Mirjam Wester

According to our database, Mirjam Wester authored at least 44 papers between 1998 and 2020.

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2020

Speech Synthesis for the Generation of Artificial Personality.

Matthew P. Aylett, Alessandro Vinciarelli, Mirjam Wester

IEEE Trans. Affect. Comput., 2020

2017

Real-Time Reactive Speech Synthesis: Incorporating Interruptions.

Mirjam Wester, David A. Braude, Blaise Potard, Matthew P. Aylett, Francesca Shaw

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

Bot or not: exploring the fine line between cyber and human identity.

Mirjam Wester, Matthew P. Aylett, David A. Braude

Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2017

2016

Anti-Spoofing for Text-Independent Speaker Verification: An Initial Database, Comparison of Countermeasures, and Human Performance.

Zhizheng Wu, Phillip L. De Leon, Cenk Demiroglu, Ali Khodabakhsh, Simon King, Zhen-Hua Ling, Daisuke Saito, Bryan Stewart, Tomoki Toda, Mirjam Wester, Junichi Yamagishi

IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process., 2016

Multidimensional scaling of systems in the Voice Conversion Challenge 2016.

Mirjam Wester, Zhizheng Wu, Junichi Yamagishi

Proceedings of the 9th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop, 2016

Synthesising Filled Pauses: Representation and Datamixing.

Rasmus Dall, Marcus Tomalin, Mirjam Wester

Proceedings of the 9th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop, 2016

A Hierarchical Predictor of Synthetic Speech Naturalness Using Neural Networks.

Takenori Yoshimura, Gustav Eje Henter, Oliver Watts, Mirjam Wester, Junichi Yamagishi, Keiichi Tokuda

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

Analysis of the Voice Conversion Challenge 2016 Evaluation Results.

Mirjam Wester, Zhizheng Wu, Junichi Yamagishi

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

The Voice Conversion Challenge 2016.

Tomoki Toda, Ling-Hui Chen, Daisuke Saito, Fernando Villavicencio, Mirjam Wester, Zhizheng Wu, Junichi Yamagishi

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

Robust TTS duration modelling using DNNS.

Gustav Eje Henter, Srikanth Ronanki, Oliver Watts, Mirjam Wester, Zhizheng Wu, Simon King

Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2016

2015

Human vs machine spoofing detection on wideband and narrowband data.

Mirjam Wester, Zhizheng Wu, Junichi Yamagishi

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

Are we using enough listeners? no! - an empirically-supported critique of interspeech 2014 TTS evaluations.

Mirjam Wester, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Gustav Eje Henter

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

Artificial personality and disfluency.

Mirjam Wester, Matthew P. Aylett, Marcus Tomalin, Rasmus Dall

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

/u/-Fronting in English speakers' L1 but not in their L2.

Mirjam Wester, María Luisa García Lecumberri, Martin Cooke

Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2015

The MGB challenge: Evaluating multi-genre broadcast media recognition.

Peter Bell, Mark J. F. Gales, Thomas Hain, Jonathan Kilgour, Pierre Lanchantin, Xunying Liu, Andrew McParland, Steve Renals, Oscar Saz, Mirjam Wester, Philip C. Woodland

Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, 2015

2014

DIAPIX-FL: a symmetric corpus of problem-solving dialogues in first and second languages.

Mirjam Wester, María Luisa García Lecumberri, Martin Cooke

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

Using linguistic predictability and the lombard effect to increase the intelligibility of synthetic speech in noise.

Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Mirjam Wester

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

The effect of filled pauses and speaking rate on speech comprehension in natural, vocoded and synthetic speech.

Rasmus Dall, Mirjam Wester, Martin Corley

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

Investigating automatic & human filled pause insertion for speech synthesis.

Rasmus Dall, Marcus Tomalin, Mirjam Wester, William J. Byrne, Simon King

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

Accent rating by native and non-native listeners.

Mirjam Wester, Cassie Mayo

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2014

2013

Personalising speech-to-speech translation: Unsupervised cross-lingual speaker adaptation for HMM-based speech synthesis.

