Publications

Technical and research publications

Publications by Dr. Caroline Henton covering speech synthesis, acoustic phonetics, gender and speech, voice interfaces, and multilingual text-to-speech systems.

Publications may be requested by email at [email protected]. Items marked with an asterisk were listed as available electronically.

Publications

*47. Henton, C. (2000). Large and variable unit speech synthesis. International Journal of Speech Technology. In press.

*46. Henton, C. (1999). Where is female synthetic speech? Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 29(1), 49-60.

*45. Henton, C. (1999). Felicitous female synthetic speech. Proceedings of the American Voice-In/Out Society, San Jose, 304-312.

44. Bladon, A., Henton, C., Ladefoged, P., Maddieson, I., & Ohala, J. (1998). American English and the International Phonetic Alphabet: the International Phonetic Association reacts. Publication of the American Dialect Society, 80, 123-126.

*43. Henton, C. (1998). Text to speech systems: when size does matter. Proceedings of the American Voice-In/Out Society, San Jose, 129-135.

*42. Henton, C. and Edelman, B. (1996). Generating and manipulating emotional synthetic speech on a personal computer. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 3(2), 105-125.

41. Henton, C. (1996). Linguistic, phonetic and discourse issues in the design of a speech driven interface. Proceedings of the Sixth Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Adelaide.

*40. Henton, C. (1996). Animated synthetic speech: the phonetic components. Computational Phonology in Speech Technology; Proceedings of the Second Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Phonology, 51-57.

*39. Henton, C. (1996). Designing a SUI for a CTI application. SIGCHI workshop on Designing the User Interface for Speech Recognition Applications, Vancouver, B.C.

*38. Henton, C. (1995). Cross-language variation in the vowels of female and male speakers. Proceedings of the 13th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Stockholm, 420-423.

*37. Henton, C. (1995). Pitch dynamism in female and male speech. Language and Communication, 15, 43-61.

36. Henton, C. (1994). Techniques for synthesizing visible, emotional speech. Proceedings of the Fifth Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Perth, 581-586.

35. Henton, C. and Litwinowicz, P. (1994). Saying it with feeling: techniques for synthesizing visible, emotional speech. Proceedings, 2nd ESCA/IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 73-76.

*34. Henton, C. (1993). Speech synthesis: telling it like it is. Australasian Wheels for the Mind, 3, 40-45.

*33. Henton, C. (1992). Sex and speech synthesis: techniques, successes, and challenges. Proceedings of the Fourth Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Brisbane, 738-743.

*32. Henton, C. (1992). The abnormality of male speech. In G. Wolf (Ed.), New Departures in Linguistics. New York: Garland Publishing, 27-58.

31. Henton, C., Ladefoged, P., and Maddieson, I. (1992). Stops in the world's languages. Phonetica, 49, 65-101.

30. Henton, C. (1990). One vowel's life (and death?) across languages: the moribundity and prestige of /^/. Journal of Phonetics, 18, 203-227.

*29. Henton, C.G. (1989). Fact and fiction in the description of female and male pitch. Language and Communication, 9, 299-311.

28. Henton, C.G. (1989). IPA individual symbols and diacritics: a summary of questionnaire responses. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 18(2), 83-94.

27. Henton, C.G., editor (1989). Linguistic aspects of sex-specific behavior. Davis Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 3, University of California, Davis.

26. Javkin, H., Hata, K., Mendes, L., Pearson, S., Ikuta, H., Kuan, A., DeHaan, G., Jackson, A., Zimmerman, B., Wise, T., Henton, C., Gow, M., Matsui, K., Hara, N., Kitano, M., Der-Hwa, L., and Chun-Hong, L. (1989). A multi-lingual text-to-speech system. IEEE ICASSP, 242-245.

25. Henton, C.G. (1988). Vocal discord. UC Davis Magazine, F6(2), 18-22.

24. Henton, C.G. (1988). CAPTEX for American English. PROPH, 3, 27-30.

*23. Henton, C.G. and Bladon, R.A.W. (1988). Creak as a sociophonetic marker. In Language, Speech and Mind: Studies in Honor of Victoria A. Fromkin, 3-29.

*22. Henton, C.G. (1987). Phonetic considerations for the synthesis of female speech. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Tallinn, 270-273.

21. Henton, C.G. (1987). The IPA chart: mugwumps, holes and therapeutic suggestions. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 17, 15-25.

