Committee |
Date Time |
Place |
Paper Title / Authors |
Abstract |
Paper # |
NLC, SP (Joint) [detail] |
2010-12-21 16:40 |
Tokyo |
National Olympics Memorial Youth Center |
Non-negative matrix factorization of segmental STRAIGHT speech spectrograms Makoto Koseki, Kazunori Mano (Shibaura Inst. of Tech.) NLC2010-27 SP2010-100 |
In this paper, we propose a new framework of non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) applied to segmental speech for spe... [more] |
NLC2010-27 SP2010-100 pp.183-188 |
SP |
2010-07-22 13:30 |
Miyagi |
Ryokusui-tei (Sendai) |
A study of relationship between speaker identification and acoustic features using perceptual similarity of imitated voice Mari Tanaka (Waseda Univ.), Hideki Kawahara (Wakayama Univ.), Shigeo Morishima (Waseda Univ.) SP2010-35 |
Physical correlates of perceived personal identity are
investigated using imitated 16 utterances spoken by 11
mimicry ... [more] |
SP2010-35 pp.1-5 |
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 |
COMP |
2010-04-22 14:35 |
Shiga |
Ritusmeikan University, Biwako-Kusatsu Campus |
Transposition Invariant Fully Compressed Pattern Matching Algorithm Wataru Matsubara, Ayumi Shinohara (Tohoku Univ.) COMP2010-6 |
Transposition invariant pattern matching is the problem of matching given text and pattern to find the occurrence in the... [more] |
COMP2010-6 pp.39-45 |
SP, NLC |
2009-12-22 15:50 |
Tokyo |
Univ. of Tokyo |
Analysis and Synthesis of Voice with Distance Perspective Motoi Omachi, Kazuhiko Iwata, Tetsunori Kobayashi (Waseda Univ.) NLC2009-25 SP2009-89 |
This paper describes the characteristics of voices uttered with different distance perspectives.
When we use a loud voi... [more] |
NLC2009-25 SP2009-89 pp.159-163 |
EA |
2009-06-26 15:15 |
Hokkaido |
|
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 |
COMP |
2009-03-02 09:45 |
Tokyo |
Tokyo Institute of Technology |
An Algorithm to Test Square-Freeness of BSLP-Compressed Strings Wataru Matsubara (Tohoku Univ.), Shunsuke Inenaga (Kyushu Univ.), Ayumi Shinohara (Tohoku Univ.) COMP2008-55 |
Balanced Straight line programs(BSLPs) is one of the most powerful and general compression schemes. An BSLP is a context... [more] |
COMP2008-55 pp.9-16 |
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 |
|
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 |
2008-03-21 11:00 |
Tokyo |
Univ. Tokyo |
Acoustic features contributing to gender perception in continuously uttered speech signals Takeshi Shibata, Masato Akagi (JAIST) SP2007-206 |
The aim of this study is to clarify relationships between acoustic
features in contributing to gender perception of co... [more] |
SP2007-206 pp.117-122 |
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 |
COMP |
2008-03-10 15:15 |
Kanagawa |
|
Polynomial time algorithms for computing longest common substring and all palindromes from compressed strings Wataru Matsubara (Tohoku Univ.), Shunsuke Inenaga (Kyushu Univ.), Akira Ishino, Ayumi Shinohara, Tomoyuki Nakamura, Kazuo Hashimoto (Tohoku Univ.) COMP2007-63 |
\emph{Straight line programs} (\emph{SLPs}) is one of the most powerful and general compression schemes. An SLP is a con... [more] |
COMP2007-63 pp.55-62 |
SP |
2007-10-25 - 2007-10-26 |
Nagasaki |
Nagasaki University |
Statistical properties of STRAIGHT spectral variations in POP-song singing Yuri Yoshida, Masanori Morise, Toru Takahashi, Hideki Kawahara (Wakayama Univ.) SP2007-76 |
A new implementation of STRAIGHT spectral estimation based on so-called TANDEM windowing was applied to investigate stat... [more] |
SP2007-76 pp.31-36 |
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 Flexible Temporal Decomposition-based Spectral Modification Method using Asymmetric Gaussian Mixture Model Binh Phu Nguyen, Masato Akagi (JAIST) SP2007-25 |
This paper presents a new spectral modification method to deal with two drawbacks of standard spectral modification meth... [more] |
SP2007-25 pp.7-12 |
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 |
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 |