Analysis and synthesis of voice fundamental frequency contours of spoken sentences. - Keikichi Hirose; Hiroya Fujisaki (ICASSP, 1982)

Automatic recognition of spoken words from a large vocabulary using syllable templates. - Hiroya Fujisaki; Keikichi Hirose; Tomohiro Inoue; Yasuo Sato (ICASSP, 1984)

Synthesis by rule of voice fundamental frequency contours of spoken Japanese from linguistic information. - Keikichi Hirose; Hiroya Fujisaki; Mikio Yamaguchi (ICASSP, 1984)

Acoustic characteristics and the underlying rules of intonation of the common Japanese used by radio and television announcers. - Hiroya Fujisaki; Keikichi Hirose; Noboru Takahashi; Hiroyoshi Morikawa (ICASSP, 1986)

A new approach to continuous speech recognition based on considerations on human processes of speech perception. - Hiroya Fujisaki; Keikichi Hirose; Hirofumi Udagawa; Noboru Kanedera (ICASSP, 1986)

Use of optical signal processing techniques to spectrum analysis of speech. - Keikichi Hirose; Hiroya Fujisaki; Yasuhiro Kosugi (ICASSP, 1986)

Generation of prosodic symbols for rule-synthesis of connected speech of Japanese. - Keikichi Hirose; Hiroya Fujisaki; Hisashi Kawai (ICASSP, 1986)

A new system for reliable pitch extraction of speech. - Hiroya Fujisaki; Keikichi Hirose; Keisuke Shimizu (ICASSP, 1987)

A system for synthesizing Japanese speech from orthographic text. - Hiroya Fujisaki; Keikichi Hirose; Hisashi Kawai; Yasuharu Asano (ICASSP, 1990)

Spoken word recognition for multiple speakers based on path-limited DP matching and a method for speaker normalization. - Keikichi Hirose; Hiroya Fujisaki; Sumio Ohno; Haruhiko Mio (ICASSP, 1990)

Proposal and evaluation of a new type of terminal analog speech synthesizer. - Hiroya Fujisaki; Keikichi Hirose; Yasuharu Asano (ICSLP, 1990)

Analysis and modeling of tonal features in polysyllabic words and sentences of the standard Chinese. - Hiroya Fujisaki; Keikichi Hirose; Pierre A. Hallé; Haitao Lei (ICSLP, 1990)

Influence of context and knowledge on the perception of continuous speech. - Hiroya Fujisaki; Keikichi Hirose; Sumio Ohno; Nobuaki Minematsu (ICSLP, 1990)

Proposal and evaluation of a new scheme for reliable pitch extraction of speech. - Hiroya Fujisaki; Keikichi Hirose; Shigenobu Seto (ICSLP, 1990)

Manifestation of linguistic and para-linguistic information in the voice fundamental frequency contours of spoken Japanese. - Hiroya Fujisaki; Keikichi Hirose; Noboru Takahashi (ICSLP, 1990)

Chinese four tone recognition based on the model for process of generating F0 contours of sentences. - Changfu Wang; Hiroya Fujisaki; Keikichi Hirose (ICSLP, 1990)

A scheme for pitch extraction of speech using autocorrelation function with frame length proportional to the time lag. - Keikichi Hirose; Hiroya Fujisaki; Shigenobu Seto (ICASSP, 1992)

A method of dialogue management for the speech response system. - Yasuharu Asano; Keikichi Hirose; Hiroya Fujisaki (ICSLP, 1992)

Prosody and syntax in spoken sentences of standard Chinese. - Hiroya Fujisaki; Keikichi Hirose; Haitao Lei (ICSLP, 1992)

The influence of semantic and syntactic information on spoken sentence recognition. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Sumio Ohno; Keikichi Hirose; Hiroya Fujisaki (ICSLP, 1992)

Utterance normalization using vowel features in a spoken word recognition system for multiple speakers. - Sumio Ohno; Keikichi Hirose; Hiroya Fujisaki (ICASSP (2), 1993)

Proposal and implementation of a spoken word recognizer using utterance normalization and multiple templates on a single VLSI chip. - Hiroya Fujisaki; Sumio Ohno; Hideki Nasuno; Keikichi Hirose (EUROSPEECH, 1993)

Generation of speech reply in the speech response system. - Keikichi Hirose; Yasuharu Asano (EUROSPEECH, 1993)

Speech signal processing using optical method. - Keikichi Hirose (Speech Commun., 1993)

Prosodic characteristics of a spoken dialogue for information query. - Hiroya Fujisaki; Sumio Ohno; Masafumi Osame; Mayumi Sakata; Keikichi Hirose (ICSLP, 1994)

Use of prosodic features in the recognition of continuous speech. - Keikichi Hirose; Atsuhiro Sakurai; Hiroyuki Konno (ICSLP, 1994)

Recognition of Chinese tones in monosyllabic and disyllabic speech using HMM. - Xinhui Hu; Keikichi Hirose (ICSLP, 1994)

Speech recognition using HMM with decreased intra-group variation in the temporal structure. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (ICSLP, 1994)

Role of prosodic features in the human process of speech perception. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (ICSLP, 1994)

A method for word spotting in continuous speech using both segmental and contextual likelihood scores. - Sumio Ohno; Hiroya Fujisaki; Keikichi Hirose (ICSLP, 1994)

A scheme for Chinese speech synthesis by rule based on pitch-synchronous multi-pulse excitation LP method. - Changfu Wang; Wenshen Yue; Keikichi Hirose; Hiroya Fujisaki (ICSLP, 1994)

Analysis and synthesis of fundamental frequency contours for the spoken dialogue in Japanese. - Keikichi Hirose; Mayumi Sakata; Masafumi Osame; Hiroya Fujisaki (SSW, 1994)

HMM-based tone recognition of Chinese trisyllables using double codebooks on fundamental frequency and waveform power. - Keikichi Hirose; Xinhui Hu (EUROSPEECH, 1995)

Recognized phoneme-based N-gram modeling in automatic language identification. - HingKeung Kwan; Keikichi Hirose (EUROSPEECH, 1995)

Analysis and synthesis of prosodic features in spoken dialogue of Japanese. - Mayumi Sakata; Keikichi Hirose (EUROSPEECH, 1995)

