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Keyword : speech synthesis

Continuous Noise Masking Based Vocoder for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis Mohammed Salah AL-RADHI Tamás Gábor CSAPÓ Géza NÉMETH
Publication: Publication Date: 2020/05/01 Vol. E103-D No. 5 ; pp. 1099-1107 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Speech and Hearing Keyword: noise masking, continuous vocoder, speech synthesis, phase distortion, kernel density functions,
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Effectiveness of Speech Mode Adaptation for Improving Dialogue Speech Synthesis Kazuki KAYA Hiroki MORI
Publication: Publication Date: 2019/10/01 Vol. E102-D No. 10 ; pp. 2064-2066 Type of Manuscript: LETTER Category: Speech and Hearing Keyword: dialogue, speech synthesis, HMM, transfer learning,
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Pre-Training of DNN-Based Speech Synthesis Based on Bidirectional Conversion between Text and Speech Kentaro SONE Toru NAKASHIKA
Publication: Publication Date: 2019/08/01 Vol. E102-D No. 8 ; pp. 1546-1553 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Speech and Hearing Keyword: speech synthesis, generative models, Boltzmann distributions, pre-training methods, deep neural networks,
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DNN-Based Speech Synthesis Using Speaker Codes Nobukatsu HOJO Yusuke IJIMA Hideyuki MIZUNO
Publication: Publication Date: 2018/02/01 Vol. E101-D No. 2 ; pp. 462-472 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Speech and Hearing Keyword: speech synthesis, acoustic model, deep neural network, speaker codes,
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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
Publication: Publication Date: 2017/04/01 Vol. E100-D No. 4 ; pp. 621-632 Type of Manuscript: INVITED PAPER (Special Section on Award-winning Papers) Category: Keyword: speech translation, statistical machine translation, speech recognition, speech synthesis,
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Development and Evaluation of Online Infrastructure to Aid Teaching and Learning of Japanese Prosody Nobuaki MINEMATSU Ibuki NAKAMURA Masayuki SUZUKI Hiroko HIRANO Chieko NAKAGAWA Noriko NAKAMURA Yukinori TAGAWA Keikichi HIROSE Hiroya HASHIMOTO
Publication: Publication Date: 2017/04/01 Vol. E100-D No. 4 ; pp. 662-669 Type of Manuscript: INVITED PAPER (Special Section on Award-winning Papers) Category: Keyword: speech training in Japanese, word accent, intonation, speech synthesis, accent prediction, assessment,
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Investigation of Using Continuous Representation of Various Linguistic Units in Neural Network Based Text-to-Speech Synthesis Xin WANG Shinji TAKAKI Junichi YAMAGISHI
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2016/10/01 Vol. E99-D No. 10 ; pp. 2471-2480 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Recent Advances in Machine Learning for Spoken Language Processing) Category: Speech synthesis Keyword: text-to-speech, speech synthesis, recurrent neural network, contexts, word embedding,
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WORLD: A Vocoder-Based High-Quality Speech Synthesis System for Real-Time Applications Masanori MORISE Fumiya YOKOMORI Kenji OZAWA
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2016/07/01 Vol. E99-D No. 7 ; pp. 1877-1884 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Speech and Hearing Keyword: speech analysis, speech synthesis, vocoder, sound quality, real-time processing,
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Unsupervised Prosodic Labeling of Speech Synthesis Databases Using Context-Dependent HMMs Chen-Yu YANG Zhen-Hua LING Li-Rong DAI
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2014/06/01 Vol. E97-D No. 6 ; pp. 1449-1460 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Advances in Modeling for Real-world Speech Information Processing and its Application) Category: Speech Synthesis and Related Topics Keyword: speech synthesis, prosodic labeling, hidden Markov model, prosodic phrase boundary, emphasis expression,
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Admissible Stopping in Viterbi Beam Search for Unit Selection Speech Synthesis Shinsuke SAKAI Tatsuya KAWAHARA
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2013/06/01 Vol. E96-D No. 6 ; pp. 1359-1367 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Speech and Hearing Keyword: speech synthesis, unit selection, concatenation cost, Viterbi search,
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Spectral Features for Perceptually Natural Phoneme Replacement by Another Speaker's Speech Reiko TAKOU Hiroyuki SEGI Tohru TAKAGI Nobumasa SEIYAMA
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 2012/04/01 Vol. E95-A No. 4 ; pp. 751-759 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Speech and Hearing Keyword: individuality, speech perception, speech synthesis, voice quality,
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Probabilistic Concatenation Modeling for Corpus-Based Speech Synthesis Shinsuke SAKAI Tatsuya KAWAHARA Hisashi KAWAI
