Integrated training for spotting Japanese phonemes using large phonemic time-delay neural networks. - Masanori Miyatake; Hidefumi Sawai; Yasuhiro Minami; Kiyohiro Shikano (ICASSP, 1990)

On the robustness of HMM and ANN speech recognition algorithms. - Yasuhiro Minami; Toshiyuki Hanazawa; Hitoshi Iwamida; Erik McDermott; Kiyohiro Shikano; Shigeru Katagiri; Masaona Kagawa (ICSLP, 1990)

Large-vocabulary spoken word recognition using time-delay neural network phoneme spotting and predictive lr-parsing. - Yasuhiro Minami; Hidefumi Sawai; Masanori Miyatake (Syst. Comput. Jpn., 1991)

Phoneme HMM evaluation algorithm without phoneme labeling. - Yasuhiro Minami; Tatsuo Matsuoka; Kiyohiro Shikano (ICSLP, 1992)

Phoneme HMMs constrained by frame correlations. - Satoshi Takahashi; Tatsuo Matsuoka; Yasuhiro Minami; Kiyohiro Shikano (ICASSP (2), 1993)

Recognition of noisy speech by composition of hidden Markov models. - Franck Martin; Kiyohiro Shikano; Yasuhiro Minami (EUROSPEECH, 1993)

Very-large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition algorithm for telephone directory assistance. - Yasuhiro Minami; Kiyohiro Shikano; Tomokazu Yamada; Tatsuo Matsuoka (EUROSPEECH, 1993)

Search algorithm that merges candidates in meaning level for very large vocabulary spontaneous speech recognition. - Yasuhiro Minami; Kiyohiro Shikano; Satoshi Takahashi; Tomokazu Yamada (ICASSP (2), 1994)

An HMM duration control algorithm with a low computational cost. - Satoshi Takahashi; Yasuhiro Minami; Kiyohiro Shikano (ICSLP, 1994)

A multi-modal dialogue system for telephone directory assistance. - Osamu Yoshioka; Yasuhiro Minami; Kiyohiro Shikano (ICSLP, 1994)

A Large-Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition Algorithm and its Application to a Multi-Modal Telephone Directory Assistance System. - Yasuhiro Minami; Kiyohiro Shikano; Osamu Yoshioka; Satoshi Takahashi; Tomokazu Yamada; Sadaoki Furui (HLT, 1994)

Large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition algorithm applied to a multi-modal telephone directory assistance system. - Yasuhiro Minami; Kiyohiro Shikano; Satoshi Takahashi; Tomokazu Yamada; Osamu Yoshioka; Sadaoki Furui (Speech Communication, 1994)

A maximum likelihood procedure for a universal adaptation method based on HMM composition. - Yasuhiro Minami; Sadaoki Furui (ICASSP, 1995)

An HMM State Duration Control Algorithm Applied to Large-Vocabulary Spontaneous Speech Recognition. - Satoshi Takahashi; Yasuhiro Minami; Kiyohiro Shikano (IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., 1995)

A Speech Dialogue System with Multimodal Interface for Telephone Directory Assistance. - Osamu Yoshioka; Yasuhiro Minami; Kiyohiro Shikano (IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., 1995)

Adaptation method based on HMM composition and EM algorithm. - Yasuhiro Minami; Sadaoki Furui (ICASSP, 1996)

Improved extended HMM composition by incorporating power variance. - Yasuhiro Minami; Sadaoki Furui (ICSLP, 1996)

An efficient search method for large-vocabulary continuous-speech recognition. - Ken Hanazawa; Yasuhiro Minami; Sadaoki Furui (ICASSP, 1997)

Connected digit recognition in spontaneous speech. - Etienne Bauche; Bojana Gajic; Yasuhiro Minami; Tatsuo Matsuoka; Sadaoki Furui (EUROSPEECH, 1997)

