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

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

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)

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

Automatic detection of accent nuclei at the head of words for speech recognition. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Seiichi Nakagawa (ICSLP, 1996)

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

Automatic detection of accent in English words spoken by Japanese students. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Nariaki Ohashi; Seiichi Nakagawa (EUROSPEECH, 1997)

Evaluation of Japanese manners of generating word accent of English based on a stressed syllable detection technique. - Yukiko Fujisawa; Nobuaki Minematsu; Seiichi Nakagawa (ICSLP, 1998)

Continuous speech recognition using segmental unit input HMMs with a mixture of probability density functions and context dependency. - Kengo Hanai; Kazumasa Yamamoto; Nobuaki Minematsu; Seiichi Nakagawa (ICSLP, 1998)

Sharable software repository for Japanese large vocabulary continuous speech recognition. - Tatsuya Kawahara; Tetsunori Kobayashi; Kazuya Takeda; Nobuaki Minematsu; Katsunobu Itou; Mikio Yamamoto; Atsushi Yamada; Takehito Utsuro; Kiyohiro Shikano (ICSLP, 1998)

Modeling of variations in cepstral coefficients caused by F0 changes and its application to speech processing. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Seiichi Nakagawa (ICSLP, 1998)

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)

Free software toolkit for Japanese large vocabulary continuous speech recognition. - Tatsuya Kawahara; Akinobu Lee; Tetsunori Kobayashi; Kazuya Takeda; Nobuaki Minematsu; Shigeki Sagayama; Katsunobu Itou; Akinori Ito; Mikio Yamamoto; Atsushi Yamada; Takehito Utsuro; Kiyohiro Shikano (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)

Performance comparison among HMM, DTW, and human abilities in terms of identifying stress patterns of word utterances. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Yukiko Fujisawa; Seiichi Nakagawa (INTERSPEECH, 2000)

Quality improvement of PSOLA analysis-synthesis using partial zero-phase conversion. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Seiichi Nakagawa (INTERSPEECH, 2000)

Instantaneous estimation of prosodic pronunciation habits for Japanese students to learn English pronunciation. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Seiichi Nakagawa (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)

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

IPA Japanese Dictation Free Software Project. - Katsunobu Itou; Kiyohiro Shikano; Tatsuya Kawahara; Kazuya Takeda; Atsushi Yamada; Akinori Ito; Takehito Utsuro; Tetsunori Kobayashi; Nobuaki Minematsu; Mikio Yamamoto; Shigeki Sagayama; Akinobu Lee (LREC, 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)

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

Instantaneous estimation of accentuation habits for Japanese students to learn English pronunciation. - Naoki Nakamura; Nobuaki Minematsu; Seiichi Nakagawa (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)

English Speech Database Read by Japanese Learners for CALL System Development. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Yoshihiro Tomiyama; Kei Yoshimoto; Katsumasa Shimizu; Seiichi Nakagawa; Masatake Dantsuji; Shozo Makino (LREC, 2002)

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)

Yet another acoustic representation of speech sounds. - Nobuaki Minematsu (ICASSP (1), 2004)

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

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

Pronunciation assessment based upon the compatibility between a learner's pronunciation structure and the target language's lexical structure. - Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2004)

Pronunciation assessment based upon the phonological distortions observed in language learners' utterances. - 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)

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

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)

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)

Mathematical Evidence of the Acoustic Universal Structure in Speech. - Nobuaki Minematsu (ICASSP (1), 2005)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

Random discriminant structure analysis for automatic recognition of connected vowels. - Yu Qiao 001; Satoshi Asakawa; Nobuaki Minematsu (ASRU, 2007)

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)

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)

Consideration of Infants' Vocal Imitation Through Modeling Speech as Timbre-Based Melody. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Tazuko Nishimura (JSAI, 2007)

Are learners myna birds to the averaged distributions of native speakers? - a note ofwarning from a serious speech engineer -. - Nobuaki Minematsu (SLaTE, 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)

Development of a Femininity Estimator for Voice Therapy of Gender Identity Disorder Clients. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Kyoko Sakuraba (Speaker Classification (2), 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)

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

Unsupervised optimal phoneme segmentation: Objectives, algorithm and comparisons. - Yu Qiao 001; Naoya Shimomura; Nobuaki Minematsu (ICASSP, 2008)

