CELP coding with an adaptive density pulse excitation model. - Masami Akamine; Kimio Miseki (ICASSP, 1990)

Adaptive bit-allocation between the pole-zero synthesis filter and excitation in CELP. - Kimio Miseki; Masami Akamine (ICASSP, 1991)

Automatic generation of speech synthesis units based on closed loop training. - Takehiko Kagoshima; Masami Akamine (ICASSP, 1997)

A 2.4 kbps variable bit rate ADP-CELP speech coder. - Masahiro Oshikiri; Masami Akamine (ICASSP, 1998)

Analytic generation of synthesis units by closed loop training for totally speaker driven text to speech system (TOS drive TTS). - Masami Akamine; Takehiko Kagoshima (ICSLP, 1998)

An F0 contour control model for totally speaker driven text to speech system. - Takehiko Kagoshima; Masahiro Morita; Shigenobu Seto; Masami Akamine (ICSLP, 1998)

Automatic rule generation for linguistic features analysis using inductive learning technique: linguistic features analysis in TOS drive TTS system. - Shigenobu Seto; Masahiro Morita; Takehiko Kagoshima; Masami Akamine (ICSLP, 1998)

CELP speech coding based on an adaptive pulse position codebook. - Tadashi Amada; Kimio Miseki; Masami Akamine (ICASSP, 1999)

Toshiba English text-to-speech synthesizer (TESS). - Chang K. Suh; Takehiko Kagoshima; Masahiro Morita; Shigenobu Seto; Masami Akamine (EUROSPEECH, 1999)

Automatic generation of synthesis units by unit selection based on closed-loop training. - Takehiko Kagoshima; Masami Akamine (Syst. Comput. Jpn., 1999)

HMM-based speech recognition using decision trees instead of GMMs. - Remco Teunen; Masami Akamine (INTERSPEECH, 2007)

An F0 contour control model using an F0 contour codebook. - Takehiko Kagoshima; Masahiro Morita; Shigenobu Seto; Masami Akamine; Yoshinori Shiga (Syst. Comput. Jpn., 2007)

Feature enhancement by speaker-normalized splice for robust speech recognition. - Yusuke Shinohara; Takashi Masuko; Masami Akamine (ICASSP, 2008)

Speech recognition using soft decision trees. - Jitendra Ajmera; Masami Akamine (INTERSPEECH, 2008)

Comparative evaluation of different methods for voice activity detection. - Hongfei Ding; Koichi Yamamoto; Masami Akamine (INTERSPEECH, 2008)

Multilevel parametric-base F0 model for speech synthesis. - Javier Latorre; Masami Akamine (INTERSPEECH, 2008)

Bayesian feature enhancement using a mixture of unscented transformation for uncertainty decoding of noisy speech. - Yusuke Shinohara; Masami Akamine (ICASSP, 2009)

Decision tree acoustic models for ASR. - Jitendra Ajmera; Masami Akamine (INTERSPEECH, 2009)

Feedback loop for prosody prediction in concatenative speech synthesis. - Javier Latorre; Sergio Gracia; Masami Akamine (INTERSPEECH, 2009)

Covariance clustering on Riemannian manifolds for acoustic model compression. - Yusuke Shinohara; Takashi Masuko; Masami Akamine (ICASSP, 2010)

Unit selection speech synthesis using multiple speech units at non-adjacent segments for prosody and waveform generation. - Masatsune Tamura; Norbert Braunschweiler; Takehiko Kagoshima; Masami Akamine (ICASSP, 2010)

Sub-band basis spectrum model for pitch-synchronous log-spectrum and phase based on approximation of sparse coding. - Masatsune Tamura; Takehiko Kagoshima; Masami Akamine (INTERSPEECH, 2010)

Continuous F0 in the source-excitation generation for HMM-based TTS: Do we need voiced/unvoiced classification? - Javier Latorre; Mark J. F. Gales; Sabine Buchholz; Kate M. Knill; Masatsune Tamura; Yamato Ohtani; Masami Akamine (ICASSP, 2011)

One sentence voice adaptation using GMM-based frequency-warping and shift with a sub-band basis spectrum model. - Masatsune Tamura; Masahiro Morita; Takehiko Kagoshima; Masami Akamine (ICASSP, 2011)

Decision Tree-Based Acoustic Models for Speech Recognition with Improved Smoothness. - Masami Akamine; Jitendra Ajmera (IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., 2011)

Complex cepstrum as phase information in statistical parametric speech synthesis. - Ranniery Maia; Masami Akamine; Mark J. F. Gales (ICASSP, 2012)

Exploring Rich Expressive Information from Audiobook Data Using Cluster Adaptive Training. - Langzhou Chen; Mark J. F. Gales; Vincent Wan; Javier Latorre; Masami Akamine (INTERSPEECH, 2012)

Speech factorization for HMM-TTS based on cluster adaptive training. - Javier Latorre; Vincent Wan; Mark J. F. Gales; Langzhou Chen; K. K. Chin; Kate M. Knill; Masami Akamine (INTERSPEECH, 2012)