Tone Recognition of Chinese Dissyllables Using Hidden Markov Models. - Xinhui Hu; Keikichi Hirose (IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., 1995)

Duration Modeling with Decreased Intra-Group Temporal Variation for HMM-Based Phoneme Recognition. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., 1995)

A Scheme for Word Detection in Continuous Speech Using Likelihood Scores of Segments Modified by Their Context Within a Word. - Sumio Ohno; Keikichi Hirose; Hiroya Fujisaki (IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., 1995)

Detection of syntactic boundaries by partial analysis-by-synthesis of fundamental frequency contours. - Keikichi Hirose; Atsuhiro Sakurai (ICASSP, 1996)

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

Unknown language rejection in language identification system. - HingKeung Kwan; Keikichi Hirose (ICSLP, 1996)

Language training system utilizing speech modification. - Yoram Meron; Keikichi Hirose (ICSLP, 1996)

Prosodic manipulation system of speech material for perceptual experiments. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Seiichi Nakagawa; Keikichi Hirose (ICSLP, 1996)

Detection of phrase boundaries in Japanese by low-pass filtering of fundamental frequency contours. - Atsuhiro Sakurai; Keikichi Hirose (ICSLP, 1996)

Adaptive recognition method based on posterior use of distribution pattern of output probabilities. - Jinsong Zhang 001; Beiqian Dai; Changfu Wang; HingKeung Kwan; Keikichi Hirose (ICSLP, 1996)

Robust speech recognition based on Viterbi Bayesian predictive classification. - Hui Jiang 001; Keikichi Hirose; Qiang Huo (ICASSP, 1997)

A method of representing fundamental frequency contours of Japanese using statistical models of moraic transition. - Keikichi Hirose; Koji Iwano (EUROSPEECH, 1997)

A CALL system using speech recognition to train the pronunciation of Japanese long vowels, the mora nasal and mora obstruents. - Goh Kawai; Keikichi Hirose (EUROSPEECH, 1997)

Use of recurrent network for unknown language rejection in language identification system. - HingKeung Kwan; Keikichi Hirose (EUROSPEECH, 1997)

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

Accent type recognition and syntactic boundary detection of Japanese using statistical modeling of moraic transitions of fundamental frequency contours. - Keikichi Hirose; Koji Iwano (ICASSP, 1998)

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

Representing prosodic words using statistical models of moraic transition of fundamental frequency contours of Japanese. - Koji Iwano; Keikichi Hirose (ICSLP, 1998)

A minimax search algorithm for CDHMM based robust continuous speech recognition. - Hui Jiang 001; Keikichi Hirose; Qiang Huo (ICSLP, 1998)

A method for measuring the intelligibility and nonnativeness of phone quality in foreign language pronunciation training. - Goh Kawai; Keikichi Hirose (ICSLP, 1998)

Separation of singing and piano sounds. - Yoram Meron; Keikichi Hirose (ICSLP, 1998)

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

A linguistic and prosodic database for data-driven Japanese TTS synthesis. - Atsuhiro Sakurai; Takashi Natsume; Keikichi Hirose (ICSLP, 1998)

A robust tone recognition method of Chinese based on sub-syllabic F0 contours. - Jinsong Zhang 001; Keikichi Hirose (ICSLP, 1998)

Prosodic word boundary detection using statistical modeling of moraic fundamental frequency contours and its use for continuous speech recognition. - Koji Iwano; Keikichi Hirose (ICASSP, 1999)

Tone recognition of Chinese continuous speech using tone critical segments. - Keikichi Hirose; Jinsong Zhang 001 (EUROSPEECH, 1999)

Efficient weight training for selection based synthesis. - Yoram Meron; Keikichi Hirose (EUROSPEECH, 1999)

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

Improving Viterbi Bayesian predictive classification via sequential bayesian learning in robust speech recognition. - Hui Jiang 001; Keikichi Hirose; Qiang Huo (Speech Commun., 1999)

Robust speech recognition based on a Bayesian prediction approach. - Hui Jiang 001; Keikichi Hirose; Qiang Huo (IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 1999)

Detection of prosodic word boundaries by statistical modeling of mora transitions of fundamental frequency contours and its use for continuous speech recognition. - Keikichi Hirose; Koji Iwano (ICASSP, 2000)

Synthesis of vibrato singing. - Yoram Meron; Keikichi Hirose (ICASSP, 2000)

Anchoring hypothesis and its application to tone recognition of Chinese continuous speech. - Jinsong Zhang 001; Keikichi Hirose (ICASSP, 2000)

Overview of an intelligent system for information retrieval based on human-machine dialogue through spoken language. - Hiroya Fujisaki; Katsuhiko Shirai; Shuji Doshita; Seiichi Nakagawa; Keikichi Hirose; Shuichi Itahashi; Tatsuya Kawahara; Sumio Ohno; Hideaki Kikuchi; Kenji Abe; Shinya Kiriyama (INTERSPEECH, 2000)

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

Identification of Japanese double-mora phonemes considering speaking rate for the use in CALL systems. - Carlos Toshinori Ishi; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2000)

Efficient search strategy in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition using prosodic boundary information. - Shi-wook Lee; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2000)

Modeling phone correlation for speaker adaptive speech recognition. - Baojie Li; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2000)

Robust recognition using multiple utterances. - Yoram Meron; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2000)

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

Development of a formant-based analysis-synthesis system and generation of high quality liquid sounds of Japanese. - Nobuyuki Nishizawa; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2000)

Modeling and generation of accentual phrase F0 contours based on discrete HMMs synchronized at mora-unit transitions. - Atsuhiro Sakurai; Koji Iwano; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2000)

Data-driven intonation modeling using a neural network and a command response model. - Atsuhiro Sakurai; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2000)

Rapid adaptation of n-gram language models using inter-word correlation for speech recognition. - Koki Sasaki; Hui Jiang 001; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2000)

Discriminating Chinese lexical tones by anchoring F0 features. - Jinsong Zhang 001; Satoshi Nakamura 001; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2000)

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

Teaching the pronunciation of Japanese double-mora phonemes using speech recognition technology. - Goh Kawai; Keikichi Hirose (Speech Commun., 2000)

