Norbert Braunschweiler

According to our database, Norbert Braunschweiler authored at least 39 papers between 2000 and 2024.

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2024

Report on the 8th Workshop on Search-Oriented Conversational Artificial Intelligence (SCAI 2024) at CHIIR 2024.

Alexander Frummet, Andrea Papenmeier, Maik Fröbe, Johannes Kiesel, Vaibhav Adlakha, Norbert Braunschweiler, Mateusz Dubiel, Satanu Ghosh, Marcel Gohsen, Christin Kreutz, Milad Momeni, Markus Nilles, Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal, Abbas Pirmoradi, Paul Thomas, Johanne R. Trippas, Ines Zelch, Oleg Zendel

SIGIR Forum, June, 2024

Advancing Faithfulness of Large Language Models in Goal-Oriented Dialogue Question Answering.

Abigail Sticha, Norbert Braunschweiler, Rama Sanand Doddipatla, Kate M. Knill

Proceedings of the ACM Conversational User Interfaces 2024, 2024

2023

Evaluating Large Language Models for Document-grounded Response Generation in Information-Seeking Dialogues.

Norbert Braunschweiler, Rama Doddipatla, Simon Keizer, Svetlana Stoyanchev

CoRR, 2023

Adversarial learning of neural user simulators for dialogue policy optimisation.

Simon Keizer, Caroline Dockes, Norbert Braunschweiler, Svetlana Stoyanchev, Rama Doddipatla

CoRR, 2023

Enabling Semi-Structured Knowledge Access via a Question-Answering Module in Task-oriented Dialogue Systems.

Norbert Braunschweiler, Rama Sanand Doddipatla, Simon Keizer, Svetlana Stoyanchev

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, 2023

Robust Recognition of Speaker Emotion With Difference Feature Extraction Using a Few Enrollment Utterances.

Daichi Hayakawa, Takehiko Kagoshima, Kenji Iwata, Norbert Braunschweiler, Rama Doddipatla

Proceedings of the IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, 2023

2022

Factors in Emotion Recognition With Deep Learning Models Using Speech and Text on Multiple Corpora.

Norbert Braunschweiler, Rama Doddipatla, Simon Keizer, Svetlana Stoyanchev

IEEE Signal Process. Lett., 2022

Combining Structured and Unstructured Knowledge in an Interactive Search Dialogue System.

Svetlana Stoyanchev, Suraj Pandey, Simon Keizer, Norbert Braunschweiler, Rama Sanand Doddipatla

Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2022

2021

Open-domain Topic Identification of Out-of-domain Utterances using Wikipedia.

Alexandry Augustin, Alexandros Papangelis, Margarita Kotti, Pavlos Vougiouklis, Jonathon Hare, Norbert Braunschweiler

CoRR, 2021

Dialogue Strategy Adaptation to New Action Sets Using Multi-Dimensional Modelling.

Simon Keizer, Norbert Braunschweiler, Svetlana Stoyanchev, Rama Doddipatla

Proceedings of the IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, 2021

A Study on Cross-Corpus Speech Emotion Recognition and Data Augmentation.

Norbert Braunschweiler, Rama Doddipatla, Simon Keizer, Svetlana Stoyanchev

Proceedings of the IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, 2021

2019

Crowd-Sourced Collection of Task-Oriented Human-Human Dialogues in a Multi-domain Scenario.

Norbert Braunschweiler, Panagiotis Papadakos, Margarita Kotti, Yannis Marketakis, Yannis Tzitzikas

Proceedings of the Text, Speech, and Dialogue - 22nd International Conference, 2019

2018

Comparison of an End-to-end Trainable Dialogue System with a Modular Statistical Dialogue System.

Norbert Braunschweiler, Alexandros Papangelis

Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2018

2017

Speaker Adaptation in DNN-Based Speech Synthesis Using d-Vectors.

Rama Doddipatla, Norbert Braunschweiler, Ranniery Maia

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

2016

Automated Pause Insertion for Improved Intelligibility Under Reverberation.

Petko Nikolov Petkov, Norbert Braunschweiler, Yannis Stylianou

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

Pause Prediction from Text for Speech Synthesis with User-Definable Pause Insertion Likelihood Threshold.

Norbert Braunschweiler, Ranniery Maia

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

2015

Speaker and Expression Factorization for Audiobook Data: Expressiveness and Transplantation.

Langzhou Chen, Norbert Braunschweiler, Mark J. F. Gales

IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process., 2015

2014

Building HMM-TTS Voices on Diverse Data.