Phase singularities for image representation and matching. - Yu Qiao 001; Wei Wang 333; Nobuaki Minematsu; Jianzhuang Liu; Xiaoou Tang (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)

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)

Metric learning for unsupervised phoneme segmentation. - Yu Qiao 001; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2008)

f-divergence is a generalized invariant measure between distributions. - Yu Qiao 001; 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)

Speaker Verification in Realistic Noisy Environment in Forensic Science. - Toshiaki Kamada; Nobuaki Minematsu; Takashi Osanai; Hisanori Makinae; Masumi Tanimoto (IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., 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)

A study on Hidden Structural Model and its application to labeling sequences. - Yu Qiao 001; Masayuki Suzuki; Nobuaki Minematsu (ASRU, 2009)

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

Mixture of Probabilistic Linear Regressions: A unified view of GMM-based mapping techiques. - Yu Qiao 001; Nobuaki Minematsu (ICASSP, 2009)

Affine invariant features and their application to speech recognition. - Yu Qiao 001; Masayuki Suzuki; 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 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)

Development of a CALL system to enhance ESL/EFL learners' skills of shadowing and reading aloud. - Dean Luo; Nobuaki Minematsu; Yutaka Yamauchi (SLaTE, 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)

Structure-based pronunciation assessment. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Masayuki Suzuki (SLaTE, 2009)

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

A Theory of Phase Singularities for Image Representation and its Applications to Object Tracking and Image Matching. - Yu Qiao 001; Wei Wang 333; Nobuaki Minematsu; Jianzhuang Liu; Mitsou Takeda; Xiaoou Tang (IEEE Trans. Image Process., 2009)

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)

Human Speech Model based on Information Separation. - 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)

HMM-based sequence-to-frame mapping for voice conversion. - Yu Qiao 001; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (ICASSP, 2010)

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

Probabilistic integration of joint density model and speaker model for voice conversion. - Daisuke Saito; Shinji Watanabe 001; Atsushi Nakamura; Nobuaki Minematsu (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)

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

Human speech model based on information separation and its application to speech processing. - Nobuaki Minematsu (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)

Speech Structure and Its Application to Robust Speech Processing. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Satoshi Asakawa; Masayuki Suzuki; Yu Qiao 001 (New Gener. Comput., 2010)

A study on invariance of f-divergence and its application to speech recognition. - Yu Qiao 001; Nobuaki Minematsu (IEEE Trans. Signal Process., 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)

Decision of response timing for incremental speech recognition with reinforcement learning. - Di Lu; Takuya Nishimoto; Nobuaki Minematsu (ASRU, 2011)

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

Improved F0 modeling and generation in voice conversion. - Aki Kunikoshi; Yao Qian; Frank K. Soong; Nobuaki Minematsu (ICASSP, 2011)

High accurate model-integration-based voice conversion using dynamic features and model structure optimization. - Daisuke Saito; Shinji Watanabe 001; Atsushi Nakamura; Nobuaki Minematsu (ICASSP, 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)

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)

A Study on Bag of Gaussian Model with Application to Voice Conversion. - Yu Qiao 001; Tong Tong 001; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2011)

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

Continuous Digits Recognition Leveraging Invariant Structure. - Masayuki Suzuki; Gakuto Kurata; Masafumi Nishimura; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2011)

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

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)

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)

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)

Discriminative Reranking for LVCSR Leveraging Invariant Structure. - Masayuki Suzuki; Gakuto Kurata; Masafumi Nishimura; Nobuaki Minematsu (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)

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)

Statistical Voice Conversion Based on Noisy Channel Model. - Daisuke Saito; Shinji Watanabe 001; Atsushi Nakamura; Nobuaki Minematsu (IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 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)

Automatic pronunciation clustering using a World English archive and pronunciation structure analysis. - Han-Ping Shen; Nobuaki Minematsu; Takehiko Makino; Steven H. Weinberger; Teeraphon Pongkittiphan; Chung-Hsien Wu 001 (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)

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)

Speaker-based accented English clustering using a world English archive. - Han-Ping Shen; Nobuaki Minematsu; Takehiko Makino; Steven H. Weinberger; Teeraphon Pongkittiphan; Chung-Hsien Wu 001 (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)

Unsupervised optimal phoneme segmentation: theory and experimental evaluation. - Yu Qiao 001; Dean Luo; Nobuaki Minematsu (IET Signal Process., 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)

