Hisashi Kawai

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Cluster-based language model for spoken document retrieval using NMF-based document clustering

Satoshi Nakamura, Xinhui Hu, Ryosuke Isotani, 2010, INTERSPEECH.

Utilizing a noisy-channel approach for Korean LVCSR

Satoshi Nakamura, Sakriani Sakti, Ryosuke Isotani, 2010, INTERSPEECH.

Grounded language understanding for manipulation instructions using GAN-based classification

Hisashi Kawai, Komei Sugiura, K. Sugiura, 2017, 2017 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU).

Estimation of Perceptual Spaces for Speaker Identities Based on the Cross-Lingual Discrimination Task

Keiichi Tokuda, Hisashi Kawai, Jinfu Ni, 2011, INTERSPEECH.

Answering Complex Questions via Exploiting Social Q&A Collection

Hideki Kashioka, Chiori Hori, Hisashi Kawai, 2011, IJCNLP.

Analysis of major factors of naturalness degradation in concatenative synthesis

Hisashi Kawai, Nobuyuki Nishizawa, Minoru Tsuzaki, 2005, Interspeech.

Understanding Natural Language Instructions for Fetching Daily Objects Using GAN-Based Multimodal Target–Source Classification

Hisashi Kawai, Komei Sugiura, Aly Magassouba, 2019, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

Robust and Fast Lyric Search based on Phonetic Confusion Matrix

Xin Xu, Masaki Naito, Hisashi Kawai, 2009, ISMIR.

A preselection method based on cost degradation from the optimal sequence for concatenative speech synthesis

Hisashi Kawai, Nobuyuki Nishizawa, 2007, INTERSPEECH.

Local fisher discriminant analysis for spoken language identification

Lemao Liu, Hisashi Kawai, Xugang Lu, 2016, 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

Improving FFTNet Vocoder with Noise Shaping and Subband Approaches

Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai, Takuma Okamoto, 2018, 2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT).

Speech pattern classification using Large Geometric Margin Minimum Classification Error training

Shigeru Katagiri, Hisashi Kawai, Miho Ohsaki, 2015, TENCON 2015 - 2015 IEEE Region 10 Conference.

Voice activity detection in a reguarized reproducing kernel hilbert space

Satoshi Nakamura, Masashi Unoki, Ryosuke Isotani, 2010, INTERSPEECH.

Formulating contextual tonal variations in Mandarin

Keikichi Hirose, Hisashi Kawai, Jinfu Ni, 2004, INTERSPEECH.

A Study Toward an Evaluation Method for Spoken Dialogue Systems Considering User Criteria

Satoshi Nakamura, Hideki Kashioka, Hisashi Kawai, 2010, IWSDS.

Training data pseudo-shuffling and direct decoding framework for recurrent neural network based acoustic modeling

Naoyuki Kanda, Hisashi Kawai, Xugang Lu, 2015, 2015 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU).

Recognition of connected digit speech in Japanese collected over the telephone network

Hisashi Kawai, Norio Higuchi, 1998, ICSLP.

Optimizing sub-cost functions for segment selection based on perceptual evaluations in concatenative speech synthesis

Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai, Minoru Tsuzaki, 2004, 2004 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.

Situated Spoken Dialogue with Robots Using Active Learning

Satoshi Nakamura, Hisashi Kawai, Naoto Iwahashi, 2011, Adv. Robotics.

Adaptive Regularization Framework for Robust Voice Activity Detection

Satoshi Nakamura, Masashi Unoki, Ryosuke Isotani, 2011, INTERSPEECH.

Analysis on Effects of Text-to-Speech and Avatar Agent in Evoking Users’ Spontaneous Listener’s Reactions

Satoshi Nakamura, Hisashi Kawai, Teruhisa Misu, 2011 .

Estimation of intonation variation with constrained tone transformations

Keikichi Hirose, Hisashi Kawai, Jinfu Ni, 2005, INTERSPEECH.

A Close Look into the Probablistic Concatenation Model for Corpus-based Speech Synthesis

Satoshi Nakamura, Ranniery Maia, Hisashi Kawai, 2009 .

Using a depth-restricted search to reduce delays in unit selection

Hisashi Kawai, Nobuyuki Nishizawa, 2004, INTERSPEECH.

An unsupervised approach to creating web audio contents-based HMM voices

Hisashi Kawai, Jinfu Ni, 2010, INTERSPEECH.

