PhD Candidate
Language Technologies Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Thesis Topic
Style-Specific Phrasing in Speech Synthesis
PhD Advisor: Alan W Black
Expected Completion: Sep 2013
Research Interests
- Speech Synthesis: Text Processing, Speaking Styles, Prosody, Singing
- Speech to Speech Translation
- Multilingual Speech and Language Processing
- Practical Implementations of Speech and Language Technologies
Research Experience
I have worked on several projects in the area of multilingual speech and language processing. Here is a list of the most recent ones:
- Google Grant (2012--2013)
- Text to Speech for Languages without an Orthography
- PT-STAR (2009--2012)
- Style-Specific Synthesis for Speech Translation
- TRANSTAC (2010--2011)
- Small-footprint Speech Synthesis under Android
- GALE (2007--2009)
- Syntax-Based Statistical Machine Translation (Chinese, Arabic — English)
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