Committee |
Date Time |
Place |
Paper Title / Authors |
Abstract |
Paper # |
SP |
2013-01-30 13:30 |
Kyoto |
Doshisha Univ. |
A Preliminary Investigation on Improving Chinese Pinyin-to-character Conversion Using MI Based Automatic Lexical Formation Jinsong Zhang (Beijing Language and Culture Univ./NICT), Wei Li (Beijing Language and Culture Univ.), Xiaoyun Wang, Masafumi Nishida, Seiichi Yamamoto (Doshisha Univ.) SP2012-98 |
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SP2012-98 pp.1-5 |
SP |
2013-01-30 14:00 |
Kyoto |
Doshisha Univ. |
A Study on Perceptual Training of Mandarin Tone 2 and Tone 3 by Japanese Learners Jinsong Zhang (Beijing Language and Culture Univ./NICT), Yue Sun (Beijing Language and Culture Univ.), Ting Zou (Leiden Univ.), Xiaoyun Wang, Masafumi Nishida, Seiichi Yamamoto (Doshisha Univ.) SP2012-99 |
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SP2012-99 pp.7-12 |
SP |
2013-01-30 14:30 |
Kyoto |
Doshisha Univ. |
Detection Method of Utterances out-of-Scope for Dialogue-based CALL Systems trained with Learner Corpus Yu Nagai, Xiaoyun Wang, Masafumi Nishida, Seiichi Yamamoto (Doshisha Univ.) SP2012-100 |
The progress of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has pushed forward research on Computer Aided Language Learning (CALL... [more] |
SP2012-100 pp.13-18 |
SP |
2013-01-30 15:15 |
Kyoto |
Doshisha Univ. |
Speaker Recognition Using Formant of Vowels Naoyuki Urakami, Yuta Shoji, Jun Shiraishi, Hironori Yamauchi, Yohei Fukumizu, Tomonori Izumi (Ritsumeikan Univ) SP2012-101 |
In this paper we propose a speaker recognition or verification methods based on formant of vowels. The proposed method i... [more] |
SP2012-101 pp.19-24 |
SP |
2013-01-30 15:45 |
Kyoto |
Doshisha Univ. |
A Study on Speaker Recognition Based on Decomposition of Periodic and Aperiodic Components Yuki Ishikawa, Masafumi Nishida (Doshisha Univ.), Masakiyo Fujimoto (NTT), Seiichi Yamamoto (Doshisha Univ.) SP2012-102 |
In conventional researches, mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) are widely used for a feature parameter which app... [more] |
SP2012-102 pp.25-30 |
SP |
2013-01-30 16:15 |
Kyoto |
Doshisha Univ. |
Improvement of context label in HMM-based speech synthesis for Japanese Hiroya Hashimoto, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu (Univ. of Tokyo) SP2012-103 |
An improved set of context labels was proposed for HMM-based speech synthesis of Japanese. The conventional labels incl... [more] |
SP2012-103 pp.31-36 |
SP |
2013-01-30 16:45 |
Kyoto |
Doshisha Univ. |
F0 contour generation using rich context models in HMM-based speech synthesis Shinnosuke Takamichi, Tomoki Toda (NAIST), Yoshinori Shiga (NICT), Sakriani Sakti, Graham Neubig, Satoshi Nakamura (NAIST) SP2012-104 |
In the traditional HMM-based speech synthesis, generated speech parameters tend to be excessively over-smoothed. To all... [more] |
SP2012-104 pp.37-42 |
SP |
2013-01-31 10:00 |
Kyoto |
Doshisha Univ. |
Consideration of relationship between auditory impression and acoustic feature of death growl and scream singing voice Keizo Kato, Akinori Ito (Tohoku Univ.) SP2012-105 |
In the contemporary music scene, death-growl and scream singing style are often used in extreme metal, and have been one... [more] |
SP2012-105 pp.43-48 |
SP |
2013-01-31 10:30 |
Kyoto |
Doshisha Univ. |
The construction of an evaluation scale for singing voice of popular music
-- in Amateur singing voice -- Ai Kanato, Hideaki Kikuchi (Waseda Univ.) SP2012-106 |
