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Hiroshi SARUWATARI

Speech Prior Estimation for Generalized Minimum Mean-Square Error Short-Time Spectral Amplitude Estimator Ryo WAKISAKA Hiroshi SARUWATARI Kiyohiro SHIKANO Tomoya TAKATANI
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 2012/02/01 Vol. E95-A No. 2 pp. 591-595 Type of Manuscript: LETTER Category: Engineering Acoustics Keyword: generalized MMSE STSA estimator, speech kurtosis estimation, cumulant,
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Theoretical Analysis of Amounts of Musical Noise and Speech Distortion in Structure-Generalized Parametric Blind Spatial Subtraction Array Ryoichi MIYAZAKI Hiroshi SARUWATARI Kiyohiro SHIKANO
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 2012/02/01 Vol. E95-A No. 2 pp. 586-590 Type of Manuscript: LETTER Category: Engineering Acoustics Keyword: speech enhancement, musical noise, higher-order statistics, speech recognition performance,
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Sound Field Reproduction by Wavefront Synthesis Using Directly Aligned Multi Point Control Noriyoshi KAMADO Haruhide HOKARI Shoji SHIMADA Hiroshi SARUWATARI Kiyohiro SHIKANO
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 2011/03/01 Vol. E94-A No. 3 pp. 907-920 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Engineering Acoustics Keyword: wavefront synthesis, wavefront measurement, impulse response, multi-point control,
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Improvements of the One-to-Many Eigenvoice Conversion System Yamato OHTANI Tomoki TODA Hiroshi SARUWATARI Kiyohiro SHIKANO
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2010/09/01 Vol. E93-D No. 9 pp. 2491-2499 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Processing Natural Speech Variability for Improved Verbal Human-Computer Interaction) Category: Voice Conversion Keyword: speech synthesis, eigenvoice conversion, STRAIGHT mixed excitation, global variance, adaptive training,
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Esophageal Speech Enhancement Based on Statistical Voice Conversion with Gaussian Mixture Models Hironori DOI Keigo NAKAMURA Tomoki TODA Hiroshi SARUWATARI Kiyohiro SHIKANO
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2010/09/01 Vol. E93-D No. 9 pp. 2472-2482 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Processing Natural Speech Variability for Improved Verbal Human-Computer Interaction) Category: Voice Conversion Keyword: laryngectomees, esophageal speech, speech enhancement, voice conversion, eigenvoice conversion,
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Evaluation of Extremely Small Sound Source Signals Used in Speaking-Aid System with Statistical Voice Conversion Keigo NAKAMURA Tomoki TODA Hiroshi SARUWATARI Kiyohiro SHIKANO
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2010/07/01 Vol. E93-D No. 7 pp. 1909-1917 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Keyword: laryngectomee, speaking aid, electrolarynx, voice conversion, NAM, enhancing auditory feedback,
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Adaptive Training for Voice Conversion Based on Eigenvoices Yamato OHTANI Tomoki TODA Hiroshi SARUWATARI Kiyohiro SHIKANO
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2010/06/01 Vol. E93-D No. 6 pp. 1589-1598 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Speech and Hearing Keyword: speech synthesis, voice conversion, Gaussian mixture model, eigenvoice, adaptive training,
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Fast Convergence Blind Source Separation Using Frequency Subband Interpolation by Null Beamforming Keiichi OSAKO Yoshimitsu MORI Yu TAKAHASHI Hiroshi SARUWATARI Kiyohiro SHIKANO
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 2008/06/01 Vol. E91-A No. 6 pp. 1357-1361 Type of Manuscript: Special Section LETTER (Special Section on Acoustic Scene Analysis and Reproduction) Category: Keyword: blind source separation, independent component analysis, null beamforming, DOA estimation,
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Rapid Compensation of Temperature Fluctuation Effect for Multichannel Sound Field Reproduction System Yuki YAI Shigeki MIYABE Hiroshi SARUWATARI Kiyohiro SHIKANO Yosuke TATEKURA
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 2008/06/01 Vol. E91-A No. 6 pp. 1329-1336 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Acoustic Scene Analysis and Reproduction) Category: Keyword: sound field control, temperature fluctuation, computational efficiency,
