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Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2025	A	`conf`	Cross-modal Knowledge Transfer Learning as Graph Matching Based on Optimal Transport for ASR. INTERSPEECH Xugang Lu, Peng Shen, Yu Tsao, Hisashi Kawai
2025	J	`jnl`	Cross-modal Knowledge Transfer Learning as Graph Matching Based on Optimal Transport for ASR. CoRR Xugang Lu, Peng Shen, Yu Tsao, Hisashi Kawai
2025	A	`conf`	GST-BERT-TTS: Prosody Prediction Without Accentual Labels For Multi-Speaker TTS Using BERT With Global Style Tokens. INTERSPEECH Tadashi Ogura, Takuma Okamoto, Yamato Ohtani, Erica Cooper, Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai
2025	C	`conf`	Layer-wise Analysis for Quality of Multilingual Synthesized Speech. ASRU Erica Cooper, Takuma Okamoto, Yamato Ohtani, Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai
2025	J	`jnl`	Layer-wise Analysis for Quality of Multilingual Synthesized Speech. CoRR Erica Cooper, Takuma Okamoto, Yamato Ohtani, Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai
2025	Misc	`conf`	Mora-Level Prosody Prediction for Text-to-Speech Using Japanese BERT Without Accentual Labels. ICASSP Tadashi Ogura, Takuma Okamoto, Yamato Ohtani, Erica Cooper, Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai
2025	J	`jnl`	New Insights into Optimal Alignment of Acoustic and Linguistic Representations for Knowledge Transfer in ASR. CoRR Xugang Lu, Peng Shen, Yu Tsao, Hisashi Kawai
2025	J	`jnl`	Phoneme-Level Duration Controllable Neural Text-to-Speech With Phoneme Embedding Skip Connection and Modified Gaussian Duration Modeling. IEEE Access Tadashi Ogura, Takuma Okamoto, Yamato Ohtani, Erica Cooper, Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai
2025	J	`jnl`	Retrieval-Augmented Speech Recognition Approach for Domain Challenges. CoRR Peng Shen, Xugang Lu, Hisashi Kawai
2025	J	`jnl`	Sequence-to-Sequence Voice Conversion With Weighted Guided Attention. IEEE Access Haruki Yamashita, Takuma Okamoto, Ryoichi Takashima, Yamato Ohtani, Tetsuya Takiguchi, Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai
2025	C	`conf`	Voice Factor Control Using FIR-Based Fast Neural Vocoder for Speech Generation Applications. ASRU Yamato Ohtani, Takuma Okamoto, Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai
2024	A	`conf`	Challenge of Singing Voice Synthesis Using Only Text-To-Speech Corpus With FIRNet Source-Filter Neural Vocoder. INTERSPEECH Takuma Okamoto, Yamato Ohtani, Sota Shimizu, Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai
2024	Misc	`conf`	Convnext-TTS And Convnext-VC: Convnext-Based Fast End-To-End Sequence-To-Sequence Text-To-Speech And Voice Conversion. ICASSP Takuma Okamoto, Yamato Ohtani, Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai
2024	Misc	`conf`	FIRNet: Fundamental Frequency Controllable Fast Neural Vocoder With Trainable Finite Impulse Response Filter. ICASSP Yamato Ohtani, Takuma Okamoto, Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai
2024	J	`jnl`	Fast Neural Speech Waveform Generative Models With Fully-Connected Layer-Based Upsampling. IEEE Access Haruki Yamashita, Takuma Okamoto, Ryoichi Takashima, Yamato Ohtani, Tetsuya Takiguchi, Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai
2024	Misc	`conf`	Hierarchical Cross-Modality Knowledge Transfer with Sinkhorn Attention for CTC-Based ASR. ICASSP Xugang Lu, Peng Shen, Yu Tsao, Hisashi Kawai
2024	A	`conf`	Investigating ASR Error Correction with Large Language Model and Multilingual 1-best Hypotheses. INTERSPEECH Sheng Li, Chen Chen, Kwok Chin Yuen, Chenhui Chu, Eng Siong Chng, Hisashi Kawai
2024	A	`conf`	Mobile PresenTra: NICT fast neural text-to-speech system on smartphones with incremental inference of MS-FC-HiFi-GAN for law-latency synthesis. INTERSPEECH Takuma Okamoto, Yamato Ohtani, Hisashi Kawai
2024	—	`conf`	Temporal Order Preserved Optimal Transport-Based Cross-Modal Knowledge Transfer Learning for ASR. SLT Xugang Lu, Peng Shen, Yu Tsao, Hisashi Kawai
2024	J	`jnl`	Temporal Order Preserved Optimal Transport-based Cross-modal Knowledge Transfer Learning for ASR. CoRR Xugang Lu, Peng Shen, Yu Tsao, Hisashi Kawai
2023	C	`conf`	Cross-Modal Alignment With Optimal Transport For CTC-Based ASR. ASRU Xugang Lu, Peng Shen, Yu Tsao, Hisashi Kawai
2023	J	`jnl`	Cross-modal Alignment with Optimal Transport for CTC-based ASR. CoRR Xugang Lu, Peng Shen, Yu Tsao, Hisashi Kawai
2023	A	`conf`	E2E-S2S-VC: End-To-End Sequence-To-Sequence Voice Conversion. INTERSPEECH Takuma Okamoto, Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai
2023	C	`conf`	Generative Linguistic Representation for Spoken Language Identification. ASRU Peng Shen, Xuguang Lu, Hisashi Kawai
2023	J	`jnl`	Generative linguistic representation for spoken language identification. CoRR Peng Shen, Xuguang Lu, Hisashi Kawai
2023	J	`jnl`	Harmonic-Net: Fundamental Frequency and Speech Rate Controllable Fast Neural Vocoder. IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process. Keisuke Matsubara, Takuma Okamoto, Ryoichi Takashima, Tetsuya Takiguchi, Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai
2023	J	`jnl`	Hierarchical Cross-Modality Knowledge Transfer with Sinkhorn Attention for CTC-based ASR. CoRR Xugang Lu, Peng Shen, Yu Tsao, Hisashi Kawai
2023	B	`conf`	Homeostatic System Design Based on Understanding the Living Environmental Determinants of Falls. SMC Mikiko Oono, Ayano Nomura, Koji Kitamura, Yoshifumi Nishida, Shunsaburo Nakahara, Hisashi Kawai
2023	J	`jnl`	Neural domain alignment for spoken language recognition based on optimal transport. CoRR Xugang Lu, Peng Shen, Yu Tsao, Hisashi Kawai
