Publications by Reima Karhila

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10John Dines, Hui Liang, Lakshmi Saheer, Matthew Gibson, William Byrne, Keiichiro Oura, Keiichi Tokuda, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Mirjam Wester, Teemu Hirsimäki, Reima Karhila, and Mikko Kurimo. Personalising speech-to-speech translation: unsupervised cross-lingual speaker adaptation for hmm-based speech synthesis. Computer, Speech & Language, to appear. Accepted for publication.
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2012

9Reima Karhila, Rama Sanand Doddipatla, Mikko Kurimo, and Peter Smit. Creating synthetic voices for children by adapting adult average voice using stacked transformations and VTLN. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), page 0, Kyoto, March 2012.
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2011

8Reima Karhila and Mirjam Wester. Rapid adaptation of foreign-accented HMM-based speech synthesis. In Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, Florence, August 2011.
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7Mirjam Wester and Reima Karhila. Speaker similarity evaluation of foreign-accented speech synthesis using hmm-based speaker adaptation. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Prague, May 2011.
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2010

6Reima Karhila and Mikko Kurimo. Unsupervised cross-lingual speaker adaptation for accented speech recognition. In Proceedings of 2010 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Berkeley, CA, December 2010.
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5Mirjam Wester, John Dines, Matthew Gibson, Hui Liang, Yi-Jian Wu, Lakshmi Saheer, Simon King, Keiichiro Oura, Philip N. Garner, William Byrne, Yong Guan, Teemu Hirsimäki, Reima Karhila, Mikko Kurimo, Matt Shannon, Sayaka Shiota, Jilei Tian, Keiichi Tokuda, and Junichi Yamagishi. Speaker adaptation and the evaluation of speaker similarity in the EMIME speech-to-speech translation project. In Proceedings of the 7th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop, SSW7. ISCA, September 2010.
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4Mikko Kurimo, William Byrne, John Dines, Philip N. Garner, Matthew Gibson, Yong Guan, Teemu Hirsimäki, Reima Karhila, Simon King, Hui Liang, Keiichiro Oura, Lakshmi Saheer, Matt Shannon, Sayaka Shiota, Jilei Tian, Keiichi Tokuda, Mirjam Wester, Yi-Jian Wu, and Junichi Yamagishi. Personalising speech-to-speech translation in the EMIME project. In Proceedings of the ACL 2010 System Demonstrations, pages 48–53. ACL, July 2010.
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3Junichi Yamagishi, Bela Usabaev, Simon King, Oliver Watts, John Dines, Jilei Tian, Rile Hu, Yong Guan, Keiichiro Oura, Keiichi Tokuda, Reima Karhila, and Mikko Kurimo. Thousands of voices for HMM-based speech synthesis-analysis and application of TTS systems built on various ASR corpora. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 18(5):984–1004, July 2010.
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2Matthew Gibson, Teemu Hirsimaki, Reima Karhila, Mikko Kurimo, and William Byrne. Unsupervised cross-lingual speaker adaptation for HMM-based speech synthesis using two-pass decision tree construction. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Dallas, Texas, USA, March 2010.
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2009

1Junichi Yamagishi, Bela Usabaev, Simon King, Oliver Watts, John Dines, Jilei Tian, Rile Hu, Yong Guan, Keiichiro Oura, Keiichi Tokuda, Reima Karhila, and Mikko Kurimo. Thousands of voices for hmm-based speech synthesis. In Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH. ISCA, September 2009.
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