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2011/10/01 Vol. E94-D No. 10 ; pp. 2006-2014 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Speech and Hearing Keyword: speech synthesis, unit selection, concatenation cost, join cost,
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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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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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A Covariance-Tying Technique for HMM-Based Speech Synthesis Keiichiro OURA Heiga ZEN Yoshihiko NANKAKU Akinobu LEE Keiichi TOKUDA
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2010/03/01 Vol. E93-D No. 3 ; pp. 595-601 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Speech and Hearing Keyword: HMM, speech synthesis, decision tree, context-clustering, MDL criterion, embedded device,
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State Duration Modeling for HMM-Based Speech Synthesis Heiga ZEN Takashi MASUKO Keiichi TOKUDA Takayoshi YOSHIMURA Takao KOBAYASIH Tadashi KITAMURA
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2007/03/01 Vol. E90-D No. 3 ; pp. 692-693 Type of Manuscript: LETTER Category: Speech and Hearing Keyword: duration modeling, speech synthesis, hidden Markov model,
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Hybrid Voice Conversion of Unit Selection and Generation Using Prosody Dependent HMM Tadashi OKUBO Ryo MOCHIZUKI Tetsunori KOBAYASHI
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2006/11/01 Vol. E89-D No. 11 ; pp. 2775-2782 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Speech and Hearing Keyword: voice conversion, speech synthesis, HMM, unit selection, MLLR,
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Implementation and Evaluation of an HMM-Based Korean Speech Synthesis System Sang-Jin KIM Jong-Jin KIM Minsoo HAHN
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2006/03/01 Vol. E89-D No. 3 ; pp. 1116-1119 Type of Manuscript: Special Section LETTER (Special Section on Statistical Modeling for Speech Processing) Category: Keyword: HMM-based speech synthesis, speech synthesis, HMM, context clustering, Korean,
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Concatenative Speech Synthesis Based on the Plural Unit Selection and Fusion Method Tatsuya MIZUTANI Takehiko KAGOSHIMA
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2005/11/01 Vol. E88-D No. 11 ; pp. 2565-2572 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Speech and Hearing Keyword: speech synthesis, plural unit selection, unit fusion, unit training, sense of stability and sense of voice,
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Rules and Algorithms for Phonetic Transcription of Standard Malay Yousif A. EL-IMAM Zuraidah Mohd DON
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2005/10/01 Vol. E88-D No. 10 ; pp. 2354-2372 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Speech and Hearing Keyword: grapheme-to-phoneme conversion, Standard Malay phonology and phonetics, speech synthesis, text-to-speech conversion,
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Fundamental Frequency Modeling for Speech Synthesis Based on a Statistical Learning Technique Shinsuke SAKAI
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2005/03/01 Vol. E88-D No. 3 ; pp. 489-495 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Corpus-Based Speech Technologies) Category: Speech Synthesis and Prosody Keyword: speech synthesis, fundamental frequency, additive models, statistical learning,
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Developments in Corpus-Based Speech Synthesis: Approaching Natural Conversational Speech Nick CAMPBELL
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2005/03/01 Vol. E88-D No. 3 ; pp. 376-383 Type of Manuscript: INVITED PAPER (Special Section on Corpus-Based Speech Technologies) Category: Keyword: speech synthesis, corpora, concatenation, paralinguistic information, communication, affect,
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A Low-Band Spectrum Envelope Reconstruction Method for PSOLA-Based F₀ Modification Ryo MOCHIZUKI Tetsunori KOBAYASHI
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2004/10/01 Vol. E87-D No. 10 ; pp. 2426-2429 Type of Manuscript: LETTER Category: Speech and Hearing Keyword: F₀ modification, spectrum envelope, PSOLA, speech synthesis,
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A Stochastic F0 Contour Model Based on Clustering and a Probabilistic Measure Yoichi YAMASHITA Tomoyoshi ISHIDA Kazuki SHIMADERA
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2003/03/01 Vol. E86-D No. 3 ; pp. 543-549 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Speech Information Processing) Category: Speech Synthesis and Prosody Keyword: speech synthesis, F0 model, clustering, bunsetsu F0 shape, stochastic method,
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Fractal Modeling of Fluctuations in the Steady Part of Sustained Vowels for High Quality Speech Synthesis Naofumi AOKI Tohru IFUKUBE
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 1998/09/25 Vol. E81-A No. 9 ; pp. 1803-1810 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications) Category: Chaos, Bifurcation and Fractal Keyword: naturalness of sustained vowels, speech synthesis, random fractal, 1/f^β fluctuation,
