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Cooper Erica  Cooper Erica

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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
  • Research Projects

    (4 results)
  • Research Products

    (18 results)
  • Co-Researchers

    (2 People)
  •  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)
    # of Collaborated Projects: 1 results
    # of Collaborated Products: 1 results
  • 2.  Kruengkrai Canasai (10895907)
    # of Collaborated Projects: 1 results
    # of Collaborated Products: 0 results

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