Nobuaki Minematsu

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Md. Khademul Islam Molla, 2006, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings.

A Theory of Phase Singularities for Image Representation and its Applications to Object Tracking and Image Matching

Nobuaki Minematsu, Wei Wang, Yu Qiao, 2009, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.

Optimal event search using a structural cost function - improvement of structure to speech conversion

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yu Qiao, 2009, INTERSPEECH.

Speech generation from hand gestures based on space mapping

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yu Qiao, 2009, INTERSPEECH.

Improving WFST-based G2P Conversion with Alignment Constraints and RNNLM N-best Rescoring

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Hideki Kashioka, 2012, INTERSPEECH.

Keynote 2: Perceptual and structural analysis of pronunciation diversity of World Englishes

Nobuaki Minematsu, 2014, O-COCOSDA.

F-divergence Is a Generalized Invariant Measure between Distributions

Nobuaki Minematsu, Yu Qiao, 2008, INTERSPEECH.

Noise-robust and stress-free visualization of pronunciation diversity of World Englishes using a learner's self-centered viewpoint

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yuichi Sato, 2015, 2015 International Conference Oriental COCOSDA held jointly with 2015 Conference on Asian Spoken Language Research and Evaluation (O-COCOSDA/CASLRE).

Integration of multilayer regression analysis with structure-based pronunciation assessment

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yu Qiao, 2010, INTERSPEECH.

Synthesis of fundamental frequency contours for Standard Chinese based on superpositional and tone nucleus models

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Qinghua Sun, 2007 .

Rule-based Generation of Phrase Components in Two-step Synthesis of Fundamental Frequency Contours of Mandarin

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Wentao Gu, 2006 .

Sharable software repository for Japanese large vocabulary continuous speech recognition

Nobuaki Minematsu, Kiyohiro Shikano, Tetsunori Kobayashi, 1998, ICSLP.

Generative Modeling of F0 Contours Leveraged by Phrase Structure and Its Application to Statistical Focus Control

Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, Yuma Shirahata, 2019 .

Prosodic Reading Tutor of Japanese, Suzuki-kun: The first and only educational tool to teach the formal Japanese

Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, Nobuyuki Nishizawa, 2016, SSW.

Context labels based on "bunsetsu" for HMM-based speech synthesis of Japanese

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Hiroya Hashimoto, 2013, SSW.

Continuous Digits Recognition Leveraging Invariant Structure

Nobuaki Minematsu, Masafumi Nishimura, Masayuki Suzuki, 2011, INTERSPEECH.

Yet another acoustic representation of speech sounds

Nobuaki Minematsu, 2004, 2004 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.

Discriminative Method to Extract Coarse Prosodic Structure and its Application for Statistical Phrase/Accent Command Estimation

Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, Yuma Shirahata, 2020, INTERSPEECH.

On invariant structural representation for speech recognition: theoretical validation and experimental improvement

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yu Qiao, 2009, INTERSPEECH.

Improved Prediction of Japanese Word Accent Sandhi Using CRF

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Shinya Shimizu, 2012, INTERSPEECH.

Separation of Mixed Audio Signals by Source Localization and Binary Masking with Hilbert Spectrum

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Md. Khademul Islam Molla, 2006, ICA.

Parallel-Data-Free Many-to-Many Voice Conversion Based on DNN Integrated with Eigenspace Using a Non-Parallel Speech Corpus

Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, Tetsuya Hashimoto, 2017, INTERSPEECH.

Holistic and Prosodic Representation of the Segmental Aspect of Speech

Nobuaki Minematsu, Yu Qiao, Daisuke Saito, 2008 .

Representing fundamental frequency contours generated by HMM-based speech synthesis using generation process model

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Hiroya Hashimoto, 2011, 2011 IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing.

Instantaneous estimation of prosodic pronunciation habits for Japanese students to learn English pronunciation

Nobuaki Minematsu, Seiichi Nakagawa, 2000, INTERSPEECH.

Gesture Design of Hand-to-Speech Converter Derived from Speech-to-Hand Converter Based on Probabilistic Integration Model

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yu Qiao, 2011, INTERSPEECH.

THE ROBUSTNESS AND APPLICABILITY OF AUDIO SOURCE SEPARATION FROM SINGLE MIXTURES

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, K. Hirose, 2008 .

Duration Modeling with Decreased Intra-Group Temporal Variation for HMM-Based Phoneme Recognition

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, 1995, IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst..

Influence of context and knowledge on the perception of continuous speech

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Sumio Ohno, 1990, ICSLP.

Discriminative Piecewise Linear Transformation Based on Deep Neural Networks for Noise Robust Automatic Speech Recognition

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yosuke Kashiwagi, 2016 .

Unsupervised Phoneme Segmentation Using Mahalanobis Distance

Nobuaki Minematsu, Yu Qiao, 2008 .

Speech representation based on tensor factor analysis and its application to speaker recognition and language identification

Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, So Suzuki, 2019, 2019 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC).

Tensor Factor Analysis for Arbitrary Speaker Conversion

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, 2020, IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst..

Unsupervised optimal phoneme segmentation: theory and experimental evaluation

Nobuaki Minematsu, Yu Qiao, Dean Luo, 2013, IET Signal Process..

Improved prediction of the accent gap between speakers of English for individual-based clustering of World Englishes

Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, Fumiya Shiozawa, 2016, 2016 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT).

Improved corpus-based synthesis of fundamental frequency contours using generation process model

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Masaya Eto, 2002, INTERSPEECH.

Life-Like Characters. Tools, Affective Functions, and Applications

Keiichi Tokuda, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, 2003 .

Common Platform of Japanese Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognizer Assessment -- Proposal and Initial Results --

Nobuaki Minematsu, Kiyohiro Shikano, Tetsunori Kobayashi, 1998 .

