The mass transfer process is prevalent during the inspiral phase of compact binary systems. Detection of gravitational waves from the inspiral phase of binaries with white dwarfs will allow us to measure the mass transfer rate. Mass transfer effects provide additional contributions to the phase of gravitational waves, which can break the degeneracy between binary masses and redshift. Based on the analytic mass transfer rate to the first order post-Newtonian evolution of orbital angular frequency, we use the Fisher matrix to forecast the ability of DECIGO to measure the redshift of compact binaries with mass transfer. We conclude that for compact binary systems containing white dwarfs the redshift can be determined to an accuracy of 10% for $z=0.01$ with a $\mathrm{S}\mathrm{N}\mathrm{R}\sim 30$.

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• General relativity
• Gravitational wave detection
• Gravitational waves
• Binary stars
• Astronomical masses & mass distributions
• Distances, redshifts, & velocities