John Dines, Hui Liang, Lakshmi Babu Saheer, Matthew Gibson, William Byrne, Keiichiro Oura, Keiichi Tokuda, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Mirjam Wester, Teemu Hirsimäki, Reima Karhila, Mikko Kurimo

Comput. Speech Lang., 2013

Using neighbourhood density and selective SNR boosting to increase the intelligibility of synthetic speech in noise.

Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Mirjam Wester, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King

Proceedings of the Eighth ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 2013

2012

Talker discrimination across languages.

Mirjam Wester

Speech Commun., 2012

Analysis of unsupervised cross-lingual speaker adaptation for HMM-based speech synthesis using KLD-based transform mapping.

Keiichiro Oura, Junichi Yamagishi, Mirjam Wester, Simon King, Keiichi Tokuda

Speech Commun., 2012

2011

Cross-Lingual Speaker Discrimination Using Natural and Synthetic Speech.

Mirjam Wester, Hui Liang

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

Rapid Adaptation of Foreign-Accented HMM-Based Speech Synthesis.

Reima Karhila, Mirjam Wester

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

Speaker similarity evaluation of foreign-accented speech synthesis using HMM-based speaker adaptation.

Mirjam Wester, Reima Karhila

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2011

2010

Speaker adaptation and the evaluation of speaker similarity in the EMIME speech-to-speech translation project.

Mirjam Wester, John Dines, Matthew Gibson, Hui Liang, Yi-Jian Wu, Lakshmi Babu Saheer, Simon King, Keiichiro Oura, Philip N. Garner, William Byrne, Yong Guan, Teemu Hirsimäki, Reima Karhila, Mikko Kurimo, Matt Shannon, Sayaka Shiota, Jilei Tian, Keiichi Tokuda, Junichi Yamagishi

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

Cross-lingual talker discrimination.

Mirjam Wester

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

Unsupervised cross-lingual speaker adaptation for HMM-based speech synthesis.

Keiichiro Oura, Keiichi Tokuda, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Mirjam Wester

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2010

2007

Articulatory feature recognition using dynamic Bayesian networks.

Joe Frankel, Mirjam Wester, Simon King

Comput. Speech Lang., 2007

2005

An elitist approach to automatic articulatory-acoustic feature classification for phonetic characterization of spoken language.

Shuangyu Chang, Mirjam Wester, Steven Greenberg

Speech Commun., 2005

2003

Pronunciation modeling for ASR - knowledge-based and data-derived methods.

Mirjam Wester

Comput. Speech Lang., 2003

Syllable classification using articulatory-acoustic features.

Mirjam Wester

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

Automatic transcription of football commentaries in the MUMIS project.

Janienke Sturm, Judith M. Kessens, Mirjam Wester, Febe de Wet, Eric Sanders, Helmer Strik

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

2002

Goal-directed ASR in a multimedia indexing and searching environment (MUMIS).

Mirjam Wester, Judith M. Kessens, Helmer Strik

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP2002, 2002

2001

A dutch treatment of an elitist approach to articulatory-acoustic feature classification.

Mirjam Wester, Steven Greenberg, Shuangyu Chang

Proceedings of the EUROSPEECH 2001 Scandinavia, 2001

An elitist approach to articulatory-acoustic feature classification.

Shuangyu Chang, Steven Greenberg, Mirjam Wester

Proceedings of the EUROSPEECH 2001 Scandinavia, 2001

2000

Pronunciation variation in ASR: which variation to model?

Mirjam Wester, Judith M. Kessens, Helmer Strik

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

A comparison of data-derived and knowledge-based modeling of pronunciation variation.

Mirjam Wester, Eric Fosler-Lussier

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

1999

Improving the performance of a Dutch CSR by modeling within-word and cross-word pronunciation variation.

Judith M. Kessens, Mirjam Wester, Helmer Strik

Speech Commun., 1999

1998

Two automatic approaches for analyzing connected speech processes in dutch.

Mirjam Wester, Judith M. Kessens, Helmer Strik

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

Modeling pronunciation variation for a dutch CSR: testing three methods.

Mirjam Wester, Judith M. Kessens, Helmer Strik

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

The selection of pronunciation variants: comparing the performance of man and machine.

Judith M. Kessens, Mirjam Wester, Catia Cucchiarini, Helmer Strik

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