A minimax search algorithm for robust continuous speech recognition. - Hui Jiang 001; Keikichi Hirose; Qiang Hue (IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2000)

Generation of F0 contours using a model-constrained data-driven method. - Atsuhiro Sakurai; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (ICASSP, 2001)

Corpus-based synthesis of fundamental frequency contours based on a generation process model. - Keikichi Hirose; Masaya Eto; Nobuaki Minematsu; Atsuhiro Sakurai (INTERSPEECH, 2001)

Identification of accent and intonation in sentences for CALL systems. - Carlos Toshinori Ishi; Nobuaki Minematsu; Ryuji Nishide; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2001)

Pruning of redundant synthesis instances based on weighted vector quantization. - Sanghun Kim; Youngjik Lee; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2001)

Use of topic knowledge in spoken dialogue information retrieval system for academic documents. - Shinya Kiriyama; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2001)

Automatic estimation of one's age with his/her speech based upon acoustic modeling techniques of speakers. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Mariko Sekiguchi; Keikichi Hirose (ICASSP, 2002)

A method for automatic extraction of model parameters from fundamental frequency contours of speech. - Shuichi Narusawa; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose; Hiroya Fujisaki (ICASSP, 2002)

Improved corpus-based synthesis of fundamental frequency contours using generation process model. - Keikichi Hirose; Masaya Eto; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2002)

Statistical language modeling with prosodic boundaries and its use for continuous speech recognition. - Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu; Makoto Terao (INTERSPEECH, 2002)

Robust speech recognition using inter-speaker and intra-speaker adaptation. - Baojie Li; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2002)

Integration of MLLR adaptation with pronunciation proficiency adaptation for non-native speech recognition. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Gakuto Kurata; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2002)

Corpus-based analysis of English spoken by Japanese students in view of the entire phonemic system of English. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Gakuto Kurata; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2002)

Acoustic modeling of sentence stress using differential features between syllables for English rhythm learning system development. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Satoshi Kobashikawa; Keikichi Hirose; Donna Erickson (INTERSPEECH, 2002)

Automatic extraction of model parameters from fundamental frequency contours of English utterances. - Shuichi Narusawa; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose; Hiroya Fujisaki (INTERSPEECH, 2002)

Separation of voiced source characteristics and vocal tract transfer function characteristics for speech sounds by iterative analysis based on AR-HMM model. - Nobuyuki Nishizawa; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2002)

A New Korean Corpus-Based Text-to-Speech System. - Sanghun Kim; Youngjik Lee; Keikichi Hirose (Int. J. Speech Technol., 2002)

Development and evaluation of a spoken dialogue system for academic document retrieval with a focus on reply generation. - Shinya Kiriyama; Keikichi Hirose (Syst. Comput. Jpn., 2002)

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

A multilevel framework to model the inherently confounding nature of sentential F0sentential F0 contours contours for recognizing Chinese lexical tones. - Jinsong Zhang 001; Keikichi Hirose; Satoshi Nakamura 001 (ICASSP (1), 2003)

Acoustic model selection and voice quality assessment for HMM-based Mandarin speech synthesis. - Wentao Gu; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2003)

Use of linguistic information for automatic extraction of f_0 contour generation process model parameters. - Keikichi Hirose; Yusuke Furuyama; Shuichi Narusawa; Nobuaki Minematsu; Hiroya Fujisaki (INTERSPEECH, 2003)

A pronunciation training system for Japanese lexical accents with corrective feedback in learner's voice. - Keikichi Hirose; Frédéric Gendrin; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2003)

Corpus-based synthesis of fundamental frequency contours of Japanese using automatically-generated prosodic corpus and generation process model. - Keikichi Hirose; Takayuki Ono; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2003)

Speech generation from concept for realizing conversation with an agent in a virtual room. - Keikichi Hirose; Junji Tago; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2003)

CART-based factor analysis of intelligibility reduction in Japanese English. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Changchen Guo; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2003)

Prosodic analysis and modeling of the NAGAUTA singing to synthesize its prosodic patterns from the standard notation. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Bungo Matsuoka; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2003)

Improvement of non-native speech recognition by effectively modeling frequently observed pronunciation habits. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Koichi Osaki; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2003)

Automatic estimation of perceptual age using speaker modeling techniques. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Keita Yamauchi; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2003)

Considerations on vowel durations for Japanese CALL system. - Taro Mouri; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2003)

Estimation of resonant characteristics based on AR-HMM modeling and spectral envelope conversion of vowel sounds. - Nobuyuki Nishizawa; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2003)

Mora F0 representation for accent type identification in continuous speech and considerations on its relation with perceived pitch values. - Carlos Toshinori Ishi; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (Speech Commun., 2003)

Data-driven generation of F0 contours using a superpositional model. - Atsuhiro Sakurai; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (Speech Commun., 2003)

A study on robust segmentation and location of tone nuclei in Chinese continuous speech. - Jinsong Zhang 001; Keikichi Hirose (ICASSP (1), 2004)

N-gram language modeling of Japanese using bunsetsu boundaries. - Sungyup Chung; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2004)

Analysis of F0 contours of Cantonese utterances based on the command-response model. - Wentao Gu; Keikichi Hirose; Hiroya Fujisaki (INTERSPEECH, 2004)

Improvement in corpus-based generation of F0 contours using generation process model for emotional speech synthesis. - Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2004)

Use of prosodic features for speech recognition. - Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2004)

Audio source separation from the mixture using empirical mode decomposition with independent subspace analysis. - Md. Khademul Islam Molla; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2004)

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

Clause types and filed pauses in Japanese spontaneous monologues. - Michiko Watanabe; Yasuharu Den; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2004)

Efficient tone classification of speaker independent continuous Chinese speech using anchoring based discriminating features. - Jinsong Zhang 001; Satoshi Nakamura 001; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2004)

Analysis of Shanghainese F0 contours based on the command-response model. - Wentao Gu; Keikichi Hirose; Hiroya Fujisaki (ISCSLP, 2004)

Analysis and synthesis of Cantonese F0 contours based on the command-response model. - Wentao Gu; Keikichi Hirose; Hiroya Fujisaki (ISCSLP, 2004)