2023	J	`jnl`	Speaker Mask Transformer for Multi-talker Overlapped Speech Recognition. CoRR Peng Shen, Xugang Lu, Hisashi Kawai
2023	C	`conf`	WaveNeXt: ConvNeXt-Based Fast Neural Vocoder Without ISTFT layer. ASRU Takuma Okamoto, Haruki Yamashita, Yamato Ohtani, Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai
2022	J	`jnl`	Neural speech-rate conversion with multispeaker WaveNet vocoder. Speech Commun. Takuma Okamoto, Keisuke Matsubara, Tomoki Toda, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai
2022	J	`jnl`	Partial Coupling of Optimal Transport for Spoken Language Identification. CoRR Xugang Lu, Peng Shen, Yu Tsao, Hisashi Kawai
2022	—	`conf`	Pronunciation-Aware Unique Character Encoding for RNN Transducer-Based Mandarin Speech Recognition. SLT Peng Shen, Xugang Lu, Hisashi Kawai
2022	J	`jnl`	Pronunciation-aware unique character encoding for RNN Transducer-based Mandarin speech recognition. CoRR Peng Shen, Xugang Lu, Hisashi Kawai
2022	—	`conf`	Self-Adaptive Multilingual ASR Rescoring with Language Identification and Unified Language Model. Odyssey Zhuo Gong, Daisuke Saito, Longfei Yang, Takahiro Shinozaki, Sheng Li, Hisashi Kawai, Nobuaki Minematsu
2022	J	`jnl`	Speaking-Rate-Controllable HiFi-GAN Using Feature Interpolation. CoRR Detai Xin, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Takuma Okamoto, Hisashi Kawai, Hiroshi Saruwatari
2022	A	`conf`	Transducer-based language embedding for spoken language identification. INTERSPEECH Peng Shen, Xugang Lu, Hisashi Kawai
2022	J	`jnl`	Transducer-based language embedding for spoken language identification. CoRR Peng Shen, Xugang Lu, Hisashi Kawai
2021	J	`jnl`	Coupling a Generative Model With a Discriminative Learning Framework for Speaker Verification. IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process. Xugang Lu, Peng Shen, Yu Tsao, Hisashi Kawai
2021	J	`jnl`	CrossMap Transformer: A Crossmodal Masked Path Transformer Using Double Back-Translation for Vision-and-Language Navigation. CoRR Aly Magassouba, Komei Sugiura, Hisashi Kawai
2021	J	`jnl`	CrossMap Transformer: A Crossmodal Masked Path Transformer Using Double Back-Translation for Vision-and-Language Navigation. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. Aly Magassouba, Komei Sugiura, Hisashi Kawai
2021	J	`jnl`	Full-Band LPCNet: A Real-Time Neural Vocoder for 48 kHz Audio With a CPU. IEEE Access Keisuke Matsubara, Takuma Okamoto, Ryoichi Takashima, Tetsuya Takiguchi, Tomoki Toda, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai
2021	Misc	`conf`	High-Intelligibility Speech Synthesis for Dysarthric Speakers with LPCNet-Based TTS and CycleVAE-Based VC. ICASSP Keisuke Matsubara, Takuma Okamoto, Ryoichi Takashima, Tetsuya Takiguchi, Tomoki Toda, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai
2021	J	`jnl`	Integrating a joint Bayesian generative model in a discriminative learning framework for speaker verification. CoRR Xugang Lu, Peng Shen, Yu Tsao, Hisashi Kawai
2021	C	`conf`	Multi-Stream HiFi-GAN with Data-Driven Waveform Decomposition. ASRU Takuma Okamoto, Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai
2021	Misc	`conf`	Noise Level Limited Sub-Modeling for Diffusion Probabilistic Vocoders. ICASSP Takuma Okamoto, Tomoki Toda, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai
2021	A	`conf`	Noise Robust Acoustic Modeling for Single-Channel Speech Recognition Based on a Stream-Wise Transformer Architecture. Interspeech Masakiyo Fujimoto, Hisashi Kawai
2021	J	`jnl`	Predicting and Attending to Damaging Collisions for Placing Everyday Objects in Photo-Realistic Simulations. CoRR Aly Magassouba, Komei Sugiura, Angelica Nakayama, Tsubasa Hirakawa, Takayoshi Yamashita, Hironobu Fujiyoshi, Hisashi Kawai
2021	J	`jnl`	Predicting and attending to damaging collisions for placing everyday objects in photo-realistic simulations. Adv. Robotics Aly Magassouba, Komei Sugiura, Angelica Nakayama, Tsubasa Hirakawa, Takayoshi Yamashita, Hironobu Fujiyoshi, Hisashi Kawai
2021	J	`jnl`	Quasi-Periodic Parallel WaveGAN: A Non-Autoregressive Raw Waveform Generative Model With Pitch-Dependent Dilated Convolution Neural Network. IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process. Yi-Chiao Wu, Tomoki Hayashi, Takuma Okamoto, Hisashi Kawai, Tomoki Toda
2021	—	`conf`	Siamese Neural Network with Joint Bayesian Model Structure for Speaker Verification. APSIPA ASC Xugang Lu, Peng Shen, Yu Tsao, Hisashi Kawai
2021	J	`jnl`	Siamese Neural Network with Joint Bayesian Model Structure for Speaker Verification. CoRR Xugang Lu, Peng Shen, Yu Tsao, Hisashi Kawai
2021	Misc	`conf`	Unsupervised Neural Adaptation Model Based on Optimal Transport for Spoken Language Identification. ICASSP Xugang Lu, Peng Shen, Yu Tsao, Hisashi Kawai
2020	J	`jnl`	A Multimodal Target-Source Classifier With Attention Branches to Understand Ambiguous Instructions for Fetching Daily Objects. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. Aly Magassouba, Komei Sugiura, Hisashi Kawai
2020	J	`jnl`	Alleviating the Burden of Labeling: Sentence Generation by Attention Branch Encoder-Decoder Network. CoRR Tadashi Ogura, Aly Magassouba, Komei Sugiura, Tsubasa Hirakawa, Takayoshi Yamashita, Hironobu Fujiyoshi, Hisashi Kawai
2020	J	`jnl`	Alleviating the Burden of Labeling: Sentence Generation by Attention Branch Encoder-Decoder Network. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. Tadashi Ogura, Aly Magassouba, Komei Sugiura, Tsubasa Hirakawa, Takayoshi Yamashita, Hironobu Fujiyoshi, Hisashi Kawai
