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Jurčíček, F and Thomson, B and Young, S (2012) Reinforcement learning for parameter estimation in statistical spoken dialogue systems. Computer Speech and Language, 26. pp. 168-192. ISSN 0885-2308

Yu, K and Zen, H and Mairesse, F and Young, S (2011) Context adaptive training with factorized decision trees for HMM-based statistical parametric speech synthesis. SPEECH COMMUN, 53. pp. 914-923. ISSN 0167-6393

Yu, K and Young, S (2011) Continuous F0 Modeling for HMM Based Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis. IEEE T AUDIO SPEECH, 19. pp. 1071-1079. ISSN 1558-7916

Gašić, M and Young, S (2011) Effective handling of dialogue state in the hidden information state POMDP-based dialogue manager. ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing, 7. ISSN 1550-4875

Yu, K and Young, S (2011) Joint modelling of voicing label and continuous F0 for HMM based speech synthesis. ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings. pp. 4572-4575. ISSN 1520-6149

Jurčíček, F and Thomson, B and Young, S (2011) Natural actor and belief critic: Reinforcement algorithm for learning parameters of dialogue systems modelled as POMDPs. ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing, 7. ISSN 1550-4875

Gašić, M and Jurčiček, F and Thomson, B and Yu, K and Young, S (2011) On-line policy optimisation of spoken dialogue systems via live interaction with human subjects. 2011 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2011, Proceedings. pp. 312-317.

Jurčíček, F and Keizer, S and Gašić, M and Mairesse, F and Thomson, B and Yu, K and Young, S (2011) Real user evaluation of spoken dialogue systems using Amazon Mechanical Turk. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH. pp. 3061-3064. ISSN 1990-9772

Jurčíček, F and Thomson, B and Young, S (2011) Reinforcement learning for parameter estimation in statistical spoken dialogue systems. Computer Speech and Language. ISSN 0885-2308

Black, AW and Burger, S and Conkie, A and Hastie, H and Keizer, S and Lemon, O and Merigaud, N and Parent, G and Schubiner, G and Thomson, B and Williams, JD and Yu, K and Young, S and Eskenazi, M (2011) Spoken Dialog Challenge 2010: Comparison of live and control test results. Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2011 Conference: 12th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. pp. 2-7.

Black, AW and Burger, S and Conkie, A and Hastie, H and Keizer, S and Lemon, O and Merigaud, N and Parent, G and Schubiner, G and Thomson, B and Williams, JD and Yu, K and Young, S and Eskenazi, M (2011) Spoken Dialog Challenge 2010: Comparison of live and control test results. Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2011 Conference: 12th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. pp. 2-7.

Daubigney, L and Gašić, M and Chandramohan, S and Geist, M and Pietquin, O and Young, S (2011) Uncertainty management for on-line optimisation of a POMDP-based large-scale spoken dialogue system. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH. pp. 1301-1304. ISSN 1990-9772

Thomson, B and Yu, K and Keizer, S and Gašić, M and Jurčíček, F and Mairesse, F and Young, S (2010) Bayesian dialogue system for the let's go spoken dialogue challenge. 2010 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, SLT 2010 - Proceedings. pp. 460-465.

Thomson, B and Young, SJ (2010) Bayesian update of dialogue state: a POMDP framework for spoken dialogue systems. Computer Speech and Language, 24. pp. 562-588. ISSN 0885-2308

Young, SJ (2010) Cognitive user interfaces. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 27. pp. 128-140. ISSN 1053-5888

Lefèvre, F and Mairesse, F and Young, S (2010) Cross-Lingual spoken language understanding from unaligned data using discriminative classification models and machine translation. Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010. pp. 78-81.

Gasic, M and Jurčíček, F and Keizer, S and Mairesse, F and Thomson, B and Yu, K and Young, S (2010) Gaussian processes for fast policy optimisation of POMDP-based dialogue managers. Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2010 Conference: 11th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group onDiscourse and Dialogue. pp. 201-204.

Keizer, S and Gašić, M and Jurčíček, F and Mairesse, F and Thomson, B and Yu, K and Young, S (2010) Parameter estimation for agenda-based user simulation. Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2010 Conference: 11th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group onDiscourse and Dialogue. pp. 116-123.

Thomson, B and Jurčíček, F and Gašić, M and Keizer, S and Mairesse, F and Yu, K and Young, S (2010) Parameter learning for POMDP spoken dialogue models. 2010 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, SLT 2010 - Proceedings. pp. 271-276.

Mairesse, F and Gašić, M and Jurčíček, F and Keizer, S and Thomson, B and Yu, K and Young, S (2010) Phrase-based statistical language generation using graphical models and active learning. ACL 2010 - 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference. pp. 1552-1561.

Inanoglu, Z and Young, S (2009) Data-driven emotion conversation in spoken English. Speech Communication, 51. pp. 268-283. ISSN 0167-6393

Schatzmann, J and Young, SJ (2009) The hidden agenda user simulation model. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 17. pp. 733-747. ISSN 1558-7916

Young, SJ and Gasic, M and Keizer, S and Mairesse, F and Schatzmann, J and Thomson, B and Yu, K (2009) The hidden information state model: a practical framework for POMDP-based spoken dialogue management. Computer Speech and Language, 24. pp. 150-174. ISSN 0885-2308

Williams, J and Young, SJ (2007) Partially observable Markov decision processes for spoken dialog systems. Computer Speech and Language, 21. pp. 393-422. ISSN 0885-2308

Williams, J and Young, SJ (2007) Scaling POMDPs for spoken dialog management. IEEE Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 15. pp. 2116-2129. ISSN 1558-7916

Schatzmann, J and Thomson, B and Young, S (2007) Statistical user simulation with a hidden agenda. Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue. pp. 273-282.

Gales, MJF and Young, SJ (2007) The application of hidden Markov models in speech recognition. Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing, 1. pp. 195-304. ISSN 1932-8346

Ye, H and Young, S (2006) Quality-enhanced voice morphing using maximum likelihood transformations. IEEE T AUDIO SPEECH, 14. pp. 1301-1312. ISSN 1558-7916

Ye, H and Young, SJ (2006) Quality-enhanced voice morphing using maximum likelihood transformations. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 14. pp. 1301-1312. ISSN 1558-7916

Williams, JD and Young, S (2006) Scaling POMDPs for dialog management with composite summary point-based value iteration (CSPBVI). AAAI Workshop - Technical Report, WS-06-. pp. 37-42.

