Alexander Kain

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1997-2020
Publications (10 Years): 14

Top Topics

Automatic Classification

Speech Synthesis

Event Detection

Top Venues

Publications

Alexander Kain, Amie Roten, Robert Gale
Diacritic-Level Pronunciation Analysis Using Phonological Features. ICASSP (2020)
Tuan Dinh, Alexander Kain, Robin Samlan, Beiming Cao, Jun Wang
Increasing the Intelligibility and Naturalness of Alaryngeal Speech Using Voice Conversion and Synthetic Fundamental Frequency. INTERSPEECH (2020)
Phillip Wallis, Daniel Yaeger, Alexander Kain, Xubo Song, Miranda Lim
Automatic Event Detection of REM Sleep Without Atonia From Polysomnography Signals Using Deep Neural Networks. ICASSP (2020)
Tuan Dinh, Alexander Kain, Kris Tjaden
Improving Speech Intelligibility Through Speaker Dependent and Independent Spectral Style Conversion. INTERSPEECH (2020)
Tuan Dinh, Alexander Kain, Kris Tjaden
Using a Manifold Vocoder for Spectral Voice and Style Conversion. INTERSPEECH (2019)
Shiran Dudy, Steven Bedrick, Meysam Asgari, Alexander Kain
Automatic analysis of pronunciations for children with speech sound disorders. Comput. Speech Lang. 50 (2018)
Alexander Kain, Max Del Giudice, Kris Tjaden
A Comparison of Sentence-Level Speech Intelligibility Metrics. INTERSPEECH (2017)
Seyed Hamidreza Mohammadi, Alexander Kain
An overview of voice conversion systems. Speech Commun. 88 (2017)
Seyed Hamidreza Mohammadi, Alexander Kain
Siamese Autoencoders for Speech Style Extraction and Switching Applied to Voice Identification and Conversion. INTERSPEECH (2017)
Seyed Hamidreza Mohammadi, Alexander Kain
A Voice Conversion Mapping Function Based on a Stacked Joint-Autoencoder. INTERSPEECH (2016)
Brian R. Snider, Alexander Kain
Classification of respiratory effort and disordered breathing during sleep from audio and pulse oximetry signals. ICASSP (2016)
Mahsa Sadat Elyasi Langarani, Jan P. H. van Santen, Seyed Hamidreza Mohammadi, Alexander Kain
Data-driven foot-based intonation generator for text-to-speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2015)
Shiran Dudy, Meysam Asgari, Alexander Kain
Pronunciation analysis for children with speech sound disorders. EMBC (2015)
Seyed Hamidreza Mohammadi, Alexander Kain
Semi-supervised training of a voice conversion mapping function using a joint-autoencoder. INTERSPEECH (2015)
Akiko Amano-Kusumoto, John-Paul Hosom, Alexander Kain, Justin M. Aronoff
Determining the relevance of different aspects of formant contours to intelligibility. Speech Commun. 59 (2014)
Brian O. Bush, Alexander Kain
Modeling coarticulation in continuous speech. INTERSPEECH (2014)
Seyed Hamidreza Mohammadi, Alexander Kain
Voice conversion using deep neural networks with speaker-independent pre-training. SLT (2014)
Seyed Hamidreza Mohammadi, Alexander Kain
Transmutative voice conversion. ICASSP (2013)
Brian O. Bush, Alexander Kain
Estimating phoneme formant targets and coarticulation parameters of conversational and clear speech. ICASSP (2013)
Brian R. Snider, Alexander Kain
Automatic classification of breathing sounds during sleep. ICASSP (2013)
Eric Morley, Esther Klabbers, Jan P. H. van Santen, Alexander Kain, Seyed Hamidreza Mohammadi
Synthetic F0 Can Effectively Convey Speaker ID in Delexicalized Speech. INTERSPEECH (2012)
Seyed Hamidreza Mohammadi, Alexander Kain, Jan P. H. van Santen
Making Conversational Vowels More Clear. INTERSPEECH (2012)
Eric Morley, Jan P. H. van Santen, Esther Klabbers, Alexander Kain
F0 range and peak alignment across speakers and emotions. ICASSP (2011)
Brian O. Bush, John-Paul Hosom, Alexander Kain, Akiko Amano-Kusumoto
Using a Genetic Algorithm to Estimate Parameters of a Coarticulation Model. INTERSPEECH (2011)
Akiko Amano-Kusumoto, John-Paul Hosom, Alexander Kain
Speaking style dependency of formant targets. INTERSPEECH (2010)
Esther Klabbers, Alexander Kain, Jan P. H. van Santen
Evaluation of speaker mimic technology for personalizing SGD voices. INTERSPEECH (2010)
Yannis Stylianou, Tomoki Toda, Chung-Hsien Wu, Alexander Kain, Olivier Rosec
Introduction to the Special Section on Voice Transformation. IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process. 18 (5) (2010)
Alexander Kain, Todd K. Leen