2020	—	`conf`	Compensation on x-vector for Short Utterance Spoken Language Identification. Odyssey Peng Shen, Xugang Lu, Komei Sugiura, Sheng Li, Hisashi Kawai
2020	—	`ch.`	Field Experiment System "VoiceTra". Speech-to-Speech Translation Yutaka Ashikari, Hisashi Kawai
2020	A	`conf`	Investigation of NICT Submission for Short-Duration Speaker Verification Challenge 2020. INTERSPEECH Peng Shen, Xugang Lu, Hisashi Kawai
2020	—	`conf`	Joint Training End-to-End Speech Recognition Systems with Speaker Attributes. Odyssey Sheng Li, Xugang Lu, Raj Dabre, Peng Shen, Hisashi Kawai
2020	J	`jnl`	Knowledge Distillation-Based Representation Learning for Short-Utterance Spoken Language Identification. IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process. Peng Shen, Xugang Lu, Sheng Li, Hisashi Kawai
2020	A	`conf`	Quasi-Periodic Parallel WaveGAN Vocoder: A Non-Autoregressive Pitch-Dependent Dilated Convolution Model for Parametric Speech Generation. INTERSPEECH Yi-Chiao Wu, Tomoki Hayashi, Takuma Okamoto, Hisashi Kawai, Tomoki Toda
2020	J	`jnl`	Quasi-Periodic Parallel WaveGAN Vocoder: A Non-autoregressive Pitch-dependent Dilated Convolution Model for Parametric Speech Generation. CoRR Yi-Chiao Wu, Tomoki Hayashi, Takuma Okamoto, Hisashi Kawai, Tomoki Toda
2020	J	`jnl`	Quasi-Periodic Parallel WaveGAN: A Non-autoregressive Raw Waveform Generative Model with Pitch-dependent Dilated Convolution Neural Network. CoRR Yi-Chiao Wu, Tomoki Hayashi, Takuma Okamoto, Hisashi Kawai, Tomoki Toda
2020	—	`book`	Speech-to-Speech Translation Yutaka Kidawara, Eiichiro Sumita, Hisashi Kawai
2020	Misc	`conf`	Transformer-Based Text-to-Speech with Weighted Forced Attention. ICASSP Takuma Okamoto, Tomoki Toda, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai
2020	J	`jnl`	Unsupervised neural adaptation model based on optimal transport for spoken language identification. CoRR Xugang Lu, Peng Shen, Yu Tsao, Hisashi Kawai
2019	J	`jnl`	A Multimodal Target-Source Classifier with Attention Branches to Understand Ambiguous Instructions for Fetching Daily Objects. CoRR Aly Magassouba, Komei Sugiura, Hisashi Kawai
2019	A	`conf`	Class-Wise Centroid Distance Metric Learning for Acoustic Event Detection. INTERSPEECH Xugang Lu, Peng Shen, Sheng Li, Yu Tsao, Hisashi Kawai
2019	J	`jnl`	Deep progressive multi-scale attention for acoustic event classification. CoRR Xugang Lu, Peng Shen, Sheng Li, Yu Tsao, Hisashi Kawai
2019	A	`conf`	Duration Modeling with Global Phoneme-Duration Vectors. INTERSPEECH Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai
2019	A	`conf`	End-to-End Articulatory Attribute Modeling for Low-Resource Multilingual Speech Recognition. INTERSPEECH Sheng Li, Chenchen Ding, Xugang Lu, Peng Shen, Tatsuya Kawahara, Hisashi Kawai
2019	—	`conf`	HMM-based TTS System Framework. CIFEr Saly Keo, Soky Kak, Yoshinori Shiga, Hiroaki Kato, Hisashi Kawai
2019	A	`conf`	Improving Transformer-Based Speech Recognition Systems with Compressed Structure and Speech Attributes Augmentation. INTERSPEECH Sheng Li, Raj Dabre, Xugang Lu, Peng Shen, Tatsuya Kawahara, Hisashi Kawai
2019	A	`conf`	Incorporating Symbolic Sequential Modeling for Speech Enhancement. INTERSPEECH Chien-Feng Liao, Yu Tsao, Xugang Lu, Hisashi Kawai
2019	J	`jnl`	Incorporating Symbolic Sequential Modeling for Speech Enhancement. CoRR Chien-Feng Liao, Yu Tsao, Xugang Lu, Hisashi Kawai
2019	Misc	`conf`	Interactive Learning of Teacher-student Model for Short Utterance Spoken Language Identification. ICASSP Peng Shen, Xugang Lu, Sheng Li, Hisashi Kawai
2019	A	`conf`	Investigating Radical-Based End-to-End Speech Recognition Systems for Chinese Dialects and Japanese. INTERSPEECH Sheng Li, Xugang Lu, Chenchen Ding, Peng Shen, Tatsuya Kawahara, Hisashi Kawai
2019	Misc	`conf`	Investigation of Sequence-level Knowledge Distillation Methods for CTC Acoustic Models. ICASSP Ryoichi Takashima, Sheng Li, Hisashi Kawai
2019	Misc	`conf`	Investigations of Real-time Gaussian Fftnet and Parallel Wavenet Neural Vocoders with Simple Acoustic Features. ICASSP Takuma Okamoto, Tomoki Toda, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai
2019	—	`conf`	Latent-Space Data Augmentation for Visually-Grounded Language Understanding. JSAI Aly Magassouba, Komei Sugiura, Hisashi Kawai
2019	Misc	`conf`	Multimodal Attention Branch Network for Perspective-Free Sentence Generation. CoRL Aly Magassouba, Komei Sugiura, Hisashi Kawai
2019	J	`jnl`	Multimodal Attention Branch Network for Perspective-Free Sentence Generation. CoRR Aly Magassouba, Komei Sugiura, Hisashi Kawai
2019	A	`conf`	One-Pass Single-Channel Noisy Speech Recognition Using a Combination of Noisy and Enhanced Features. INTERSPEECH Masakiyo Fujimoto, Hisashi Kawai
2019	A	`conf`	Real-Time Neural Text-to-Speech with Sequence-to-Sequence Acoustic Model and WaveGlow or Single Gaussian WaveRNN Vocoders. INTERSPEECH Takuma Okamoto, Tomoki Toda, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai
2019	C	`conf`	Tacotron-Based Acoustic Model Using Phoneme Alignment for Practical Neural Text-to-Speech Systems. ASRU Takuma Okamoto, Tomoki Toda, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai
2019	J	`jnl`	Understanding Natural Language Instructions for Fetching Daily Objects Using GAN-Based Multimodal Target-Source Classification. CoRR Aly Magassouba, Komei Sugiura, Anh Trinh Quoc, Hisashi Kawai
2019	J	`jnl`	Understanding Natural Language Instructions for Fetching Daily Objects Using GAN-Based Multimodal Target-Source Classification. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. Aly Magassouba, Komei Sugiura, Anh Trinh Quoc, Hisashi Kawai
