Theses and Patents

• T.Drugman, Advances in Glottal Analysis and its Applications, PhD Thesis, University of Mons, Belgium, 2011

• T.Drugman, Feature Selection and Bimodal Integration for Audio-Visual Speech Recognition, Master Thesis, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2007

• T.Drugman, G. Wilfart, T.Dutoit, Speech Synthesis and Coding Methods, European patent EP 2242045 A1, PCT patent WO 2010/118953 A1, 2010

Speech Analysis

• T. Drugman, Y. Stylianou, Fast and Accurate Phase Unwrapping, Interspeech, 2015

• T. Drugman, Y. Stylianou, Fast Inter-Harmonic Reconstruction for Spectral Envelope Estimation in High-Pitched Voices, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 21, issue 11, pp. 1418-1422, 2014

• T. Drugman, Y. Stylianou, Maximum Voiced Frequency Estimation: Exploiting Amplitude and Phase Spectra, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 21, issue 10, pp. 1230-1234, 2014

• T.Drugman, P.Alku, A.Alwan, B.Yegnanarayana, Glottal Source Processing: from Analysis to Applications, Computer Speech and Language, 2014

• T.Drugman, J.Kane, C.Gobl, Data-driven Detection and Analysis of the Patterns of Creaky Voice, Computer Speech and Language, 2014

• G.Degottex, J.Kane, T.Drugman, T.Raitio, S.Scherer, COVAREP - A Collaborative Voice Analysis Repository for Speech Technologies, IEEE International Conference on Audio Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Florence, Italy, 2014

• T.Drugman, Maximum Phase Modeling for Sparse Linear Prediction of Speech, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 21, issue 2, pp. 185-189, 2014, link to the journal article.

• T.Drugman, Residual Excitation Skewness for Automatic Speech Polarity Detection, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 20, issue 4, pp. 387-390, 2013, link to the journal article.

• J.Kane, T.Drugman, C.Gobl, Improved automatic detection of creak, Computer Speech and Language, Volume 27, Issue 4, pp. 1028-1047, 2013, link to the journal article

• T.Drugman, T.Dutoit, Speech Polarity Determination: A Comparative Evaluation, Neurocomputing Journal, vol. 132, pp. 121-125, 2014, link to the journal article

• T.Drugman, J.Kane, C.Gobl, Resonator-based creaky voice detection, Interspeech12, Portland, Oregon, 2012

• T.Drugman, M.Thomas, J.Gudnason, P.Naylor, T.Dutoit, Detection of Glottal Closure Instants from Speech Signals: a Quantitative Review, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 20, Issue 3, pp. 994-1006, March 2012, link to the journal article

• T.Drugman, B.Bozkurt, T.Dutoit, A Comparative Study of Glottal Source Estimation Techniques, Computer Speech & Language, Elsevier, vol.26, issue 1, pp. 20-34, January 2012, link to the journal article

• T.Drugman, B.Bozkurt, T.Dutoit, Causal-anticausal Decomposition of Speech using Complex Cepstrum for Glottal Source Estimation, Speech Communication, Volume 53, Issue 6, pp. 855-866, July 2011, link to the journal article

• T.Drugman, A.Alwan, Joint Robust Voicing Detection and Pitch Estimation Based on Residual Harmonics, Interspeech, pp. 1973-1976, 2011

• T.Drugman, T.Dutoit, Chirp Complex Cepstrum-based Decomposition for Asynchronous Glottal Analysis, Interspeech, pp. 657-660, 2010

• T.Drugman, T.Dutoit, Glottal-based Analysis of the Lombard Effect, Interspeech, pp. 2610-2613, 2010

• T.Drugman, B.Bozkurt, T.Dutoit, Complex Cepstrum-based Decomposition of Speech for Glottal Source Estimation, Interspeech09, Brighton, U.K, 2009

• T.Drugman, T.Dutoit, Glottal Closure and Opening Instant Detection from Speech Signals, Interspeech09, Brighton, U.K, 2009

Speech Synthesis

• V.Klimkov, A.Nadolski, A.Moinet, B.Putrycz, R.Barra-Chicote, T.Merritt, T.Drugman, Phrase break prediction for long-form reading TTS: exploiting text structure information, Interspeech, Stockholm, 2017

• S.Brognaux, B.Picart, T.Drugman, Speech synthesis in various communicative situations: Impact of pronunciation variations, Interspeech, Singapore, 2014

• T.Drugman, T. Raitio, Excitation Modeling for HMM-based Speech Synthesis: Breaking Down the Impact of Periodic and Aperiodic Components, IEEE International Conference on Audio Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Florence, Italy, 2014

• S.Khorram, H.Sameti, F.Bahmaninezhad, S.King, T.Drugman, Context-Dependent Acoustic Modeling Based on Hidden Maximum Entropy Model for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis, EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, 2014

• B.Picart, T.Drugman, T.Dutoit, Automatic Variation of the Degree of Articulation in New HMM-Based Voices, IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 8, pp. 307-322, 2014, link to the journal article

• B.Picart, T.Drugman, T.Dutoit, Analysis and HMM-based Synthesis of Hypo and Hyperarticulated Speech, Computer Speech and Language Journal, Volume 28, Issue 2, pp. 687-707, March 2014, link to the journal article

• B.Picart, T.Drugman, T.Dutoit, HMM-based Speech Synthesis with Various Degrees of Articulation: a Perceptual Study, Neurocomputing Journal, vol. 132, pp. 142-147, 2014, link to the journal article

• B.Picart, S.Brognaux, T.Drugman, HMM-based Speech Synthesis of Live Sports Commentaries: Integration of a Two-Layer Prosody Annotation, 8th Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW8), Barcelona, Spain, pp. 19-24, 2013

