Ranniery Maia

According to our database, Ranniery Maia authored at least 40 papers between 2003 and 2023.

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2023

The DeepZen Speech Synthesis System for Blizzard Challenge 2023.

Christophe Veaux, Ranniery Maia, Spyridoula Papendreou

Proceedings of the 18th Blizzard Challenge Workshop, Grenoble, France, August 29, 2023, 2023

2017

Postprocessing Synthetic Speech With a Complex Cepstrum Vocoder for Spoofing Phase-Based Synthetic Speech Detectors.

Cenk Demiroglu, Osman Büyük, Ali Khodabakhsh, Ranniery Maia

IEEE J. Sel. Top. Signal Process., 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

Expressive visual text to speech and expression adaptation using deep neural networks.

Jonathan Parker, Ranniery Maia, Yannis Stylianou, Roberto Cipolla

Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2017

2016

Global Variance in Speech Synthesis With Linear Dynamical Models.

Vassilis Tsiaras, Ranniery Maia, Vassilios Diakoloukas, Yannis Stylianou, Vassilios Digalakis

IEEE Signal Process. Lett., 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

Multi-stream spectral representation for statistical parametric speech synthesis.

Kayoko Yanagisawa, Ranniery Maia, Yannis Stylianou

Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2016

Iterative estimation of phase using complex cepstrum representation.

Ranniery Maia, Yannis Stylianou

Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2016

2015

Towards a linear dynamical model based speech synthesizer.

Vassilios Tsiaras, Ranniery Maia, Vassilios Diakoloukas, Yannis Stylianou, Vassilios Digalakis

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

A maximum likelihood approach to the detection of moments of maximum excitation and its application to high-quality speech parameterization.

Ranniery Maia, Yannis Stylianou, Masami Akamine

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

Fusion of multiple parameterisations for DNN-based sinusoidal speech synthesis with multi-task learning.

Qiong Hu, Zhizheng Wu, Korin Richmond, Junichi Yamagishi, Yannis Stylianou, Ranniery Maia

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

Methods for applying dynamic sinusoidal models to statistical parametric speech synthesis.

Qiong Hu, Yannis Stylianou, Ranniery Maia, Korin Richmond, Junichi Yamagishi

Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2015

2014

Intelligibility enhancement of HMM-generated speech in additive noise by modifying Mel cepstral coefficients to increase the glimpse proportion.

Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Ranniery Maia

Comput. Speech Lang., 2014

On the impact of excitation and spectral parameters for expressive statistical parametric speech synthesis.

Ranniery Maia, Masami Akamine

Comput. Speech Lang., 2014

An investigation of the application of dynamic sinusoidal models to statistical parametric speech synthesis.

Qiong Hu, Yannis Stylianou, Ranniery Maia, Korin Richmond, Junichi Yamagishi, Javier Latorre

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

Linear dynamical models in speech synthesis.

Vassilios Tsiaras, Ranniery Maia, Vassilios Diakoloukas, Yannis Stylianou, Vassilios Digalakis

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2014

Complex cepstrum factorization for statistical parametric synthesis.

Ranniery Maia, Yannis Stylianou

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2014

A fixed dimension and perceptually based dynamic sinusoidal model of speech.

Qiong Hu, Yannis Stylianou, Korin Richmond, Ranniery Maia, Junichi Yamagishi, Javier Latorre

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2014

2013

Complex cepstrum for statistical parametric speech synthesis.

Ranniery Maia, Masami Akamine, Mark J. F. Gales

Speech Commun., 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

Minimum mean squared error based warped complex cepstrum analysis for statistical parametric speech synthesis.

Ranniery Maia, Mark J. F. Gales, Yannis Stylianou, Masami Akamine

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

Complex cepstrum analysis based on the minimum mean squared error.

Ranniery Maia, Masami Akamine, Mark J. F. Gales

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2013

2012

Analysis on the Importance of Short-Term Speech Parameterizations for Emotional Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis.