2018	J	`jnl`	A Multimodal Classifier Generative Adversarial Network for Carry and Place Tasks From Ambiguous Language Instructions. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. Aly Magassouba, Komei Sugiura, Hisashi Kawai
2018	J	`jnl`	A Multimodal Classifier Generative Adversarial Network for Carry and Place Tasks from Ambiguous Language Instructions. CoRR Aly Magassouba, Komei Sugiura, Hisashi Kawai
2018	Misc	`conf`	An Investigation of Noise Shaping with Perceptual Weighting for Wavenet-Based Speech Generation. ICASSP Kentaro Tachibana, Tomoki Toda, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai
2018	Misc	`conf`	An Investigation of Subband Wavenet Vocoder Covering Entire Audible Frequency Range with Limited Acoustic Features. ICASSP Takuma Okamoto, Kentaro Tachibana, Tomoki Toda, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai
2018	Misc	`conf`	An Investigation of a Knowledge Distillation Method for CTC Acoustic Models. ICASSP Ryoichi Takashima, Sheng Li, Hisashi Kawai
2018	Misc	`conf`	CTC Loss Function with a Unit-Level Ambiguity Penalty. ICASSP Ryoichi Takashima, Sheng Li, Hisashi Kawai
2018	Misc	`conf`	Comparative Evaluations of Various Factored Deep Convolutional Rnn Architectures for Noise Robust Speech Recognition. ICASSP Masakiyo Fujimoto, Hisashi Kawai
2018	J	`jnl`	End-to-End Waveform Utterance Enhancement for Direct Evaluation Metrics Optimization by Fully Convolutional Neural Networks. IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process. Szu-Wei Fu, Taowei Wang, Yu Tsao, Xugang Lu, Hisashi Kawai
2018	A	`conf`	Feature Representation of Short Utterances Based on Knowledge Distillation for Spoken Language Identification. INTERSPEECH Peng Shen, Xugang Lu, Sheng Li, Hisashi Kawai
2018	J	`jnl`	Grounded Language Understanding for Manipulation Instructions Using GAN-Based Classification. CoRR Komei Sugiura, Hisashi Kawai
2018	A	`conf`	Improving CTC-based Acoustic Model with Very Deep Residual Time-delay Neural Networks. INTERSPEECH Sheng Li, Xugang Lu, Ryoichi Takashima, Peng Shen, Tatsuya Kawahara, Hisashi Kawai
2018	—	`conf`	Improving FFTNet Vocoder with Noise Shaping and Subband Approaches. SLT Takuma Okamoto, Tomoki Toda, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai
2018	—	`conf`	Improving Very Deep Time-Delay Neural Network With Vertical-Attention For Effectively Training CTC-Based ASR Systems. SLT Sheng Li, Xugang Lu, Ryoichi Takashima, Peng Shen, Tatsuya Kawahara, Hisashi Kawai
2018	A	`conf`	Multilingual Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion with Global Character Vectors. INTERSPEECH Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai
2018	A	`conf`	Temporal Attentive Pooling for Acoustic Event Detection. INTERSPEECH Xugang Lu, Peng Shen, Sheng Li, Yu Tsao, Hisashi Kawai
2017	A	`conf`	Conditional Generative Adversarial Nets Classifier for Spoken Language Identification. INTERSPEECH Peng Shen, Xugang Lu, Sheng Li, Hisashi Kawai
2017	J	`jnl`	Development of the "VoiceTra" Multi-Lingual Speech Translation System. IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst. Shigeki Matsuda, Teruaki Hayashi, Yutaka Ashikari, Yoshinori Shiga, Hidenori Kashioka, Keiji Yasuda, Hideo Okuma, Masao Uchiyama, Eiichiro Sumita, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura
2017	J	`jnl`	End-to-End Waveform Utterance Enhancement for Direct Evaluation Metrics Optimization by Fully Convolutional Neural Networks. CoRR Szu-Wei Fu, Yu Tsao, Xugang Lu, Hisashi Kawai
2017	A	`conf`	Global Syllable Vectors for Building TTS Front-End with Deep Learning. INTERSPEECH Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai
2017	C	`conf`	Grounded language understanding for manipulation instructions using GAN-based classification. ASRU Komei Sugiura, Hisashi Kawai
2017	C	`conf`	Incremental training and constructing the very deep convolutional residual network acoustic models. ASRU Sheng Li, Xugang Lu, Peng Shen, Ryoichi Takashima, Tatsuya Kawahara, Hisashi Kawai
2017	J	`jnl`	Maximum-a-Posteriori-Based Decoding for End-to-End Acoustic Models. IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process. Naoyuki Kanda, Xugang Lu, Hisashi Kawai
2017	Misc	`conf`	Minimum Bayes risk training of CTC acoustic models in maximum a posteriori based decoding framework. ICASSP Naoyuki Kanda, Xugang Lu, Hisashi Kawai
2017	J	`jnl`	Raw Waveform-based Speech Enhancement by Fully Convolutional Networks. CoRR Szu-Wei Fu, Yu Tsao, Xugang Lu, Hisashi Kawai
2017	—	`conf`	Raw waveform-based speech enhancement by fully convolutional networks. APSIPA Szu-Wei Fu, Yu Tsao, Xugang Lu, Hisashi Kawai
2017	J	`jnl`	Regularization of neural network model with distance metric learning for i-vector based spoken language identification. Comput. Speech Lang. Xugang Lu, Peng Shen, Yu Tsao, Hisashi Kawai
2017	C	`conf`	Subband wavenet with overlapped single-sideband filterbanks. ASRU Takuma Okamoto, Kentaro Tachibana, Tomoki Toda, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai
2016	—	`conf`	A pseudo-task design in multi-task learning deep neural network for speaker recognition. ISCSLP Xugang Lu, Peng Shen, Yu Tsao, Hisashi Kawai
2016	—	`conf`	Automatic acoustic segmentation in N-best list rescoring for lecture speech recognition. ISCSLP Peng Shen, Xugang Lu, Hisashi Kawai
2016	Misc	`conf`	Bottleneck linear transformation network adaptation for speaker adaptive training-based hybrid DNN-HMM speech recognizer. ICASSP Tsubasa Ochiai, Shigeki Matsuda, Hideyuki Watanabe, Xugang Lu, Hisashi Kawai, Shigeru Katagiri