Improvement of rejection performance of keyword spotting using anti-keywords derived from large vocabulary considering acoustical similarity to keywords

Makoto Yamada, Masaki Naito, Hisashi Kawai, 2005, INTERSPEECH.

Global Syllable Vectors for Building TTS Front-End with Deep Learning

Hisashi Kawai, Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, 2017, INTERSPEECH.

The NICT Entry for the Blizzard Challenge 2009: an Enhanced HMM-based Speech Synthesis System with Trajectory Training Considering Global Variance and State-Dependent Mixed Excitation

Keiichi Tokuda, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura, 2009 .

Perceptual evaluation of naturalness due to substitution of Chinese syllable for concatenative speech synthesis

Hisashi Kawai, Jinlin Lu, 2002, INTERSPEECH.

A pseudo-task design in multi-task learning deep neural network for speaker recognition

Yu Tsao, Hisashi Kawai, Xugang Lu, 2016, 2016 10th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP).

A study on automatic detection of Japanese vowel devoicing for speech synthesis

Ren-Hua Wang, Hisashi Kawai, Jinfu Ni, 2004, INTERSPEECH.

A system for speech synthesis from Japanese orthographic text

Hisashi Kawai, Hiroya Fujisaki, Kcikichi Hirose, 1988 .

Improving spontaneous English ASR using a joint-sequence pronunciation model

Satoshi Nakamura, Hansjörg Hofmann, Wolfgang Minker, 2010, 2010 4th International Universal Communication Symposium.

Improving Very Deep Time-Delay Neural Network With Vertical-Attention For Effectively Training CTC-Based ASR Systems

Tatsuya Kawahara, Hisashi Kawai, Xugang Lu, 2018, 2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT).

HMM-based TTS System Framework

Hisashi Kawai, Hiroaki Kato, Yoshinori Shiga, 2019, 2019 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering & Economics (CIFEr).

Scaling of waveform segments along the time axis for concatenative speech synthesis

Hisashi Kawai, Nobuyuki Nishizawa, 2004, 2004 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.

Development of "VoiceTra" Multi-Lingual Speech Translation System for Practical Use

Satoshi Nakamura, Eiichiro Sumita, Hideki Kashioka, 2013 .

XIMERA: a new TTS from ATR based on corpus-based technologies

Keiichi Tokuda, Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai, 2004, SSW.

Investigation of Innervation Zone Shift with Continuous Dynamic Muscle Contraction

Hisashi Kawai, Naohiko Kanemura, Ken Nishihara, 2013, Comput. Math. Methods Medicine.

Brazilian portuguese acoustic model training based on data borrowing from other language

Satoshi Nakamura, Sakriani Sakti, Ryosuke Isotani, 2010, INTERSPEECH.

A DOA estimation method for 3D multiple source signals using independent component analysis

Hao Yuan, Makoto Yamada, Hisashi Kawai, 2006, 2006 14th European Signal Processing Conference.

A System for Synthesis of High-Quality Speech from Japanese Text

Keikichi Hirose, Hisashi Kawai, Hiroya Fujisaki, 1996 .

Optimizing integrated cost function for segment selection in concatenative speech synthesis based on perceptual evaluations

Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai, Minoru Tsuzaki, 2003, INTERSPEECH.

Multilingual Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion with Global Character Vectors

Hisashi Kawai, Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, 2018, INTERSPEECH.

NICT Blizzard Challenge 2010 Entry

Keiichi Tokuda, Satoshi Nakamura, Hisashi Kawai, 2010 .

Knowledge Distillation-Based Representation Learning for Short-Utterance Spoken Language Identification

Hisashi Kawai, Sheng Li, Xugang Lu, 2020, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing.

Modeling spoken decision support dialogue and optimization of its dialogue strategy

Satoshi Nakamura, Tatsuya Kawahara, Hideki Kashioka, 2011, TSLP.

User Study of Spoken Decision Support System

Satoshi Nakamura, Chiori Hori, Hisashi Kawai, 2011, INTERSPEECH.

Reducing latency for language identification based on large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition

Hisashi Kawai, Takuma Okamoto, Hiroe Atsuo, 2017 .

Construction and Experiment of a Spoken Consulting Dialogue System

Satoshi Nakamura, Hideki Kashioka, Chiori Hori, 2010, IWSDS.

ATRECSS — ATR ENGLISH SPEECH CORPUS FOR SPEECH SYNTHESIS

Keiichi Tokuda, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura, 2007 .

