Tom Kenter

Tom Kenter

Tom Kenter received his PhD in 2017 from the Information and Language Processing Systems group at the University of Amsterdam, supervised by prof. dr. Maarten de Rijke. He is currently doing research at Google UK, on the topic of text-to-speech and natural language understanding. He has published at ACL, INTERSPEECH, CIKM, SIGIR and AAAI.

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    A Study of Raters' Sensitivity to Inter-sentence Pause Durations in American English Speech
    Paul Owoicho
    Josh Camp
    Tom Kenter
    2024
    A Study of Raters' Sensitivity to Inter-sentence Pause Durations in American English Speech
    Paul Owoicho
    Josh Camp
    Tom Kenter
    Speech Prosody 2024 (SP2024) (2024) (to appear)
    MOS vs. AB: Evaluating Text-to-Speech Systems Reliably Using Clustered Standard Errors
    Joshua Camp
    Tom Kenter
    Lev Finkelstein
    Rob Clark
    Proc. Interspeech 2023
    Training Text-To-Speech Systems From Synthetic Data: A Practical Approach For Accent Transfer Tasks
    Lev Finkelstein
    Heiga Zen
    Norman Casagrande
    Chun-an Chan
    Ye Jia
    Tom Kenter
    Alexey Petelin
    Jonathan Shen
    Vincent Wan
    Yu Zhang
    Yonghui Wu
    Rob Clark
    Interspeech (2022)
    StrawNet: Self-Training WaveNet for TTS in Low-Data Regimes
    Manish Kumar Sharma
    Tom Kenter
    Rob Clark
    (2020) (to appear)
    Frugal Paradigm Completion
    Alex Erdmann
    Tom Kenter
    Markus Becker
    Christian Schallhart
    Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2020), pp. 8248-8273
    Improving Prosody of RNN-based English Text-To-Speech Synthesis by Incorporating a BERT model
    Tom Kenter
    Manish Kumar Sharma
    Rob Clark
    INTERSPEECH 2020
    Evaluating Long-form Text-to-Speech: Comparing the Ratings of Sentences and Paragraphs
    Rob Clark
    Hanna Silen
    Tom Kenter
    Ralph Leith
    SSW10 (2019)
    CHiVE: Varying Prosody in Speech Synthesis with a Linguistically Driven Dynamic Hierarchical Conditional Variational Network
    Vincent Wan
    Chun-an Chan
    Tom Kenter
    Jakub Vit
    Rob Clark
    Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2019), PMLR, pp. 3331-3340
    Personal Knowledge Graphs: A Research Agenda
    Krisztian Balog
    Tom Kenter
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR), ACM (2019)
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