Tony Robinson

Publication List Details

Period

1991 - 2008

Number

97

Co-Authors

ABSTRACT (2008)

Robin Valenza, Tony Robinson

Automatic summarisation of spoken audio is a fairly new research pursuit, in large part due to the relative novelty of technology for accurately decoding audio into text. Techniques that account for...

RECOGNITION-COMPATIBLE SPEECH COMPRESSION FOR STORED SPEECH (2008)

Roger Tucker, Tony Robinson, James Christie, Carl Seymour

Two important components of a speech archiving system are the compression scheme and the search facility. We investigate two ways of providing these components. The first is to run the recogniser...

1 (2008)

Tony Robinson, Mike Hochberg, Steve Renals

This chapter was written in 1994. Further advances have been made such as: context- dependent phone modelling; forward-backward training and adaptation using linear input transformations. This...

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Mike Hochberg, Ciro Martins, Steve Renals, Tony Robinson

It is well known that recognition performance degrades significantly when moving from a speakerdependent to a speaker-independent system. Traditional hidden Markov model (HMM) systems have...

A Segmental Formant Vocoder Based On Linearly Varying Mixture Of Gaussians (2007)

Parham Zolfaghari, Tony Robinson

This paper describes a low bit-rate segmental formant vocoder. The formants are estimated using mixture of Gaussians whose means are constrained to vary linearly with time within a segment. A new...

The 1995 Abbot Lvcsr System For Multiple Unknown Microphones (2007)

Dan Kershaw, Tony Robinson, Steve Renals

ABBOT is the hybrid connectionist-hidden Markov model largevocabulary speech recognition system developed at Cambridge University. In this system, a recurrent network maps each acoustic vector to an...

SPEAKER-ADAPTATION FOR HYBRID HMM-ANN CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM (2007)

Steve Renals, Tony Robinson

It is well known that recognition performance degrades signi cantly when moving from a speakerdependent to a speaker-independent system. Traditional hidden Markov model (HMM) systems have...

Indexing and retrieval of broadcast news (2000)

Renals, Steve, Abberley, Dave, Kirby, David, Robinson, Tony

This paper describes a spoken document retrieval (SDR) system for British and North American Broadcast News. The system is based on a connectionist large vocabulary speech recognizer and a...

Indexing and retrieval of broadcast news (2000)

Renals, Steve, Abberley, Dave, Kirby, David, Robinson, Tony

This paper describes a spoken document retrieval (SDR) system for British and North American Broadcast News. The system is based on a connectionist large vocabulary speech recognizer and a...

The THISL SDR system at TREC-8 (2000)

Abberley, Dave, Renals, Steve, Ellis, Dan, Robinson, Tony

This paper describes the participation of the THISL group at the TREC-8 Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) track. The THISL SDR system consists of the realtime version of the ABBOT large vocabulary...

The THISL SDR system at TREC-8 (2000)

Abberley, Dave, Renals, Steve, Ellis, Dan, Robinson, Tony

This paper describes the participation of the THISL group at the TREC-8 Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) track. The THISL SDR system consists of the realtime version of the ABBOT large vocabulary...

Indexing and Retrieval of Broadcast News (2000)

Steve Renals, Dave Abberley, David Kirby, Tony Robinson

This paper describes a spoken document retrieval (SDR) system for British and North American Broadcast News. The system is based on a connectionist large vocabulary speech recognizer and a...

The Thisl Sdr System At Trec-8 (2000)

Dave Abberley Steve, Steve Renals, Dan Ellis, Tony Robinson

This paper describes the participation of the THISL group at the TREC-8 Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) track. The THISL SDR system consists of the realtime version of the ABBOT large vocabulary...

Indexing and Retrieval of Broadcast News (2000)

Steve Renals, Dave Abberley, David Kirby, Tony Robinson

This paper describes a spoken document retrieval (SDR) system for British and North American Broadcast News. The system is based on a connectionist large vocabulary speech recognizer and a...

