Toshio Hirai

According to our database, Toshio Hirai authored at least 12 papers between 1994 and 2007.

Collaborative distances:

• Dijkstra number of four.
• Erdős number of four.

2007

Utilization of an HMM-based feature generation module in 5 ms segment concatenative speech synthesis.

Toshio Hirai, Junichi Yamagishi, Seiichi Tenpaku

Proceedings of the Sixth ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 2007

2006

Constructing a Phonetic-Rich Speech Corpus While Controlling Time-Dependent Voice Quality Variability for English Speech Synthesis.

Jinfu Ni, Toshio Hirai, Hisashi Kawai

Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, 2006

2005

Analysis of major factors of naturalness degradation in concatenative synthesis.

Toshio Hirai, Hisashi Kawai, Minoru Tsuzaki, Nobuyuki Nishizawa

Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2005, 2005

2004

Using 5 ms segments in concatenative speech synthesis.

Toshio Hirai, Seiichi Tenpaku

Proceedings of the Fifth ISCA ITRW on Speech Synthesis, 2004

2002

Using start/end timings of spectral transitions between phonemes in concatenative speech synthesis.

Toshio Hirai, Seiichi Tenpaku, Kiyohiro Shikano

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP2002, 2002

2000

Manipulating speech pitch periods according to optimal insertion/deletion position in residual signal for intonation control in speech synthesis.

Toshio Hirai, Seiichi Tenpaku, Kiyohiro Shikano

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2000

1997

Automatic extraction of fundamental frequency control rules by statistical analysis.

Toshio Hirai, Naoto Iwahashi, Norio Higuchi, Yoshinori Sagisaka

Syst. Comput. Jpn., 1997

Use of pitch pattern improvement in the CHATR speech synthesis system.

Ken Fujisawa, Toshio Hirai, Norio Higuchi

Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1997

Comparison of <i>F</i>0 Control Rules Derived from Multiple Speech Databases.

Toshio Hirai, Norio Higuchi, Yoshinori Sagisaka

Proceedings of the Computing Prosody, 1997

1995

Automatic detection of major phrase boundaries using statistical properties of superpositional F0 control model parameters.

Toshio Hirai, Norio Higuchi, Yoshinori Sagisaka

Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1995

1994

Automatic extraction of FO control parameters using statistical analysis.

Toshio Hirai, Naoto Iwahashi, Norio Higuchi, Yoshinori Sagisaka

Proceedings of the Second ESCA/IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 1994

Effect of speaking style on parameters of fundamental frequency contour.

Norio Higuchi, Toshio Hirai, Yoshinori Sagisaka

Proceedings of the Second ESCA/IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 1994