Japanese lexical accent recognition for a CALL system by deriving classification equations with perceptual experiments

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Greg Short, 2013, Speech Commun..

Automatic estimation of one's age with his/her speech based upon acoustic modeling techniques of speakers

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Mariko Sekiguchi, 2002, 2002 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.

Automatic Chinese pronunciation error detection using SVM trained with structural features

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Masayuki Suzuki, 2012, 2012 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT).

CART-based factor analysis of intelligibility reduction in Japanese English

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Changchen Guo, 2003, INTERSPEECH.

The effects of filled pauses on native and non-native listeners2 speech processing

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yasuharu Den, 2005, DiSS.

Experimental study of impression-based statistical mapping between speakers' faces and their voices

Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, Yasuhito Ohsugi, 2016 .

Speaker-invariant and rhythm-sensitive representation of spoken words

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Donna Erickson, 2013, 2013 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference.

Corpus-based extraction of F0 contour generation process model parameters

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yusuke Furuyama, 2005, INTERSPEECH.

A measure of phonetic similarity to quantify pronunciation variation by using ASR technology

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, 2015, ICPhS.

Development of a CALL system for Australian learners of Japanese pronunciation

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yutaka Yamauchi, 2006 .

Development and Evaluation of Online Infrastructure to Aid Teaching and Learning of Japanese Prosody

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Masayuki Suzuki, 2017, IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst..

Combination of SPLICE and Feature Normalization for Noise Robust Speech Recognition

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Masayuki Suzuki, 2012 .

Corpus-based synthesis of fundamental frequency contours with various speaking styles from text using F0 contour generation process model

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Kentaro Sato, 2004, SSW.

Galatea : An Anthropomorphic Spoken Dialogue Agent Toolkit

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Atsuhiko Kai, 2003 .

Unseen noise robust speech recognition using adaptive piecewise linear transformation

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Masayuki Suzuki, 2012, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

Analytical and perceptual study on the role of acoustic features in realizing emotional speech

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Hiromichi Kawanami, 2000, INTERSPEECH.

Using FO Contour Generation Process Model for Improved and Flexible Control of Prosodie Features in HMM-based Speech Synthesis

Keikichi Hirose, Keiko Ochi, Nobuaki Minematsu, 2010, ESSV.

An Experimental Study on Dynamic Features of Speech Structure

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Masayuki Suzuki, 2012 .

Structural Analysis of Chinese Dialect Speakers and Their Automatic Classification

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Xuebin Ma, 2009 .

Continuous speech recognition using segmental unit input HMMs with a mixture of probability density functions and context dependency

Nobuaki Minematsu, Seiichi Nakagawa, Kazumasa Yamamoto, 1998, ICSLP.

Control of prosodic focus in corpus-based generation of fundamental frequency based on the generation process model

Keikichi Hirose, Keiko Ochi, Nobuaki Minematsu, 2008, INTERSPEECH.

Use of fundamental frequencies shaped by generation process model for HMM-based speech synthesis

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, 2014, 2014 12th International Conference on Signal Processing (ICSP).

Automatic estimation of accentual attribute values of words to realize accent sandhi in Japanese text-to-speech conversion

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, R. Kita, 2002, Proceedings of 2002 IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 2002..

A Large Collection of Sentences Read Aloud by Vietnamese Learners of Japanese and Native Speaker's Reverse Shadowings

Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, Yusuke Inoue, 2019, 2019 22nd Conference of the Oriental COCOSDA International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardisation of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques (O-COCOSDA).

Development of a formant-based analysis-synthesis system and generation of high quality liquid sounds of Japanese

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Nobuyuki Nishizawa, 2000, INTERSPEECH.

Affine invariant features and their application to speech recognition

Nobuaki Minematsu, Yu Qiao, Masayuki Suzuki, 2009, 2009 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing.

Are learners myna birds to the averaged distributions of native speakers? - a note ofwarning from a serious speech engineer -

Nobuaki Minematsu, 2007, SLaTE.

Robust speech recognition using inter-speaker and intra-speaker adaptation

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Baojie Li, 2002, INTERSPEECH.

Directional dependency of cepstrum on vocal tract length

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Satoshi Asakawa, 2008, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing.

Control of fundamental frequency contours using the generation process model in HMM-based speech synthesis

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Tetsuya Matsuda, 2010, IEEE 10th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SIGNAL PROCESSING PROCEEDINGS.

Development of a web framework for teaching and learning Japanese prosody: OJAD (online Japanese accent dictionary)

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Masayuki Suzuki, 2013, INTERSPEECH.

Pitch estimation of noisy speech signals using empirical mode decomposition

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Md. Kamrul Hasan, 2007, INTERSPEECH.

Automatic pronunciation evaluation of language learners' utterances generated through shadowing

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yutaka Yamauchi, 2008, INTERSPEECH.

Data-driven intonation modeling using a neural network and a command response model

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Atsuhiro Sakurai, 2000, INTERSPEECH.

2009 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding, ASRU 2009, Merano/Meran, Italy, December 13-17, 2009

Nobuaki Minematsu, Georg Heigold, Hermann Ney, 2009, ASRU.

Use of topic knowledge in spoken dialogue information retrieval system for academic documents

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Shinya Kiriyama, 2001, INTERSPEECH.

Pronunciation Portfolio — How were, are, and will be you? —

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Koji Okabe, 2004 .

Use of prosodic features for speech recognition

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, 2004, INTERSPEECH.

Unfilled pauses in Japanese sentences read aloud by non-native learners

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Goh Kawai, 2006, INTERSPEECH.

The influence of semantic and syntactic information on spoken sentence recognition

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Sumio Ohno, 1992, ICSLP.

Superpositional modeling of fundamental frequency contours for HMM-based speech synthesis

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, 2016 .

