Tomoki TODA


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 synthesiseigenvoice conversionSTRAIGHT mixed excitationglobal varianceadaptive 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: 
laryngectomeesesophageal speechspeech enhancementvoice conversioneigenvoice 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: 
laryngectomeespeaking aidelectrolarynxvoice conversionNAMenhancing 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 synthesisvoice conversionGaussian mixture modeleigenvoiceadaptive training
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The Nitech-NAIST HMM-Based Speech Synthesis System for the Blizzard Challenge 2006
Heiga ZEN  Tomoki TODA  Keiichi TOKUDA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2008/06/01
Vol. E91-D  No. 6  pp. 1764-1773
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Speech and Hearing
Keyword: 
statistical parametric speech synthesisBlizzard Challenge 2006MGC-LSPMLLTfull covariance GV pdf
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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 applicationreal-environmenttask-dependencyunsupervised trainingselective training
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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 corpuscost effectivespeaker selectionacoustic modelstatistical MDS method
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A Speech Parameter Generation Algorithm Considering Global Variance for HMM-Based Speech Synthesis
Tomoki TODA  Keiichi TOKUDA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2007/05/01
Vol. E90-D  No. 5  pp. 816-824
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Speech and Hearing
Keyword: 
HMM-based speech synthesisspeech parameter generationmaximum likelihood criterionover-smoothing effectglobal variance
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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 statisticsunsupervisedrapid adaptationspeech recognition
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Details of the Nitech HMM-Based Speech Synthesis System for the Blizzard Challenge 2005
Heiga ZEN  Tomoki TODA  Masaru NAKAMURA  Keiichi TOKUDA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2007/01/01
Vol. E90-D  No. 1  pp. 325-333
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Speech and Hearing
Keyword: 
HMM-based speech synthesisBlizzard Challenge 2005STRAIGHTHSMMGV
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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 modelingtask-dependencydevelopment costsselective trainingsufficient statistics
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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 Statisticsunsupervisedspeaker adaptationnoisy environments
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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 synthesisspeech databaseprosody modificationSTRAIGHTperceptual evaluation
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