A novel segment-concatenation algorithm for a cepstrum-based synthesizer. - Yoshinori Shiga; Yoshiyuki Hara; Tsuneo Nitta (ICSLP, 1994)

Segmental duration control based on an articulatory model. - Yoshinori Shiga; Hiroshi Matsuura; Tsuneo Nitta (ICSLP, 1998)

Estimating the spectral envelope of voiced speech using multi-frame analysis. - Yoshinori Shiga; Simon King 001 (INTERSPEECH, 2003)

Estimation of voice source and vocal tract characteristics based on multi-frame analysis. - Yoshinori Shiga; Simon King 001 (INTERSPEECH, 2003)

Estimating detailed spectral envelopes using articulatory clustering. - Yoshinori Shiga; Simon King 001 (INTERSPEECH, 2004)

Source-filter separation for articulation-to-speech synthesis. - Yoshinori Shiga; Simon King 001 (INTERSPEECH, 2004)

Accurate spectral envelope estimation for articulation-to-speech synthesis. - Yoshinori Shiga; Simon King 001 (SSW, 2004)

An F0 contour control model using an F0 contour codebook. - Takehiko Kagoshima; Masahiro Morita; Shigenobu Seto; Masami Akamine; Yoshinori Shiga (Syst. Comput. Jpn., 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)

Pulse density representation of spectrum for statistical speech processing. - Yoshinori Shiga (INTERSPEECH, 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)

Improved training of excitation for HMM-based parametric speech synthesis. - Yoshinori Shiga; Tomoki Toda; Shinsuke Sakai; Hisashi Kawai (INTERSPEECH, 2010)

Analysis on Effects of Text-to-Speech and Avatar Agent in Evoking Users' Spontaneous Listener's Reactions. - Teruhisa Misu; Etsuo Mizukami; Yoshinori Shiga; Shinichi Kawamoto; Hisashi Kawai; Satoshi Nakamura 001 (IWSDS, 2011)

Toward Construction of Spoken Dialogue System that Evokes Users' Spontaneous Backchannels. - Teruhisa Misu; Etsuo Mizukami; Yoshinori Shiga; Shinichi Kawamoto; Hisashi Kawai; Satoshi Nakamura 001 (SIGDIAL Conference, 2011)

Effect of anti-aliasing filtering on the quality of speech from an HMM-based synthesizer. - Yoshinori Shiga (ICASSP, 2012)

An Evaluation of Parameter Generation Methods with Rich Context Models in HMM-Based Speech Synthesis. - Shinnosuke Takamichi; Tomoki Toda; Yoshinori Shiga; Hisashi Kawai; Sakriani Sakti; Satoshi Nakamura 001 (INTERSPEECH, 2012)

Resonance-based spectral deformation in HMM-based speech synthesis. - Jinfu Ni; Yoshinori Shiga; Hisashi Kawai; Hideki Kashioka (ISCSLP, 2012)

Experiments on unsupervised statistical parametric speech synthesis. - Jinfu Ni; Yoshinori Shiga; Hisashi Kawai; Hideki Kashioka (ISCSLP, 2012)

A targets-based superpositional model of fundamental frequency contours applied to HMM-based speech synthesis. - Jinfu Ni; Yoshinori Shiga; Chiori Hori; Yutaka Kidawara (INTERSPEECH, 2013)

Improvements to HMM-based speech synthesis based on parameter generation with rich context models. - Shinnosuke Takamichi; Tomoki Toda; Yoshinori Shiga; Sakriani Sakti; Graham Neubig; Satoshi Nakamura 001 (INTERSPEECH, 2013)

Multilingual Speech-to-Speech Translation System: VoiceTra. - Shigeki Matsuda; Xinhui Hu; Yoshinori Shiga; Hideki Kashioka; Chiori Hori; Keiji Yasuda; Hideo Okuma; Masao Uchiyama; Eiichiro Sumita; Hisashi Kawai; Satoshi Nakamura 001 (MDM (2), 2013)

Tuning intonation with pitch accent decomposition for HMM-based expressive speech synthesis. - Jinfu Ni; Yoshinori Shiga; Chiori Hori (APSIPA, 2014)

Non-monologue HMM-based speech synthesis for service robots: A cloud robotics approach. - Komei Sugiura; Yoshinori Shiga; Hisashi Kawai; Teruhisa Misu; Chiori Hori (ICRA, 2014)

Parameter Generation Methods With Rich Context Models for High-Quality and Flexible Text-To-Speech Synthesis. - Shinnosuke Takamichi; Tomoki Toda; Yoshinori Shiga; Sakriani Sakti; Graham Neubig; Satoshi Nakamura 001 (IEEE J. Sel. Top. Signal Process., 2014)

Extraction of pitch register from expressive speech in Japanese. - Jinfu Ni; Yoshinori Shiga; Chiori Hori (ICASSP, 2015)

Entropy-based sentence selection for speech synthesis using phonetic and prosodic contexts. - Takashi Nose; Yusuke Arao; Takao Kobayashi; Komei Sugiura; Yoshinori Shiga; Akinori Ito (INTERSPEECH, 2015)

HMM based myanmar text to speech system. - Ye Kyaw Thu; Win Pa Pa; Jinfu Ni; Yoshinori Shiga; Andrew M. Finch; Chiori Hori; Hisashi Kawai; Eiichiro Sumita (INTERSPEECH, 2015)