Improved and robust prediction of pronunciation distance for individual-basis clustering of World Englishes pronunciation

Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, Han-Ping Shen, 2014, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

Shadowability Annotation with Fine Granularity on L2 Utterances and its Improvement with Native Listeners' Script-Shadowing

Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, Zhenchao Lin, 2020, INTERSPEECH.

Galatea: Open-Source Software for Developing Anthropomorphic Spoken Dialog Agents

Keiichi Tokuda, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, 2004, Life-like characters.

Improved structure-based automatic estimation of pronunciation proficiency

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Dean Luo, 2009, SLaTE.

Structure-based prediction of English pronunciation distances and its analytical investigation

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, 2014, 2014 4th IEEE International Conference on Information Science and Technology.

A Study on Invariance of $f$-Divergence and Its Application to Speech Recognition

Nobuaki Minematsu, Yu Qiao, Y. Qiao, 2010, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.

Development of a program for self assessment of Japanese pronunciation by English learners

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yutaka Yamauchi, 2006, INTERSPEECH.

Corpus-based synthesis of Mandarin speech with F0 contours generated by superposing tone components on rule-generated phrase components

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Qinghua Sun, 2008, 2008 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop.

Japanese Dictation Toolkit-1997 version-

Nobuaki Minematsu, Kiyohiro Shikano, Tetsunori Kobayashi, 1999 .

Structure-constrained distribution matching using quadratic programming and its application to pronunciation evaluation

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yu Qiao, 2011, The First Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition.

Automatic Estimation of Accentual Attribute Values of Words for Accent Sandhi Rules of Japanese Text-to-Speech Conversion

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Ryuji Kita, 2003 .

Tone Recognition of Continuous Mandarin Speech Based on Tone Nucleus Model and Neural Network

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Xiaodong Wang, 2008, IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst..

HMM-based synthesis of fundamental frequency contours using the generation process model (Special section on papers awarded the Student Paper Award at NCSP'10)

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Tetsuya Matsuda, 2010 .

Improved generation of speech from its abstract and structural representation

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, 2010, IEEE 10th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SIGNAL PROCESSING PROCEEDINGS.

An improved method of generating speech from concept and its application to a dialogue system of road guidance

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yuji Yagi, 2005 .

Statistical Voice Conversion Based on Noisy Channel Model

Nobuaki Minematsu, Shinji Watanabe, Atsushi Nakamura, 2012, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing.

OJAD: a free online accent and intonation dictionary for teachers and learners of Japanese

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Masayuki Suzuki, 2013, SLaTE.

Open Source WFST Tools for LVCSR Cascade Development

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Josef R. Novak, 2011, FSMNLP.

English Speech Database Read by Japanese Learners for CALL System Development

Nobuaki Minematsu, Shozo Makino, Seiichi Nakagawa, 2002, LREC.

A method for modeling and generating Mandarin tone contour with phrase intonation based on the generation process model

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Miaomiao Wang, 2010, 2010 7th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing.

Free software toolkit for Japanese large vocabulary continuous speech recognition

Nobuaki Minematsu, Kiyohiro Shikano, Tetsunori Kobayashi, 2000, INTERSPEECH.

Identification of Japanese double-mora phonemes considering speaking rate for the use in CALL systems

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Carlos Toshinori Ishi, 2000, INTERSPEECH.

Emotional voice conversion for Mandarin using tone nucleus model – small corpus and high efficiency

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Miaomiao Wang, 2012, Speech Prosody 2012.

Semi-supervised noise dictionary adaptation for exemplar-based noise robust speech recognition

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yosuke Kashiwagi, 2014, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

Control of prosodic focus in corpus-based generation of fundamental frequency contours of Japanese based on the generation process model

Keikichi Hirose, Keiko Ochi, Nobuaki Minematsu, 2009, 2009 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing.

Structural representation of the non-native pronunciations

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Satoshi Asakawa, 2005, INTERSPEECH.

Unsupervised phoneme segmentation using Mahalanobis distance (Speech) -- (国際ワークショップ"Asian workshop on speech science and technology")

Nobuaki Minematsu, Yu Qiao, 2008 .

Discriminative piecewise linear transformation based on deep learning for noise robust automatic speech recognition

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yosuke Kashiwagi, 2013, 2013 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding.

Sub-structure-based estimation of pronunciation proficiency and classification of learners

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Dean Luo, 2009, 2009 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding.

Analysis of Spoken Language in Lecture Style

Nobuaki Minematsu, Seiichi Nakagawa, Yoshiyuki Kataoka, 1995 .

Phonetisaurus: Exploring grapheme-to-phoneme conversion with joint n-gram models in the WFST framework

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Josef R. Novak, 2016, Nat. Lang. Eng..

Development and Maintenance of Practical and In-service Systems for Recording Shadowing Utterances and Their Assessment

Nobuaki Minematsu, Yutaka Yamauchi, Junwei Yue, 2017, SLaTE.

Development of a speech generator from hand motions based on space mapping

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yu Qiao, 2008 .

Prosodic manipulation system of speech material for perceptual experiments

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Seiichi Nakagawa, 1996, Proceeding of Fourth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing. ICSLP '96.

Selection of Training Data for HMM-based Speech Synthesis from Prosodic Features - Use of Generation Process Model of Fundamental Frequency Contours

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, 2014 .

Painless WFST Cascade Construction for LVCSR - Transducersaurus

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Josef R. Novak, 2011, INTERSPEECH.

Pronunciation Understood — How intelligible do you think you are? —

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Koji Okabe, 2004 .

A Speech-to-Hand Conversion System for Vowels and Nasals Based on Space Mapping

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, 乔宇, 2012 .

Statistical sequence-to-frame mapping techniques for voice conversion

Nobuaki Minematsu, Yu Qiao, Daisuke Saito, 2010 .

