Felix
Burkhardt
(felixbur@gmx.de)
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These are the personal pages of Felix Burkhardt You can read about my research interests, listen to demonstrations of emotional synthesized speech, download software or listen to the bands I play with. |
- research interests:
speech processing, semantics, emotion models
- emoSyn, a speech
synthesizer to simulate emotional speech
- emoFilt, a filter
to add emotional expression to Mbrola output
- publications
- demonstration of tts-systems for the german
language
- demonstration of
synthesized emotional speech on the web
- Emotional Applications a taxonomy
- some tools and software to
download
- service ;-) tutorial Statistik und
Maschinelles Lernen
bio:
Felix Burkhardt does tutoring, consulting, research and development in the working fields
human-machine dialog systems, text-to-speech synthesis, speaker classification, ontology based natural language
modeling, voice search and emotional human-machine interfaces.
Originally an expert of Speech Synthesis at the Technical
University of Berlin, he wrote his ph.d. thesis on the simulation of emotional speech by machines, recorded the Berlin
acted emotions database, "EmoDB", and maintains several open source projects, including the emotional speech synthesizer "Emofilt" and the speech labeling and annotation tool "Speechalyzer". He has been
working for the Deutsche Telekom AG since 2000, currently for the Telekom Innovation Laboratories in Berlin.
He was a member of the European Network of Excellence HUMAINE on emotion-oriented computing and is currently the editor of the W3C Emotion Markup Language specification. He is the leader of the EIT ICT labs activity on multimodal interaction.
He is a reviewer for numerous conferences: including Interspeech, LREC, ICASSP, IWSDS, AVEC, ACII, EmoSPACE, Prosico, IVA, ICPhS, Paraling, IASTED CI, ICMI, WS3P, journals: Specom, CSL, JASA, EURASIP, SIGPRO, IEEE-TAFFC, IEEE-TMM, IEEE-TASL, IEEE-TIP, IEEE-ISSI, IJSE, ETRI, Journal of Phonetics, Neural Processing Letters, UMUAI, and publishers: Wiley
mail: Felix Burkhardt