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Building an Effective Speech Corpus by Utilizing Statistical Multidimensional Scaling Method Goshu NAGINO Makoto SHOZAKAI Tomoki TODA Hiroshi SARUWATARI Kiyohiro SHIKANO
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2008/03/01 Vol. E91-D No. 3 pp. 607-614 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Robust Speech Processing in Realistic Environments) Category: Corpus Keyword: speech corpus, cost effective, speaker selection, acoustic model, statistical MDS method,
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Cost Reduction of Acoustic Modeling for Real-Environment Applications Using Unsupervised and Selective Training Tobias CINCAREK Tomoki TODA Hiroshi SARUWATARI Kiyohiro SHIKANO
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2008/03/01 Vol. E91-D No. 3 pp. 499-507 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Robust Speech Processing in Realistic Environments) Category: Acoustic Modeling Keyword: ASR application, real-environment, task-dependency, unsupervised training, selective training,
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Development, Long-Term Operation and Portability of a Real-Environment Speech-Oriented Guidance System Tobias CINCAREK Hiromichi KAWANAMI Ryuichi NISIMURA Akinobu LEE Hiroshi SARUWATARI Kiyohiro SHIKANO
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2008/03/01 Vol. E91-D No. 3 pp. 576-587 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Robust Speech Processing in Realistic Environments) Category: Applications Keyword: real environment, speech-oriented guidance system, development simulation, portability, speech recognizer, question and answer database,
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Reducing Computation Time of the Rapid Unsupervised Speaker Adaptation Based on HMM-Sufficient Statistics Randy GOMEZ Tomoki TODA Hiroshi SARUWATARI Kiyohiro SHIKANO
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2007/02/01 Vol. E90-D No. 2 pp. 554-561 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Speech and Hearing Keyword: HMM-sufficient statistics, unsupervised, rapid adaptation, speech recognition,
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Improving Rapid Unsupervised Speaker Adaptation Based on HMM-Sufficient Statistics in Noisy Environments Using Multi-Template Models Randy GOMEZ Akinobu LEE Tomoki TODA Hiroshi SARUWATARI Kiyohiro SHIKANO
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2006/03/01 Vol. E89-D No. 3 pp. 998-1005 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Statistical Modeling for Speech Processing) Category: Speech Recognition Keyword: HMM-Sufficient Statistics, unsupervised, speaker adaptation, noisy environments,
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Interface for Barge-in Free Spoken Dialogue System Using Nullspace Based Sound Field Control and Beamforming Shigeki MIYABE Hiroshi SARUWATARI Kiyohiro SHIKANO Yosuke TATEKURA
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 2006/03/01 Vol. E89-A No. 3 pp. 716-726 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Multidimensional Signal Processing and Its Application) Category: Speech/Audio Processing Keyword: spoken dialogue system, barge-in, sound field control, beamforming, nullspace,
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Utterance-Based Selective Training for the Automatic Creation of Task-Dependent Acoustic Models Tobias CINCAREK Tomoki TODA Hiroshi SARUWATARI Kiyohiro SHIKANO
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2006/03/01 Vol. E89-D No. 3 pp. 962-969 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Statistical Modeling for Speech Processing) Category: Speech Recognition Keyword: acoustic modeling, task-dependency, development costs, selective training, sufficient statistics,
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Subband-Based Blind Separation for Convolutive Mixtures of Speech Shoko ARAKI Shoji MAKINO Robert AICHNER Tsuyoki NISHIKAWA Hiroshi SARUWATARI
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 2005/12/01 Vol. E88-A No. 12 pp. 3593-3603 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Engineering Acoustics Keyword: blind source separation, speech separation, convolutive mixtures, subband processing, frequency dependent processing,
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Blind Separation and Deconvolution for Convolutive Mixture of Speech Combining SIMO-Model-Based ICA and Multichannel Inverse Filtering Hiroshi SARUWATARI Hiroaki YAMAJO Tomoya TAKATANI Tsuyoki NISHIKAWA Kiyohiro SHIKANO
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 2005/09/01 Vol. E88-A No. 9 pp. 2387-2400 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Engineering Acoustics Keyword: blind source separation, blind deconvolution, independent component analysis, SIMO model,
