Voice conversion through vector quantization. - Masanobu Abe; Satoshi Nakamura 001; Kiyohiro Shikano; Hisao Kuwabara (ICASSP, 1988)

A new speech modification method by signal reconstruction. - Masanobu Abe; Shin-Ichi Tamura; Hisao Kuwabara (ICASSP, 1989)

Cross-language voice conversion. - Masanobu Abe; Kiyohiro Shikano; Hisao Kuwabara (ICASSP, 1990)

Statistical study on voice individuality conversion across different languages. - Masanobu Abe; Shigeki Sagayama (ICSLP, 1990)

A Speech Modification Method by Signal Reconstruction Using Short-Term Fourier Transform. - Masanobu Abe; Shin-Ichi Tamura; Hisao Kuwabara (Syst. Comput. Jpn., 1990)

A segment-based approach to voice conversion. - Masanobu Abe (ICASSP, 1991)

Two-stage F0 control model using syllable based F0 units. - Masanobu Abe; Hirokazu Sato (ICASSP, 1992)

Waveform-based speech synthesis approach with a formant frequency modification. - Hideyuki Mizuno; Masanobu Abe; Tomohisa Hirokawa (ICASSP (2), 1993)

Statistical analysis of the acoustic and prosodic characteristics of different speaking styles. - Masanobu Abe; Hirokazu Sato (EUROSPEECH, 1993)

Voice conversion based on piecewise linear conversion rules of formant frequency and spectrum tilt. - Hideyuki Mizuno; Masanobu Abe (ICASSP (1), 1994)

Speaking style conversion by changing prosodic parameters and formant frequencies. - Masanobu Abe; Hideyuki Mizuno (ICSLP, 1994)

An algorithm to reconstruct wideband speech from narrowband speech based on codebook mapping. - Yuki Yoshida; Masanobu Abe (ICSLP, 1994)

A strategy for changing speaking styles in text-to-speech systems. - Masanobu Abe; Hideyuki Mizuno (SSW, 1994)

Analysis of prosodic characteristics in speech advisories and their application to speech output. - Masanobu Abe (EUROSPEECH, 1995)

Voice conversion algorithm based on piecewise linear conversion rules of formant frequency and spectrum tilt. - Hideyuki Mizuno; Masanobu Abe (Speech Commun., 1995)

Speech morphing by gradually changing spectrum parameter and fundamental frequency. - Masanobu Abe (ICSLP, 1996)

A new fundamental frequency modification algorithm with transformation of spectrum envelope according to F0. - Kimihito Tanaka; Masanobu Abe (ICASSP, 1997)

A new framework to provide high-controllability speech signal and the development of a workbench for it. - Masanobu Abe; Hideyuki Mizuno; Satoshi Takahashi; Shin'ya Nakajima (EUROSPEECH, 1997)

Development of CAI system employing synthesized speech responses. - Tsubasa Shinozaki; Masanobu Abe (ICSLP, 1998)

The use of large text corpora for evaluating text-to-speech systems. - Louis C. W. Pols; Jan P. H. van Santen; Masanobu Abe; Dan Kahn; Eric Keller (LREC, 1998)

Report on the Third ESCA TTS Workshop evaluation procedure. - Jan P. H. van Santen; Louis C. W. Pols; Masanobu Abe; Dan Kahn; Eric Keller; Julie Vonwiller (SSW, 1998)

Development of speech design tool "SESIGN99" to enhance synthesized speech. - Hideyuki Mizuno; Masanobu Abe; Shin'ya Nakajima (EUROSPEECH, 1999)

A new F0 modification algorithm by manipulating harmonics of magnitude spectrum. - Satoshi Takano; Masanobu Abe (EUROSPEECH, 1999)

A Japanese text-to-speech system based on multi-form units with consideration of frequency distribution in Japanese. - Kimihito Tanaka; Hideyuki Mizuno; Masanobu Abe; Shin'ya Nakajima (EUROSPEECH, 1999)

WebMessenger: a new framework to produce multimedia content by combining synthesized speech and moving pictures in the WWW environment. - Masanobu Abe; Hideyuki Mizuno; Tsubasa Shinozaki (MMSP, 1999)

A New Communication Paradigm: Action-to-Speech. - Masanobu Abe; Tsubasa Shinozaki (IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (I), 2000)

Development of CAI System Employing Synthesized Speech and CG Animated Agent. - Tsubasa Shinozaki; Masanobu Abe (IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (II), 2000)

A new Japanese TTS system based on speech-prosody database and speech modification. - Mitsuaki Isogai; Kimihito Tanaka; Satoshi Takano; Hideyuki Mizuno; Masanobu Abe; Shin'ya Nakajima (INTERSPEECH, 2000)

