Raul Fernandez

According to our database, Raul Fernandez authored at least 52 papers between 1998 and 2024.

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2024

Exploring the Benefits of Tokenization of Discrete Acoustic Units.

Avihu Dekel, Raul Fernandez

CoRR, 2024

Creating an African American-Sounding TTS: Guidelines, Technical Challenges, and Surprising Evaluations.

Claudio Santos Pinhanez, Raul Fernandez, Marcelo Carpinette Grave, Julio Nogima, Ron Hoory

Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2024

Speak While You Think: Streaming Speech Synthesis During Text Generation.

Avihu Dekel, Slava Shechtman, Raul Fernandez, David Haws, Zvi Kons, Ron Hoory

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2024

2023

A Neural TTS System with Parallel Prosody Transfer from Unseen Speakers.

Slava Shechtman, Raul Fernandez

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

2022

Transplantation of Conversational Speaking Style with Interjections in Sequence-to-Sequence Speech Synthesis.

Raul Fernandez, David Haws, Guy Lorberbom, Slava Shechtman, Alexander Sorin

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

2021

Supervised and unsupervised approaches for controlling narrow lexical focus in sequence-to-sequence speech synthesis.

Slava Shechtman, Raul Fernandez, David Haws

Proceedings of the IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2021

Synthesis of Expressive Speaking Styles with Limited Training Data in a Multi-Speaker, Prosody-Controllable Sequence-to-Sequence Architecture.

Slava Shechtman, Raul Fernandez, Alexander Sorin, David Haws

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

Stable Checkpoint Selection and Evaluation in Sequence to Sequence Speech Synthesis.

Slava Shechtman, David Haws, Raul Fernandez

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2021

2019

Deep Mixture-of-Experts Models for Synthetic Prosodic-Contour Generation.

Raul Fernandez

Proceedings of the 10th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop, 2019

2018

Comparing Prosodic Frameworks: Investigating the Acoustic-Symbolic Relationship in ToBI and RaP.

Raul Fernandez, Andrew Rosenberg

Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2018

Data Augmentation Improves Recognition of Foreign Accented Speech.

Takashi Fukuda, Raul Fernandez, Andrew Rosenberg, Samuel Thomas, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Alexander Sorin, Gakuto Kurata

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

Measuring the Effect of Linguistic Resources on Prosody Modeling for Speech Synthesis.

Andrew Rosenberg, Raul Fernandez, Bhuvana Ramabhadran

Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2018

2017

Weakly-Supervised Phrase Assignment from Text in a Speech-Synthesis System Using Noisy Labels.

Asaf Rendel, Raul Fernandez, Zvi Kons, Andrew Rosenberg, Ron Hoory, Bhuvana Ramabhadran

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

Voice-transformation-based data augmentation for prosodic classification.

Raul Fernandez, Andrew Rosenberg, Alexander Sorin, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Ron Hoory

Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2017

2016

Using continuous lexical embeddings to improve symbolic-prosody prediction in a text-to-speech front-end.

Asaf Rendel, Raul Fernandez, Ron Hoory, Bhuvana Ramabhadran

Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2016

2015

Modeling phrasing and prominence using deep recurrent learning.

Andrew Rosenberg, Raul Fernandez, Bhuvana Ramabhadran

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

Using deep bidirectional recurrent neural networks for prosodic-target prediction in a unit-selection text-to-speech system.

Raul Fernandez, Asaf Rendel, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Ron Hoory

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

2014

Development of a smart insole tracking system for physical therapy and athletics.

Timothy E. Roden, Rob LeGrand, Raul Fernandez, Jacqueline Brown, James Deaton, Johnny Ross

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, 2014

Prosody contour prediction with long short-term memory, bi-directional, deep recurrent neural networks.

Raul Fernandez, Asaf Rendel, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Ron Hoory

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

Exploiting vocal-source features to improve ASR accuracy for low-resource languages.

Raul Fernandez, Jia Cui, Andrew Rosenberg, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Xiaodong Cui

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

2013

F0 contour prediction with a deep belief network-Gaussian process hybrid model.

Raul Fernandez, Asaf Rendel, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Ron Hoory

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2013

2012

Phrase Boundary Assignment from Text in Multiple Domains.

Andrew Rosenberg, Raul Fernandez, Bhuvana Ramabhadran

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

Prediction of F0 contours from symbolic and numerical variables using continuous conditional random fields.

Raul Fernandez, Steve Minnis, Bhuvana Ramabhadran

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2012

2011

Recognizing affect from speech prosody using hierarchical graphical models.

Raul Fernandez, Rosalind W. Picard

Speech Commun., 2011

"What is... Dengue Fever?" - Modeling and Predicting Pronunciation Errors in a Text-to-Speech System.

Andrew Rosenberg, Raul Fernandez, Bhuvana Ramabhadran

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

Exploiting active-learning strategies for annotating prosodic events with limited labeled data.

Raul Fernandez, Bhuvana Ramabhadran

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2011

2010

Efficient peerGroup management in JXTA-Overlay P2P system for developing groupware tools.

Fatos Xhafa, Leonard Barolli, Santi Caballé, Raul Fernandez

J. Supercomput., 2010

fMRI Data Visualization with BrainBlend and Blender.

