Publications de Lakshmi Babu Saheer

Personalising speech-to-speech translation: Unsupervised cross-lingual speaker adaptation for HMM-based speech synthesis

John David Scott Dines, Hui Liang, Lakshmi Babu Saheer, Matthew Gibson, Simon King

In this paper we present results of unsupervised cross-lingual speaker adaptation applied to text-to-speech synthesis. The application of our research is the personalisation of speech-to-speech translation in which we employ a HMM statistical framework for ...

2013

Unified Framework of Feature Based Adaptation for Statistical Speech Synthesis and Recognition

Lakshmi Babu Saheer

The advent of statistical parametric speech synthesis has paved new ways to a unified framework for hidden Markov model (HMM) based text to speech synthesis (TTS) and automatic speech recognition (ASR). The techniques and advancements made in the field of ...

EPFL2013

Vocal Tract Length Normalization for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis

John David Scott Dines, Philip Neil Garner, Lakshmi Babu Saheer

Vocal tract length normalization (VTLN) has been successfully used in automatic speech recognition for improved performance. The same technique can be implemented in statistical parametric speech synthesis for rapid speaker adaptation during synthesis. Thi ...

2012

Current trends in multilingual speech processing

Hervé Bourlard, Mathew Magimai Doss, Petr Motlicek, John David Scott Dines, Philip Neil Garner, David Imseng, Hui Liang, Fabio Valente, Lakshmi Babu Saheer

In this paper, we describe recent work at Idiap Research Institute in the domain of multilingual speech processing and provide some insights into emerging challenges for the research community. Multilingual speech processing has been a topic of ongoing int ...

2011