Catherine Watson

Catherine Watson

University of Auckland

H-index: 24

Oceania-New Zealand

About Catherine Watson

Catherine Watson, With an exceptional h-index of 24 and a recent h-index of 15 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of Auckland, specializes in the field of speech processing, phonetics, sound change, vocal tract, speech synthesis.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Ngā āhuatanga o te/r/o te reo Māori: preliminary investigations into the acoustics of Māori/r

Performance of single-channel speech enhancement algorithms on Mandarin listeners with different immersion conditions in New Zealand English

Towards a Vocal and Acoustic Description of Kapa Haka

Performance of speech enhancement algorithms on the speech intelligibility of native Mandarin listeners immersed in English-speaking environment

Exploring prosodic features modelling for secondary emotions needed for empathetic speech synthesis

Spatial audio reproduction for studying second language speech perception in varying acoustic environments

Effect of room acoustics on speech intelligibility under noise between native and non-native listener

Using virtual sound reproduction for studying L1/L2 speech perception in varying acoustic environments

Catherine Watson Information

University

Position

Electrical and Computer Engineering The

Citations(all)

2819

Citations(since 2020)

1061

Cited By

2108

hIndex(all)

24

hIndex(since 2020)

15

i10Index(all)

48

i10Index(since 2020)

30

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University of Auckland

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Catherine Watson Skills & Research Interests

speech processing

phonetics

sound change

vocal tract

speech synthesis

Top articles of Catherine Watson

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Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Ngā āhuatanga o te/r/o te reo Māori: preliminary investigations into the acoustics of Māori/r

Isabella Shields

Catherine Watson

Peter Keegan

2024/2/19

Performance of single-channel speech enhancement algorithms on Mandarin listeners with different immersion conditions in New Zealand English

Speech Communication

Yunqi C Zhang

Yusuke Hioka

CT Justine Hui

Catherine I Watson

2024/2/1

Towards a Vocal and Acoustic Description of Kapa Haka

Journal of Voice

Isabella Shields

Calvin P Baker

Peter J Keegan

Catherine I Watson

2023/6/10

Performance of speech enhancement algorithms on the speech intelligibility of native Mandarin listeners immersed in English-speaking environment

INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings

Yunqi C Zhang

Yusuke Hioka

CT Hui

Catherine I Watson

2023/11/30

Exploring prosodic features modelling for secondary emotions needed for empathetic speech synthesis

Sensors

Jesin James

Balamurali BT

Catherine Watson

Hansjörg Mixdorff

2023/3/10

Spatial audio reproduction for studying second language speech perception in varying acoustic environments

INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings

Yusuke Hioka

CT Hui

Hinako Masuda

Catherine I Watson

Eri Osawa

...

2023/11/30

Effect of room acoustics on speech intelligibility under noise between native and non-native listener

Noise and Vibration: Emerging Method (Novem2023)

Yusuke Hioka

Justine Hui

H Masuda

C Watson

2023/1/10

Using virtual sound reproduction for studying L1/L2 speech perception in varying acoustic environments

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Yusuke Hioka

CT Hui

Hinako Masuda

Catherine I Watson

2023/10/1

Effect of speech enhancement at phonetic level perception of English speech between native English and Mandarin listeners

Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences

Yunqi C Zhang

Catherine I Watson

CT Justine Hui

Yusuke Hioka

2023

Towards Automatic Marking of Pepeha: a Formulaic Māori Language Speech

2nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages2nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages

Catherine I Watson

Piata Allen

Peter J Keegan

Keoni Mahelona

Peter-Lucas Jones

2023/8/18

Focussing and Levelling in the Auckland Voices Project

Miriam Meyerhoff

Elaine Ballard

Catherine Watson

Alexandra Birchfield

2023/1/1

Fostering Professionalism in Software Engineering: An Early-Exposure Approach

IEEE Software

Valerio Terragni

Catherine Watson

Nicholas Rowe

Nasser Giacaman

2023/7/6

Word identification of New Zealand English by native Japanese listeners with and without exposure to New Zealand English

Acoustical Science and Technology

Justine Hui CT

Hinako Masuda

Yusuke Hioka

Catherine I Watson

2023/1/1

The Development of a Labelled te reo Māori-English Bilingual Database for Language Technology

arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.09778

Jesin James

Isabella Shields

Vithya Yogarajan

Peter J Keegan

Catherine Watson

...

2022/8/21

Preliminary analysis of/r/acoustics and features in three Māori speakers

Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology

Isabella Shields

Catherine Watson

Peter Keegan

2022/12/16

Language Models for Code-switch Detection of te reo Māori and English in a Low-resource Setting

Jesin James

Vithya Yogarajan

Isabella Shields

Catherine I Watson

Peter Keegan

...

2022/7

Performance evaluation of speech masking design among listeners with varying language backgrounds

Applied Acoustics

Hinako Masuda

Yusuke Hioka

CT Justine Hui

Jesin James

Catherine I Watson

2022/12/1

Differences between listeners with early and late immersion age in spatial release from masking in various acoustic environments

Speech Communication

CT Justine Hui

Yusuke Hioka

Hinako Masuda

Catherine I Watson

2022/4/1

Using perceptual quality features in the design of the loss function for speech enhancement

Nicholas Eng

Yusuke Hioka

Catherine I Watson

2022/11/7

Performance of speech enhancement algorithms for native Mandarin listeners on English perception

International Acoustics Congress (ICA) 2022

Yunqi Zhang

Justine Hui

Yusuke Hioka

Catherine Watson

2022/10/24

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Co-Authors

H-index: 70
N M Kerse

N M Kerse

University of Auckland

H-index: 62
Elizabeth Broadbent

Elizabeth Broadbent

University of Auckland

H-index: 46
Bruce MacDonald

Bruce MacDonald

University of Auckland

H-index: 32
Jim Warren

Jim Warren

University of Auckland

H-index: 21
Clare M. McCann

Clare M. McCann

University of Auckland

H-index: 21
Steve Cassidy

Steve Cassidy

Macquarie University

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