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Linguistic Intelligent CAI System Using Speech Data-Base Kyu-Keon LEE Katsuhiko SHIRAI
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 1995/11/25 Vol. E78-A No. 11 ; pp. 1562-1565 Type of Manuscript: Special Section LETTER (Special Section of Letters Selected from the 1995 IEICE General Conference) Category: Keyword: ICAI system, speech synthesis, pitch pattern,
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Development of TTS Card for PCs and TTS Software for WSs Yoshiyuki HARA Tsuneo NITTA Hiroyoshi SAITO Ken'ichiro KOBAYASHI
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 1993/11/25 Vol. E76-A No. 11 ; pp. 1999-2007 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Speech Synthesis: Current Technologies and Thier Application) Category: Keyword: speech synthesis, text-to-speech, multimedia, media conversion, human interface,
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High Quality Speech Synthesis System Based on Waveform Concatenation of Phoneme Segment Tomohisa HIROKAWA Kenzo ITOH Hirokazu SATO
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 1993/11/25 Vol. E76-A No. 11 ; pp. 1964-1970 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Speech Synthesis: Current Technologies and Thier Application) Category: Keyword: speech synthesis, text-to-speech, waveform dictionary, prosody set rule,
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Significance of Suitability Assessment in Speech Synthesis Applications Hideki KASUYA
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 1993/11/25 Vol. E76-A No. 11 ; pp. 1893-1897 Type of Manuscript: INVITED PAPER (Special Section on Speech Synthesis: Current Technologies and Thier Application) Category: Keyword: speech synthesis, quality assessment, human factors, prosody,
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Phoneme Power Control for Speech Synthesis Kenzo ITOH Tomohisa HIROKAWA Hirokazu SATO
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 1993/11/25 Vol. E76-A No. 11 ; pp. 1911-1918 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Speech Synthesis: Current Technologies and Thier Application) Category: Keyword: speech synthesis, text-to-speech power control, phoneme environment,
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Tree-Based Approaches to Automatic Generation of Speech Synthesis Rules for Prosodic Parameters Yoichi YAMASHITA Manabu TANAKA Yoshitake AMAKO Yasuo NOMURA Yoshikazu OHTA Atsunori KITOH Osamu KAKUSHO Riichiro MIZOGUCHI
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 1993/11/25 Vol. E76-A No. 11 ; pp. 1934-1941 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Speech Synthesis: Current Technologies and Thier Application) Category: Keyword: speech synthesis, decision tree, automatic rule generation, accent component, long noun phrase,
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Speech Segment Selection for Concatenative Synthesis Based on Spectral Distortion Minimization Naoto IWAHASHI Nobuyoshi KAIKI Yoshinori SAGISAKA
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 1993/11/25 Vol. E76-A No. 11 ; pp. 1942-1948 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Speech Synthesis: Current Technologies and Thier Application) Category: Keyword: speech synthesis, segment selection, dynamic programming, spectral distortion,
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High Quality Synthetic Speech Generation Using Synchronized Oscillators Kenji HASHIMOTO Takemi MOCHIDA Yasuaki SATO Tetsunori KOBAYASHI Katsuhiko SHIRAI
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 1993/11/25 Vol. E76-A No. 11 ; pp. 1949-1956 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Speech Synthesis: Current Technologies and Thier Application) Category: Keyword: speech synthesis, sinusoidal model, non-linear differential equation, pitch control,
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How Might One Comfortably Converse with a Machine ? Yasuhisa NIIMI
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 1993/01/25 Vol. E76-D No. 1 ; pp. 9-16 Type of Manuscript: INVITED PAPER (Special Issue on Speech and Discourse Processing in Dialogue Systems) Category: Keyword: speech dialogue system, comfirmation, adaptation, cooperativeness, speech recognition, speech synthesis,
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Prosodic Control to Express Emotions for Man-Machine Speech Interaction Yoshinori KITAHARA Yoh'ichi TOHKURA
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 1992/02/25 Vol. E75-A No. 2 ; pp. 155-163 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Fundamentals of Next Generation Human Interface) Category: Keyword: emotion, prosody, speech synthesis, human interface,
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Future Perspective of Automatic Telephone Interpretation Akira KUREMATSU
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Publication Date: 1992/01/25 Vol. E75-B No. 1 ; pp. 14-19 Type of Manuscript: INVITED PAPER (Special Section on Dreams of Future Communications) Category: Keyword: speech recognition, machine translation, speech synthesis, speech translation,
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