Vincent Wan, Javier Latorre, Kayoko Yanagisawa, Norbert Braunschweiler, Langzhou Chen, Mark J. F. Gales, Masami Akamine

IEEE J. Sel. Top. Signal Process., 2014

Integrated Expression Prediction and Speech Synthesis From Text.

Langzhou Chen, Mark J. F. Gales, Norbert Braunschweiler, Masami Akamine, Kate M. Knill

IEEE J. Sel. Top. Signal Process., 2014

Enabling controllability for continuous expression space.

Langzhou Chen, Norbert Braunschweiler

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

Speaker dependent expression predictor from text: Expressiveness and transplantation.

Langzhou Chen, Norbert Braunschweiler, Mark J. F. Gales

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2014

2013

Automatic detection of inhalation breath pauses for improved pause modelling in HMM-TTS.

Norbert Braunschweiler, Langzhou Chen

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

Photo-realistic expressive text to talking head synthesis.

Vincent Wan, Robert Anderson, Art Blokland, Norbert Braunschweiler, Langzhou Chen, BalaKrishna Kolluru, Javier Latorre, Ranniery Maia, Björn Stenger, Kayoko Yanagisawa, Yannis Stylianou, Masami Akamine, Mark J. F. Gales, Roberto Cipolla

Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2013

Unsupervised speaker and expression factorization for multi-speaker expressive synthesis of ebooks.

Langzhou Chen, Norbert Braunschweiler

Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2013

Integrated automatic expression prediction and speech synthesis from text.

Langzhou Chen, Mark J. F. Gales, Norbert Braunschweiler, Masami Akamine, Kate M. Knill

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2013

2012

Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis Based on Speaker and Language Factorization.

Heiga Zen, Norbert Braunschweiler, Sabine Buchholz, Mark J. F. Gales, Kate M. Knill, Sacha Krstulovic, Javier Latorre

IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2012

Unsupervised clustering of emotion and voice styles for expressive TTS.

Florian Eyben, Sabine Buchholz, Norbert Braunschweiler, Javier Latorre, Vincent Wan, Mark J. F. Gales, Kate M. Knill

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2012

2011

Automatic Sentence Selection from Speech Corpora Including Diverse Speech for Improved HMM-TTS Synthesis Quality.

Norbert Braunschweiler, Sabine Buchholz

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

2010

HMM-based polyglot speech synthesis by speaker and language adaptive training.

Heiga Zen, Norbert Braunschweiler, Sabine Buchholz, Kate M. Knill, Sacha Krstulovic, Javier Latorre

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

Lightly supervised recognition for automatic alignment of large coherent speech recordings.

Norbert Braunschweiler, Mark J. F. Gales, Sabine Buchholz

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

Unit selection speech synthesis using multiple speech units at non-adjacent segments for prosody and waveform generation.

Masatsune Tamura, Norbert Braunschweiler, Takehiko Kagoshima, Masami Akamine

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2010

2009

Context-dependent additive log f_0 model for HMM-based speech synthesis.

Heiga Zen, Norbert Braunschweiler

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

2008

An evaluation of non-standard features for grapheme-to-phoneme conversion.

Gabriel Webster, Norbert Braunschweiler

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

2007

How (not) to select your voice corpus: random selection vs. phonologically balanced.

Tanya Lambert, Norbert Braunschweiler, Sabine Buchholz

Proceedings of the Sixth ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 2007

The Toshiba entry for the 2007 Blizzard Challenge.

Sabine Buchholz, Norbert Braunschweiler, Masahiro Morita, Gabe Webster

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

2006

Multimodal Speech Synthesis.

Antje Schweitzer, Norbert Braunschweiler, Grzegorz Dogil, Tanja Klankert, Bernd Möbius, Gregor Möhler, Edmilson Morais, Bettina Säuberlich, Matthias Thomae

Proceedings of the SmartKom: Foundations of Multimodal Dialogue Systems, 2006

2004

Assessing the acceptability of the Smartkom speech synthesis voices.

Antje Schweitzer, Norbert Braunschweiler, Grzegorz Dogil, Bernd Möbius

Proceedings of the Fifth ISCA ITRW on Speech Synthesis, 2004

2003

Restricted unlimited domain synthesis.

Antje Schweitzer, Norbert Braunschweiler, Tanja Klankert, Bernd Möbius, Bettina Säuberlich

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

2000

Automatic Labeling of Prosodic Events.

Norbert Braunschweiler

Proceedings of the KONVENS 2000 / Sprachkommunikation, 2000