Use of Speech Synthesis Technologies to Facilitate Prosody Training of Japanese

Nobuaki Minematsu, Hiroko Hirano, Noriko Nakamura, 2016 .

Audio source separation by source localization and spatial beamforming with binaural model

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, K. I. Molla, 2005 .

DNN-Based Scoring of Language Learners’ Proficiency Using Learners’ Shadowings and Native Listeners’ Responsive Shadowings

Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, Yusuke Inoue, 2018, 2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT).

音声の構造的表象を通して考察する幼児の音声模倣と言語獲得 Consideration on infants ’ speech mimicking and their language acquisition based on the structural representation of speech 峯松信明 † ,西村多寿子 ‡ ,櫻庭京子

Nobuaki Minematsu, Tazuko Nishimura, Kyoko Sakuraba, 2006 .

Automatic recognition of vowel length in Japanese for a CALL system motivated by perceptual experiments

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Greg Short, 2013, SLaTE.

One-to-Many Voice Conversion Based on Tensor Representation of Speaker Space

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keisuke Yamamoto, 2011, INTERSPEECH.

HMM-based sequence-to-frame mapping for voice conversion

Nobuaki Minematsu, Yu Qiao, Daisuke Saito, 2010, 2010 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing.

Consideration of Infants' Vocal Imitation Through Modeling Speech as Timbre-Based Melody

Nobuaki Minematsu, Tazuko Nishimura, 2007, JSAI.

Wideband Re-synthesis of Narrowband Speech Using Discriminative Piecewise Linear Transformation

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Masayuki Suzuki, 2013 .

Data-driven generation of F0 contours using a superpositional model

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Atsuhiro Sakurai, 2003, Speech Commun..

Parametric modeling of drum sounds and its use for sound morphing

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yuuki Furumoto, 2002 .

Rule-based method for pitch level classification for a Japanese pitch accent CALL system

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Greg Short, 2011, SLaTE.

Improvement of non-native speech recognition by effectively modeling frequently observed pronunciation habits

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Koichi Osaki, 2003, INTERSPEECH.

Analysis and comparison of automatic language proficiency assessment between shadowed sentences and read sentences

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yutaka Yamauchi, 2009, SLaTE.

Improvement of naturalness of learners' spoken Japanese by practicing with the Web-based prosodic reading tutor, Suzuki-kun

Nobuaki Minematsu, Hiroko Hirano, Noriko Nakamura, 2016 .

Acoustic-to-Articulatory Mapping Based on Mixture of Probabilistic Canonical Correlation Analysis

Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, Hidetsugu Uchida, 2017, INTERSPEECH.

Development of a prosodic reading tutor of Japanese - effective use of TTS and F0 contour modeling techniques for CALL

Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, Hiroya Hashimoto, 2015, SLaTE.

STRUCTURAL REPRESENTATION OF THE PRONUNCIATION AND ITS USE FOR CALL

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Satoshi Asakawa, 2006, 2006 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop.

Japanese vowel recognition based on structural representation of speech

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Takao Murakami, 2005, INTERSPEECH.

Discriminative Reranking for LVCSR Leveraging Invariant Structure

Nobuaki Minematsu, Masafumi Nishimura, Masayuki Suzuki, 2012, INTERSPEECH.

Development and Evaluation of Online Infrastructure to Support Teaching and Learning of Japanese Accent and Intonation

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Masayuki Suzuki, 2013 .

Robust voiced/unvoiced speech classification using empirical mode decomposition and periodic correlation model

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Md. Khademul Islam Molla, 2008, INTERSPEECH.

Prototyping a web-based phonetic training game to improve /r/-/l/ identification by Japanese learners of English

Nobuaki Minematsu, Yutaka Yamauchi, Adriana Guevara-Rukoz, 2019, SLaTE.

Filled pauses as cues to the complexity of following phrases

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yasuharu Den, 2005, INTERSPEECH.

Improved generation of fundamental frequency in HMM-based speech synthesis using generation process model

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Miaomiao Wang, 2010, INTERSPEECH.

LOCALIZATION BASED SEPARATION OF MOVING AUDIO SOURCES FROM STEREO MIXTURES BY ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, K. I. Molla, 2006 .

Acoustic modeling of sentence stress using differential features between syllables for English rhythm learning system development

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Donna Erickson, 2002, INTERSPEECH.

A spoken dialogue system for document information retrieval utilizing topic knowledge

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Shinya Kiriyama, 2004, Systems and Computers in Japan.

Japanese Dictation Toolkit - Free Software Repository for Speech Recognition

Nobuaki Minematsu, Kiyohiro Shikano, Tetsunori Kobayashi, 1999 .

Voice conversion based on matrix variate Gaussian mixture model

Nobuaki Minematsu, Yi Yang, Daisuke Saito, 2014, 2014 12th International Conference on Signal Processing (ICSP).

Design of Software Toolkit for Anthropomorphic Spoken Dialog Agent Software with Customization-oriented Features

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Atsuhiko Kai, 2002 .

Japanese dictation toolkit: plug-and-play framework for speech recognition R&D

Nobuaki Minematsu, Kiyohiro Shikano, Tetsunori Kobayashi, 1999 .

Prosodic Comparison of Utterances without Extracting Fundamental Frequencies based on Vocalized Subharmonic Summation

Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, Takuya Ozuru, 2018 .

Features of pauses and conjunctions at syntactic and discourse boundaries in Japanese monologues

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yasuharu Den, 2007, INTERSPEECH.

Separation of voiced source characteristics and vocal tract transfer function characteristics for speech sounds by iterative analysis based on AR-HMM model

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Nobuyuki Nishizawa, 2002, INTERSPEECH.

Corpus-based generation of prosodic features from text based on generation process model

Keikichi Hirose, Keiko Ochi, Nobuaki Minematsu, 2007, INTERSPEECH.

