Nobuaki Minematsu

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Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2026	J	`jnl`	Advanced Modeling of Interlanguage Speech Intelligibility Benefit with L1-L2 Multi-Task Learning Using Differentiable K-Means for Accent-Robust Discrete Token-Based ASR. CoRR Kentaro Onda, Satoru Fukayama, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2026	J	`jnl`	Gestural feature extraction and multi-feature co-activation for dysarthric speech recognition. Inf. Fusion Yuqin Lin, Longbiao Wang, Jianwu Dang, Nobuaki Minematsu
2026	J	`jnl`	Kanade: A Simple Disentangled Tokenizer for Spoken Language Modeling. CoRR Zhijie Huang, Stephen McIntosh, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2025	A	`conf`	A Perception-Based L2 Speech Intelligibility Indicator: Leveraging a Rater's Shadowing and Sequence-to-sequence Voice Conversion. INTERSPEECH Haopeng Geng, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2025	J	`jnl`	A Perception-Based L2 Speech Intelligibility Indicator: Leveraging a Rater's Shadowing and Sequence-to-sequence Voice Conversion. CoRR Haopeng Geng, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2025	—	`conf`	Bandwidth Extension System for Throat Microphone Speech Reconstruction. ICMEW Yu Xu, Xiaokai Qin, Tianyu Fan, Eng Siong Chng, Sheng Li, Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito
2025	C	`conf`	Benchmarking Prosody Encoding in Discrete Speech Tokens. ASRU Kentaro Onda, Satoru Fukayama, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2025	J	`jnl`	Benchmarking Prosody Encoding in Discrete Speech Tokens. CoRR Kentaro Onda, Satoru Fukayama, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2025	A	`conf`	Discrete Tokens Exhibit Interlanguage Speech Intelligibility Benefit: an Analytical Study Towards Accent-robust ASR Only with Native Speech Data. INTERSPEECH Kentaro Onda, Keisuke Imoto, Satoru Fukayama, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2025	J	`jnl`	Discrete Tokens Exhibit Interlanguage Speech Intelligibility Benefit: an Analytical Study Towards Accent-robust ASR Only with Native Speech Data. CoRR Kentaro Onda, Keisuke Imoto, Satoru Fukayama, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2025	B	`conf`	LangInLab: Augmenting Engineering Lab Instruction with Vision- and Voice-Enabled AI Agents for Language Learning. HAI Masanori Shigi, Zackary Rackauckas, Yuka Akiyama, Nobuaki Minematsu
2025	—	`conf`	MixedG2P-T5: G2P-Free Speech Synthesis for Mixed-Script Texts Using Speech Self-Supervised Learning and Language Model. APSIPA Joonyong Park, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2025	J	`jnl`	MixedG2P-T5: G2P-free Speech Synthesis for Mixed-script texts using Speech Self-Supervised Learning and Language Model. CoRR Joonyong Park, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2025	A	`conf`	Prosodically Enhanced Foreign Accent Simulation by Discrete Token-based Resynthesis Only with Native Speech Corpora. INTERSPEECH Kentaro Onda, Keisuke Imoto, Satoru Fukayama, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2025	J	`jnl`	Prosodically Enhanced Foreign Accent Simulation by Discrete Token-based Resynthesis Only with Native Speech Corpora. CoRR Kentaro Onda, Keisuke Imoto, Satoru Fukayama, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2025	J	`jnl`	Re:Member: Emotional Question Generation from Personal Memories. CoRR Zackary Rackauckas, Nobuaki Minematsu, Julia Hirschberg
2024	A	`conf`	A ChatGPT-based oral Q&A practice system for first-time student participants in international conferences. INTERSPEECH Mayuko Aiba, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2024	—	`conf`	A Pilot Study of Applying Sequence-to-Sequence Voice Conversion to Evaluate the Intelligibility of L2 Speech Using a Native Speaker's Shadowings. APSIPA Haopeng Geng, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2024	J	`jnl`	A Pilot Study of Applying Sequence-to-Sequence Voice Conversion to Evaluate the Intelligibility of L2 Speech Using a Native Speaker's Shadowings. CoRR Haopeng Geng, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2024	A	`conf`	A Pilot Study of GSLM-based Simulation of Foreign Accentuation Only Using Native Speech Corpora. INTERSPEECH Kentaro Onda, Joonyong Park, Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito
2024	J	`jnl`	A Pilot Study of GSLM-based Simulation of Foreign Accentuation Only Using Native Speech Corpora. CoRR Kentaro Onda, Joonyong Park, Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito
2024	A	`conf`	Acceleration of Posteriorgram-based DTW by Distilling the Class-to-class Distances Encoded in the Classifier Used to Calculate Posteriors. INTERSPEECH Haitong Sun, Jaehyun Choi, Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito
2024	A	`conf`	Analysis and Visualization of Directional Diversity in Listening Fluency of World Englishes Speakers in the Framework of Mutual Shadowing. INTERSPEECH Yu Tomita, Yingxiang Gao, Nobuaki Minematsu, Noriko Nakanishi, Daisuke Saito
2024	—	`conf`	Analytic Study of Text-Free Speech Synthesis for Raw Audio using a Self-Supervised Learning Model. APSIPA Joonyong Park, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2024	J	`jnl`	Analytic Study of Text-Free Speech Synthesis for Raw Audio using a Self-Supervised Learning Model. CoRR Joonyong Park, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2024	—	`conf`	Enhancing Acoustic Scene Classification with Layer-wise Fine-Tuning on the SSAST Model. APSIPA Shuting Hao, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2024	A	`conf`	Exploring Pre-trained Speech Model for Articulatory Feature Extraction in Dysarthric Speech Using ASR. INTERSPEECH Yuqin Lin, Longbiao Wang, Jianwu Dang, Nobuaki Minematsu
2024	J	`jnl`	Simulating Native Speaker Shadowing for Nonnative Speech Assessment with Latent Speech Representations. CoRR Haopeng Geng, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2023	A	`conf`	A Unified Framework to Improve Learners' Skills of Perception and Production Based on Speech Shadowing and Overlapping. INTERSPEECH Nobuaki Minematsu, Noriko Nakanishi, Yingxiang Gao, Haitong Sun
2023	A	`conf`	Automatic Prediction of Language Learners' Listenability Using Speech and Text Features Extracted from Listening Drills. INTERSPEECH Yingxiang Gao, Jaehyun Choi, Nobuaki Minematsu, Noriko Nakanishi, Daisuke Saito
2023	—	`conf`	Density and Entropy of Spoken Syllables in American English and Japanese English Estimated with Acoustic Word Embeddings. SLaTE Yusuke Shozui, Nobuaki Minematsu, Noriko Nakanishi, Daisuke Saito
2023	—	`conf`	Exploring Isolated Musical Notes as Pre-training Data for Predominant Instrument Recognition in Polyphonic Music. APSIPA ASC Lifan Zhong, Erica Cooper, Junichi Yamagishi, Nobuaki Minematsu
2023	J	`jnl`	Exploring Isolated Musical Notes as Pre-training Data for Predominant Instrument Recognition in Polyphonic Music. CoRR Lifan Zhong, Erica Cooper, Junichi Yamagishi, Nobuaki Minematsu
2023	Misc	`conf`	Hierarchical Softmax for End-To-End Low-Resource Multilingual Speech Recognition. ICASSP Qianying Liu, Zhuo Gong, Zhengdong Yang, Yuhang Yang, Sheng Li, Chenchen Ding, Nobuaki Minematsu, Hao Huang, Fei Cheng, Chenhui Chu, Sadao Kurohashi
2023	—	`conf`	Learners' Prosodic Control in the Task of Expressive Storytelling and Predicted Native Listeners' Impressions of the Learners' Speech. SLaTE Chihiro Shoda, Yingxiang Gao, Yurun He, Nobuaki Minematsu, Noriko Nakanishi, Daisuke Saito
2023	Misc	`conf`	Multiple Acoustic Features Speech Emotion Recognition Using Cross-Attention Transformer. ICASSP Yurun He, Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito
2023	—	`conf`	Sensitivity to Phonemic Contrasts and Insensitivity to Non-phonemic Contrasts of Various Speech Representations Tested for L2 Speech Assessment. SLaTE Haitong Sun, Yingxiang Gao, Yusuke Shozui, Tong Ma, Nobuaki Minematsu
2022	—	`conf`	Automatic Prediction of Intelligibility of Words and Phonemes Produced Orally by Japanese Learners of English. SLT Chuanbo Zhu, Takuya Kunihara, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu, Noriko Nakanishi