He, Y and Young, SJ (2006) Spoken language understanding using the hidden vector state model. Speech Communication, 48. pp. 262-275. ISSN 0167-6393

Schatzmann, J and Weilhammer, K and Stuttle, M and Young, SJ (2006) A survey of statistical user simulation techniques for reinforcement-learning of dialogue management strategies. Knowledge Engineering Review, 21. pp. 97-126. ISSN 0269-8889

Schatzmann, J and Stuttle, MN and Weilhammer, K and Young, S (2005) Effects of the user model on simulation-based learning of dialogue strategies. Proceedings of ASRU 2005: 2005 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, 2005. pp. 412-417.

Williams, JD and Poupart, P and Young, S (2005) Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes with continuous observations for dialogue management. Proceedings of the 6th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue. pp. 25-34.

He, Y and Young, SJ (2005) Semantic processing using the hidden vector state model. Computer Speech and Language, 19. pp. 85-106. ISSN 0885-2308

Nock, H and Young, SJ (2002) Modelling asynchrony in automatic speech recognition using loosely coupled hidden Markov models. Cognitive Science, 26. pp. 283-301. ISSN 0364-0213

Blackburn, C and Young, SJ (2001) Enhanced speech recognition using an articulatory production model trained on X-ray data. Computer Speech and Language, 15. pp. 195-216. ISSN 0885-2308

Young, SJ and Carson-Berndsen, J and Kazakov, D and Alshawi, H and Pereira, F (2000) Finite-state models, event logics and statistics in speech recognition - Discussion. PHILOS T ROY SOC A, 358. p. 1266. ISSN 1364-503X

Young, SJ (2000) Probabilistic methods in spoken-dialogue systems. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 358. pp. 1389-1402. ISSN 1364-503X

Wilks, YA and Sampson, G and Ostler, N and Cunningham, H and Young, SJ and Hajicova, E (2000) The role of taxonomy in language engineering - Discussion. PHILOS T ROY SOC A, 358. pp. 1354-1355. ISSN 1364-503X

Witt, S and Young, SJ (2000) Phone-level pronunciation scoring and assessment for interactive language learning. Speech Communication, 30. pp. 95-108. ISSN 0167-6393

Witt, SM and Young, SJ (2000) Phone-level pronunciation scoring and assessment for interactive language learning. Speech Communication, 30. pp. 95-108. ISSN 0167-6393

Blackburn, CS and Young, SJ (2000) A self-learning predictive model of articulator movements during speech production. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 107. pp. 1659-1670. ISSN 0001-4966

Knill, KM and Young, SJ (1999) Low-cost implementation of open set keyword spotting. Computer Speech and Language, 13. pp. 243-266. ISSN 0885-2308

Gales, MJF and Knill, K and Young, SJ (1999) State-based Gaussian selection in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition using HMMs. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 7. pp. 152-161. ISSN 1063-6676

Young, SJ and Chase, LL (1998) Speech recognition evaluation: a review of the U.S. CSR and LVCSR programmes. Computer Speech and Language, 12. pp. 263-279. ISSN 0885-2308

Valtchev, V and Odell, JJ and Woodland, PC and Young, SJ (1997) MMIE training of large vocabulary recognition systems. SPEECH COMMUN, 22. pp. 303-314. ISSN 0167-6393

Young, SJ and Adda Decker, M and Aubert, X and Dugast, C and Gauvain, JL and Kershaw, DJ and Lamel, L and Van Leeuwen, D and Pye, D and Robinson, AJ and Steeneken, HJM and Woodland, PC (1997) Multilingual large vocabulary speech recognition: the European SQALE project. Computer Speech and Language, 11. pp. 73-89. ISSN 0885-2308

Foote, JT and Young, SJ and Jones, GJF and Sparck Jones, K (1997) Unconstrained keyword spotting using phone lattices with application to spoken document retrieval. Computer Speech and Language, 11. pp. 207-224. ISSN 0885-2308

Young, S (1996) A review of large-vocabulary continuous-speech recognition. IEEE SIGNAL PROC MAG, 13. pp. 45-57. ISSN 1053-5888

Sparck Jones, K and Jones, GJF and Foote, JT and Young, SJ (1996) Experiments in spoken document retrieval. Information Processing and Management, 32. pp. 399-417. ISSN 0306-4573

Gales, MJF and Young, SJ (1996) Robust continuous speech recognition using parallel model combination. IEEE Proceedings on Speech and Audio Processing, 4. pp. 352-359. ISSN 1063-6676

Young, SJ (1996) A review of large-vocabulary continuous-speech. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 13. pp. 45-57. ISSN 1053-5888

Shih, H-H and Young, SJ and Waegner, NP (1995) Inference approach to grammar construction. Computer Speech and Language, 9. pp. 235-256. ISSN 0885-2308

Young, SJ (1995) Large vocabulary speech recognition. Acoustics Bulletin, 20. p.5-. ISSN 0308-437X

Gales, MJF and Young, SJ (1995) Robust speech recognition in additive and convolutional noise using parallel model combination. Computer Speech and Language, 9. pp. 289-308. ISSN 0885-2308

Shih, HH and Young, SJ and Waegner, NP (1995) An inference approach to grammar construction. Computer Speech and Language, 9. pp. 235-256. ISSN 0885-2308

SAMARIA, F and YOUNG, S (1994) HMM-BASED ARCHITECTURE FOR FACE IDENTIFICATION. IMAGE VISION COMPUT, 12. pp. 537-543. ISSN 0262-8856

Odell, JJ and Valtchev, V and Woodland, PC and Young, SJ (1994) Recent developments in the HTK continuous speech recognition system. Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, 16. pp. 39-46.

