Committee |
Date Time |
Place |
Paper Title / Authors |
Abstract |
Paper # |
SP, EA, SIP |
2020-03-03 09:00 |
Okinawa |
Okinawa Industry Support Center (Cancelled but technical report was issued) |
A Study for HMM-based embedded speech synthesis using a large-scale speech corpus Nobuyuki Nishizawa, Tomohiro Obara, Hiromi Ishizaki (KDDI Research, Inc.) EA2019-141 SIP2019-143 SP2019-90 |
This study shows that our speech synthesis system based on HMM speech synthesis for embedded devices can perform real-ti... [more] |
EA2019-141 SIP2019-143 SP2019-90 pp.231-236 |
NLC, IPSJ-NL, SP, IPSJ-SLP (Joint) [detail] |
2017-12-22 13:00 |
Tokyo |
Waseda Univ. Green Computing Systems Research Organization |
[Invited Talk]
Expressive Speech Synthesis: Approaches to Text-to-Speech with Diverse Voices and Styles Takao Kobayashi (Tokyo Tech.) SP2017-64 |
As the performance of smart devices and information systems becomes higher, more advanced speech interfaces are requeste... [more] |
SP2017-64 pp.85-86 |
NLC, IPSJ-NL, SP, IPSJ-SLP (Joint) [detail] |
2017-12-22 14:40 |
Tokyo |
Waseda Univ. Green Computing Systems Research Organization |
Laughter synthesis considering the context of the utterance in natural conversation Tomohiro Nagata, Hiroki Mori (Utsunomiya Univ.) SP2017-65 |
Most of conventional studies on laughter synthesis do not deal with laughter in actual dialogue scene, and it became a p... [more] |
SP2017-65 pp.93-98 |
EA, SP, SIP |
2016-03-29 09:00 |
Oita |
Beppu International Convention Center B-ConPlaza |
[Poster Presentation]
An experimental study of designing context labels for infant-directed storytelling speech synthesis Kyota Hyakutake, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu (UTokyo) EA2015-112 SIP2015-161 SP2015-140 |
Context labels for infant-directed storytelling speech synthesis are investigated. After collecting one-hour storytellin... [more] |
EA2015-112 SIP2015-161 SP2015-140 pp.255-260 |
EA, SP, SIP |
2016-03-29 09:00 |
Oita |
Beppu International Convention Center B-ConPlaza |
[Poster Presentation]
Quality improvement of HMM-based synthesized speech based on decomposition of naturalness and intelligibility using asymmetric bilinear model with non-negative matrix factorization Anh-Tuan Dinh, Masato Akagi (JAIST) EA2015-113 SIP2015-162 SP2015-141 |
HMM-based synthesized voices are intelligible but not natural especially in limited data condition because of over-smoot... [more] |
EA2015-113 SIP2015-162 SP2015-141 pp.261-266 |
SP |
2015-10-15 16:45 |
Hyogo |
Kobe Univ. |
A study on quick model training in HMM-based speech synthesis Shuhei Yamada, Takashi Nose, Akinori Ito (Tohoku Univ.) SP2015-64 |
In this paper, we propose an alternative model training technique using speaker-independent monophone models and decisio... [more] |
SP2015-64 pp.27-32 |
NLC, IPSJ-NL, SP, IPSJ-SLP, JSAI-SLUD (Joint) [detail] |
2014-12-15 14:00 |
Kanagawa |
Tokyo Institute of Technology (Suzukakedai Campus) |
[Invited Talk]
Statistical approach to flexible speech synthesis
-- towards human-like talking machines -- Keiichi Tokuda (NITech/Google) SP2014-109 |
This talk will give an overview of statistical approach to
flexible speech synthesis. For constructing human-like
tal... [more] |
SP2014-109 p.31 |
NLC, IPSJ-NL, SP, IPSJ-SLP, JSAI-SLUD (Joint) [detail] |
2014-12-16 11:00 |
Kanagawa |
Tokyo Institute of Technology (Suzukakedai Campus) |
Prosody Correction Preserving Speaker Individuality in English-Read-By-Japanese Speech Synthesis Based on HMM Yuji Oshima, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Tomoki Toda, Graham Neubig, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura (NAIST) SP2014-112 |
To build an English acoustic model that well captures speaker individuality of each Japanese speaker, a framework using ... [more] |
SP2014-112 pp.63-68 |
NLC, IPSJ-NL, SP, IPSJ-SLP, JSAI-SLUD (Joint) [detail] |
2014-12-16 11:00 |
Kanagawa |
Tokyo Institute of Technology (Suzukakedai Campus) |
HMM-Based Speech Synthesis System with Prosody Modification Based on Speech Input Yuri Nishigaki, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Tomoki Toda, Graham Neubig, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura (NAIST) SP2014-115 |
As a creative activity using speech synthesis technologies has been grown rapidly, it is desired to develop an interface... [more] |
SP2014-115 pp.81-86 |
SP |
2014-11-13 13:45 |
Fukuoka |
Kyushu Univ. Chikushi Campus |
A comparative study of paralinguistic information control methods for HMM-based dialogue speech synthesis Hiroki Mori, Shunsuke Takahashi, Tomohiro Nagata (Utsunomiya Univ.) SP2014-90 |
Toward the realization of dialogue speech synthesis with capability to
control paralinguistic information,
we have pro... [more] |
SP2014-90 pp.1-6 |
SP |
2014-11-13 14:35 |
Fukuoka |
Kyushu Univ. Chikushi Campus |
Shared emotion additive model for HMM-based emotional speech synthesis Yamato Ohtani, Yu Nasu, Ryo Morinaka, Masatsune Tamura, Masahiro Morita, Masami Akamine (Toshiba) SP2014-92 |
We have proposed an emotion addition method based on additive structure in HMM-based speech synthesis.
