John Kominek

According to our database, John Kominek authored at least 22 papers between 1993 and 2013.

Collaborative distances:

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2013

This Text Has the Scent of Starbucks: A Laplacian Structured Sparsity Model for Computational Branding Analytics.

William Yang Wang, Edward Lin, John Kominek

Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2013

2009

Optimizing segment label boundaries for statistical speech synthesis.

Alan W. Black, John Kominek

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2009

2008

Synthesizer voice quality of new languages calibrated with mean mel cepstral distortion.

John Kominek, Tanja Schultz, Alan W. Black

Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Spoken Languages Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages, 2008

Improving speech systems built from very little data.

John Kominek, Sameer Badaskar, Tanja Schultz, Alan W. Black

Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2008

CMU Blizzard 2008: Optimally using a large database for unit selection synthesis.

Alan W. Black, Christina L. Bennett, John Kominek, Brian Langner, Kishore Prahallad, Arthur R. Toth

Proceedings of the Blizzard Challenge 2008, 2008

2007

Voice building from insufficient data - classroom experiences with web-based language development tools.

John Kominek, Tanja Schultz, Alan W. Black

Proceedings of the Sixth ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 2007

SPICE: web-based tools for rapid language adaptation in speech processing systems.

Tanja Schultz, Alan W. Black, Sameer Badaskar, Matthew Hornyak, John Kominek

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

CMU Blizzard 2007: a hybrid acoustic unit selection system from statistically predicted parameters.

Alan W. Black, Christina L. Bennett, Benjamin C. Blanchard, John Kominek, Brian Langner, Kishore Prahallad, Arthur R. Toth

Proceedings of the Evaluation of text-to-speech systems: Blizzard Challenge 2007, 2007

2006

Learning Pronunciation Dictionaries: Language Complexity and Word Selection Strategies.

John Kominek, Alan W. Black

Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, 2006

The Blizzard Challenge 2006 CMU Entry introducing hybrid trajectory-selection synthesis.

John Kominek, Alan W. Black

Proceedings of the Blizzard Challenge 2006, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, September 16, 2006, 2006

2005

The blizzard challenge 2005 CMU entry - a method for improving speech synthesis systems.

John Kominek, Christina L. Bennett, Brian Langner, Arthur R. Toth

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

Measuring unsupervised acoustic clustering through phoneme pair merge-and-split tests.

John Kominek, Alan W. Black

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

2004

The CMU Arctic speech databases.

John Kominek, Alan W. Black

Proceedings of the Fifth ISCA ITRW on Speech Synthesis, 2004

Impact of durational outlier removal from unit selection catalogs.

John Kominek, Alan W. Black

Proceedings of the Fifth ISCA ITRW on Speech Synthesis, 2004

A family-of-models approach to HMM-based segmentation for unit selection speech synthesis.

John Kominek, Alan W. Black

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

2003

Evaluating and correcting phoneme segmentation for unit selection synthesis.

John Kominek, Christina L. Bennett, Alan W. Black

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

1999

Multimodal people ID for a multimedia meeting browser.

Jie Yang, Xiaojin Zhu, Ralph Gross, John Kominek, Yue Pan, Alex Waibel

Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Multimedia '99, Orlando, FL, USA, October 30, 1999

1997

Advances in Fractal Compression for Multimedia Applications.

John Kominek

Multim. Syst., 1997

Supporting the Retrieval Process in Multimedia Information Systems.

Rick Kazman, John Kominek

Proceedings of the 30th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-30), 1997

Accessing Multimedia through Concept Clustering.

John Kominek, Rick Kazman

Proceedings of the Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1997

1995

Convergence of Fractal Encoded Images.

John Kominek

Proceedings of the IEEE Data Compression Conference, 1995

1993

Information organization in multimedia resources.

Rick Kazman, John Kominek

Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Conference on Systems Documentation, 1993