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Tokuda & Lee Laboratory
Tokuda & Lee Laboratory/Oura Keiichiro
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Name †
Nagoya Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Assistant Professor
- First name
Keiichiro
- Family name
Oura
Contact infomation †
- Address
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, 466-8555 Japan
- TEL/FAX
81-52-735-7549/5840
- E-Mail
uratec@sp.nitech.ac.jp
Biography †
- Professional Experiences
- Educations
- Apr. 2007 - Mar. 2010
Nagoya Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (Ph.D.)
- Apr. 2005 - Mar. 2007
Nagoya Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (Master)
- Apr. 2001 - Mar. 2005
Nagoya Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science
- Awards
- Feb. 2010
Student Award at Nagoya Institute of Technology
- Dec. 2008
Best Student Paper Award at ISCSLP2008
Software †
- HTS
HMM-based speech synthesis system (Design and Development, Main Maintainer).
- hts_engine API
Speech synthesis engine for HTS (Design and Development, Main Maintainer).
- Sinsy
HMM-based singing voice synthesis system (Design and Development, Main Maintainer).
- SPTK
Speech signal processing toolkit (Main Maintainer).
Publications (Draft) †
- SIGMUS2010 (Jul. 28 2010)
paper
slide
Sinsy - An HMM-based singing voice synthesis system which can realize your wish ``I want this person to sing my song,''
Keiichiro Oura, Ayami Mase, Tomohiko Yamada, Keiichi Tokuda, Masataka Goto,
Technical Report of IPSJ, vol.2010-MUS-86, no.1, pp.1-8, 2010-07.
- NITECH PRESS (Jul. 06 2010)
paper
Tokuda & Lee Laboratory was showed in DTM Magazine,
Keiichi Tokuda, Keiichiro Oura, Satoru Muto, Tomohiko Yamada, Ayami mase,
NITECH PRESS, vol. 27, 2010-07.
- IEEE (Jun. 14 2010)
paper
Thousands of Voices for HMM-based Speech Synthesis – Analysis and Application of TTS Systems Built on Various ASR Corpora,
Junichi Yamagishi, Bela Usabaev, Simon King, Oliver Watts, John Dines, Jilei Tian, Yong Guan, Rile Hu, Keiichiro Oura, Yi-Jian Wu, Keiichi Tokuda, Reima Karhila, Mikko Kurimo,
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol.18, no.5, pp.984-1004, 2010-06.
- DTM MAGAZINE (Apr. 08 2010)
paper
A new singing voice synthesis system can learn and reproduce voice quality and singing style automatically: Sinsy,
Keiichi Tokuda, Keiichiro Oura,
DTM MAGAZINE, vol.2010-05, pp.96-97, 2010-04.
- ICASSP2010 in Dallas, USA (May 14-19 2010)
paper
poster
Unsupervised Cross-lingual Speaker Adaptation for HMM-based Speech Synthesis,
Keiichiro Oura, Keiichi Tokuda, Junichi Yamagishi, Mirjam Wester, and Simon King,
ICASSP2010, vol.I, pp.4954-4957, 2010-03.
- ASJ2010 spring in Tokyo, Japan (May 08-10 2010)
summary(J)
paper(J)
slide(J)
Cross-lingual speaker adaptation considering differences between language-dependent average voices,
Xianglin Peng, Keiichiro Oura, Yoshihiko Nankaku, and Keiichi Tokuda,
ASJ2010 spring, vol.I, 1-7-21, pp.325-326, 2010-03.
- ASJ2010 spring in Tokyo, Japan (May 08-10 2010)
summary(J)
paper(J)
poster(J)
Subjective evaluations of speech rate control methods for HMM-based speech synthesis,
Makoto Yamada, Nobuyuki Nishizawa, Tuneo Kato, Keiichiro Oura, and Keiichi Tokuda,
ASJ2010 spring, vol.I, 1-P-2, pp.405-406, 2010-03.
- ASJ2010 spring in Tokyo, Japan (May 08-10 2010)
summary(J)
paper(J)
slide(J)
Japanese Text-to-Speech Synthesis System: Open JTalk,
Keiichiro Oura, Shinji Sako, and Keiichi Tokuda,
ASJ2010 spring, vol.I, 2-7-6, pp.343-344, 2010-03.
- ASJ2010 spring in Tokyo, Japan (May 08-10 2010)
summary(J)
paper(J)
slide(J)
HMM-based singing voice synthesis system trained by using pitch-shifted pseudo data,
Ayami Mase, Keiichiro Oura, Yoshihiko Nankaku, and Keiichi Tokuda,
ASJ2010 spring, vol.I, 2-7-7, pp.345-346, 2010-03.
