John Kane
Contact Information
Email: kanejo@tcd.ie
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Address: Phonetics & Speech Laboratory,
Centre for Language and Communication Studies,
Room 4074 Arts Building,
Trinity College Dublin,
College Green,
Dublin 2
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Research Interests
Glottal source and voice quality analysis, expressive speech synthesis, voice quality modification.
Current Projects
- Designing robust strategies for parameterisation of perceptually important aspects of the glottal excitation source.
- Developing effective and robust approaches for classifying and discriminating voice quality in corpora of expressive speech.
- Applying these developments to various speech technology applications, e.g., expressive speech synthesis, emotion recognition, detection of disordered speech etc.
Publications
Thesis
- Kane, J., (2013) `Tools for analysing the voice - Developments in glottal source and voice quality analysis', Ph.D. Thesis (Link)
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., (2013) `Improved automatic detection of creak', 27(4), pp. 1028-1047, 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., (2013) `Wavelet maxima dispersion for breathy to tense voice discrimination', IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing, 21(6), pp. 1170-1179. (Link)
Selected conference publications
- Cullen, A., Kane, J., Drugman, T., Harte, N., (2013)
`Creaky voice and the classification of affect', Proceeding of WASSS 2013, Grenoble, France. (Paper). - Kane, J., Scherer, S., Morency, L-P, , Gobl, C., (2013)
`A comparative study of glottal open quotient estimation techniques', Interspeech 2013, Lyon, France. (Paper). (Poster). - Kane, J., Yanushevskaya, I., Dalton, J., Gobl, C., Ní Chasaide, A., (2013)
`Using phonetic feature extraction to determine optimal speech regions for maximising the effectiveness of glottal source analysis', Interspeech 2013, Lyon, France. (Paper). (Slides). - Raitio, T., Kane, J., Drugman, T., Gobl, C., (2013)
`HMM-based synthesis of creaky voice', Interspeech 2013, Lyon, France. (Paper). - Ní Chasaide, A., Yanushevskaya, I., Kane, J., Gobl, C., (2013)
`The Voice Prominence Hypothesis: the Interplay of F0 and Voice Source Features in Accentuation', Interspeech 2013, Lyon, France. (Paper). - Kane, J., Gobl, C., (2013)
`Evaluation of automatic glottal source analysis', NOLISP 2013, Mons, Belgium. (Paper). (Slides). - Kane, J., Scherer, S., Aylett, M., Morency, L-P., Gobl, C., (2013)
`Speaker and language independent voice quality classification applied to unlabelled corpora of expressive speech', ICASSP 2013, Vancouver, Canada. (Paper). (Poster). - Drugman, T., Kane, J., Raitio, T., Gobl, C., (2013)
`Prediction of creaky voice from contextual factors', ICASSP 2013, Vancouver, Canada. (Paper). (Poster). - Drugman, T., Kane, J., Gobl, C., (2012)
`Resonator-based creaky voice detection', Interspeech 2012, Portland, Oregon, USA.(Paper), (Poster), - Drugman, T., Kane, J., Gobl, C., (2012)
`Modeling the creaky excitation for parametric speech synthesis', Interspeech 2012, Portland, Oregon, USA.(Paper). (Slides). - 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 (Paper). (Poster). - 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 (Paper). - 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 (Paper). - 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 (Paper). - 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. (Paper)
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
Toolkits
COVAREP - A collaborative voice analysis repository for speech technologies (Website) (GitHub)
Voice Analysis Toolkit (GitHub)
Curriculum Vitae
CV: (Link) Last updated 17th June 2013.