Michael W. Macon

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 858 citations indexed

About

Michael W. Macon is a scholar working on Signal Processing, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael W. Macon has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 858 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Signal Processing, 19 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 5 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Michael W. Macon's work include Speech Recognition and Synthesis (19 papers), Speech and Audio Processing (17 papers) and Music and Audio Processing (11 papers). Michael W. Macon is often cited by papers focused on Speech Recognition and Synthesis (19 papers), Speech and Audio Processing (17 papers) and Music and Audio Processing (11 papers). Michael W. Macon collaborates with scholars based in United States and Canada. Michael W. Macon's co-authors include Alexander Kain, Johan Wouters, Mark A. Clements, Jan Wouters, E.B. George, John-Paul Hosom, Ronald A. Cole, Edward Kaiser, Yonghong Yan and Michael Cohen and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing and Journal of the Audio Engineering Society.

In The Last Decade

Michael W. Macon

21 papers receiving 704 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
Michael W. Macon United States 12 713 637 139 132 50 24 858
Denis Jouvet France 13 775 1.1× 627 1.0× 111 0.8× 157 1.2× 30 0.6× 87 940
Levent M. Arslan Türkiye 17 722 1.0× 657 1.0× 131 0.9× 211 1.6× 24 0.5× 69 925
Antonio Bonafonte Spain 22 1.2k 1.7× 879 1.4× 238 1.7× 414 3.1× 66 1.3× 113 1.5k
Juergen Schroeter United States 14 672 0.9× 537 0.8× 136 1.0× 324 2.5× 128 2.6× 39 867
Yoshinori Sagisaka Japan 19 1.1k 1.5× 618 1.0× 114 0.8× 363 2.8× 21 0.4× 156 1.4k
Alberto Abad Portugal 15 423 0.6× 384 0.6× 116 0.8× 94 0.7× 44 0.9× 101 736
Gilles Degottex Greece 11 501 0.7× 385 0.6× 111 0.8× 270 2.0× 73 1.5× 28 744
Eva Navas Spain 16 692 1.0× 716 1.1× 116 0.8× 356 2.7× 74 1.5× 87 958
Pegah Ghahremani United States 12 1.1k 1.6× 901 1.4× 65 0.5× 136 1.0× 42 0.8× 18 1.3k
John Dines Switzerland 18 755 1.1× 517 0.8× 66 0.5× 87 0.7× 12 0.2× 58 903

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael W. Macon

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Macon, Michael W.. (2018). OGIresLPC : Diphone synthesizer using residual-excited linear prediction. OHSU Digital Commons.
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Wouters, Johan & Michael W. Macon. (2002). Effects of prosodic factors on spectral dynamics. I. Analysis. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 111(1). 417–427. 30 indexed citations
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Macon, Michael W. & Mark A. Clements. (2002). Speech concatenation and synthesis using an overlap-add sinusoidal model. 1. 361–364. 17 indexed citations
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Macon, Michael W., et al.. (2002). A singing voice synthesis system based on sinusoidal modeling. 1. 435–438. 30 indexed citations
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Wouters, Johan & Michael W. Macon. (2002). Effects of prosodic factors on spectral dynamics. II. Synthesis. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 111(1). 428–438. 8 indexed citations
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Kain, Alexander & Michael W. Macon. (2002). Design and evaluation of a voice conversion algorithm based on spectral envelope mapping and residual prediction. 2. 813–816. 81 indexed citations
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Wouters, Jan & Michael W. Macon. (2002). Spectral modification for concatenative speech synthesis. 2. II941–II944. 4 indexed citations
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Kain, Alexander & Michael W. Macon. (2002). Spectral voice conversion for text-to-speech synthesis. 1. 285–288. 380 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wouters, Jan & Michael W. Macon. (2001). Control of spectral dynamics in concatenative speech synthesis. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing. 9(1). 30–38. 39 indexed citations
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Santen, Jan P. H. van, Michael W. Macon, John-Paul Hosom, et al.. (2000). When will synthetic speech sound human: role of rules and data. vol. 3, 402–409. 3 indexed citations
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Wouters, Johan & Michael W. Macon. (2000). Unit fusion for concatenative speech synthesis. vol. 3, 302–305. 8 indexed citations
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Wouters, Johan, et al.. (1999). Authoring tools for speech synthesis using the sable markup standard. 963–966. 3 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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Macon, Michael W., et al.. (1998). Generalization and discrimination in tree-structured unit selection.. SSW. 195–200. 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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Wouters, Johan & Michael W. Macon. (1998). A perceptual evaluation of distance measures for concatenative speech synthesis. paper 0905–0. 46 indexed citations
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Sutton, Stephen, Ronald A. Cole, Johan Schalkwyk, et al.. (1998). Universal speech tools: the CSLU toolkit. paper 0649–0. 108 indexed citations
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Kossentini, F., Michael W. Macon, & M.J.T. Smith. (1998). Audio coding using variable-depth multistage quantization. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing. 6(2). 186–189. 1 indexed citations
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Macon, Michael W., et al.. (1997). Concatenation-Based MIDI-to-Singing Voice Synthesis. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. 22 indexed citations
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Macon, Michael W. & Mark A. Clements. (1997). Sinusoidal modeling and modification of unvoiced speech. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing. 5(6). 557–560. 31 indexed citations

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