Investigation of Enhanced Tacotron Text-to-speech Synthesis Systems with Self-attention for Pitch Accent Language. - Yusuke Yasuda; Xin Wang 037; Shinji Takaki; Junichi Yamagishi (ICASSP, 2019)

Rakugo speech synthesis using segment-to-segment neural transduction and style tokens - toward speech synthesis for entertaining audiences. - Shuhei Kato; Yusuke Yasuda; Xin Wang 037; Erica Cooper; Shinji Takaki; Junichi Yamagishi (SSW, 2019)

Initial investigation of encoder-decoder end-to-end TTS using marginalization of monotonic hard alignments. - Yusuke Yasuda; Xin Wang 037; Junichi Yamagishi (SSW, 2019)

Initial investigation of an encoder-decoder end-to-end TTS framework using marginalization of monotonic hard latent alignments. - Yusuke Yasuda; Xin Wang 037; Junichi Yamagishi (CoRR, 2019)

Zero-Shot Multi-Speaker Text-To-Speech with State-Of-The-Art Neural Speaker Embeddings. - Erica Cooper; Cheng-I Lai; Yusuke Yasuda; Fuming Fang; Xin Wang 037; Nanxin Chen; Junichi Yamagishi (ICASSP, 2020)

Effect of Choice of Probability Distribution, Randomness, and Search Methods for Alignment Modeling in Sequence-to-Sequence Text-to-Speech Synthesis Using Hard Alignment. - Yusuke Yasuda; Xin Wang 037; Junichi Yamagishi (ICASSP, 2020)

Can Speaker Augmentation Improve Multi-Speaker End-to-End TTS? - Erica Cooper; Cheng-I Lai; Yusuke Yasuda; Junichi Yamagishi (INTERSPEECH, 2020)

Modeling of Rakugo Speech and Its Limitations: Toward Speech Synthesis That Entertains Audiences. - Shuhei Kato; Yusuke Yasuda; Xin Wang 037; Erica Cooper; Shinji Takaki; Junichi Yamagishi (IEEE Access, 2020)

Pretraining Strategies, Waveform Model Choice, and Acoustic Configurations for Multi-Speaker End-to-End Speech Synthesis. - Erica Cooper; Xin Wang 037; Yi Zhao 006; Yusuke Yasuda; Junichi Yamagishi (CoRR, 2020)

How Similar or Different is Rakugo Speech Synthesizer to Professional Performers? - Shuhei Kato; Yusuke Yasuda; Xin Wang 037; Erica Cooper; Junichi Yamagishi (ICASSP, 2021)

End-to-End Text-to-Speech Using Latent Duration Based on VQ-VAE. - Yusuke Yasuda; Xin Wang 037; Junichi Yamagishi (ICASSP, 2021)

ESPnet2-TTS: Extending the Edge of TTS Research. - Tomoki Hayashi; Ryuichi Yamamoto; Takenori Yoshimura; Peter Wu; Jiatong Shi; Takaaki Saeki; Yooncheol Ju; Yusuke Yasuda; Shinnosuke Takamichi; Shinji Watanabe 001 (CoRR, 2021)

Investigation of learning abilities on linguistic features in sequence-to-sequence text-to-speech synthesis. - Yusuke Yasuda; Xin Wang 037; Junichi Yamagishi (Comput. Speech Lang., 2021)

Lexical pitch accent and duration modeling for neural end-to-end text-to-speech synthesis. - Yusuke Yasuda (2021)

Spoken-Text-Style Transfer with Conditional Variational Autoencoder and Content Word Storage. - Daiki Yoshioka; Yusuke Yasuda; Noriyuki Matsunaga; Yamato Ohtani; Tomoki Toda (INTERSPEECH, 2022)

MOEA/D with Feasibility-based Weight Adjustment for Constrained Optimization. - Yusuke Yasuda; Wataru Kumagai; Kenichi Tamura; Keiichiro Yasuda (SSCI, 2022)

Investigation of Japanese PnG BERT Language Model in Text-to-Speech Synthesis for Pitch Accent Language. - Yusuke Yasuda; Tomoki Toda (IEEE J. Sel. Top. Signal Process., 2022)

Extending MOEA/D to Constrained Multi-objective Optimization via Making Constraints an Objective Function. - Yusuke Yasuda; Kenichi Tamura; Keiichiro Yasuda (GECCO Companion, 2023)

Text-To-Speech Synthesis Based on Latent Variable Conversion Using Diffusion Probabilistic Model and Variational Autoencoder. - Yusuke Yasuda; Tomoki Toda (ICASSP, 2023)

Preference-based training framework for automatic speech quality assessment using deep neural network. - Cheng-Hung Hu; Yusuke Yasuda; Tomoki Toda (INTERSPEECH, 2023)

Analysis of Mean Opinion Scores in Subjective Evaluation of Synthetic Speech Based on Tail Probabilities. - Yusuke Yasuda; Tomoki Toda (INTERSPEECH, 2023)

A Switching Normalization Method in Decomposition-based Constraint Handling for Constrained Optimization. - Yusuke Yasuda; Hidetoki Kojima; Wataru Kumagai; Kenichi Tamura; Keiichiro Yasuda (SICE, 2023)

Differential Evolution Using Superior Infeasible Solutions for Constrained Optimization. - Yuji Sato; Watatu Kumagai; Yusuke Yasuda; Kenichi Tamura; Keiichiro Yasuda (SMC, 2023)

The Singing Voice Conversion Challenge 2023. - Wen-Chin Huang; Lester Phillip Violeta; Songxiang Liu; Jiatong Shi; Yusuke Yasuda; Tomoki Toda (CoRR, 2023)

Analyzing Violation Landscapes Using Different Definitions of Constraint Violation. - Yusuke Yasuda; Kenichi Tamura; Keiichiro Yasuda (GECCO Companion, 2024)

Exploring the Robustness of Text-to-Speech Synthesis Based on Diffusion Probabilistic Models to Heavily Noisy Transcriptions. - Jingyi Feng; Yusuke Yasuda; Tomoki Toda (INTERSPEECH, 2024)

Embedding Learning for Preference-based Speech Quality Assessment. - Cheng-Hung Hu; Yusuke Yasuda; Tomoki Toda (INTERSPEECH, 2024)

A Bilayered Decomposition Technique for Handling Complex Constrained Multi-Objective Optimization Problems. - Yusuke Yasuda; Kenichi Tamura; Keiichiro Yasuda (SMC, 2024)

Automatic design optimization of preference-based subjective evaluation with online learning in crowdsourcing environment. - Yusuke Yasuda; Tomoki Toda (CoRR, 2024)

E2EPref: An end-to-end preference-based framework for speech quality assessment to alleviate bias in direct assessment scores. - Cheng-Hung Hu; Yusuke Yasuda; Tomoki Toda (Comput. Speech Lang., 2025)

Unifying Listener Scoring Scales: Comparison Learning Framework for Speech Quality Assessment and Continuous Speech Emotion Recognition. - Cheng-Hung Hu; Yusuke Yasuda; Akifumi Yoshimoto; Tomoki Toda (CoRR, 2025)