Yi Xu

According to our database, Yi Xu authored at least 49 papers between 2002 and 2025.

Collaborative distances:

• Dijkstra number of five.
• Erdős number of four.

2025

Learnability of English diphthongs: One dynamic target vs. two static targets.

Anqi Xu, Daniel R. van Niekerk, Branislav Gerazov, Paul Konstantin Krug, Santitham Prom-on, Peter Birkholz, Yi Xu

Speech Commun., 2025

2024

Artificial vocal learning guided by speech recognition: What it may tell us about how children learn to speak.

Anqi Xu, Daniel R. van Niekerk, Branislav Gerazov, Paul Konstantin Krug, Peter Birkholz, Santitham Prom-on, Lorna F. Halliday, Yi Xu

J. Phonetics, 2024

In Pursuit for the Best Error Metric for Optimisation of Articulatory Vowel Synthesis.

Branislav Gerazov, Paul Konstantin Krug, Daniel R. van Niekerk, Anqi Xu, Peter Birkholz, Yi Xu

Proceedings of the Speech and Computer - 26th International Conference, 2024

2023

Analysis and computational modelling of Emirati Arabic intonation - A preliminary study.

Muhammad Swaileh Alzaidi, Yi Xu, Anqi Xu, Marta Szreder

J. Phonetics, May, 2023

Simulating vocal learning of spoken language: Beyond imitation.

Daniel R. van Niekerk, Anqi Xu, Branislav Gerazov, Paul Konstantin Krug, Peter Birkholz, Lorna F. Halliday, Santitham Prom-on, Yi Xu

Speech Commun., February, 2023

Artificial Vocal Learning Guided by Phoneme Recognition and Visual Information.

Paul Konstantin Krug, Peter Birkholz, Branislav Gerazov, Daniel Rudolph van Niekerk, Anqi Xu, Yi Xu

IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process., 2023

Self-Supervised Solution to the Control Problem of Articulatory Synthesis.

Paul Konstantin Krug, Peter Birkholz, Branislav Gerazov, Daniel R. van Niekerk, Anqi Xu, Yi Xu

Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2023

2022

Post-focus compression in Brahvi and Balochi.

Nasir Abbas Syed, Abdul Waheed Shah, Anqi Xu, Yi Xu

Phonetica, 2022

Corrigendum to "Coarticulation as synchronised CV co-onset - Parallel evidence from articulation and acoustics" [J. Phonet. 90 (2022) 101116].

Zirui Liu, Yi Xu, Feng-fan Hsieh

J. Phonetics, 2022

Coarticulation as synchronised CV co-onset - Parallel evidence from articulation and acoustics.

Zirui Liu, Yi Xu, Feng-fan Hsieh

J. Phonetics, 2022

Estimating Underlying Articulatory Targets of Thai Vowels by Using Deep Learning Based on Generating Synthetic Samples From a 3D Vocal Tract Model and Data Augmentation.

Thanat Lapthawan, Santitham Prom-on, Peter Birkholz, Yi Xu

IEEE Access, 2022

Evoc-Learn - High quality simulation of early vocal learning.

Yi Xu, Anqi Xu, Daniel R. van Niekerk, Branislav Gerazov, Peter Birkholz, Paul Konstantin Krug, Santitham Prom-on, Lorna F. Halliday

Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2022

Exploration strategies for articulatory synthesis of complex syllable onsets.

Daniel R. van Niekerk, Anqi Xu, Branislav Gerazov, Paul Konstantin Krug, Peter Birkholz, Yi Xu

Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2022

Articulatory Synthesis for Data Augmentation in Phoneme Recognition.

Paul Konstantin Krug, Peter Birkholz, Branislav Gerazov, Daniel Rudolph van Niekerk, Anqi Xu, Yi Xu

Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2022

2021

Model-Based Exploration of Linking Between Vowel Articulatory Space and Acoustic Space.

Anqi Xu, Daniel R. van Niekerk, Branislav Gerazov, Paul Konstantin Krug, Santitham Prom-on, Peter Birkholz, Yi Xu

Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2021, Brno, Czechia, August 30, 2021

Segmental Alignment of English Syllables with Singleton and Cluster Onsets.

Zirui Liu, Yi Xu

Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2021, Brno, Czechia, August 30, 2021

2020

Evaluating Features and Metrics for High-Quality Simulation of Early Vocal Learning of Vowels.

Branislav Gerazov, Daniel R. van Niekerk, Anqi Xu, Paul Konstantin Krug, Peter Birkholz, Yi Xu

CoRR, 2020

Finding Intelligible Consonant-Vowel Sounds Using High-Quality Articulatory Synthesis.

Daniel R. van Niekerk, Anqi Xu, Branislav Gerazov, Paul Konstantin Krug, Peter Birkholz, Yi Xu

Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2020

Coarticulation as Synchronised Sequential Target Approximation: An EMA Study.

Zirui Liu, Yi Xu, Feng-fan Hsieh

Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2020

2019

Prosodic encoding of focus in Hijazi Arabic.