Indexing and retrieval of broadcast news (2000)

Steve Renals, Dave Abberley, David Kirby, Tony Robinson

This paper describes a spoken document retrieval (SDR) system for British and North American Broadcast News. The system is based on a connectionist large vocabulary speech recognizer and a...

CREDITS (2000)

National Parks, Edited Helen Owens, Contributions Dave, Armstrong Jan, Armstrong Robert Br, Le Peter Canty, ...

Acknowledgments: This manual is an accumulation of techniques, logistics and ideas which ISBN: 0759010129 Section 1 have been developed over the last 25 years by many dedicated individuals and...

An Overview of the SPRACH System for the Transcription of Broadcast News (1999)

Cook, Gary, Christie, James, Ellis, Dan, Fosler-Lussier, Eric, Gotoh, Yoshihiko, Kingsbury, Brian, ...

This paper describes the SPRACH system developed for the 1998 Hub-4E broadcast news evaluation. The system is based on the connectionist-HMM framework and uses both recurrent neural network and...

The THISL broadcast news retrieval system. (1999)

Abberley, Dave, Kirby, David, Renals, Steve, Robinson, Tony

In this paper we introduce a set of related confidence measures for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) based on local phone posterior probability estimates output by an acceptor...

Recognition, indexing and retrieval of British broadcast news with the THISL system. (1999)

Robinson, Tony, Abberley, Dave, Kirby, David, Renals, Steve

This paper described the THISL spoken document retrieval system for British and North American Broadcast News. The system is based on the ABBOT large vocabulary speech recognizer and a probabilistic...

The THISL system for indexing and retrieval of broadcast news. (1999)

Renals, Steve, Abberley, Dave, Kirby, David, Robinson, Tony

This paper describes the THISL news retrieval system which maintains an archive of BBC radio and television news recordings. The system uses the Abbot large vocabulary continuous speech recognition...

Retrieval of broadcast news documents with the THISL system. (1999)

Abberley, Dave, Renals, Steve, Cook, Gary, Robinson, Tony

This paper describes the THISL system that participated in the TREC-7 evaluation, Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) Track, and presents the results obtained, together with some analysis. The THISL...

An Overview of the SPRACH System for the Transcription of Broadcast News (1999)

Cook, Gary, Christie, James, Ellis, Dan, Fosler-Lussier, Eric, Gotoh, Yoshihiko, Kingsbury, Brian, ...

This paper describes the SPRACH system developed for the 1998 Hub-4E broadcast news evaluation. The system is based on the connectionist-HMM framework and uses both recurrent neural network and...

The THISL broadcast news retrieval system. (1999)

Abberley, Dave, Kirby, David, Renals, Steve, Robinson, Tony

In this paper we introduce a set of related confidence measures for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) based on local phone posterior probability estimates output by an acceptor...

Recognition, indexing and retrieval of British broadcast news with the THISL system. (1999)

Robinson, Tony, Abberley, Dave, Kirby, David, Renals, Steve

This paper described the THISL spoken document retrieval system for British and North American Broadcast News. The system is based on the ABBOT large vocabulary speech recognizer and a probabilistic...

The THISL system for indexing and retrieval of broadcast news. (1999)

Renals, Steve, Abberley, Dave, Kirby, David, Robinson, Tony

This paper describes the THISL news retrieval system which maintains an archive of BBC radio and television news recordings. The system uses the Abbot large vocabulary continuous speech recognition...

Retrieval of broadcast news documents with the THISL system. (1999)

Abberley, Dave, Renals, Steve, Cook, Gary, Robinson, Tony

This paper describes the THISL system that participated in the TREC-7 evaluation, Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) Track, and presents the results obtained, together with some analysis. The THISL...

Compression of Acoustic Features -- Are Perceptual Quality and Recognition Performance Incompatible Goals (1999)

Roger Tucker, Tony Robinson, James Christie, Carl Seymour

The client-server model is being advocated for speech recognition over networks, where the acoustic features are calculated by the client, compressed and transmitted to the server. This has provoked...

Speech Modelling Using Subspace and EM Techniques (1999)

Gavin Smith, Mahesan Niranjan, Tony Robinson

The speech waveform can be modelled as a piecewise-stationary linear stochastic state space system, and its parameters can be estimated using an expectation-maximisation (EM) algorithm. One problem...