This technique ... [more] |
SP2014-92 pp.13-18 |
SP |
2014-11-13 16:30 |
Fukuoka |
Kyushu Univ. Chikushi Campus |
A study on intuitive control of emotional expressions and speaking styles using facial features by Kinect Yu Bi, Takashi Nose, Akinori Ito (Tohoku Univ.) SP2014-94 |
This paper proposes a style control technique of synthetic speech based on multiple regression HSMM (MRHSMM) using facia... [more] |
SP2014-94 pp.25-30 |
SP, IPSJ-MUS |
2014-05-25 11:30 |
Tokyo |
|
Speech waveform generation on subband domain Nobuyuki Nishizawa, Tsuneo Kato (KDDI R&D Labs) SP2014-35 |
To reduce the computational cost for waveform generation in speech synthesis based on analysis-synthesis systems like HM... [more] |
SP2014-35 pp.349-354 |
SP, IPSJ-SLP |
2013-12-20 15:25 |
Tokyo |
|
[Fellow Memorial Lecture]
Toward Speech Synthesis with Diverse Voices and Styles: Approaches and Issues Takao Kobayashi (Tokyo Tech.) SP2013-93 |
Recently, hidden Markov model-based (HMM-based) speech synthesis has been widely studied in the text-to-speech (TTS) syn... [more] |
SP2013-93 pp.119-122 |
SP, IPSJ-SLP |
2013-12-20 17:05 |
Tokyo |
|
Application of HMM-Based Speech Synthesis Techniques to a Singing Style Synthesis Job Plugin Makoto Tachibana, Keijiro Saino, Yuji Hisaminato (Yamaha Corp) SP2013-94 |
Recent HMM-based speech synthesis systems have the capability to control speaker/style characteristics by statistically ... [more] |
SP2013-94 pp.123-128 |
SP |
2013-11-21 15:30 |
Nara |
Nara Institute of Science and Technology |
Postfilter Based on Mudulation Spectrum in HMM-Based Speech Synthesis Shinnosuke Takamichi, Tomoki Toda, Graham Neubig, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura (NAIST) SP2013-74 |
In this paper, we propose a postfilter based on a modulation spectrum for high-quality HMM-based speech synthesis.
An ... [more] |
SP2013-74 pp.19-24 |
SP, WIT |
2013-06-14 13:30 |
Niigata |
|
Combining perceptually-motivated spectral shaping with loudness and duration modification for intelligibility enhancement of HMM-based synthetic speech in noise Cassia Valentini-Botinhao (Univ. of Edinburgh), Junichi Yamagishi (NII/Univ. of Edinburgh), Simon King (Univ. of Edinburgh), Yannis Stylianou (FORTH, Greece) SP2013-47 WIT2013-17 |
This paper presents our entry to a speech-in-noise intelligibility enhancement evaluation: the Hurricane Challenge. The ... [more] |
SP2013-47 WIT2013-17 pp.95-100 |
SP, EA, SIP |
2013-05-17 09:45 |
Okayama |
|
Fast speech waveform generation using subband coding for speech synthesis Nobuyuki Nishizawa, Tsuneo Kato (KDDI Labs) EA2013-15 SIP2013-15 SP2013-15 |
For fast waveform generation in HMM-based speech synthesizers, a new method using a subband coding method that is also u... [more] |
EA2013-15 SIP2013-15 SP2013-15 pp.85-90 |
SP |
2013-02-28 15:00 |
Aichi |
Daido University |
[Poster Presentation]
The effect of Speaker Adaptive Training on the naturalness of conversational speech synthesis and the controllability of paralinguistic information Shunsuke Takahashi, Hiroki Mori (Utsunomiya Univ.) SP2012-121 |
The Speaker Adaptive Training (SAT) was applied to the HMM-based dialogue speech synthesis based on the UU Database. Its... [more] |
SP2012-121 pp.25-26 |
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 |