Arthur R. Toth

Ph.D. Student (ABD)

5000 Forbes Avenue

Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Office: Newell Simon Hall 4508

Tel: (412) 268-2067

Education

M.S. Language Technologies, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, May 2001
A.B. Mathematics, Harvard University, June 1993

Teaching Assistant Positions

15-453: Formal Languages, Automata, and Computation, Spring 2003
11-682/15-492: Intro to IR, NLP, MT, and Speech, Fall 2002

Research

From 2005 until the present, I have been working with Dr. Alan W Black on the TRANSFORM project. We are trying to use articulatory position data, more specifically the MOCHA database, to improve voice transformation.

From September 2002 until 2005, I worked with Dr. Alan W Black on the Storyteller project. I worked primarily on the automatic detection of prosodic boundaries in speech, especially in the context of multi-sentence recordings that are longer than what is typically used for constructing concatenative speech synthesizers.

Previously, from August 1999 through August 2002, I worked with Dr. Roni Rosenfeld on Statistical Language Modeling and the Universal Speech Interface project.

Publications

Conference and Workshop Papers

Qin Jin, Arthur R. Toth, Alan W Black, Tanja Schultz. Is Voice Transformation a Threat to Speaker Identification? Proc. ICASSP 2008.
Kishore Prahallad, Arthur R. Toth, Alan W Black. Automatic Building of Synthetic Voices from Large Multi-Paragraph Speech Databases. Proc. Interspeech 2007.
Alan W Black, Christina L. Bennett, Benjamin C. Blanchard, John Kominek, Brian Langner, Kishore Prahallad, Arthur Toth. CMU Blizzard 2007: A Hybrid Acoustic Unit Selection System from Stastistically Predicted Parameters. Blizzard 2007.
Arthur R. Toth, Alan W Black. Using Articulatory Position Data in Voice Transformation. Sixth ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis.
Arthur R. Toth and Alan W Black. Visual Evaluation of Voice Transformation Based on Knowledge of Speaker. In Proc. ICASSP 2006.
Arthur R. Toth and Alan W Black. Cross-Speaker Articulatory Position Data for Phonetic Feature Prediction. In Proc. Interspeech 2005.
John Kominek, Christina Bennett, Brian Langner, Arthur Toth. The Blizzard Challenge 2005 CMU Entry: a method for improving speech synthesis systems. In Proc. Interspeech 2005.
Arthur R. Toth. Forced Alignment for Speech Synthesis Databases Using Duration and Prosodic Phrase Breaks. In Proc. 5th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop. June 2004.
Jason Y Zhang, Arthur R. Toth, Kevin Collins-Thompson, and Alan W Black. Prominence Prediction for Super-Sentential Prosodic Modeling Based on a New Database. In Proc. 5th ISCA Speech Synthsesis Workshop. June 2004.
Arthur R. Toth, Thomas K. Harris, James Sanders, Stefanie Shriver and Roni Rosenfeld. Towards Every-Citizen's Speech Interface: An Application Generator for Speech Interfaces to Databases. In Proc. ICSLP 2002.
Stefanie Shriver, Roni Rosenfeld, Xiaojin Zhu, Arthur Toth, Alex Rudnicky, Markus Flueckiger. Universalizing Speech: Notes from the USI Project. In Proc. Eurospeech 2001.
Stefanie Shriver, Arthur Toth, Xiaojin Zhu, Alex Rudnicky, Roni Rosenfeld. A Unified Design for Human-Machine Voice Interaction. In Proc. CHI 2001.
Ronald Rosenfeld, Xiaojin Zhu, Stefanie Shriver, Arthur Toth, Kevin Lenzo, Alan W Black. Towards a Universal Speech Interface. In Proc. ICSLP 2000.

Journal Article

Stefanie Tomko, Thomas K. Harris, Arthur Toth, James Sanders, Alexander Rudnicky, Roni Rosenfeld. Towards Efficient Human Machine Speech Communication: The Speech Graffiti Project. ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing. Vol. 2, No. 1. February 2005.