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Ann Syrdal

Psychology

#3642

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#4096

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#1368

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Cognitive Science

#259

World Rank

#260

Historical Rank

#58

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Cognitive Psychology

#558

World Rank

#586

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#129

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PhD Psychology University of Texas at Austin
Masters Psychology University of Texas at Austin
Bachelors Psychology University of Texas at Austin

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According to Wikipedia, Ann Kristen Syrdal was an American psychologist and computer science researcher who worked with speech synthesis technology. She developed the first female-sounding voice synthesizer. Early life Syrdal was born on December 13, 1945, in Minneapolis. Her father, Richard, was a physicist and engineer; her mother, Marjorie was a sales clerk. She was raised by her mother after her father died when she was two years old.

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Ann Syrdal's Published Works

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A perceptual model of vowel recognition based on the auditory representation of American English vowels. (1986) (483)
The AT & T NEXT-GEN TTS system (1999) (248)
Discrimination in speech and nonspeech modes (1971) (167)
Inter-transcriber reliability of toBI prosodic labeling (2000) (137)
Expressive speech synthesis using a concatenative synthesizer (2002) (128)
Perceptual and objective detection of discontinuities in concatenative speech synthesis (2001) (118)
Automatic ToBI prediction and alignment to speed manual labeling of prosody (1999) (99)
Aspects of a model of the auditory representation of american english vowels (1985) (76)
Applied speech technology (1995) (65)
Diphone synthesis using unit selection (1998) (56)
Perceptually based automatic prosody labeling and prosodically enriched unit selection improve concatenative text-to-speech synthesis (2000) (50)
Corpus-based techniques in the AT&t nextgen synthesis system (2000) (47)
TD-PSOLA versus harmonic plus noise model in diphone based speech synthesis (1998) (44)
Preselection of candidate units in a unit selection-based text-to-speech synthesis system (2000) (42)
Acoustic variability in spontaneous conversational speech of American English talkers (1996) (37)
On the intelligibility of fast synthesized speech for individuals with early-onset blindness (2011) (35)
Dialog speech acts and prosody : Considerations for TTS (2009) (29)
Three methods of intonation modeling (1998) (26)
Exploration of acoustic correlates in speaker selection for concatenative synthesis (1998) (23)
Phonetic effects on listener detection of vowel concatenation (2001) (23)
Data-driven perceptually based join costs (2004) (17)
Vowel F1 as a function of speaker fundamental frequency (1985) (17)
Perceptually-based data-driven join costs: comparing join types (2005) (17)
Improving TTS by higher agreement between predicted versus observed pronunciations (2004) (17)
Effects on TTS quality of methods of realizing natural prosodic variations (2003) (16)
Perception of Consonant Place of Articulation (1983) (16)
Voice-IF: a mixed-initiative spoken dialogue system for AT&t conference services (2001) (13)
Speech acts and dialog TTS (2010) (13)
An evaluation of the diagnostic rhyme test (1998) (13)
The AT&t German text-to-speech system: realistic linguistic description (2002) (11)
Multimodal speech synthesis (2000) (11)
Pronunciation lexicon adaptation for TTS voice building (2004) (11)
Speaking to, from, and through computers: Speech technologies and user-interface design (1989) (9)
Text-To-Speech Intelligibility Across Speech Rates (2012) (8)
Six approaches to limited domain concatenative speech synthesis (2006) (7)
Some effects of speaking rate on spectral and temporal characteristics of American English vowels (1984) (7)
Voice selection for speech synthesis (1997) (7)
Voice response systems: Technologies and applications (1990) (6)
Perceived critical distances between F1-F0, F2-F1, F3-F2 (1983) (5)
Improved duration rules for text‐to‐speech synthesis (1989) (5)
Interaction of speaking rate and postvocalic consonantal voicing on vowel duration in American English (1987) (5)
Phonetically enriched labeling in unit selection TTS synthesis (2006) (4)
Using F0 to constrain the unit selection Viterbi network (2011) (4)
Using tone similarity judgments in tests of intertranscriber reliability (1999) (4)
Acceptability of variations in question intonation in natural and synthesized American English (2004) (3)
A study of two standard speech intelligibility measures (1989) (3)
Improving preselection in unit selection synthesis (2008) (3)
Discrimination of F2 Transitions in Speech Context and in Isolation (1969) (3)
Development of a female voice for a concatenative synthesis text‐to‐speech system (1992) (3)
Frequency analyses of American English vowels (1982) (2)
Expanding phonetic coverage in unit selection synthesis through unit substitution from a donor voice (2006) (2)
A diagnostic text-to-speech intelligibility test (1993) (2)
On the intelligibility of fast synthesized speech for people who are blind: A cross‐system comparison. (2011) (2)
Exploration of question intonation in read American English (2003) (2)
Enriching Text-to-Speech Synthesis Using Automatic Dialog Act Tags (2011) (2)
FreqUency analyses of syllable initial and final liquids spoken by American English talkers (1982) (2)
Discrimination of F2 Transitions in Speech and Non‐speech Contexts (1970) (2)
Six Approaches to Limited Domain Co (2006) (1)
The phonetic relevance of temporal decomposition (1987) (1)
Composite TTS voices (2010) (1)
Recent advances in audio and video text‐to‐speech synthesis (2001) (0)
Advancements in text‐to‐speech technology and implications for AAC applications (2003) (0)
Challenges in evaluating the intelligibility of text‐to‐speech. (2009) (0)
Adventures of a J. J. Jenkins student in speech technology research. (2008) (0)
Phonetically Enriched Labeling in U (2006) (0)
Development of a female synthetic voice using concatenative synthesis (1990) (0)
Postvocalic consonantal voicing and constancy of syllable duration (1986) (0)
Lexicon Adaptation for TTS Voice Building (2004) (0)
Prosodically modifying speech for unit selection speech synthesis databases (2013) (0)
Data‐based speech synthesis: Progress and challenges. (2010) (0)
TD-PSOLA VE EL I SYNTHESIS (1998) (0)

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