Alexander Kain

According to our database, Alexander Kain authored at least 55 papers between 1997 and 2020.

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2020

Improving Speech Intelligibility Through Speaker Dependent and Independent Spectral Style Conversion.

Tuan Dinh, Alexander Kain, Kris Tjaden

Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2020

Increasing the Intelligibility and Naturalness of Alaryngeal Speech Using Voice Conversion and Synthetic Fundamental Frequency.

Tuan Dinh, Alexander Kain, Robin Samlan, Beiming Cao, Jun Wang

Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2020

Automatic Event Detection of REM Sleep Without Atonia From Polysomnography Signals Using Deep Neural Networks.

Phillip Wallis, Daniel Yaeger, Alexander Kain, Xubo Song, Miranda Lim

Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2020

Diacritic-Level Pronunciation Analysis Using Phonological Features.

Alexander Kain, Amie Roten, Robert Gale

Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2020

2019

Using a Manifold Vocoder for Spectral Voice and Style Conversion.

Tuan Dinh, Alexander Kain, Kris Tjaden

Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2019

2018

Automatic analysis of pronunciations for children with speech sound disorders.

Shiran Dudy, Steven Bedrick, Meysam Asgari, Alexander Kain

Comput. Speech Lang., 2018

2017

An overview of voice conversion systems.

Seyed Hamidreza Mohammadi, Alexander Kain

Speech Commun., 2017

Siamese Autoencoders for Speech Style Extraction and Switching Applied to Voice Identification and Conversion.

Seyed Hamidreza Mohammadi, Alexander Kain

Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2017

A Comparison of Sentence-Level Speech Intelligibility Metrics.

Alexander Kain, Max Del Giudice, Kris Tjaden

Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2017

2016

A Voice Conversion Mapping Function Based on a Stacked Joint-Autoencoder.

Seyed Hamidreza Mohammadi, Alexander Kain

Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2016

Classification of respiratory effort and disordered breathing during sleep from audio and pulse oximetry signals.

Brian R. Snider, Alexander Kain

Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2016

2015

Semi-supervised training of a voice conversion mapping function using a joint-autoencoder.

Seyed Hamidreza Mohammadi, Alexander Kain

Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2015

Data-driven foot-based intonation generator for text-to-speech synthesis.

Mahsa Sadat Elyasi Langarani, Jan P. H. van Santen, Seyed Hamidreza Mohammadi, Alexander Kain

Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2015

Pronunciation analysis for children with speech sound disorders.

Shiran Dudy, Meysam Asgari, Alexander Kain

Proceedings of the 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2015

2014

Determining the relevance of different aspects of formant contours to intelligibility.

Akiko Amano-Kusumoto, John-Paul Hosom, Alexander Kain, Justin M. Aronoff

Speech Commun., 2014

Voice conversion using deep neural networks with speaker-independent pre-training.

Seyed Hamidreza Mohammadi, Alexander Kain

Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2014

Modeling coarticulation in continuous speech.

Brian O. Bush, Alexander Kain

Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2014

2013

Automatic classification of breathing sounds during sleep.

Brian R. Snider, Alexander Kain

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2013

Transmutative voice conversion.

Seyed Hamidreza Mohammadi, Alexander Kain

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2013

Estimating phoneme formant targets and coarticulation parameters of conversational and clear speech.

Brian O. Bush, Alexander Kain

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2013

2012

Synthetic F0 Can Effectively Convey Speaker ID in Delexicalized Speech.

Eric Morley, Esther Klabbers, Jan P. H. van Santen, Alexander Kain, Seyed Hamidreza Mohammadi

Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2012

Making Conversational Vowels More Clear.

Seyed Hamidreza Mohammadi, Alexander Kain, Jan P. H. van Santen

Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2012

2011

Using a Genetic Algorithm to Estimate Parameters of a Coarticulation Model.

Brian O. Bush, John-Paul Hosom, Alexander Kain, Akiko Amano-Kusumoto

Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2011

F0 range and peak alignment across speakers and emotions.

Eric Morley, Jan P. H. van Santen, Esther Klabbers, Alexander Kain

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2011

2010

Introduction to the Special Section on Voice Transformation.

Yannis Stylianou, Tomoki Toda, Chung-Hsien Wu, Alexander Kain, Olivier Rosec

IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2010

Compression of line spectral frequency parameters using the asynchronous interpolation model.

Alexander Kain, Todd K. Leen

Proceedings of the Seventh ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 2010

Evaluation of speaker mimic technology for personalizing SGD voices.

Esther Klabbers, Alexander Kain, Jan P. H. van Santen

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2010

Frequency-domain delexicalization using surrogate vowels.

Alexander Kain, Jan P. H. van Santen

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2010

Speaking style dependency of formant targets.

Akiko Amano-Kusumoto, John-Paul Hosom, Alexander Kain

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2010

2009

Perceptual cost function for cross-fading based concatenation.

