Roberto Barra-Chicote

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2005-2024
Publications (10 Years): 51

Top Topics

Diffusion Models

Comprehensive Evaluation

Prosodic Features

Speech Synthesis

Top Venues

Publications

Álvaro Martín-Cortinas, Daniel Sáez-Trigueros, Iván Vallés-Pérez, Biel Tura Vecino, Piotr Bilinski, Mateusz Lajszczak, Grzegorz Beringer, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba
Enhancing the Stability of LLM-based Speech Generation Systems through Self-Supervised Representations. CoRR (2024)
Iván Vallés-Pérez, Grzegorz Beringer, Piotr Bilinski, Gary Cook, Roberto Barra-Chicote
SCRAPS: Speech Contrastive Representations of Acoustic and Phonetic Spaces. ECAI (2023)
Iván Vallés-Pérez, Grzegorz Beringer, Piotr Bilinski, Gary Cook, Roberto Barra-Chicote
SCRAPS: Speech Contrastive Representations of Acoustic and Phonetic Spaces. CoRR (2023)
Piotr Bilinski, Thomas Merritt, Abdelhamid Ezzerg, Kamil Pokora, Sebastian Cygert, Kayoko Yanagisawa, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Daniel Korzekwa
Creating New Voices using Normalizing Flows. CoRR (2023)
Guangyan Zhang, Thomas Merritt, Manuel Sam Ribeiro, Biel Tura Vecino, Kayoko Yanagisawa, Kamil Pokora, Abdelhamid Ezzerg, Sebastian Cygert, Ammar Abbas, Piotr Bilinski, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Daniel Korzekwa, Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba
Comparing normalizing flows and diffusion models for prosody and acoustic modelling in text-to-speech. CoRR (2023)
Thomas Merritt, Abdelhamid Ezzerg, Piotr Bilinski, Magdalena Proszewska, Kamil Pokora, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Daniel Korzekwa
Text-free non-parallel many-to-many voice conversion using normalising flows. CoRR (2022)
Magdalena Proszewska, Grzegorz Beringer, Daniel Sáez-Trigueros, Thomas Merritt, Abdelhamid Ezzerg, Roberto Barra-Chicote
GlowVC: Mel-spectrogram space disentangling model for language-independent text-free voice conversion. CoRR (2022)
Thomas Merritt, Abdelhamid Ezzerg, Piotr Bilinski, Magdalena Proszewska, Kamil Pokora, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Daniel Korzekwa
Text-Free Non-Parallel Many-To-Many Voice Conversion Using Normalising Flow. ICASSP (2022)
Adam Gabrys, Goeric Huybrechts, Manuel Sam Ribeiro, Chung-Ming Chien, Julian Roth, Giulia Comini, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Bartek Perz, Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba
Voice Filter: Few-Shot Text-to-Speech Speaker Adaptation Using Voice Conversion as a Post-Processing Module. ICASSP (2022)
Johanes Effendi, Yogesh Virkar, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Marcello Federico
Duration Modeling of Neural TTS for Automatic Dubbing. ICASSP (2022)
Piotr Bilinski, Thomas Merritt, Abdelhamid Ezzerg, Kamil Pokora, Sebastian Cygert, Kayoko Yanagisawa, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Daniel Korzekwa
Creating New Voices using Normalizing Flows. INTERSPEECH (2022)
Yogesh Virkar, Marcello Federico, Robert Enyedi, Roberto Barra-Chicote
Prosodic Alignment for off-screen automatic dubbing. CoRR (2022)
Yogesh Virkar, Marcello Federico, Robert Enyedi, Roberto Barra-Chicote
Prosodic alignment for off-screen automatic dubbing. INTERSPEECH (2022)
Abdelhamid Ezzerg, Thomas Merritt, Kayoko Yanagisawa, Piotr Bilinski, Magdalena Proszewska, Kamil Pokora, Renard Korzeniowski, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Daniel Korzekwa
Remap, Warp and Attend: Non-Parallel Many-to-Many Accent Conversion with Normalizing Flows. SLT (2022)
Magdalena Proszewska, Grzegorz Beringer, Daniel Sáez-Trigueros, Thomas Merritt, Abdelhamid Ezzerg, Roberto Barra-Chicote
GlowVC: Mel-spectrogram space disentangling model for language-independent text-free voice conversion. INTERSPEECH (2022)
Adam Gabrys, Goeric Huybrechts, Manuel Sam Ribeiro, Chung-Ming Chien, Julian Roth, Giulia Comini, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Bartek Perz, Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba
Voice Filter: Few-shot text-to-speech speaker adaptation using voice conversion as a post-processing module. CoRR (2022)
