Yajie Zhang

An Evaluation of Test for English Majors-Band 8 (TEM8) in Mainland China

2025

TEM8 is a proficiency test designed specifically for English majors, assessing listening, reading, proofreading and error correction, translation, and writing skills. This study begins with a literature review on the purposes of language testing, reliability, …

Learning Latent Representations for Style Control and Transfer in End-to-end Speech Synthesis

2019

In this paper, we introduce the Variational Autoencoder (VAE) to an end-to-end speech synthesis model, to learn the latent representation of speaking styles in an unsupervised manner. The style representation learned through VAE shows good …