Analysis of fundamental frequency contours of Cantonese based on a command-response model. - Wentao Gu; Hiroya Fujisaki; Keikichi Hirose (SSW, 2004)

Corpus-based synthesis of fundamental frequency contours with various speaking styles from text using F0 contour generation process model. - Keikichi Hirose; Kentaro Sato; Nobuaki Minematsu (SSW, 2004)

On the effectiveness of MFCCs and their statistical distribution properties in speaker identification. - Md. Khademul Islam Molla; Keikichi Hirose (VECIMS, 2004)

Automatic Extraction of Tone Command Parameters for the Model of F0 Contour Generation for Standard Chinese. - Wentao Gu; Keikichi Hirose; Hiroya Fujisaki (IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., 2004)

Foreword. - Keikichi Hirose (IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., 2004)

Prosodic Analysis and Modeling of Nagauta Singing to Generate Prosodic Contours from Standard Scores. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Bungo Matsuoka; Keikichi Hirose (IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., 2004)

A spoken dialogue system for document information retrieval utilizing topic knowledge. - Shinya Kiriyama; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (Syst. Comput. Jpn., 2004)

Tone nucleus modeling for Chinese lexical tone recognition. - Jinsong Zhang 001; Keikichi Hirose (Speech Commun., 2004)

Galatea: Open-Source Software for Developing Anthropomorphic Spoken Dialog Agents. - Shinichi Kawamoto; Hiroshi Shimodaira; Tsuneo Nitta; Takuya Nishimoto; Satoshi Nakamura 001; Katsunobu Itou; Shigeo Morishima; Tatsuo Yotsukura; Atsuhiko Kai; Akinobu Lee; Yoichi Yamashita; Takao Kobayashi; et al. (Life-like characters, 2004)

Improved concept-to-speech generation in a dialogue system on road guidance. - Yuji Yagi; Keikichi Hirose; Seiya Takada; Nobuaki Minematsu (CW, 2005)

The effects of filled pauses on native and non-native listeners2 speech processing. - Michiko Watanabe; Yasuharu Den; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (DiSS, 2005)

Identification and Synthesis of Cantonese Tones Based on the Command-Response Model for F0 Contour Generation. - Wentao Gu; Keikichi Hirose; Hiroya Fujisaki (ICASSP (1), 2005)

Structural representation of the non-native pronunciations. - Satoshi Asakawa; Nobuaki Minematsu; Toshiko Isei-Jaakkola; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2005)

Analysis of the effects of word emphasis and echo question on F0 contours of Cantonese utterances. - Wentao Gu; Keikichi Hirose; Hiroya Fujisaki (INTERSPEECH, 2005)

Corpus-based extraction of F0 contour generation process model parameters. - Keikichi Hirose; Yusuke Furuyama; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2005)

Multi-band approach of audio source discrimination with empirical mode decomposition. - Md. Khademul Islam Molla; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2005)

Japanese vowel recognition based on structural representation of speech. - Takao Murakami; Kazutaka Maruyama; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2005)

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

Generation of fundamental frequency contours for Mandarin speech synthesis based on tone nucleus model. - Qinghua Sun; Keikichi Hirose; Wentao Gu; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2005)

Filled pauses as cues to the complexity of following phrases. - Michiko Watanabe; Keikichi Hirose; Yasuharu Den; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2005)

Audio source separation by source localization with Hilbert spectrum. - M. Khademul Islam Molla; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (ISCAS (6), 2005)

Editorial. - Keikichi Hirose; Daniel Hirst; Yoshinori Sagisaka (Speech Commun., 2005)

Synthesis of F0 contours using generation process model parameters predicted from unlabeled corpora: application to emotional speech synthesis. - Keikichi Hirose; Kentaro Sato; Yasufumi Asano; Nobuaki Minematsu (Speech Commun., 2005)

Tone nucleus-based multi-level robust acoustic tonal modeling of sentential F0 variations for Chinese continuous speech tone recognition. - Jinsong Zhang 001; Satoshi Nakamura 001; Keikichi Hirose (Speech Commun., 2005)

Factors influencing ratios of filled pauses at clause boundaries in Japanese. - Michiko Watanabe; Keikichi Hirose; Yasuharu Den; Shusaku Miwa; Nobuaki Minematsu (ExLing, 2006)

Separation of Mixed Audio Signals by Source Localization and Binary Masking with Hilbert Spectrum. - M. Khademul Islam Molla; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (ICA, 2006)

Para-Linguistic Information Represented as Distortion of the Acoustic Universal Structure In Speech. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Satoshi Asakawa; Keikichi Hirose (ICASSP (1), 2006)

Localization Based Separation of Mixed Audio Signals with Binary Masking of Hilbert Spectrum. - Md. Khademul Islam Molla; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (ICASSP (5), 2006)

Unfilled pauses in Japanese sentences read aloud by non-native learners. - Hiroko Hirano; Goh Kawai; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2006)

Corpus-based generation of fundamental frequency contours using generation process model and considering emotional focuses. - Keikichi Hirose; Yasufumi Asano; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2006)

Tone recognition of continuous speech of standard Chinese using neural network and tone nucleus model. - Keikichi Hirose; Hui Hu; Xiaodong Wang; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2006)

Development of a program for self assessment of Japanese pronunciation by English learners. - Chiharu Tsurutani; Yutaka Yamauchi; Nobuaki Minematsu; Dean Luo; Kazutaka Maruyama; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2006)

Factors affecting speakers² choice of fillers in Japanese presentations. - Michiko Watanabe; Yasuharu Den; Keikichi Hirose; Shusaku Miwa; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2006)

Localization based audio source separation by sub-band beamforming. - M. Khademul Islam Molla; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (ISCAS, 2006)

Comparison of Perceived Prosodic Boundaries and Global Characteristics of Voice Fundamental Frequency Contours in Mandarin Speech. - Wentao Gu; Keikichi Hirose; Hiroya Fujisaki (ISCSLP (Selected Papers), 2006)

Structural Representation of the pronunciation and its Use for Call. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Satoshi Asakawa; Keikichi Hirose (SLT, 2006)

Separation of Mixed Audio Signals by Decomposing Hilbert Spectrum with Modified EMD. - M. Khademul Islam Molla; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (IEICE Trans. Fundam. Electron. Commun. Comput. Sci., 2006)