In this research, we tried to construct an evaluation scale for singing voice of popular music. In this paper ,we consid... [more] |
SP2012-106 pp.49-54 |
SP |
2013-01-31 11:00 |
Kyoto |
Doshisha Univ. |
Investigation of correlation between temporal fluctuations of F0 and spectrum in scream vocal style Hironobu Nishiwaki, Hideki Banno, Kensaku Asahi (Meijo Univ.) SP2012-107 |
This paper describes the analysis results of singing voice in a scream vocal style which is a vocalism like a screaming.... [more] |
SP2012-107 pp.55-60 |
SP |
2013-01-31 11:30 |
Kyoto |
Doshisha Univ. |
Proposals of vibrato feature to reflect magnitude of fluctuations of fundamental frequency and power in singing voice and evaluation method of the feature Chifumi Suzuki, Hideki Banno, Kensaku Asahi, Fumitada Itakura (Meijo Univ), Masanori Morise (Ritsumeikan Univ) SP2012-108 |
In this paper, we propose a new vibrato feature in order to measure temporal characteristics of vibrato in singing voice... [more] |
SP2012-108 pp.61-66 |
SP |
2013-01-31 13:00 |
Kyoto |
Doshisha Univ. |
[Invited Talk]
Speaker and style diversification in statistical parametric speech synthesis Takashi Nose (Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) SP2012-109 |
This paper reviews representative techniques for adding and modifying various
speaker characteristics and style express... [more] |
SP2012-109 pp.67-72 |
SP |
2013-01-31 14:15 |
Kyoto |
Doshisha Univ. |
A study on speaker-normalized style conversion for arbitrary speaker's expressive speech synthesis Hiroki Kanagawa, Takashi Nose, Takao Kobayashi (Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) SP2012-110 |
This paper proposes a technique for improving naturalness of synthetic speech using a framework of speaker adaptive trai... [more] |
SP2012-110 pp.73-78 |
SP |
2013-01-31 14:45 |
Kyoto |
Doshisha Univ. |
A Study on Style Control Based on Multiple-Regression HSMM for Synthesizing Singing Voices with Various Expressivity Takashi Nose, Misa Kanemoto, Tomoki Koriyama, Takao Kobayashi (Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) SP2012-111 |
This paper proposes a style control technique based on multiple regression HSMM (MRHSMM)
for changing styles and their ... [more] |
SP2012-111 pp.79-84 |
SP |
2013-01-31 15:15 |
Kyoto |
Doshisha Univ. |
A Study on Multi-class Local Prosodic Context for Expressive Prosody Generation Yu Maeno, Takashi Nose, Takao Kobayashi, Tomoki Koriyama (Tokyo Inst. of Tech.), Yusuke Ijima, Hideharu Nakajima, Hideyuki Mizuno, Osamu Yoshioka (NTT) SP2012-112 |
This paper describes a technique for reproducing local prosodic variability which appears in expressive speech including... [more] |
SP2012-112 pp.85-90 |
SP |
2013-01-31 15:45 |
Kyoto |
Doshisha Univ. |
Labeling of Spoken Dialog for Paralinguistic Information Processing Tomoyuki Shimakawa, Masanori Morise, Yoichi Yamashita (Ritsumeikan Univ.) SP2012-113 |
This paper discusses about labeling of spoken dialog with paralinguistic information. Paralinguistic information which i... [more] |
SP2012-113 pp.91-96 |
SP |
2013-01-31 16:15 |
Kyoto |
Doshisha Univ. |
Evaluation and Automatic Estimation of Voice Characteristic Similarity Using Isolated Vowels Shohei Tsujimura, Masanori Morise, Yoichi Yamashita (Ritsumeikan Univ.) SP2012-114 |
This paper describes a method of voice characteristic similarity focusing on difference of voice characteristics conveye... [more] |
SP2012-114 pp.97-102 |