The THISL SDR system at TREC-8 (1999)

Dave Abberley, Steve Renals, Dan Ellis, Tony Robinson

This paper describes the participation of the THISL group at the TREC-8 Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) track. The THISL SDR system consists of the realtime version of the ABBOT large vocabulary...

Towards Improved Language Model Evaluation Measures (1999)

Philip Clarkson, Tony Robinson

Much recent research has demonstrated that the correlation between a language model's perplexity and its effect on the word error rate of a speech recognition system is not as strong as was once...

The THISL SDR system at TREC-8 (1999)

Dave Abberley, Steve Renals, Dan Ellis, Tony Robinson

This paper describes the participation of the THISL group at the TREC-8 Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) track. The THISL SDR system consists of the realtime version of the ABBOT large vocabulary...

Recognition, Indexing And Retrieval Of British Broadcast News With The Thisl System (1999)

Tony Robinson, Dave Abberley, David Kirby, Steve Renals

This paper described the THISL spoken document retrieval system for British and North American Broadcast News. The system is based on the ABBOT large vocabulary speech recognizer and a probabilistic...

Speech Modelling Using Subspace and EM Techniques (1999)

Gavin Smith, Tony Robinson, Mahesan Niranjan

This paper concerns modelling speech using a piecewise stationary linear stochastic state space model. The purpose of the paper is to compare two algorithms for speech model parameter estimation:...

An Overview of the SPRACH System for the Transcription of Broadcast News (1999)

Gary Cook, James Christie, Dan Ellis, Eric Fosler-lussier, Yoshi Gotoh, Brian Kingsbury, ...

This paper describes the SPRACH system developed for the 1998 Hub-4E broadcast news evaluation. The system is based on the connectionist-HMM framework and uses both recurrent neural network and...

An Overview of the (1999)

Sprach System For, Gary Cook, James Christie, Dan Ellis, Eric Fosler-lussier, Yoshi Gotoh, ...

This paper describes the SPRACH system developed for the 1998 Hub-4E broadcast news evaluation. The system is based on the connectionist-HMM framework and uses both recurrent neural network and...

The THISL Broadcast News Retrieval System (1999)

Dave Abberley, David Kirby, Steve Renals, Tony Robinson

This paper described the THISL spoken document retrieval system for British and North American Broadcast News. The system is based on the ABBOT large vocabulary speech recognizer, using a recurrent...

An Overview of the (1999)

Sprach System For, Gary Cook, James Christie, Dan Ellis, Eric Fosler-lussier, Yoshi Gotoh, ...

This paper describes the SPRACH system developed for the 1998 Hub-4E broadcast news evaluation. The system is based on the connectionist-HMM framework and uses both recurrent neural network and...

Recognition-Compatible Speech Compression For Stored Speech (1999)

Roger Tucker, Tony Robinson, James Christie

Two important components of a speech archiving system are the compression scheme and the search facility. We investigate two ways of providing these components. The first is to run the recogniser...

Summarisation Of Spoken Audio Through Information Extraction (1999)

Robin Valenza, Tony Robinson, Marianne Hickey, Roger Tucker, Filton Rd, Stoke Gifford

Automatic summarisation of spoken audio is a fairly new research pursuit, in large part due to the relative novelty of technology for accurately decoding audio into text. Techniques that account for...

The THISL SDR system at TREC-8 (1999)

Dave Abberley, Steve Renals, Dan Ellis, Tony Robinson

This paper describes the participation of the THISL group at the TREC-8 Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) track. The THISL SDR system consists of the realtime version of the ABBOT large vocabulary...

Recognition, indexing and retrieval of british broadcast news with the THISL system (1999)

Tony Robinson, Dave Abberley, David Kirby, Steve Renals

This paper described the THISL spoken document retrieval system for British and North American Broadcast News. The system is based on the ABBOT large vocabulary speech recognizer and a probabilistic...