Performance Improvement in Estimating Subjective Agedness with Prosodic Features

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Mariko Sekiguchi, 2002 .

Automatic speech quality control of English listening materials and examination of Japanese learners’ listening ability in terms of robustness

Nobuaki Minematsu, Yutaka Yamauchi, Daisuke Saito, 2018 .

Effects of Speaker Adaptive Training on Tensor-based Arbitrary Speaker Conversion

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, 2012, INTERSPEECH.

Audio source separation by source localization with Hilbert spectrum

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Md. Khademul Islam Molla, 2005, 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems.

OJAD: Web-based Prosodic Reading Tutor of Japanese

Nobuaki Minematsu, 2016 .

Structural assessment of language learners' pronunciation

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Satoshi Asakawa, 2007, INTERSPEECH.

Pronunciation Diagnosis — What to correct at first in YOUR case? —

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Koji Okabe, 2004 .

Random discriminant structure analysis for automatic recognition of connected vowels

Nobuaki Minematsu, Satoshi Asakawa, Yu Qiao, 2007, 2007 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding (ASRU).

Many-to-Many and Completely Parallel-Data-Free Voice Conversion Based on Eigenspace DNN

Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, Tetsuya Hashimoto, 2019, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing.

Improved Automatic Extraction of Generation Process Model Commands and Its use for Generating Fundamental Frequency Contours for Training HMM-based Speech Synthesis

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Hiroya Hashimoto, 2012, INTERSPEECH.

Improved F0 modeling and generation in voice conversion

Nobuaki Minematsu, Frank K. Soong, Yao Qian, 2011, 2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

Improvement of prosody in HMM-based speech synthesis using generation process model (Special Section on Papers Awarded the Student Paper Award at NCSP'11)

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Miaomiao Wang, 2011 .

Audio-visual feature integration based on piecewise linear transformation for noise robust automatic speech recognition

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yosuke Kashiwagi, 2012, 2012 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT).

Considerations on vowel durations for Japanese CALL system

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Taro Mouri, 2003, INTERSPEECH.

A new method for FO tracking errors fix and generation in HMM-based Mandarin speech synthesis using generation process model

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Miaomiao Wang, 2010, IEEE 10th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SIGNAL PROCESSING PROCEEDINGS.

Automatic pronunciation clustering using a World English archive and pronunciation structure analysis

Nobuaki Minematsu, Chung-Hsien Wu, Han-Ping Shen, 2013, 2013 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding.

IPA Japanese Dictation Free Software Project

Nobuaki Minematsu, Kiyohiro Shikano, Tetsunori Kobayashi, 2000, LREC.

Development of English Speech Database Read by Japanese to Support CALL Research

Nobuaki Minematsu, Shozo Makino, Seiichi Nakagawa, 2004 .

Metric learning for unsupervised phoneme segmentation

Nobuaki Minematsu, Yu Qiao, 2008, INTERSPEECH.

Generation of fundamental frequency contours for Thai speech synthesis using tone nucleus model

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Oraphan Krityakien, 2013, INTERSPEECH.

Learning (CALL) Systems

Nobuaki Minematsu, Tatsuya Kawahara, 2012 .

A framework of reply speech generation for concept-to-speech conversion in spoken dialogue systems

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yuji Yagi, 2007, INTERSPEECH.

Are you professional?: Analysis of prosodic features between a newscaster and amateur speakers through partial substitution by DNN-TTS

Nobuaki Minematsu, Yusuke Ijima, Daisuke Saito, 2020 .

Pitch Pattern Recognition of Isolated Words for the Development of a Japanese Language Call System

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Greg Short, 2010, ESSV.

Improved generation of prosodic features in HMM-based Mandarin speech synthesis

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Miaomiao Wang, 2010, SSW.

Corpus-based generation of fundamental frequency contours using generation process model and considering emotional focuses

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yasufumi Asano, 2006, INTERSPEECH.

Modeling phone correlation for speaker adaptive speech recognition

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Baojie Li, 2000, INTERSPEECH.

A method for generation of Mandarin F0 contours based on tone nucleus model and superpositional model

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Qinghua Sun, 2012, Speech Commun..

Automatic detection of accent nuclei at the head of words for speech recognition

Nobuaki Minematsu, Seiichi Nakagawa, 1996, Proceeding of Fourth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing. ICSLP '96.

Use of Global and Acoustic Features Associated with Contextual Factors to Adapt Language Models for Spontaneous Speech Recognition

Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, Shohei Toyama, 2017, INTERSPEECH.

Dialect-based speaker classification using speaker-invariant dialect features

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Xuebin Ma, 2010, 2010 7th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing.

A Study on Bag of Gaussian Model with Application to Voice Conversion

Nobuaki Minematsu, Yu Qiao, Tong Tong, 2011, INTERSPEECH.

CRF-based statistical learning of Japanese accent sandhi for developing Japanese text-to-speech synthesis systems

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Michiko Watanabe, 2007, SSW.

Does Speaking Training Application with Speech Recognition Motivate Junior High School Students in Actual Classroom? - A Case Study

Nobuaki Minematsu, Takeshi Mori, Ryo Masumura, 2019, SLaTE.

Generation of Fundamental Frequency Contours for Thai Speech Using the Tone Nucleus Model

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Oraphan Krityakien, 2013 .

Automatic extraction of model parameters from fundamental frequency contours of English utterances

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Shuichi Narusawa, 2002, INTERSPEECH.

Factors influencing ratios of filled pauses at clause boundaries in Japanese

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yasuharu Den, 2006, ExLing.

A pronunciation training system for Japanese lexical accents with corrective feedback in learner's voice

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Frédéric Gendrin, 2003, INTERSPEECH.

Structure-based pronunciation assessment

Nobuaki Minematsu, Masayuki Suzuki, 2009, SLaTE.

