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	Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 95 Zhongguancun East Road
	Beijing
	100190
	P.R.China

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Dr. Jianhua Tao is a professor of institute of automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his Bs and Ms from Nanjing University in 1993 and 1996, and got PhD from Tsinghua University in 2001. He is currently a Professor in NLPR, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His current research interests include speech synthesis, speaker characters analysis, affective information processing and multimedia integration. Main on-going research works include: “Expressive speech synthesis system”(NSFC), “Spontaneous Speech Generation in Natural Human Computer Interaction”(863), “High performance distributed speech synthesis and recognition engine”(863), “The evaluation system of Chinese information processing”(863), “Multilingual speech synthesis system”, “emotional speech synthesis and classification”, “text independent voice conversion”, etc. He has published more than sixty papers on major journals and proceedings including IEEE Trans. on ASLP, and got several awards from the important conferences, such as Eurospeech, NCMMSC, etc. He was also elected as the chair or program committee member for several major conferences, including ICPR, ACII, ICMI, EUROCON, ISCSLP, etc. Now, he is the Steering Committee Member of the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, the Editorial Board Member of International Journal on Synthetic Emotions and the International Journal on Multimodal User Interface, the vice director of Speech Information Processing Committee of Chinese Information Processing Society, the vice chairperson of special interest group of Chinese Spoken Language Processing in ISCA, the secretary-general of Chinese linguistic data association, executive committee member of HUMAINE association, the board member of Chinese Acoustic Society and the committee member of Chinese Virtual Reality Committee.

[1]Jianhua Tao, Meng Zhang, Jani Nurminen, Jilei Tian, Xia Wang, "Supervisory Data Alignment for Text-independent Voice Conversion", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Accepted for publishing in July, 2010.
[2]Jianhua Tao, Le Xin, Panrong Yin, "Realistic Visual Speech Synthesis based on Hybrid Concatenation Method", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 17, No. 3, March 2009, pp. 469-477.
[3]Jianhua Tao, Yongguo Kang, Aijun Li,"Prosody conversion from neutral speech to emotional speech", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Vol. 14, No. 4, July 2006, pp. 1145-1154.