The THISL broadcast news retrieval system (1999)

Dave Abberley, David Kirby, Steve Renals, Tony Robinson

This paper described the THISL spoken document retrieval system for British and North American Broadcast News. The system is based on the ABBOT large vocabulary speech recognizer, using a recurrent...

The THISL broadcast news retrieval system (1999)

Dave Abberley, David Kirby, Steve Renals, Tony Robinson

This paper described the THISL spoken document retrieval system for British and North American Broadcast News. The system is based on the ABBOT large vocabulary speech recognizer, using a recurrent...

The THISL SDR system at TREC-8 (1999)

Dave Abberley, Steve Renals, Dan Ellis, Tony Robinson

This paper describes the participation of the THISL group at the TREC-8 Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) track. The THISL SDR system consists of the realtime version of the ABBOT large vocabulary...

The THISL Spoken Document Retrieval System (1998)

Abberley, Dave, Renals, Steve, Cook, Gary, Robinson, Tony

The THISL spoken document retrieval system is based on the Abbot Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR) system developed by Cambridge University, Sheffield University and SoftSound,...

The THISL Spoken Document Retrieval System (1998)

Abberley, Dave, Renals, Steve, Cook, Gary, Robinson, Tony

The THISL spoken document retrieval system is based on the Abbot Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR) system developed by Cambridge University, Sheffield University and SoftSound,...

The Applicability of Adaptive Language Modelling for the Broadcast News Task (1998)

Philip Clarkson, Tony Robinson

Adaptive language models have consistently been shown to lead to a significant reduction in language model perplexity compared to the equivalent static trigram model on many data sets. When these...

A practical perceptual frequency autoregressive HMM enhancement system (1998)

Beth Logan, Tony Robinson

We have previously developed a speech enhancement scheme which can adapt to unknown additive noise. We model speech and noise using perceptual frequency or `warped ' autoregressive HMMs...

The Thisl Spoken Document Retrieval System (1998)

Dave Abberley Steve, Steve Renals, Gary Cook, Tony Robinson

INTRODUCTION The THISL spoken document retrieval system is based on the ABBOT Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR) system developed by Cambridge University, Sheffield University and...

Retrieval of Broadcast News Documents with the THISL System (1998)

Dave Abberley, Steve Renals, Gary Cook, Tony Robinson

This paper describes the THISL system that participated in the TREC-7 evaluation, Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) Track, and presents the results obtained, together with some analysis. The THISL...

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Fajr Gdcg, Dave Abberley, Steve Renals, Gary Cook, Tony Robinson

This paper describes the THISL system that participated in the TREC-7 evaluation, Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) Track, and presents the results obtained, together with some analysis. The THISL...

Transcribing Broadcast News With The 1997 Abbot System (1998)

Gary Cook, Tony Robinson

Recent DARPA CSR evaluations have focused on the transcription of broadcast news from both television and radio programmes [17]. This is a challenging task because the data includes a variety of...

The THISL Spoken Document Retrieval System (1998)

Dave Abberley, Steve Renals, Gary Cook, Tony Robinson

INTRODUCTION The THISL spoken document retrieval system is based on the ABBOT Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR) system developed by Cambridge University, Sheffield University and...

Time-First Search For Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition (1998)

Tony Robinson, James Christie

This paper describes a new search technique for large vocabulary speech recognition based on a stack decoder. Considerable memory savings are achieved with the combination of a tree based lexicon and...

Speech Analysis (1998)

Tony Robinson

Contents 1 Introduction 4 1.1 What is Speech Analysis? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.1.1 So what is an acoustic vector? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.2 Why Speech Analysis? . . . . ....

Retrieval of broadcast news documents with the THISL system (1998)

Dave Abberley, Steve Renals, Gary Cook, Tony Robinson

This paper describes the THISL system that participated in the TREC-7 evaluation, Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) Track, and presents the results obtained, together with some analysis. The THISL...

Retrieval of broadcast news documents with the THISL system (1998)

Dave Abberley, Steve Renals, Gary Cook, Tony Robinson

This paper describes the THISL system that participated in the TREC-7 evaluation, Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) Track, and presents the results obtained, together with some analysis. The THISL...

