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Recent Papers

Greg Kochanski, Daniel Lopresti and Chilin Shih, "A Reverse Turing Test Using Speech," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, (September 2002) Denver, Colorado.


Prosodic Modeling

Chilin Shih and Greg Kochanski, "Modeling Intonation: Asking for Confirmation in English," in Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Science, (August 2003) Barcelona, Spain.

Chilin Shih and Greg Kochanski, "Modeling of Vocal Styles Using Portable Features and Placement Rules," 2003 International J. Speech Technology 6(4), pp. 393-408. (ISSN:1381-2416).

Greg Kochanski and Chilin Shih, "Prosody Modeling with Soft Templates," 2003 (February) Speech Communication 39(3-4), pp. 311-352.

Greg Kochanski, Chilin Shih and Hongyan Jing, "Hierarchical structure and word strength prediction of Mandarin prosody," 2003 (January) International J. Speech Technology 6(1), pp. 33-43. (ISSN:1381-2416).

Greg Kochanski, Chilin Shih and Hongyan Jing, "Quantitative Measurement of Prosodic Strength in Mandarin," 2003 Speech Communication 41(4), pp. 625-645. Draft on http://kochanski.org/gpk/prosodies.org/papers/2003/automated_specom2003.pdf.

Jiahong Yuan, Chilin Shih and Greg P. Kochanski, "Comparison of Declarative and Interrogative Intonation in Chinese," in Proceedings of the Speech Prosody 2002 Conference, edited by Bel, B. and Marlien, I. (11-13 April 2002 ISBN:2-9518233-0-4) pp. 711-714. Aix-en-Provence, Laboratoire Parole et Langage.

Tan Lee, Greg Kochanski, Chilin Shih and Yujia Li, "Modeling Tones in Continuous Cantonese Speech," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, (September 2002) Denver, Colorado.

Chilin Shih, G. P. Kochanski, E. Fosler-Lussier, Melody Chan and Jia-Hong Yuan, "Implications of Prosody Modeling for Prosody Recognition," in Prosody 2001: ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Prosody in Speech Recognition and Understanding, edited by M. Bacchiani and J. Hirschberg and D. Litman and M. Ostendorf, (International Speech Communication Association), (October 2001) pp. 133-138. Red Bank, NJ.

Chilin Shih and Greg P. Kochanski, "Prosody control for speaking and singing styles," in Proceedings of Eurospeech 2001, (International Speech Communication Association), (October 2001) pp. 669-672. Aalborg, Denmark. An updated version of this can be seen at http://kochanski.org/gpk/prosodies.org/papers/2003/styles_ijst2003.pdf.

Chilin Shih and Greg P. Kochanski, "Synthesis of prosodic styles," in 4th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, (2001) pp. 229-234. Perthshire, Scotland. An updated version of this can be seen at http://kochanski.org/gpk/prosodies.org/papers/2003/styles_ijst2003.pdf.

Greg Kochanski and Chilin Shih, "Automated modelling of Chinese intonation in continuous speech." in Proceedings of Eurospeech 2001, (International Speech Communication Association), (October 2001) Aalborg, Denmark.

Greg Kochanski and Chilin Shih, "Prosody Modeling with Soft Templates," Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies Technical Report, 600 Mountain Ave, Murray Hill, NJ 07974 (2001), 600 Mountain Ave, Murray Hill, NJ 07974.

Greg Kochanski, Chilin Shih and Hongyan Jing, "Hierarchical structure and word strength prediction of Mandarin prosody," in 4th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, (September 2001) pp. 217-222. Perthshire, Scotland.

C. Shih and G. P. Kochanski, "Chinese tone modeling with Stem-ML," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Volume 2, (2000) pp. 67-70. Beijing, China.

Chilin Shih, "A declination model of Mandarin Chinese," in Intonation: Analysis, Modelling and Technology, edited by Botinis, Antonis, (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000) pp. 243-268.

Greg P. Kochanski and Chilin Shih, "Stem-ML: Language Independent Prosody Description," in Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Volume 3, (October 2000) pp. 239-242. Beijing, China.

C. Shih and B. Ao, "Duration study for the Bell Laboratories Mandarin Text-to-Speech system," in Progress in Speech Synthesis, edited by van Santen, J. and Sproat, R. and Olive, J. and Hirschberg, J. (Springer-Verlag, New York, 1997) pp. 383-399.

Chilin Shih and Richard W. Sproat, "Variations of the Mandarin rising tone," in Proceedings of the IRCS Workshop on Prosody in Natural Speech, (University of Pennsylvania), (1992) pp. 193-200.


Signal Processing

Greg P. Kochanski and Chilin Shih, "A Quasi-glottogram signal," 2003 (june) J. Acoustical Society of America 114(4), pp. 2206-2216. Draft available at http://kochanski.org/gpk/prosodies.org/papers/2003/pegg/Pseudo_EGG.pdf.


Natural Language Processing

Chilin Shih and Richard W. Sproat, "Issues in Text-to-Speech Conversion for Mandarin," 1996 Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing 1(1), pp. 37-86.

Richard W. Sproat and Chilin Shih, "A statistical method for finding word boundaries in Chinese text," 1990 Computer Processing of Chinese and Oriental Languages 4(4), pp. 336-351.


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