Compression of line spectral frequency parameters using the asynchronous interpolation model. SSW (2010)
Alexander Kain, Jan P. H. van Santen
Frequency-domain delexicalization using surrogate vowels. INTERSPEECH (2010)
Qi Miao, Alexander Kain, Jan P. H. van Santen
Perceptual cost function for cross-fading based concatenation. INTERSPEECH (2009)
Alexander Kain, Jan P. H. van Santen
Using speech transformation to increase speech intelligibility for the hearing- and speaking-impaired. ICASSP (2009)
Rachel Moldover, Alexander Kain
Compression of line spectral frequency parameters with asynchronous interpolation. ICASSP (2009)
Esther Klabbers, Jan P. H. van Santen, Alexander Kain
The Contribution of Various Sources of Spectral Mismatch to Audible Discontinuities in a Diphone Database. IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process. 15 (3) (2007)
Alexander Kain, John-Paul Hosom, Xiaochuan Niu, Jan P. H. van Santen, Melanie Fried-Oken, Janice Staehely
Improving the intelligibility of dysarthric speech. Speech Commun. 49 (9) (2007)
Alexander Kain, Jan P. H. van Santen
Unit-selection text-to-speech synthesis using an asynchronous interpolation model. SSW (2007)
Akiko Kusumoto, Alexander Kain, John-Paul Hosom, Jan P. H. van Santen
Hybridizing conversational and clear speech. INTERSPEECH (2007)
Alexander Kain, Qi Miao, Jan P. H. van Santen
Spectral control in concatenative speech synthesis. SSW (2007)
Xiaochuan Niu, Alexander Kain, Jan P. H. van Santen
A noninvasive, low-cost device to study the velopharyngeal port during speech and some preliminary results. INTERSPEECH (2006)
Jan P. H. van Santen, Alexander Kain, Esther Klabbers, Taniya Mishra
Synthesis of prosody using multi-level unit sequences. Speech Commun. 46 (3-4) (2005)
Xiaochuan Niu, Alexander Kain, Jan P. H. van Santen
Estimation of the acoustic properties of the nasal tract during the production of nasalized vowels. INTERSPEECH (2005)
Alexander Kain, Xiaochuan Niu, John-Paul Hosom, Qi Miao, Jan P. H. van Santen
Formant re-synthesis of dysarthric speech. SSW (2004)
Helenca Duxans, Antonio Bonafonte, Alexander Kain, Jan P. H. van Santen
Including dynamic information in voice conversion systems. Proces. del Leng. Natural 33 (2004)
Antonio Bonafonte, Alexander Kain, Jan P. H. van Santen, Helenca Duxans
Including dynamic and phonetic information in voice conversion systems. INTERSPEECH (2004)
John-Paul Hosom, Alexander Kain, Taniya Mishra, Jan P. H. van Santen, Melanie Fried-Oken, Janice Staehely
Intelligibility of modifications to dysarthric speech. ICASSP (1) (2003)
Alexander Kain, Jan P. H. van Santen
A speech model of acoustic inventories based on asynchronous interpolation. INTERSPEECH (2003)
Jan P. H. van Santen, Lois M. Black, Gilead Cohen, Alexander Kain, Esther Klabbers, Taniya Mishra, Jacques de Villiers, Xiaochuan Niu
Applications of computer generated expressive speech for communication disorders. INTERSPEECH (2003)
Alexander Kain, Michael W. Macon
Design and evaluation of a voice conversion algorithm based on spectral envelope mapping and residual prediction. ICASSP (2001)
Jody Lee Louse, Alexander Kain, James Hines
Metaphor for learning: an evolutionary algorithm. GECCO (2000)
Jan P. H. van Santen, Michael W. Macon, Andrew Cronk, John-Paul Hosom, Alexander Kain, Vincent Pagel, Johan Wouters
When will synthetic speech sound human: role of rules and data. INTERSPEECH (2000)
Alexander Kain, Yannis Stylianou
Stochastic modeling of spectral adjustment for high quality pitch modification. ICASSP (2000)
Alexander Kain, Michael W. Macon
Personalizing a speech synthesizer by voice adaptation. SSW (1998)
Alexander Kain, Michael W. Macon
Spectral voice conversion for text-to-speech synthesis. ICASSP (1998)
Alexander Kain, Michael W. Macon
Text-to-speech voice adaptation from sparse training data. ICSLP (1998)
Stephen Sutton, Ronald A. Cole, Jacques de Villiers, Johan Schalkwyk, Pieter J. E. Vermeulen, Michael W. Macon, Yonghong Yan, Edward C. Kaiser, Brian Rundle, Khaldoun Shobaki, John-Paul Hosom, Alexander Kain, Johan Wouters, Dominic W. Massaro, Michael M. Cohen
Universal speech tools: the CSLU toolkit. ICSLP (1998)
Narendranath Malayath, Hynek Hermansky, Alexander Kain
Towards decomposing the sources of variability in speech. EUROSPEECH (1997)