A Formant Vocoder Based on Mixtures of Gaussians (1997)

Parham Zolfaghari, Tony Robinson

This paper describes a new low bit-rate formant vocoder. The formant parameters are represented by Gaussian mixture distributions, which are estimated from the discrete Fourier transform (DFT)...

The 1995 ABBOT LVCSR system for multiple unknown microphones (1996)

Kershaw, Dan, Robinson, Tony, Renals, Steve

ABBOT is a hybrid (connectionist-hidden Markov model) large-vocabulary speech recognition (LVCSR) system, developed at Cambridge University. In this system, a recurrent network maps each acoustic...

The 1995 ABBOT LVCSR system for multiple unknown microphones (1996)

Kershaw, Dan, Robinson, Tony, Renals, Steve

ABBOT is a hybrid (connectionist-hidden Markov model) large-vocabulary speech recognition (LVCSR) system, developed at Cambridge University. In this system, a recurrent network maps each acoustic...

The 1995 ABBOT LVCSR System for Multiple Unknown Microphones (1996)

Dan Kershaw, Tony Robinson, Steve Renals

ABBOT is the hybrid connectionist-hidden Markov model largevocabulary speech recognition system developed at Cambridge University. In this system, a recurrent network maps each acoustic vector to an...

Smoothed local adaptation of connectionist systems (1996)

Steve Waterhouse, Dan Kershaw, Tony Robinson

abbot is the hybrid connectionist hidden Markov model #HMM # large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system developed at Cambridge University Engineering Department. abbot makes e#ective use...

Smoothed Local Adaptation Of Connectionist Systems (1996)

Steve Waterhouse, Dan Kershaw, Tony Robinson

abbot is the hybrid connectionist hidden Markov model (HMM) large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system developed at Cambridge University Engineering Department. abbot makes effective use...

Bayesian Methods for Mixtures of Experts (1996)

Steve Waterhouse, David Mackay, Tony Robinson

We present a Bayesian framework for inferring the parameters of a mixture of experts model based on ensemble learning by variational free energy minimisation. The Bayesian approach avoids the...

Forward-Backward Retraining of Recurrent Neural Networks (1996)

Andrew Senior, Tony Robinson

This paper describes the training of a recurrent neural network as the letter posterior probability estimator for a hidden Markov model, off-line handwriting recognition system. The network estimates...

Boosting the Performance of Connectionist Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition (1996)

Gary Cook, Tony Robinson

Hybrid connectionist-hidden Markov model large vocabulary speech recognition has, in recent years, been shown to be competitive with more traditional HMM systems [4]. Connectionist acoustic models...

Bayesian Methods for Mixtures of Experts (1996)

Steve Waterhouse, David Mackay, Tony Robinson

We present a Bayesian framework for inferring the parameters of a mixture of experts model based on ensemble learning by variational free energy minimisation. The Bayesian approach avoids the...

Recent improvements to the Abbot large vocabulary CSR system. (1995)

Hochberg, Mike, Renals, Steve, Robinson, Tony, Cook, Gary

ABBOT is the hybrid connectionist-hidden Markov model (HMM) large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition (CSR) system developed at Cambridge University. This system uses a recurrent network to...

Speaker-Adaptation for Hybrid HMM-ANN Continuous Speech Recognition System (1995)

Neto, Joao, Almeida, Luis, Hochberg, Mike, Martins, Ciro, Nunes, Luis, Renals, Steve, ...

It is well known that recognition performance degrades significantly when moving from a speaker-dependent to a speaker-independent system. Traditional hidden Markov model (HMM) systems have...

Recent improvements to the Abbot large vocabulary CSR system. (1995)

Hochberg, Mike, Renals, Steve, Robinson, Tony, Cook, Gary

ABBOT is the hybrid connectionist-hidden Markov model (HMM) large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition (CSR) system developed at Cambridge University. This system uses a recurrent network to...

Speaker-Adaptation for Hybrid HMM-ANN Continuous Speech Recognition System (1995)

Neto, Joao, Almeida, Luis, Hochberg, Mike, Martins, Ciro, Nunes, Luis, Renals, Steve, ...

