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Researcher

Chiu-yu Tseng

Also known as Tseng Chiu-yu

Chiu-yu Tseng is a speech researcher whose corpus work on Mandarin prosody supports speech synthesis and recognition. She earned a linguistics PhD at Brown University in 1981 and served as a postdoctoral research fellow at UC Santa Cruz from September 1981 to June 1982. From 1994 to 2005, she and her Phonetics Lab team designed, collected and annotated Sinica COSPRO; in 2006 she presented a hierarchical prosody model with acoustic templates for speech synthesis. She led ISCA's SIG-CSLP and convened Oriental-COCOSDA, received ELRA's Antonio Zampolli Prize in 2012, and became an ISCA Fellow in 2016; in November 2024, she moderated NTNU's Distinguished Lectures Series launch as a researcher from Academia Sinica.

Works
105
Citations
1,208
h-index
19
Badges

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 19 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 1981

    A Brown linguistics doctorate

    She earns a PhD in linguistics from Brown University in 1981.

  2. 1981–1982

    Postdoctoral work at Santa Cruz

    From September 1981 to June 1982, she serves as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Program in Experimental Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

  3. 1994–2005

    Building Sinica COSPRO

    From 1994 to 2005, she and her research group at the Phonetics Lab, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, design, collect and annotate the Mandarin Continuous Speech Prosody Corpora and Toolkit for phonetic research, speech synthesis and recognition.

  4. 2004–2012

    Leading speech organizations

    She serves as vice chair of ISCA's SIG-CSLP from 2004 to 2008 and as its chair from 2008 to 2012; she also convenes Oriental-COCOSDA from 2006 to 2012.

  5. 2006

    A modular speech-synthesis model

    In 2006, she presents a hierarchical model of discourse prosody that derives acoustic templates for prosodic units and supports four speech-synthesis modules.

  6. 2012

    An ELRA prize

    In 2012, ELRA awards her the Antonio Zampolli Prize for contributions to language resources and language technology evaluation.

  7. 2016

    An ISCA Fellowship

    In 2016, she becomes the first female scholar and second Taiwanese to receive an ISCA Fellowship, for corpus-based prosody analysis and modeling and service to speech and language communities.

  8. November 2024

    Researcher at Academia Sinica

    In November 2024, she moderates the launch of NTNU's Distinguished Lectures Series as a researcher from Academia Sinica.

Career

  1. 1994–2024Academia SinicaResearcher
  2. 1981–1982University of California, Santa CruzPostdoctoral research fellow

Education

  1. 1981Brown UniversityPhD

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

Most-cited works

  1. Fluent speech prosody: Framework and modeling2005 · Speech Communication · 148 citations
  2. Towards a Pan-Mandarin System for Prosodic Transcription2005 · 107 citationsWith Mary Beckman
  3. An Acoustic phonetic study on Tones in Mandarin Chinese1981 · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 81 citations
  4. The synthesis rules in a Chinese text-to-speech system1989 · IEEE Transactions on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing · 79 citationsWith Lin-shan Lee
  5. Isolated-utterance speech recognition using hidden Markov models with bounded state durations1991 · IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing · 65 citationsWith Lin-shan Lee

From OpenAlex, as of 19 October 2026.

  1. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers rose from 2% to 32%Includes Academia Sinica. We estimate where leading AI researchers worked when their most-cited papers appeared. The company share rose from 2% in 1975–1979 to 32% in 2020–2024.
  2. Stanford University trained or employed 20 of the 89 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Brown University. Stanford University trained or employed 20 of the 89 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and employment links for major-prize and best-paper winners.
  3. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes Brown University. Our estimates of where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led, from education records in cited biographies.
  4. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes Brown University. Our estimates of combined and median h-index at AI organizations, using current affiliations and OpenAlex records.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica ling.sinica.edu.tw. Checked 19 October 2026.
  2. LINGUIST List 26.4036: FYI: Sinica COSPRO & Toolkit Release Announcement linguistlist.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  3. ISCA Archive - Fluent speech prosody and discourse organization: evidence of top-down governing and implications to speech technology isca-archive.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  4. Dr. Chiu-yu Tseng Elected 2016 Fellow of International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) ling.sinica.edu.tw. Checked 19 October 2026.
  5. Chiu-yu Tseng from English Dept. Becomes Fellow of ISCA en.ntnu.edu.tw. Checked 19 October 2026.
  6. Distinguished Lectures Series Showcases Global Expertise en.ntnu.edu.tw. Checked 19 October 2026.