Cooper Erica ＣｏｏｐｅｒＥｒｉｃａ

Researcher Number	30843156
Affiliation (Current)	2025: 国立研究開発法人情報通信研究機構, ユニバーサルコミュニケーション研究所先進的音声翻訳研究開発推進センター, 主任研究員
Affiliation (based on the past Project Information) *help	2025: 国立研究開発法人情報通信研究機構, ユニバーサルコミュニケーション研究所先進的音声翻訳研究開発推進センター, 主任研究員 2023: 国立情報学研究所, コンテンツ科学研究系, 特任准教授 2020 – 2022: 国立情報学研究所, コンテンツ科学研究系, 特任助教 2019: 国立情報学研究所, コンテンツ科学研究系, 特任研究員
Review Section/Research Field	Principal Investigator Basic Section 61010:Perceptual information processing-related / 1002:Human informatics, applied informatics and related fields Except Principal Investigator Medium-sized Section 61:Human informatics and related fields
Keywords	Principal Investigator deep learning / neural networks / speech synthesis / machine translation / multi-lingual / efficiency / pruning / vocoder / text-to-speech / mean opinion score … More / speech assessment / self-supervised learning / speech evaluation / low-resource languages / text-to-speech synthesis / Evaluation / Neural network pruning / Low-resource languages / Text-to-speech synthesis / articulation / speaker modeling / transfer learning / speaker similarity / dialect modeling / Neural network / Deep learning / Speaker modeling / Speech synthesis … More Except Principal Investigator 機械学習 / 音声情報処理 / 言語生成 / 深層学習 / 落語 / 音声合成 Less

Universal, Explainable and Extensible Automatic Evaluation of Synthesized SpeechPrincipal Investigator
- Principal Investigator
  
  Cooper Erica
- Project Period (FY)
  2024 – 2028
- Research Category
  
  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
- Review Section
  
  Basic Section 61010:Perceptual information processing-related
- Research Institution
  National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Language-independent, multi-modal, and data-efficient approaches for speech synthesis and translationPrincipal Investigator
- Principal Investigator
  
  COOPER Erica
- Project Period (FY)
  2021 – 2023
- Research Category
  
  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
- Review Section
  
  Basic Section 61010:Perceptual information processing-related
- Research Institution
  National Institute of Informatics
Can AI Rakugoka entertain people? -Improved expressiveness of rakugo speech synthesis and automatic generation of storytelling
- Principal Investigator
  
  Yamagishi Junichi
- Project Period (FY)
  2021 – 2022
- Research Category
  
  Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory)
- Review Section
  
  Medium-sized Section 61:Human informatics and related fields
- Research Institution
  National Institute of Informatics
Encoder Factorization for Capturing Dialect and Articulation Level in End-to-End Speech SynthesisPrincipal Investigator
- Principal Investigator
  
  Cooper Erica
- Project Period (FY)
  2019 – 2020
- Research Category
  
  Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
- Review Section
  
  1002:Human informatics, applied informatics and related fields
- Research Institution
  National Institute of Informatics

All 2024 2023 2022 2020

All Journal Article Presentation

[Journal Article] A review on subjective and objective evaluation of synthetic speech2024
- Author(s)
  Cooper Erica、Huang Wen-Chin、Tsao Yu、Wang Hsin-Min、Toda Tomoki、Yamagishi Junichi
- Journal Title
  
  Acoust. Sci. & Tech.
  
  Volume: 45 Issue: 4 Pages: 161-183
- DOI
  10.1250/ast.e24.12
- ISSN
  0369-4232, 1346-3969, 1347-5177
- Year and Date
  2024-07-01
- Language
  English
- Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-21K11951
[Journal Article] Generalization Ability of MOS Prediction Networks2022
- Author(s)
  Cooper Erica、Huang Wen-Chin、Toda Tomoki、Yamagishi Junichi
- Journal Title
  
  ICASSP 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
  
  Volume: - Pages: 8442-8446
- DOI
  10.1109/icassp43922.2022.9746395
- Peer Reviewed / Open Access
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-21K19808
[Journal Article] Can Speaker Augmentation Improve Multi-Speaker End-to-End TTS?2020
- Author(s)
  Cooper Erica、Lai Cheng-I、Yasuda Yusuke、Yamagishi Junichi
- Journal Title
  
  Proc. Interspeech 2020
  
  Volume: 2020 Pages: 3979-3983
- DOI
  10.21437/interspeech.2020-1229
- Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K24372
[Journal Article] Modeling of rakugo speech and its limitations: toward speech synthesis that entertains audiences2020
- Author(s)
  Shuhei Kato, Yusuke Yasuda, Xin Wang, Erica Cooper, Shinji Takaki, and Junichi Yamagishi
- Journal Title
  
  IEEE Access
  
  Volume: 8 Pages: 138149-138161
- DOI
  10.1109/access.2020.3011975
- Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-16H06302, KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K24372
[Journal Article] Zero-Shot Multi-Speaker Text-To-Speech with State-Of-The-Art Neural Speaker Embeddings2020
- Author(s)
  Erica Cooper, Cheng-I Lai, Yusuke Yasuda, Fuming Fang, Xin Wang, Nanxin Chen, Junichi Yamagishi
- Journal Title
  