2022	A	`conf`	Detection of Learners' Listening Breakdown with Oral Dictation and Its Use to Model Listening Skill Improvement Exclusively Through Shadowing. INTERSPEECH Takuya Kunihara, Chuanbo Zhu, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu, Noriko Nakanishi
2022	A	`conf`	Gradual Improvements Observed in Learners' Perception and Production of L2 Sounds Through Continuing Shadowing Practices on a Daily Basis. INTERSPEECH Takuya Kunihara, Chuanbo Zhu, Nobuaki Minematsu, Noriko Nakanishi
2022	J	`jnl`	Hierarchical Softmax for End-to-End Low-resource Multilingual Speech Recognition. CoRR Qianying Liu, Yuhang Yang, Zhuo Gong, Sheng Li, Chenchen Ding, Nobuaki Minematsu, Hao Huang, Fei Cheng, Sadao Kurohashi
2022	Misc	`conf`	Quantifying Discriminability between NMF Bases. ICASSP Eisuke Konno, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
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	A	`conf`	Text-to-speech synthesis using spectral modeling based on non-negative autoencoder. INTERSPEECH Takeru Gorai, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2022	J	`jnl`	Voice Conversion Based on Deep Neural Networks for Time-Variant Linear Transformations. IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process. Gaku Kotani, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2021	—	`conf`	Acoustic Simulation of Body-conducted Speech and Its Use to Convert One's Recorded Voices to One's Own Voices. APSIPA ASC Ruiyan Chen, Tazuko Nishimura, Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito
2021	A	`conf`	Lexical Density Analysis of Word Productions in Japanese English Using Acoustic Word Embeddings. Interspeech Shintaro Ando, Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito
2021	C	`conf`	Multi-Granularity Annotation of Instantaneous Intelligibility of Learners' Utterances Based on Shadowing Techniques. ASRU Chuanbo Zhu, Ryo Hakoda, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu, Noriko Nakanishi, Tazuko Nishimura
2021	—	`conf`	Optimized Prediction of Fluency of L2 English Based on Interpretable Network Using Quantity of Phonation and Quality of Pronunciation. SLT Yang Shen, Ayano Yasukagawa, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu, Kazuya Saito
2020	Misc	`conf`	Converting Written Language to Spoken Language with Neural Machine Translation for Language Modeling. ICASSP Shintaro Ando, Masayuki Suzuki, Nobuyasu Itoh, Gakuto Kurata, Nobuaki Minematsu
2020	A	`conf`	Discriminative Method to Extract Coarse Prosodic Structure and its Application for Statistical Phrase/Accent Command Estimation. INTERSPEECH Yuma Shirahata, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2020	A	`conf`	Shadowability Annotation with Fine Granularity on L2 Utterances and its Improvement with Native Listeners' Script-Shadowing. INTERSPEECH Zhenchao Lin, Ryo Takashima, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu, Noriko Nakanishi
2020	J	`jnl`	Tensor Factor Analysis for Arbitrary Speaker Conversion. IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst. Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
2019	—	`conf`	A Large Collection of Sentences Read Aloud by Vietnamese Learners of Japanese and Native Speaker's Reverse Shadowings. O-COCOSDA Shintaro Ando, Zhenchao Lin, Tasavat Trisitichoke, Yusuke Inoue, Fuki Yoshizawa, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2019	A	`conf`	Analysis of Native Listeners' Facial Microexpressions While Shadowing Non-Native Speech - Potential of Shadowers' Facial Expressions for Comprehensibility Prediction. INTERSPEECH Tasavat Trisitichoke, Shintaro Ando, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2019	—	`conf`	Cooking State Recognition based on Acoustic Event Detection. CEA@ICMR Yusaku Korematsu, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2019	—	`conf`	DNN-based Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis Incorporating Non-negative Matrix Factorization. APSIPA Shunsuke Goto, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2019	—	`conf`	Does Speaking Training Application with Speech Recognition Motivate Junior High School Students in Actual Classroom? - A Case Study. SLaTE Satoshi Kobashikawa, Atushi Odakura, Takao Nakamura, Takeshi Mori, Kimitaka Endo, Takafumi Moriya, Ryo Masumura, Yushi Aono, Nobuaki Minematsu
