal Tract Estimation, SpeechMaps Workshop, 01-DEC-95 - 03-DEC-95, ICP Grenoble
• R. Scaife W. Hogan A. Kreitmeyr, The Wall Vibration Effect: Direct Measurement and Simulation Results., SpeechMaps Workshop, 01-DEC-94 - 03-DEC-94, KTH Stockholm
• C. Bleakley R. Scaife, Variation of the Lip Radiation Impedance in a Reverberant Enclosure, EUSIPCO-94, 01-SEP-94 - 05-SEP-94, Edinburgh
• W. Hogan R. Scaife, Measuremnt of Acoustic Transfer Function of Vocal Tract using EM shaker Method of Djeradi et al, Fifth Irish Colloquium on DSP and Control, 01-JUL-94 - 03-JUL-94, Dublin (DCU)
• R. Scaife W. Hogan A. Kreitmeyr, Impedance Measurement for the Vocal Tract, SpeechMaps Workshop, 01-DEC-93 - 03-DEC-93, ICP, Grenoble
• R. Scaife K. Jeevakumar, Articulatory Speech Synthesis: Estimation of data from real speech., First Irish Colloquium on DSP and Control, 01-DEC-90 - 02-DEC-90, Queen's Univ. Belfast
• R. Scaife, Vocal Tract Area Estimation - Extending the Wakita Inverse Filter., EUROSPEECH-89, 01-SEP-89 - 06-SEP-89, Paris