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

Modeling the effects of emphasis and question on fundamental frequency contours of Cantonese utterances. - Wentao Gu; Keikichi Hirose; Hiroya Fujisaki (IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2006)

Speech enhancement using soft thresholding with DCT-EMD based hybrid algorithm. - Erhan Deger; Md. Khademul Islam Molla; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu; Md. Kamrul Hasan 001 (EUSIPCO, 2007)

Latent Prosody Model of Continuous Mandarin Speech. - Chen-Yu Chiang; Xiao-Dong Wang; Yuan-Fu Liao; Yih-Ru Wang; Sin-Horng Chen; Keikichi Hirose (ICASSP (4), 2007)

Development of a Femininity Estimator using Speaker Recognition Techniques for Voice Therapy of Gender Identity Disorder Clients. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Kazutaka Maruyama; Kyoko Sakuraba; Keikichi Hirose; Niro Tayama; Satoshi Imaizumi; Toshio Yamauchi (ICASSP (4), 2007)

Automatic recognition of connected vowels only using speaker-invariant representation of speech dynamics. - Satoshi Asakawa; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2007)

EMD based soft-thresholding for speech enhancement. - Erhan Deger; Md. Khademul Islam Molla; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu; Md. Kamrul Hasan 001 (INTERSPEECH, 2007)

F0 models show Chinese speakers of Japanese insert intonational boundaries and drop pitch. - Hiroko Hirano; Keikichi Hirose; Goh Kawai; Wentao Gu; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2007)

Corpus-based generation of prosodic features from text based on generation process model. - Keikichi Hirose; Keiko Ochi; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2007)

Structural assessment of language learners' pronunciation. - Nobuaki Minematsu; K. Kamata; Satoshi Asakawa; Takehiko Makino; Tazuko Nishimura; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2007)

Pitch estimation of noisy speech signals using empirical mode decomposition. - Md. Khademul Islam Molla; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu; Md. Kamrul Hasan 001 (INTERSPEECH, 2007)

A framework of reply speech generation for concept-to-speech conversion in spoken dialogue systems. - Seiya Takada; Yuji Yagi; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2007)

Features of pauses and conjunctions at syntactic and discourse boundaries in Japanese monologues. - Michiko Watanabe; Yasuharu Den; Keikichi Hirose; Shusaku Miwa; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2007)

Structural representation of pronunciation and its application for classifying Japanese learners of English. - Nobuaki Minematsu; K. Kamata; Satoshi Asakawa; Takehiko Makino; Keikichi Hirose (SLaTE, 2007)

CRF-based statistical learning of Japanese accent sandhi for developing Japanese text-to-speech synthesis systems. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Ryo Kuroiwa 001; Keikichi Hirose; Michiko Watanabe (SSW, 2007)

Two-step generation of Mandarin F0 contours based on tone nucleus and superpositional models. - Qinghua Sun; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (SSW, 2007)

Analysis of Tones in Cantonese Speech Based on the Command-Response Model. - Wentao Gu; Keikichi Hirose; Hiroya Fujisaki (Phonetica, 2007)

Energy constrained frequency-domain normalized LMS algorithm for blind channel identification. - Mohammed Ariful Haque; M. Shafi Al Bashar; Patrick A. Naylor; Keikichi Hirose; Md. Kamrul Hasan 001 (Signal Image Video Process., 2007)

Single-Mixture Audio Source Separation by Subspace Decomposition of Hilbert Spectrum. - M. Khademul Islam Molla; Keikichi Hirose (IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2007)

Multi-stream parameterization for structural speech recognition. - Satoshi Asakawa; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (ICASSP, 2008)

Directional dependency of cepstrum on vocal tract length. - Daisuke Saito; Ryo Matsuura; Satoshi Asakawa; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (ICASSP, 2008)

Automatic pronunciation evaluation of language learners' utterances generated through shadowing. - Dean Luo; Naoya Shimomura; Nobuaki Minematsu; Yutaka Yamauchi; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2008)

Assigning suitable phrasal tones and pitch accents by sensing affective information from text to synthesize human-like speech. - Shaikh Mostafa Al Masum; M. Khademul Islam Molla; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2008)

Robust voiced/unvoiced speech classification using empirical mode decomposition and periodic correlation model. - Md. Khademul Islam Molla; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2008)

Control of prosodic focus in corpus-based generation of fundamental frequency based on the generation process model. - Keiko Ochi; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2008)

Structure to speech conversion - speech generation based on infant-like vocal imitation. - Daisuke Saito; Satoshi Asakawa; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2008)

Decomposition of rotational distortion caused by VTL difference using eigenvalues of its transformation matrix. - Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2008)

Automatic Assessment of Language Proficiency through Shadowing. - Dean Luo; Nobuaki Minematsu; Yutaka Yamauchi; Keikichi Hirose (ISCSLP, 2008)

Corpus-based synthesis of Mandarin speech with F0 contours generated by superposing tone components on rule-generated phrase components. - Keikichi Hirose; Qinghua Sun; Nobuaki Minematsu (SLT, 2008)

Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test in Text-Dependent Automatic Speaker Identification. - Sangeeta Biswas; Shamim Ahmad; M. Khademul Islam Molla; Keikichi Hirose; Mohammed Nasser (Eng. Lett., 2008)

Tone Recognition of Continuous Mandarin Speech Based on Tone Nucleus Model and Neural Network. - Xiaodong Wang; Keikichi Hirose; Jinsong Zhang 001; Nobuaki Minematsu (IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., 2008)

Filled pauses as cues to the complexity of upcoming phrases for native and non-native listeners. - Michiko Watanabe; Keikichi Hirose; Yasuharu Den; Nobuaki Minematsu (Speech Commun., 2008)

Emotional speech synthesis by sensing affective information from text. - M. Al Masum Shaikh; Antonio Rui Ferreira Rebordão; Keikichi Hirose; Mitsuru Ishizuka (ACII, 2009)

An automatic approach to virtual living based on environmental sound cues. - M. Al Masum Shaikh; Antonio Rui Ferreira Rebordão; A. Nakasone; P. Helmut; Keikichi Hirose (ACII, 2009)