Xin Zhang, Iván Vallés-Pérez, Andreas Stolcke, Chengzhu Yu, Jasha Droppo, Olabanji Shonibare, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Venkatesh Ravichandran
Stutter-TTS: Controlled Synthesis and Improved Recognition of Stuttered Speech. CoRR (2022)
Daniel Korzekwa, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Szymon Zaporowski, Grzegorz Beringer, Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Alicja Serafinowicz, Jasha Droppo, Thomas Drugman, Bozena Kostek
Detection of Lexical Stress Errors in Non-Native (L2) English with Data Augmentation and Attention. Interspeech (2021)
Surafel Melaku Lakew, Marcello Federico, Yue Wang, Cuong Hoang, Yogesh Virkar, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Robert Enyedi
Machine Translation Verbosity Control for Automatic Dubbing. ICASSP (2021)
Adam Gabrys, Yunlong Jiao, Viacheslav Klimkov, Daniel Korzekwa, Roberto Barra-Chicote
Improving the expressiveness of neural vocoding with non-affine Normalizing Flows. CoRR (2021)
Amin Fazel, Wei Yang, Yulan Liu, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Yixiong Meng, Roland Maas, Jasha Droppo
SynthASR: Unlocking Synthetic Data for Speech Recognition. CoRR (2021)
Surafel Melaku Lakew, Marcello Federico, Yue Wang, Cuong Hoang, Yogesh Virkar, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Robert Enyedi
Machine Translation Verbosity Control for Automatic Dubbing. CoRR (2021)
Mayank Sharma, Yogesh Virkar, Marcello Federico, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Robert Enyedi
Intra-Sentential Speaking Rate Control in Neural Text-To-Speech for Automatic Dubbing. Interspeech (2021)
Iván Vallés-Pérez, Julian Roth, Grzegorz Beringer, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Jasha Droppo
Improving Multi-Speaker TTS Prosody Variance with a Residual Encoder and Normalizing Flows. Interspeech (2021)
Yogesh Virkar, Marcello Federico, Robert Enyedi, Roberto Barra-Chicote
Improvements to Prosodic Alignment for Automatic Dubbing. ICASSP (2021)
Adam Gabrys, Yunlong Jiao, Viacheslav Klimkov, Daniel Korzekwa, Roberto Barra-Chicote
Improving the Expressiveness of Neural Vocoding with Non-Affine Normalizing Flows. Interspeech (2021)
Amin Fazel, Wei Yang, Yulan Liu, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Yixiong Meng, Roland Maas, Jasha Droppo
SynthASR: Unlocking Synthetic Data for Speech Recognition. Interspeech (2021)
Andrew Werchniak, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Yuriy Mishchenko, Jasha Droppo, Jeff Condal, Peng Liu, Anish Shah
Exploring the application of synthetic audio in training keyword spotters. ICASSP (2021)
Iván Vallés-Pérez, Julian Roth, Grzegorz Beringer, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Jasha Droppo
Improving multi-speaker TTS prosody variance with a residual encoder and normalizing flows. CoRR (2021)
Vatsal Aggarwal, Marius Cotescu, Nishant Prateek, Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Roberto Barra-Chicote
Using Vaes and Normalizing Flows for One-Shot Text-To-Speech Synthesis of Expressive Speech. ICASSP (2020)
Jonas Rohnke, Thomas Merritt, Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Adam Gabrys, Vatsal Aggarwal, Alexis Moinet, Roberto Barra-Chicote
Parallel WaveNet conditioned on VAE latent vectors. CoRR (2020)
Marcello Federico, Robert Enyedi, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Ritwik Giri, Umut Isik, Arvindh Krishnaswamy, Hassan Sawaf
From Speech-to-Speech Translation to Automatic Dubbing. IWSLT (2020)
Marcello Federico, Yogesh Virkar, Robert Enyedi, Roberto Barra-Chicote
Evaluating and Optimizing Prosodic Alignment for Automatic Dubbing. INTERSPEECH (2020)
Henry B. Moss, Vatsal Aggarwal, Nishant Prateek, Javier González, Roberto Barra-Chicote
BOFFIN TTS: Few-Shot Speaker Adaptation by Bayesian Optimization. ICASSP (2020)
Henry B. Moss, Vatsal Aggarwal, Nishant Prateek, Javier González, Roberto Barra-Chicote
BOFFIN TTS: Few-Shot Speaker Adaptation by Bayesian Optimization. CoRR (2020)
Marcello Federico, Robert Enyedi, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Ritwik Giri, Umut Isik, Arvindh Krishnaswamy