Young, SJ and Woodland, PC and Byrne, WJ (1994) Spontaneous speech recognition for the credit card corpus using the HTK toolkit. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 2. pp. 615-621. ISSN 1063-6676

Young, SJ and Woodland, PC (1994) State clustering in hidden Markov model-based continuous speech recognition. Computer Speech and Language, 8. pp. 369-383. ISSN 0885-2308

GALES, MJF and YOUNG, SJ (1993) CEPSTRAL PARAMETER COMPENSATION FOR HMM RECOGNITION IN NOISE. SPEECH COMMUN, 12. pp. 231-239. ISSN 0167-6393

Kapadia, S and Valtchev, V and Young, SJ (1993) MMI training for continuous phoneme recognition on the TIMIT database. Proceedings - ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2. II-491-II-494. ISSN 0736-7791

Valtchev, V and Kapadia, S and Young, SJ (1993) Recurrent input transformations for Hidden Markov models. Proceedings - ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2. II-287-II-290. ISSN 0736-7791

Rainton, D and Young, SJ (1992) Time-frequency spectral estimation of speech. Computer Speech and Language, 6. pp. 15-36. ISSN 0885-2308

YOUNG, SJ (1991) COMPETITIVE TRAINING - A CONNECTIONIST APPROACH TO THE DISCRIMINATIVE TRAINING OF HIDDEN MARKOV-MODELS. IEE PROC-I, 138. pp. 61-68. ISSN 0956-3776

Lari, K and Young, SJ (1991) Applications of stochastic context-free grammars using the Inside-Outside algorithm. Computer Speech and Language, 5. pp. 237-257. ISSN 0885-2308

Young, SJ and Russell, NH and Thornton, JHS (1991) The use of syntax and multiple alternatives in the VODIS voice operated database inquiry system. Computer Speech and Language, 5. pp. 65-80. ISSN 0885-2308

Young, SJ (1990) Competitive training in hidden Markov models. ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, 2. pp. 681-684. ISSN 0736-7791

Lari, K and Young, SJ (1990) The estimation of stochastic context-free grammars using the Inside-Outside algorithm. Computer Speech and Language, 4. pp. 35-56. ISSN 0885-2308

Young, SJ and Proctor, CE (1989) The design and implementation of dialogue control in voice operated database inquiry systems. Computer Speech and Language, 3. pp. 329-353. ISSN 0885-2308

Young, SJ and Russell, NH and Thornton, JHS (1988) SPEECH RECOGNITION IN VODIS II. ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings. pp. 441-444. ISSN 0736-7791

YOUNG, SJ and PROCTOR, C (1986) UFL - AN EXPERIMENTAL FRAME LANGUAGE BASED ON ABSTRACT-DATA-TYPES. COMPUT J, 29. pp. 340-347. ISSN 0010-4620

YOUNG, SJ (1986) DESIGNING A CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH INTERFACE. IEE PROC-E, 133. pp. 305-311. ISSN 0143-7062

Young, SJ (1980) Low-level-device programming with a high-level language. IEE Proceedings Part E: Computers and Digital Techniques, 127. pp. 37-44. ISSN 0143-7062

Young, SJ (1980) P-notation: High level description language for software design. Microprocessors and Microsystems, 4. pp. 267-272. ISSN 0141-9331

YOUNG, SJ and FALLSIDE, F (1980) SYNTHESIS BY RULE OF PROSODIC FEATURES IN WORD CONCATENATION SYNTHESIS. INT J MAN MACH STUD, 12. pp. 241-258. ISSN 0020-7373

YOUNG, SJ and FALLSIDE, F (1979) SPEECH SYNTHESIS FROM CONCEPT - METHOD FOR SPEECH OUTPUT FROM INFORMATION-SYSTEMS. J ACOUST SOC AM, 66. pp. 685-695. ISSN 0001-4966

FALLSIDE, F and YOUNG, SJ (1978) SPEECH OUTPUT FROM A COMPUTER-CONTROLLED WATER-SUPPLY NETWORK. P I ELECTR ENG, 125. pp. 157-161.

FALLSIDE, F and YOUNG, SJ (1978) SPEECH OUTPUT SYSTEMS AND CAPTAIN-KIRK PROBLEM. ELECTRON POWER, 24. pp. 842-845. ISSN 0013-5127

Book

Young, Stephen John, ed. (1997) Corpus-based methods in language and speech processing. Text, Speech, and Language Technology: No. 2 . Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht; London, -.

Young, SJ (1982) Real time languages: design and development. The Ellis Horwood Series in Computers and their Applications, 21 . Ellis Horwood, Chichester, UK, -.

Book Section

Young, SJ (2008) HMMs and related speech recognition technologies. In: Springer Handbook of Speech Processing. Springer Verlag, -.

Williams, J and Poupart, P and Young, SJ (2008) Partially observable Markov decision processes with continuous observations for dialogue management. In: Recent trends in discourse and dialogue. Text, Speech and Language Technology . Springer, Berlin, Germany, pp. 191-217.

Jones, G and Foote, J and Sparck Jones, K and Young, SJ (1997) The video mail retrieval project. In: Intelligent multimedia information retrieval. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, pp. 191-214.

Conference or Workshop Item

Yu, K and Zen, H and Mairesse, F and Young, S (2010) Context Adaptive Training with Factorized Decision Trees for HMM-Based Speech Synthesis. In: UNSPECIFIED pp. 414-417..

Jurcicek, F and Thomson, B and Keizer, S and Mairesse, F and Gasic, M and Yu, K and Young, S (2010) Natural Belief-Critic: a reinforcement algorithm for parameter estimation in statistical spoken dialogue systems. In: UNSPECIFIED pp. 90-93..

Young, S (2010) Still Talking to Machines (Cognitively Speaking). In: UNSPECIFIED pp. 1-10..

Yu, K and Mairesse, F and Young, S (2010) WORD-LEVEL EMPHASIS MODELLING IN HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS. In: UNSPECIFIED pp. 4238-4241..

Lefevre, F and Gasic, M and Jurcicek, F and Keizer, S and Mairesse, F and Thomson, B and Yu, K and Young, SJ (2009) k-nearest neighbour Monte Carlo control algorithm for POMDP-based dialogue systems. In: The 10th Annual SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialgue, SIGDIAL 2009, 11-9-2009 to 12-9-2009, Queen Mary University of London, UK pp. 272-275..

