A functional model for generation of the local components of F0 contours in Chinese. - Jinfu Ni; Ren-Hua Wang; Deyu Xia (ICSLP, 1996)

USTC95 - a putonghua corpus. - Ren-Hua Wang; Deyu Xia; Jinfu Ni; Bicheng Liu (ICSLP, 1996)

Quantitative analysis and formulation of tone concatenation in Chinese F0 contours. - Jinfu Ni; Ren-Hua Wang; Keikichi Hirose (EUROSPEECH, 1997)

A synthesis-oriented model of phrasal pitch movements in standard Chinese. - Jinfu Ni; Goh Kawai; Keikichi Hirose (ICSLP, 1998)

Synthesis of fundamental FDrequency contours of standard Chinese sentences from tone sandhi and focus conditions. - Jinfu Ni; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2000)

Experimental Evaluation of A Functional Modeling of Fundamental Frequency Contours of Standard Chinese Sentences. - Jinfu Ni; Keikichi Hirose (ISCSLP, 2000)

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. - Jinfu Ni; Hisashi Kawai (INTERSPEECH, 2002)

Tone feature extraction through parametric modeling and analysis-by-synthesis-based pattern matching. - Jinfu Ni; Hisashi Kawai (ICASSP (1), 2003)

Tone pattern discrimination combining parametric modeling and maximum likelihood estimation. - Jinfu Ni; Hisashi Kawai (INTERSPEECH, 2003)

Minimum segmentation error based discriminative training for speech synthesis application. - Yi-Jian Wu; Hisashi Kawai; Jinfu Ni; Ren-Hua Wang (ICASSP (1), 2004)

Formulating contextual tonal variations in Mandarin. - Jinfu Ni; Hisashi Kawai; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2004)

A study on automatic detection of Japanese vowel devoicing for speech synthesis. - Yi-Jian Wu; Hisashi Kawai; Jinfu Ni; Ren-Hua Wang (INTERSPEECH, 2004)

XIMERA: a new TTS from ATR based on corpus-based technologies. - Hisashi Kawai; Tomoki Toda; Jinfu Ni; Minoru Tsuzaki; Keiichi Tokuda (SSW, 2004)

Estimation of intonation variation with constrained tone transformations. - Jinfu Ni; Hisashi Kawai; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2005)

Discriminative training and explicit duration modeling for HMM-based automatic segmentation. - Yi-Jian Wu; Hisashi Kawai; Jinfu Ni; Ren-Hua Wang (Speech Commun., 2005)

Developing a Test Bed of English Text-to-Speech System XIMERA for the Blizzard Challenge 2006. - Tomoki Toda; Hisashi Kawai; Toshio Hirai; Jinfu Ni; Nobuyuki Nishizawa; Junichi Yamagishi; Minoru Tsuzaki; Keiichi Tokuda; Satoshi Nakamura 001 (Blizzard Challenge, 2006)

Constructing a Phonetic-Rich Speech Corpus While Controlling Time-Dependent Voice Quality Variability for English Speech Synthesis. - Jinfu Ni; Toshio Hirai; Hisashi Kawai (ICASSP (1), 2006)

Quantitative and structural modeling of voice fundamental frequency contours of speech in Mandarin. - Jinfu Ni; Keikichi Hirose (Speech Commun., 2006)

ATRECSS - ATR English speech corpus for speech synthesis. - Jinfu Ni; Toshio Hirai; Hisashi Kawai; Tomoki Toda; Keiichi Tokuda; Minoru Tsuzaki; Shinsuke Sakai; Ranniery Maia; Satoshi Nakamura 001 (Blizzard Challenge, 2007)

Use of Poisson Processes to Generate Fundamental Frequency Contours. - Jinfu Ni; Satoshi Nakamura 001 (ICASSP (4), 2007)

Communicative speech synthesis with XIMERA: a first step. - Shinsuke Sakai; Jinfu Ni; Ranniery Maia; Keiichi Tokuda; Minoru Tsuzaki; Tomoki Toda; Hisashi Kawai; Satoshi Nakamura 001 (SSW, 2007)

The NICT/ATR speech synthesis system for the Blizzard Challenge 2008. - Ranniery Maia; Jinfu Ni; Shinsuke Sakai; Tomoki Toda; Keiichi Tokuda; Tohru Shimizu; Satoshi Nakamura 001 (Blizzard Challenge, 2008)

Frequency Modulation Technique for Prosodic Modification. - Jinfu Ni; Shinsuke Sakai; Tohru Shimizu; Satoshi Nakamura 001 (ISCSLP, 2008)

Prosody Modeling from Tone to Intonation in Chinese using a Functional F0 Model. - Jinfu Ni; Shinsuke Sakai; Tohru Shimizu; Satoshi Nakamura 001 (ISUC, 2008)