Leveraging phonetic context dependent invariant structure for continuous speech recognition. - Congying Zhang; Masayuki Suzuki; Gakuto Kurata; Masafumi Nishimura; Nobuaki Minematsu (ChinaSIP, 2014)

Improved and robust prediction of pronunciation distance for individual-basis clustering of World Englishes pronunciation. - Shun Kasahara; S. Kitahara; Nobuaki Minematsu; Han-Ping Shen; Takehiko Makino; Daisuke Saito; K. Hiorse (ICASSP, 2014)

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)

Keynote 2: Perceptual and structural analysis of pronunciation diversity of World Englishes. - Nobuaki Minematsu (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)

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)

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)

Development of a prosodic reading tutor of Japanese - effective use of TTS and F0 contour modeling techniques for CALL. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Hiroya Hashimoto; Hiroko Hirano; Daisuke Saito (SLaTE, 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)

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)

Discriminative re-ranking for automatic speech recognition by leveraging invariant structures. - Masayuki Suzuki; Gakuto Kurata; Masafumi Nishimura; Nobuaki Minematsu (Speech Commun., 2015)

Arbitrary speaker conversion based on speaker space bases constructed by deep neural networks. - Tetsuya Hashimoto; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (APSIPA, 2016)

The UTokyo System for Blizzard Challenge 2016. - Yi Zhao 006; Xiu You; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (Blizzard Challenge, 2016)

Divergence estimation based on deep neural networks and its use for language identification. - Yosuke Kashiwagi; Congying Zhang; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (ICASSP, 2016)

Automatic Assessment and Error Detection of Shadowing Speech: Case of English Spoken by Japanese Learners. - Shuju Shi; Yosuke Kashiwagi; Shohei Toyama; Junwei Yue; Yutaka Yamauchi; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2016)

Prediction of the Articulatory Movements of Unseen Phonemes of a Speaker Using the Speech Structure of Another Speaker. - Hidetsugu Uchida; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2016)

Voice Conversion Based on Matrix Variate Gaussian Mixture Model Using Multiple Frame Features. - Yi Yang; Hidetsugu Uchida; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2016)

Speaker Representations for Speaker Adaptation in Multiple Speakers' BLSTM-RNN-Based Speech Synthesis. - Yi Zhao 006; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2016)

Acoustic correlates and gender effects in production and perception of Japanese polite speech. - Shuju Shi; Chiharu Tsurutani; Xiaoli Feng; Jinsong Zhang 001; Nobuaki Minematsu (ISCSLP, 2016)

Improved prediction of the accent gap between speakers of English for individual-based clustering of World Englishes. - Fumiya Shiozawa; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (SLT, 2016)

Prosodic Reading Tutor of Japanese, Suzuki-kun: The first and only educational tool to teach the formal Japanese. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Daisuke Saito; Nobuyuki Nishizawa (SSW, 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)

Voice conversion based on deep neural networks for time-variant linear transformations. - Gaku Kotani; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (APSIPA, 2017)

The UTokyo speech synthesis system for Blizzard Challenge 2017. - Shinnosuke Takamichi; Daisuke Saito; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Nobuaki Minematsu (Blizzard Challenge, 2017)

Parallel-Data-Free Many-to-Many Voice Conversion Based on DNN Integrated with Eigenspace Using a Non-Parallel Speech Corpus. - Tetsuya Hashimoto; Hidetsugu Uchida; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2017)

Use of Global and Acoustic Features Associated with Contextual Factors to Adapt Language Models for Spontaneous Speech Recognition. - Shohei Toyama; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2017)

Acoustic-to-Articulatory Mapping Based on Mixture of Probabilistic Canonical Correlation Analysis. - Hidetsugu Uchida; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2017)

Automatic Scoring of Shadowing Speech Based on DNN Posteriors and Their DTW. - Junwei Yue; Fumiya Shiozawa; Shohei Toyama; Yutaka Yamauchi; Kayoko Ito; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2017)

New Features and Effectiveness of Suzuki-kun, the First and Only Prosodic Reading Tutor of Tokyo Japanese. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Daisuke Saito (SLaTE, 2017)

