Masatsune TAMURA

Statistical Bandwidth Extension for Speech Synthesis Based on Gaussian Mixture Model with Sub-Band Basis Spectrum Model
Yamato OHTANI Masatsune TAMURA Masahiro MORITA Masami AKAMINE 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2016/10/01
Vol. E99-D  No. 10  pp. 2481-2489
Type of Manuscript:  Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Recent Advances in Machine Learning for Spoken Language Processing)
Category: Voice conversion
Keyword: 
speech enhancement, voice conversion, bandwidth extension, sub-band basis spectrum model, Gaussian mixture model, 
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Fast Concatenative Speech Synthesis Using Pre-Fused Speech Units Based on the Plural Unit Selection and Fusion Method
Masatsune TAMURA Tatsuya MIZUTANI Takehiko KAGOSHIMA 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2007/02/01
Vol. E90-D  No. 2  pp. 544-553
Type of Manuscript:  PAPER
Category: Speech and Hearing
Keyword: 
concatenative speech synthesis, unit selection, unit fusion, offline unit fusion, frequency-weighted VQ, 
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A Training Method of Average Voice Model for HMM-Based Speech Synthesis
Junichi YAMAGISHI Masatsune TAMURA Takashi MASUKO Keiichi TOKUDA Takao KOBAYASHI 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2003/08/01
Vol. E86-A  No. 8  pp. 1956-1963
Type of Manuscript:  Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Digital Signal Processing)
Category: 
Keyword: 
decision tree, context clustering, speaker adaptation, speaker adaptive training, average voice model, HMM-based speech synthesis, 
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A Context Clustering Technique for Average Voice Models
Junichi YAMAGISHI Masatsune TAMURA Takashi MASUKO Keiichi TOKUDA Takao KOBAYASHI 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2003/03/01
Vol. E86-D  No. 3  pp. 534-542
Type of Manuscript:  Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Speech Information Processing)
Category: Speech Synthesis and Prosody
Keyword: 
decision tree, context clustering, average voice model, HMM-based speech synthesis, speaker independent model, 
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