XUEJING SUN Senior Scientist, CSR Auburn Hills, MI 48326 Xuejing.Sun <at> csr.com

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

Pitch tracker: To download from MatLabCentral.

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," Proc of ICSLP2002, Denver, Colorado, Sept. 16-20, 2002. Full Text: [  PDF  ]

• 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  ]

• Sun, X., "Pitch determination and voice quality analysis using subharmonic-to-harmonic ratio," Proc. of ICASSP2002, Orlando, Florida, 2002, Vol 1, pp 333-336. Full Text: [  PDF  ]

• 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," Journal of Voice.  [ 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 ]

• 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 ] 

• 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 Text: [ PDF  ]

• Sun, X., Xu, C.X., and Xu, Y. " Experiment on pitch target approximation model for generating Mandarin F0 contour," 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]

• 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.  

• 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.  

• 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.