Investigation of teacher-selected sentences and machine-suggested sentences in terms of correlation between human ratings and GOP-based machine scores. - Yutaka Yamauchi; Junwei Yue; Kayoko Ito; Nobuaki Minematsu (SLaTE, 2017)

Development and Maintenance of Practical and In-service Systems for Recording Shadowing Utterances and Their Assessment. - Junwei Yue; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu; Yutaka Yamauchi; Kayoko Ito (SLaTE, 2017)

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)

A Study of Objective Measurement of Comprehensibility through Native Speakers' Shadowing of Learners' Utterances. - Yusuke Inoue 004; Suguru Kabashima; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu; Kumi Kanamura; Yutaka Yamauchi (INTERSPEECH, 2018)

A Comparative Study of Statistical Conversion of Face to Voice Based on Their Subjective Impressions. - Yasuhito Ohsugi; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2018)

DNN-Based Scoring of Language Learners' Proficiency Using Learners' Shadowings and Native Listeners' Responsive Shadowings. - Suguru Kabashima; Yusuke Inoue 004; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (SLT, 2018)

Wasserstein GAN and Waveform Loss-Based Acoustic Model Training for Multi-Speaker Text-to-Speech Synthesis Systems Using a WaveNet Vocoder. - Yi Zhao 006; Shinji Takaki; Hieu-Thi Luong; Junichi Yamagishi; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (IEEE Access, 2018)

DNN-based Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis Incorporating Non-negative Matrix Factorization. - Shunsuke Goto; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (APSIPA, 2019)

Experimental investigation on the efficacy of Affine-DTW in the quality of voice conversion. - Gaku Kotani; Hitoshi Suda; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (APSIPA, 2019)

Speech representation based on tensor factor analysis and its application to speaker recognition and language identification. - Daisuke Saito; So Suzuki; Nobuaki Minematsu (APSIPA, 2019)

The UTokyo speech synthesis system for Blizzard Challenge 2019. - Shunsuke Goto; Yuma Shirahata; Gaku Kotani; Hitoshi Suda; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (Blizzard Challenge, 2019)

Cooking State Recognition based on Acoustic Event Detection. - Yusaku Korematsu; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (CEA@ICMR, 2019)

Analysis of Native Listeners' Facial Microexpressions While Shadowing Non-Native Speech - Potential of Shadowers' Facial Expressions for Comprehensibility Prediction. - Tasavat Trisitichoke; Shintaro Ando; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2019)

A Large Collection of Sentences Read Aloud by Vietnamese Learners of Japanese and Native Speaker's Reverse Shadowings. - Shintaro Ando; Zhenchao Lin; Tasavat Trisitichoke; Yusuke Inoue 004; Fuki Yoshizawa; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (O-COCOSDA, 2019)

Prototyping a web-based phonetic training game to improve /r/-/l/ identification by Japanese learners of English. - Adriana Guevara-Rukoz; Alexander Martin 003; Yutaka Yamauchi; Nobuaki Minematsu (SLaTE, 2019)

Does Speaking Training Application with Speech Recognition Motivate Junior High School Students in Actual Classroom? - A Case Study. - Satoshi Kobashikawa; Atushi Odakura; Takao Nakamura; Takeshi Mori; Kimitaka Endo; Takafumi Moriya; Ryo Masumura; Yushi Aono; Nobuaki Minematsu (SLaTE, 2019)

Native Listeners' Shadowing of Non-native Utterances as Spoken Annotation Representing Comprehensibility of the Utterances. - Zhenchao Lin; Yusuke Inoue 004; Tasavat Trisitichoke; Shintaro Ando; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (SLaTE, 2019)

Generative Modeling of F0 Contours Leveraged by Phrase Structure and Its Application to Statistical Focus Control. - Yuma Shirahata; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (SSW, 2019)

Voice Conversion without Explicit Separation of Source and Filter Components Based on Non-negative Matrix Factorization. - Hitoshi Suda; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (SSW, 2019)

Many-to-Many and Completely Parallel-Data-Free Voice Conversion Based on Eigenspace DNN. - Tetsuya Hashimoto; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process., 2019)

Converting Written Language to Spoken Language with Neural Machine Translation for Language Modeling. - Shintaro Ando; Masayuki Suzuki; Nobuyasu Itoh; Gakuto Kurata; Nobuaki Minematsu (ICASSP, 2020)