A bilingual speech design tool: Sesign2001. - Masanobu Abe; Osamu Mizuno; Tsubasa Shinozaki; Hideyuki Mizuno; Shin'ya Nakajima (SSW, 2001)

A Japanese TTS system based on multiform units and a speech modification algorithm with harmonics reconstruction. - Satoshi Takano; Kimihito Tanaka; Hideyuki Mizuno; Masanobu Abe; Shin'ya Nakajima (IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2001)

Say-as classification for alphabetic words in Japanese texts. - Hisako Asano; Masaaki Nagata; Masanobu Abe (INTERSPEECH, 2003)

Estimating Japanese word accent from syllable sequence using support vector machine. - Hideharu Nakajima; Masaaki Nagata; Hisako Asano; Masanobu Abe (INTERSPEECH, 2003)

Easy-setup eye movement recording system for human-computer interaction. - Manh Duong Phung; Quang Vinh Tran; Kenji Hara; Hirohito Inagaki; Masanobu Abe (RIVF, 2008)

Arrow tag: a direction-key-based technique for rapidly selecting hyperlinks while gazing at a screen. - Atsuhiko Maeda; Hirohito Inagaki; Masanobu Abe (CHI, 2009)

A life log collector integrated with a remote-controller for enabling user centric services. - Masanobu Abe; Yuji Morinishi; Atsuhiko Maeda; Masakatsu Aoki; Hirohito Inagaki (IEEE Trans. Consumer Electron., 2009)

Preferred color reproduction based on personal histogram transformation. - Kenji Hara; Atsuhiko Maeda; Hirohito Inagaki; Minoru Kobayashi; Masanobu Abe (IEEE Trans. Consumer Electron., 2009)

A location predictor based on dependencies between multiple lifelog data. - Masaaki Nishino; Yukihiro Nakamura; Takashi Yagi; Shin-yo Muto; Masanobu Abe (GIS-LBSN, 2010)

Twist&tap: text entry for TV remotes using easy-to-learn wrist motion and key operation. - Ryosuke Aoki; Atsuhiko Maeda; Tomoki Watanabe; Minoru Kobayashi; Masanobu Abe (IEEE Trans. Consumer Electron., 2010)

"ClearPlate" for capturing printed information: a scanner and viewfinder in one optical unit. - Atsuhiko Maeda; Kenji Hara; Minoru Kobayashi; Masanobu Abe (CHI, 2011)

"Life Portal": An Information Access Scheme Based on Life Logs. - Shin'ichiro Eitoku; Manabu Motegi; Rika Mochizuki; Takashi Yagi; Shin-yo Muto; Masanobu Abe (HCI (12), 2011)

A Life Log Collecting System Supported by Smartphone to Model Higher-Level Human Behaviors. - Masanobu Abe; Daisuke Fujioka; Hisashi Handa (CISIS, 2012)

A hybrid text-to-speech based on sub-band approach. - Takuma Inoue; Sunao Hara; Masanobu Abe (APSIPA, 2014)

New approach to emotional information exchange: Experience metaphor based on life logs. - Masanobu Abe; Daisuke Fujioka; Kazuto Hamano; Sunao Hara; Rika Mochizuki; Tomoki Watanabe (PerCom Workshops, 2014)

A spoken dialog system with redundant response to prevent user misunderstanding. - Masaki Yamaoka; Sunao Hara; Masanobu Abe (APSIPA, 2015)

Extraction of Key Segments from Day-Long Sound Data. - Akinori Kasai; Sunao Hara; Masanobu Abe (HCI (27), 2015)

Algorithm to Estimate a Living Area Based on Connectivity of Places with Home. - Yuji Matsuo; Sunao Hara; Masanobu Abe (HCI (28), 2015)

Extracting daily patterns of human activity using non-negative matrix factorization. - Masanobu Abe; Akihiko Hirayama; Sunao Hara (ICCE, 2015)

Sub-band text-to-speech combining sample-based spectrum with statistically generated spectrum. - Tadashi Inai; Sunao Hara; Masanobu Abe; Yusuke Ijima; Noboru Miyazaki; Hideyuki Mizuno (INTERSPEECH, 2015)

Sound collection and visualization system enabled participatory and opportunistic sensing approaches. - Sunao Hara; Masanobu Abe; Noboru Sonehara (PerCom Workshops, 2015)

Enhancing a glossectomy patient's speech via GMM-based voice conversion. - Kei Tanaka; Sunao Hara; Masanobu Abe; Shogo Minagi (APSIPA, 2016)

Safety vs. privacy: user preferences from the monitored and monitoring sides of a monitoring system. - Shigeki Kamada; Masanobu Abe; Sunao Hara (UbiComp Adjunct, 2016)

LiBS: lifelog browsing system to support sharing of memories. - Atsuya Namba; Sunao Hara; Masanobu Abe (UbiComp Adjunct, 2016)