2019	—	`conf`	Experimental investigation on the efficacy of Affine-DTW in the quality of voice conversion. APSIPA Gaku Kotani, Hitoshi Suda, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2019	—	`conf`	Generative Modeling of F0 Contours Leveraged by Phrase Structure and Its Application to Statistical Focus Control. SSW Yuma Shirahata, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2019	J	`jnl`	Many-to-Many and Completely Parallel-Data-Free Voice Conversion Based on Eigenspace DNN. IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process. Tetsuya Hashimoto, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2019	—	`conf`	Native Listeners' Shadowing of Non-native Utterances as Spoken Annotation Representing Comprehensibility of the Utterances. SLaTE Zhenchao Lin, Yusuke Inoue, Tasavat Trisitichoke, Shintaro Ando, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2019	—	`conf`	Prototyping a web-based phonetic training game to improve /r/-/l/ identification by Japanese learners of English. SLaTE Adriana Guevara-Rukoz, Alexander Martin, Yutaka Yamauchi, Nobuaki Minematsu
2019	—	`conf`	Speech representation based on tensor factor analysis and its application to speaker recognition and language identification. APSIPA Daisuke Saito, So Suzuki, Nobuaki Minematsu
2019	—	`conf`	The UTokyo speech synthesis system for Blizzard Challenge 2019. Blizzard Challenge Shunsuke Goto, Yuma Shirahata, Gaku Kotani, Hitoshi Suda, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2019	—	`conf`	Voice Conversion without Explicit Separation of Source and Filter Components Based on Non-negative Matrix Factorization. SSW Hitoshi Suda, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2018	A	`conf`	A Comparative Study of Statistical Conversion of Face to Voice Based on Their Subjective Impressions. INTERSPEECH Yasuhito Ohsugi, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2018	A	`conf`	A Study of Objective Measurement of Comprehensibility through Native Speakers' Shadowing of Learners' Utterances. INTERSPEECH Yusuke Inoue, Suguru Kabashima, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu, Kumi Kanamura, Yutaka Yamauchi
2018	—	`conf`	DNN-Based Scoring of Language Learners' Proficiency Using Learners' Shadowings and Native Listeners' Responsive Shadowings. SLT Suguru Kabashima, Yusuke Inoue, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2018	J	`jnl`	Wasserstein GAN and Waveform Loss-Based Acoustic Model Training for Multi-Speaker Text-to-Speech Synthesis Systems Using a WaveNet Vocoder. IEEE Access Yi Zhao, Shinji Takaki, Hieu-Thi Luong, Junichi Yamagishi, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2018	J	`jnl`	Wasserstein GAN and Waveform Loss-based Acoustic Model Training for Multi-speaker Text-to-Speech Synthesis Systems Using a WaveNet Vocoder. CoRR Yi Zhao, Shinji Takaki, Hieu-Thi Luong, Junichi Yamagishi, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2017	J	`jnl`	Accent Sandhi Estimation of Tokyo Dialect of Japanese Using Conditional Random Fields. IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst. Masayuki Suzuki, Ryo Kuroiwa, Keisuke Innami, Shumpei Kobayashi, Shinya Shimizu, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
2017	A	`conf`	Acoustic-to-Articulatory Mapping Based on Mixture of Probabilistic Canonical Correlation Analysis. INTERSPEECH Hidetsugu Uchida, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2017	A	`conf`	Automatic Scoring of Shadowing Speech Based on DNN Posteriors and Their DTW. INTERSPEECH Junwei Yue, Fumiya Shiozawa, Shohei Toyama, Yutaka Yamauchi, Kayoko Ito, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2017	J	`jnl`	Development and Evaluation of Online Infrastructure to Aid Teaching and Learning of Japanese Prosody. IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst. Nobuaki Minematsu, Ibuki Nakamura, Masayuki Suzuki, Hiroko Hirano, Chieko Nakagawa, Noriko Nakamura, Yukinori Tagawa, Keikichi Hirose, Hiroya Hashimoto