Shadowability Annotation with Fine Granularity on L2 Utterances and its Improvement with Native Listeners' Script-Shadowing. - Zhenchao Lin; Ryo Takashima; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu; Noriko Nakanishi (INTERSPEECH, 2020)

Discriminative Method to Extract Coarse Prosodic Structure and its Application for Statistical Phrase/Accent Command Estimation. - Yuma Shirahata; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2020)

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

Acoustic Simulation of Body-conducted Speech and Its Use to Convert One's Recorded Voices to One's Own Voices. - Ruiyan Chen; Tazuko Nishimura; Nobuaki Minematsu; Daisuke Saito (APSIPA ASC, 2021)

Multi-Granularity Annotation of Instantaneous Intelligibility of Learners' Utterances Based on Shadowing Techniques. - Chuanbo Zhu 001; Ryo Hakoda; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu; Noriko Nakanishi; Tazuko Nishimura (ASRU, 2021)

Lexical Density Analysis of Word Productions in Japanese English Using Acoustic Word Embeddings. - Shintaro Ando; Nobuaki Minematsu; Daisuke Saito (Interspeech, 2021)

Optimized Prediction of Fluency of L2 English Based on Interpretable Network Using Quantity of Phonation and Quality of Pronunciation. - Yang Shen; Ayano Yasukagawa; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu; Kazuya Saito (SLT, 2021)

Quantifying Discriminability between NMF Bases. - Eisuke Konno; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (ICASSP, 2022)

Text-to-speech synthesis using spectral modeling based on non-negative autoencoder. - Takeru Gorai; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2022)

Gradual Improvements Observed in Learners' Perception and Production of L2 Sounds Through Continuing Shadowing Practices on a Daily Basis. - Takuya Kunihara; Chuanbo Zhu 001; Nobuaki Minematsu; Noriko Nakanishi (INTERSPEECH, 2022)

Detection of Learners' Listening Breakdown with Oral Dictation and Its Use to Model Listening Skill Improvement Exclusively Through Shadowing. - Takuya Kunihara; Chuanbo Zhu 001; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu; Noriko Nakanishi (INTERSPEECH, 2022)

Self-Adaptive Multilingual ASR Rescoring with Language Identification and Unified Language Model. - Zhuo Gong; Daisuke Saito; Longfei Yang; Takahiro Shinozaki; Sheng Li 010; Hisashi Kawai; Nobuaki Minematsu (Odyssey, 2022)

Automatic Prediction of Intelligibility of Words and Phonemes Produced Orally by Japanese Learners of English. - Chuanbo Zhu 001; Takuya Kunihara; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu; Noriko Nakanishi (SLT, 2022)

Hierarchical Softmax for End-to-End Low-resource Multilingual Speech Recognition. - Qianying Liu; Yuhang Yang; Zhuo Gong; Sheng Li 010; Chenchen Ding; Nobuaki Minematsu; Hao Huang 009; Fei Cheng 002; Sadao Kurohashi (CoRR, 2022)

Exploring Isolated Musical Notes as Pre-training Data for Predominant Instrument Recognition in Polyphonic Music. - Lifan Zhong; Erica Cooper; Junichi Yamagishi; Nobuaki Minematsu (APSIPA ASC, 2023)

Multiple Acoustic Features Speech Emotion Recognition Using Cross-Attention Transformer. - Yurun He; Nobuaki Minematsu; Daisuke Saito (ICASSP, 2023)

Hierarchical Softmax for End-To-End Low-Resource Multilingual Speech Recognition. - Qianying Liu; Zhuo Gong; Zhengdong Yang; Yuhang Yang; Sheng Li 010; Chenchen Ding; Nobuaki Minematsu; Hao Huang 009; Fei Cheng 002; Chenhui Chu; Sadao Kurohashi (ICASSP, 2023)

Automatic Prediction of Language Learners' Listenability Using Speech and Text Features Extracted from Listening Drills. - Yingxiang Gao; Jaehyun Choi; Nobuaki Minematsu; Noriko Nakanishi; Daisuke Saito (INTERSPEECH, 2023)

A Unified Framework to Improve Learners' Skills of Perception and Production Based on Speech Shadowing and Overlapping. - Nobuaki Minematsu; Noriko Nakanishi; Yingxiang Gao; Haitong Sun (INTERSPEECH, 2023)

