Berrak Sisman

Most-cited papers

An Overview of Voice Conversion and Its Challenges: From Statistical Modeling to Deep Learning
Berrak Sisman, J. Yamagishi, Simon King, Haizhou Li
2020IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing445 citations Open access
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Emotional Voice Conversion: Theory, Databases and ESD
Kun Zhou, Berrak Sisman, Rui Liu, Haizhou Li
2021Speech Communication328 citations Open access
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Seen and Unseen Emotional Style Transfer for Voice Conversion with A New Emotional Speech Dataset
Kun Zhou, Berrak Sisman, Rui Liu, Haizhou Li
2020IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing299 citations
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Emotion Intensity and its Control for Emotional Voice Conversion
Kun Zhou, Berrak Sisman, R. Rana, Björn W. Schuller +1 more
2022IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing100 citations Open access
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Expressive TTS Training With Frame and Style Reconstruction Loss
Rui Liu, Berrak Sisman, Guanglai Gao, Haizhou Li
2020IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing87 citations Open access
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Odyssey 2024 - Speech Emotion Recognition Challenge: Dataset, Baseline Framework, and Results
Lucas Goncalves, Ali N. Salman, Abinay Reddy Naini, Laureano Moro-Velázquez +5 more
2024The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop78 citations
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Speech Synthesis With Mixed Emotions
Kun Zhou, Berrak Sisman, R. Rana, Björn W. Schuller +1 more
2022IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing78 citations Open access
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Transforming Spectrum and Prosody for Emotional Voice Conversion with Non-Parallel Training Data
Kun Zhou, Berrak Sisman, Haizhou Li
2020The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop78 citations
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VQVAE Unsupervised Unit Discovery and Multi-scale Code2Spec Inverter for Zerospeech Challenge 2019
Andros Tjandra, Berrak Sisman, Ming-Yang Zhang, S. Sakti +2 more
2019Interspeech76 citations Open access
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Converting Anyone's Emotion: Towards Speaker-Independent Emotional Voice Conversion
Kun Zhou, Berrak Sisman, Ming-Yang Zhang, Haizhou Li
2020Interspeech66 citations Open access
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Vaw-Gan For Disentanglement And Recomposition Of Emotional Elements In Speech
Kun Zhou, Berrak Sisman, Haizhou Li
2020Spoken Language Technology Workshop50 citations Open access
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Reinforcement Learning for Emotional Text-to-Speech Synthesis with Improved Emotion Discriminability
Rui Liu, Berrak Sisman, Haizhou Li
2021Interspeech45 citations
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Disentanglement of Emotional Style and Speaker Identity for Expressive Voice Conversion
Zongyang Du, Berrak Sisman, Kun Zhou, Haizhou Li
2021Interspeech42 citations Open access
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Group Sparse Representation With WaveNet Vocoder Adaptation for Spectrum and Prosody Conversion
Berrak Sisman, Ming-Yang Zhang, Haizhou Li
2019IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing41 citations
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Limited Data Emotional Voice Conversion Leveraging Text-to-Speech: Two-stage Sequence-to-Sequence Training
Kun Zhou, Berrak Sisman, Haizhou Li
2021Interspeech40 citations
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Teacher-Student Training For Robust Tacotron-Based TTS
Rui Liu, Berrak Sisman, Jing-Dong Li, Fei-Long Bao +2 more
2019IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing40 citations
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Versatile Audio-Visual Learning for Emotion Recognition
Lucas Goncalves, Seong-Gyun Leem, Wei-Cheng Lin, Berrak Sisman +1 more
2023IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing38 citations Open access
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SINGAN: Singing Voice Conversion with Generative Adversarial Networks
Berrak Sisman, K. Vijayan, M. Dong, Haizhou Li
2019Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference37 citations
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Visualtts: TTS with Accurate Lip-Speech Synchronization for Automatic Voice Over
Junchen Lu, Berrak Sisman, Rui Liu, Ming-Yang Zhang +1 more
2021IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing35 citations
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On the Study of Generative Adversarial Networks for Cross-Lingual Voice Conversion
Berrak Sisman, Ming-Yang Zhang, M. Dong, Haizhou Li
2019Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding32 citations
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Controllable Accented Text-to-Speech Synthesis With Fine and Coarse-Grained Intensity Rendering
Rui Liu, Berrak Sisman, Guang-Lai Gao, Haizhou Li
2024IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing31 citations
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Exploiting Morphological and Phonological Features to Improve Prosodic Phrasing for Mongolian Speech Synthesis
Rui Liu, Berrak Sisman, Fei-Long Bao, Jichen Yang +2 more
2021IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing30 citations Open access
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The Interspeech 2025 Challenge on Speech Emotion Recognition in Naturalistic Conditions
Abinay Reddy Naini, Lucas Goncalves, Ali N. Salman, Pravin Mote +7 more
2025Interspeech28 citations
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Expressive Voice Conversion: A Joint Framework for Speaker Identity and Emotional Style Transfer
Zongyang Du, Berrak Sisman, Kun Zhou, Haizhou Li
2021Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding28 citations Open access
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Graphspeech: Syntax-Aware Graph Attention Network for Neural Speech Synthesis
Rui Liu, Berrak Sisman, Haizhou Li
2020IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing28 citations