A Myanmar large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system

Chiori Hori, Xinhui Hu, Hisashi Kawai, 2015, 2015 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA).

Incremental training and constructing the very deep convolutional residual network acoustic models

Tatsuya Kawahara, Hisashi Kawai, Xugang Lu, 2017, 2017 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU).

Communicative speech synthesis with XIMERA: a first step

Keiichi Tokuda, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura, 2007, SSW.

CTC Loss Function with a Unit-Level Ambiguity Penalty

Hisashi Kawai, Ryoichi Takashima, Sheng Li, 2018, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

A Short-Latency Unit Selection Method with Redundant Search for Concatenative Speech Synthesis

Hisashi Kawai, Nobuyuki Nishizawa, 2006, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings.

2003 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP '03, Hong Kong, April 6-10, 2003

Hisashi Kawai, Jinfu Ni, 2003, ICASSP.

Design of a Mandarin sentence set for corpus-based speech synthesis by use of a multi-tier algorithm taking account of the varied prosodic and spectral characteristics

Hisashi Kawai, Jinfu Ni, 2002, INTERSPEECH.

The linguistic processing module for Japanese text-to-speech system

Hisashi Kawai, Seiichi Yamamoto, Norio Higuchi, 1990, ICSLP.

reproducing kernel Hilbert space

Masashi Unoki, Ryosuke Isotani, Hisashi Kawai, 2010 .

An Evaluation of Parameter Generation Methods with Rich Context Models in HMM-Based Speech Synthesis

Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura, Sakriani Sakti, 2012, INTERSPEECH.

Minimum segmentation error based discriminative training for speech synthesis application

Ren-Hua Wang, Hisashi Kawai, Jinfu Ni, 2004, 2004 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.

A sampling-based environment population projection approach for rapid acoustic model adaptation

Satoshi Nakamura, Yu Tsao, Ryosuke Isotani, 2011, 2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

An Investigation of a Knowledge Distillation Method for CTC Acoustic Models

Hisashi Kawai, Ryoichi Takashima, Sheng Li, 2018, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

An environment structuring framework to facilitating suitable prior density estimation for MAPLR on robust speech recognition

Satoshi Nakamura, Yu Tsao, Ryosuke Isotani, 2010, 2010 7th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing.

Interactive Learning of Teacher-student Model for Short Utterance Spoken Language Identification

Sheng Li, Hisashi Kawai, Xugang Lu, 2019, ICASSP 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

NiCT at TREC 2010: Related Entity Finding

Chiori Hori, Hisashi Kawai, Youzheng Wu, 2010, TREC.

An investigation of the impact of speech transcript errors on HMM voices

Hisashi Kawai, Jinfu Ni, 2010, SSW.

Hyperbolic structure of fundamental frequency contour

Satoshi Nakamura, Hisashi Kawai, Jinfu Ni, 2009, IUCS '09.

Improving CTC-based Acoustic Model with Very Deep Residual Time-delay Neural Networks

Tatsuya Kawahara, Hisashi Kawai, Xugang Lu, 2018, INTERSPEECH.

Subband wavenet with overlapped single-sideband filterbanks

Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai, Takuma Okamoto, 2017, 2017 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU).

Spoken Dialog System on Plasma Display Panel Estimating Users' Interest by Image Processing

Satoshi Nakamura, Kentaro Kayama, Hideki Kashioka, 2010, Intelligent Environments.

Development of the "VoiceTra" Multi-Lingual Speech Translation System

Satoshi Nakamura, Eiichiro Sumita, Hisashi Kawai, 2017, IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst..

Probabilistic Concatenation Modeling for Corpus-Based Speech Synthesis

Tatsuya Kawahara, Hisashi Kawai, Shinsuke Sakai, 2011, IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst..

Segment selection considering local degradation of naturalness in concatenative speech synthesis

Tomoki Toda, Kiyohiro Shikano, Hisashi Kawai, 2003, 2003 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2003. Proceedings. (ICASSP '03)..

Distributed speech translation technologies for multiparty multilingual communication

Satoshi Nakamura, Eiichiro Sumita, Sakriani Sakti, 2012, TSLP.

Temporal Attentive Pooling for Acoustic Event Detection

Yu Tsao, Hisashi Kawai, Xugang Lu, 2018, INTERSPEECH.

