Committee |
Date Time |
Place |
Paper Title / Authors |
Abstract |
Paper # |
EA |
2010-06-11 15:00 |
Hokkaido |
Health Sci. Univ. of Hokkaido |
Optimization of excitation structure extraction based on objective evaluation using speech-like test signals Yoshika Wada, Hanae Itagaki (Wakayama Univ.), Masanori Morise (Ritsumeikan Univ.), Ryuichi Nisimura, Toshio Irino, Hideki Kawahara (Wakayama Univ.) EA2010-35 |
Investigations on analysis and synthesis of expressive voice, such as ``husky'' and ``hoarse'' voices, which are typical... [more] |
EA2010-35 pp.77-82 |
EA |
2010-06-11 15:30 |
Hokkaido |
Health Sci. Univ. of Hokkaido |
Relevant Frequency band for vocal tract length normalization based on spectral distance Erika Okamoto, Yoshiki Asaka, Ryuichi Nisimura, Toshio Irino, Hideki Kawahara (Wakayama Univ.) EA2010-36 |
Normalization of speaker dependent spectral differences is an important issue in speech applications, such as automatic ... [more] |
EA2010-36 pp.83-88 |
SP |
2010-03-05 15:15 |
Tokyo |
Shibaura Inst. of Tech. (Toyosu Campus) |
Representation and estimation of aperiodic component in voiced sounds for high-quality speech analysis and synthesis systems Hideki Kawahara (Wakayama Univ.), Masanori Morise (Ritsumei. Univ.), Toru Takahashi (Kyoto Univ.), Hideki Banno (Meijo Univ.), Ryuichi Nisimura, Toshio Irino (Wakayama Univ.) SP2009-165 |
Mixed-mode excitation is crucially important and effective for high-quality speech analysis, modification and resynthesi... [more] |
SP2009-165 pp.99-104 |
EA |
2009-06-26 10:00 |
Hokkaido |
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Non-linguistic subjective evaluation of timbre based on audio-visual integration Saori Nishida (Wakayama Univ.), Masanori Morise (Ritsumeikan Univ.), Ryuichi Nisimura, Toshio Irino, Hideki Kawahara (Wakayama Univ.) EA2009-26 |
Perceptually relevant representations of timbre using two dimensional shapes are investigated aiming at establishing a f... [more] |
EA2009-26 pp.49-54 |
EA |
2009-06-26 13:00 |
Hokkaido |
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Simultaneous fitting to notched noise and compression data using the compressive gammachirp auditory filter Toshio Irino (Wakayama Univ.), Hiroki Takahashi (Nissay Info. Tech.), Hideki Kawahara (Wakayama Univ.), Roy D. Patterson (Univ. of Cambridge.) EA2009-29 |
It is important to estimate precisely the frequency selectivity (filter shape) and the compression characteristics of th... [more] |
EA2009-29 pp.67-72 |
EA |
2009-06-26 15:15 |
Hokkaido |
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Representation of repetitive structures in speech and its application to F0 and aperiodicity extraction Hanae Itagaki (Wakayama Univ.), Masanori Morise (Ritsumei. Univ.), Ryuichi Nisimura, Toshio Irino, Hideki Kawahara (Wakayama Univ.) EA2009-33 |
A bottom up procedure for extracting repetitive structures in speech sounds is proposed based on atemporally stable repr... [more] |
EA2009-33 pp.91-96 |
SP |
2009-06-25 10:45 |
Hokkaido |
Clark Memorial Hall, Hokkaido Univ. |
Effects of spectral envelope representations on resynthesized speech quality Hayato Akagiri, Noboru Onishi (Wakayama Univ.), Masanori Morise (Ritsumeikan Univ.), Ryuichi Nisimura, Toshio Irino, Hideki Kawahara (Wakayama Univ.) SP2009-34 |
A speech analysis, modification and synthesis method TANDEM-STRAIGHT consists of two key components;
a) temporally inde... [more] |
SP2009-34 pp.63-68 |
SP |
2009-06-25 11:15 |
Hokkaido |
Clark Memorial Hall, Hokkaido Univ. |
Sound quality improvement based on vocal tract length normalization in simplified speech morphing Yoshiki Asaka, Saori Nishida, Hayato Akagiri, Ryuichi Nisimura, Toshio Irino, Hideki Kawahara (Wakayama Univ) SP2009-35 |
Need of careful manual placement of anchoring points is the major obstacle for application of current speech morphing ba... [more] |
SP2009-35 pp.69-74 |
SP |
2009-03-06 11:15 |
Tokyo |
Tokyo Univ. of Technology |
Interface design for TANDEM-STRAIGHT and temporally variable speech morphing study Hideki Kawahara (Wakayama Univ.), Masanori Morise (Kwansei Univ.), Toru Takahashi (Kyoto Univ.), Hideki Banno (Meijo Univ.), Ryuichi Nisimura, Toshio Irino (Wakayama Univ.) SP2008-151 |
This article introduces background and design principles of a set of graphical user interfaces to promote research on va... [more] |
SP2008-151 pp.51-56 |
SP, NLC |
2008-12-10 10:45 |
Tokyo |
Waseda Univ. |
Aperiodicity extraction based on linear prediction and temporal axis warping using fundamental frequency information Hideki Kawahara (Wakayama Univ.), Masanori Morise (Kwansei Univ.), Toru Takahashi (Kyoto Univ.), Hideki Banno (Meijo Univ.), Ryuichi Nisimura, Toshio Irino (Wakayama Univ.) NLC2008-38 SP2008-93 |