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DeepConversion: Voice conversion with limited parallel training data
Ming-Yang Zhang, Berrak Sisman, Li Zhao, Haizhou Li
2020Speech Communication26 citations Open access
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Revealing Emotional Clusters in Speaker Embeddings: A Contrastive Learning Strategy for Speech Emotion Recognition
I. R. Ulgen, Zongyang Du, Carlos Busso, Berrak Sisman
2024IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing24 citations Open access
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VAW-GAN for Singing Voice Conversion with Non-parallel Training Data
Junchen Lu, Kun Zhou, Berrak Sisman, Haizhou Li
2020Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference22 citations
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Modeling Prosodic Phrasing With Multi-Task Learning in Tacotron-Based TTS
Rui Liu, Berrak Sisman, Fei-Long Bao, Guanglai Gao +1 more
2020IEEE Signal Processing Letters22 citations Open access
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Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Speech Emotion Recognition using K-Nearest Neighbors Voice Conversion
Pravin Mote, Berrak Sisman, Carlos Busso
2024Interspeech17 citations
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Decoding Knowledge Transfer for Neural Text-to-Speech Training
Rui Liu, Berrak Sisman, Guang-Lai Gao, Haizhou Li
2022IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing16 citations Open access
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FastTalker: A neural text-to-speech architecture with shallow and group autoregression
Rui Liu, Berrak Sisman, Yixing Lin, Haizhou Li
2021Neural Networks16 citations
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Generative Adversarial Networks for Singing Voice Conversion with and without Parallel Data
Berrak Sisman, Haizhou Li
2020The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop16 citations
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WaveTTS: Tacotron-based TTS with Joint Time-Frequency Domain Loss
Rui Liu, Berrak Sisman, Fei-Long Bao, Guanglai Gao +1 more
2020The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop14 citations Open access
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SlothSpeech: Denial-of-service Attack Against Speech Recognition Models
Mirazul Haque, Rutvij J. Shah, Simin Chen, Berrak Sisman +2 more
2023Interspeech13 citations Open access
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DART: Disentanglement of Accent and Speaker Representation in Multispeaker Text-to-Speech
J. Melechovský, Ambuj Mehrish, Berrak Sisman, Dorien Herremans
2024arXiv.org12 citations
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Accurate Emotion Strength Assessment for Seen and Unseen Speech Based on Data-Driven Deep Learning
Rui Liu, Berrak Sisman, Björn W. Schuller, Guanglai Gao +1 more
2022Interspeech11 citations Open access
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Can Emotion Fool Anti-spoofing?
Aurosweta Mahapatra, I. R. Ulgen, Abinay Reddy Naini, Carlos Busso +1 more
2025Interspeech10 citations
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Accented Text-to-Speech Synthesis with a Conditional Variational Autoencoder
J. Melechovský, Ambuj Mehrish, Berrak Sisman, Dorien Herremans
2022IEEE Region 10 Conference10 citations Open access
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EmotionRankCLAP: Bridging Natural Language Speaking Styles and Ordinal Speech Emotion via Rank-N-Contrast
Shreeram Suresh Chandra, Lucas Goncalves, Junchen Lu, Carlos Busso +1 more
2025Interspeech9 citations
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NaturalVoices: A Large-Scale, Spontaneous and Emotional Podcast Dataset for Voice Conversion
Zongyang Du, Shreeram Suresh Chandra, I. R. Ulgen, Aurosweta Mahapatra +3 more
2025arXiv.org9 citations
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Towards Naturalistic Voice Conversion: NaturalVoices Dataset with an Automatic Processing Pipeline
Ali N. Salman, Zongyang Du, Shreeram Suresh Chandra, I. R. Ulgen +2 more
2024Interspeech9 citations Open access
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Exploring speech style spaces with language models: Emotional TTS without emotion labels
Shreeram Suresh Chandra, Zongyang Du, Berrak Sisman
2024The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop9 citations
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The NUS & NWPU system for Voice Conversion Challenge 2020
Xiao-Hai Tian, Zhichao Wang, Shan Yang, Xinyong Zhou +7 more
2020Blizzard Challenge / Voice Conversion Challenge9 citations Open access
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X-Voice: Enabling Everyone to Speak 30 Languages via Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Voice Cloning
Rixi Xu, Qingyun Liu, Hai-Tao Li, Yu-Shen Chen +9 more
2026arXiv.org8 citations
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Converting Anyone's Voice: End-to-End Expressive Voice Conversion with a Conditional Diffusion Model
Zongyang Du, Junchen Lu, Kun Zhou, Lakshmish N. Kaushik +1 more
2024The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop8 citations
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Learning Accent Representation with Multi-Level VAE Towards Controllable Speech Synthesis
J. Melechovský, Ambuj Mehrish, Dorien Herremans, Berrak Sisman
2023Spoken Language Technology Workshop8 citations
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Spectrum and Prosody Conversion for Cross-lingual Voice Conversion with CycleGAN
Zongyang Du, Kun Zhou, Berrak Sisman, Haizhou Li
2020Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference8 citations
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Discovering and Causally Validating Emotion-Sensitive Neurons in Large Audio-Language Models
Xiutian Zhao, Björn W. Schuller, Berrak Sisman
2026Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics7 citations Open access
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Accent Conversion in Text-to-Speech Using Multi-Level VAE and Adversarial Training
J. Melechovský, Ambuj Mehrish, Berrak Sisman, Dorien Herremans
2024IEEE Region 10 Conference7 citations
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