Undergraduate Research Assistant

Time: 09/2016 - 10/2017

Institution: University of California San Diego

Department: Computer Science and Engineering

Mentor: Dr. Andrew B. Kahng

Keyword: Python, Text to Speech Synthesizer, Flask, Research, Montreal Aligner, ProsodyLab

Program:
• Early Research Scholars Program
• 2016 - 2017 Projects (Poster)

Teammate: Siya Li, Lusha Li

Things We have done:
• Split user’s voice input and analyzed their input text scripts
• Generated natural sounding speech based on phoneme tags of voice snippets from a specific user
• Result: Built a user-specific, incremental trainable, Text to Speech Synthesizer and developed an user-interactive website for using the synthesis system