About me
I am a PhD student from the Human Language Technology Lab (HLT) of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in National University of Singapore (NUS). I am under the supervision of Prof. Haizhou Li (National University of Singapore & The Chinese University of HongKong (Shenzhen)). My latest CV can be abtained here. Before joining NUS, I got my bachelor's degree in Electronic Information Engineering from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 2018.
Feel free to contact me via email.
Research interests
My current research interests mainly focus on emotion analysis and synthesis in speech, which includes:
- Voice Conversion (VC): Emotional Voice Conversion.
- Text-to-Speech (TTS): Emotional Text-to-Speech.
News
- June 2023 - I successfully defended my PhD thesis! [Slides] [Thesis]
- December 2022 - One journal article was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.
- Sept 2022 - I will be visiting the University of Texas at Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.
- Aug 2022 - I got PREMIA Best Student Paper Award!
- May 2022 - One journal article was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.
- November 2021 - One journal article was accepted by Speech Communication.
- September 2021 - One paper was accepted by IEEE ASRU 2021
- August 2021 - I have successfully passed PhD Qualification Exam! [Slide]
- June 2021 - One paper was accepted by Interspeech 2021, Brno, Czech. [paper][Speech Samples][poster]
- January 2021 - One paper was accepted by IEEE ICASSP 2021, Toronto, Canada. [paper][slides][poster]
- Novemeber 2020 - One paper was accepted by IEEE SLT 2021, Shenzhen, China. [paper][slides]
- October 2020 - Two papers were accepted by APSIPA 2020, Auckland, New Zealand. [paper][paper]
- July 2020 - One paper was accepted by Interspeech 2020, Shanghai, China. [paper][code]
- March 2020 - One paper was accepted by Speaker Odyssey 2020, Tokyo, Japan. [paper][code]
- December 2019 - I was appointed as local arrangement co-chair of IEEE ASRU 2019, Sentosa, Singapore.
Experiences
- Mar 2023 - June 2023, University of Bremen, Visiting Scholar, Bremen, Germany. (Supervisor: Prof. Tanja Schultz)
- Sept 2022 - Jan 2023, The University of Texas at Dallas, Visiting Scholar, Texas, U.S.A. (Supervisor: Prof. John Hansen, Assistant Prof. Berrak Sisman)
- Aug 2019 - Present, National University of Singapore, PhD student, Singapore. (Main Supervisor: Prof. Haizhou Li; Co-Supervisor: Assistant Prof. Berrak Sisman)
- Aug 2018 - May 2019, National University of Singapore, Master student, Singapore. (Main Supervisor: Prof. Haizhou Li; Co-Supervisor: Dr. Emre Yilmaz)
- Sept 2017 - May 2018, National University of Singapore Research Institution (Suzhou), Research student, Suzhou, China.
- Sept 2014 - June 2018, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Undergraduate student, Chengdu, China.
Selected Publications [Google Scholar]
- Speech Synthesis with Mixed Emotions [Pretprint]
Kun Zhou, Berrak Sisman, Rajib Rana, Bjorn Schuller, Haizhou Li. (IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing) - Emotion Intensity and its Control for Emotional Voice Conversion [Pretprint][Postprint]
Kun Zhou, Berrak Sisman, Rajib Rana, Bjorn Schuller, Haizhou Li. (IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing) - Emotional Voice Conversion: Theory, Databases and ESD [Postprint]
Kun Zhou, Berrak Sisman, Rui Liu, Haizhou Li. (Speech Communication) - Limited Data Emotional Voice Conversion Leveraging Text-to-Speech: Two-Stage Sequence-to-Sequence Training [paper][Speech Samples][poster]
Kun Zhou, Berrak Sisman, Haizhou Li. (22th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech) 2021, Brno, Czech) - Seen and Unseen Emotional Style Transfer for Voice Conversion with a New Emotional Speech Dataset [paper][slides][poster]
Kun Zhou, Berrak Sisman, Rui Liu, Haizhou Li. (IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2021, Toronto, Canada) - VAW-GAN for Disentanglement and Recomposition of Emotional Elements in Speech [paper][slides]
Kun Zhou, Berrak Sisman, Haizhou Li. (IEEE Spoken Language Workshop (SLT) 2021, Shenzhen, China) - Converting Anyone's Emotion: Towards Speaker-Independent Emotional Voice Conversion [paper][code]
Kun Zhou, Berrak Sisman, Mingyang Zhang, Haizhou Li. (21th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech) 2020, Shanghai, China) - Transforming Spectrum and Prosody for Emotional Voice Conversion with Non-Parallel Training Data [paper][code]
Kun Zhou, Berrak Sisman, Haizhou Li. (Speaker Odyssey 2020, Tokyo, Japan)
Honors & Awards
Professional Services
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Local Arrangment Co-chair
- Reviewer
Invited Talk
Languages
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Chinese, English, German
Address
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Address:
4 Engineering Drive 3
Block E4, #06-20
Singapore, 117583