Compensation of speaker directivity in speech recognition using HMM composition. - Franck Giron; Yasuhiro Minami; Masashi Tanaka; Ken'ichi Furuya (ICASSP, 1998)

Mokusei: a telephone-based Japanese conversational system in the weather domain. - Mikio Nakano; Yasuhiro Minami; Stephanie Seneff; Timothy J. Hazen; D. Scott Cyphers; James R. Glass; Joseph Polifroni; Victor Zue (INTERSPEECH, 2001)

Time and memory efficient viterbi decoding for LVCSR using a precompiled search network. - Daniel Willett; Erik McDermott; Yasuhiro Minami; Shigeru Katagiri (INTERSPEECH, 2001)

A recognition method with parametric trajectory synthesized using direct relations between static and dynamic feature vector time series. - Yasuhiro Minami; Erik McDermott; Atsushi Nakamura; Shigeru Katagiri (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)

Constructing shared-state hidden Markov models based on a Bayesian approach. - Shinji Watanabe 001; Yasuhiro Minami; Atsushi Nakamura; Naonori Ueda (INTERSPEECH, 2002)

Application of Variational Bayesian Approach to Speech Recognition. - Shinji Watanabe 001; Yasuhiro Minami; Atsushi Nakamura; Naonori Ueda (NIPS, 2002)

Language model adaptation using WFST-based speaking-style translation. - Takaaki Hori; Daniel Willett; Yasuhiro Minami (ICASSP (1), 2003)

Recognition method with parametric trajectory generated from mixture distribution HMMs. - Yasuhiro Minami; Erik McDermott; Atsushi Nakamura; Shigeru Katagiri (ICASSP (1), 2003)

Application of variational Bayesian estimation and clustering to acoustic model adaptation. - Shinji Watanabe 001; Yasuhiro Minami; Atsushi Nakamura; Naonori Ueda (ICASSP (1), 2003)

Pervasive unsupervised adaptation for lecture speech transcription. - Daniel Willett; Thomas Niesler; Erik McDermott; Yasuhiro Minami; Shigeru Katagiri (ICASSP (1), 2003)

Speech summarization using weighted finite-state transducers. - Takaaki Hori; Chiori Hori; Yasuhiro Minami (INTERSPEECH, 2003)

Fast on-the-fly composition for weighted finite-state transducers in 1.8 million-word vocabulary continuous speech recognition. - Takaaki Hori; Chiori Hori; Yasuhiro Minami (INTERSPEECH, 2004)

Improvement in robustness of speech feature extraction method using sub-band based periodicity and aperiodicity decomposition. - Kentaro Ishizuka; Noboru Miyazaki; Tomohiro Nakatani; Yasuhiro Minami (INTERSPEECH, 2004)

A theoretical analysis of speech recognition based on feature trajectory models. - Yasuhiro Minami; Erik McDermott; Atsushi Nakamura; Shigeru Katagiri (INTERSPEECH, 2004)

Variational bayesian estimation and clustering for speech recognition. - Shinji Watanabe 001; Yasuhiro Minami; Atsushi Nakamura; Naonori Ueda (IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2004)

Selection of Shared-State Hidden Markov Model Structure Using Bayesian Criterion. - Shinji Watanabe 001; Yasuhiro Minami; Atsushi Nakamura; Naonori Ueda (IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., 2005)

Dynamic Assignment of Gaussian Components in Modelling Speech Spectra. - Parham Zolfaghari; Hiroko Kato; Yasuhiro Minami; Atsushi Nakamura; Shigeru Katagiri; Roy D. Patterson (J. VLSI Signal Process., 2006)

Mixture Gaussian HMM-trajctory method using likelihood compensation. - Yasuhiro Minami (ASRU, 2007)

The world of mushrooms: human-computer interaction prototype systems for ambient intelligence. - Yasuhiro Minami; Minako Sawaki; Kohji Dohsaka; Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Kentaro Ishizuka; Hideki Isozaki; Tatsushi Matsubayashi; Masato Miyoshi; Atsushi Nakamura; Takanobu Oba; Hiroshi Sawada; Takeshi Yamada; et al. (ICMI, 2007)