20. Henton, C.G. and Bladon, A. (1987). Developing computerized transcription exercises for American English. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 7, 72-82.

19. Henton, C.G. (1986). Guidelines for a sufficient phonetic database. PROPH, 1, 40-45.

*18. Henton, C.G. and Bladon, R.A.W. (1985). Breathiness in normal female speech: inefficiency versus desirability. Language and Communication, 5, 221-227.

17. Henton, C.G. and Bladon, R.A.W. (1985). Sex-specific Differences in Vowels in English Speech. Final report to ESRC on Grant C0023 2033.

16. Henton, C.G. (1984). Normalization: fundamental problems. In Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, 6, 267-273.

15. Henton, C.G. (1983). Changes in the vowels of Received Pronunciation. Journal of Phonetics, 11(4), 353-371.

14. Bladon, R.A.W., Henton, C.G., and Pickering, J.B. (1983). Towards an auditory theory of speaker normalization. Language and Communication, 4, 59-69.

13. Bladon, R.A.W., Henton, C.G., and Pickering, J.B. (1983). Outline of an auditory theory of speaker normalization. Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 313-317.

Reviews and Abstracts

12. Henton, C.G. (1983). Review in British Journal of Language Teaching, 21(3): An American Sampler.

11. Henton, C.G. and Bladon, A. (1983). Review in EFL Gazette, 41: Intonation Practice and It Depends How You Say It.

10. Henton, C.G. and Bladon, A. (1983). Review in EFL Gazette, 47: English Phonetics and Phonology: A Practical Course.

*9. Henton, C. (1996). Comparing techniques for synthesizing emotional speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

*8. Henton, C. (1994). Beyond visemes: using disemes in synthetic speech with facial animation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 95, 3010.

*7. Henton, C. (1992). Acoustic variability in the vowels of female and male speakers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 91, 2387.

*6. Henton, C.G. (1990). How normal is male speech? Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Applied Linguistics, 821.

*5. Henton, C.G. (1989). Sociophonetic aspects of creaky voice. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 86, S25.

*4. Henton, C.G. (1988). Pitch dynamism in bilingual female and males. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 84, S99.

*3. Henton, C.G. (1988). Interaction effects of nasality and speaking fundamental frequency. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 83, S26.

2. Henton, C.G. and Bladon, A. (1988). Developing computerized transcription exercises for American English. Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts.

*1. Henton, C.G. (1984). Phonetic sex-differentiation: the investigative baseline. Proceedings of the Seventh World Congress of Applied Linguistics, 342.

Conference and Seminar Presentations

  • Felicitous female synthetic speech. AVIOS, San Jose, May 1999.
  • Beyond 2000: Visions of the future. SpeechTEK, New York, October 1998.
  • Text to Speech Systems: When Size Does Matter. AVIOS, San Jose, September 1998.
  • Integrated voice-in and voice-out capabilities in hands- and wire-free products. AVIOS Speech Technology Developers' Conference, San Jose, September 1998.
  • How will speech technology impact business? ASAT, San Jose, July 1998.
  • Animated synthetic speech: the phonetic components. ACL-SIGPHON, UC Santa Cruz, June 1996.
  • Designing a SUI for a CTI application. SIGCHI workshop on speech recognition interface design, Vancouver, April 1996.
  • Speech synthesis. LOT Winter School graduate course, Utrecht University, January 1996.
  • Cross-language variation in the vowels of female and male speakers. 13th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Stockholm, August 1995.
  • Onomatopoeia and sound symbolism in the soundscape. Interval Research Corporation, Palo Alto, December 1994.
  • Saying it with feeling: techniques for synthesizing visible, emotional speech. 2nd ESCA/IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis, New Paltz, September 1994.
  • Sex and speech synthesis: techniques, successes, and challenges. Fourth Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Brisbane, December 1992.
  • Speaker sex and speech synthesis. Linguistics Colloquium, UC Santa Cruz, May 1992.
  • Speech synthesis techniques: successes and challenges. Xerox PARC Research Seminars, Palo Alto, April 1992.
  • Speaking computers. Apple Technical Women's Conference, Santa Clara, February 1992.
  • New technologies and the future of speech synthesis in higher education. Apple Computer Australasian University Consortium, Canberra, July 1991.
  • How normal is male speech? Ninth World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Thessaloniki, April 1990.