A system for synthesizing Japanese speech from orthographic text

Keikichi Hirose, Hisashi Kawai, Hiroya Fujisaki, 1990, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.

Dialogue strategy optimization to assist user's decision for spoken consulting dialogue systems

Satoshi Nakamura, Hideki Kashioka, Chiori Hori, 2010, 2010 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop.

Pitch Targets Anchor Chinese Tone and Intonation Patterns

Hisashi Kawai, Jinfu Ni, 2004 .

Sequence-Based Pronunciation Modeling Using a Noisy-Channel Approach

Satoshi Nakamura, Hansjörg Hofmann, Wolfgang Minker, 2010, IWSDS.

Tacotron-Based Acoustic Model Using Phoneme Alignment for Practical Neural Text-to-Speech Systems

Hisashi Kawai, Tomoki Toda, Yoshinori Shiga, 2019, 2019 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU).

Unit selection algorithm for Japanese speech synthesis based on both phoneme unit and diphone unit

Tomoki Toda, Kiyohiro Shikano, Hisashi Kawai, 2002, 2002 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.

Development of a text-to-speech system for Japanese based on waveform splicing

Hisashi Kawai, Seiichi Yamamoto, Norio Higuchi, 1994, Proceedings of ICASSP '94. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing.

F0 Contour Analysis Based on Empirical Mode Decomposition for DNN Acoustic Modeling in Mandarin Speech Recognition

Xiaoyun Wang, Hisashi Kawai, Xugang Lu, 2016, INTERSPEECH.

Investigation of Optimum Electrode Locations by Using an Automatized Surface Electromyography Analysis Technique

Hisashi Kawai, Ken Nishihara, Yu Chiba, 2008, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.

Deep neural network-based power spectrum reconstruction to improve quality of vocoded speech with limited acoustic parameters

Hisashi Kawai, Tomoki Toda, Yoshinori Shiga, 2018 .

Pair-Wise Distance Metric Learning of Neural Network Model for Spoken Language Identification

Yu Tsao, Hisashi Kawai, Xugang Lu, 2016, INTERSPEECH.

Expansion of WFST-Based Dialog Management for Handling Multiple ASR Hypotheses

Satoshi Nakamura, Naoto Kimura, Chiori Hori, 2010, IWSDS.

Iterative mapping function estimation and environment structure refinement in the online phase of the ESSEM approach (音声)

Satoshi Nakamura, Ryosuke Isotani, Hisashi Kawai, 2011 .

Combination of multiple acoustic models with unsupervised adaptation for lecture speech transcription

Naoyuki Kanda, Chiori Hori, Xinhui Hu, 2016, Speech Commun..

Unsupervised determination of efficient Korean LVCSR units using a Bayesian Dirichlet process model

Satoshi Nakamura, Sakriani Sakti, Ryosuke Isotani, 2011, 2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

Investigation of Semi-Supervised Acoustic Model Training Based on the Committee of Heterogeneous Neural Networks

Naoyuki Kanda, Hisashi Kawai, Xugang Lu, 2016, INTERSPEECH.

Sparse representation with temporal max-smoothing for acoustic event detection

Yu Tsao, Chiori Hori, Hisashi Kawai, 2015, INTERSPEECH.

Speaker-Adaptive Speech Synthesis Based on Eigenvoice Conversion and Language-Dependent Prosodic Conversion in Speech-to-Speech Translation

Tomoki Toda, Kiyohiro Shikano, Hisashi Kawai, 2011, INTERSPEECH.

Investigations of Real-time Gaussian Fftnet and Parallel Wavenet Neural Vocoders with Simple Acoustic Features

Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai, Yoshinori Shiga, 2019, ICASSP 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

Reduction of correlation computation in the permutation of the frequency domain ICA by selecting DOAs estimated in subarrays

Hao Yuan, Hisashi Kawai, Toshiharu Horiuchi, 2007, 2007 15th European Signal Processing Conference.

Improvement of the synthetic speech quality of the formant-type speech synthesizer and its subjective evaluation

Hisashi Kawai, Seiichi Yamamoto, Norio Higuchi, 1990, ICSLP.

Bottleneck linear transformation network adaptation for speaker adaptive training-based hybrid DNN-HMM speech recognizer

Shigeru Katagiri, Hisashi Kawai, Xugang Lu, 2016, 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

Raw waveform-based speech enhancement by fully convolutional networks

Yu Tsao, Hisashi Kawai, Xugang Lu, 2017, 2017 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC).