2017	—	`conf`	Development and Maintenance of Practical and In-service Systems for Recording Shadowing Utterances and Their Assessment. SLaTE Junwei Yue, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yutaka Yamauchi, Kayoko Ito
2017	—	`conf`	Investigation of teacher-selected sentences and machine-suggested sentences in terms of correlation between human ratings and GOP-based machine scores. SLaTE Yutaka Yamauchi, Junwei Yue, Kayoko Ito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2017	—	`conf`	New Features and Effectiveness of Suzuki-kun, the First and Only Prosodic Reading Tutor of Tokyo Japanese. SLaTE Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito
2017	A	`conf`	Parallel-Data-Free Many-to-Many Voice Conversion Based on DNN Integrated with Eigenspace Using a Non-Parallel Speech Corpus. INTERSPEECH Tetsuya Hashimoto, Hidetsugu Uchida, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2017	—	`conf`	The UTokyo speech synthesis system for Blizzard Challenge 2017. Blizzard Challenge Shinnosuke Takamichi, Daisuke Saito, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Nobuaki Minematsu
2017	A	`conf`	Use of Global and Acoustic Features Associated with Contextual Factors to Adapt Language Models for Spontaneous Speech Recognition. INTERSPEECH Shohei Toyama, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2017	—	`conf`	Voice conversion based on deep neural networks for time-variant linear transformations. APSIPA Gaku Kotani, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2016	—	`conf`	Acoustic correlates and gender effects in production and perception of Japanese polite speech. ISCSLP Shuju Shi, Chiharu Tsurutani, Xiaoli Feng, Jinsong Zhang, Nobuaki Minematsu
2016	—	`conf`	Arbitrary speaker conversion based on speaker space bases constructed by deep neural networks. APSIPA Tetsuya Hashimoto, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2016	A	`conf`	Automatic Assessment and Error Detection of Shadowing Speech: Case of English Spoken by Japanese Learners. INTERSPEECH Shuju Shi, Yosuke Kashiwagi, Shohei Toyama, Junwei Yue, Yutaka Yamauchi, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2016	Misc	`conf`	Divergence estimation based on deep neural networks and its use for language identification. ICASSP Yosuke Kashiwagi, Congying Zhang, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2016	—	`conf`	Improved prediction of the accent gap between speakers of English for individual-based clustering of World Englishes. SLT Fumiya Shiozawa, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2016	J	`jnl`	Phonetisaurus: Exploring grapheme-to-phoneme conversion with joint n-gram models in the WFST framework. Nat. Lang. Eng. Josef R. Novak, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
2016	A	`conf`	Prediction of the Articulatory Movements of Unseen Phonemes of a Speaker Using the Speech Structure of Another Speaker. INTERSPEECH Hidetsugu Uchida, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2016	—	`conf`	Prosodic Reading Tutor of Japanese, Suzuki-kun: The first and only educational tool to teach the formal Japanese. SSW Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, Nobuyuki Nishizawa
2016	A	`conf`	Speaker Representations for Speaker Adaptation in Multiple Speakers' BLSTM-RNN-Based Speech Synthesis. INTERSPEECH Yi Zhao, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2016	—	`conf`	The UTokyo System for Blizzard Challenge 2016. Blizzard Challenge Yi Zhao, Xiu You, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2016	A	`conf`	Voice Conversion Based on Matrix Variate Gaussian Mixture Model Using Multiple Frame Features. INTERSPEECH Yi Yang, Hidetsugu Uchida, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2015	—	`conf`	A measure of phonetic similarity to quantify pronunciation variation by using ASR technology. ICPhS Tianze Shi, Shun Kasahara, Teeraphon Pongkittiphan, Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, Keikichi Hirose
