Esther Klabbers-Judd
Phone: 503 748-3005
Fax: 503 748-1306
Website: http://www.cslu.ogi.edu/~klabbers/
Current Appointment
Research Associate Professor
Office
Central Building, Room 143 (West Campus)
Education
2000 - Ph.D., Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology
1996 - M.A., Language and Computer Science, University of Nijmegen
1992 - B.A., English Language and Literature, University of Nijmegen
Research Area
Center for Spoken Language Understanding
Research Interests
Text-to-speech synthesis, prosody analysis and synthesis, audible discontinuities, acoustic analysis, and assistive devices.
Selected Publications
- J. van Santen, T. Mishra, and E. Klabbers (2008), "Prosodic Processing", In J. Benesty, M. Sondhi, and Y. Huang (Eds.), Springer Handbook of Speech Processing, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 471-488.
- E. Klabbers, J. van Santen, A. Kain (2007)."The contribution of various sources of spectral mismatch to audible discontinuities in a diphone database", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing Journal, 15(3), pp. 949-956.
- E. Klabbers, T. Mishra, and J. van Santen (2007), Analysis of affective speech recordings using the superpositional intonation model, Proceedings of the 6th ISCA workshop on speech synthesis (SSW6), pp. 339-344, Bonn, Germany.
- E. Klabbers, J. van Santen and J. Wouters (2005). Minimizing the amount of pitch modification in speech synthesis, in S. Narayanan and A. Alwan (eds). Text to Speech synthesis: New Paradigms and Advances, Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference, Upper Saddle River, NJ, pp. 89-107.
