Alexander Kain

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
60 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Alexander Kain is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Signal Processing and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Kain has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 34 papers in Signal Processing and 23 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Alexander Kain's work include Speech Recognition and Synthesis (41 papers), Speech and Audio Processing (34 papers) and Phonetics and Phonology Research (23 papers). Alexander Kain is often cited by papers focused on Speech Recognition and Synthesis (41 papers), Speech and Audio Processing (34 papers) and Phonetics and Phonology Research (23 papers). Alexander Kain collaborates with scholars based in United States, Taiwan and Netherlands. Alexander Kain's co-authors include Michael W. Macon, Seyed Hamidreza Mohammadi, Jan P. H. van Santen, John-Paul Hosom, Melanie Fried‐Oken, Kris Tjaden, Esther Klabbers, Jennifer Lam, Meysam Asgari and Yannis Stylianou and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research and Annals of Otology Rhinology & Laryngology.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Kain

59 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Spectral voice conversion for text-to-speech synthesis 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Spectral voice conversion for text-to-speech synthesis
    2002 380 citations Alexander Kain, Michael W. Macon profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alexander Kain United States 15 1.1k 996 264 226 160 60 1.3k
Christophe d’Alessandro France 16 691 0.6× 559 0.6× 502 1.9× 415 1.8× 150 0.9× 88 1.1k
Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri Finland 17 633 0.6× 617 0.6× 257 1.0× 292 1.3× 60 0.4× 80 884
Gilles Degottex Greece 11 501 0.5× 385 0.4× 270 1.0× 73 0.3× 111 0.7× 28 744
Bert Cranen Netherlands 14 457 0.4× 364 0.4× 184 0.7× 171 0.8× 58 0.4× 68 689
Jean Schoentgen Belgium 18 514 0.5× 425 0.4× 348 1.3× 636 2.8× 52 0.3× 126 974
Ikuyo Masuda-Katsuse Japan 3 1.1k 1.0× 1.1k 1.1× 367 1.4× 72 0.3× 111 0.7× 9 1.4k
Florian Hönig Germany 16 500 0.4× 293 0.3× 264 1.0× 389 1.7× 119 0.7× 32 873
Barış Bozkurt Türkiye 16 393 0.4× 669 0.7× 135 0.5× 134 0.6× 295 1.8× 57 940
Christophe Veaux France 13 753 0.7× 791 0.8× 105 0.4× 68 0.3× 133 0.8× 35 1.1k
Juergen Schroeter United States 14 672 0.6× 537 0.5× 324 1.2× 128 0.6× 136 0.8× 39 867

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alexander Kain

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexander Kain

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alexander Kain. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alexander Kain based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alexander Kain. Alexander Kain is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Stipancic, Kaila L., et al.. (2022). Clear Speech Variants: An Investigation of Intelligibility and Speaker Effort in Speakers With Parkinson's Disease. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 31(6). 2789–2805. 11 indexed citations
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Kain, Alexander, et al.. (2021). Investigating Acoustic Correlates of Intelligibility Gains and Losses During Slowed Speech: A Hybridization Approach. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 30(3S). 1343–1360. 4 indexed citations
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Dinh, Tuan, Alexander Kain, Robin A. Samlan, Beiming Cao, & Jun Wang. (2020). Increasing the Intelligibility and Naturalness of Alaryngeal Speech Using Voice Conversion and Synthetic Fundamental Frequency. 4781–4785. 9 indexed citations
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Dinh, Tuan, Alexander Kain, & Kris Tjaden. (2019). Using a Manifold Vocoder for Spectral Voice and Style Conversion. 1388–1392. 3 indexed citations
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Bedrick, Steven, et al.. (2017). Automatic analysis of pronunciations for children with speech sound disorders. Computer Speech & Language. 50. 62–84. 20 indexed citations
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Kain, Alexander, et al.. (2017). A Comparison of Sentence-Level Speech Intelligibility Metrics. 1148–1152. 1 indexed citations
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Mohammadi, Seyed Hamidreza & Alexander Kain. (2017). An overview of voice conversion systems. Speech Communication. 88. 65–82. 176 indexed citations
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Mohammadi, Seyed Hamidreza & Alexander Kain. (2015). Semi-supervised training of a voice conversion mapping function using a joint-autoencoder. 284–288. 5 indexed citations
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Kain, Alexander, et al.. (2014). Modeling coarticulation in continuous speech. 193–197. 2 indexed citations
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Hosom, John-Paul, et al.. (2013). Determining the relevance of different aspects of formant contours to intelligibility. Speech Communication. 59. 1–9. 6 indexed citations
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Kain, Alexander & Todd K. Leen. (2010). Compression of line spectral frequency parameters using the asynchronous interpolation model.. SSW. 49–54. 1 indexed citations
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Kain, Alexander & Jan P. H. van Santen. (2010). Frequency-domain delexicalization using surrogate vowels. 474–477. 3 indexed citations
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Kain, Alexander, et al.. (2007). Spectral control in concatenative speech synthesis.. SSW. 11–16. 3 indexed citations
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Kain, Alexander & Jan P. H. van Santen. (2007). Unit-selection text-to-speech synthesis using an asynchronous interpolation model.. SSW. 172–177. 7 indexed citations
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Kain, Alexander, et al.. (2004). Formant re-synthesis of dysarthric speech.. SSW. 25–30. 22 indexed citations
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Kain, Alexander & Jan P. H. van Santen. (2004). Compression of acoustic inventories using asynchronous interpolation. 83–86. 6 indexed citations
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Kain, Alexander, et al.. (2000). Metaphor for learning: an evolutionary algorithm. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 734–741. 1 indexed citations
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Kain, Alexander & Michael W. Macon. (1998). Personalizing a speech synthesizer by voice adaptation.. SSW. 225–230. 11 indexed citations
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Kain, Alexander & Michael W. Macon. (1998). Text-to-speech voice adaptation from sparse training data. paper 0902–0. 8 indexed citations

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