Synthesizing dialogue speech of Japanese based on the quantitative analysis of prosodic features. - Keikichi Hirose; Mayumi Sakata; Hiromichi Kawanami (ICSLP, 1996)

On the relationship of speech rates with prosodic units in dialogue speech. - Keikichi Hirose; Hiromichi Kawanami (ICSLP, 1998)

Detecting accent sandhi in Japanese using a superpositional F0 model. - Atsuhiro Sakurai; Hiromichi Kawanami; Keikichi Hirose (EUROSPEECH, 1999)

Modeling carryover and anticipation effects for Chinese tone recognition. - Jin-Song Zhang; Hiromichi Kawanami (EUROSPEECH, 1999)

Analytical and perceptual study on the role of acoustic features in realizing emotional speech. - Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu; Hiromichi Kawanami (INTERSPEECH, 2000)

Designing Japanese speech database covering wide range in prosody for hybrid speech synthesizer. - Hiromichi Kawanami; Tsuyoshi Masuda; Tomoki Toda; Kiyohiro Shikano (INTERSPEECH, 2002)

Evaluation of cross-language voice conversion using bilingual and non-bilingual databases. - Mikiko Mashimo; Tomoki Toda; Hiromichi Kawanami; Hideki Kashioka; Kiyohiro Shikano; Nick Campbell 001 (INTERSPEECH, 2002)

Designing speech database with prosodic variety for expressive TTS system. - Hiromichi Kawanami; Tsuyoshi Masuda; Tomoki Toda; Kiyohiro Shikano (LREC, 2002)

Temporal rate change of dialogue speech in prosodic units as compared to read speech. - Keikichi Hirose; Hiromichi Kawanami (Speech Commun., 2002)

GMM-based voice conversion applied to emotional speech synthesis. - Hiromichi Kawanami; Yohei Iwami; Tomoki Toda; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Kiyohiro Shikano (INTERSPEECH, 2003)

Simple designing methods of corpus-based visual speech synthesis. - Tatsuya Shiraishi; Tomoki Toda; Hiromichi Kawanami; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Kiyohiro Shikano (INTERSPEECH, 2003)

Perceptual Evaluation of Quality Deterioration Owing to Prosody Modification. - Kazuki Adachi; Tomoki Toda; Hiromichi Kawanami; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Kiyohiro Shikano (LREC, 2004)

Designing Target Cost Function Based on Prosody of Speech Database. - Kazuki Adachi; Tomoki Toda; Hiromichi Kawanami; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Kiyohiro Shikano (IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., 2005)

Speaker verification with non-audible murmur segments. - Mariko Kojima; Tomoko Matsui; Hiromichi Kawanami; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Kiyohiro Shikano (INTERSPEECH, 2006)

Long-term Analysis of Prosodic Features of Spoken Guidance System User Speech. - Hiromichi Kawanami; Takahiro Kitamura; Kiyohiro Shikano (LREC, 2006)

Development and portability of ASR and Q&A modules for real-environment speech-oriented guidance systems. - Tobias Cincarek; Hiromichi Kawanami; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Kiyohiro Shikano (ASRU, 2007)

Study on speaker verification with non-audible murmur segments. - Hideki Okamoto; Mariko Kojima; Tomoko Matsui; Hiromichi Kawanami; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Kiyohiro Shikano (INTERSPEECH, 2007)

Voice activity detection applied to hands-free spoken dialogue robot based on decoding using acoustic and language model. - Hiroyuki Sakai 004; Tobias Cincarek; Hiromichi Kawanami; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Kiyohiro Shikano; Akinobu Lee (ROBOCOMM, 2007)

Speaker verification with non-audible murmur segments by combining global alignment kernel and penalized logistic regression machine. - Hideki Okamoto; Tomoko Matsui; Hiromichi Kawanami; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Kiyohiro Shikano (INTERSPEECH, 2008)

Development and evaluation of hands-free spoken dialogue system for railway station guidance. - Hiroshi Saruwatari; Yu Takahashi; Hiroyuki Sakai 004; Shota Takeuchi; Tobias Cincarek; Hiromichi Kawanami; Kiyohiro Shikano (INTERSPEECH, 2008)

Question and answer database optimization using speech recognition results. - Shota Takeuchi; Tobias Cincarek; Hiromichi Kawanami; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Kiyohiro Shikano (INTERSPEECH, 2008)

Language model for the web search task in a spoken dialogue system for children. - Jumpei Miyake; Shota Takeuchi; Hiromichi Kawanami; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Kiyohiro Shikano (WOCCI, 2008)

Development, Long-Term Operation and Portability of a Real-Environment Speech-Oriented Guidance System. - Tobias Cincarek; Hiromichi Kawanami; Ryuichi Nisimura; Akinobu Lee; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Kiyohiro Shikano (IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., 2008)

Hands-free speech recognition challenge for real-world speech dialogue systems. - Hiroshi Saruwatari; Hiromichi Kawanami; Shota Takeuchi; Yu Takahashi; Tobias Cincarek; Kiyohiro Shikano (ICASSP, 2009)

Comparison of methods for topic classification in a speech-oriented guidance system. - Rafael Torres 001; Shota Takeuchi; Hiromichi Kawanami; Tomoko Matsui; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Kiyohiro Shikano (INTERSPEECH, 2010)

Response generation based on statistical machine translation for speech-oriented guidance system. - Kazuma Nishimura; Hiromichi Kawanami; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Kiyohiro Shikano (APSIPA, 2012)

Evaluation of Many-to-Many Alignment Algorithm by Automatic Pronunciation Annotation Using Web Text Mining. - Keigo Kubo; Hiromichi Kawanami; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Kiyohiro Shikano (INTERSPEECH, 2012)

Spoken Inquiry Discrimination Using Bag-of-Words for Speech-Oriented Guidance System. - Haruka Majima; Rafael Torres 001; Yoko Fujita; Hiromichi Kawanami; Tomoko Matsui; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Kiyohiro Shikano (INTERSPEECH, 2012)

Development of a Toolkit Handling Multiple Speech-Oriented Guidance Agents for Mobile Applications. - Sunao Hara; Hiromichi Kawanami; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Kiyohiro Shikano (IWSDS, 2012)

Evaluation of Invalid Input Discrimination Using Bag-of-Words for Speech-Oriented Guidance System. - Haruka Majima; Rafael Torres 001; Hiromichi Kawanami; Sunao Hara; Tomoko Matsui; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Kiyohiro Shikano (IWSDS, 2012)

Topic Classification of Spoken Inquiries Using Transductive Support Vector Machine. - Rafael Torres 001; Hiromichi Kawanami; Tomoko Matsui; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Kiyohiro Shikano (IWSDS, 2012)

Comparison of Methods for Topic Classification of Spoken Inquiries. - Rafael Torres 001; Hiromichi Kawanami; Tomoko Matsui; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Kiyohiro Shikano (Inf. Media Technol., 2013)

Chat robot coupling machine responses and social media comments for continuous conversation. - Hidekazu Minami; Hiromichi Kawanami; Masayuki Kanbara; Norihiro Hagita (ICME Workshops, 2016)

A TV Chat Robot with Time-Shifting Function for Daily-Use Communication. - Shogo Nishimura; Hiromichi Kawanami; Masayuki Kanbara; Norihiro Hagita (ICSR, 2017)