Muhammad Swaileh Alzaidi, Yi Xu, Anqi Xu

Speech Commun., 2019

2018

Interactive Prosodic Marking of Focus, Boundary and Newness in Mandarin.

Bei Wang, Yi Xu, Qifan Ding

Phonetica, 2018

A Variational Prosody Model for the decomposition and synthesis of speech prosody.

Branislav Gerazov, Gérard Bailly, Omar Mohammed, Yi Xu, Philip N. Garner

CoRR, 2018

A Weighted Superposition of Functional Contours Model for Modelling Contextual Prominence of Elementary Prosodic Contours.

Branislav Gerazov, Gérard Bailly, Yi Xu

Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2018

Estimation of Pitch Targets from Speech Signals by Joint Regularized Optimization.

Peter Birkholz, Patrick Schmaser, Yi Xu

Proceedings of the 26th European Signal Processing Conference, 2018

2017

Pre-Low Raising in Japanese Pitch Accent.

Albert Lee, Santitham Prom-on, Yi Xu

Phonetica, 2017

Manipulation of the prosodic features of vocal tract length, nasality and articulatory precision using articulatory synthesis.

Peter Birkholz, Lucia Martin, Yi Xu, Stefan Scherbaum, Christiane Neuschaefer-Rube

Comput. Speech Lang., 2017

2015

Computational modelling of double focus in American English.

Fang Liu, Yi Xu, Santitham Prom-on, Douglas H. Whalen

Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2015

2014

Toward invariant functional representations of variable surface fundamental frequency contours: Synthesizing speech melody via model-based stochastic learning.

Yi Xu, Santitham Prom-on

Speech Commun., 2014

Prosodic Realization of Focus in Bilingual Production of Southern Min and Mandarin.

Ying Chen, Yi Xu, Susan Guion-Anderson

Phonetica, 2014

Identifying underlying articulatory targets of Thai vowels from acoustic data based on an analysis-by-synthesis approach.

Santitham Prom-on, Peter Birkholz, Yi Xu

EURASIP J. Audio Speech Music. Process., 2014

Estimating vocal tract shapes of Thai vowels from contextual vowel variation.

Santitham Prom-on, Peter Birkholz, Yi Xu

Proceedings of the 2014 17th Oriental Chapter of the International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques (COCOSDA), 2014

Learning model-based F0 production through goal-directed babbling.

Hao Liu, Yi Xu

Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2014

2013

Training an articulatory synthesizer with continuous acoustic data.

Santitham Prom-on, Peter Birkholz, Yi Xu

Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2013

Mora-based pre-low raising in Japanese pitch accent.

Albert Lee, Yi Xu, Santitham Prom-on

Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2013

2011

Differential prosodic encoding of topic and focus in sentence-initial position in Mandarin Chinese.

Bei Wang, Yi Xu

J. Phonetics, 2011

Simulating Post-L F0 Bouncing by Modeling Articulatory Dynamics.

Santitham Prom-on, Yi Xu, Fang Liu

Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2011

Functional Modeling of Tone, Focus and Sentence Type in Mandarin Chinese.

Santitham Prom-on, Fang Liu, Yi Xu

Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2011

Modelling Extreme Tonal Reduction in Taiwan Mandarin Based on Target Approximation.

Chierh Cheng, Yi Xu, Santitham Prom-on

Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2011

2010

In defense of lab speech.

Yi Xu

J. Phonetics, 2010

Articulatory-functional modeling of speech prosody: a review.

Yi Xu, Santitham Prom-on

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2010

2009

Organizing syllables into groups - Evidence from F₀ and duration patterns in Mandarin.

Yi Xu, Maolin Wang

J. Phonetics, 2009

2008

Encoding Emotions in Speech with the Size Code: A Perceptual Investigation.

Suthathip Chuenwattanapranithi, Yi Xu, Bundit Thipakorn, Songrit Maneewongvatana

Phonetica, 2008

2007

Determining the temporal interval of segments with the help of F₀ contours.

Yi Xu, Fang Liu

J. Phonetics, 2007

The neutral tone in question intonation in Mandarin.

Fang Liu, Yi Xu

Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2007

2006

Production of Weak Elements in Speech - Evidence from F₀ Patterns of Neutral Tone in Standard Chinese.

Yiya Chen, Yi Xu

Phonetica, 2006

Quantitative Target Approximation Model: Simulating Underlying Mechanisms of Tones and Intonations.

Santitham Prom-on, Yi Xu, Bundit Thipakorn

Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, 2006

2005

Parallel Encoding of Focus and Interrogative Meaning in Mandarin Intonation.

Fang Liu, Yi Xu

Phonetica, 2005

Phonetic realization of focus in English declarative intonation.

Yi Xu, Ching X. Xu

J. Phonetics, 2005

2002

Segmentation of glides with tonal alignment as reference.

Yi Xu, Fang Liu

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP2002, 2002