2015	—	`conf`	Automatic prediction of intelligibility of English words spoken with Japanese accents - comparative study of features and models used for prediction. SLaTE Teeraphon Pongkittiphan, Nobuaki Minematsu, Takehiko Makino, Daisuke Saito, Keikichi Hirose
2015	J	`jnl`	Automatic recognition of Japanese vowel length accounting for speaking rate and motivated by perception analysis. Speech Commun. Greg Short, Keikichi Hirose, Mariko Kondo, Nobuaki Minematsu
2015	—	`conf`	Development of a prosodic reading tutor of Japanese - effective use of TTS and F0 contour modeling techniques for CALL. SLaTE Nobuaki Minematsu, Hiroya Hashimoto, Hiroko Hirano, Daisuke Saito
2015	J	`jnl`	Discriminative re-ranking for automatic speech recognition by leveraging invariant structures. Speech Commun. Masayuki Suzuki, Gakuto Kurata, Masafumi Nishimura, Nobuaki Minematsu
2015	—	`conf`	Noise-robust and stress-free visualization of pronunciation diversity of World Englishes using a learner's self-centered viewpoint. O-COCOSDA/CASLRE Yuichi Sato, Yosuke Kashiwagi, Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, Keikichi Hirose
2015	A	`conf`	Statistical acoustic-to-articulatory mapping unified with speaker normalization based on voice conversion. INTERSPEECH Hidetsugu Uchida, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
2014	A	`conf`	Application of matrix variate Gaussian mixture model to statistical voice conversion. INTERSPEECH Daisuke Saito, Hidenobu Doi, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
2014	Misc	`conf`	Improved and robust prediction of pronunciation distance for individual-basis clustering of World Englishes pronunciation. ICASSP Shun Kasahara, S. Kitahara, Nobuaki Minematsu, Han-Ping Shen, Takehiko Makino, Daisuke Saito, K. Hiorse
2014	—	`conf`	Keynote 2: Perceptual and structural analysis of pronunciation diversity of World Englishes. O-COCOSDA Nobuaki Minematsu
2014	—	`conf`	Leveraging phonetic context dependent invariant structure for continuous speech recognition. ChinaSIP Congying Zhang, Masayuki Suzuki, Gakuto Kurata, Masafumi Nishimura, Nobuaki Minematsu
2014	Misc	`conf`	Semi-supervised noise dictionary adaptation for exemplar-based noise robust speech recognition. ICASSP Yi Luan, Daisuke Saito, Yosuke Kashiwagi, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
2014	—	`conf`	Speaker-basis Accent Clustering Using Invariant Structure Analysis and the Speech Accent Archive. Odyssey Nobuaki Minematsu, Shun Kasahara, Takehiko Makino, Daisuke Saito, Keikichi Hirose
2014	—	`conf`	Visualization of pronunciation diversity of world Englishes from a speaker's self-centered viewpoint. O-COCOSDA Yuji Kawase, Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, Keikichi Hirose
2013	A	`conf`	A free online accent and intonation dictionary for teachers and learners of Japanese. INTERSPEECH Hiroko Hirano, Ibuki Nakamura, Nobuaki Minematsu, Masayuki Suzuki, Chieko Nakagawa, Noriko Nakamura, Yukinori Tagawa, Keikichi Hirose, Hiroya Hashimoto
2013	A	`conf`	Artificial bandwidth extension based on regularized piecewise linear mapping with discriminative region weighting and long-Span features. INTERSPEECH Nguyen Duc Duy, Masayuki Suzuki, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
2013	—	`conf`	Automatic detection of the words that will become unintelligible through Japanese accented pronunciation of English. SLaTE Teeraphon Pongkittiphan, Nobuaki Minematsu, Takehiko Makino, Keikichi Hirose
2013	C	`conf`	Automatic pronunciation clustering using a World English archive and pronunciation structure analysis. ASRU Han-Ping Shen, Nobuaki Minematsu, Takehiko Makino, Steven H. Weinberger, Teeraphon Pongkittiphan, Chung-Hsien Wu
2013	—	`conf`	Automatic recognition of vowel length in Japanese for a CALL system motivated by perceptual experiments. SLaTE Greg Short, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2013	—	`conf`	Context labels based on "bunsetsu" for HMM-based speech synthesis of Japanese. SSW Hiroya Hashimoto, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2013	A	`conf`	Development of a web framework for teaching and learning Japanese prosody: OJAD (online Japanese accent dictionary). INTERSPEECH Ibuki Nakamura, Nobuaki Minematsu, Masayuki Suzuki, Hiroko Hirano, Chieko Nakagawa, Noriko Nakamura, Yukinori Tagawa, Keikichi Hirose, Hiroya Hashimoto