It is well known that recognition performance degrades significantly when moving from a speaker-dependent to a speaker-independent system. Traditional hidden Markov model (HMM) systems have...

Context-Dependent Classes in a Hybrid Recurrent Network-HMM Speech Recognition System (1995)

Dan Kershaw, Tony Robinson, Mike Hochberg

A method for incorporating context-dependent phone classes in a connectionist-HMM hybrid speech recognition system is introduced. A modular approach is adopted, where single-layer networks...

Wsjcam0: A British English Speech Corpus For Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (1995)

Tony Robinson, Jeroen Fransen, David Pye, Jonathan Foote, Steve Renals

A significant new speech corpus of British English has been recorded at Cambridge University. Derived from the Wall Street Journal text corpus, WSJCAM0 constitutes one of the largest corpora of...

Connectionist model combination for large vocabulary speech recognition (1994)

Hochberg, Mike, Cook, Gary, Renals, Steve, Robinson, Tony

Reports in the statistics and neural networks literature have expounded the benefits of merging multiple models to improve classification and prediction performance. The Cambridge University...

Connectionist model combination for large vocabulary speech recognition (1994)

Hochberg, Mike, Cook, Gary, Renals, Steve, Robinson, Tony

Reports in the statistics and neural networks literature have expounded the benefits of merging multiple models to improve classification and prediction performance. The Cambridge University...

IPA: improved phone modelling with recurrent neural networks (1994)

Robinson, Tony, Hochberg, Mike, Renals, Steve

This paper describes phone modelling improvements to the hybrid connectionist-hidden Markov model speech recognition system developed at Cambridge University. These improvements are applied to phone...

IPA: improved phone modelling with recurrent neural networks (1994)

Robinson, Tony, Hochberg, Mike, Renals, Steve

This paper describes phone modelling improvements to the hybrid connectionist-hidden Markov model speech recognition system developed at Cambridge University. These improvements are applied to phone...

Learning temporal dependencies in connectionist speech recognition (1994)

Renals, Steve, Hochberg, Mike, Robinson, Tony

Hybrid connectionist/HMM systems model time using both a Markov chain and through properties of a connectionist network. In this paper, we discuss the nature of the time dependence currently employed...

Learning temporal dependencies in connectionist speech recognition (1994)

Renals, Steve, Hochberg, Mike, Robinson, Tony

Hybrid connectionist/HMM systems model time using both a Markov chain and through properties of a connectionist network. In this paper, we discuss the nature of the time dependence currently employed...

SHORTEN: Simple lossless and nearlossless waveform compression (1994)

Tony Robinson

This report describes a program that performs compression of waveform les such as audio data. A simple predictive model of the waveform is used followed by Hu man coding ofthe prediction residuals....

SHORTEN: Simple lossless and nearlossless waveform compression (1994)

Tony Robinson

This report describes a program that performs compression of waveform files such as audio data. A simple predictive model of the waveform is used followed by Huffman coding of the prediction...

SHORTEN: Simple lossless and near-lossless waveform compression (1994)

Tony Robinson

This report describes a program that performs compression of waveform files such as audio data. A simple predictive model of the waveform is used followed by Huffman coding of the prediction...

An Application of Recurrent Nets to Phone Probability Estimation (1994)

Tony Robinson

This paper presents an application of recurrent networks for phone probability estimation in large vocabulary speech recognition. The need for efficient exploitation of context information is...

WSJCAM0 Corpus and Recording Description (1994)

Jeroen Fransen, Dave Pye, Tony Robinson, Phil Woodland, Steve Young

this document is the UK English equivalent of a subset of the US American English WSJ0 database [1]

Estimating the asymptotic constants of the total length of Euclidean minimal spanning trees with power-weighted edges

Cortina-Borja, Mario, Robinson, Tony

Steele (1988, Ann. Probab. 16, 1767-1787) and Aldous and Steele (1992, Probab. Theory Related Fields 92, 247-258) have proved that the total length of several combinatorial optimization problems in...