Phone duration modeling using gradient tree boosting

Takao Kobayashi, Junichi Yamagishi, Hisashi Kawai, 2008, Speech Commun..

3. Multi-language Speech Synthesis

Keiichi Tokuda, Hisashi Kawai, 2010 .

Incorporating Regional Information to Enhance MAP-Based Stochastic Feature Compensation for Robust Speech Recognition

Yu Tsao, Chiori Hori, Hisashi Kawai, 2011, INTERSPEECH.

Comparative Evaluations of Various Factored Deep Convolutional Rnn Architectures for Noise Robust Speech Recognition

Masakiyo Fujimoto, Hisashi Kawai, 2018, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

Modeling Spoken Decision Making Dialogue and Optimization of its Dialogue Strategy

Satoshi Nakamura, Hideki Kashioka, Chiori Hori, 2010, SIGDIAL Conference.

Construction and evaluations of an annotated Chinese conversational corpus in travel domain for the language model of speech recognition

Satoshi Nakamura, Xinhui Hu, Ryosuke Isotani, 2010, INTERSPEECH.

Constructing a Phonetic-Rich Speech Corpus While Controlling Time-Dependent Voice Quality Variability for English Speech Synthesis

Hisashi Kawai, Jinfu Ni, Toshio Hirai, 2006, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings.

Resonance-based spectral deformation in HMM-based speech synthesis

Hideki Kashioka, Hisashi Kawai, Jinfu Ni, 2012, 2012 8th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing.

Improvement of synthetic speech quality through syntactic information

Hisashi Kawai, Seiichi Yamamoto, Norio Higuchi, 1991 .

Tone feature extraction through parametric modeling and analysis-by-synthesis-based pattern matching

Hisashi Kawai, Jinfu Ni, 2003, 2003 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2003. Proceedings. (ICASSP '03)..

Feature Representation of Short Utterances Based on Knowledge Distillation for Spoken Language Identification

Hisashi Kawai, Xugang Lu, Sheng Li, 2018, INTERSPEECH.

Toward Construction of Spoken Dialogue System that Evokes Users’ Spontaneous Backchannels

Satoshi Nakamura, Hisashi Kawai, Teruhisa Misu, 2011, SIGDIAL Conference.

Realization of linguistic information in the voice fundamental frequency contour of the spoken Japanese

Hisashi Kawai, Hiroya Fujisaki, 1988, ICASSP-88., International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.

Discriminative training and explicit duration modeling for HMM-based automatic segmentation

Ren-Hua Wang, Hisashi Kawai, Jinfu Ni, 2005, Speech Commun..

A text-prompted distributed speaker verification system implemented on a cellular phone and a mobile terminal

Hisashi Kawai, Tsuneo Kato, T. Kato, 2006, INTERSPEECH.

Model Integration for HMM- and DNN-Based Speech Synthesis Using Product-of-Experts Framework

Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai, Yoshinori Shiga, 2016, INTERSPEECH.

A cloud robotics approach towards dialogue-oriented robot speech

Chiori Hori, Hisashi Kawai, Teruhisa Misu, 2015, Adv. Robotics.

The ATR Multilingual Speech-to-Speech Translation System

Satoshi Nakamura, Eiichiro Sumita, Hirofumi Yamamoto, 2006, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing.

Korean pronunciation variation modeling with probabilistic Bayesian networks

Satoshi Nakamura, Sakriani Sakti, Ryosuke Isotani, 2010, 2010 4th International Universal Communication Symposium.

A Multimodal Target-Source Classifier Model for Object Fetching from Natural Language Instructions

Hisashi Kawai, Komei Sugiura, Aly Magassouba, 2019 .

Speaker Adaptive Training Localizing Speaker Modules in DNN for Hybrid DNN-HMM Speech Recognizers

Shigeru Katagiri, Chiori Hori, Hisashi Kawai, 2016, IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst..

Evaluation of Facial Direction Estimation from Cameras for Multi-modal Spoken Dialog System

Satoshi Nakamura, Kentaro Kayama, Hideki Kashioka, 2010, IWSDS.

Feature extraction for unit selection in concatenative speech synthesis: comparison between AIM, LPC, and MFCC

Hisashi Kawai, Minoru Tsuzaki, 2002, INTERSPEECH.

Generation of prosodic symbols for rule-synthesis of connected speech of Japanese

Keikichi Hirose, Hisashi Kawai, Hiroya Fujisaki, 1986, ICASSP '86. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.