Sub-structure-based estimation of pronunciation proficiency and classification of learners. - Masayuki Suzuki; Nobuaki Minematsu; Dean Luo; Keikichi Hirose (ASRU, 2009)

Easy Living in the Virtual World: A Noble Approach to Integrate Real World Activities to Virtual Worlds. - Shaikh Mostafa Al Masum; Helmut Prendinger; Keikichi Hirose; Mitsuru Ishizuka (IAT, 2009)

Control of prosodic focus in corpus-based generation of fundamental frequency contours of Japanese based on the generation process model. - Keiko Ochi; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (ICASSP, 2009)

Speech generation from hand gestures based on space mapping. - Aki Kunikoshi; Yu Qiao 001; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2009)

Analysis of voice fundamental frequency contours of continuing and terminating prosodic phrases in four swiss German dialects. - Adrian Leemann; Keikichi Hirose; Hiroya Fujisaki (INTERSPEECH, 2009)

Analysis and utilization of MLLR speaker adaptation technique for learners' pronunciation evaluation. - Dean Luo; Yu Qiao 001; Nobuaki Minematsu; Yutaka Yamauchi; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2009)

Structural analysis of dialects, sub-dialects and sub-sub-dialects of Chinese. - Xuebin Ma; Akira Nemoto; Nobuaki Minematsu; Yu Qiao 001; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2009)

On invariant structural representation for speech recognition: theoretical validation and experimental improvement. - Yu Qiao 001; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2009)

How to improve TTS systems for emotional expressivity. - Antonio Rui Ferreira Rebordão; Shaikh Mostafa Al Masum; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2009)

Optimal event search using a structural cost function - improvement of structure to speech conversion. - Daisuke Saito; Yu Qiao 001; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2009)

Context Awareness using Environmental Sound Cues and Commonsense Knowledge. - Shaikh Mostafa Al Masum; Keikichi Hirose; Helmut Prendinger (SIGMAP, 2009)

Analysis and comparison of automatic language proficiency assessment between shadowed sentences and read sentences. - Dean Luo; Nobuaki Minematsu; Yutaka Yamauchi; Keikichi Hirose (SLaTE, 2009)

Improved structure-based automatic estimation of pronunciation proficiency. - Masayuki Suzuki; Dean Luo; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (SLaTE, 2009)

In Honor of Hiroya Fujisaki. - Keikichi Hirose (ESSV, 2010)

Using FO Contour Generation Process Model for Improved and Flexible Control of Prosodie Features in HMM-based Speech Synthesis. - Keikichi Hirose; Keiko Ochi; Miaomiao Wang; Tatsuya Matsuda; Miaomiao Wen; Nobuaki Minematsu (ESSV, 2010)

Pitch Pattern Recognition of Isolated Words for the Development of a Japanese Language Call System. - Greg Short; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (ESSV, 2010)

Regularized-MLLR speaker adaptation for computer-assisted language learning system. - Dean Luo; Yu Qiao 001; Nobuaki Minematsu; Yutaka Yamauchi; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2010)

Modeling of sentence-medial pauses in bangla readout speech: occurrence and duration. - Shyamal Kr. Das Mandal; Arup Saha; Tulika Basu; Keikichi Hirose; Hiroya Fujisaki (INTERSPEECH, 2010)

Affective story teller: a TTS system for emotional expressivity. - Shaikh Mostafa Al Masum; Antonio Rui Ferreira Rebordão; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2010)

Integration of multilayer regression analysis with structure-based pronunciation assessment. - Masayuki Suzuki; Yu Qiao 001; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2010)

Improved generation of fundamental frequency in HMM-based speech synthesis using generation process model. - Miaomiao Wang; Miaomiao Wen; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2010)

Improving Mandarin segmental duration prediction with automatically extracted syntax features. - Miaomiao Wen; Miaomiao Wang; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2010)

Data adaptive analysis of ECG signals for cardiovascular disease diagnosis. - Md. Rabiul Islam 003; Shamim Ahmad; Keikichi Hirose; Md. Khademul Islam Molla (ISCAS, 2010)

Pitch estimation of noisy speech signals using EMD-fourier based hybrid algorithm. - Sujan Kumar Roy; Md. Khademul Islam Molla; Keikichi Hirose; Md. Kamrul Hasan 001 (ISCAS, 2010)

Dialect-based speaker classification using speaker-invariant dialect features. - Xuebin Ma; Ruiyuan Xu; Nobuaki Minematsu; Yu Qiao 001; Keikichi Hirose; Aijun Li (ISCSLP, 2010)

A method for modeling and generating Mandarin tone contour with phrase intonation based on the generation process model. - Miaomiao Wang; Miaomiao Wen; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (ISCSLP, 2010)

Improved generation of prosodic features in HMM-based Mandarin speech synthesis. - Miaomiao Wang; Miaomiao Wen; Daisuke Saito; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (SSW, 2010)

Hilbert Spectrum in Time-Frequency Representation of Audio Signals Considering Disjoint Orthogonality. - M. Khademul Islam Molla; Keikichi Hirose (Adv. Data Sci. Adapt. Anal., 2010)

Structure-constrained distribution matching using quadratic programming and its application to pronunciation evaluation. - Yu Qiao 001; Masayuki Suzuki; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (ACPR, 2011)

Open Source WFST Tools for LVCSR Cascade Development. - Josef R. Novak; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (FSMNLP, 2011)

Adaptation of Prosody in Speech Synthesis by Changing Command Values of the Generation Process Model of Fundamental Frequency. - Keikichi Hirose; Keiko Ochi; Ryusuke Mihara; Hiroya Hashimoto; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2011)

Problems Encountered by Japanese EL2 with English Short Vowels as Illustrated on a 3D Vowel Chart. - Toshiko Isei-Jaakkola; Takatoshi Naka; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2011)

Gesture Design of Hand-to-Speech Converter Derived from Speech-to-Hand Converter Based on Probabilistic Integration Model. - Aki Kunikoshi; Yu Qiao 001; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2011)

Measurement of Objective Intelligibility of Japanese Accented English Using ERJ (English Read by Japanese) Database. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Koji Okabe; Keisuke Ogaki; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2011)