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Blind Separation of Speech by Fixed-Point ICA with Source Adaptive Negentropy Approximation Rajkishore PRASAD Hiroshi SARUWATARI Kiyohiro SHIKANO
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 2005/07/01 Vol. E88-A No. 7 pp. 1683-1692 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Multi-channel Acoustic Signal Processing) Category: Blind Source Separation Keyword: blind separation of speech, frequency domain independent component analysis, generalized Gaussian distribution, negentropy maximization,
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A Self-Generator Method for Initial Filters of SIMO-ICA Applied to Blind Separation of Binaural Sound Mixtures Tomoya TAKATANI Satoshi UKAI Tsuyoki NISHIKAWA Hiroshi SARUWATARI Kiyohiro SHIKANO
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 2005/07/01 Vol. E88-A No. 7 pp. 1673-1682 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Multi-channel Acoustic Signal Processing) Category: Blind Source Separation Keyword: blind source separation, independent component analysis, SIMO-ICA, self-generator, binaural,
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On-Line Relaxation Algorithm Applicable to Acoustic Fluctuation for Inverse Filter in Multichannel Sound Reproduction System Yosuke TATEKURA Shigefumi URATA Hiroshi SARUWATARI Kiyohiro SHIKANO
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 2005/07/01 Vol. E88-A No. 7 pp. 1747-1756 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Multi-channel Acoustic Signal Processing) Category: Sound Field Reproduction Keyword: sound reproduction, room transfer function, inverse filter, relaxation of inverse filter, on-line adaptation,
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Interface for Barge-in Free Spoken Dialogue System Combining Adaptive Sound Field Control and Microphone Array Tatsunori ASAI Hiroshi SARUWATARI Kiyohiro SHIKANO
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 2005/06/01 Vol. E88-A No. 6 pp. 1613-1618 Type of Manuscript: LETTER Category: Speech and Hearing Keyword: spoken dialogue system, barge-in, adaptive sound field control, microphone array, speech recognition,
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Designing Target Cost Function Based on Prosody of Speech Database Kazuki ADACHI Tomoki TODA Hiromichi KAWANAMI Hiroshi SARUWATARI Kiyohiro SHIKANO
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2005/03/01 Vol. E88-D No. 3 pp. 519-524 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Corpus-Based Speech Technologies) Category: Speech Synthesis and Prosody Keyword: unit selection speech synthesis, speech database, prosody modification, STRAIGHT, perceptual evaluation,
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Multistage SIMO-Model-Based Blind Source Separation Combining Frequency-Domain ICA and Time-Domain ICA Satoshi UKAI Tomoya TAKATANI Hiroshi SARUWATARI Kiyohiro SHIKANO Ryo MUKAI Hiroshi SAWADA
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 2005/03/01 Vol. E88-A No. 3 pp. 642-650 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Adaptive Signal Processing and Its Applications) Category: Keyword: blind source separation, microphone array, independent component analysis, SIMO model,
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Overdetermined Blind Separation for Real Convolutive Mixtures of Speech Based on Multistage ICA Using Subarray Processing Tsuyoki NISHIKAWA Hiroshi ABE Hiroshi SARUWATARI Kiyohiro SHIKANO Atsunobu KAMINUMA
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 2004/08/01 Vol. E87-A No. 8 pp. 1924-1932 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Digital Signal Processing) Category: Speech/Acoustic Signal Processing Keyword: microphone array, blind source separation, independent component analysis, subarray processing, convolutive mixture,
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High-Fidelity Blind Separation of Acoustic Signals Using SIMO-Model-Based Independent Component Analysis Tomoya TAKATANI Tsuyoki NISHIKAWA Hiroshi SARUWATARI Kiyohiro SHIKANO
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 2004/08/01 Vol. E87-A No. 8 pp. 2063-2072 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Engineering Acoustics Keyword: blind source separation, microphone array, independent component analysis, SIMO model,
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Probability Distribution of Time-Series of Speech Spectral Components Rajkishore PRASAD Hiroshi SARUWATARI Kiyohiro SHIKANO