Jurcicek, F and Gasic, M and Keizer, S and Mairesse, F and Thomson, B and Young, SJ (2009) Transformation-based learning for semantic parsing. In: 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 6-9-2009 to 10-9-2009, Brighton, UK pp. 2719-2722..

Yu, K and Toda, T and Gasic, M and Keizer, S and Mairesse, F and Thomson, B and Young, SJ (2009) Probabilistic modelling of F0 in unvoiced regions in HMM-based speech synthesis. In: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2009, 19-4-2009 to 24-4-2009, Taipei, Taiwan pp. 3773-3776..

Mairesse, F and Gasic, M and Jurcicek, F and Keizer, S and Thomson, B and Yu, K and Young, SJ (2009) Spoken language understanding from unaligned data using discriminative classification models. In: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2009, 19-4-2009 to 24-4-2009, Taipei, Taiwan pp. 4749-4752..

Toda, T and Young, SJ (2009) Trajectory training considering global variance for HMM-based speech synthesis. In: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2009, 19-4-2009 to 24-4-2009, Taipei, Taiwan pp. 4025-4028..

Gasic, M and Lefevre, F and Jurcicek, F and Keizer, S and Mairesse, F and Thomson, BRM and Yu, K and Young, SJ (2009) Back-off action selection in summary space-based POMDP-based dialogue systems. In: 2009 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, 13-12-2009 to 17-12-2009, Merano, Italy pp. 456-461..

Jurcicek, F and Gasic, M and Keizer, S and Mairesse, E and Thomson, B and Yu, K and Young, S (2009) Transformation-based Learning for Semantic parsing. In: UNSPECIFIED pp. 2683-2686..

Inanoglu, Z and Young, SJ (2008) Emotion conversion using Fo segment selection. In: Interspeech 2008, SST'08, 22-9-2008 to 26-9-2008, Brisbane, Australia.

Thomson, B and Yu, K and Gasic, M and Keizer, S and Mairesse, F and Schatzmann, J and Young, SJ (2008) Evaluating semantic-level confidence scores with multiple hypotheses. In: Interspeech 2008, SST'08, 22-9-2008 to 26-9-2008, Brisbane, Australia.

Thomson, B and Gasic, M and Keizer, S and Mairesse, F and Schatzmann, J and Yu, K and Young, SJ (2008) User study of the Bayesian Update of Dialogue State approach to dialogue management. In: Interspeech 2008, SST'08, 22-9-2008 to 26-9-2008, Brisbane, Australia.

Del Pozo, A and Young, SJ (2008) The linear transformation of LF glottal waveforms for voice conversion. In: Interspeech 2008, SST'08, 22-9-2008 to 26-9-2008, Brisbane, Australia.

Gasic, M and Keizer, S and Mairesse, F and Schatzmann, J and Thomson, B and Yu, K and Young, SJ (2008) Training and evaluation of the HIS POMDP Dialogue System in noise. In: 9th SIGDial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, 19-6-2008 to 20-6-2008, Columbus, Ohio, USA pp. 112-119..

Del Pozo, A and Young, SJ (2008) Repairing tracheoesophegeal speech duration. In: Fourth International Conference on Speech Prosody, 6-5-2008 to 9-5-2008, Campinas, Brazil.

Thomson, BRM and Schatzmann, J and Young, SJ (2008) Bayesian update of dialogue state for robust dialogue systems. In: 2008 International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP' 08, 30-3-2008 to 4-4-2008, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA pp. 4937-4940..

Keizer, S and Gasic, M and Mairesse, F and Thomson, B and Yu, K and Young, SJ (2008) Modelling user behaviour in the HIS-POMDP dialogue manager. In: IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, SLT' 08, 15-12-2008 to 19-12-2008, Goa, India pp. 121-124..

Inanoglu, Z and Young, S (2008) Emotion Conversion using F0 Segment Selection. In: UNSPECIFIED pp. 2122-2125..

Thomson, B and Yu, K and Gasic, M and Keizer, S and Mairesse, E and Schatzmann, J and Young, S (2008) Evaluating semantic-level confidence scores with multiple hypotheses. In: UNSPECIFIED pp. 1153-1156..

del Pozo, A and Young, S (2008) The Linear Transformation of LF Glottal Waveforms for Voice Conversion. In: UNSPECIFIED pp. 1457-1460..

Thomson, B and Gasic, M and Keizer, S and Mairesse, E and Schatzmann, J and Yu, K and Young, S (2008) User study of the Bayesian Update of Dialogue State approach to dialogue management. In: UNSPECIFIED pp. 483-486..

Schatzmann, J and Thomson, B and Young, SJ (2007) Statistical user simulation with a hidden agenda. In: 8th SIGDial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, 2-9-2007 to 3-9-2007, Antwerp, Belgium.

Inanoglu, Z and Young, SJ (2007) A system for transforming the emotion in speech: combining data-driven conversion techniques for prosody and voice quality. In: Interspeech 2007, 27-8-2007 to 31-8-2007, Antwerp, Belgium pp. 409-493..

Schatzmann, J and Thomson, BRM and Weilhammer, K and Ye, H and Young, SJ (2007) Agenda-based user simulation for bootstrapping a POMDP dialogue system. In: Human Language Technologies: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT 2007), 22-4-2007 to 27-4-2007, Rochester, NY, USA.

Thomson, BRM and Schatzmann, J and Weilhammer, K and Ye, H and Young, SJ (2007) Training a real-world POMDP-based dialog system. In: Bridging the Gap: Academic and Industrial Research in Dialog Technology, 26-4-2007 to --, Rochester, NY, USA.

Young, SJ and Schatzmann, J and Weilhammer, K and Ye, H (2007) The hidden information state approach to dialog management. In: 32nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2007), 15-4-2007 to 20-4-2007, Honolulu, Hawaii pp. 149-152..

Schatzmann, J and Thomson, B and Young, SJ (2007) Error simulation for training statistical dialogue systems. In: IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, ASRU' 07, 9-12-2007 to 13-12-2007, Kyoto, Japan pp. 526-531..

