PUBLICATIONS - 2014
Journal
- Kazuhiro Nakamura, Keiichiro Oura, Yoshihiko Nankaku, and Keiichi Tokuda, ``Hidden Markov model-based English singing voice synthesis,'' IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, vol. J97-D, no. 10, pp. 1572-1581, October, 2014. (Full paper peer reviewed) (in Japanese)
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- Akira Tamamori, Yoshihiko Nankaku, and Keiichi Tokuda, ``Image recognition based on separable lattice trajectory 2-D HMMs,'' IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, vol. E97-D, no. 7, pp. 1842-1854, July, 2014. (Full paper peer reviewed)
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- Hongwu Yang, Keiichiro Oura, Haiyan Wang, Zhenye Gan, and Keiichi Tokuda, ``Using speaker adaptive training to realize Mandarin-Tibetan cross-lingual speech synthesis,'' Multimedia Tools and Applications, June, 2014. (Full paper peer reviewed)
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- Kazuhiro Nakamura, Kei Hashimoto, Yoshihiko Nankaku, and Keiichi Tokuda, ``Integration of spectral feature extraction and modeling for HMM-based speech synthesis,'' IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, vol. E97-D, no. 6, pp. 1438-1448, June, 2014. (Full paper peer reviewed)
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- Shinji Takaki, Yoshihiko Nankaku, and Keiichi Tokuda, ``Contextual additive structure for HMM-based speech synthesis,'' Selected Topics in Signal Processing, IEEE Journal, vol. 8, issue 2, pp. 229-238, April, 2014. (Full paper peer reviewed)
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International Conference
- Daisuke Yamamoto, Keiichiro Oura, Ryota Nishimura, Takahiro Uchiya, Akinobu Lee, Ichi Takumi, and Keiichi Tokuda,
``Voice interaction system with 3D-CG virtual agent for stand-alone smartphones,''
The Second International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2014), pp. 320-330, Tsukuba, Japan, October, 2014. (Full paper peer reviewed)
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- Kei Sawada, Shinji Takaki, Kei Hashimoto, Keiichiro Oura, and Keiichi Tokuda,
``Overview of NITECH HMM-based text-to-speech synthesis system for Blizzard Challenge 2014,''
Blizzard Challenge 2014 Workshop, Singapore, September, 2014. (Full paper peer reviewed)
- Kazuhiro Nakamura, Kei Hashimoto, Keiichiro Oura, Yoshihiko Nankaku, and Keiichi Tokuda,
``A mel-cepstral analysis technique restoring high frequency components from low-sampling-rate speech,''
Interspeech 2014, pp. 2494-2498, Singapore, September, 2014. (Full paper peer reviewed)
- Atunobu Kaminuma, Yoshihiko Nankaku,
``Automatic driver characteristics estimation using driving signals,''
International Federation of Automotive Engineering Societies (FISITA) 2014 World Automotive Congress, pp. 1-9, Maastricht, Netherlands, June, 2014. (Full paper peer reviewed)
- Kanako Shirota, Kazuhiro Nakamura, Kei Hashimoto, Keiichiro Oura, Yoshihiko Nankaku, and Keiichi Tokuda,
``Integration of speaker and pitch adaptive training for HMM-based singing voice synthesis,''
2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 2578-2582, Florence, Italy, May, 2014. (Full paper peer reviewed)
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- Kazuhiro Nakamura, Keiichiro Oura, Yoshihiko Nankaku, and Keiichi Tokuda,
``HMM-based singing voice synthesis and its application to Japanese and English,''
2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 265-269, Florence, Italy, May, 2014. (Full paper peer reviewed)
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Past Publications