Ranniery Maia

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

Cepstral analysis based on the glimpse proportion measure for improving the intelligibility of HMM-based synthetic speech in noise.

Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Ranniery Maia, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Heiga Zen

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2012

Complex cepstrum as phase information in statistical parametric speech synthesis.

Ranniery Maia, Masami Akamine, Mark J. F. Gales

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2012

2011

Multipulse Sequences for Residual Signal Modeling.

Ranniery Maia, Heiga Zen, Kate M. Knill, Mark J. F. Gales, Sabine Buchholz

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

2010

Statistical parametric speech synthesis with joint estimation of acoustic and excitation model parameters.

Ranniery Maia, Heiga Zen, Mark J. F. Gales

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

2009

A close look into the probabilistic concatenation model for corpus-based speech synthesis.

Shinsuke Sakai, Ranniery Maia, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura

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

A decision tree-based clustering approach to state definition in an excitation modeling framework for HMM-based speech synthesis.

Ranniery Maia, Tomoki Toda, Keiichi Tokuda, Shinsuke Sakai, Satoshi Nakamura

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

The NICT Entry for the Blizzard Challenge 2009: an Enhanced HMM-based Speech Synthesis System with Trajectory Training considering Global Variance and State-Dependent Mixed Excitation.

Ranniery Maia, Tomoki Toda, Shinsuke Sakai, Yoshinori Shiga, Jinfu Ni, Hisashi Kawai, Keiichi Tokuda, Minoru Tsuzaki, Satoshi Nakamura

Proceedings of the Blizzard Challenge 2009, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, September 4, 2009, 2009

2008

Simultaneous Acoustic, Prosodic, and Phrasing Model Training for TTs Conversion Systems.

Keiichiro Oura, Yoshihiko Nankaku, Tomoki Toda, Keiichi Tokuda, Ranniery Maia, Shinsuke Sakai, Satoshi Nakamura

Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2008

On the state definition for a trainable excitation model in HMM-based speech synthesis.

Ranniery Maia, Tomoki Toda, Keiichi Tokuda, Shinichi Sakai, Shun Nakamura

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2008

The NICT/ATR speech synthesis system for the Blizzard Challenge 2008.

Ranniery Maia, Jinfu Ni, Shinsuke Sakai, Tomoki Toda, Keiichi Tokuda, Tohru Shimizu, Satoshi Nakamura

Proceedings of the Blizzard Challenge 2008, 2008

2007

Communicative speech synthesis with XIMERA: a first step.

Shinsuke Sakai, Jinfu Ni, Ranniery Maia, Keiichi Tokuda, Minoru Tsuzaki, Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura

Proceedings of the Sixth ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 2007

An excitation model for HMM-based speech synthesis based on residual modeling.

Ranniery Maia, Tomoki Toda, Heiga Zen, Yoshihiko Nankaku, Keiichi Tokuda

Proceedings of the Sixth ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 2007

A trainable excitation model for HMM-based speech synthesis.

Ranniery Maia, Tomoki Toda, Heiga Zen, Yoshihiko Nankaku, Keiichi Tokuda

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

ATRECSS - ATR English speech corpus for speech synthesis.

Jinfu Ni, Toshio Hirai, Hisashi Kawai, Tomoki Toda, Keiichi Tokuda, Minoru Tsuzaki, Shinsuke Sakai, Ranniery Maia, Satoshi Nakamura

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

2005

HMM-based european Portuguese TTS system.

Maria João Barros, Ranniery Maia, Keiichi Tokuda, Fernando Gil Resende, Diamantino Freitas

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

2003

Towards the development of a brazilian portuguese text-to-speech system based on HMM.

Ranniery Maia, Heiga Zen, Keiichi Tokuda, Tadashi Kitamura, Fernando Gil Vianna Resende Jr.

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

Mixed-excited phonetic vocoding at 265 bps.

Ranniery Maia, Ricardo J. da R. Cirigliano, Daniel Rojtenberg, Fernando Gil Vianna Resende Jr.

Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2003