From Speech-to-Speech Translation to Automatic Dubbing. CoRR (2020)
Daniel Korzekwa, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Szymon Zaporowski, Grzegorz Beringer, Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Alicja Serafinowicz, Jasha Droppo, Thomas Drugman, Bozena Kostek
Detection of Lexical Stress Errors in Non-native (L2) English with Data Augmentation and Attention. CoRR (2020)
Vatsal Aggarwal, Marius Cotescu, Nishant Prateek, Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Roberto Barra-Chicote
Using VAEs and Normalizing Flows for One-shot Text-To-Speech Synthesis of Expressive Speech. CoRR (2019)
Daniel Korzekwa, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Bozena Kostek, Thomas Drugman, Mateusz Lajszczak
Interpretable Deep Learning Model for the Detection and Reconstruction of Dysarthric Speech. INTERSPEECH (2019)
Nishant Prateek, Mateusz Lajszczak, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Thomas Drugman, Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Thomas Merritt, Srikanth Ronanki, Trevor Wood
In Other News: A Bi-style Text-to-speech Model for Synthesizing Newscaster Voice with Limited Data. CoRR (2019)
Daniel Korzekwa, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Bozena Kostek, Thomas Drugman, Mateusz Lajszczak
Interpretable Deep Learning Model for the Detection and Reconstruction of Dysarthric Speech. CoRR (2019)
Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Thomas Drugman, Javier Latorre, Thomas Merritt, Bartosz Putrycz, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Alexis Moinet, Vatsal Aggarwal
Towards Achieving Robust Universal Neural Vocoding. INTERSPEECH (2019)
Nishant Prateek, Mateusz Lajszczak, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Thomas Drugman, Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Thomas Merritt, Srikanth Ronanki, Trevor Wood
In Other News: a Bi-style Text-to-speech Model for Synthesizing Newscaster Voice with Limited Data. NAACL-HLT (2) (2019)
Thomas Merritt, Bartosz Putrycz, Adam Nadolski, Tianjun Ye, Daniel Korzekwa, Wiktor Dolecki, Thomas Drugman, Viacheslav Klimkov, Alexis Moinet, Andrew Breen, Rafal Kuklinski, Nikko Strom, Roberto Barra-Chicote
Comprehensive evaluation of statistical speech waveform synthesis. CoRR (2018)
Thomas Merritt, Bartosz Putrycz, Adam Nadolski, Tianjun Ye, Daniel Korzekwa, Wiktor Dolecki, Thomas Drugman, Viacheslav Klimkov, Alexis Moinet, Andrew Breen, Rafal Kuklinski, Nikko Strom, Roberto Barra-Chicote
Comprehensive Evaluation of Statistical Speech Waveform Synthesis. SLT (2018)
Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Thomas Drugman, Javier Latorre, Thomas Merritt, Bartosz Putrycz, Roberto Barra-Chicote
Robust universal neural vocoding. CoRR (2018)
Viacheslav Klimkov, Adam Nadolski, Alexis Moinet, Bartosz Putrycz, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Thomas Merritt, Thomas Drugman
Phrase Break Prediction for Long-Form Reading TTS: Exploiting Text Structure Information. INTERSPEECH (2017)
Rubén San-Segundo-Hernández, Juan Manuel Montero, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Fernando Fernández Martínez, José Manuel Pardo
Feature extraction from smartphone inertial signals for human activity segmentation. Signal Process. 120 (2016)
Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Ascensión Gallardo-Antolín, Junichi Yamagishi, Juan Manuel Montero
Continuous Expressive Speaking Styles Synthesis based on CVSM and MR-HMM. COLING (2016)
Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Rubén San Segundo, Javier Ferreiros, Junichi Yamagishi, Juan Manuel Montero
Emotion transplantation through adaptation in HMM-based speech synthesis. Comput. Speech Lang. 34 (1) (2015)
Rosie Kay, Oliver Watts, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Cassie Mayo
Knowledge versus data in TTS: evaluation of a continuum of synthesis systems. INTERSPEECH (2015)
Verónica López-Ludeña, Carlos González-Morcillo, Juan Carlos López, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Ricardo de Córdoba, Rubén San Segundo
Translating bus information into sign language for deaf people. Eng. Appl. Artif. Intell. 32 (2014)
Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Junichi Yamagishi, Juan Manuel Montero
Towards Cross-Lingual Emotion Transplantation. IberSPEECH (2014)
Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Julián D. Echeverry-Correa, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Rubén San-Segundo-Hernández, Javier Ferreiros, Ascensión Gallardo-Antolín, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Juan Manuel Montero-Martínez
Development of a genre-dependent TTS system with cross-speaker speaking-style transplantation. SLAM@INTERSPEECH (2014)
María Luisa García Lecumberri, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Rubén Pérez Ramón, Junichi Yamagishi, Martin Cooke
Generating segmental foreign accent. INTERSPEECH (2014)
Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Junichi Yamagishi, Oliver Watts, Juan Manuel Montero
Towards speaking style transplantation in speech synthesis. SSW (2013)
Verónica López-Ludeña, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Syaheerah L. Lutfi, Juan Manuel Montero, Rubén San Segundo
LSESpeak: A spoken language generator for Deaf people. Expert Syst. Appl. 40 (4) (2013)
Syaheerah Lebai Lutfi, Fernando Fernández Martínez, Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Juan Manuel Montero
You: The Design and Evaluation of a Domotic Affect-Sensitive Spoken Conversational Agent. Sensors 13 (8) (2013)
Syaheerah Lebai Lutfi, Fernando Fernández Martínez, Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Juan Manuel Montero
NEMOHIFI: an affective HiFi agent. ICMI (2013)
Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Beatriz Martínez-González, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Verónica López-Ludeña, Javier Ferreiros, Junichi Yamagishi, Juan Manuel Montero
Towards an Unsupervised Speaking Style Voice Building Framework: Multi-Style Speaker Diarization. INTERSPEECH (2012)
Beatriz Martínez-González, José Manuel Pardo, Julián D. Echeverry-Correa, José A. Vallejo-Pinto, Roberto Barra-Chicote
Selection of TDOA Parameters for MDM Speaker Diarization. INTERSPEECH (2012)
Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Tuomo Raitio, Nicolas Obin, Paavo Alku, Junichi Yamagishi, Juan Manuel Montero
Towards Glottal Source Controllability in Expressive Speech Synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2012)
José Manuel Pardo, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Rubén San Segundo, Ricardo de Córdoba, Beatriz Martínez-González
Speaker Diarization Features: The UPM Contribution to the RT09 Evaluation. IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process. 20 (2) (2012)
Roberto Barra-Chicote, José Manuel Pardo, Javier Ferreiros, Juan Manuel Montero
Speaker Diarization Based on Intensity Channel Contribution. IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process. 19 (4) (2011)
Roberto Barra-Chicote, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Juan Manuel Montero, Javier Macías Guarasa
Analysis of statistical parametric and unit selection speech synthesis systems applied to emotional speech. Speech Commun. 52 (5) (2010)
Rubén San Segundo, José Manuel Pardo, Javier Ferreiros, Valentín Sama, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Juan Manuel Lucas, D. Sánchez, Antonio García
Spoken Spanish generation from sign language. Interact. Comput. 22 (2) (2010)
Fernando Fernández Martínez, Juan Manuel Lucas-Cuesta, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Javier Ferreiros, Javier Macías Guarasa
HIFI-AV: An Audio-visual Corpus for Spoken Language Human-Machine Dialogue Research in Spanish. LREC (2010)
Verónica López-Ludeña, Rubén San Segundo, Raquel Martín, Juan Manuel Lucas, Roberto Barra-Chicote
Estudio del tipo de alineamiento en un sistema de traducción estadística de castellano a Lengua de Signos Española (LSE). Proces. del Leng. Natural 45 (2010)
Rubén San Segundo, Ricardo de Córdoba, Javier Ferreiros, Javier Macías Guarasa, Juan Manuel Montero, Fernando Fernández Martínez, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Roberto Barra-Chicote, José Manuel Pardo
Speech Technology at Home: Enhanced Interfaces for People with Disabilities. Intell. Autom. Soft Comput. 15 (4) (2009)