Measurement of Objective Intelligibility of Japanese Accented English Using ERJ (English Read by Japanese) Database

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keisuke Ogaki, 2011, INTERSPEECH.

Integration of MLLR adaptation with pronunciation proficiency adaptation for non-native speech recognition

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Gakuto Kurata, 2002, INTERSPEECH.

Development of a CALL system to enhance ESL/EFL learners' skills of shadowing and reading aloud

Nobuaki Minematsu, Yutaka Yamauchi, Dean Luo, 2009, SLaTE.

Use of linguistic information for automatic extraction of f_0 contour generation process model parameters

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Shuichi Narusawa, 2003, INTERSPEECH.

Corpus-based synthesis of fundamental frequency contours based on a generation process model

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Atsuhiro Sakurai, 2001, INTERSPEECH.

Wasserstein GAN and Waveform Loss-Based Acoustic Model Training for Multi-Speaker Text-to-Speech Synthesis Systems Using a WaveNet Vocoder

Nobuaki Minematsu, Yi Zhao, Junichi Yamagishi, 2018, IEEE Access.

Acoustic correlates and gender effects in production and perception of Japanese polite speech

Nobuaki Minematsu, Shuju Shi, Chiharu Tsurutani, 2016, 2016 10th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP).

Improvement of Structure to Speech Conversion Using Iterative Optimization

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yu Qiao, 2009 .

Generation of fundamental frequency contours for Mandarin speech synthesis based on tone nucleus model

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Wentao Gu, 2005, INTERSPEECH.

Estimation of resonant characteristics based on AR-HMM modeling and spectral envelope conversion of vowel sounds

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Nobuyuki Nishizawa, 2003, INTERSPEECH.

Human Speech Model based on Information Separation

Nobuaki Minematsu, 2010, ESSV.

Para-Linguistic Information Represented as Distortion of the Acoustic Universal Structure In Speech

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Satoshi Asakawa, 2006, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings.

Converting Written Language to Spoken Language with Neural Machine Translation for Language Modeling

Nobuaki Minematsu, Masayuki Suzuki, Nobuyasu Itoh, 2020, ICASSP 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

Speaker-based accented English clustering using a world English archive

Nobuaki Minematsu, Chung-Hsien Wu, Han-Ping Shen, 2013, SLaTE.

Speech recognition using HMM with decreased intra-group variation in the temporal structure

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, K. Hirose, 1994, ICSLP.

Mora F0 representation for accent type identification in continuous speech and considerations on its relation with perceived pitch values

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Carlos Toshinori Ishi, 2003, Speech Commun..

Structural representation of pronunciation and its application for classifying Japanese learners of English

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Satoshi Asakawa, 2007, SLaTE.

Eigenvoice-Based Character Conversion for Arbitrary Speakers Using Various Character Voices of a Skilled Voice Actor

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, 2013 .

Feature Enhancement With Joint Use of Consecutive Corrupted and Noise Feature Vectors With Discriminative Region Weighting

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Shinji Watanabe, 2013, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing.

DNN-based Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis Incorporating Non-negative Matrix Factorization

Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, Shunsuke Goto, 2019, 2019 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC).

Data-Driven Synthesis of Fundamental Frequency Contours for TTS Systems Based on a Generation Process Model

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Masaya Eto, 2002 .

A Comparative Study of Statistical Conversion of Face to Voice Based on Their Subjective Impressions

Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, Yasuhito Ohsugi, 2018, INTERSPEECH.

Tone recognition of continuous speech of standard Chinese using neural network and tone nucleus model

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Hui Hu, 2006, INTERSPEECH.

Speaker Verification in Realistic Noisy Environment in Forensic Science

Nobuaki Minematsu, Takashi Osanai, Toshiaki Kamada, 2008, IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst..

Experimental investigation on the efficacy of Affine-DTW in the quality of voice conversion

Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, Gaku Kotani, 2019, 2019 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC).

Phase singularities for image representation and matching

Nobuaki Minematsu, Wei Wang, Yu Qiao, 2008, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing.

Dynamic Grammars with Lookahead Composition for WFST-based Speech Recognition

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Josef R. Novak, 2012, INTERSPEECH.

Divergence estimation based on deep neural networks and its use for language identification

Nobuaki Minematsu, Yosuke Kashiwagi, Daisuke Saito, 2016, 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

Role of prosodic features in the human process of perceiving spoken words and sentences in Japanese

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, 1995 .

Improved Mandarin segmental duration prediction with automatically extracted syntax features

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Miaomiao Wang, 2010, IEEE 10th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SIGNAL PROCESSING PROCEEDINGS.

Consideration on automatic classification of Japanese intonation for CALL systems.

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Ishi Carlos Toshinori, 2001 .

Improved concept-to-speech generation in a dialogue system on road guidance

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yuji Yagi, 2005, 2005 International Conference on Cyberworlds (CW'05).

Mathematical evidence of the acoustic universal structure in speech

Nobuaki Minematsu, 2005, Proceedings. (ICASSP '05). IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2005..

Prosody Conversion for Emotional Mandarin Speech Synthesis Using the Tone Nucleus Model

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Miaomiao Wang, 2011, INTERSPEECH.

Automatic recognition of Japanese vowel length accounting for speaking rate and motivated by perception analysis

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Greg Short, 2015, Speech Commun..

Identification of accent and intonation in sentences for CALL systems

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Carlos Toshinori Ishi, 2001, INTERSPEECH.

Statistical language modeling with prosodic boundaries and its use for continuous speech recognition

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Makoto Terao, 2002, INTERSPEECH.

Decision of response timing for incremental speech recognition with reinforcement learning

Nobuaki Minematsu, Di Lu, Takuya Nishimoto, 2011, 2011 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding.

Voice conversion based on deep neural networks for time-variant linear transformations

Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, Gaku Kotani, 2017, 2017 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC).