2016	J	`jnl`	Combination of multiple acoustic models with unsupervised adaptation for lecture speech transcription. Speech Commun. Peng Shen, Xugang Lu, Xinhui Hu, Naoyuki Kanda, Masahiro Saiko, Chiori Hori, Hisashi Kawai
2016	—	`conf`	Comparison of regularization constraints in deep neural network based speaker adaptation. ISCSLP Peng Shen, Xugang Lu, Hisashi Kawai
2016	A	`conf`	F INTERSPEECH Xiaoyun Wang, Xugang Lu, Hisashi Kawai, Seiichi Yamamoto
2016	A	`conf`	Investigation of Semi-Supervised Acoustic Model Training Based on the Committee of Heterogeneous Neural Networks. INTERSPEECH Naoyuki Kanda, Shoji Harada, Xugang Lu, Hisashi Kawai
2016	Misc	`conf`	Local fisher discriminant analysis for spoken language identification. ICASSP Peng Shen, Xugang Lu, Lemao Liu, Hisashi Kawai
2016	A	`conf`	Maximum a posteriori Based Decoding for CTC Acoustic Models. INTERSPEECH Naoyuki Kanda, Xugang Lu, Hisashi Kawai
2016	A	`conf`	Model Integration for HMM- and DNN-Based Speech Synthesis Using Product-of-Experts Framework. INTERSPEECH Kentaro Tachibana, Tomoki Toda, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai
2016	A	`conf`	Pair-Wise Distance Metric Learning of Neural Network Model for Spoken Language Identification. INTERSPEECH Xugang Lu, Peng Shen, Yu Tsao, Hisashi Kawai
2016	J	`jnl`	Speaker Adaptive Training Localizing Speaker Modules in DNN for Hybrid DNN-HMM Speech Recognizers. IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst. Tsubasa Ochiai, Shigeki Matsuda, Hideyuki Watanabe, Xugang Lu, Chiori Hori, Hisashi Kawai, Shigeru Katagiri
2016	A	`conf`	Using Zero-Frequency Resonator to Extract Multilingual Intonation Structure. INTERSPEECH Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai
2015	—	`conf`	A Myanmar large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system. APSIPA Hay Mar Soe Naing, Aye Mya Hlaing, Win Pa Pa, Xinhui Hu, Ye Kyaw Thu, Chiori Hori, Hisashi Kawai
2015	J	`jnl`	A cloud robotics approach towards dialogue-oriented robot speech. Adv. Robotics Komei Sugiura, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai, Teruhisa Misu, Chiori Hori
2015	A	`conf`	HMM based myanmar text to speech system. INTERSPEECH Ye Kyaw Thu, Win Pa Pa, Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Andrew M. Finch, Chiori Hori, Hisashi Kawai, Eiichiro Sumita
2015	J	`jnl`	Leveraging social Q&A collections for improving complex question answering. Comput. Speech Lang. Youzheng Wu, Chiori Hori, Hideki Kashioka, Hisashi Kawai
2015	A	`conf`	Sparse representation with temporal max-smoothing for acoustic event detection. INTERSPEECH Xugang Lu, Peng Shen, Yu Tsao, Chiori Hori, Hisashi Kawai
2015	C	`conf`	Training data pseudo-shuffling and direct decoding framework for recurrent neural network based acoustic modeling. ASRU Naoyuki Kanda, Mitsuyoshi Tachimori, Xugang Lu, Hisashi Kawai
2014	A*	`conf`	Non-monologue HMM-based speech synthesis for service robots: A cloud robotics approach. ICRA Komei Sugiura, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai, Teruhisa Misu, Chiori Hori
2013	J	`jnl`	Investigation of Innervation Zone Shift with Continuous Dynamic Muscle Contraction. Comput. Math. Methods Medicine Ken Nishihara, Hisashi Kawai, Yu Chiba, Naohiko Kanemura, Toshiaki Gomi
2013	—	`conf`	Multilingual Speech-to-Speech Translation System: VoiceTra. MDM (2) Shigeki Matsuda, Xinhui Hu, Yoshinori Shiga, Hideki Kashioka, Chiori Hori, Keiji Yasuda, Hideo Okuma, Masao Uchiyama, Eiichiro Sumita, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura
2012	A	`conf`	An Evaluation of Parameter Generation Methods with Rich Context Models in HMM-Based Speech Synthesis. INTERSPEECH Shinnosuke Takamichi, Tomoki Toda, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura
2012	J	`jnl`	Distributed speech translation technologies for multiparty multilingual communication. ACM Trans. Speech Lang. Process. Sakriani Sakti, Michael Paul, Andrew M. Finch, Xinhui Hu, Jinfu Ni, Noriyuki Kimura, Shigeki Matsuda, Chiori Hori, Yutaka Ashikari, Hisashi Kawai, Hideki Kashioka, Eiichiro Sumita, Satoshi Nakamura
2012	—	`conf`	Experiments on unsupervised statistical parametric speech synthesis. ISCSLP Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai, Hideki Kashioka
2012	—	`conf`	Resonance-based spectral deformation in HMM-based speech synthesis. ISCSLP Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai, Hideki Kashioka
2011	Misc	`conf`	A sampling-based environment population projection approach for rapid acoustic model adaptation. ICASSP Yu Tsao, Shigeki Matsuda, Shinsuke Sakai, Ryosuke Isotani, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura
2011	A	`conf`	Adaptive Regularization Framework for Robust Voice Activity Detection. INTERSPEECH Xugang Lu, Masashi Unoki, Ryosuke Isotani, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura
2011	—	`conf`	Analysis on Effects of Text-to-Speech and Avatar Agent in Evoking Users' Spontaneous Listener's Reactions. IWSDS Teruhisa Misu, Etsuo Mizukami, Yoshinori Shiga, Shinichi Kawamoto, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura
2011	B	`conf`	Answering Complex Questions via Exploiting Social Q&A Collection. IJCNLP Youzheng Wu, Chiori Hori, Hisashi Kawai, Hideki Kashioka
2011	A	`conf`	Estimation of Perceptual Spaces for Speaker Identities Based on the Cross-Lingual Discrimination Task. INTERSPEECH Minoru Tsuzaki, Keiichi Tokuda, Hisashi Kawai, Jinfu Ni
2011	B	`conf`	Improving Related Entity Finding via Incorporating Homepages and Recognizing Fine-grained Entities. IJCNLP Youzheng Wu, Chiori Hori, Hisashi Kawai, Hideki Kashioka