Learners' Prosodic Control in the Task of Expressive Storytelling and Predicted Native Listeners' Impressions of the Learners' Speech. - Chihiro Shoda; Yingxiang Gao; Yurun He; Nobuaki Minematsu; Noriko Nakanishi; Daisuke Saito (SLaTE, 2023)

Density and Entropy of Spoken Syllables in American English and Japanese English Estimated with Acoustic Word Embeddings. - Yusuke Shozui; Nobuaki Minematsu; Noriko Nakanishi; Daisuke Saito (SLaTE, 2023)

Sensitivity to Phonemic Contrasts and Insensitivity to Non-phonemic Contrasts of Various Speech Representations Tested for L2 Speech Assessment. - Haitong Sun; Yingxiang Gao; Yusuke Shozui; Tong Ma; Nobuaki Minematsu (SLaTE, 2023)

A Pilot Study of Applying Sequence-to-Sequence Voice Conversion to Evaluate the Intelligibility of L2 Speech Using a Native Speaker's Shadowings. - Haopeng Geng; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (APSIPA, 2024)

Enhancing Acoustic Scene Classification with Layer-wise Fine-Tuning on the SSAST Model. - Shuting Hao; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (APSIPA, 2024)

Analytic Study of Text-Free Speech Synthesis for Raw Audio using a Self-Supervised Learning Model. - Joonyong Park; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (APSIPA, 2024)

A ChatGPT-based oral Q&A practice system for first-time student participants in international conferences. - Mayuko Aiba; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2024)

Exploring Pre-trained Speech Model for Articulatory Feature Extraction in Dysarthric Speech Using ASR. - Yuqin Lin; Longbiao Wang; Jianwu Dang 001; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2024)

A Pilot Study of GSLM-based Simulation of Foreign Accentuation Only Using Native Speech Corpora. - Kentaro Onda; Joonyong Park; Nobuaki Minematsu; Daisuke Saito (INTERSPEECH, 2024)

Acceleration of Posteriorgram-based DTW by Distilling the Class-to-class Distances Encoded in the Classifier Used to Calculate Posteriors. - Haitong Sun; Jaehyun Choi; Nobuaki Minematsu; Daisuke Saito (INTERSPEECH, 2024)

Analysis and Visualization of Directional Diversity in Listening Fluency of World Englishes Speakers in the Framework of Mutual Shadowing. - Yu Tomita; Yingxiang Gao; Nobuaki Minematsu; Noriko Nakanishi; Daisuke Saito (INTERSPEECH, 2024)

Simulating Native Speaker Shadowing for Nonnative Speech Assessment with Latent Speech Representations. - Haopeng Geng; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (CoRR, 2024)

Bandwidth Extension System for Throat Microphone Speech Reconstruction. - Yu Xu; Xiaokai Qin; Tianyu Fan; Eng Siong Chng; Sheng Li 010; Nobuaki Minematsu; Daisuke Saito (ICMEW, 2025)

A Perception-Based L2 Speech Intelligibility Indicator: Leveraging a Rater's Shadowing and Sequence-to-sequence Voice Conversion. - Haopeng Geng; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2025)

Discrete Tokens Exhibit Interlanguage Speech Intelligibility Benefit: an Analytical Study Towards Accent-robust ASR Only with Native Speech Data. - Kentaro Onda; Keisuke Imoto; Satoru Fukayama; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2025)

Prosodically Enhanced Foreign Accent Simulation by Discrete Token-based Resynthesis Only with Native Speech Corpora. - Kentaro Onda; Keisuke Imoto; Satoru Fukayama; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (INTERSPEECH, 2025)

Benchmarking Prosody Encoding in Discrete Speech Tokens. - Kentaro Onda; Satoru Fukayama; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (CoRR, 2025)

MixedG2P-T5: G2P-free Speech Synthesis for Mixed-script texts using Speech Self-Supervised Learning and Language Model. - Joonyong Park; Daisuke Saito; Nobuaki Minematsu (CoRR, 2025)

Re:Member: Emotional Question Generation from Personal Memories. - Zackary Rackauckas; Nobuaki Minematsu; Julia Hirschberg (CoRR, 2025)

Gestural feature extraction and multi-feature co-activation for dysarthric speech recognition. - Yuqin Lin; Longbiao Wang; Jianwu Dang 001; Nobuaki Minematsu (Inf. Fusion, 2026)