Xiaochuan Niu, Jan P.H. van Santen,
"Dual-Channel Acoustic Detection of
Nasalization States",
Interspeech'2007 - the 10th EUROSPEECH, August, 2007. (pdf, poster).
Xiaochuan Niu, Alexander B. Kain, Jan P.H.
van Santen, "A Noninvasive, Low-cost
Device to Study the Velopharyngeal Port During Speech
and Some Preliminary Results",
Interspeech'2006 - the 9th ICSLP, September
2006. (pdf, poster).
Qi Miao, Xiaochuan Niu, Esther Klabbers, Jan P.H.
van Santen, "Effects of Prosodic Factors
on Spectral Balance: Analysis and Synthesis",
the 3rd International Conference on Speech Prosody, May
2006. (pdf).
Xiaochuan Niu, Alexander B. Kain, Jan P.H.
van Santen, "Estimation of the
Acoustic Properties of the Nasal Tract
during the Production of Nasalized Vowels".
Interspeech'2005 - the 9th EUROSPEECH, September
2005. (pdf, poster).
Alexander B. Kain, Xiaochuan Niu, John-Paul Hosom, Qi Miao, Jan P.H.
van Santen, "Formant Re-synthesis of
Dysarthric Speech", the 5th IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis, June
2004. (pdf).
Xiaochuan Niu, Jan P.H. van Santen, "A formant-trajectory model and its usage
in comparing coarticulatory effects in dysarthric and normal speech",
the 3rd International Workshop on Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions
for Biomedical Applications (MAVEBA), Firenze, Italy, 2003. (pdf).
Jan P.H. van Santen, Lois Black, Gilead Cohen, Alexander B. Kain,
Esther Klabbers, Taniya Mishra, Jacques de Villiers, Xiaochuan Niu, "Applications of computer generated
expressive speech for communication disorders", the 8th EUROSPEECH,
August 2003. (pdf).
Jan P.H. van Santen, Xiaochuan Niu, "Prediction and Synthesis
of Prosodic Effects on Spectral Balance of Vowels", the 4th IEEE
Workshop on Speech Synthesis, Santa Monica, CA, 2002. (pdf).
Xiaochuan Niu, Liqin Shen, Weibin Zhu, Qin Shi, "Modeling and
Decision Tree based Prediction of Pitch Contour in IBM Mandarin Speech
Synthesis System", International Symposium on Chinese Spoken
Language Processing
(ISCSLP), Beijing, 2000. (pdf).
Weibin Zhu, Liqin Shen, Xiaochuan Niu, "Duration Modeling for
Chinese Synthesis From C-TOBI Labeled Corpus", the 6th International
Conference on Spoken Language
Processing (ICSLP), Beijing, 2000. (pdf).
Xiaochuan Niu, Bo Xu, "Research and Experiments on the Speaker
Adaptation Methods and Strategy" (in Chinese), the 5th Conference
of Man-Machine Speech Communication (NCMMSC), 1998. (pdf).
Journals
Alexander B. Kain, John-Paul Hosom, Xiaochuan Niu, Jan P.H. van Santen,
Melanie Fried-Oken, Janice Staehely, "Improving the Intelligibility of Dysarthric Speech", Speech Communication, Vol. 49, No. 9, September 2007, PP 743-759. (pdf).
Master's Thesis
Xiaochuan Niu, "Research on Speaker Adaptation Methods
and Strategy in a Chinese Speech Recognition System" (in
Chinese).
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1998. (pdf).
Doctorial Dissertation
Xiaochuan Niu, "Measurement, Analysis, and Detection
of Nasalization During Speech". OGI School of Science and
Engineering, OHSU. 2008.