A cloud robotics approach towards dialogue-oriented robot speech. - Komei Sugiura; Yoshinori Shiga; Hisashi Kawai; Teruhisa Misu; Chiori Hori (Adv. Robotics, 2015)

Using Zero-Frequency Resonator to Extract Multilingual Intonation Structure. - Jinfu Ni; Yoshinori Shiga; Hisashi Kawai (INTERSPEECH, 2016)

Model Integration for HMM- and DNN-Based Speech Synthesis Using Product-of-Experts Framework. - Kentaro Tachibana; Tomoki Toda; Yoshinori Shiga; Hisashi Kawai (INTERSPEECH, 2016)

Superpositional HMM-Based Intonation Synthesis Using a Functional F0 Model. - Jinfu Ni; Yoshinori Shiga; Chiori Hori (J. Signal Process. Syst., 2016)

Subband wavenet with overlapped single-sideband filterbanks. - Takuma Okamoto; Kentaro Tachibana; Tomoki Toda; Yoshinori Shiga; Hisashi Kawai (ASRU, 2017)

Global Syllable Vectors for Building TTS Front-End with Deep Learning. - Jinfu Ni; Yoshinori Shiga; Hisashi Kawai (INTERSPEECH, 2017)

Development of the "VoiceTra" Multi-Lingual Speech Translation System. - Shigeki Matsuda; Teruaki Hayashi; Yutaka Ashikari; Yoshinori Shiga; Hidenori Kashioka; Keiji Yasuda; Hideo Okuma; Masao Uchiyama; Eiichiro Sumita; Hisashi Kawai; Satoshi Nakamura 001 (IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., 2017)

Sentence Selection Based on Extended Entropy Using Phonetic and Prosodic Contexts for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis. - Takashi Nose; Yusuke Arao; Takao Kobayashi; Komei Sugiura; Yoshinori Shiga (IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process., 2017)

An Investigation of Subband Wavenet Vocoder Covering Entire Audible Frequency Range with Limited Acoustic Features. - Takuma Okamoto; Kentaro Tachibana; Tomoki Toda; Yoshinori Shiga; Hisashi Kawai (ICASSP, 2018)

An Investigation of Noise Shaping with Perceptual Weighting for Wavenet-Based Speech Generation. - Kentaro Tachibana; Tomoki Toda; Yoshinori Shiga; Hisashi Kawai (ICASSP, 2018)

Multilingual Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion with Global Character Vectors. - Jinfu Ni; Yoshinori Shiga; Hisashi Kawai (INTERSPEECH, 2018)

Improving FFTNet Vocoder with Noise Shaping and Subband Approaches. - Takuma Okamoto; Tomoki Toda; Yoshinori Shiga; Hisashi Kawai (SLT, 2018)

Tacotron-Based Acoustic Model Using Phoneme Alignment for Practical Neural Text-to-Speech Systems. - Takuma Okamoto; Tomoki Toda; Yoshinori Shiga; Hisashi Kawai (ASRU, 2019)

HMM-based TTS System Framework. - Saly Keo; Soky Kak; Yoshinori Shiga; Hiroaki Kato; Hisashi Kawai (CIFEr, 2019)

Investigations of Real-time Gaussian Fftnet and Parallel Wavenet Neural Vocoders with Simple Acoustic Features. - Takuma Okamoto; Tomoki Toda; Yoshinori Shiga; Hisashi Kawai (ICASSP, 2019)

Duration Modeling with Global Phoneme-Duration Vectors. - Jinfu Ni; Yoshinori Shiga; Hisashi Kawai (INTERSPEECH, 2019)

Real-Time Neural Text-to-Speech with Sequence-to-Sequence Acoustic Model and WaveGlow or Single Gaussian WaveRNN Vocoders. - Takuma Okamoto; Tomoki Toda; Yoshinori Shiga; Hisashi Kawai (INTERSPEECH, 2019)

Transformer-Based Text-to-Speech with Weighted Forced Attention. - Takuma Okamoto; Tomoki Toda; Yoshinori Shiga; Hisashi Kawai (ICASSP, 2020)

Multilingualization of Speech Processing. - Hiroaki Kato; Shoji Harada; Tasuku Kitade; Yoshinori Shiga (Speech-to-Speech Translation, 2020)

Text-to-Speech Synthesis. - Yoshinori Shiga; Jinfu Ni; Kentaro Tachibana; Takuma Okamoto (Speech-to-Speech Translation, 2020)

High-Intelligibility Speech Synthesis for Dysarthric Speakers with LPCNet-Based TTS and CycleVAE-Based VC. - Keisuke Matsubara; Takuma Okamoto; Ryoichi Takashima; Tetsuya Takiguchi; Tomoki Toda; Yoshinori Shiga; Hisashi Kawai (ICASSP, 2021)

Noise Level Limited Sub-Modeling for Diffusion Probabilistic Vocoders. - Takuma Okamoto; Tomoki Toda; Yoshinori Shiga; Hisashi Kawai (ICASSP, 2021)

Full-Band LPCNet: A Real-Time Neural Vocoder for 48 kHz Audio With a CPU. - Keisuke Matsubara; Takuma Okamoto; Ryoichi Takashima; Tetsuya Takiguchi; Tomoki Toda; Yoshinori Shiga; Hisashi Kawai (IEEE Access, 2021)

Neural speech-rate conversion with multispeaker WaveNet vocoder. - Takuma Okamoto; Keisuke Matsubara; Tomoki Toda; Yoshinori Shiga; Hisashi Kawai (Speech Commun., 2022)