2013	C	`conf`	Discriminative piecewise linear transformation based on deep learning for noise robust automatic speech recognition. ASRU Yosuke Kashiwagi, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
2013	A	`conf`	Failure transitions for joint n-gram models and G2p conversion. INTERSPEECH Josef R. Novak, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
2013	J	`jnl`	Feature Enhancement With Joint Use of Consecutive Corrupted and Noise Feature Vectors With Discriminative Region Weighting. IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process. Masayuki Suzuki, Takuya Yoshioka, Shinji Watanabe, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
2013	A	`conf`	Generation of fundamental frequency contours for Thai speech synthesis using tone nucleus model. INTERSPEECH Oraphan Krityakien, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2013	Misc	`conf`	Improved estimation of femininity using GMM supervectors and SVR for voice therapy of Gender Identity Disorder Clients. ICASSP Chengshuo Wang, Masayuki Suzuki, Nobuaki Minematsu, Kyoko Sakuraba, Keikichi Hirose
2013	J	`jnl`	Japanese lexical accent recognition for a CALL system by deriving classification equations with perceptual experiments. Speech Commun. Greg Short, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2013	—	`conf`	OJAD: a free online accent and intonation dictionary for teachers and learners of Japanese. SLaTE Hiroko Hirano, Ibuki Nakamura, Nobuaki Minematsu, Masayuki Suzuki, Chieko Nakagawa, Noriko Nakamura, Yukinori Tagawa, Keikichi Hirose, Hiroya Hashimoto
2013	—	`conf`	Speaker-based accented English clustering using a world English archive. SLaTE Han-Ping Shen, Nobuaki Minematsu, Takehiko Makino, Steven H. Weinberger, Teeraphon Pongkittiphan, Chung-Hsien Wu
2013	—	`conf`	Speaker-invariant and rhythm-sensitive representation of spoken words. APSIPA Nobuaki Minematsu, Yousuke Ozaki, Keikichi Hirose, Donna Erickson
2013	J	`jnl`	Unsupervised optimal phoneme segmentation: theory and experimental evaluation. IET Signal Process. Yu Qiao, Dean Luo, Nobuaki Minematsu
2012	J	`jnl`	A method for generation of Mandarin F Speech Commun. Qinghua Sun, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2012	—	`conf`	Audio-visual feature integration based on piecewise linear transformation for noise robust automatic speech recognition. SLT Yosuke Kashiwagi, Masayuki Suzuki, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
2012	—	`conf`	Automatic Chinese pronunciation error detection using SVM trained with structural features. SLT Tongmu Zhao, Akemi Hoshino, Masayuki Suzuki, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
2012	A	`conf`	Discriminative Reranking for LVCSR Leveraging Invariant Structure. INTERSPEECH Masayuki Suzuki, Gakuto Kurata, Masafumi Nishimura, Nobuaki Minematsu
2012	A	`conf`	Dynamic Grammars with Lookahead Composition for WFST-based Speech Recognition. INTERSPEECH Josef R. Novak, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
2012	A	`conf`	Effects of Speaker Adaptive Training on Tensor-based Arbitrary Speaker Conversion. INTERSPEECH Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
2012	A	`conf`	Improved Automatic Extraction of Generation Process Model Commands and Its use for Generating Fundamental Frequency Contours for Training HMM-based Speech Synthesis. INTERSPEECH Hiroya Hashimoto, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2012	A	`conf`	Improved Prediction of Japanese Word Accent Sandhi Using CRF. INTERSPEECH Nobuaki Minematsu, Shumpei Kobayashi, Shinya Shimizu, Keikichi Hirose
2012	A	`conf`	Improving WFST-based G2P Conversion with Alignment Constraints and RNNLM N-best Rescoring. INTERSPEECH Josef R. Novak, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose, Chiori Hori, Hideki Kashioka, Paul R. Dixon