Efficient WFST-Based One-Pass Decoding With On-The-Fly Hypothesis Rescoring in Extremely Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition. - Takaaki Hori; Chiori Hori; Yasuhiro Minami; Atsushi Nakamura (IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2007)

"Who is this" quiz dialogue system and users' evaluation. - Minako Sawaki; Yasuhiro Minami; Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Kohji Dohsaka; Eisaku Maeda (SLT, 2008)

Effects of Conversational Agents on Human Communication in Thought-Evoking Multi-Party Dialogues. - Kohji Dohsaka; Ryota Asai; Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Yasuhiro Minami; Eisaku Maeda (SIGDIAL Conference, 2009)

Analysis of Listening-Oriented Dialogue for Building Listening Agents. - Toyomi Meguro; Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Kohji Dohsaka; Yasuhiro Minami; Hideki Isozaki (SIGDIAL Conference, 2009)

Learning to Model Domain-Specific Utterance Sequences for Extractive Summarization of Contact Center Dialogues. - Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Yasuhiro Minami; Hitoshi Nishikawa; Kohji Dohsaka; Toyomi Meguro; Satoshi Takahashi; Gen-ichiro Kikui (COLING (Posters), 2010)

Controlling Listening-oriented Dialogue using Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes. - Toyomi Meguro; Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Yasuhiro Minami; Kohji Dohsaka (COLING, 2010)

Fast similarity search on a large speech data set with neighborhood graph indexing. - Kazuo Aoyama; Shinji Watanabe 001; Hiroshi Sawada; Yasuhiro Minami; Naonori Ueda; Kazumi Saito (ICASSP, 2010)

Issues in Predicting User Satisfaction Transitions in Dialogues: Individual Differences, Evaluation Criteria, and Prediction Models. - Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Yasuhiro Minami; Kohji Dohsaka; Toyomi Meguro (IWSDS, 2010)

User-adaptive Coordination of Agent Communicative Behavior in Spoken Dialogue. - Kohji Dohsaka; Atsushi Kanemoto; Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Yasuhiro Minami; Eisaku Maeda (SIGDIAL Conference, 2010)

Modeling User Satisfaction Transitions in Dialogues from Overall Ratings. - Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Yasuhiro Minami; Kohji Dohsaka; Toyomi Meguro (SIGDIAL Conference, 2010)

Improving hmm-based extractive summarization for multi-domain contact center dialogues. - Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Yasuhiro Minami; Hitoshi Nishikawa; Kohji Dohsaka; Toyomi Meguro; Satoshi Kobashikawa; Hirokazu Masataki; Osamu Yoshioka; Satoshi Takahashi; Gen-ichiro Kikui (SLT, 2010)

Trigram dialogue control using POMDPs. - Yasuhiro Minami; Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Kohji Dohsaka; Toyomi Meguro; Eisaku Maeda (SLT, 2010)

Dialogue Control by Pomdp Using Dialogue Data Statistics. - Yasuhiro Minami; Akira Mori; Toyomi Meguro; Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Kohji Dohsaka; Eisaku Maeda (IWSDS, 2011)

Building a conversational model from two-tweets. - Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Noriaki Kawamae; Kugatsu Sadamitsu; Yasuhiro Minami; Toyomi Meguro; Kohji Dohsaka; Hirohito Inagaki (ASRU, 2011)

Wizard of Oz evaluation of listening-oriented dialogue control using POMDP. - Toyomi Meguro; Yasuhiro Minami; Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Kohji Dohsaka (ASRU, 2011)

Information provision-timing control for informational assistance robot. - Hiroaki Sugiyama; Yasuhiro Minami (HRI, 2011)

