Feng Ding

Senior Researcher, Machine Learning
NRC Beijing

Research Interests

  • Mobile context mining, behavior based data mining
  • Speech synthesis: Low footprint methods, Unit election methods, Hidden Markov based methods
  • Speech recognition: Acoustic Modeling, mainly HMM modeling
  • Speech signal processing, Natural language processing, Information extraction, Chinese word segmentation, Part-of-Speech tagging, Dialogue management

Research Projects

  • User bevavior data-driven segmentation
  • Message dictation
  • High Quality Text-To-Speech
  • Name dialling
  • Low footprint speech synthesis

Personal Information

Please contact me at feng.f.ding@nokia.com or feng.f.ding@gmail.com

Publications

In last three years

  • Jingwei Sun; Feng Ding; Yahui Wu, A polynomial segment model based statistical parametric speech synthesis system, 2009 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing 
  • Feng Ding, Jani Nurminen, Jilei Tian, Efficient Join Cost Computation for Unit Selection based TTS Systems, 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association , Interspeech 2008, Brisbane. 
  • Feng Ding, Jari Alhonen, NTTS participation in the Blizzard Challenge 2008, Blizzard workshop 2008, Brisbane.
  • Feng Ding, Jari Alhonen, Non-uniform Unit Selection through Search Strategy for Blizzard Challenge 2007, Blizzard workshop 2007, Bonn.

Patents

  • Tone estimation for name  
  • High quality Thai text-to-phoneme converter