F0 is an acoustic feature that varies largely from one speaker to another. F0 is characterized by a discontinuity in the transition between voiced and unvoiced sounds that present...
Aki Kunikoshi, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Nobuaki M...
This paper addresses the problem of mining named entity translations from comparable corpora, specifically, mining English and Chinese named entity translation. We first observe...
Jinhan Kim, Long Jiang, Seung-won Hwang, Young-In ...
Voice conversion has become more and more important in speech technology, but most of current works have to use parallel utterances of both source and target speaker as the traini...
Abstract. This paper presents an empirical study on four techniques of language model adaptation, including a maximum a posteriori (MAP) method and three discriminative training mo...
— This paper presents a pitch-based approach for creating musical fingerprints for similarity assessment. An effective measure for musical similarity impacts music indexing and c...