Sound collection systems using a crowdsourcing approach to construct sound map based on subjective evaluation. - Sunao Hara; Shota Kobayashi; Masanobu Abe (ICME Workshops, 2016)

Sound sensing using smartphones as a crowdsourcing approach. - Sunao Hara; Asako Hatakeyama; Shota Kobayashi; Masanobu Abe (APSIPA, 2017)

An investigation to transplant emotional expressions in DNN-based TTS synthesis. - Katsuki Inoue; Sunao Hara; Masanobu Abe; Nobukatsu Hojo; Yusuke Ijima (APSIPA, 2017)

New monitoring scheme for persons with dementia through monitoring-area adaptation according to stage of disease. - Shigeki Kamada; Yuji Matsuo; Sunao Hara; Masanobu Abe (LocalRec@SIGSPATIAL, 2017)

Prediction of subjective assessments for a noise map using deep neural networks. - Shota Kobayashi; Masanobu Abe; Sunao Hara (UbiComp/ISWC Adjunct, 2017)

Speaker Dependent Approach for Enhancing a Glossectomy Patient's Speech via GMM-Based Voice Conversion. - Kei Tanaka; Sunao Hara; Masanobu Abe; Masaaki Sato; Shogo Minagi (INTERSPEECH, 2017)

Naturalness Improvement Algorithm for Reconstructed Glossectomy Patient's Speech Using Spectral Differential Modification in Voice Conversion. - Hiroki Murakami; Sunao Hara; Masanobu Abe; Masaaki Sato; Shogo Minagi (INTERSPEECH, 2018)

Speech-like Emotional Sound Generator by WaveNet. - Kento Matsumoto; Sunao Hara; Masanobu Abe (APSIPA, 2019)

DNN-based Voice Conversion with Auxiliary Phonemic Information to Improve Intelligibility of Glossectomy Patients' Speech. - Hiroki Murakami; Sunao Hara; Masanobu Abe (APSIPA, 2019)

Module Comparison Of Transformer-Tts For Speaker Adaptation Based On Fine-Tuning. - Katsuki Inoue; Sunao Hara; Masanobu Abe (APSIPA, 2020)

Semi-Supervised Speaker Adaptation for End-to-End Speech Synthesis with Pretrained Models. - Katsuki Inoue; Sunao Hara; Masanobu Abe; Tomoki Hayashi; Ryuichi Yamamoto; Shinji Watanabe 001 (ICASSP, 2020)

Controlling the Strength of Emotions in Speech-Like Emotional Sound Generated by WaveNet. - Kento Matsumoto; Sunao Hara; Masanobu Abe (INTERSPEECH, 2020)

Concept Drift Adaptation for Acoustic Scene Classifier Based on Gaussian Mixture Model. - Ibnu Daqiqil Id; Masanobu Abe; Sunao Hara (TENCON, 2020)

Phonetic and Prosodic Information Estimation from Texts for Genuine Japanese End-to-End Text-to-Speech. - Naoto Kakegawa; Sunao Hara; Masanobu Abe; Yusuke Ijima (Interspeech, 2021)

Evaluation of concept drift adaptation for acoustic scene classifier based on Kernel Density Drift Detection and Combine Merge Gaussian Mixture Model. - Ibnu Daqiqil Id; Masanobu Abe; Sunao Hara (CoRR, 2021)

Model architectures to extrapolate emotional expressions in DNN-based text-to-speech. - Katsuki Inoue; Sunao Hara; Masanobu Abe; Nobukatsu Hojo; Yusuke Ijima (Speech Commun., 2021)

Incremental acoustic scene classification using rehearsal-based strategy. - Ibnu Daqiqil Id; Masanobu Abe; Sunao Hara (GCCE, 2022)

Concept drift adaptation for audio scene classification using high-level features. - Ibnu Daqiqil Id; Masanobu Abe; Sunao Hara (ICCE, 2022)

Prediction method of Soundscape Impressions using Environmental Sounds and Aerial Photographs. - Yusuke Ono; Sunao Hara; Masanobu Abe (CoRR, 2022)

Speech-Like Emotional Sound Generation Using WaveNet. - Kento Matsumoto; Sunao Hara; Masanobu Abe (IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., 2022)

Speech Synthesis Using Ambiguous Inputs From Wearable Keyboards. - Matsuri Iwasaki; Sunao Hara; Masanobu Abe (APSIPA ASC, 2023)

Speech-Emotion Control for Text-to-Speech in Spoken Dialogue Systems Using Voice Conversion and x-vector Embedding. - Shunichi Kohara; Masanobu Abe; Sunao Hara (APSIPA ASC, 2023)

Explicit Prosody Control to Realize Discourse Focus in End-to-End Text-to-Speech. - Takumi Wada; Sunao Hara; Masanobu Abe (MLSP, 2024)