- ASJ2010 spring in Tokyo, Japan (May 08-10 2010)
summary(J)
paper(J)
slide(J)
Reducing computational cost of training for HMM-based singing voice synthesis using note boundaries,
Satoru Muto, Keiichiro Oura, Yoshihiko Nankaku, and Keiichi Tokuda,
ASJ2010 spring, vol.I, 2-7-8, pp.347-348, 2010-03.
- IEICE (May 01 2010)
paper
A Covariance-Tying Technique for HMM-based Speech Synthesis,
Keiichiro Oura, Heiga Zen, Yoshihiko Nankaku, Akinobu Lee, and Keiichi Tokuda,
IEICE, vol.E93-D, no.3, pp.595-601, 2010-03.
- Doctor's thesis (Feb. 23 2010)
paper
slide
ACOUSTIC MODELING FOR HMM-BASED SPEECH RECOGNITION AND SYNTHESIS,
Keiichiro Oura, Keiichi Tokuda,
Doctor's thesis (Nagoya Institute of Technology), 2010-02.
- Human Interface (Feb. 01 2010)
paper(J)
Construction of speech synthesis systems using HTS,
Keiichiro Oura, Heiga Zen, Shinji Sako, and Keiichi Tokuda,
Human Interface, vol.12, No.1, pp.35-40, 2010-02.
- SLP2009 in Tokyo, Japan (Dec. 21-22 2009)
paper
slide
Unsupervised Speaker Adaptation for Speech-to-Speech Translation System,
Keiichiro Oura, Junichi Yamagishi, Mirjam Wester, Simon King, and Keiichi Tokuda,
Technical Report of IEICE, vol.109, no.356, pp.13-18, 2009-12.
- GOKISO (Nov. 11 2009)
discussion(J)
Round-table discussion 'Nitech future based on inauguration of business',
Koichiro Kawashima, Tatsuya Tomioka, Osamu Terakura, Tomohiro Hirano, Yohei Yamaguchi, Taizo Umezaki, Keiichiro Oura, and Yukio Niiri,
GOKISO, no.432 pp.12-23, 2009-11.
- APSIPA2009 in Sapporo, Japan (Oct. 04-07 2009)
paper
slide
Recent development of the HMM-based speech synthesis system (HTS),
Heiga Zen, Keiichiro Oura, Takashi Nose, Junichi Yamagishi, Shinji Sako, Tomoki Toda, Takashi Masuko, Alan W. Black, and Keiichi Tokuda,
APSIPA2009, pp.121-130, 2009-10.
- ASJ2009 autumn in Koriyama, Japan (Sep. 15-17 2009)
abst(J)
paper
poster
Unsupervised English-to-Japanese speaker adaptation for HMM-based speech synthesis,
Keiichiro Oura, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Mirjam Wester, and Keiichi Tokuda,
ASJ2009 autumn, vol.I, 3-P-18, pp.401-402, 2009-09.
- The first HTS meeting in Brighton, UK (Sep. 06 2009)
slide
Recent development of the HMM-based speech synthesis system (HTS),
HeigaZen, Keiichiro Oura, Takashi Nose, Junichi Yamagishi, Shinji Sako, Tomoki Toda, Takashi Masuko, Alan W. Black, Keiichi Tokuda,
The first HTS meeting, 2009-09.
- ICSLP2009 in Brighton, UK (Sep. 06-10 2009)
paper
poster
Tying covariance matrices to reduce the footprint of HMM-based speech synthesis systems,
Keiichiro Oura, Heiga Zen, Yoshihiko Nankaku, Akinobu Lee, and Keiichi Tokuda,
ICSLP2009, pp.1759-1761, 2009-09.
- ICSLP2009 in Brighton, UK (Sep. 06-10 2009)
paper
Thousands of Voices for HMM-based Speech Synthesis,
Junichi Yamagishi, Bela Usabaev, Simon King, Oliver Watts, John Dines, Jilei Tian, Rile Hu, Keiichiro Oura, Keiichi Tokuda, Reima Karhila, and Mikko Kurimo,
ICSLP2009, pp.420-423, 2009-09.
- Blizzard Challenge 2009 in Edinburgh, UK (Sep. 04 2009)
paper
slide
Overview of NIT HMM-based speech synthesis system for Blizzard Challenge 2009,
Keiichiro Oura, Yi-Jian Wu, and Keiichi Tokuda,
Blizzard Challenge 2009, 2009-09.
