Education:
Ph.D. in Speech Science, Northwestern University,
Evanston, IL, 2002. (Committee: Xu Yi, advisor; Mark Randolph,
Janet Pierrehumbert, Bruce Smith, committee members)
B.S. in Psychology, Peking University, Beijing,
China, 1997
Publications:
- Sun, X. "The determination, analysis, and synthesis
of fundamental frequency," Ph.D. Thesis, Northwestern University,
2002. PDF
- Sun, X. "Pitch accent prediction using ensemble machine
learning," To appear in Proc of ICSLP2002, Denver,
Colorado, Sept. 16-20, 2002. Full Text: [ PDF
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- Sun, X., "F0 generation for speech synthesis using a
multi-tier approach," To appear in Proc of ICSLP2002,
Denver, Colorado, Sept. 16-20, 2002. Full Text: [ PDF
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- Sun, X., "Pitch determination and voice quality analysis
using subharmonic-to-harmonic ratio," To appear in the Proc.
of ICASSP2002, Orlando, Florida, 2002, Vol 1, pp 333-336.
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- Xu, C. X, Xu, Y., and Sun, X. "Consonant Perturbation
on F0 in English and Mandarin," 9th Meeting of the International
Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association, Hong Kong, 1-4
May 2002.
- Sun, X. and Xu, Y. "Perceived pitch of synthesized voice
with alternate cycles," (To appear) Journal of Voice.
Manuscript : [ PDF]
- Xu, Y, and Sun, X. "Maximum speed of pitch change and
how it may relate to speech," Journal of the Acoustical
society of America, Vol. 111, No. 3, pp. 1399-1413, March
2002. Full Text: [ PDF
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- Sun, X. "Predicting Underlying Pitch Targets for Intonation
Modeling," Proc. of the 4th ISCA Tutorial and Research
Workshop on Speech Synthesis, Perthshire, Scotland, pp.
143-148, 2001. Full Text: [ PDF
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- Sun, X. and Applebaum, T.H. "Intonational Phrase Break
Prediction Using Decision Tree and N-Gram Model," Proc.
of 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology
(Eurospeech), Aalborg, Denmark, Vol 1, pp. 537-540. Full
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- Sun, X., Xu, C.X., and Xu, Y. " Experiment on pitch
target approximation model for generating Mandarin F0 contour,"
Abstract
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Vol 109, No. 5, Pt. 2 of 2, 2414, May, 2001.
- Sun, X. "A Pitch Determination Algorithm Based on Subharmonic-to-Harmonic
Ratio," in the Proceedings of the 6th International
Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Beijing, China, October,
2000, 4, pp 676-679. Full Text: [ PDF
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- Xu, Y, and Sun, X. "How fast can we really change pitch?
- Maximum speed of pitch change revisited," in the Proceedings
of the 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing,
Beijing, China, October, 2000, 3, 666-669. Full Text:
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- Sun, X. "Voice Quality Conversion in TD-PSOLA Speech
Synthesis," in the Proceedings of the IEEE International
Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Istanbul,
Turkey, June, 2000, 2, 953-956. (Abstract Full
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- Sun, X. "The perceived pitch of synthesized vowels with
alternate pulse cycles," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Vol 107, No.
5, Pt. 2, 2907, May 2000. Abstract
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