  ICASSP 2020
  
  Volume: - Pages: 6184-6188
- DOI
  10.1109/icassp40776.2020.9054535
- Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K24372, KAKENHI-PROJECT-17H04687
[Presentation] Uncertainty as a Predictor: Leveraging Self-Supervised Learning for Zero-Shot MOS Prediction2024
- Author(s)
  Aditya Ravuri, Erica Cooper, Junichi Yamagishi
- Organizer
  IEEE ICASSP 2024 workshop on Self-supervision in Audio, Speech and Beyond
- Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-21K11951
[Presentation] The VoiceMOS Challenge 2023: Zero-shot Subjective Speech Quality Prediction for Multiple Domains2023
- Author(s)
  Erica Cooper, Wen-Chin Huang, Yu Tsao, Hsin-Min Wang, Tomoki Toda, Junichi Yamagishi
- Organizer
  ASRU 2023
- Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-21K11951
[Presentation] SASPEECH: A Hebrew Single Speaker Dataset for Text to Speech and Voice Conversion2023
- Author(s)
  Orian Sharoni, Roee Shenberg, Erica Cooper
- Organizer
  Interspeech 2023
- Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-21K11951
[Presentation] Partial Rank Similarity Minimization Method for Quality MOS Prediction of Unseen Speech Synthesis Systems in Zero-Shot and Semi-supervised setting2023
- Author(s)
  Hemant Yadav, Erica Cooper, Junichi Yamagishi, Sunayana Sitaram, Rajiv Ratn Shah
- Organizer
  ASRU 2023
- Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-21K11951
[Presentation] Investigating Range-Equalizing Bias in Mean Opinion Score Ratings of Synthesized Speech2023
- Author(s)
  Erica Cooper, Junichi Yamagishi
- Organizer
  Interspeech 2023
- Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-21K11951
[Presentation] LDNet: Unified Listener Dependent Modeling in MOS Prediction for Synthetic Speech2022
- Author(s)
  Wen-Chin Huang, Erica Cooper, Junichi Yamagishi, Tomoki Toda
- Organizer
  ICASSP 2022
- Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-21K11951
[Presentation] On the Interplay Between Sparsity, Naturalness, Intelligibility, and Prosody in Speech Synthesis2022
- Author(s)
  Cheng-I Jeff Lai, Erica Cooper, Yang Zhang, Shiyu Chang, Kaizhi Qian, Yi-Lun Liao, Yung-Sung Chuang, Alexander H. Liu, Junichi Yamagishi, David Cox, James Glass
- Organizer
  ICASSP 2022
- Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-21K11951
[Presentation] The VoiceMOS Challenge 20222022
- Author(s)
  Erica Cooper
- Organizer
  Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Processing, Information Processing Society of Japan
- Invited
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-21K19808
[Presentation] Generalization Ability of MOS Prediction Networks2022
- Author(s)
  Erica Cooper, Wen-Chin Huang, Tomoki Toda, Junichi Yamagishi
- Organizer
  ICASSP 2022
- Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-21K11951
[Presentation] Objective Evaluation in TTS2022
- Author(s)
  Erica Cooper
- Organizer
  KTH Seminar on Speech Synthesis Evaluation, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Speech, Music, and Hearing
- Invited
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-21K11951
[Presentation] The VoiceMOS Challenge 20222022
- Author(s)
  Erica Cooper, Wen-Chin Huang
- Organizer
  Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Processing, Information Processing Society of Japan
- Invited
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-21K11951
[Presentation] The VoiceMOS Challenge: Data-Driven Mean Opinion Score Prediction for Synthesized Speech2022
- Author(s)
  Erica Cooper
- Organizer
  2022 Autumn Meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan
- Invited
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-21K11951
[Presentation] The VoiceMOS Challenge 20222022
- Author(s)
  Wen-Chin Huang, Erica Cooper, Yu Tsao, Hsin-Min Wang, Tomoki Toda, Junichi Yamagishi
- Organizer
  Interspeech 2022
- Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-21K11951

1. Yamagishi Junichi (70709352)

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2. Kruengkrai Canasai (10895907)

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Cooper Erica Ｃｏｏｐｅｒ Ｅｒｉｃａ

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Universal, Explainable and Extensible Automatic Evaluation of Synthesized SpeechPrincipal Investigator

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Language-independent, multi-modal, and data-efficient approaches for speech synthesis and translationPrincipal Investigator

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Can AI Rakugoka entertain people? -Improved expressiveness of rakugo speech synthesis and automatic generation of storytelling

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Encoder Factorization for Capturing Dialect and Articulation Level in End-to-End Speech SynthesisPrincipal Investigator

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[Journal Article] A review on subjective and objective evaluation of synthetic speech2024

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[Journal Article] Generalization Ability of MOS Prediction Networks2022

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[Journal Article] Can Speaker Augmentation Improve Multi-Speaker End-to-End TTS?2020

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[Journal Article] Modeling of rakugo speech and its limitations: toward speech synthesis that entertains audiences2020

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[Journal Article] Zero-Shot Multi-Speaker Text-To-Speech with State-Of-The-Art Neural Speaker Embeddings2020

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[Presentation] Uncertainty as a Predictor: Leveraging Self-Supervised Learning for Zero-Shot MOS Prediction2024

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[Presentation] The VoiceMOS Challenge 2023: Zero-shot Subjective Speech Quality Prediction for Multiple Domains2023

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[Presentation] SASPEECH: A Hebrew Single Speaker Dataset for Text to Speech and Voice Conversion2023

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[Presentation] Partial Rank Similarity Minimization Method for Quality MOS Prediction of Unseen Speech Synthesis Systems in Zero-Shot and Semi-supervised setting2023

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[Presentation] Investigating Range-Equalizing Bias in Mean Opinion Score Ratings of Synthesized Speech2023

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[Presentation] LDNet: Unified Listener Dependent Modeling in MOS Prediction for Synthetic Speech2022

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Cooper Erica ＣｏｏｐｅｒＥｒｉｃａ