2011	A	`conf`	Incorporating Regional Information to Enhance MAP-Based Stochastic Feature Compensation for Robust Speech Recognition. INTERSPEECH Yu Tsao, Paul R. Dixon, Chiori Hori, Hisashi Kawai
2011	Misc	`conf`	Increasing discriminative capability on MAP-based mapping function estimation for acoustic model adaptation. ICASSP Yu Tsao, Ryosuke Isotani, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura
2011	J	`jnl`	Modeling spoken decision support dialogue and optimization of its dialogue strategy. ACM Trans. Speech Lang. Process. Teruhisa Misu, Komei Sugiura, Tatsuya Kawahara, Kiyonori Ohtake, Chiori Hori, Hideki Kashioka, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura
2011	J	`jnl`	Probabilistic Concatenation Modeling for Corpus-Based Speech Synthesis. IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst. Shinsuke Sakai, Tatsuya Kawahara, Hisashi Kawai
2011	J	`jnl`	Situated Spoken Dialogue with Robots Using Active Learning. Adv. Robotics Komei Sugiura, Naoto Iwahashi, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura
2011	A	`conf`	Speaker-Adaptive Speech Synthesis Based on Eigenvoice Conversion and Language-Dependent Prosodic Conversion in Speech-to-Speech Translation. INTERSPEECH Nobuhiko Hattori, Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano
2011	—	`conf`	Toward Construction of Spoken Dialogue System that Evokes Users' Spontaneous Backchannels. SIGDIAL Conference Teruhisa Misu, Etsuo Mizukami, Yoshinori Shiga, Shinichi Kawamoto, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura
2011	Misc	`conf`	Unsupervised determination of efficient Korean LVCSR units using a Bayesian Dirichlet process model. ICASSP Sakriani Sakti, Andrew M. Finch, Ryosuke Isotani, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura
2011	A	`conf`	User Study of Spoken Decision Support System. INTERSPEECH Teruhisa Misu, Kiyonori Ohtake, Chiori Hori, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura
2010	—	`conf`	A Study Toward an Evaluation Method for Spoken Dialogue Systems Considering User Criteria. IWSDS Etsuo Mizukami, Hideki Kashioka, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura
2010	—	`conf`	Active Learning for Generating Motion and Utterances in Object Manipulation Dialogue Tasks. AAAI Fall Symposium: Dialog with Robots Komei Sugiura, Naoto Iwahashi, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura
2010	—	`conf`	An environment structuring framework to facilitating suitable prior density estimation for MAPLR on robust speech recognition. ISCSLP Yu Tsao, Ryosuke Isotani, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura
2010	—	`conf`	An investigation of the impact of speech transcript errors on HMM voices. SSW Jinfu Ni, Hisashi Kawai
2010	A	`conf`	An unsupervised approach to creating web audio contents-based HMM voices. INTERSPEECH Jinfu Ni, Hisashi Kawai
2010	A	`conf`	Brazilian portuguese acoustic model training based on data borrowing from other language. INTERSPEECH Kazuhiko Abe, Sakriani Sakti, Ryosuke Isotani, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura
2010	A	`conf`	Cluster-based language model for spoken document retrieval using NMF-based document clustering. INTERSPEECH Xinhui Hu, Ryosuke Isotani, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura
2010	—	`conf`	Construction and Experiment of a Spoken Consulting Dialogue System. IWSDS Teruhisa Misu, Chiori Hori, Kiyonori Ohtake, Hideki Kashioka, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura
2010	A	`conf`	Construction and evaluations of an annotated Chinese conversational corpus in travel domain for the language model of speech recognition. INTERSPEECH Xinhui Hu, Ryosuke Isotani, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura
2010	—	`conf`	Dialogue strategy optimization to assist user's decision for spoken consulting dialogue systems. SLT Teruhisa Misu, Komei Sugiura, Kiyonori Ohtake, Chiori Hori, Hideki Kashioka, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura
2010	—	`conf`	Evaluation of Facial Direction Estimation from Cameras for Multi-modal Spoken Dialog System. IWSDS Akihiro Kobayashi, Kentaro Kayama, Etsuo Mizukami, Teruhisa Misu, Hideki Kashioka, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura
2010	—	`conf`	Expansion of WFST-Based Dialog Management for Handling Multiple ASR Hypotheses. IWSDS Naoto Kimura, Chiori Hori, Teruhisa Misu, Kiyonori Ohtake, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura
2010	—	`conf`	Exploiting Social Q&A Collection in Answering Complex Questions. CIPS-SIGHAN Youzheng Wu, Hisashi Kawai
2010	A	`conf`	Improved training of excitation for HMM-based parametric speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH Yoshinori Shiga, Tomoki Toda, Shinsuke Sakai, Hisashi Kawai
2010	—	`conf`	Improving spontaneous English ASR using a joint-sequence pronunciation model. IUCS Hansjörg Hofmann, Sakriani Sakti, Ryosuke Isotani, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura, Wolfgang Minker
2010	—	`conf`	Korean pronunciation variation modeling with probabilistic Bayesian networks. IUCS Sakriani Sakti, Andrew M. Finch, Ryosuke Isotani, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura
2010	—	`conf`	Modeling Spoken Decision Making Dialogue and Optimization of its Dialogue Strategy. SIGDIAL Conference Teruhisa Misu, Komei Sugiura, Kiyonori Ohtake, Chiori Hori, Hideki Kashioka, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura
2010	—	`conf`	NICT Blizzard Challenge 2010 Entry. Blizzard Challenge Yoshinori Shiga, Tomoki Toda, Shinsuke Sakai, Jinfu Ni, Hisashi Kawai, Keiichi Tokuda, Minoru Tsuzaki, Satoshi Nakamura
2010	—	`conf`	NiCT at TREC 2010: Related Entity Finding. TREC Youzheng Wu, Chiori Hori, Hisashi Kawai
2010	—	`conf`	Sequence-Based Pronunciation Modeling Using a Noisy-Channel Approach. IWSDS Hansjörg Hofmann, Sakriani Sakti, Ryosuke Isotani, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura, Wolfgang Minker
2010	—	`conf`	Sightseeing Guidance Systems Based on WFST-Based Dialogue Manager. IWSDS Teruhisa Misu, Chiori Hori, Kiyonori Ohtake, Etsuo Mizukami, Akihiro Kobayashi, Kentaro Kayama, Tetsuya Fujii, Hideki Kashioka, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura
2010	—	`conf`	Speech enhancement as a functional approximation and generalization. ISCSLP Xugang Lu, Masashi Unoki, Ryosuke Isotani, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura
2010	B	`conf`	Spoken Dialog System on Plasma Display Panel Estimating Users' Interest by Image Processing. Intelligent Environments (Workshops) Kentaro Kayama, Akihiro Kobayashi, Etsuo Mizukami, Teruhisa Misu, Hideki Kashioka, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura
2010	A	`conf`	Utilizing a noisy-channel approach for Korean LVCSR. INTERSPEECH Sakriani Sakti, Ryosuke Isotani, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura
2010	A	`conf`	Voice activity detection in a reguarized reproducing kernel hilbert space. INTERSPEECH Xugang Lu, Masashi Unoki, Ryosuke Isotani, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura
2010	—	`conf`	Web text classification for response generation in spoken decision support dialogue systems. IUCS Teruhisa Misu, Kiyonori Ohtake, Chiori Hori, Hideki Kashioka, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura
2009	A	`conf`	A close look into the probabilistic concatenation model for corpus-based speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH Shinsuke Sakai, Ranniery Maia, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura
2009	—	`conf`	Hyperbolic structure of fundamental frequency contour. IUCS Jinfu Ni, Shinsuke Sakai, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura
2009	—	`conf`	Robust and Fast Lyric Search based on Phonetic Confusion Matrix. ISMIR Xin Xu, Masaki Naito, Tsuneo Kato, Hisashi Kawai
2009	—	`conf`	The NICT Entry for the Blizzard Challenge 2009: an Enhanced HMM-based Speech Synthesis System with Trajectory Training considering Global Variance and State-Dependent Mixed Excitation. Blizzard Challenge Ranniery Maia, Tomoki Toda, Shinsuke Sakai, Yoshinori Shiga, Jinfu Ni, Hisashi Kawai, Keiichi Tokuda, Minoru Tsuzaki, Satoshi Nakamura
2008	J	`jnl`	Investigation of Optimum Electrode Locations by Using an Automatized Surface Electromyography Analysis Technique. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. Ken Nishihara, Hisashi Kawai, Toshiaki Gomi, Miho Terajima, Yu Chiba
2008	J	`jnl`	Phone duration modeling using gradient tree boosting. Speech Commun. Junichi Yamagishi, Hisashi Kawai, Takao Kobayashi
2008	Misc	`conf`	Unit database pruning based on the cost degradation criterion for concatenative speech synthesis. ICASSP Nobuyuki Nishizawa, Hisashi Kawai
2007	A	`conf`	A preselection method based on cost degradation from the optimal sequence for concatenative speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH Nobuyuki Nishizawa, Hisashi Kawai
2007	—	`conf`	ATRECSS - ATR English speech corpus for speech synthesis. Blizzard Challenge Jinfu Ni, Toshio Hirai, Hisashi Kawai, Tomoki Toda, Keiichi Tokuda, Minoru Tsuzaki, Shinsuke Sakai, Ranniery Maia, Satoshi Nakamura
2007	—	`conf`	Communicative speech synthesis with XIMERA: a first step. SSW Shinsuke Sakai, Jinfu Ni, Ranniery Maia, Keiichi Tokuda, Minoru Tsuzaki, Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura
2007	—	`conf`	Reduction of correlation computation in the permutation of the frequency domain ICA by selecting DOAs estimated in subarrays. EUSIPCO Hao Yuan, Hisashi Kawai, Toshiharu Horiuchi
2006	—	`conf`	A DOA estimation method for 3D multiple source signals using independent component analysis. EUSIPCO Hao Yuan, Makoto Yamada, Hisashi Kawai
2006	—	`conf`	A Short-Latency Unit Selection Method with Redundant Search for Concatenative Speech Synthesis. ICASSP (1) Nobuyuki Nishizawa, Hisashi Kawai
2006	A	`conf`	A text-prompted distributed speaker verification system implemented on a cellular phone and a mobile terminal. INTERSPEECH Tsuneo Kato, Hisashi Kawai
2006	J	`jnl`	An evaluation of cost functions sensitively capturing local degradation of naturalness for segment selection in concatenative speech synthesis. Speech Commun. Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai, Minoru Tsuzaki, Kiyohiro Shikano
2006	—	`conf`	Constructing a Phonetic-Rich Speech Corpus While Controlling Time-Dependent Voice Quality Variability for English Speech Synthesis. ICASSP (1) Jinfu Ni, Toshio Hirai, Hisashi Kawai
2006	—	`conf`	Developing a Test Bed of English Text-to-Speech System XIMERA for the Blizzard Challenge 2006. Blizzard Challenge Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai, Toshio Hirai, Jinfu Ni, Nobuyuki Nishizawa, Junichi Yamagishi, Minoru Tsuzaki, Keiichi Tokuda, Satoshi Nakamura
2006	—	`conf`	Evaluation result of transmission control mechanism for multimedia streams based on the multi-RTCP scheme over multiple IP-based networks. CCNC Norihiro Fukumoto, Hideaki Yamada, Hisashi Kawai
2006	A	`conf`	Quick individual fitting methods of simplified hearing compensation for elderly people. INTERSPEECH Kengo Fujita, Tsuneo Kato, Hisashi Kawai
