Mirjam Wester

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1998-2020
Publications (10 Years): 10

Top Topics

Speech Synthesis

Noisy Environments

Top Venues

Publications

Matthew P. Aylett, Alessandro Vinciarelli, Mirjam Wester
Speech Synthesis for the Generation of Artificial Personality. IEEE Trans. Affect. Comput. 11 (2) (2020)
Mirjam Wester, David A. Braude, Blaise Potard, Matthew P. Aylett, Francesca Shaw
Real-Time Reactive Speech Synthesis: Incorporating Interruptions. INTERSPEECH (2017)
Mirjam Wester, Matthew P. Aylett, David A. Braude
Bot or not: exploring the fine line between cyber and human identity. ICMI (2017)
Mirjam Wester, Zhizheng Wu, Junichi Yamagishi
Multidimensional scaling of systems in the Voice Conversion Challenge 2016. SSW (2016)
Takenori Yoshimura, Gustav Eje Henter, Oliver Watts, Mirjam Wester, Junichi Yamagishi, Keiichi Tokuda
A Hierarchical Predictor of Synthetic Speech Naturalness Using Neural Networks. INTERSPEECH (2016)
Gustav Eje Henter, Srikanth Ronanki, Oliver Watts, Mirjam Wester, Zhizheng Wu, Simon King
Robust TTS duration modelling using DNNS. ICASSP (2016)
Zhizheng Wu, Phillip L. De Leon, Cenk Demiroglu, Ali Khodabakhsh, Simon King, Zhen-Hua Ling, Daisuke Saito, Bryan Stewart, Tomoki Toda, Mirjam Wester, Junichi Yamagishi
Anti-Spoofing for Text-Independent Speaker Verification: An Initial Database, Comparison of Countermeasures, and Human Performance. IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process. 24 (4) (2016)
Rasmus Dall, Marcus Tomalin, Mirjam Wester
Synthesising Filled Pauses: Representation and Datamixing. SSW (2016)
Tomoki Toda, Ling-Hui Chen, Daisuke Saito, Fernando Villavicencio, Mirjam Wester, Zhizheng Wu, Junichi Yamagishi
The Voice Conversion Challenge 2016. INTERSPEECH (2016)
Mirjam Wester, Zhizheng Wu, Junichi Yamagishi
Analysis of the Voice Conversion Challenge 2016 Evaluation Results. INTERSPEECH (2016)
Mirjam Wester, María Luisa García Lecumberri, Martin Cooke
/u/-Fronting in English speakers' L1 but not in their L2. ICPhS (2015)
Mirjam Wester, Matthew P. Aylett, Marcus Tomalin, Rasmus Dall
Artificial personality and disfluency. INTERSPEECH (2015)
Mirjam Wester, Zhizheng Wu, Junichi Yamagishi
Human vs machine spoofing detection on wideband and narrowband data. INTERSPEECH (2015)
Mirjam Wester, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Gustav Eje Henter
Are we using enough listeners? no! - an empirically-supported critique of interspeech 2014 TTS evaluations. INTERSPEECH (2015)
Peter Bell, Mark J. F. Gales, Thomas Hain, Jonathan Kilgour, Pierre Lanchantin, Xunying Liu, Andrew McParland, Steve Renals, Oscar Saz, Mirjam Wester, Philip C. Woodland
The MGB challenge: Evaluating multi-genre broadcast media recognition. ASRU (2015)
Rasmus Dall, Mirjam Wester, Martin Corley
The effect of filled pauses and speaking rate on speech comprehension in natural, vocoded and synthetic speech. INTERSPEECH (2014)
Mirjam Wester, Cassie Mayo
Accent rating by native and non-native listeners. ICASSP (2014)
Rasmus Dall, Marcus Tomalin, Mirjam Wester, William J. Byrne, Simon King
Investigating automatic & human filled pause insertion for speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2014)
Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Mirjam Wester
Using linguistic predictability and the lombard effect to increase the intelligibility of synthetic speech in noise. INTERSPEECH (2014)
Mirjam Wester, María Luisa García Lecumberri, Martin Cooke
DIAPIX-FL: a symmetric corpus of problem-solving dialogues in first and second languages. INTERSPEECH (2014)
John Dines, Hui Liang, Lakshmi Saheer, Matthew Gibson, William Byrne, Keiichiro Oura, Keiichi Tokuda, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Mirjam Wester, Teemu Hirsimäki, Reima Karhila, Mikko Kurimo
Personalising speech-to-speech translation: Unsupervised cross-lingual speaker adaptation for HMM-based speech synthesis. Comput. Speech Lang. 27 (2) (2013)
Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Mirjam Wester, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King
Using neighbourhood density and selective SNR boosting to increase the intelligibility of synthetic speech in noise. SSW (2013)
Keiichiro Oura, Junichi Yamagishi, Mirjam Wester, Simon King, Keiichi Tokuda
Analysis of unsupervised cross-lingual speaker adaptation for HMM-based speech synthesis using KLD-based transform mapping. Speech Commun. 54 (6) (2012)
Mirjam Wester
Talker discrimination across languages. Speech Commun. 54 (6) (2012)
Mirjam Wester, Hui Liang
Cross-Lingual Speaker Discrimination Using Natural and Synthetic Speech. INTERSPEECH (2011)
Reima Karhila, Mirjam Wester
Rapid Adaptation of Foreign-Accented HMM-Based Speech Synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2011)
Mirjam Wester, Reima Karhila
Speaker similarity evaluation of foreign-accented speech synthesis using HMM-based speaker adaptation. ICASSP (2011)
Mirjam Wester, John Dines, Matthew Gibson, Hui Liang, Yi-Jian Wu, Lakshmi Saheer, Simon King, Keiichiro Oura, Philip N. Garner, William Byrne, Yong Guan, Teemu Hirsimäki, Reima Karhila, Mikko Kurimo, Matt Shannon, Sayaka Shiota, Jilei Tian, Keiichi Tokuda, Junichi Yamagishi
Speaker adaptation and the evaluation of speaker similarity in the EMIME speech-to-speech translation project. SSW (2010)
Mirjam Wester
Cross-lingual talker discrimination. INTERSPEECH (2010)
Keiichiro Oura, Keiichi Tokuda, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Mirjam Wester
Unsupervised cross-lingual speaker adaptation for HMM-based speech synthesis. ICASSP (2010)
Joe Frankel, Mirjam Wester, Simon King
Articulatory feature recognition using dynamic Bayesian networks. Comput. Speech Lang. 21 (4) (2007)
Shuangyu Chang, Mirjam Wester, Steven Greenberg
An elitist approach to automatic articulatory-acoustic feature classification for phonetic characterization of spoken language. Speech Commun. 47 (3) (2005)
Joe Frankel, Mirjam Wester, Simon King
Articulatory feature recognition using dynamic Bayesian networks. INTERSPEECH (2004)
Mirjam Wester
Pronunciation modeling for ASR - knowledge-based and data-derived methods. Comput. Speech Lang. 17 (1) (2003)
Janienke Sturm, Judith M. Kessens, Mirjam Wester, Febe de Wet, Eric Sanders, Helmer Strik
Automatic transcription of football commentaries in the MUMIS project. INTERSPEECH (2003)
Mirjam Wester
Syllable classification using articulatory-acoustic features. INTERSPEECH (2003)
Mirjam Wester, Judith M. Kessens, Helmer Strik
Goal-directed ASR in a multimedia indexing and searching environment (MUMIS). INTERSPEECH (2002)
Mirjam Wester, Steven Greenberg, Shuangyu Chang
A dutch treatment of an elitist approach to articulatory-acoustic feature classification. INTERSPEECH (2001)
Shuangyu Chang, Steven Greenberg, Mirjam Wester
An elitist approach to articulatory-acoustic feature classification. INTERSPEECH (2001)
Mirjam Wester, Judith M. Kessens, Helmer Strik
Pronunciation variation in ASR: which variation to model? INTERSPEECH (2000)
Mirjam Wester, Eric Fosler-Lussier
A comparison of data-derived and knowledge-based modeling of pronunciation variation. INTERSPEECH (2000)
Judith M. Kessens, Mirjam Wester, Helmer Strik
Improving the performance of a Dutch CSR by modeling within-word and cross-word pronunciation variation. Speech Commun. 29 (2-4) (1999)
Mirjam Wester, Judith M. Kessens, Helmer Strik
Modeling pronunciation variation for a dutch CSR: testing three methods. ICSLP (1998)
Judith M. Kessens, Mirjam Wester, Catia Cucchiarini, Helmer Strik
The selection of pronunciation variants: comparing the performance of man and machine. ICSLP (1998)
Mirjam Wester, Judith M. Kessens, Helmer Strik
Two automatic approaches for analyzing connected speech processes in dutch. ICSLP (1998)