Unsupervised Clustering of Utterances Using Non-Parametric Bayesian Methods. - Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Noriaki Kawamae; Kugatsu Sadamitsu; Yasuhiro Minami; Toyomi Meguro; Kohji Dohsaka; Hirohito Inagaki (INTERSPEECH, 2011)

Evaluation of Listening-Oriented Dialogue Control Rules Based on the Analysis of HMMs. - Toyomi Meguro; Yasuhiro Minami; Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Kohji Dohsaka (INTERSPEECH, 2011)

Preference-learning based Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Dialog Control. - Hiroaki Sugiyama; Toyomi Meguro; Yasuhiro Minami (INTERSPEECH, 2012)

Open-domain Utterance Generation for Conversational Dialogue Systems using Web-scale Dependency Structures. - Hiroaki Sugiyama; Toyomi Meguro; Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Yasuhiro Minami (SIGDIAL Conference, 2013)

Learning to control listening-oriented dialogue using partially observable markov decision processes. - Toyomi Meguro; Yasuhiro Minami; Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Kohji Dohsaka (ACM Trans. Speech Lang. Process., 2013)

Large-scale Collection and Analysis of Personal Question-Answer Pairs for Conversational Agents. - Hiroaki Sugiyama; Toyomi Meguro; Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Yasuhiro Minami (IVA, 2014)

Open-domain utterance generation using phrase pairs based on dependency relations. - Hiroaki Sugiyama; Toyomi Meguro; Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Yasuhiro Minami (SLT, 2014)

Effects of Conversational Agents on Activation of Communication in Thought-Evoking Multi-Party Dialogues. - Kohji Dohsaka; Ryota Asai; Ryuichiro Higashinaka; Yasuhiro Minami; Eisaku Maeda (IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., 2014)

3WRBM-based speech factor modeling for arbitrary-source and non-parallel voice conversion. - Toru Nakashika; Yasuhiro Minami (EUSIPCO, 2016)

Speaker adaptive model based on Boltzmann machine for non-parallel training in voice conversion. - Toru Nakashika; Yasuhiro Minami (ICASSP, 2016)

Generative Acoustic-Phonemic-Speaker Model Based on Three-Way Restricted Boltzmann Machine. - Toru Nakashika; Yasuhiro Minami (INTERSPEECH, 2016)

Non-Parallel Training in Voice Conversion Using an Adaptive Restricted Boltzmann Machine. - Toru Nakashika; Tetsuya Takiguchi; Yasuhiro Minami (IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process., 2016)

Report for Japanese subtask for NTCIR-13 STC-2 from mnmlb. - Sotaro Takeshita; Ryuji Tamaki; Yasuhiro Minami; Takeru Kazama; Masato Nakamura (NTCIR, 2017)

Speaker-adaptive-trainable Boltzmann machine and its application to non-parallel voice conversion. - Toru Nakashika; Yasuhiro Minami (EURASIP J. Audio Speech Music. Process., 2017)

Analyzing Vocabulary Commonality Index Using Large-scaled Database of Child Language Development. - Yan Cao; Yasuhiro Minami; Yuko Okumura; Tessei Kobayashi (LREC, 2018)

Infant Word Comprehension-to-Production Index Applied to Investigation of Noun Learning Predominance Using Cross-lingual CDI database. - Yasuhiro Minami; Tessei Kobayashi; Yuko Okumura (LREC, 2018)

Dataset Construction for Scientific-Document Writing Support by Extracting Related Work Section and Citations from PDF Papers. - Keita Kobayashi; Kohei Koyama; Hiromi Narimatsu; Yasuhiro Minami (LREC, 2022)

CIF-RNNT: Streaming ASR Via Acoustic Word Embeddings with Continuous Integrate-and-Fire and RNN-Transducers. - Wen Shen Teo; Yasuhiro Minami (ICASSP, 2024)

Self-Information Guided Speech Segmentation for Efficient Streaming ASR. - Wen Shen Teo; Yasuhiro Minami (ICASSP, 2025)