Education background
Bachelor of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 1970.
Areas of Research Interests/ Research Projects
Speech and Audio Processing, Speech Synthesis
Affective Computing
National Natural Science Foundation of China: Research on Theory and Methodology of Affective Computing (2005-2008);
National Natural Science Foundation of China: Bimodal Modeling for Expressive Text-to-Visual-Speech Synthesis of Putonghua and Cantonese (2005-2007).
Honors And Awards
Science and Technology Progress Award by Ministry of Education, Second Class-Research and Application of Multimodal Multilingual Speech Interaction (2009).
Academic Achievement
[1] Zhiyong WU, Helen M. MENG, Hongwu YANG, and Lianhong CAI. Modeling the Expressivity of Input Text Semantics for Chinese Text-to-Speech Synthesis in a Spoken Dialog System, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 17, No. 8, pp. 1567-1577, November, 2009
[2] Yuxiang Liu, Qiaoliang Xiang, Ye Wang, and Lianhong Cai Cultural Style Based Music Classification of Audio Signals, .IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Taibei, Taiwan,
[3] Shiyin Kang, Zhiwei Shuang, Quansheng Duan, Yong Qin & Lianhong Cai. Voiced/Unvoiced Decision Algorithm for HMM-based Speech Synthesis, Proc. of Interspeech 2009, pp. 412-415
[4] Shen Zhang, Zhiyong Wu, Helen,M.Meng, Lianhong Cai. Head Movement Synthesis based on Semantic and Prosodic Features for a Chinese Expressive Avatar, In: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2007, Vol. 4, pp.837-840, 2007.4
[5] Jun Xu, Lianhong Cai. Automatic Emphasis Labeling for Emotional Speech by Measuring Prosody Generation Error. ICIC 2009, LOCS 5754, pp. 177-186, 2009
