Esther Klabbers

According to our database, Esther Klabbers authored at least 35 papers between 1995 and 2023.

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2023

Strategies in Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Speech Synthesis: Phone Mapping, Features Input, and Source Language Selection.

Phat Do, Matt Coler, Jelske Dijkstra, Esther Klabbers

Proceedings of the 12th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop, 2023

Advocating for text input in multi-speaker text-to-speech systems.

Gérard Bailly, Martin Lenglet, Olivier Perrotin, Esther Klabbers

Proceedings of the 12th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop, 2023

Resource-Efficient Fine-Tuning Strategies for Automatic MOS Prediction in Text-to-Speech for Low-Resource Languages.

Phat Do, Matt Coler, Jelske Dijkstra, Esther Klabbers

Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2023

The Effects of Input Type and Pronunciation Dictionary Usage in Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Text-to-Speech.

Phat Do, Matt Coler, Jelske Dijkstra, Esther Klabbers

Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2023

2022

Data-augmented cross-lingual synthesis in a teacher-student framework.

Marcel de Korte, Jaebok Kim, Aki Kunikoshi, Adaeze Adigwe, Esther Klabbers

Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2022

Strategies for developing a Conversational Speech Dataset for Text-To-Speech Synthesis.

Adaeze O. Adigwe, Esther Klabbers

Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2022

2021

A Systematic Review and Analysis of Multilingual Data Strategies in Text-to-Speech for Low-Resource Languages.

Phat Do, Matt Coler, Jelske Dijkstra, Esther Klabbers

Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2021, Brno, Czechia, August 30, 2021

2020

BLISS: An Agent for Collecting Spoken Dialogue Data about Health and Well-being.

Jelte van Waterschoot, Iris Hendrickx, Arif Khan, Esther Klabbers, Marcel de Korte, Helmer Strik, Catia Cucchiarini, Mariët Theune

Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2020

Efficient Neural Speech Synthesis for Low-Resource Languages Through Multilingual Modeling.

Marcel de Korte, Jaebok Kim, Esther Klabbers

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

2014

A novel pitch decomposition method for the generalized linear alignment model.

Mahsa Sadat Elyasi Langarani, Esther Klabbers, Jan P. H. van Santen

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2014

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

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

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

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

Analysis of affective speech recordings using the superpositional intonation model.

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

Proceedings of the Sixth ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 2007

Application of speech technology in a home based assessment kiosk for early detection of alzheimer's disease.

Rachel Coulston, Esther Klabbers, Jacques de Villiers, John-Paul Hosom

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

2005

Synthesis of prosody using multi-level unit sequences.

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

Speech Commun., 2005

Discontinuity detection in concatenated speech synthesis based on nonlinear speech analysis.

Yannis Pantazis, Yannis Stylianou, Esther Klabbers

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

2004

Estimating phrase curves in the general superpositional intonation model.

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

Proceedings of the Fifth ISCA ITRW on Speech Synthesis, 2004

Clustering of foot-based pitch contours in expressive speech.

Esther Klabbers, Jan P. H. van Santen

Proceedings of the Fifth ISCA ITRW on Speech Synthesis, 2004

2003

On the computation of the Kullback-Leibler measure for spectral distances.

Raymond N. J. Veldhuis, Esther Klabbers

IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 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

Detection of list-type sentences.

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

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

Control and prediction of the impact of pitch modification on synthetic speech quality.

Esther Klabbers, Jan P. H. van Santen

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

2001

Reducing audible spectral discontinuities.

Esther Klabbers, Raymond N. J. Veldhuis

IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2001

From data to speech: a general approach.

Mariët Theune, Esther Klabbers, Jan-Roelof de Pijper, Emiel Krahmer, Jan Odijk

Nat. Lang. Eng., 2001

Definition of a training set for unit selection-based speech synthesis.

Karlheinz Stöber, Petra Wagner, Esther Klabbers, Wolfgang Hess

Proceedings of the 4th ITRW on Speech Synthesis, 2001

Creation of speech corpora for the multilingual Bonn Open Synthesis System.

Esther Klabbers, Karlheinz Stöber

Proceedings of the 4th ITRW on Speech Synthesis, 2001

Speech synthesis development made easy: the bonn open synthesis system.

Esther Klabbers, Karlheinz Stöber, Raymond N. J. Veldhuis, Petra Wagner, Stefan Breuer

Proceedings of the EUROSPEECH 2001 Scandinavia, 2001

2000

A solution to the reduction of concatenation artefacts in speech synthesis.

Esther Klabbers, Raymond N. J. Veldhuis, Kim Koppen

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

Predicting segmental durations for Dutch using the sums-of-products approach.

Esther Klabbers, Jan P. H. van Santen

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

1998

On the reduction of concatenation artefacts in diphone synthesis.

Esther Klabbers, Raymond N. J. Veldhuis

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

A generic algorithm for generating spoken monologues.

Esther Klabbers, Emiel Krahmer, Mariët Theune

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

System Demonstration Goalgetter: Generation Of Spoken Soccer Reports.

Mariët Theune, Esther Klabbers

Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Natural Language Generation, 1998

1995

The Dutch polyphone corpus.

Els den Os, T. I. Boogaart, Lou Boves, Esther Klabbers

Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1995