Inanoglu, Z and Young, S (2007) A System for Transforming the Emotion in Speech: Combining Data-Driven Conversion Techniques for Prosody and Voice Quality. In: UNSPECIFIED pp. 457-460..

Young, SJ and Schatzmann, J and Weilhammer, K and Ye, H (2007) The hidden information state approach to dialog management. In: 32nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), -- to --.

Del Pozo, A and Young, SJ (2006) Continuous tracheoesophageal speech repair. In: 14th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2006), 4-9-2006 to 8-9-2006, Florence, Italy.

Weilhammer, H and Stuttle, M and Young, SJ (2006) Bootstrapping language models for dialogue systems. In: 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (Interspeech 2006 — ICSLP), 17-9-2006 to 21-9-2006, Pittsburgh, USA pp. 17-20..

Ye, H and Young, SJ (2006) A clustering approach to semantic decoding. In: 9th International Conferenng (Interspeech 2006 — ICSLP)ce on Spoken Language Processi, 17-9-2006 to 21-9-2006, Pittsburgh, USA pp. 5-8..

Williams, J and Young, SJ (2006) Scaling POMDPs for dialog management with composite summary point-based value iteration (CSPBVI). In: Statistical and Empirical Approaches for Spoken Dialogue Systems, 17-7-2005 to --, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Young, SJ (2006) Using POMDPs for dialog management. In: IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop 2006, 10-12-2006 to 13-12-2006, Palm Beach, Aruba, USA pp. 8-13..

Ye, H and Young, SJ (2006) A clustering approach to semantic decoding. In: 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), -- to --.

Seneviratne, V and Young, SJ (2005) The hidden vector state language model. In: The 9th International Conference on European Conference on Speech Communciation and Technology (Interspeech 2005), 4-9-2005 to 8-9-2005, Lisbon, Portugal pp. 9-12..

Williams, J and Poupart, P and Young, SJ (2005) Partially observable Markov decision processes with continuous observations for dialogue management. In: 6th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, 2-9-2005 to 3-9-2005, Lisbon, Portugal pp. 25-34..

Schatzmann, J and Georgila, K and Young, SJ (2005) Quantitative evaluation of user simulation techniques for spoken dialogue systems. In: The 6th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, 2-9-2005 to 3-9-2005 pp. 45-54..

Williams, J and Poupart, P and Young, SJ (2005) Factored partially observable Markov decision processes for dialogue management. In: The 4th IJCAI Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems, -8-2005 to -- pp. 76-82..

Schatzmann, K and Weilhammer, K and Stuttle, M and Young, SJ (2005) Effects of the user model on simulation-based learning of dialogue strategies. In: 2005 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2005), 27-11-2005 to 1-12-2005, Cancun, Mexico pp. 220-225..

Williams, J and Young, SJ (2005) Scaling up POMDPs for dialog management: the summary POMDP method. In: 2005 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2005), 27-11-2005 to 1-12-2005, Cancún, Mexico pp. 177-182..

Ye, H and Young, SJ (2005) Improving the speech recognition performance of beginners in spoken conversational interaction for language learning. In: The 9th European Conference on Speech Communciation and Technology (Interspeech 2005), --2005 to -- pp. 289-292..

Inanoglu, Z and Young, S (2005) Intonation modelling and adaptation for emotional prosody generation. In: UNSPECIFIED pp. 286-293..

Williams, JD and Young, S (2005) Scaling up POMDPs for dialog management: The "Summary POMDP" method. In: UNSPECIFIED pp. 250-255..

He, Y and Young, SJ (2004) Robustness issues in a data-driven spoken language understanding system. In: HLT/NAACL 2004: Workshop on Spoken Language Understanding for Conversational Systems, 2-5-2004 to 7-5-2004, Boston, MA, USA.

Ye, H and Young, SJ (2004) High quality voice morphing. In: The 29th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2004), -5-2004 to -- pp. 9-12..

Williams, J and Young, SJ (2004) Characterizing task-oriented dialog using a simulated ASR chanel. In: The 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (Interspeech 2004), 4-10-2004 to 8-10-2004 pp. 185-188..

Ye, H and Young, SJ (2004) Voice conversion for unknown speakers. In: The 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), 4-10-2004 to 8-10-2004 pp. 1161-1164..

Stuttle, M and Williams, J and Young, SJ (2004) A framework for dialogue data collection with a simulated ASR channel. In: The 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), 4-10-2004 to 8-10-2004 pp. 241-244..

Ye, H and Young, SJ (2004) High quality voice morphing. In: The IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), -- to -- pp. 9-12..

Ye, H and Young, SJ (2004) High quality voice morphing. In: The IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), -- to --.

Ye, H and Young, SJ (2003) Perceptually weighted linear transformations for voice conversion. In: The 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH), 1-9-2003 to 4-9-2003 pp. 2409-2412..

Williams, J and Young, SJ (2003) Using Wizard-of-Oz simulations to bootstrap reinforcement learning-based dialog management systems. In: 4th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, 5-7-2003 to 6-7-2003, Sapporo, Japan.

He, Y and Young, SJ (2003) Hidden vector state model for hierarchical semantic parsing. In: The IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 6-4-2003 to 10-4-2003, Hong Kong pp. 268-271..

He, Y and Young, SJ (2003) A data-driven spoken language understanding system. In: The IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU'03), -11-2003 to -- pp. 583-588..

Young, SJ (2002) Talking to machines (statistically speaking). In: The 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), -9-2002 to --.

Scheffler, K and Young, SJ (2002) Automatic learning of dialogue strategy using dialogue simulation and reinforcement learning. In: Human Language Technology Conference (HLT 2002), -3-2002 to --, San Diego, USA.

Young, SJ (2001) Statistical modelling in continuous speech recognition (CSR). In: The 17th International Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2001), -8-2001 to -- pp. 562-571..

Tuerk, A and Young, SJ (2001) Indicator variable dependent output probability modelling via continuous posterior functions. In: The IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), -5-2001 to -- pp. 473-476..