Qi Miao, Alexander Kain, Jan P. H. van Santen

Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2009

Compression of line spectral frequency parameters with asynchronous interpolation.

Rachel Moldover, Alexander Kain

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2009

Using speech transformation to increase speech intelligibility for the hearing- and speaking-impaired.

Alexander Kain, Jan P. H. van Santen

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2009

2007

The Contribution of Various Sources of Spectral Mismatch to Audible Discontinuities in a Diphone Database.

Esther Klabbers, Jan P. H. van Santen, Alexander Kain

IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2007

Improving the intelligibility of dysarthric speech.

Alexander Kain, John-Paul Hosom, Xiaochuan Niu, Jan P. H. van Santen, Melanie Fried-Oken, Janice Staehely

Speech Commun., 2007

Unit-selection text-to-speech synthesis using an asynchronous interpolation model.

Alexander Kain, Jan P. H. van Santen

Proceedings of the Sixth ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 2007

Spectral control in concatenative speech synthesis.

Alexander Kain, Qi Miao, Jan P. H. van Santen

Proceedings of the Sixth ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 2007

Hybridizing conversational and clear speech.

Akiko Kusumoto, Alexander Kain, John-Paul Hosom, Jan P. H. van Santen

Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2007

2006

A noninvasive, low-cost device to study the velopharyngeal port during speech and some preliminary results.

Xiaochuan Niu, Alexander Kain, Jan P. H. van Santen

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2006

2005

Synthesis of prosody using multi-level unit sequences.

Jan P. H. van Santen, Alexander Kain, Esther Klabbers, Taniya Mishra

Speech Commun., 2005

Estimation of the acoustic properties of the nasal tract during the production of nasalized vowels.

Xiaochuan Niu, Alexander Kain, Jan P. H. van Santen

Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 2005

2004

Including dynamic information in voice conversion systems.

Helenca Duxans, Antonio Bonafonte, Alexander Kain, Jan P. H. van Santen

Proces. del Leng. Natural, 2004

Formant re-synthesis of dysarthric speech.

Alexander Kain, Xiaochuan Niu, John-Paul Hosom, Qi Miao, Jan P. H. van Santen

Proceedings of the Fifth ISCA ITRW on Speech Synthesis, 2004

Including dynamic and phonetic information in voice conversion systems.

Antonio Bonafonte, Alexander Kain, Jan P. H. van Santen, Helenca Duxans

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2004

2003

Applications of computer generated expressive speech for communication disorders.

Jan P. H. van Santen, Lois M. Black, Gilead Cohen, Alexander Kain, Esther Klabbers, Taniya Mishra, Jacques de Villiers, Xiaochuan Niu

Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 2003, 2003

A speech model of acoustic inventories based on asynchronous interpolation.

Alexander Kain, Jan P. H. van Santen

Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 2003, 2003

Intelligibility of modifications to dysarthric speech.

John-Paul Hosom, Alexander Kain, Taniya Mishra, Jan P. H. van Santen, Melanie Fried-Oken, Janice Staehely

Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2003

2001

Design and evaluation of a voice conversion algorithm based on spectral envelope mapping and residual prediction.

Alexander Kain, Michael W. Macon

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2001

2000

When will synthetic speech sound human: role of rules and data.

Jan P. H. van Santen, Michael W. Macon, Andrew Cronk, John-Paul Hosom, Alexander Kain, Vincent Pagel, Johan Wouters

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2000

Stochastic modeling of spectral adjustment for high quality pitch modification.

Alexander Kain, Yannis Stylianou

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2000

Metaphor for learning: an evolutionary algorithm.

Jody Lee Louse, Alexander Kain, James Hines

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO '00), 2000

1998

Personalizing a speech synthesizer by voice adaptation.

Alexander Kain, Michael W. Macon

Proceedings of the Third ESCA/COCOSDA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 1998

Universal speech tools: the CSLU toolkit.

Stephen Sutton, Ronald A. Cole, Jacques de Villiers, Johan Schalkwyk, Pieter J. E. Vermeulen, Michael W. Macon, Yonghong Yan, Edward C. Kaiser, Brian Rundle, Khaldoun Shobaki, John-Paul Hosom, Alexander Kain, Johan Wouters, Dominic W. Massaro, Michael M. Cohen

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Incorporating The 7th Australian International Speech Science and Technology Conference, Sydney Convention Centre, Sydney, Australia, 30th November, 1998

Text-to-speech voice adaptation from sparse training data.

Alexander Kain, Michael W. Macon

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Incorporating The 7th Australian International Speech Science and Technology Conference, Sydney Convention Centre, Sydney, Australia, 30th November, 1998

Spectral voice conversion for text-to-speech synthesis.

Alexander Kain, Michael W. Macon

Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1998

1997

Towards decomposing the sources of variability in speech.

Narendranath Malayath, Hynek Hermansky, Alexander Kain

Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1997