Technical Program

SP-P7: Speech Synthesis II

Session Type: Poster
Time: Wednesday, March 28, 16:30 - 18:30
Location: Poster Area A
Session Chairs: Frank Soong, Microsoft Research Asia and Tomoki Toda, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
 
SP-P7.1: COMBINING VOCAL TRACT LENGTH NORMALIZATION WITH HIERARCHIAL LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS
         Lakshmi Saheer; IDIAP Research Institute / École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
         Junichi Yamagishi; Centre for Speech Technology Research, University of Edinburgh
         Philip N. Garner; IDIAP Research Institute
         John Dines; IDIAP Research Institute
 
SP-P7.2: STATISTICAL APPROACH TO VOICE QUALITY CONTROL IN ESOPHAGEAL SPEECH ENHANCEMENT
         Kenzo Yamamoto; Nara Institute of Science and Technology
         Tomoki Toda; Nara Institute of Science and Technology
         Hironori Doi; Nara Institute of Science and Technology
         Hiroshi Saruwatari; Nara Institute of Science and Technology
         Kiyohiro Shikano; Nara Institute of Science and Technology
 
SP-P7.3: CREATING SYNTHETIC VOICES FOR CHILDREN BY ADAPTING ADULT AVERAGE VOICE USING STACKED TRANSFORMATIONS AND VTLN
         Reima Karhila; Aalto University
         D.R. Sanand; Norwegian University of Science and Technology
         Mikko Kurimo; Aalto University
         Peter Smit; Aalto University
 
SP-P7.4: GAUSSIAN PROCESS DYNAMICAL MODELS FOR NONPARAMETRIC SPEECH REPRESENTATION AND SYNTHESIS
         Gustav Eje Henter; KTH Royal Institute of Technology
         Marcus R. Frean; Victoria University of Wellington
         W. Bastiaan Kleijn; Victoria University of Wellington
 
SP-P7.5: TEMPLATE-BASED PERSONALIZED SINGING VOICE SYNTHESIS
         Ling Cen; Institute for Infocomm Research (I²R), A*STAR, Singapore
         Minghui Dong; Institute for Infocomm Research (I²R), A*STAR, Singapore
         Paul Chan; Institute for Infocomm Research (I²R), A*STAR, Singapore
 
SP-P7.6: IMPROVED MINIMUM CONVERTED TRAJECTORY ERROR TRAINING FOR REAL-TIME SPEECH-TO-LIPS CONVERSION
         Wei Han; Shanghai Jiao Tong University
         Lijuan Wang; Microsoft Research Asia
         Frank Soong; Microsoft Research Asia
         Bo Yuan; Shanghai Jiao Tong University
 
SP-P7.7: LOCAL LINEAR TRANSFORMATION FOR VOICE CONVERSION
         Victor Popa; Tampere University of Technology
         Hanna Silen; Tampere University of Technology
         Jani Nurminen; Nokia
         Moncef Gabbouj; Tampere University of Technology
 
SP-P7.8: CROSS-LINGUAL FRAME SELECTION METHOD FOR POLYGLOT SPEECH SYNTHESIS
         Chia-Ping Chen; National Sun Yat-Sen University
         Yi-Chin Huang; National Cheng Kung University
         Chung-Hsien Wu; National Cheng Kung University
         Kuan-De Lee; National Cheng Kung University
 
SP-P7.9: EFFECT OF ANTI-ALIASING FILTERING ON THE QUALITY OF SPEECH FROM AN HMM-BASED SYNTHESIZER
         Yoshinori Shiga; National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
 
SP-P7.10: HIGH QUALITY LIP-SYNC ANIMATION FOR 3D PHOTO-REALISTIC TALKING HEAD
         Lijuan Wang; Microsoft Research Asia
         Wei Han; Shanghai Jiao Tong University
         Frank Soong; Microsoft Research Asia
 
SP-P7.11: TOWARDS AUTOMATIC PHONETIC SEGMENTATION FOR TTS
         Asaf Rendel; IBM
         Alexander Sorin; IBM
         Ron Hoory; IBM
         Andrew Breen; Nuance
 
SP-P7.12: A SMALL FOOTPRINT HYBRID STATISTICAL/UNIT SELECTION TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM FOR AGGLUTINATIVE LANGUAGES
         Ekrem Guner; Ozyegin University
         Cenk Demiroglu; Ozyegin University