• T.Raitio, J.Kane, T.Drugman, C.Gobl, HMM-based synthesis of creaky voice, Interspeech13, Lyon, France, 2013

• T.Drugman, J.Kane, T.Raitio, C.Gobl, Prediction of Creaky Voice from Contextual Factors, IEEE International Conference on Audio Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vancouver, Canada, pp. 7967-7971, 2013

• T.Drugman, J.Kane, C.Gobl, Modeling the Creaky Excitation for Parametric Speech Synthesis, Interspeech12, Portland, Oregon, 2012

• T.Drugman, T.Dutoit, The Deterministic plus Stochastic Model of the Residual Signal and its Applications, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 20, Issue 3, pp. 968-981, March 2012, link to the journal article

• B.Picart, T.Drugman, T.Dutoit, Continuous Control of the Degree of Articulation in HMM-based Speech Synthesis, Interspeech11, Firenze, Italy, 2011

• B.Picart, T.Drugman, T.Dutoit, Analysis and Synthesis of Hypo and Hyperarticulated Speech, 7th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop, Kyoto, Japan, 2010

• T.Drugman, G.Wilfart, T.Dutoit, A Deterministic plus Stochastic Model of the Residual Signal for Improved Parametric Speech Synthesis, Interspeech, pp. 1779-1782, 2009 [ISCA Best Student Paper award]

• T.Drugman, G.Wilfart, A.Moinet, T.Dutoit, Using a Pitch-Synchronous Residual Codebook for Hybrid HMM/frame Selection Speech Synthesis, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing 2009 (ICASSP09), Taipei, Taiwan, 2009

Other Applications in Voice Technologies

• T. Drugman, J. Pylkkoenen, R. Kneser, Active and Semi-Supervised Learning in ASR: Benefits on the Acoustic and Language Models, Interspeech, 2016

• J. Pylkkoenen, T. Drugman, M. Bisani, Optimizing Speech Recognition Evaluation Using Stratified Sampling, Interspeech, 2016

• S. Brognaux, T. Drugman, HMM-Based Speech Segmentation: Improvements of Fully Automatic Approaches, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 24, issue 1, pp. 5-15, 2015

• T. Drugman, Y. Stylianou, Y. Kida, M. Akamine, Voice Activity Detection: Merging Source and Filter-based Information, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2015

• T. Drugman, Y. Stylianou, L. Chen, X. Chen, M. Gales, Robust Excitation-based Features for Automatic Speech Recognition, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2015

• S.Brognaux, T.Drugman, Phonetic variations : Impact of the communicative situation, Speech Prosody, Dublin, Ireland, 2014

• S.Brognaux, T.Drugman, M.Saerens, Synthesizing sports commentaries: One or several emphatic stresses?, Speech Prosody, Dublin, Ireland, 2014

• S.Brognaux, B.Picart, T.Drugman, A New Prosody Annotation Protocol for Live Sports Commentaries, Interspeech13, Lyon, France, 2013

• E.Loweimi, S.M.Ahadi, T.Drugman, A New Phase-based Feature Representation for Robust Speech Recognition, IEEE International Conference on Audio Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vancouver, Canada, 2013

• T.Drugman, T.Dubuisson, T.Dutoit, Phase-based Information for Voice Pathology Detection, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing 2011 (ICASSP11), Prague, Czech Republic, 2011

• T.Drugman, T.Dutoit, On the Potential of Glottal Signatures for Speaker Recognition, Interspeech10, Makuhari, Japan, 2010

• T.Drugman, T.Dubuisson, T.Dutoit, On the Mutual Information between Source and Filter Contributions for Voice Pathology Detection, Interspeech09, Brighton, U.K, 2009

• M. Gurban, T.Drugman, JP.Thiran, T.Dutoit, Dynamic modality weighting for multi-stream HMMs in Audio-Visual Speech Recognition, 10th IEEE International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI08), Chania, Greece, October 20-22, 2008

• T.Drugman, M.Gurban, J-P.Thiran, Relevant Feature Selection for Audio-Visual Speech Recognition, IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP07), Chania, Creta, 2007

Biomedical Engineering

• T.Drugman, M. Rijckaert, C. Janssens, M. Remacle, Tracheoesophageal Speech: a Dedicated Objective Acoustic Assessment, Computer Speech and Language, 2014

• T.Drugman, Using Mutual Information in Supervised Temporal Event Detection: Application to Cough Detection, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, vol. 10C, pp. 50-57, 2014

• T.Drugman, J.Urbain, N.Bauwens, R.Chessini, C.Valderrama, P.Lebecque, T.Dutoit, Objective Study of Sensor Relevance for Automatic Cough Detection, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in BioMedicine, vol. 17, issue 3, pp. 699-707, 2013

• T.Drugman, J.Urbain, N.Bauwens, R.Chessini, A-S.Aubriot, P.Lebecque, T.Dutoit, Audio and Contact Microphones for Cough Detection, Interspeech12, Portland, Oregon, 2012

Singing and Music Signal Processing

• O.Babacan, T.Drugman, T.Raitio, D.Erro, T.Dutoit, Parametric Representation for Singing Voice Synthesis: a Comparative Evaluation, IEEE International Conference on Audio Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Florence, Italy, 2014

• O.Babacan, T.Drugman, N.d'Alessandro, N.Henrich, T.Dutoit, A Quantitative Comparison of Glottal Closure Instant Estimation Algorithms on a Large Variety of Singing Sounds, Interspeech13, Lyon, France, 2013

• O.Babacan, T.Drugman, N.d'Alessandro, N.Henrich, T.Dutoit, A comparative study of pitch extraction algorithms on a large variety of singing sounds, IEEE International Conference on Audio Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vancouver, Canada, 2013