Prosodic Analysis and Modeling of Nagauta Singing to Generate Prosodic Contours from Standard Scores

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Bungo Matsuoka, 2004, IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst..

Generation of fundamental frequency contours of Mandarin in HMM-based speech synthesis using generation process model

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Miaomiao Wang, 2010, Speech Prosody 2010.

P7. Experimental investigation of the definition of reference accent distance between speakers toward automatic accent clustering of speakers of World Englishes(Summaries of Presentations at the 28th General Meeting)

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, 2014 .

Speech enhancement using soft thresholding with DCT-EMD based hybrid algorithm

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Md. Kamrul Hasan, 2007, 2007 15th European Signal Processing Conference.

Improved estimation of femininity using GMM supervectors and SVR for voice therapy of Gender Identity Disorder Clients

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Masayuki Suzuki, 2013, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing.

Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) Based on Speech Technologies

Nobuaki Minematsu, Tatsuya Kawahara, 2013 .

Multi-band approach of audio source discrimination with empirical mode decomposition

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Md. Khademul Islam Molla, 2005, INTERSPEECH.

Human speech model based on information separation and its application to speech processing

Nobuaki Minematsu, N. Minematsu, 2010, 2010 7th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing.

Corpus-based analysis of English spoken by Japanese students in view of the entire phonemic system of English

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Gakuto Kurata, 2002, INTERSPEECH.

Arbitrary speaker conversion based on speaker space bases constructed by deep neural networks

Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, Tetsuya Hashimoto, 2016, 2016 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA).

Multi-stream parameterization for structural speech recognition

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Satoshi Asakawa, 2008, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing.

Automatic detection of the words that will become unintelligible through Japanese accented pronunciation of English

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Teeraphon Pongkittiphan, 2013, SLaTE.

Visualization of pronunciation diversity of world Englishes from a speaker's self-centered viewpoint

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, 2014, 2014 17th Oriental Chapter of the International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques (COCOSDA).

Regularized Maximum Likelihood Linear Regression Adaptation for Computer-Assisted Language Learning Systems

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yu Qiao, 2011, IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst..

Pronunciation assessment based upon the compatibility between a learner's pronunciation structure and the target language's lexical structure

Nobuaki Minematsu, N. Minematsu, 2004, INTERSPEECH.

N-gram language modeling of Japanese using bunsetsu boundaries

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Sungyup Chung, 2004, INTERSPEECH.

EMD based soft-thresholding for speech enhancement

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Md. Kamrul Hasan, 2007, INTERSPEECH.

Automatic scoring of language learners' utterances generated through shadowing based on bottom-up clustering

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yutaka Yamauchi, 2008 .

Automatic detection of accent in English words spoken by Japanese students

Nobuaki Minematsu, Seiichi Nakagawa, Nariaki Ohashi, 1997, EUROSPEECH.

Discriminative re-ranking for automatic speech recognition by leveraging invariant structures

Nobuaki Minematsu, Masafumi Nishimura, Masayuki Suzuki, 2015, Speech Commun..

Scheduling for broadcast operation in heterogeneous parallel computing environments

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Shinya Kiriyama, 2004 .

Automatic prediction of intelligibility of English words spoken with Japanese accents - comparative study of features and models used for prediction

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, 2015, SLaTE.

Probabilistic integration of joint density model and speaker model for voice conversion

Nobuaki Minematsu, Shinji Watanabe, Atsushi Nakamura, 2010, INTERSPEECH.

Structure to speech conversion - speech generation based on infant-like vocal imitation

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Satoshi Asakawa, 2008, INTERSPEECH.

Leveraging phonetic context dependent invariant structure for continuous speech recognition

Nobuaki Minematsu, Masafumi Nishimura, Masayuki Suzuki, 2014, 2014 IEEE China Summit & International Conference on Signal and Information Processing (ChinaSIP).

A study on Hidden Structural Model and its application to labeling sequences

Nobuaki Minematsu, Yu Qiao, Masayuki Suzuki, 2009, 2009 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding.

MFCC enhancement using joint corrupted and noise feature space for highly non-stationary noise environments

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Shinji Watanabe, 2012, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

Extraction of universal structure from speech and structural representation of language learners

Nobuaki Minematsu, 2004 .

Automatic Assessment of Language Proficiency through Shadowing

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yutaka Yamauchi, 2008, 2008 6th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing.

Localization based audio source separation by sub-band beamforming

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Md. Khademul Islam Molla, 2006, 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems.

Artificial bandwidth extension based on regularized piecewise linear mapping with discriminative region weighting and long-Span features

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Masayuki Suzuki, 2013, INTERSPEECH.

Prosodic analysis and modeling of the NAGAUTA singing to synthesize its prosodic patterns from the standard notation

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Bungo Matsuoka, 2003, INTERSPEECH.

New Features and Effectiveness of Suzuki-kun, the First and Only Prosodic Reading Tutor of Tokyo Japanese

Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, 2017, SLaTE.

Failure transitions for joint n-gram models and G2p conversion

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Josef R. Novak, 2013, INTERSPEECH.

F0 models show Chinese speakers of Japanese insert intonational boundaries and drop pitch

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Wentao Gu, 2007, INTERSPEECH.

Analysis and utilization of MLLR speaker adaptation technique for learners' pronunciation evaluation

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yutaka Yamauchi, 2009, INTERSPEECH.

Applying generation process model constraint to fundamental frequency contours generated by hidden-Markov-model-based speech synthesis

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Tetsuya Matsuda, 2012 .

Decomposition of rotational distortion caused by VTL difference using eigenvalues of its transformation matrix

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, 2008, INTERSPEECH.

Analysis of Native Listeners' Facial Microexpressions While Shadowing Non-Native Speech - Potential of Shadowers' Facial Expressions for Comprehensibility Prediction

Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, Tasavat Trisitichoke, 2019, INTERSPEECH.

