ÿþ<html><head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=Unicode"> <title>Welcome to Zhi-Zheng's personal page</title> </head><body alink="#ff0000" bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" vlink="#760076" link="#0000a3"> <center> <a name="top"></a> <table width="700"> <tbody><tr> <td> <hr> <center> <h1>Zhi-Zheng WU (fkgbck)</h1> </center> <TABLE border="0", cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20%"> <COL><COL align="left"> <TH><p> <img src="wzz.jpg"></p> <TH align="left"> <font size="3"> PhD Candidate<br> Emerging Research Lab<br> School of Computer Engineering<br> Nanyang Technological University<br><br> Mailing Address: <br> N4-B1a-02 C2I, Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798<br><br> Email: wuzz{at}ntu.edu.sg<br> </font> </TABLE> <hr> <a name="education"></a> <h2> Education </h2> <UL> <LI> Aug.2010 - ?: PhD Candidate. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore <br> <LI> Sep.2006 - Jun.2009: MEng. Nankai University, P. R. China. <br> <LI> Sep.2003 - Jun.2006: BEng. Hangzhou Dianzi University, P. R. China. </UL> <hr> <a name="research"></a> <h2>Research Experiences</h2> <UL> <LI>Aug.2009 - Present: Nanyang Technological University<br> Project Officer<br> Supervisor: <a href="http://www1.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/~hli/">Dr. Haizhou LI</a>, <a href="http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/aseschng/">Dr. Eng Siong CHNG</a> <ul> <li>Develop an HMM-based Malay text-to-speech system <li>Develop female and male Malay speech corpora for speech synthesis </ul> <LI>Nov.2007 - Jun.2009: Speech Group, Microsoft Research Asia <br> Research Intern<br> Mentor: <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/yaoqian/">Dr. Yao QIAN</a> <ul> <li>Investigated pitch accent detection with conditional random field (CRF) using continuous acoustic and discrete text features. <li>Investigated fundamental frequency (F0) consistency and variant across speakers and different speaking styles; investigate sharing prosody methods across speakers. <li>Investigated better F0 modeling and generation methods for HMM-based speech synthesis. <li>Co-investigated better duration refinement methods for HMM-based speech synthesis. </ul> <LI>Sep.2006 - Nov.2007: Speech Signal Processing Lab, Nankai University<br> Supervisor: <a href="http://cs.nankai.edu.cn/aboutus/teacher.jsp?id=33">Prof. Bo ZHANG</a> <ul> <li>Investigated pronunciation errors detection methods at phoneme level for computer-assisted pronunciation training system using speech recognition methods. </ul> </UL> <hr> <a name="publication"></a> <h2>Publications</h2> Journal <ul> <li>Yao Qian, Zhizheng Wu, Boyang Gao, Frank K Soong, "<font color="#0000FF">Improved Prosody Generation by Maximizing Joint Likelihood of State and Longer Units</font>", To appear in IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing </ul> <hr> Conference <ul> <li>Zhizheng Wu, Eng Siong Chng, Haizhou Li, "<font color="#0000FF">Development of HMM-based Malay Text-to-Speech System</font>", APSIPA ASC 2010, Singapore, 2010. <li>Zhizheng Wu, Tomi Kinnunen, Eng Siong Chng, Haizhou Li, "<font color="#0000FF">Text-Independent F0 Transformation with Non-Parallel Data for Voice Conversion</font>", Interspeech, Makuhari, Japan, 2010. <li>Yao Qian, Frank Soong, Miaomiao Wang, Zhizheng Wu, "<font color="#0000FF">A Minimum V/U Error Approach to F0 Generation in HMM-Based TTS</font>", Interspeech, Brighton, UK, 2009. <li>Yao Qian, Zhizheng Wu, Frank K Soong, "<font color="#0000FF">Improved Prosody Generation by Maximizing Joint Likelihood of State and Longer Units</font>", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Taipei, 2009. <li>Zhizheng Wu, Yao Qian, Frank K Soong, Bo Zhang, "<font color="#0000FF">Modeling and Generating Tone Contour with Phrase Intonation for Mandarin Chinese Speech</font>", International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), Kunming, China, 2008. <li>Boyang Gao, Yao Qian, Zhizheng Wu, Frank K Soong, "<font color="#0000FF">Duration Refinement by Jointly Optimizing State and Longer Units</font>", Interspeech, Brisbane, Australia, 2008. </ul> <hr> <a name="teach"></a> <h2>Skills</h2> Programming: C/C++, Python, Perl, Matlab...<br> Languages: Mandarin (Native), English <ul> </ul> <hr> <a name="links"></a> <h2>Links</h2> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600"> <tbody><tr> <td width="401" height="20"><a href="http://hts.sp.nitech.ac.jp/">HTS</a></td> <td width="401" height="20"><a href="http://www.xinbeiwei.com/">°eS¬~</a></td> <td width="200" height="5"></td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> <hr> <a href="http://s07.flagcounter.com/more/3hf"><img src="http://s07.flagcounter.com/count/3hf/bg=FFFFFF/txt=000000/border=CCCCCC/columns=2/maxflags=12/viewers=0/labels=1/pageviews=1/" alt="free counters" border="0"></a> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </center> </body></html>