%Aigaion2 BibTeX export from Idiap Publications %Saturday 21 December 2024 06:21:50 PM @INPROCEEDINGS{Wester_SSW_2010, author = {Wester, Mirjam and Dines, John and Gibson, Matthew and Liang, Hui and Wu, Yi-Jian and Saheer, Lakshmi and King, Simon and Oura, Keiichiro and Garner, Philip N. and Byrne, William and Guan, Yong and Hirsim{\"{a}}ki, Teemu and Karhila, Reima and Kurimo, Mikko and Shannon, Matt and Shiota, Sayaka and Tian, Jilei and Tokuda, Keiichi and Yamagishi, Junichi}, projects = {EMIME}, month = {9}, title = {Speaker adaptation and the evaluation of speaker similarity in the EMIME speech-to-speech translation project}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop}, year = {2010}, location = {Kyoto, Japan}, abstract = {This paper provides an overview of speaker adaptation research carried out in the EMIME speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) project. We focus on how speaker adaptation transforms can be learned from speech in one language and applied to the acous- tic models of another language. The adaptation is transferred across languages and/or from recognition models to synthesis models. The various approaches investigated can all be viewed as a process in which a mapping is defined in terms of either acoustic model states or linguistic units. The mapping is used to transfer either speech data or adaptation transforms between the two models. Because the success of speaker adaptation in text-to-speech synthesis is measured by judging speaker simi- larity, we also discuss issues concerning evaluation of speaker similarity in an S2ST scenario.}, pdf = {https://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/papers/2010/Wester_SSW_2010.pdf} }