John Kane
Contact Information
Email: kanejo@tcd.ie
LinkedIn: link
Address: Phonetics & Speech Laboratory,
Centre for Language and Communication Studies,
Room 4074 Arts Building,
Trinity College Dublin,
College Green,
Dublin 2
Quicklinks
Research Interests
Voice source analysis, parameteric speech synthesis, voice quality modification.
Current Projects
- Designing robust strategies for parameterisation of source and filter in voiced speech.
- Applying these methods in parametric speech synthesis and voice quality modification.
- Developing methods for automatically identifying changes in voice quality in natural speech.
Publications
Journal publications
- Scherer, S., Kane, J., Gobl, C., Schwenker, F., (2013)
`Investigating fuzzy-input fuzzy-output support vector machines for robust voice quality classification', Computer Speech and Language 27(1), pp. 263-287 (Link) - Kane, J., Gobl, C., (2013) `Evaluation of glottal closure instant detection in a range of voice qualities', Speech Communication 55(2), pp. 295-314. (Link)
- Kane, J., Drugman, T., Gobl, C., [In Press] `Improved automatic detection of creak', Computer Speech and Language. (Link)
- Kane, J., Gobl, C., (2013) `Automating manual user strategies for precise voice source analysis', Speech Communication 55(3), pp.397-414. (Link)
- Kane, J., Gobl, C., [In Press] `Wavelet maxima dispersion for breathy to tense voice discrimination', IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing. (Link)
Selected conference publications
- Kane, J., Scherer, S., Aylett, M., Morency, L-P., Gobl, C., [Accepted]
`Speaker and language independent voice quality classification applied to unlabelled corpora of expressive speech', ICASSP 2013, Vancouver, Canada. - Drugman, T., Kane, J., Raitio, T., Gobl, C., [Accepted]
`Prediction of creaky voice from contextual factors', ICASSP 2013, Vancouver, Canada. - Drugman, T., Kane, J., Gobl, C., (2012)
`Resonator-based creaky voice detection', Interspeech 2012, Portland, Oregon, USA.(PDF). - Drugman, T., Kane, J., Gobl, C., (2012)
`Modeling the creaky excitation for parametric speech synthesis', Interspeech 2012, Portland, Oregon, USA.(PDF). - Székely, É, Kane, J., Scherer, S., Gobl, C., Carson-Berndsen, J., (2012)
`Detecting a targetted voice style in an audiobook using voice quality features', in Proceedings of ICASSP 2012, Kyoto, Japan (PDF). - Kane, J. and Gobl, C., (2011)
`Identifying regions of non-modal phonation using features of the wavelet transform', in Proceedings of Interspeech 2011, Firenze, Italy (PDF). - Cabral, J., Kane, J., Gobl, C., and Carson-Berndsen, J., (2011)
`Evaluation of glottal epoch detection algorithms on different voice types', in Proceedings of Interspeech 2011, Firenze, Italy (PDF). - Kane, J., Papay, K., Hunyadi, L., and Gobl, C., (2011)
`On the use of creak in Hungarian spontaneous speech', in Proceedings of ICPhS 2011, Hong Kong (PDF). - Yanushevskaya, I., Kane, J., ,Gobl, C., Ní Chasaide, A. (2010). `An Exploration of Voice Source Correlates of Focus', in Proceedings of Interspeech 2010, Makuhari, Japan. (PDF)
Voice Quality Samples - Speech Communication Paper Submission
- Female - Modal voice
- Male - Modal voice
- Female - Tense voice
- Male - Tense voice
- Female - Creaky voice
- Male - Creaky voice
- Female - Harsh voice
- Male - Harsh voice
- Female - Falsetto voice
- Male - Falsetto voice
- Female - Breathy voice
- Male - Breathy voice
Voice analysis toolkit
A toolkit of Matlab code for glottal source and voice quality analysis will be available here soon!