Yannis Agiomyrgiannakis finished his PhD thesis on the subject "Sinusoidal Speech
Coding for Voice-over-IP" in 2006 at the University of Crete, with Yannis Stylianou.
He held a post-doc position regarding speech coding for TTS systems, glottal
inversion and voice transformation, at the Text-to-Speech Synthesis group in France
Telecom, working with Olivier Rosec. He joined Paul Taylor's startup called "Phonetic
Arts" at Cambridge, a company that was introducing speech synthesis to the game
industry and was acquired by Google in 2010, where he is the DSP tech-lead for Google
TTS. He is the author of 20+ publications and 17 patents in speech coding, speech
processing and speech synthesis. His interests are in Signal Processing, Speech
Coding, Speech Analysis/Modeling, Statistical Modeling, Sinusoidal Synthesis,
Text-to-Speech, Voice-over-IP, Source/Channel Coding, Vector Quantization, Multiple
Description Coding, DSP implementation, Glottal Inversion, Voice Morphing, etc.
Google Publications
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Fast, Compact, and High Quality LSTM-RNN Based
Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesizers for Mobile Devices
Heiga Zen, Yannis Agiomyrgiannakis, Niels Egberts, Fergus Henderson, Przemysław Szczepaniak
Proc. Interspeech, San Francisco, CA, USA (2016) (to appear)
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THE MATCHING-MINIMIZATION ALGORITHM, THE INCA
ALGORITHM AND A MATHEMATICAL FRAMEWORK FOR VOICE CONVERSION WITH UNALIGNED
CORPORA.
Yannis Agiomyrgiannakis
ICASSP, IEEE (2016)
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VOICE MORPHING THAT IMPROVES TTS QUALITY USING AN
OPTIMAL DYNAMIC FREQUENCY WARPING-AND-WEIGHTING TRANSFORM
Yannis Agiomyrgiannakis, Zoe Roupakia
ICASSP, IEEE (2016)
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Vocaine the Vocoder and Applications in Speech
Synthesis
Yannis Agiomyrgiannakis
ICASSP, IEEE (2015) (to appear)
Previous Publications
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A FREQUENCY-WEIGHTED POST-FILTERING TRANSFORM FOR COMPENSATION OF THE
OVER-SMOOTHING EFFECT IN HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS
Yannis Agiomyrgiannakis, Florian Eyben
ICASSP, IEEE (2013)