Application of matrix variate Gaussian mixture model to statistical voice conversion

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, 2014, INTERSPEECH.

Evaluation of Japanese manners of generating word accent of English based on a stressed syllable detection technique

Nobuaki Minematsu, Seiichi Nakagawa, Yukiko Fujisawa, 1998, ICSLP.

How to improve TTS systems for emotional expressivity

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Shaikh Mostafa Al Masum, 2009, INTERSPEECH.

Performance improvement of automatic pronunciation assessment in a noisy classroom

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yutaka Yamauchi, 2012, 2012 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT).

Amplitude limiters based on phase optimization

Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, Yasuhiro Kosugi, 2016 .

Instantaneous estimation of accentuation habits for Japanese students to learn English pronunciation

Nobuaki Minematsu, Seiichi Nakagawa, Naoki Nakamura, 2001, INTERSPEECH.

High accurate model-integration-based voice conversion using dynamic features and model structure optimization

Nobuaki Minematsu, Shinji Watanabe, Atsushi Nakamura, 2011, 2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

Audio source separation from the mixture using empirical mode decomposition with independent subspace analysis

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Md. Khademul Islam Molla, 2004, INTERSPEECH.

Statistical acoustic-to-articulatory mapping unified with speaker normalization based on voice conversion

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, 2015, INTERSPEECH.

Role of prosodic features in the human process of speech perception

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, K. Hirose, 1994, ICSLP.

Improved Prediction of Tone Components for F0 Contour Generation of Mandarin Speech Based on the Tone Nucleus Model

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Qinghua Sun, 2008 .

A study on BLSTM-RNN-based Chinese prosodic structure prediction in a unified framework with character-level features

Nobuaki Minematsu, Yi Zhao, Daisuke Saito, 2016 .

Enhanced MAP adaptation of n-gram language models using indirect correlation of distant words

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, T. Moriya, 2001, IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, 2001. ASRU '01..

Factors affecting speakers² choice of fillers in Japanese presentations

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yasuharu Den, 2006, INTERSPEECH.

A Study of Objective Measurement of Comprehensibility through Native Speakers' Shadowing of Learners' Utterances

Nobuaki Minematsu, Yutaka Yamauchi, Daisuke Saito, 2018, INTERSPEECH.

Accent Sandhi Estimation of Tokyo Dialect of Japanese Using Conditional Random Fields

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Masayuki Suzuki, 2017, IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst..

Unsupervised optimal phoneme segmentation: Objectives, algorithm and comparisons

Nobuaki Minematsu, Yu Qiao, Naoya Shimomura, 2008, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing.

Pronunciation assessment based upon the phonological distortions observed in language learners' utterances

Nobuaki Minematsu, 2004, INTERSPEECH.

Generation of F/sub 0/ contours using a model-constrained data-driven method

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Atsuhiro Sakurai, 2001, 2001 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Proceedings (Cat. No.01CH37221).

Experimental Study of Using Spectrum-based Features for Structural Representation of Speech

Nobuaki Minematsu, Masayuki Suzuki, S. Asakawa, 2008 .

Automatic Scoring of Shadowing Speech Based on DNN Posteriors and Their DTW

Nobuaki Minematsu, Yutaka Yamauchi, Junwei Yue, 2017, INTERSPEECH.

Separation of Mixed Audio Signals by Decomposing Hilbert Spectrum with Modified EMD

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Md. Khademul Islam Molla, 2006, IEICE Trans. Fundam. Electron. Commun. Comput. Sci..

Use of generation process model for synthesizing fundamental frequency contours in HMM-based speech synthesis

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Hiroya Hashimoto, 2012, 2012 IEEE 11th International Conference on Signal Processing.

Quality improvement of PSOLA analysis-synthesis using partial zero-phase conversion

Nobuaki Minematsu, Seiichi Nakagawa, 2000, INTERSPEECH.

Detection of Fillers Using Prosodic Features in Spontaneous Speech Recognition of Japanese

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yu Abe, 2006 .

Comparison of native and non-native evaluations of the naturalness of Japanesewords with prosody modified through voice morphing

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Shuhei Kato, 2011, SLaTE.

Development of a Femininity Estimator for Voice Therapy of Gender Identity Disorder Clients

Nobuaki Minematsu, Kyoko Sakuraba, N. Minematsu, 2007, Speaker Classification.

Prediction of the Articulatory Movements of Unseen Phonemes of a Speaker Using the Speech Structure of Another Speaker

Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, Hidetsugu Uchida, 2016, INTERSPEECH.

Development of a Femininity Estimator using Speaker Recognition Techniques for Voice Therapy of Gender Identity Disorder Clients

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Satoshi Imaizumi, 2007, 2007 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - ICASSP '07.

Clause types and filed pauses in Japanese spontaneous monologues

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yasuharu Den, 2004, INTERSPEECH.

Native Listeners' Shadowing of Non-native Utterances as Spoken Annotation Representing Comprehensibility of the Utterances

Nobuaki Minematsu, Yusuke Inoue, Daisuke Saito, 2019, SLaTE.

Lexical Density Analysis of Word Productions in Japanese English Using Acoustic Word Embeddings

Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, Shintaro Ando, 2021, Interspeech.

Optimized Prediction of Fluency of L2 English Based on Interpretable Network Using Quantity of Phonation and Quality of Pronunciation

Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, Kazuya Saito, 2021, 2021 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT).

Toward Optimal Unsupervised Phoneme Segmentation -A Theoretical and Experimental Investigation

Nobuaki Minematsu, Yu Qiao, Naoya Shimomura, 2007 .

INFLUENCE OF CONTENT VARIATIONS ON SMOOTHNESS OF NATIVE SPEAKERS’ REVERSE SHADOWING

Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, Shintaro Ando, 2019 .