Lester Phillip Violeta
Scholar

Lester Phillip Violeta

Google Scholar ID: iN-bKpcAAAAJ
Nagoya University
Speech RecognitionVoice ConversionSpeech Synthesis
Citations & Impact
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Citations
223
 
H-index
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i10-index
6
 
Publications
16
 
Co-authors
5
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Preprint 2025: Serenade: A Singing Style Conversion Framework Based on Audio Infilling
  • ICASSP 2024: Electrolaryngeal Speech Intelligibility Enhancement through Robust Linguistic Encoders
  • IEEE/ACM TASLP 2024: Pretraining and Adaptation Techniques for Electrolaryngeal Speech Recognition
  • Technical Report 2024: A Preliminary Investigation on Flexible Singing Voice Synthesis Through Decomposed Framework with Inferrable Features
  • ASRU 2023: The Singing Voice Conversion Challenge 2023
  • APSIPA 2023: An Analysis of Personalized Speech Recognition System Development for the Deaf and Hard-of-hearing
  • ICASSP 2023: Intermediate Fine-tuning Using Imperfect Synthetic Speech for Improving Electrolaryngeal Speech Recognition
  • Interspeech 2022: Investigating Self-Supervised Pretraining Frameworks for Pathological Speech Recognition
Background
  • Research Interests: Speech synthesis, particularly with electrolaryngeal speech data and singing voice data. Background: Ph.D. candidate at Nagoya University, Japan, under the supervision of Professor Tomoki Toda. Involved in various academic activities, including co-organizing the 2023 Singing Voice Conversion Challenge.
Miscellany
  • Personal interests include bouldering and learning Japanese. Has an international background, studying in Japan, completed undergraduate studies in the Philippines, and had a research exchange in France.