Nock, H and Young, SJ (2001) A comparison of exact and approximate algorithms for decoding and training loosely coupled HMMs. In: The Institute of Acoustics Workshop on Innovation in Speech Processing (WISP 2001), -4-2001 to -- pp. 47-62..

Scheffler, K and Young, SJ (2001) Automatic learning of dialogue strategy using dialogue simulation and reinforcement learning. In: The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (NAACL), --2001 to --.

Scheffler, K and Young, SJ (2000) Probabilistic simulation of human-machine dialogues. In: The International Conference on International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), -6-2000 to -- pp. 1217-1220..

Moore, G and Young, S (2000) Class-based language model adaptation using mixtures of word-class weights. In: The 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 2000), 16-10-2000 to 20-10-2000 pp. 512-515..

Nock, H and Young, S (2000) Loosely coupled HMMs for ASR. In: The 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 2000), 16-10-2000 to 20-10-2000 pp. 143-146..

Tuerk, A and Young, S (1999) Modelling speaking rate using a between frame distance metric. In: The 6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH'99), 5-9-1999 to 9-9-1999 pp. 419-422..

Witt, S and Young, S (1999) Off-line acoustic modelling of non-native accents. In: The 6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH'99), 5-9-1999 to 9-9-1999 pp. 1367-1370..

Young, SJ (1999) Overview of spoken dialogue systems for telephony applications. In: IEE Colloquium on Interactive Spoken Dialogue Systems for Telephony Applications, 3-11-1999 to --, London, UK pp. 1-4..

Nock, H and Young, SJ (1998) Detecting and correcting poor pronunciations for multiword units. In: The Workshop on Modeling Pronunciation Variation for Automatic Speech Recognition, 4-5-1998 to 6-5-1998 pp. 85-90..

Woodland, PC and Hain, T and Johnson, SE and Niesler, TR and Tuerk, A and Young, SJ (1998) Experiments in broadcast news transcription. In: The 1998 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing v.1 (ICASSP '98), -5-1998 to -- pp. 909-912..

Hain, T and Johnson, SE and Tuerk, A and Woodland, PC and Young, SJ (1998) Segment generation and clustering in the HTK broadcast news transcription system. In: DARPA Broadcast News Transcription and Understanding Workshop, 8-2-1998 to 11-2-1998, Lansdowne Conference Resort, Lansdowne, Virginia, USA pp. 133-137..

Young, SJ (1998) Speech understanding and spoken dialogue systems. In: IEE Colloquium on Speech and Language Engineering - State of the Art, 19-11-1998 to --, London, UK 6/1-6/5..

Witt, S and Young, SJ (1998) Bilingual model combination for non-native speech recognition. In: The Institute of Acousticss Conference on Speech and Hearing, --1998 to -- pp. 91-98..

Witt, S and Young, SJ (1997) Language learning based on non-native speech recognition. In: 5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1997), 22-9-1997 to 25-9-1997, Rhodes, Greece.

Nock, H and Gales, MJF and Young, SJ (1997) A comparative study of methods for phonetic decision-tree state clustering. In: 5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1997), 22-9-1997 to 25-9-1997, Rhodes, Greece.

Young, SJ (1997) Acoustic modelling for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition. In: The NATO Advanced Study Institute Conference on Computational Models of Speech Pattern Processing, -7-1997 to -- pp. 18-39..

Young, SJ (1997) Speech recognition evaluation: a review of the ARPA CSR programme. In: SALT Workshop on Evaluation in Speech and Language Technology, 17-6-1997 to 18-6-1997, University of Sheffield.

Woodland, PC and Gales, MJF and Pye, D and Young, SJ (1997) Broadcast news transcription using HTK. In: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 97, 21-4-1997 to 24-4-1997, Munich, Germany pp. 719-722..

Young, SJ and Brown, M and Foote, J and Jones, G and Sparck Jones, K (1997) Acoustic indexing for multimedia retrieval and browsing. In: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, -4-1997 to --, Munich, Germany pp. 199-202..

Witt, S and Young, SJ (1997) Computer-assisted pronunciation teaching based on automatic speech recognition. In: The Conference on Language Teaching and Language Technology, -4-1997 to -- pp. 25-35..

Witt, S and Young, SJ (1997) Pronunciation teaching based on automatic speech recognition. In: The Conference on Language Teaching and Language Technology, -4-1997 to --.

Brown, M and Foote, J and Jones, G and Sparck Jones, K and Young, SJ (1997) Open-vocabulary speech indexing for voice and video mail retrieval. In: The 4th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, -11-1996 to -- pp. 307-316..

Knill, K and Young, S (1997) Hidden Markov models in speech and language processing. In: UNSPECIFIED pp. 27-68..

Shih, H-H and Young, SJ (1997) A study on the portability of a grammatical inference system. In: 10th International Conference on Research in Computational Linguistics (ROCLING), --1997 to --, Tapei, Taiwan.

Blackburn, C and Young, SJ (1996) A self-learning speech synthesis system. In: 1st ESCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Producing Modeling - 4th Speech Production Seminar, 20-5-1996 to 24-5-1996, Autrans, France.

Valtchev, V and Odell, JJ and Woodland, PC and Young, SJ (1996) Lattice-based discriminative training for large vocabulary speech recognition. In: 1996 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 96), 7-5-1996 to 10-5-1996, Atlanta, Georgia, USA pp. 605-608..

Niesler, TR and Woodland, PC and Young, SJ (1996) A variable-length category-based n-gram language model. In: International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, 7-5-1996 to 10-5-1996, Atlanta, Georgia, USA pp. 164-167..

Knill, K and Young, SJ (1996) Fast implementation methods for Viterbi-based word-spotting. In: The IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), -5-1996 to -- pp. 522-525..

Jones, G and Foote, J and Sparck Jones, K and Young, SJ (1996) Robust talker-independent audio document retrieval. In: The IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), -5-1996 to -- pp. 311-314..

Woodland, PC and Gales, MJF and Pye, D and Young, SJ (1996) The development of the 1996 HTK broadcast news transcription system. In: Proceedings of DARPA Speech Recognition Workshop, 18-2-1996 to 21-2-1996, Arden House, NY, US pp. 73-78..