Syaheerah L. Lutfi, Juan Manuel Montero, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Juan Manuel Lucas-Cuesta, Ascensión Gallardo-Antolín
Expressive Speech Identifications based on Hidden Markov Model. HEALTHINF (2009)
Javier Macías Guarasa, Juan Manuel Montero, Javier Ferreiros, Ricardo de Córdoba, Rubén San Segundo, Juana M. Gutiérrez-Arriola, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Fernando Fernández Martínez, Roberto Barra-Chicote, José M. Pardo
Novel Applications of Neural Networks in Speech Technology Systems: Search Space Reduction and Prosodic Modeling. Intell. Autom. Soft Comput. 15 (4) (2009)
Roberto Barra-Chicote, Fernando Fernández Martínez, Syaheerah L. Lutfi, Juan Manuel Lucas-Cuesta, Javier Macías Guarasa, Juan Manuel Montero, Rubén San Segundo, José Manuel Pardo
Acoustic emotion recognition using dynamic Bayesian networks and multi-space distributions. INTERSPEECH (2009)
Luis Fernando D'Haro, Ricardo de Córdoba, Juan Manuel Lucas, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Rubén San Segundo
Speeding Up the Design of Dialogue Applications by Using Database Contents and Structure Information. SIGDIAL Conference (2009)
Beatriz Gallo, Rubén San Segundo, Juan Manuel Lucas, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Fernando Fernández Martínez
Aplicación de métodos estadísticos para la traducción de voz a Lengua de Signos. Proces. del Leng. Natural 41 (2008)
Juan Manuel Montero, Fernando Fernández Martínez, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Javier Ferreiros, Ricardo de Córdoba, Javier Macías Guarasa, Rubén San Segundo, José Manuel Pardo
Desarrollo de un Robot-Guía con Integración de un Sistema de Diálogo y Expresión de Emociones: Proyecto ROBINT. Proces. del Leng. Natural 40 (2008)
Rubén San Segundo, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Ricardo de Córdoba, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Fernando Fernández Martínez, Javier Ferreiros, Juan Manuel Lucas, Javier Macías Guarasa, Juan Manuel Montero, José Manuel Pardo
Speech to sign language translation system for Spanish. Speech Commun. 50 (11-12) (2008)
Fernando Fernández Martínez, Juan Blázquez, Javier Ferreiros, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Javier Macías Guarasa, Juan Manuel Lucas-Cuesta
Evaluation of a spoken dialogue system for controlling a Hifi audio system. SLT (2008)
Ascensión Gallardo-Antolín, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Marc Schröder, Sacha Krstulovic, Juan Manuel Montero
Automatic phonetic segmentation of Spanish emotional speech. INTERSPEECH (2007)
Roberto Barra-Chicote, Juan Manuel Montero, Javier Macías Guarasa, Juana M. Gutiérrez-Arriola, Javier Ferreiros, José Manuel Pardo
On the limitations of voice conversion techniques in emotion identification tasks. INTERSPEECH (2007)
Ricardo de Córdoba, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Fernando Fernández Martínez, Juan Manuel Montero, Roberto Barra-Chicote
Language identification using several sources of information with a multiple-Gaussian classifier. INTERSPEECH (2007)
Roberto Barra-Chicote, Juan Manuel Montero, Javier Macías Guarasa, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Rubén San Segundo, Ricardo de Córdoba
Prosodic and Segmental Rubrics in Emotion Identification. ICASSP (1) (2006)
Rubén San Segundo, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Juan Manuel Montero, Ricardo de Córdoba, Javier Ferreiros
A Spanish speech to sign language translation system for assisting deaf-mute people. INTERSPEECH (2006)
Ricardo de Córdoba, Javier Macías Guarasa, Valentín Sama Rojo, Roberto Barra-Chicote, José Manuel Pardo
New Advances in Cross-Task and Speaker Adaptation for Air Traffic Control Tasks. Proces. del Leng. Natural 35 (2005)
Javier Ferreiros, Rubén San Segundo, Fernando Fernández Martínez, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Valentín Sama, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Pedro Mellén
New word-level and sentence-level confidence scoring using graph theory calculus and its evaluation on speech understanding. INTERSPEECH (2005)