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Dr. Christer Gobl

Associate Professor in Speech Science (C.L.C.S.)
ARTS BUILDING
      
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Dr. Christer Gobl

Associate Professor in Speech Science (C.L.C.S.)
ARTS BUILDING

 cegobl@tcd.ie

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  ACOUSTICS   Emotion in Speech   SPEECH   Speech Processing   Speech synthesis   Speech technology   Voice quality
Project Title
 ABAIR III: Abair-Éist-Comhrá
From
2021
To
2025
Summary
Cluster of speech research projects for Irish, extending linguistic resources and technologies (TTS, ASR and dialogue systems) and deploying them in applications for the public, in education, and in assistive technologies for those with disabilities. Funding €2,017,470
Funding Agency
Government of Ireland, Dept. of the Gaeltacht
Project Type
R&D
Project Title
 RóbóGlór: Affective Prosody in Irish TTS Voices
From
2011
To
2024
Summary
Methods for the generation of affective prosody in Irish text-to-speech synthesis. Funding €136,000
Funding Agency
Government of Ireland, Dept. of the Gaeltacht
Project Title
 Voice and Emotion in Human and Synthetic Speech - on the acoustics of emotional speech for artificial narration and immersive language learning applications
From
2021
To
2024
Summary
PhD project aimed to create a better understanding of how the human voice carries emotion by analysing vocal correlates of emotional states. Funding €82,500.
Funding Agency
Irish Research Council
Programme
2021 Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship
Project Title
 ABAIR II
From
2016
To
2020
Summary
Extending multi-dialect linguistic resources and multi-dialect TTS for Irish (3 main dialects, male/female voices). Prototype development of language-learning platforms. Funding 1,150,000
Funding Agency
Government of Ireland, Dept. of the Gaeltacht
Project Type
R&D
Project Title
 FASTNET: Focus on Actions in Social Talk: Network-Enabling Technology
From
2010
To
2015
Summary
Modelling voice in social interaction: how tone-of-voice and manner of speaking convey the speaker"s affect and attitude. Funding €1,129,000
Funding Agency
Science Foundation Ireland
Project Type
Basic research

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Lonergan, L., Saratxaga, I., Sloan, J., Maharog O., Qian, M., Ní Chiaráin, N., Gobl, C. and Ní Chasaide, A., Fotheidil: an Automatic T the Irish Languageranscription System for, Proceedings of the 5th Celtic Language Technology Workshop (CLTW 5), Abu Dhabi, UAE, 20 January 2025, 2025, pp35 - 45, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  URL
Giovannini, A. M., Wang, Z., Ní Chasaide, A. and Gobl, C., Voice parameter shifts and the perception of emotion in Irish synthetic speech, UK and Ireland Speech Workshop, York, UK, 2025, pp56 - 56, Published Abstract, PUBLISHED  URL
Giovannini, A. M., Wang, Z., Ni" Chasaide, A. and Gobl, C., The effects of the visual channel in vocal perception of affect, UK and Ireland Speech Workshop, York, UK, 2025, pp45 - 45, Published Abstract, PUBLISHED  URL
Giovannini, A. M., Wang, Z., O'Reilly, M., Ní Chasaide, A., Gobl, C., Voice transforms for affect control in Irish speech synthesis, Speech Prosody 2024, Leiden, the Netherlands, 2024, pp299 - 303, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Lonergan, L., Qian, M., Ní Chiaráin, N., Gobl, C. and Ní Chasaide, A., Low-resource speech recognition and dialect identification of Irish in a multi-task framework, The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop (Odyssey 2024), 2024, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  DOI
Qian, M., Lonergan, L., Ní Chiaráin, N., Gobl, C. and Ní Chasaide, A., Low-resource speech recognition and dialect identification of Irish in a multi-task framework, UK and Ireland Speech Workshop, Cambridge, UK, 2024, pp121 - 121, Published Abstract, PUBLISHED  URL
Giovannini, A. M., Wang, Z., Murphy, A., O'Reilly, M., Ní Chasaide, A. and Gobl, C., Putting expression in the Irish synthetic voice, UK and Ireland Speech Workshop, Cambridge, UK, 2024, pp41 - 41, Published Abstract, PUBLISHED  URL
Errity, R., Barnes, E., Cummins, J., Morrin, O., Berthelsen, H., Wendler, C., Murphy, A., Gobl, C., Ní Chiaráin, N. and Ní Chasaide, A., Technical challenges and opportunities in building an Irish-language augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) system, UK and Ireland Speech Workshop, Cambridge, UK, 2024, Published Abstract, PUBLISHED  URL
Wang, Z. and Gobl, C., A system for generating voice source signals that implements the transformed LF-model parameter control, INTERSPEECH 2023, Dublin, Ireland, 2023, pp4738 - 4742, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Wang, Z. and Gobl, C., The perceptual effects of aliasing distortion in glottal flow modelling, International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague, Czechia, 2023, pp1801 - 1805, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  URL
  

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Giovannini, A. M., Ní Chasaide, A. and Gobl, C., Exploring the Prosody of Affective Speech, 13th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics, Paris, France, 2022, 2022, pp65 - 68, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED