Taniya Mishra, PhD Student Center for Spoken Language Understanding (CSLU) Department of Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) OGI School of Science & Engineering at OHSU address: 20000 NW Walker Road, Beaverton, Oregon 97006 email: mishra at bme dot ogi dot edu phone: (503) 748-7491
Current Research	My research area is text-to-speech synthesis. I am specially focused on mathematical modeling of prosody. My current research project is prosody generation for child-oriented speech synthesis. Advisor: Dr. Jan van Santen
Education	BA in Mathematics and Computer Science Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, Winona, MN 2001
Publications	Mishra, T., Tucker Prud'hommeaux, E., and van Santen, J. (2007). Word accentuation prediction using a neural net classifier. Proceedings of the 6th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, Bonn, Germany. Klabbers, E., Mishra, T., and van Santen, J. (2007). Analysis of affective speech recordings using the superpositional intonation model. Proceedings of the 6th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, Bonn, Germany. Mishra, T., Klabbers, E., and van Santen, J. (2006). Decomposition of pitch curves in the general superpositional model. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2006, Dresden, Germany. Campillo, F., Mishra, T., van Santen, J., and Banga, E. (2006). A method for avoiding F0 discontinuities in a concatenative intonation model. IV Jornadas en Tecnologia del Habla, pp. 167-170. van Santen, J., Klabbers, E., and Mishra, T. (2006). Towards measurement of pitch alignment. Italian Journal of Linguistics. Special issue on Autosegmental-metrical approaches to intonation in Europe: tonal targets and anchors. van Santen, J., Kain, A., Klabbers, E., and Mishra, T. (2005). Synthesis of prosody using multi-level unit sequences. Speech Communication, 46(3-4), pp. 365-375. van Santen, J., Mishra, T., and Klabbers, E. (2004). Estimating phrase curves in the general superpositional model. Proceedings of the 5th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, Pittsburgh, PA. Klabbers, E., Mishra, T., and van Santen, J. (2003). Detection of list-type sentences. Proceedings of Eurospeech-2003, pp. 2477-2480, Geneva, Switzerland. van Santen, J., Black, L., Cohen, G., Kain, A., Klabbers, E., Mishra, T., de Villiers, J., and Niu, X. (2003). Applications of computer generated expressive speech for communication disorders. Proceedings of Eurospeech-2003, pp. 1657-1600, Geneva, Switzerland. Hosom, J. P., Kain, A., Mishra, T., van Santen, J., Fried-Oken, M., and Staehely, J. (2003). Intelligibility of modifications to dysarthric speech. Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP-2003), Vol. I, pp. 878-881. Mishra, T., and van Santen, J. (2002). Pitch prediction from loudness contour. Abstract for poster presentation, Grace Hopper Conference for Women in Computing, Vancouver, British Columbia.
News	June 29, 2007: I successfully passed my thesis proposal defense! March 26, 2005: I got married to Richard Nathan Linger, fellow student, best friend and my chief reheater of food! May 2003: I passed the Research Proficiency Exam!
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