Histogram-based spectral equalization for HMM-based speech synthesis using mel-LSP. - Yamato Ohtani; Masatsune Tamura; Masahiro Morita; Takehiko Kagoshima; Masami Akamine (INTERSPEECH, 2012)

HMM-based speech synthesis using sub-band basis spectrum model. - Yamato Ohtani; Masatsune Tamura; Masahiro Morita; Takehiko Kagoshima; Masami Akamine (INTERSPEECH, 2012)

Combining multiple high quality corpora for improving HMM-TTS. - Vincent Wan; Javier Latorre; K. K. Chin; Langzhou Chen; Mark J. F. Gales; Heiga Zen; Kate M. Knill; Masami Akamine (INTERSPEECH, 2012)

Decision tree-based acoustic models for speech recognition. - Masami Akamine; Jitendra Ajmera (EURASIP J. Audio Speech Music. Process., 2012)

Integrated automatic expression prediction and speech synthesis from text. - Langzhou Chen; Mark J. F. Gales; Norbert Braunschweiler; Masami Akamine; Kate M. Knill (ICASSP, 2013)

Training a supra-segmental parametric F0 model without interpolating F0. - Javier Latorre; Mark J. F. Gales; Kate M. Knill; Masami Akamine (ICASSP, 2013)

Complex cepstrum analysis based on the minimum mean squared error. - Ranniery Maia; Masami Akamine; Mark J. F. Gales (ICASSP, 2013)

Minimum mean squared error based warped complex cepstrum analysis for statistical parametric speech synthesis. - Ranniery Maia; Mark J. F. Gales; Yannis Stylianou; Masami Akamine (INTERSPEECH, 2013)

Photo-realistic expressive text to talking head synthesis. - Vincent Wan; Robert Anderson; Art Blokland; Norbert Braunschweiler; Langzhou Chen; BalaKrishna Kolluru; Javier Latorre; Ranniery Maia; Björn Stenger; Kayoko Yanagisawa; Yannis Stylianou; Masami Akamine; et al. (INTERSPEECH, 2013)

Complex cepstrum for statistical parametric speech synthesis. - Ranniery Maia; Masami Akamine; Mark J. F. Gales (Speech Commun., 2013)

GMM-based bandwidth extension using sub-band basis spectrum model. - Yamato Ohtani; Masatsune Tamura; Masahiro Morita; Masami Akamine (INTERSPEECH, 2014)

On the impact of excitation and spectral parameters for expressive statistical parametric speech synthesis. - Ranniery Maia; Masami Akamine (Comput. Speech Lang., 2014)

Integrated Expression Prediction and Speech Synthesis From Text. - Langzhou Chen; Mark J. F. Gales; Norbert Braunschweiler; Masami Akamine; Kate M. Knill (IEEE J. Sel. Top. Signal Process., 2014)

Building HMM-TTS Voices on Diverse Data. - Vincent Wan; Javier Latorre; Kayoko Yanagisawa; Norbert Braunschweiler; Langzhou Chen; Mark J. F. Gales; Masami Akamine (IEEE J. Sel. Top. Signal Process., 2014)

A maximum likelihood approach to the detection of moments of maximum excitation and its application to high-quality speech parameterization. - Ranniery Maia; Yannis Stylianou; Masami Akamine (INTERSPEECH, 2015)

Emotional transplant in statistical speech synthesis based on emotion additive model. - Yamato Ohtani; Yu Nasu; Masahiro Morita; Masami Akamine (INTERSPEECH, 2015)

Statistical Bandwidth Extension for Speech Synthesis Based on Gaussian Mixture Model with Sub-Band Basis Spectrum Model. - Yamato Ohtani; Masatsune Tamura; Masahiro Morita; Masami Akamine (IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., 2016)

Voice Activity Detection: Merging Source and Filter-based Information. - Thomas Drugman; Yannis Stylianou; Yusuke Kida; Masami Akamine (IEEE Signal Process. Lett., 2016)

Near and Far Field Speech-in-Noise Intelligibility Improvements Based on a Time-Frequency Energy Reallocation Approach. - Tudor-Catalin Zorila; Yannis Stylianou; Tatsuma Ishihara; Masami Akamine (IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process., 2016)

Dialog State Tracking for Unseen Values Using an Extended Attention Mechanism. - Takami Yoshida; Kenji Iwata; Hiroshi Fujimura; Masami Akamine (IWSDS, 2018)

Out-of-Domain Slot Value Detection for Spoken Dialogue Systems with Context Information. - Yuka Kobayashi; Takami Yoshida; Kenji Iwata; Hiroshi Fujimura; Masami Akamine (SLT, 2018)

Transfer Learning for Unseen Slots in End-to-End Dialogue State Tracking. - Kenji Iwata; Takami Yoshida; Hiroshi Fujimura; Masami Akamine (IWSDS, 2019)