2006	J	`jnl`	The ATR multilingual speech-to-speech translation system. IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process. Satoshi Nakamura, Konstantin Markov, Hiromi Nakaiwa, Gen-ichiro Kikui, Hisashi Kawai, Takatoshi Jitsuhiro, Jinsong Zhang, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Eiichiro Sumita, Seiichi Yamamoto
2005	A	`conf`	Analysis of major factors of naturalness degradation in concatenative synthesis. INTERSPEECH Toshio Hirai, Hisashi Kawai, Minoru Tsuzaki, Nobuyuki Nishizawa
2005	J	`jnl`	Discriminative training and explicit duration modeling for HMM-based automatic segmentation. Speech Commun. Yi-Jian Wu, Hisashi Kawai, Jinfu Ni, Ren-Hua Wang
2005	A	`conf`	Estimation of intonation variation with constrained tone transformations. INTERSPEECH Jinfu Ni, Hisashi Kawai, Keikichi Hirose
2005	A	`conf`	Improvement of rejection performance of keyword spotting using anti-keywords derived from large vocabulary considering acoustical similarity to keywords. INTERSPEECH Makoto Yamada, Tsuneo Kato, Masaki Naito, Hisashi Kawai
2005	A	`conf`	SNR-dependent background noise compensation of PESQ values for cellular phone speech. INTERSPEECH Kengo Fujita, Tsuneo Kato, Hideaki Yamada, Hisashi Kawai
2004	A	`conf`	A study on automatic detection of Japanese vowel devoicing for speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH Yi-Jian Wu, Hisashi Kawai, Jinfu Ni, Ren-Hua Wang
2004	—	`conf`	An evaluation of automatic phone segmentation for concatenative speech synthesis. ICASSP (1) Hisashi Kawai, Tomoki Toda
2004	A	`conf`	Formulating contextual tonal variations in Mandarin. INTERSPEECH Jinfu Ni, Hisashi Kawai, Keikichi Hirose
2004	—	`conf`	Minimum segmentation error based discriminative training for speech synthesis application. ICASSP (1) Yi-Jian Wu, Hisashi Kawai, Jinfu Ni, Ren-Hua Wang
2004	—	`conf`	Optimizing sub-cost functions for segment selection based on perceptual evaluations in concatenative speech synthesis. ICASSP (1) Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai, Minoru Tsuzaki
2004	—	`conf`	Scaling of waveform segments along the time axis for concatenative speech synthesis. ICASSP (1) Nobuyuki Nishizawa, Hisashi Kawai
2004	A	`conf`	Using a depth-restricted search to reduce delays in unit selection. INTERSPEECH Nobuyuki Nishizawa, Hisashi Kawai
2004	—	`conf`	XIMERA: a new TTS from ATR based on corpus-based technologies. SSW Hisashi Kawai, Tomoki Toda, Jinfu Ni, Minoru Tsuzaki, Keiichi Tokuda
2003	A	`conf`	Optimizing integrated cost function for segment selection in concatenative speech synthesis based on perceptual evaluations. INTERSPEECH Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai, Minoru Tsuzaki
2003	—	`conf`	Segment selection considering local degradation of naturalness in concatenative speech synthesis. ICASSP (1) Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai, Minoru Tsuzaki, Kiyohiro Shikano
2003	—	`conf`	Tone feature extraction through parametric modeling and analysis-by-synthesis-based pattern matching. ICASSP (1) Jinfu Ni, Hisashi Kawai
2003	A	`conf`	Tone pattern discrimination combining parametric modeling and maximum likelihood estimation. INTERSPEECH Jinfu Ni, Hisashi Kawai
2002	A	`conf`	Acoustic measures vs. phonetic features as predictors of audible discontinuity in concatenative speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH Hisashi Kawai, Minoru Tsuzaki
2002	A	`conf`	Design of a Mandarin sentence set for corpus-based speech synthesis by use of a multi-tier algorithm taking account of the varied prosodic and spectral characteristics. INTERSPEECH Jinfu Ni, Hisashi Kawai
2002	A	`conf`	Feature extraction for unit selection in concatenative speech synthesis: comparison between AIM, LPC, and MFCC. INTERSPEECH Minoru Tsuzaki, Hisashi Kawai
2002	A	`conf`	Perceptual evaluation of naturalness due to substitution of Chinese syllable for concatenative speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH Jinlin Lu, Hisashi Kawai
2002	Misc	`conf`	Unit selection algorithm for Japanese speech synthesis based on both phoneme unit and diphone unit. ICASSP Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai, Minoru Tsuzaki, Kiyohiro Shikano
2000	A	`conf`	A design method of speech corpus for text-to-speech synthesis taking account of prosody. INTERSPEECH Hisashi Kawai, Seiichi Yamamoto, Norio Higuchi, Tohru Shimizu
1998	—	`conf`	Recognition of connected digit speech in Japanese collected over the telephone network. ICSLP Hisashi Kawai, Norio Higuchi
1994	—	`conf`	Development of a text-to-speech system for Japanese based on waveform splicing. ICASSP (1) Hisashi Kawai, Norio Higuchi, Tohru Shimizu, Seiichi Yamamoto
1990	Misc	`conf`	A system for synthesizing Japanese speech from orthographic text. ICASSP Hiroya Fujisaki, Keikichi Hirose, Hisashi Kawai, Yasuharu Asano
1990	—	`conf`	Improvement of the synthetic speech quality of the formant-type speech synthesizer and its subjective evaluation. ICSLP Norio Higuchi, Hisashi Kawai, Tohru Shimizu, Seiichi Yamamoto
1990	—	`conf`	The linguistic processing module for Japanese text-to-speech system. ICSLP Tohru Shimizu, Norio Higuchi, Hisashi Kawai, Seiichi Yamamoto
1988	Misc	`conf`	Realization of linguistic information in the voice fundamental frequency contour of the spoken Japanese. ICASSP Hiroya Fujisaki, Hisashi Kawai
1986	Misc	`conf`	Generation of prosodic symbols for rule-synthesis of connected speech of Japanese. ICASSP Keikichi Hirose, Hiroya Fujisaki, Hisashi Kawai