A reliable aperiodicity extractor is crucial for high-quality speech manipulation systems. This article proposes a new e... [more] |
NLC2008-38 SP2008-93 pp.85-90 |
SP, NLC |
2008-12-10 16:10 |
Tokyo |
Waseda Univ. |
Parameter optimization for a fundamental frequency extractor based on TANDEM-STRAIGHT Hanae Itagaki, Masanori Morise, Ryuichi Nisimura, Toshio Irino, Hideki Kawahara (Wakayama Univ.) NLC2008-50 SP2008-105 |
Abstract A fundamental frequency extractor based on a temporally stable power spectral representation for peri-odic sign... [more] |
NLC2008-50 SP2008-105 pp.155-160 |
EA |
2008-08-04 14:45 |
Miyagi |
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Size discrimination and recognition for acoustically scaled versions of naturally pronounced and whispered speech words Yoshie Aoki, Toshio Irino (Wakayama Univ.), Roy D.Patterson (Univ. of Cambridge), Hideki Kawahara (Wakayama Univ.) EA2008-51 |
We have suggested that the auditory system can extract the size information and separate it from vocal-tract shape infor... [more] |
EA2008-51 pp.35-40 |
SP |
2008-06-27 - 2008-06-28 |
Hokkaido |
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Improving accuracy in spectral envelope estimation based on TANDEM-STRAIGHT
-- Recovery of higher spatial frequency components exceeding Nyquist limit posed by the fundamental frequency -- Hideki Kawahara (Wakayama Univ.), Masanori Morise (Kwansei Univ.), Toru Takahashi (Kyoto Univ.), Hideki Banno (Meijo Univ.), Ryuichi Nisimura, Toshio Irino (Wakayama Univ.) SP2008-23 |
A simple new method to recover details in a spectral envelope is proposed based on a speech analysis, modification and r... [more] |
SP2008-23 pp.19-24 |
SP |
2008-03-21 16:15 |
Tokyo |
Univ. Tokyo |
Improvement of real-time STRAIGHT and implementation of STRAIGHT library Hideki Banno (Meijo Univ.), Masanori Morise, Toru Takahashi, Ryuichi Nisimura, Toshio Irino, Hideki Kawahara (Wakayama Univ.) SP2007-213 |
This paper describes improvement of real-time STRAIGHT and implementation of STRAIGHT library.
STRAIGHT is a high quali... [more] |
SP2007-213 pp.157-162 |
SP |
2007-10-25 - 2007-10-26 |
Nagasaki |
Nagasaki University |
Vowel-based speech conversion using generalized inverse Masato Onishi, Toru Takahashi, Toshio Irino, Hideki Kawahara (Wakayama Univ.) SP2007-84 |
A vowel-based voice conversion method using generalized inverse was proposed. The proposed method uses vowel information... [more] |
SP2007-84 pp.75-80 |
SP |
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Toyama |
Toyama Prefectural University |
A temporal and frequency interference-free power spectral representation of periodic signals
-- Toward STRAIGHT spectral estimation without tunable component -- Hideki Kawahara, Masanori Morise, Toru Takahashi, Ryuichi Nisimura, Toshio Irino (Wakayama Univ.), Hideki Banno (Meijo Univ.) SP2007-26 |
A new spectral estimation procedure which does not have interferences due to periodicity both in the time and the freque... [more] |
SP2007-26 pp.13-18 |
NC |
2007-06-14 10:20 |
Okinawa |
OIST Seaside House |
A computational theory of size/shape extraction in the auditory system and the localization in the brain Toshio Irino (Wakayama univ. / Inst. Stat. Math.), Yoshikazu Ooya, Hideki Kawahara (Wakayama univ.), Roy D. Patterson (Univ. Cambridge) NC2007-10 |
Although perception of size and shape from visual stimuli has been studied intensively as an important topic, perception... [more] |
NC2007-10 pp.11-16 |
SP |
2007-05-31 13:30 |
Kyoto |
ATR |
Applying Speech Transformation function derived from Speech Texture Mapping to Automatic Speech Morphing Toru Takahashi, Masanori Morise, Masato Oonishi, Ryuichi Nisimura, Toshio Irino (Wakayama Univ.), Hideki Banno (Meijo Univ.), Hideki Kawahara (Wakayama Univ.) SP2007-6 |
A general framework for speech morphing is proposed based on a concept called speech texture mapping. The proposed metho... [more] |
SP2007-6 pp.31-34 |
EA |
2006-11-23 11:00 |
Fukuoka |
Kyushu Univ. (Fukuoka) |
On perceptually relevant impulse response compensation
-- Discrimination threshold of group delay manipulation and its frequency dependency -- Masanori Morise, Toru Takahashi, Toshio Irino, Hideki Kawahara (Wakayama Univ.) |
[more] |
EA2006-72 pp.13-18 |
EA |
2006-11-23 11:30 |
Fukuoka |
Kyushu Univ. (Fukuoka) |
Acoustic event detection based on bandwise duration and its application to location estimation Masanori Morise, Toru Takahashi, Toshio Irino, Hideki Kawahara (Wakayama Univ.) |
[more] |
EA2006-73 pp.19-24 |