A design method of speech corpus for text-to-speech synthesis taking account of prosody

Hisashi Kawai, Seiichi Yamamoto, Norio Higuchi, 2000, INTERSPEECH.

"Developing a Test Bed of English Text-to-Speech System XIMERA for the Blizzard Challenge 2006 for the Blizzard Challenge 2006"

Keiichi Tokuda, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura, 2006 .

Tone pattern discrimination combining parametric modeling and maximum likelihood estimation

Hisashi Kawai, Jinfu Ni, 2003, INTERSPEECH.

Maximum-a-Posteriori-Based Decoding for End-to-End Acoustic Models

Naoyuki Kanda, Hisashi Kawai, Xugang Lu, 2017, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing.

HMM based myanmar text to speech system

Eiichiro Sumita, Chiori Hori, Hisashi Kawai, 2015, INTERSPEECH.

Experiments on unsupervised statistical parametric speech synthesis

Hideki Kashioka, Hisashi Kawai, Jinfu Ni, 2012, 2012 8th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing.

An evaluation of cost functions sensitively capturing local degradation of naturalness for segment selection in concatenative speech synthesis

Tomoki Toda, Kiyohiro Shikano, Hisashi Kawai, 2006, Speech Commun..

Sightseeing Guidance Systems Based on WFST-Based Dialogue Manager

Satoshi Nakamura, Kentaro Kayama, Hideki Kashioka, 2010, IWSDS.

A Segment Selection Algorithm for Japanese Concatenative Speech Synthesis Based on Both Phoneme Unit and diphone Unit

Tomoki Toda, Kiyohiro Shikano, Hisashi Kawai, 2002 .

SNR-dependent background noise compensation of PESQ values for cellular phone speech

Hisashi Kawai, Tsuneo Kato, Kengo Fujita, 2005, INTERSPEECH.

Speech enhancement as a functional approximation and generalization

Satoshi Nakamura, Masashi Unoki, Ryosuke Isotani, 2010, 2010 7th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing.

A Multimodal Classifier Generative Adversarial Network for Carry and Place Tasks From Ambiguous Language Instructions

Hisashi Kawai, Komei Sugiura, Aly Magassouba, 2018, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

Acoustic measures vs. phonetic features as predictors of audible discontinuity in concatenative speech synthesis

Hisashi Kawai, Minoru Tsuzaki, M. Tsuzaki, 2002, INTERSPEECH.

End-to-End Waveform Utterance Enhancement for Direct Evaluation Metrics Optimization by Fully Convolutional Neural Networks

Yu Tsao, Hisashi Kawai, Xugang Lu, 2017, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing.

Unit database pruning based on the cost degradation criterion for concatenative speech synthesis

Hisashi Kawai, Nobuyuki Nishizawa, 2008, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing.

Comparison of regularization constraints in deep neural network based speaker adaptation

Hisashi Kawai, Xugang Lu, Peng Shen, 2016, 2016 10th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP).

Minimum Bayes risk training of CTC acoustic models in maximum a posteriori based decoding framework

Naoyuki Kanda, Hisashi Kawai, Xugang Lu, 2017, 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

Using Zero-Frequency Resonator to Extract Multilingual Intonation Structure

Hisashi Kawai, Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, 2016, INTERSPEECH.

Improved training of excitation for HMM-based parametric speech synthesis

Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai, Shinsuke Sakai, 2010, INTERSPEECH.

Conditional Generative Adversarial Nets Classifier for Spoken Language Identification

Hisashi Kawai, Xugang Lu, Sheng Li, 2017, INTERSPEECH.

Maximum a posteriori Based Decoding for CTC Acoustic Models

Naoyuki Kanda, Hisashi Kawai, Xugang Lu, 2016, INTERSPEECH.

Exploiting Social Q&A Collection in Answering Complex Questions

Hisashi Kawai, Youzheng Wu, Youzheng Wu, 2010, CIPS-SIGHAN.

Non-monologue HMM-based speech synthesis for service robots: A cloud robotics approach

Chiori Hori, Hisashi Kawai, Teruhisa Misu, 2014, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).

Automatic acoustic segmentation in N-best list rescoring for lecture speech recognition

Hisashi Kawai, Xugang Lu, Peng Shen, 2016, 2016 10th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP).

