Representative Publications

M. W. Macon, "Waveform models for data-driven speech synthesis," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 105, No. 2, Pt. 2, p. 1031, February 1999 (invited paper).

M. W. Macon and M. A. Clements, "An Enhanced ABS/OLA sinusoidal model for waveform synthesis in TTS," in Proceedings of EUROSPEECH, volume 5, pages 2327-2330, September 1999.

J. Wouters, B. Rundle and M. W. Macon, "Authoring Tools for Speech Synthesis using the Sable Markup Standard," Eurospeech'99.

F. Kossentini, M. Macon and M. Smith, "Audio coding using variable-depth multistage quantization," IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, Volume 6(2):186-188, 1998.

M. W. Macon, A. E. Cronk, and J. Wouters, "Generalization and Discrimination in tree-structured unit selection," in Proceedings of the 3rd ESCA/COCOSDA International Speech Synthesis Workshop, pages 195-200, November 1998.

A. Kain and M. W. Macon, "Personalizing a speech synthesizer by voice adaptation," in Proceedings of the 3rd ESCA/COCOSDA International Speech Synthesis Workshop, pages 225-230, November 1998.

A. E. Cronk and M. W. Macon, "Optimization of stopping criteria for tree-structured unit selection," in Proc. of International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, volume 5, pages 1951-1955, November 1998.

A. Kain and M. W. Macon, "Text-to-speech voice adaptation from sparse training data," in Proc. of International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, pages 2847-2850, November 1998.

J. Wouters and M. W. Macon, "A Perceptual Evaluation of Distance Measures for Concatenative Speech Synthesis," Proc. of International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, pages xxx-xxx, November 1998.

S. Sutton, R. Cole, J. de Villiers, J. Schalkwyk, P. Vermeulen, M. Macon, Y. Yan, E. Kaiser, B. Rundle, K. Shobaki, P. Hosom, A. Kain, J. Wouters, D. Massaro, M. Cohen, "Universal speech tools: the CSLU Toolkit," Proc. of International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, vol. 7, pages 3221-24, November 1998.

M. W. Macon, A. Kain, A. E. Cronk, H. Meyer, K. Mueller, B. Saeuberlich, and A. W. Black, "Rapid Prototyping of a German TTS System," Tech. Rep. CSE-98-015, Department of Computer Science, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, Portland, OR, September 1998.

M. W. Macon, A. McCree, W. M. Lai, and V. Viswanathan, "Efficient Analysis/Synthesis of Percussion Musical Instrument Sounds Using an All-Pole Model,'' Proc. of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol. 6, pp. 3589-3592, May 1998.

A. Kain and M. W. Macon, "Spectral Voice Conversion for Text-to-Speech Synthesis," Proc. of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol. 1, pp. 285-288, 1998.

Ron Cole, Tim Carmell, Pam Connors, Mike Macon, Johan Wouters, Jacques de Villiers, Alice Tarachow, Dominic Massaro, Michael Cohen, Jonas Beskow, Jie Yang, Uwe Meier, Alex Waibel, Pat Stone, George Fortier, Alice Davis, and Chris Soland, "Intelligent animated agents for interactive language training," in STiLL: ESCA Workshop on Speech Technology in Language Learning, Stockholm, Sweden, May 1998.

M. W. Macon, A. E. Cronk, J. Wouters, and A. Kain, "OGIresLPC: Diphone synthesizer using residual-excited linear prediction," Tech. Rep. CSE-97-007, Department of Computer Science, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, Portland, OR, September 1997.

M. W. Macon, L. Jensen-Link, J. Oliverio, M. Clements, and E. B. George, "Concatenation-based MIDI-to-singing voice synthesis,'' 103rd Meeting of the Audio Engineering Society, New York, 1997.

M. W. Macon and M. A. Clements, "Sinusoidal modeling and modification of unvoiced speech,'' IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 557-560, November 1997.

M. W. Macon, L. Jensen-Link, J. Oliverio, M. Clements, and E. B. George, "A system for singing voice synthesis based on sinusoidal modeling,'' Proc. of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol. 1, pp. 435-438, 1997.

M. W. Macon and M. A. Clements, "Speech concatenation and synthesis using an overlap-add sinusoidal model,'' Proc. of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol. 1, pp. 361-364, 1996.

M. W. Macon, Speech Synthesis Based on Sinusoidal Modeling, PhD thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, October 1996.

M. W. Macon and M. A. Clements, "Speech synthesis based on an overlap-add sinusoidal model,'' J. of the Acoustical Society of America, pp. 3246, Vol. 97, No. 5, Pt. 2, May 1995.