Martin Pyka, Matthias Hertog, Raul Fernandez, Sascha Hauke, Dominik Heider, Udo Dannlowski, Carsten Konrad

Neuroinformatics, 2010

Supporting Scenario-Based Online Learning with P2P Group-Based Systems.

Fatos Xhafa, Leonard Barolli, Santi Caballé, Raul Fernandez

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems, 2010

Discriminative training and unsupervised adaptation for labeling prosodic events with limited training data.

Raul Fernandez, Bhuvana Ramabhadran

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

An autoencoder neural-network based low-dimensionality approach to excitation modeling for HMM-based text-to-speech.

Srikanth Vishnubhotla, Raul Fernandez, Bhuvana Ramabhadran

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2010

2009

Jxta-Overlay: An interface for efficient peer selection in P2P JXTA-based systems.

Fatos Xhafa, Leonard Barolli, Thanasis Daradoumis, Raul Fernandez, Santi Caballé

Comput. Stand. Interfaces, 2009

2008

Extension and evaluation of JXTA protocols for supporting reliable P2P distributed computing.

Fatos Xhafa, Leonard Barolli, Raul Fernandez, Thanasis Daradoumis, Santi Caballé

Int. J. Web Inf. Syst., 2008

Practical approach to experimentation in a simulation study.

Benny Tjahjono, Raul Fernandez

Proceedings of the 2008 Winter Simulation Conference, Global Gateway to Discovery, 2008

Extending JXTA Protocols for P2P File Sharing Systems.

Fatos Xhafa, Leonard Barolli, Raul Fernandez, Thanasis Daradoumis, Santi Caballé, Vladi Kolici

Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Complex, 2008

The IBM Submission to the 2008 Text-to-Speech Blizzard Challenge.

Raul Fernandez, Zvi Kons, Slava Shechtman, Zhiwei Shuang, Ron Hoory, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Yong Qin

Proceedings of the Blizzard Challenge 2008, 2008

Efficient Peer Selection in P2P JXTA-Based Platforms.

Fatos Xhafa, Thanasis Daradoumis, Leonard Barolli, Raul Fernandez, Santi Caballé, Vladi Kolici

Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, 2008

2007

Enabling Efficient Real Time User Modeling in On-Line Campus.

Santi Caballé, Fatos Xhafa, Thanasis Daradoumis, Raul Fernandez

Proceedings of the User Modeling 2007, 11th International Conference, 2007

Automatic exploration of corpus-specific properties for expressive text-to-speech: a case study in emphasis.

Raul Fernandez, Bhuvana Ramabhadran

Proceedings of the Sixth ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 2007

Improvement of JXTA Protocols for Supporting Reliable Distributed Applications in P2P Systems.

Fatos Xhafa, Raul Fernandez, Thanasis Daradoumis, Leonard Barolli, Santi Caballé

Proceedings of the Network-Based Information Systems, First International Conference, 2007

An Experimental Study on Peer Selection in a P2P Network over PlanetLab.

Fatos Xhafa, Leonard Barolli, Raul Fernandez, Thanasis Daradoumis

Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops (ICPP Workshops 2007), 2007

Database Mining for Flexible Concatenative Text-to-Speech.

Ellen Eide, Raul Fernandez

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2007

2006

The IBM expressive text-to-speech synthesis system for American English.

John F. Pitrelli, Raimo Bakis, Ellen Eide, Raul Fernandez, Wael Hamza, Michael A. Picheny

IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2006

The IBM Submission to the 2006 Blizzard Text-to-Speech Challenge.

Ellen Eide, Raul Fernandez, Ron Hoory, Wael Hamza, Zvi Kons, Michael Picheny, Ariel Sagi, Slava Shechtman, Zhiwei Shuang

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

2005

Toward multiple-language TTS: experiments in English and Mandarin.

Raul Fernandez, Wei Zhang, Ellen Eide, Raimo Bakis, Wael Hamza, Yi Liu, Michael Picheny, John F. Pitrelli, Yong Qing, Zhiwei Shuang, Li Qin Shen

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

Classical and novel discriminant features for affect recognition from speech.

Raul Fernandez, Rosalind W. Picard

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

Upending the Uncanny Valley.

David Hanson, Andrew Olney, Steve Prilliman, Eric Mathews, Marge Zielke, Derek Hammons, Raul Fernandez, Harry E. Stephanou

Proceedings of the Proceedings, 2005

2003

Modeling drivers' speech under stress.

Raul Fernandez, Rosalind W. Picard

Speech Commun., 2003

2001

Frustrating the user on purpose: a step toward building an affective computer.

Jocelyn Scheirer, Raul Fernandez, Jonathan Klein, Rosalind W. Picard

Interact. Comput., 2001

1999

Expression glasses: a wearable device for facial expression recognition.

Jocelyn Scheirer, Raul Fernandez, Rosalind W. Picard

Proceedings of the CHI '99 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1999

1998

Signal processing for recognition of human frustration.

Raul Fernandez, Rosalind W. Picard

Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1998

Frustrating the user on purpose: using biosignals in a pilot study to detect the user's emotional state.

Jocelyn Riseberg, Jonathan Klein, Raul Fernandez, Rosalind W. Picard

Proceedings of the CHI 98 Conference Summary on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1998