Esther Klabbers

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1995-2023
Publications (10 Years): 14

Top Topics

Transfer Learning

Speech Synthesis

Prosodic Features

Top Venues

Publications

Phat Do, Matt Coler, Jelske Dijkstra, Esther Klabbers
Resource-Efficient Fine-Tuning Strategies for Automatic MOS Prediction in Text-to-Speech for Low-Resource Languages. INTERSPEECH (2023)
Phat Do, Matt Coler, Jelske Dijkstra, Esther Klabbers
The Effects of Input Type and Pronunciation Dictionary Usage in Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Text-to-Speech. INTERSPEECH (2023)
Phat Do, Matt Coler, Jelske Dijkstra, Esther Klabbers
Strategies in Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Speech Synthesis: Phone Mapping, Features Input, and Source Language Selection. SSW (2023)
Gérard Bailly, Martin Lenglet, Olivier Perrotin, Esther Klabbers
Advocating for text input in multi-speaker text-to-speech systems. SSW (2023)
Phat Do, Matt Coler, Jelske Dijkstra, Esther Klabbers
The Effects of Input Type and Pronunciation Dictionary Usage in Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Text-to-Speech. CoRR (2023)
Phat Do, Matt Coler, Jelske Dijkstra, Esther Klabbers
Strategies in Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Speech Synthesis: Phone Mapping, Features Input, and Source Language Selection. CoRR (2023)
Phat Do, Matt Coler, Jelske Dijkstra, Esther Klabbers
Resource-Efficient Fine-Tuning Strategies for Automatic MOS Prediction in Text-to-Speech for Low-Resource Languages. CoRR (2023)
Marcel de Korte, Jaebok Kim, Aki Kunikoshi, Adaeze Adigwe, Esther Klabbers
Data-augmented cross-lingual synthesis in a teacher-student framework. INTERSPEECH (2022)
Adaeze O. Adigwe, Esther Klabbers
Strategies for developing a Conversational Speech Dataset for Text-To-Speech Synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2022)
Marcel de Korte, Jaebok Kim, Aki Kunikoshi, Adaeze Adigwe, Esther Klabbers
Data-augmented cross-lingual synthesis in a teacher-student framework. CoRR (2022)
Phat Do, Matt Coler, Jelske Dijkstra, Esther Klabbers
A Systematic Review and Analysis of Multilingual Data Strategies in Text-to-Speech for Low-Resource Languages. Interspeech (2021)
Marcel de Korte, Jaebok Kim, Esther Klabbers
Efficient Neural Speech Synthesis for Low-Resource Languages Through Multilingual Modeling. INTERSPEECH (2020)
Jelte van Waterschoot, Iris Hendrickx, Arif Khan, Esther Klabbers, Marcel de Korte, Helmer Strik, Catia Cucchiarini, Mariët Theune
BLISS: An Agent for Collecting Spoken Dialogue Data about Health and Well-being. LREC (2020)
Marcel de Korte, Jaebok Kim, Esther Klabbers
Efficient neural speech synthesis for low-resource languages through multilingual modeling. CoRR (2020)
Mahsa Sadat Elyasi Langarani, Esther Klabbers, Jan P. H. van Santen
A novel pitch decomposition method for the generalized linear alignment model. ICASSP (2014)
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)
Eric Morley, Jan P. H. van Santen, Esther Klabbers, Alexander Kain
F0 range and peak alignment across speakers and emotions. ICASSP (2011)
Esther Klabbers, Alexander Kain, Jan P. H. van Santen
Evaluation of speaker mimic technology for personalizing SGD voices. INTERSPEECH (2010)
Esther Klabbers, Taniya Mishra, Jan P. H. van Santen
Analysis of affective speech recordings using the superpositional intonation model. SSW (2007)
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)
Rachel Coulston, Esther Klabbers, Jacques de Villiers, John-Paul Hosom
Application of speech technology in a home based assessment kiosk for early detection of alzheimer's disease. INTERSPEECH (2007)
Yannis Pantazis, Yannis Stylianou, Esther Klabbers
Discontinuity detection in concatenated speech synthesis based on nonlinear speech analysis. INTERSPEECH (2005)
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)
Esther Klabbers, Jan P. H. van Santen
Clustering of foot-based pitch contours in expressive speech. SSW (2004)
Jan P. H. van Santen, Taniya Mishra, Esther Klabbers
Estimating phrase curves in the general superpositional intonation model. SSW (2004)
Taniya Mishra, Esther Klabbers, Jan P. H. van Santen
Detection of list-type sentences. INTERSPEECH (2003)
Raymond N. J. Veldhuis, Esther Klabbers
On the computation of the Kullback-Leibler measure for spectral distances. IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process. 11 (1) (2003)
Esther Klabbers, Jan P. H. van Santen
Control and prediction of the impact of pitch modification on synthetic speech quality. 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)
Karlheinz Stöber, Petra Wagner, Esther Klabbers, Wolfgang Hess
Definition of a training set for unit selection-based speech synthesis. SSW (2001)
Esther Klabbers, Raymond N. J. Veldhuis
Reducing audible spectral discontinuities. IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process. 9 (1) (2001)
Mariët Theune, Esther Klabbers, Jan-Roelof de Pijper, Emiel Krahmer, Jan Odijk
From data to speech: a general approach. Nat. Lang. Eng. 7 (1) (2001)
Esther Klabbers, Karlheinz Stöber, Raymond N. J. Veldhuis, Petra Wagner, Stefan Breuer
Speech synthesis development made easy: the bonn open synthesis system. INTERSPEECH (2001)
Esther Klabbers, Karlheinz Stöber
Creation of speech corpora for the multilingual Bonn Open Synthesis System. SSW (2001)
Esther Klabbers, Jan P. H. van Santen
Predicting segmental durations for Dutch using the sums-of-products approach. INTERSPEECH (2000)
Esther Klabbers, Raymond N. J. Veldhuis, Kim Koppen
A solution to the reduction of concatenation artefacts in speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2000)
Esther Klabbers, Emiel Krahmer, Mariët Theune
A generic algorithm for generating spoken monologues. ICSLP (1998)
Esther Klabbers, Raymond N. J. Veldhuis
On the reduction of concatenation artefacts in diphone synthesis. ICSLP (1998)
Mariët Theune, Esther Klabbers
System Demonstration Goalgetter: Generation Of Spoken Soccer Reports. INLG (1998)
Els den Os, T. I. Boogaart, Lou Boves, Esther Klabbers
The Dutch polyphone corpus. EUROSPEECH (1995)