Increasing discriminative capability on MAP-based mapping function estimation for acoustic model adaptation

Satoshi Nakamura, Yu Tsao, Ryosuke Isotani, 2011, 2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

Web text classification for response generation in spoken decision support dialogue systems

Satoshi Nakamura, Hideki Kashioka, Chiori Hori, 2010, 2010 4th International Universal Communication Symposium.

Multilingual Speech-to-Speech Translation System: VoiceTra

Satoshi Nakamura, Eiichiro Sumita, Hideki Kashioka, 2013, 2013 IEEE 14th International Conference on Mobile Data Management.

Incorporating Symbolic Sequential Modeling for Speech Enhancement pdf

Yu Tsao, Hisashi Kawai, Xugang Lu, 2019, INTERSPEECH.

An Investigation of Noise Shaping with Perceptual Weighting for Wavenet-Based Speech Generation

Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai, Yoshinori Shiga, 2018, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

Perceptual evaluation of cost for segment selection in concatenative speech synthesis

Tomoki Toda, Kiyohiro Shikano, Hisashi Kawai, 2002, Proceedings of 2002 IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 2002..

Segmentation for Chinese speech synthesis

Hisashi Kawai, Jinlin Lu, 2002 .

Active Learning for Generating Motion and Utterances in Object Manipulation Dialogue Tasks

Satoshi Nakamura, Hisashi Kawai, Naoto Iwahashi, 2010, AAAI Fall Symposium: Dialog with Robots.

An evaluation of automatic phone segmentation for concatenative speech synthesis

Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai, 2004, 2004 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.

Hideki Kashioka, Chiori Hori, Hisashi Kawai, 2011, IJCNLP.

An Investigation of Subband Wavenet Vocoder Covering Entire Audible Frequency Range with Limited Acoustic Features

Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai, Takuma Okamoto, 2018, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

Leveraging social Q&A collections for improving complex question answering

Hideki Kashioka, Chiori Hori, Hisashi Kawai, 2015, Comput. Speech Lang..

Full-Band LPCNet: A Real-Time Neural Vocoder for 48 kHz Audio With a CPU

Tomoki Toda, Tetsuya Takiguchi, Hisashi Kawai, 2021, IEEE Access.

Predicting and attending to damaging collisions for placing everyday objects in photo-realistic simulations

Hironobu Fujiyoshi, Tsubasa Hirakawa, Takayoshi Yamashita, 2021, Adv. Robotics.

Investigation of training data size for real-time neural vocoders on CPUs

Tomoki Toda, Tetsuya Takiguchi, Hisashi Kawai, 2021 .

Quasi-Periodic Parallel WaveGAN: A Non-Autoregressive Raw Waveform Generative Model With Pitch-Dependent Dilated Convolution Neural Network

Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai, Takuma Okamoto, 2021, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing.

Noise Level Limited Sub-Modeling for Diffusion Probabilistic Vocoders

Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai, Takuma Okamoto, 2021, ICASSP 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

Noise Robust Acoustic Modeling for Single-Channel Speech Recognition Based on a Stream-Wise Transformer Architecture

Masakiyo Fujimoto, Hisashi Kawai, 2021, Interspeech 2021.

High-Intelligibility Speech Synthesis for Dysarthric Speakers with LPCNet-Based TTS and CycleVAE-Based VC

Tomoki Toda, Tetsuya Takiguchi, Hisashi Kawai, 2021, ICASSP 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

CrossMap Transformer: A Crossmodal Masked Path Transformer Using Double Back-Translation for Vision-and-Language Navigation

Hisashi Kawai, Komei Sugiura, Aly Magassouba, 2021, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

Coupling a Generative Model With a Discriminative Learning Framework for Speaker Verification

Hisashi Kawai, Peng Shen, Xugang Lu, 2021, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing.

Siamese Neural Network with Joint Bayesian Model Structure for Speaker Verification pdf

Yu Tsao, Hisashi Kawai, Xugang Lu, 2021, 2021 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC).

Detection and correction of the channel variability in a Mandarin speech corpus

Hisashi Kawai, Jinfu Ni, Minoru Tsuzaki, 2004 .

Control of phoneme duration based on the movement of speech organs

Hisashi Kawai, Seiichi Yamamoto, Norio Higuchi, 1993 .

Constrained tone transformation technique for separation and combination of Mandarin tone and intonation.

Keikichi Hirose, Hisashi Kawai, Jinfu Ni, 2006, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.