Effects of different standards on the within-category discrimination of synthesized /ABA/ sequences: comparison between Japanese and Spanish. - Minoru Tsuzaki; Jorge A. Gurlekian (ICSLP, 1990)

Acceptability and discrimination threshold for distortion of segmental duration in Japanese words. - Hiroaki Kato; Minoru Tsuzaki; Yoshinori Sagisaka (ICSLP, 1992)

Effects of typicality and interstimulus interval on the discrimination of speech stimuli: within-subject comparison. - Minoru Tsuzaki (ICSLP, 1992)

Acceptability of temporal modification in consonant and vowel onsets. - Hiroaki Kato; Minoru Tsuzaki; Yoshinori Sagisaka (ICSLP, 1994)

Human processing of auditory-visual information in speech perception: potential for multimodal human-machine interfaces. - Patricia K. Kuhl; Minoru Tsuzaki; Yoh'ichi Tohkura; Andrew N. Meltzoff (ICSLP, 1994)

Effects of acoustic discontinuity and phonemic deviation on the apparent duration of speech segments. - Minoru Tsuzaki; Hiroaki Kato; Masako Tanaka (ICSLP, 1994)

A neural matrix model for active tracking of frequency-modulated tones. - Kiyoaki Aikawa; Hideki Kawahara; Minoru Tsuzaki (ICSLP, 1996)

Measuring temporal compensation effect in speech perception. - Hiroaki Kato; Minoru Tsuzaki; Yoshinori Sagisaka (Computing Prosody, 1997)

Effects of phonetic quality and duration on perceptual acceptability of temporal changes in speech. - Hiroaki Kato; Minoru Tsuzaki; Yoshinori Sagisaka (ICSLP, 1998)

Rules, but what for? - rule description as efficient and robust abstraction of corpora and optimal fitting to applications -. - Yoshinori Sagisaka; Hirofumi Yamamoto; Minoru Tsuzaki; Hiroaki Kato (INTERSPEECH, 2000)

Feature extraction by auditory modeling for unit selection in concatenative speech synthesis. - Minoru Tsuzaki (INTERSPEECH, 2001)

Unit selection algorithm for Japanese speech synthesis based on both phoneme unit and diphone unit. - Tomoki Toda; Hisashi Kawai; Minoru Tsuzaki; Kiyohiro Shikano (ICASSP, 2002)

Evaluation of a speech recognition / generation method based on HMM and straight. - Toshio Irino; Yasuhiro Minami; Tomohiro Nakatani; Minoru Tsuzaki; H. Tagawa (INTERSPEECH, 2002)

Acoustic measures vs. phonetic features as predictors of audible discontinuity in concatenative speech synthesis. - Hisashi Kawai; Minoru Tsuzaki (INTERSPEECH, 2002)

Effects of intra-phrase position on acceptability of changes in segmental duration in sentence speech. - Makiko Muto; Hiroaki Kato; Minoru Tsuzaki; Yoshinori Sagisaka (INTERSPEECH, 2002)

Feature extraction for unit selection in concatenative speech synthesis: comparison between AIM, LPC, and MFCC. - Minoru Tsuzaki; Hisashi Kawai (INTERSPEECH, 2002)

Segment selection considering local degradation of naturalness in concatenative speech synthesis. - Tomoki Toda; Hisashi Kawai; Minoru Tsuzaki; Kiyohiro Shikano (ICASSP (1), 2003)

Optimizing integrated cost function for segment selection in concatenative speech synthesis based on perceptual evaluations. - Tomoki Toda; Hisashi Kawai; Minoru Tsuzaki (INTERSPEECH, 2003)

Optimizing sub-cost functions for segment selection based on perceptual evaluations in concatenative speech synthesis. - Tomoki Toda; Hisashi Kawai; Minoru Tsuzaki (ICASSP (1), 2004)

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

F0 control characterization by perceptual impressions on speaking attitudes using Multiple Dimensional Scaling analysis. - Yoko Kokenawa; Minoru Tsuzaki; Hiroaki Kato; Yoshinori Sagisaka (ICASSP (1), 2005)

Communicative speech synthesis using constituent word attributes. - Yoko Greenberg; Minoru Tsuzaki; Hiroaki Kato; Yoshinori Sagisaka (INTERSPEECH, 2005)

Analysis of major factors of naturalness degradation in concatenative synthesis. - Toshio Hirai; Hisashi Kawai; Minoru Tsuzaki; Nobuyuki Nishizawa (INTERSPEECH, 2005)

Application of auditory image model for speech event detection. - Minoru Tsuzaki; Satomi Tanaka; Hiroaki Kato; Yoshinori Sagisaka (INTERSPEECH, 2005)

Effect of intra-phrase position on acceptability of change in segment duration in sentence speech. - Makiko Muto; Hiroaki Kato; Minoru Tsuzaki; Yoshinori Sagisaka (Speech Commun., 2005)

Effect of speaking rate on the acceptability of change in segment duration. - Makiko Muto; Hiroaki Kato; Minoru Tsuzaki; Yoshinori Sagisaka (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)

An evaluation of cost functions sensitively capturing local degradation of naturalness for segment selection in concatenative speech synthesis. - Tomoki Toda; Hisashi Kawai; Minoru Tsuzaki; Kiyohiro Shikano (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)

Event detection of speech signals based on auditory processing with a dynamic compressive gammachirp filterbank. - Satomi Tanaka; Minoru Tsuzaki; Hiroaki Kato; Yoshinori Sagisaka (INTERSPEECH, 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 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)

Objective evaluation of English learners' timing control based on a measure reflecting perceptual characteristics. - Shizuka Nakamura; Shigeki Matsuda; Hiroaki Kato; Minoru Tsuzaki; Yoshinori Sagisaka (ICASSP, 2009)

Influences of vowel duration on speaker-size estimation and discrimination. - Chihiro Takeshima; Minoru Tsuzaki; Toshio Irino (INTERSPEECH, 2009)

Analysis on paralinguistic prosody control in perceptual impression space using multiple dimensional scaling. - Yoko Greenberg; Nagisa Shibuya; Minoru Tsuzaki; Hiroaki Kato; Yoshinori Sagisaka (Speech Commun., 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)

Computational Modeling of Timing Control and its Application to Objective Evaluation of the Second Language Proficiency. - Yoshinori Sagisaka; Hiroaki Kato; Minoru Tsuzaki; Shizuka Nakamura; Chatchawarn Hansakunbuntheung (ESSV, 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)

Accuracy of Synchrony Judgment and its Relation to the Auditory Brainstem Response: the Difference Between Pianists and Non-Pianists. - Eriko Aiba; Koji Kazai; Takayuki Shimotomai; Toshie Matsui; Minoru Tsuzaki; Noriko Nagata (J. Adv. Comput. Intell. Intell. Informatics, 2011)

Implementation of Interactive Tools for Investigating Fundamental Frequency Response of Voiced Sounds to Auditory Stimulation. - Hideki Kawahara; Toshie Matsui; Kohei Yatabe; Ken-Ichi Sakakibara; Minoru Tsuzaki; Masanori Morise; Toshio Irino (APSIPA ASC, 2021)

Mixture of Orthogonal Sequences Made from Extended Time-Stretched Pulses Enables Measurement of Involuntary Voice Fundamental Frequency Response to Pitch Perturbation. - Hideki Kawahara; Toshie Matsui; Kohei Yatabe; Ken-Ichi Sakakibara; Minoru Tsuzaki; Masanori Morise; Toshio Irino (Interspeech, 2021)