Valtchev, V and Woodland, PC and Young, SJ (1996) Discriminative optimisation of large vocabulary recognition systems. In: 4th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 96, 3-10-1996 to 6-10-1996, Philadelphia, PA, USA pp. 18-21..

Blackburn, C and Young, SJ (1996) Pseudo-articulatory speech synthesis for recognition using automatic feature extraction from x-ray data. In: The 4th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, -10-1996 to -- pp. 969-972..

Knill, K and Gales, MJF and Young, SJ (1996) Use of Gaussian selection in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition using HMMs. In: The 4th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), -10-1996 to --, Philadelphia, PA, US pp. 470-473..

Jones, G and Foote, J and Sparck Jones, K and Young, SJ (1996) Retrieving spoken documents by combining multiple index sources. In: The 19th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, --1996 to -- pp. 30-38..

Foote, JT and Jones, GJF and Sparck Jones, K and Young, SJ (1995) Talker-independent keyword spotting for information retrieval. In: 4th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH 95), 18-9-1995 to 21-9-1995, Madrid, Spain pp. 2145-2148..

Blackburn, CS and Young, SJ (1995) Towards improved speech recognition using a speech production model. In: 4th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH 95), 18-9-1995 to 21-9-1995, Madrid, Spain pp. 1623-1626..

Gales, MJF and Young, SJ (1995) The application of parallel model combination to a large vocabulary dictation task. In: 4th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH 95), 18-9-1995 to 21-9-1995, Madrid, Spain pp. 1983-1986..

Foote, J and Brown, M and Jones, G and Sparck Jones, K and Young, S (1995) Video mail retrieval using voice: an overview of the stage 2 system. In: The Final Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (Miro '95), -9-1995 to -- 6-..

Knill, K and Gales, MJF and Young, SJ (1995) Video mail retrieval using voice: an overview of the stage 2 system. In: The Final Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (Miro '95), -9-1995 to --, Glasgow, UK 6-..

Blackburn, C and Young, SJ (1995) A novel self-organising speech production system using pseudo-articulators. In: The 13th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 95), -8-1995 to -- 23.4-..

Woodland, PC and Leggetter, CJ and Odell, JJ and Valtchev, V and Young, SJ (1995) The 1994 HTK large vocabulary speech recognition system. In: International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, 9-5-1995 to 12-5-1995, Detroit, MI, USA pp. 73-76..

Jones, G and Foote, J and Sparck Jones, K and Young, SJ (1995) Video mail retrieval: the effect of word spotting accuracy on precision. In: The International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ISCSSP), -5-1995 to -- pp. 309-312..

Gales, MJF and Young, SJ (1995) A fast and flexible implementation of parallel model combination. In: The International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ISCSSP), -5-1995 to --, Detroit, MI, US pp. 133-136..

Sparck Jones, K and Foote, J and Jones, G and Young, SJ (1995) Spoken document retrieval - a multimedia tool. In: The 4th Annual Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval, -4-1995 to -- pp. 1-12..

Blackburn, C and Young, SJ (1995) Learning new articulator trajectories for a speech production model using artificial neural networks. In: The IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks (ICNN-95), -11-1995 to -- pp. 2046-2051..

Woodland, PC and Leggetter, CJ and Odell, JJ and Valtchev, V and Young, SJ (1995) Spoken language systems technology workshop. In: Spoken Language Systems Technology Workshop, -1-1995 to --, Austin, Texas, USA pp. 104-109..

Brown, M and Foote, J and Sparck Jones, K and Young, SJ (1995) Automatic content-based retrieval of broadcast news. In: The 3rd ACM International Multimedia Conference and Exhibition (Multimedia-95), -- to -- -..

Valtchev, V and Odell, JJ and Woodland, PC and Young, SJ (1994) A dynamic network decoder design for large vocabulary speech recognition. In: International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 18-9-1994 to 22-9-1994, Yokohama, Japan pp. 1351-1354..

Woodland, PC and Odell, JJ and Valtchev, V and Young, SJ (1994) Large vocabulary continuous speech recognition using HTK. In: International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, 19-4-1994 to 22-4-1994, Adelaide, Australia pp. 125-128..

Odell, JJ and Woodland, PC and Young, SJ (1994) Tree-based state clustering for large vocabulary speech recognition. In: International Symposium on Speech Image Processing and Neural Networks, 13-4-1994 to 16-4-1994, Hong Kong, China.

Nolazco Flores, J and Young, SJ (1994) Continuous speech recognition in noise using spectral subtraction and HMM adaptation. In: The International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP-94), -4-1994 to -- pp. 409-412..

Young, SJ (1994) Detecting misrecognitions and out-of-vocabulary words. In: The International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP-94), -4-1994 to -- pp. 21-24..

James, DA and Young, SJ (1994) A fast lattice-based approach to vocabulary independent wordspotting. In: The International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP-94), -4-1994 to -- pp. 377-380..

Woodland, PC and Odell, JJ and Valtchev, V and Young, SJ (1994) The HTK large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system: an overview. In: The ARPA Human language Technology Workshop, 8-3-1994 to 11-3-1994.

Young, SJ and Odell, JJ and Woodland, PC (1994) Tree-based state tying for high accuracy acoustic modelling. In: The ARPA Human language Technology Workshop, 8-3-1994 to 11-3-1994 pp. 307-312..

Odell, JJ and Valtchev, V and Woodland, PC and Young, SJ (1994) A one-pass decoder design for large vocabulary recognition. In: The ARPA Human language Technology Workshop, 8-3-1994 to 11-3-1994 pp. 405-410..

Nolazco Flores, JA and Young, SJ (1993) Adapting a HMM-based recogniser for noisy speech enhanced by spectral subtraction. In: 3rd European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH 93), 21-9-1993 to 23-9-1993, Berlin, Germany pp. 829-832..

Gales, MJF and Young, SJ (1993) HMM recognition in noise using parallel model combination. In: 3rd European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH 93), 21-9-1993 to 23-9-1993, Berlin, Germany pp. 837-840..