Painless WFST Cascade Construction for LVCSR - Transducersaurus. - Josef R. Novak; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2011)

One-to-Many Voice Conversion Based on Tensor Representation of Speaker Space. - Daisuke Saito; Keisuke Yamamoto; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2011)

Prosody Conversion for Emotional Mandarin Speech Synthesis Using the Tone Nucleus Model. - Miaomiao Wen; Miaomiao Wang; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2011)

Weighted noise subtraction and adaptive soft-thresholding approach to speech enhancement. - Somlal Das; Md. Ekramul Hamid; Keikichi Hirose; Md. Khademul Islam Molla (ISCAS, 2011)

Adaptive thresholding approach for robust voiced/unvoiced classification. - Md. Khademul Islam Molla; Keikichi Hirose; Sujan Kumar Roy; Shamim Ahmad (ISCAS, 2011)

Dominant harmonic modification with data adaptive filter based algorithm for robust pitch estimation. - Sujan Kumar Roy; Md. Kamrul Hasan 001; Keikichi Hirose; Md. Khademul Islam Molla (ISCAS, 2011)

Representing fundamental frequency contours generated by HMM-based speech synthesis using generation process model. - Keikichi Hirose; Tatsuya Matsuda; Hiroya Hashimoto; Nobuaki Minematsu (MLSP, 2011)

Comparison of native and non-native evaluations of the naturalness of Japanesewords with prosody modified through voice morphing. - Shuhei Kato; Greg Short; Nobuaki Minematsu; Chiharu Tsurutani; Keikichi Hirose (SLaTE, 2011)

Rule-based method for pitch level classification for a Japanese pitch accent CALL system. - Greg Short; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (SLaTE, 2011)

Regularized Maximum Likelihood Linear Regression Adaptation for Computer-Assisted Language Learning Systems. - Dean Luo; Yu Qiao 001; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., 2011)

Harmonic modification and data adaptive filtering based approach to robust pitch estimation. - Sujan Kumar Roy; Md. Khademul Islam Molla; Keikichi Hirose; Md. Kamrul Hasan 001 (Int. J. Speech Technol., 2011)

WFST-Based Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion: Open Source tools for Alignment, Model-Building and Decoding. - Josef R. Novak; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (FSMNLP, 2012)

Unseen noise robust speech recognition using adaptive piecewise linear transformation. - Keigo Chijiiwa; Masayuki Suzuki; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (ICASSP, 2012)

Syllable: A self-contained unit to model pronunciation variation. - Raymond W. M. Ng; Keikichi Hirose (ICASSP, 2012)

Spectrogram based features selection using multiple kernel learning for speech/music discrimination. - Sharmin Nilufar; Nilanjan Ray; M. Khademul Islam Molla; Keikichi Hirose (ICASSP, 2012)

MFCC enhancement using joint corrupted and noise feature space for highly non-stationary noise environments. - Masayuki Suzuki; Takuya Yoshioka; Shinji Watanabe 001; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (ICASSP, 2012)

Improved Automatic Extraction of Generation Process Model Commands and Its use for Generating Fundamental Frequency Contours for Training HMM-based Speech Synthesis. - Hiroya Hashimoto; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2012)

Improved Prediction of Japanese Word Accent Sandhi Using CRF. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Shumpei Kobayashi; Shinya Shimizu; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2012)

An alignment matching method to explore pseudosyllable properties across different corpora. - Raymond W. M. Ng; Thomas Hain; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2012)

Dynamic Grammars with Lookahead Composition for WFST-based Speech Recognition. - Josef R. Novak; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2012)

Improving WFST-based G2P Conversion with Alignment Constraints and RNNLM N-best Rescoring. - Josef R. Novak; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose; Chiori Hori; Hideki Kashioka; Paul R. Dixon (INTERSPEECH, 2012)

Effects of Speaker Adaptive Training on Tensor-based Arbitrary Speaker Conversion. - Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2012)

Audio-visual feature integration based on piecewise linear transformation for noise robust automatic speech recognition. - Yosuke Kashiwagi; Masayuki Suzuki; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (SLT, 2012)

Performance improvement of automatic pronunciation assessment in a noisy classroom. - Yi Luan; Masayuki Suzuki; Yutaka Yamauchi; Nobuaki Minematsu; Shuhei Kato; Keikichi Hirose (SLT, 2012)

Automatic Chinese pronunciation error detection using SVM trained with structural features. - Tongmu Zhao; Akemi Hoshino; Masayuki Suzuki; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (SLT, 2012)

Analysis of ECG signals Using Data-Adaptive Time Domain Filtering for Cardiovascular Disease Diagnosis. - Md. Rabiul Islam 003; Somlal Das; Keikichi Hirose; Md. Khademul Islam Molla (Adv. Data Sci. Adapt. Anal., 2012)

A method for generation of Mandarin F0 contours based on tone nucleus model and superpositional model. - Qinghua Sun; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (Speech Commun., 2012)

Speaker-invariant and rhythm-sensitive representation of spoken words. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Yousuke Ozaki; Keikichi Hirose; Donna Erickson (APSIPA, 2013)

Discriminative piecewise linear transformation based on deep learning for noise robust automatic speech recognition. - Yosuke Kashiwagi; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (ASRU, 2013)

Improved estimation of femininity using GMM supervectors and SVR for voice therapy of Gender Identity Disorder Clients. - Chengshuo Wang; Masayuki Suzuki; Nobuaki Minematsu; Kyoko Sakuraba; Keikichi Hirose (ICASSP, 2013)

Artificial bandwidth extension based on regularized piecewise linear mapping with discriminative region weighting and long-Span features. - Nguyen Duc Duy; Masayuki Suzuki; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2013)

A free online accent and intonation dictionary for teachers and learners of Japanese. - Hiroko Hirano; Ibuki Nakamura; Nobuaki Minematsu; Masayuki Suzuki; Chieko Nakagawa; Noriko Nakamura; Yukinori Tagawa; Keikichi Hirose; Hiroya Hashimoto (INTERSPEECH, 2013)

Generation of fundamental frequency contours for Thai speech synthesis using tone nucleus model. - Oraphan Krityakien; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2013)

Audio classification using dominant spatial patterns in time-frequency space. - Md. Khademul Islam Molla; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2013)