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 2004/03/01 Vol. E87-A No. 3 pp. 584-597 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Applications and Implementations of Digital Signal Processing) Category: Audio/Speech Coding Keyword: probabilistic modeling, spectral components of speech, microphone-array, GGD, FDICA,
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Stable Learning Algorithm for Blind Separation of Temporally Correlated Acoustic Signals Combining Multistage ICA and Linear Prediction Tsuyoki NISHIKAWA Hiroshi SARUWATARI Kiyohiro SHIKANO
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 2003/08/01 Vol. E86-A No. 8 pp. 2028-2036 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Digital Signal Processing) Category: Keyword: microphone array, blind source separation, independent component analysis, linear prediction, whitening,
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Blind Source Separation of Acoustic Signals Based on Multistage ICA Combining Frequency-Domain ICA and Time-Domain ICA Tsuyoki NISHIKAWA Hiroshi SARUWATARI Kiyohiro SHIKANO
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 2003/04/01 Vol. E86-A No. 4 pp. 846-858 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Digital Signal Processing Keyword: blind source separation, time-domain independent component analysis, frequency-domain independent component analysis, reverberation, microphone array,
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Fast-Convergence Algorithm for Blind Source Separation Based on Array Signal Processing Hiroshi SARUWATARI Toshiya KAWAMURA Tsuyoki NISHIKAWA Kiyohiro SHIKANO
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 2003/03/01 Vol. E86-A No. 3 pp. 634-639 Type of Manuscript: Special Section LETTER (Special Section on Blind Signal Processing: Independent Component Analysis and Signal Separation) Category: Convolutive Systems Keyword: blind source separation, microphone array, independent component analysis, beamforming,
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Sound Reproduction System Including Adaptive Compensation of Temperature Fluctuation Effect for Broad-Band Sound Control Yosuke TATEKURA Hiroshi SARUWATARI Kiyohiro SHIKANO
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 2002/08/01 Vol. E85-A No. 8 pp. 1851-1860 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Digital Signal Processing) Category: Applications of Signal Processing Keyword: multichannel sound reproduction system, inverse filter, compensation of temperature fluctuation, broad-band sound control,
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An Iterative Inverse Filter Design Method for the Multichannel Sound Field Reproduction System Yosuke TATEKURA Hiroshi SARUWATARI Kiyohiro SHIKANO
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 2001/04/01 Vol. E84-A No. 4 pp. 991-998 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Acoustic Signal Processing) Category: Keyword: multichannel sound field reproduction, inverse filter, least-norm solution, iterative processing,
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Direction of Arrival Estimation Using Nonlinear Microphone Array Hidekazu KAMIYANAGIDA Hiroshi SARUWATARI Kazuya TAKEDA Fumitada ITAKURA Kiyohiro SHIKANO
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 2001/04/01 Vol. E84-A No. 4 pp. 999-1010 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Acoustic Signal Processing) Category: Keyword: nonlinear array signal processing, microphone array, DOA estimation, complementary beamforming,
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Speech Enhancement Using Nonlinear Microphone Array Based on Noise Adaptive Complementary Beamforming Hiroshi SARUWATARI Shoji KAJITA Kazuya TAKEDA Fumitada ITAKURA
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 2000/05/20 Vol. E83-A No. 5 pp. 866-876 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Engineering Acoustics Keyword: speech enhancement, microphone array, complementary beamforming, noise adaptation, spectral subtraction,
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Speech Enhancement Using Nonlinear Microphone Array Based on Complementary Beamforming Hiroshi SARUWATARI Shoji KAJITA Kazuya TAKEDA Fumitada ITAKURA
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 1999/08/20 Vol. E82-A No. 8 pp. 1501-1510 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Digital Signal Processing) Category: Keyword: speech enhancement, microphone array, complementary beamforming, spectral subtraction, speech recognition,
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