Woodland, PC and Young, SJ (1993) The HTK tied-state continuous speech recogniser. In: 3rd European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH 93), 21-9-1993 to 23-9-1993, Berlin, Germany pp. 2207-2210..

Gales, MJF and Young, SJ (1993) Segmental hidden Markov models. In: 3rd European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH 93), 21-9-1993 to 23-9-1993, Berlin, Germany pp. 1579-1582..

Young, SJ and Woodland, PC (1993) The use of state tying in continuous speech recognition. In: 3rd European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH 93), 21-9-1993 to 23-9-1993, Berlin, Germany pp. 2203-2206..

Woodland, PC and Young, SJ (1992) Benchmark DARPA RM results using the HTK portable HMM toolkit. In: DARPA Continuous Speech Recognition Workshop, -9-1992 to --, Stanford, CA, USA.

Willis, AR and Bruce, IPC and Young, SJ (1984) An experimental database query system using automatic. In: The 7th International Conference on Computer Communication: The New World of the Information Society, -10-1984 to -- pp. 272-277..

Monograph

Williams, JD and Young, SJ (2005) The SACTI-1 corpus: guide for research users. Technical Report. University of Cambridge: Department of Engineering, Cambridge, UK.

Young, SJ (2003) The hidden vector state language model. Technical Report. University of Cambridge: Department of Engineering, Cambridge, UK.

Young, SJ (2003) The statistical approach to the design of spoken dialogue systems. Technical Report. University of Cambridge: Department of Engineering, Cambridge, UK.

Tuerk, A and Young, SJ (2001) A system for computer assisted grammar construction. Technical Report. University of Cambridge: Department of Engineering, Cambridge, UK.

Scheffler, KH and Young, SJ (1999) Simulation of human-machine dialogues. Technical Report. University of Cambridge: Department of Engineering, Cambridge, UK.

Gales, MJF and Knill, KM and Young, SJ (1997) State-based Gaussian selection in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition using HMMs. Technical Report. University of Cambridge: Department of Engineering, Cambridge, UK.

Jones, G and Foote, J and Sparck Jones, K and Young, SJ (1996) Video mail retrieval using voice: report on collection of naturalistic requests and relevance assessments. Technical Report. University of Cambridge: Computer Laboratory, Cambridge, UK.

Knill, KM and Young, SJ (1995) Techniques for automatically transcribing unknown keywords for open keyword set HMM-based word-spotting. Technical Report. University of Cambridge: Department of Engineering, Cambridge, UK.

Gales, MJF and Young, SJ (1994) Robust continuous speech recognition using parallel model combination. Technical Report. University of Cambridge: Department of Engineering, Cambridge, UK.

Knill, KM and Young, SJ (1994) Speaker dependent keyword spotting for accessing stored speech. Technical Report. University of Cambridge: Department of Engineering, Cambridge, UK.

Fransen, JFJ and Pye, D and Robinson, AJ and Woodland, PC and Young, SJ (1994) WSJCAM0 corpus and recording description. Technical Report. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Cambridge, UK.

Shih, HH and Young, SJ (1994) A system for computer assisted grammar construction. Technical Report. University of Cambridge: Department of Engineering, Cambridge, UK.

Nolazco Flores, JA and Young, SJ (1993) Adapting a HMM-based recogniser for noisy speech enhanced by spectral subtraction. Technical Report. University of Cambridge: Department of Engineering, Cambridge, UK.

Nalazco Flores, JA and Young, SJ (1993) CSS-PMC: a combined enhancement/compensation scheme for continuous speech recognition in noise. Technical Report. University of Cambridge: Department of Engineering, Cambridge, UK.

Young, SJ (1993) The HTK hidden Markov model toolkit: design and philosophy. Technical Report. University of Cambridge: Department of Engineering, Cambridge, UK.

James, DA and Young, SJ (1993) On the application of information retrieval techniques and keyword spotting to video document retrieval. Technical Report. University of Cambridge: Department of Engineering, Cambridge, UK.

Gales, MJF and Young, SJ (1993) PMC for speech recognition in additive and convolutional noise. Technical Report. University of Cambridge: Department of Engineering, Cambridge, UK.

Gales, MJF and Young, SJ (1993) Parallel model combination for speech recognition in noise. Technical Report. University of Cambridge: Department of Engineering, Cambridge, UK.

Gales, MJF and Young, SJ (1993) The theory of segmental hidden Markov models. Technical Report. University of Cambridge: Department of Engineering, Cambridge, UK.

Beattie, VL and Young, SJ (1992) Hidden Markov model state-based noise cancellation. Technical Report. University of Cambridge: Department of Engineering, Cambridge, UK.

Wong, G and Young, SJ (1992) Vector quantization bigram hidden Markov modelling for improved phoneme recognition. Technical Report. University of Cambridge: Department of Engineering, Cambridge, UK.

Young, SJ (1990) Competitive training: a connectionist approach to the discriminative training of hidden Markov models. Technical Report. University of Cambridge: Department of Engineering, Cambridge, UK.

Beattie, VL and Young, SJ (1990) Hidden Markov model performance in noise. Technical Report. University of Cambridge: Department of Engineering, Cambridge, UK.

Young, SJ and Russell, NH and Thornton, JHS (1989) Token passing: a simple conceptual model for connected speech recognition systems. Technical Report. University of Cambridge: Department of Engineering, Cambridge, UK.

Other

Young, SJ and Evermann, G and Gales, MJF and Kershaw, D and Moore, G and Odell, JJ and Ollason, DG and Povey, D and Valtchev, V and Woodland, PC (2006) The HTK book version 3.4. Cambridge University Engineering Department, Cambridge, UK.

Young, SJ and Jansen, J and Odell, JJ and Ollason, DG and Woodland, PC (1995) The HTK book. Cambridge University Engineering Department and Entrophic Cambridge Research Laboratory, Cambridge, UK.

Young, SJ and Woodland, PC and Byrne, WJ (1993) HTK V1.5: User, Reference and Programmer Manuals. Cambridge University Engineering Department and Entropic Cambridge Research Laboratory, Cambridge.

Thesis

Young, SJ (1978) Speech synthesis from concept with applications to speech output from systems. PhD thesis, UNSPECIFIED.