Guanlong Zhao
Interests
Speech Processing, Speech Synthesis, Voice Conversion, Accent Conversion
Projects
Accent conversion
L2-ARCTIC corpus
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2015-2020
B.S. in Applied Physics, Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, 2011-2015
Minor in Computer Science, School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, 2014-2015
Contact Information
Email: gzhao at tamu dot edu
LinkedIn
Google Scholar
External personal website: https://guanlongzhao.github.io/
Professional Affiliations
IEEE, student member
IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS), student member
Publications
2020 |
The English Pronunciation of Arabic Speakers - A Data-Driven Approach to Segmental Error Identification Journal Article In: Language Teaching Research, 2020. |
2019 |
Learning Structured Sparse Representations for Voice Conversion Journal Article In: IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 28, pp. 343-354, 2019. |
Golden speaker builder – An interactive tool for pronunciation training Journal Article In: Speech Communication, vol. 115, pp. 51-66, 2019. |
Foreign Accent Conversion by Synthesizing Speech from Phonetic Posteriorgrams Proceedings Article In: Proc. Interspeech, 2019. |
Using Phonetic Posteriorgram Based Frame Pairing for Segmental Accent Conversion Journal Article In: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 27, no. 10, pp. 1649-1660, 2019, ISSN: 2329-9290. |
2018 |
Improving Sparse Representations in Exemplar-Based Voice Conversion with a Phoneme-Selective Objective Function Proceedings Article In: Proc. Interspeech, 2018. |
L2-ARCTIC: A Non-Native English Speech Corpus Proceedings Article In: Proc. Interspeech, 2018. |
Voice Conversion through Residual Warping in a Sparse, Anchor-Based Representation of Speech Proceedings Article In: Proc. ICASSP, 2018. |
Accent conversion using phonetic posteriorgrams Proceedings Article In: Proc. ICASSP, 2018. |
2017 |
Exemplar selection methods in voice conversion Proceedings Article In: Proc. 42nd International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 5525-5529, 2017. |