International Audio Laboratories Erlangen

Publications

1. Frank Zalkow, Paolo Sani, Kishor Kayyar Lakshminarayana, Emanuël A. P. Habets, Nicola Pia, and Christian Dittmar
   Bridging the Training–Inference Gap in TTS: Training Strategies for Robust Generative Postprocessing for Low-Resource Speakers
   In Proc. Interspeech Conf.: 2470–2474, 2025. Bibtex DOI

   @inproceedings{zalkow25_genpostproc_interspeech,
   title     = {{Bridging the Training–Inference Gap in TTS: Training Strategies for Robust Generative Postprocessing for Low-Resource Speakers}},
   author    = {{Frank Zalkow and Paolo Sani and Kishor {Kayyar Lakshminarayana} and Emanuël A. P. Habets and Nicola Pia and Christian Dittmar}},
   year      = {{2025}},
   booktitle = interspeech,
   pages     = {{2470--2474}},
   doi       = {{10.21437/Interspeech.2025-854}},
   issn      = {{2958-1796}},
   }

2. Anna Leschanowsky, Kishor Kayyar Lakshminarayana, Anjana Rajasekhar, Lyonel Behringer, Ibrahim Kilinc, Guillaume Fuchs, and Emanuël A. P. Habets
   Benchmarking Neural Speech Codec Intelligibility with SITool
   In Proc. Interspeech Conf.: 5488–5492, 2025. Bibtex DOI

   @inproceedings{leschanowsky25_sitool_interspeech,
   title     = {{Benchmarking Neural Speech Codec Intelligibility with SITool}},
   author    = {{Anna Leschanowsky and Kishor {Kayyar Lakshminarayana} and Anjana Rajasekhar and Lyonel Behringer and Ibrahim Kilinc and Guillaume Fuchs and Emanuël A. P. Habets}},
   year      = {{2025}},
   booktitle = interspeech,
   pages     = {{5488--5492}},
   doi       = {{10.21437/Interspeech.2025-984}},
   issn      = {{2958-1796}},
   }

3. Kishor Kayyar Lakshminarayana, Frank Zalkow, Christian Dittmar, Nicola Pia, and Emanuël Habets
   Low-Resource Text-to-Speech Synthesis Using Noise-Augmented Training of ForwardTacotron
   In Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP): 1–5, 2025. Bibtex DOI

   @inproceedings{kayyar25_lowres_icassp,
   author={Kishor {Kayyar Lakshminarayana} and Frank Zalkow and Christian Dittmar and Nicola Pia  and Emanuël Habets},
   booktitle=icassp,
   title={Low-Resource Text-to-Speech Synthesis Using Noise-Augmented Training of ForwardTacotron},
   year={2025},
   volume={},
   number={},
   pages={1-5},
   keywords={Training;Adaptation models;Computational modeling;Noise;Natural languages;Data models;Acoustics;Text to speech;Computational efficiency},
   doi={10.1109/ICASSP49660.2025.10890686}}

4. Kishor Kayyar Lakshminarayana, Christian Dittmar, Nicola Pia, and Emanuël Habets
   Multi-Speaker Text-to-Speech Using ForwardTacotron with Improved Duration Prediction
   In Speech Communication; 15th ITG Conference: 186–190, 2023. Bibtex DOI

   @inproceedings{kayyar23_dur_itg,
   author={Kishor {Kayyar Lakshminarayana} and Christian Dittmar and Nicola Pia and Emanuël Habets},
   booktitle={Speech Communication; 15th ITG Conference},
   title={Multi-Speaker Text-to-Speech Using ForwardTacotron with Improved Duration Prediction},
   year={2023},
   volume={},
   number={},
   pages={186-190},
   doi={10.30420/456164036}}

5. Frank Zalkow, Paolo Sani, Michael Fast, Judith Bauer, Mohammad Joshaghani, Kishor Kayyar Lakshminarayana, Emanuël Habets, and Christian Dittmar
   The AudioLabs System for the Blizzard Challenge 2023
   In Proc. 18th Blizzard Challenge Workshop: 63–68, 2023. Bibtex DOI

   @inproceedings{zalkow23_blizzard,
   author={Frank Zalkow and Paolo Sani and Michael Fast and Judith Bauer and Mohammad Joshaghani and Kishor {Kayyar Lakshminarayana} and Emanuël Habets and Christian Dittmar},
   title={{The AudioLabs System for the Blizzard Challenge 2023}},
   year=2023,
   booktitle={Proc. 18th Blizzard Challenge Workshop},
   pages={63--68},
   doi={10.21437/Blizzard.2023-8}
   }

6. Kishor Kayyar Lakshminarayana, Christian Dittmar, Nicola Pia, and Emanuël Habets
   Low-Resource Text-to-Speech Using Specific Data and Noise Augmentation
   In Proc. European Signal Processing Conf. (EUSIPCO): 61–65, 2023. Bibtex DOI

   @inproceedings{kayyar23_eusipco,
   author={Kishor {Kayyar Lakshminarayana} and Christian Dittmar and Nicola Pia and Emanuël Habets},
   booktitle=eusipco,
   title={Low-Resource Text-to-Speech Using Specific Data and Noise Augmentation},
   year={2023},
   pages={61-65},
   doi={10.23919/EUSIPCO58844.2023.10289912}
   }

7. Kishor Kayyar Lakshminarayana, Christian Dittmar, Nicola Pia, and Emanuel Habets
   Subjective Evaluation of Text-to-Speech Models: Comparing Absolute Category Rating and Ranking by Elimination Tests
   In Proc. ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop: 191–196, 2023. Bibtex DOI

   @inproceedings{kayyar23_ssw,
   author={Kishor {Kayyar Lakshminarayana} and Christian Dittmar and Nicola Pia and Emanuel Habets},
   title={{Subjective Evaluation of Text-to-Speech Models: Comparing Absolute Category Rating and Ranking by Elimination Tests}},
   year=2023,
   booktitle=ssw,
   pages={191--196},
   doi={10.21437/SSW.2023-30}
   }

8. Daniele Mirabilii, Kishor Kayyar Lakshminarayana, Wolfgang Mack, and Emanuel Habets
   Data-driven wind speed estimation using multiple microphones
   In Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP): 576–580, 2020. Bibtex

   @inproceedings{Mirabilii2020a,
   author={Daniele Mirabilii and  Kishor {Kayyar Lakshminarayana} and  Wolfgang Mack and  Emanuel Habets},
   title={Data-driven wind speed estimation using multiple microphones},
   booktitle = icassp,
   year = {2020},
   address   = {Spain},
   pages={ 576--580},
   }