- ISCSLP2008 in Kunming, China (Dec. 16-19 2008)
paper
slide
award
Simultaneous Acoustic, Prosodic, and Phrasing Model Training for TTS
Conversion Systems,
Keiichiro Oura, Yoshihiko Nankaku, Tomoki Toda, Keiichi Tokuda,
Rannierry Maia, Shinsuke Sakai, and Satoshi Nakamura,
ISCSLP2008, SPE1.1, pp.1-4, 2008-12.
- SLP2008 in Tokyo, Japan (Dec. 09-10 2008)
paper(J)
poster(J)
Tying covariance for HMM-based speech synthesis,
Keiichiro Oura, Heiga Zen, Yoshihiko Nankaku, Akinobu Lee, Keiichi Tokuda,
Technical Report of IEICE, vol.2008, no.123, 2008-SLP-074, pp.215-220, 2008-12.
- IEICE (Nov. 01 2008)
paper
A Fully Consistent Hidden Semi-Markov Model-Based Speech Recognition System,
Keiichiro Oura, Heiga Zen, Yoshihiko Nankaku, Akinobu Lee, and Keiichi Tokuda,
IEICE, vol.E91-D, no.11, pp.2693-2700, 2008-11.
- ASJ2008 autumn in Hakata, Japan (Sep. 10-12 2008)
summary(J)
paper(J)
poster(J)
Tying variance for HMM-based speech synthesis,
Keiichiro Oura, Heiga Zen, Yoshihiko Nankaku, Akinobu Lee, and Keiichi Tokuda,
ASJ2008 autumn, vol.I, 2-P-29, pp.421-422, 2008-09.
- ASJ2008 spring in Chiba, Japan (Mar. 17-19 2008)
summary(J)
paper(J)
slide(J)
Simultaneous prosody and acoustic model training for english speech synthesis,
Keiichiro Oura, Yoshihiro Nankaku, Tomoki Toda, Keiichi Tokuda, Ranniery Maia, Shinsuke Sakai, and Satoshi Nakamura,
ASJ2008 spring, vol.I, 2-11-1, pp.335-336, 2008-03.
- SLP2007 in Kyoto, Japan (Dec. 20-21 2007)
paper
slide(J)
Recent developments of the HMM-based speech synthesis system (HTS),
Heiga Zen, Keiichiro Oura, Takashi Nose, Junichi Yamagishi, Shinji Sako, Tomoki Toda, Takashi Masuko, Alan W. Black, and Keiichi Tokuda,
Technical Report of IEICE, vol.2007, no.129, 2007-SLP-069, pp.301-306, 2007-12.
- ASJ2007 autumn in Kofu, Japan (Sep. 19-21 2007)
summary(J)
paper(J)
slide(J)
Postfiltering for HMM-based speech synthesis using Mel-LSPs,
Keiichiro Oura, Heiga Zen, Yoshihiko Nankaku, Akinobu Lee, and Keiichi Tokuda,
ASJ2007 autumn, vol.I, 3-4-9, pp.367-368, 2007-09.
- Master's thesis (Feb. 08 2007)
abst(J)
paper(J)
slide(J)
HSMM Based Speech Recognition Using WFST,
Keiichiro Oura, Yoshihiko Nankaku, Akinobu Lee, and Keiichi Tokuda,
Master's thesis (Nagoya Institute of Technology), 2007-02.
- ICASSP2006 in Toulouse, France (May 14-19 2006)
paper
slide
Hidden Semi-Markov Model Based Speech Recognition System Using Weighted Finite-State Transducer,
Keiichiro Oura, Heiga Zen, Yoshihiko Nankaku, Akinobu Lee, and Keiichi Tokuda,
ICASSP2006, vol.I, pp.33-36, 2006-05.
- ASJ2005 autumn in Sendai, Japan (Sep. 27-29 2005)
summary(J)
paper(J)
slide(J)
HSMM Based Speech Recognition Using WFST,
Keiichiro Oura, Yoshihiko Nankaku, Akinobu Lee, and Keiichi Tokuda,
ASJ2005 autumn, vol.I, 2-7-15, pp.87-88, 2005-09.
- Graduation thesis (Feb. 15 2005)
abst(J)
paper(J)
slide(J)
CVD-HSMM Based Speech Recognition System Using WFST,
Keiichiro Oura, Keiichi Tokuda, and Tadashi Kitamura,
Graduation thesis (Nagoya Institute of Technology), 2007-02.
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