Development of a web framework for teaching and learning Japanese prosody: OJAD (online Japanese accent dictionary). - Ibuki Nakamura; Nobuaki Minematsu; Masayuki Suzuki; Hiroko Hirano; Chieko Nakagawa; Noriko Nakamura; Yukinori Tagawa; Keikichi Hirose; Hiroya Hashimoto (INTERSPEECH, 2013)

Failure transitions for joint n-gram models and G2p conversion. - Josef R. Novak; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2013)

OJAD: a free online accent and intonation dictionary for teachers and learners of Japanese. - Hiroko Hirano; Ibuki Nakamura; Nobuaki Minematsu; Masayuki Suzuki; Chieko Nakagawa; Noriko Nakamura; Yukinori Tagawa; Keikichi Hirose; Hiroya Hashimoto (SLaTE, 2013)

Automatic detection of the words that will become unintelligible through Japanese accented pronunciation of English. - Teeraphon Pongkittiphan; Nobuaki Minematsu; Takehiko Makino; Keikichi Hirose (SLaTE, 2013)

Automatic recognition of vowel length in Japanese for a CALL system motivated by perceptual experiments. - Greg Short; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (SLaTE, 2013)

Context labels based on "bunsetsu" for HMM-based speech synthesis of Japanese. - Hiroya Hashimoto; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (SSW, 2013)

Japanese lexical accent recognition for a CALL system by deriving classification equations with perceptual experiments. - Greg Short; Keikichi Hirose; Nobuaki Minematsu (Speech Commun., 2013)

Feature Enhancement With Joint Use of Consecutive Corrupted and Noise Feature Vectors With Discriminative Region Weighting. - Masayuki Suzuki; Takuya Yoshioka; Shinji Watanabe 001; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2013)

Semi-supervised noise dictionary adaptation for exemplar-based noise robust speech recognition. - Yi Luan; Daisuke Saito; Yosuke Kashiwagi; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (ICASSP, 2014)

Application of matrix variate Gaussian mixture model to statistical voice conversion. - Daisuke Saito; Hidenobu Doi; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2014)

Visualization of pronunciation diversity of world Englishes from a speaker's self-centered viewpoint. - Yuji Kawase; Nobuaki Minematsu; Daisuke Saito; Keikichi Hirose (O-COCOSDA, 2014)

Speaker-basis Accent Clustering Using Invariant Structure Analysis and the Speech Accent Archive. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Shun Kasahara; Takehiko Makino; Daisuke Saito; Keikichi Hirose (Odyssey, 2014)

Introduction to the Issue on Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis. - Jianhua Tao 001; Keikichi Hirose; Keiichi Tokuda; Alan W. Black; Simon King 001 (IEEE J. Sel. Top. Signal Process., 2014)

A measure of phonetic similarity to quantify pronunciation variation by using ASR technology. - Tianze Shi; Shun Kasahara; Teeraphon Pongkittiphan; Nobuaki Minematsu; Daisuke Saito; Keikichi Hirose (ICPhS, 2015)

Crosslinguistic comparison on the perception of Mandarin attitudinal speech. - Wentao Gu; Ping Tang; Keikichi Hirose; Véronique Aubergé (INTERSPEECH, 2015)

Statistical acoustic-to-articulatory mapping unified with speaker normalization based on voice conversion. - Hidetsugu Uchida; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2015)

Noise-robust and stress-free visualization of pronunciation diversity of World Englishes using a learner's self-centered viewpoint. - Yuichi Sato; Yosuke Kashiwagi; Nobuaki Minematsu; Daisuke Saito; Keikichi Hirose (O-COCOSDA/CASLRE, 2015)

Automatic prediction of intelligibility of English words spoken with Japanese accents - comparative study of features and models used for prediction. - Teeraphon Pongkittiphan; Nobuaki Minematsu; Takehiko Makino; Daisuke Saito; Keikichi Hirose (SLaTE, 2015)

Hierarchical stress modeling and generation in mandarin for expressive Text-to-Speech. - Ya Li 001; Jianhua Tao 001; Keikichi Hirose; Xiaoying Xu; Wei Lai (Speech Commun., 2015)

Automatic recognition of Japanese vowel length accounting for speaking rate and motivated by perception analysis. - Greg Short; Keikichi Hirose; Mariko Kondo; Nobuaki Minematsu (Speech Commun., 2015)

Instantaneous pitch estimation of noisy speech signal with multivariate SST. - Md. Khademul Islam Molla; Mahboob Qaosar; Keikichi Hirose (ISCAS, 2016)

Phonetisaurus: Exploring grapheme-to-phoneme conversion with joint n-gram models in the WFST framework. - Josef R. Novak; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (Nat. Lang. Eng., 2016)

Voiced/non-voiced speech classification using adaptive thresholding with bivariate EMD. - Md. Khademul Islam Molla; Keikichi Hirose; Md. Kamrul Hasan 001 (Pattern Anal. Appl., 2016)

Development and Evaluation of Online Infrastructure to Aid Teaching and Learning of Japanese Prosody. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Ibuki Nakamura; Masayuki Suzuki; Hiroko Hirano; Chieko Nakagawa; Noriko Nakamura; Yukinori Tagawa; Keikichi Hirose; Hiroya Hashimoto (IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., 2017)

Accent Sandhi Estimation of Tokyo Dialect of Japanese Using Conditional Random Fields. - Masayuki Suzuki; Ryo Kuroiwa 001; Keisuke Innami; Shumpei Kobayashi; Shinya Shimizu; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., 2017)

Respiratory and Respiratory Muscular Control in JL1's and JL2's Text Reading Utilizing 4-RSTs and a Soft Respiratory Mask with a Two-Way Bulb. - Toshiko Isei-Jaakkola; Keiko Ochi; Keikichi Hirose (INTERSPEECH, 2018)

Tensor Factor Analysis for Arbitrary Speaker Conversion. - Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu; Keikichi Hirose (IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., 2020)

CASA-based speaker identification using cascaded GMM-CNN classifier in noisy and emotional talking conditions. - Ali Bou Nassif; Ismail Shahin; Shibani Hamsa; Nawel Nemmour; Keikichi Hirose (Appl. Soft Comput., 2021)