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. - Ranniery Maia; Tomoki Toda; Shinsuke Sakai; Yoshinori Shiga; Jinfu Ni; Hisashi Kawai; Keiichi Tokuda; Minoru Tsuzaki; Satoshi Nakamura 001 (Blizzard Challenge, 2009)

CART-based modeling of Chinese tonal patterns with a functional model tracing the fundamental frequency trajectories. - Jinfu Ni; Shinsuke Sakai; Tohru Shimizu; Satoshi Nakamura 001 (ICASSP, 2009)

Hyperbolic structure of fundamental frequency contour. - Jinfu Ni; Shinsuke Sakai; Hisashi Kawai; Satoshi Nakamura 001 (IUCS, 2009)

NICT Blizzard Challenge 2010 Entry. - Yoshinori Shiga; Tomoki Toda; Shinsuke Sakai; Jinfu Ni; Hisashi Kawai; Keiichi Tokuda; Minoru Tsuzaki; Satoshi Nakamura 001 (Blizzard Challenge, 2010)

An unsupervised approach to creating web audio contents-based HMM voices. - Jinfu Ni; Hisashi Kawai (INTERSPEECH, 2010)

An investigation of the impact of speech transcript errors on HMM voices. - Jinfu Ni; Hisashi Kawai (SSW, 2010)

Estimation of Perceptual Spaces for Speaker Identities Based on the Cross-Lingual Discrimination Task. - Minoru Tsuzaki; Keiichi Tokuda; Hisashi Kawai; Jinfu Ni (INTERSPEECH, 2011)

Resonance-based spectral deformation in HMM-based speech synthesis. - Jinfu Ni; Yoshinori Shiga; Hisashi Kawai; Hideki Kashioka (ISCSLP, 2012)

Experiments on unsupervised statistical parametric speech synthesis. - Jinfu Ni; Yoshinori Shiga; Hisashi Kawai; Hideki Kashioka (ISCSLP, 2012)

Distributed speech translation technologies for multiparty multilingual communication. - Sakriani Sakti; Michael Paul; Andrew M. Finch; Xinhui Hu; Jinfu Ni; Noriyuki Kimura; Shigeki Matsuda; Chiori Hori; Yutaka Ashikari; Hisashi Kawai; Hideki Kashioka; Eiichiro Sumita; et al. (ACM Trans. Speech Lang. Process., 2012)

A targets-based superpositional model of fundamental frequency contours applied to HMM-based speech synthesis. - Jinfu Ni; Yoshinori Shiga; Chiori Hori; Yutaka Kidawara (INTERSPEECH, 2013)

Tuning intonation with pitch accent decomposition for HMM-based expressive speech synthesis. - Jinfu Ni; Yoshinori Shiga; Chiori Hori (APSIPA, 2014)

Extraction of pitch register from expressive speech in Japanese. - Jinfu Ni; Yoshinori Shiga; Chiori Hori (ICASSP, 2015)

HMM based myanmar text to speech system. - Ye Kyaw Thu; Win Pa Pa; Jinfu Ni; Yoshinori Shiga; Andrew M. Finch; Chiori Hori; Hisashi Kawai; Eiichiro Sumita (INTERSPEECH, 2015)

The Application of Phrase Based Statistical Machine Translation Techniques to Myanmar Grapheme to Phoneme Conversion. - Ye Kyaw Thu; Win Pa Pa; Andrew M. Finch; Jinfu Ni; Eiichiro Sumita; Chiori Hori (PACLING, 2015)

Using Zero-Frequency Resonator to Extract Multilingual Intonation Structure. - Jinfu Ni; Yoshinori Shiga; Hisashi Kawai (INTERSPEECH, 2016)

Superpositional HMM-Based Intonation Synthesis Using a Functional F0 Model. - Jinfu Ni; Yoshinori Shiga; Chiori Hori (J. Signal Process. Syst., 2016)

Global Syllable Vectors for Building TTS Front-End with Deep Learning. - Jinfu Ni; Yoshinori Shiga; Hisashi Kawai (INTERSPEECH, 2017)

Multilingual Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion with Global Character Vectors. - Jinfu Ni; Yoshinori Shiga; Hisashi Kawai (INTERSPEECH, 2018)

Duration Modeling with Global Phoneme-Duration Vectors. - Jinfu Ni; Yoshinori Shiga; Hisashi Kawai (INTERSPEECH, 2019)

Text-to-Speech Synthesis. - Yoshinori Shiga; Jinfu Ni; Kentaro Tachibana; Takuma Okamoto (Speech-to-Speech Translation, 2020)