2012	Misc	`conf`	MFCC enhancement using joint corrupted and noise feature space for highly non-stationary noise environments. ICASSP Masayuki Suzuki, Takuya Yoshioka, Shinji Watanabe, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
2012	—	`conf`	Performance improvement of automatic pronunciation assessment in a noisy classroom. SLT Yi Luan, Masayuki Suzuki, Yutaka Yamauchi, Nobuaki Minematsu, Shuhei Kato, Keikichi Hirose
2012	J	`jnl`	Statistical Voice Conversion Based on Noisy Channel Model. IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process. Daisuke Saito, Shinji Watanabe, Atsushi Nakamura, Nobuaki Minematsu
2012	Misc	`conf`	Unseen noise robust speech recognition using adaptive piecewise linear transformation. ICASSP Keigo Chijiiwa, Masayuki Suzuki, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
2012	—	`conf`	WFST-Based Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion: Open Source tools for Alignment, Model-Building and Decoding. FSMNLP Josef R. Novak, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
2011	A	`conf`	A Study on Bag of Gaussian Model with Application to Voice Conversion. INTERSPEECH Yu Qiao, Tong Tong, Nobuaki Minematsu
2011	A	`conf`	Adaptation of Prosody in Speech Synthesis by Changing Command Values of the Generation Process Model of Fundamental Frequency. INTERSPEECH Keikichi Hirose, Keiko Ochi, Ryusuke Mihara, Hiroya Hashimoto, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2011	—	`conf`	Comparison of native and non-native evaluations of the naturalness of Japanesewords with prosody modified through voice morphing. SLaTE Shuhei Kato, Greg Short, Nobuaki Minematsu, Chiharu Tsurutani, Keikichi Hirose
2011	A	`conf`	Continuous Digits Recognition Leveraging Invariant Structure. INTERSPEECH Masayuki Suzuki, Gakuto Kurata, Masafumi Nishimura, Nobuaki Minematsu
2011	C	`conf`	Decision of response timing for incremental speech recognition with reinforcement learning. ASRU Di Lu, Takuya Nishimoto, Nobuaki Minematsu
2011	A	`conf`	Gesture Design of Hand-to-Speech Converter Derived from Speech-to-Hand Converter Based on Probabilistic Integration Model. INTERSPEECH Aki Kunikoshi, Yu Qiao, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
2011	Misc	`conf`	High accurate model-integration-based voice conversion using dynamic features and model structure optimization. ICASSP Daisuke Saito, Shinji Watanabe, Atsushi Nakamura, Nobuaki Minematsu
2011	Misc	`conf`	Improved F0 modeling and generation in voice conversion. ICASSP Aki Kunikoshi, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Nobuaki Minematsu
2011	A	`conf`	Measurement of Objective Intelligibility of Japanese Accented English Using ERJ (English Read by Japanese) Database. INTERSPEECH Nobuaki Minematsu, Koji Okabe, Keisuke Ogaki, Keikichi Hirose
2011	A	`conf`	One-to-Many Voice Conversion Based on Tensor Representation of Speaker Space. INTERSPEECH Daisuke Saito, Keisuke Yamamoto, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
2011	—	`conf`	Open Source WFST Tools for LVCSR Cascade Development. FSMNLP Josef R. Novak, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
2011	A	`conf`	Painless WFST Cascade Construction for LVCSR - Transducersaurus. INTERSPEECH Josef R. Novak, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
2011	A	`conf`	Prosody Conversion for Emotional Mandarin Speech Synthesis Using the Tone Nucleus Model. INTERSPEECH Miaomiao Wen, Miaomiao Wang, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2011	J	`jnl`	Regularized Maximum Likelihood Linear Regression Adaptation for Computer-Assisted Language Learning Systems. IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst. Dean Luo, Yu Qiao, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
2011	—	`conf`	Representing fundamental frequency contours generated by HMM-based speech synthesis using generation process model. MLSP Keikichi Hirose, Tatsuya Matsuda, Hiroya Hashimoto, Nobuaki Minematsu
2011	—	`conf`	Rule-based method for pitch level classification for a Japanese pitch accent CALL system. SLaTE Greg Short, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2011	—	`conf`	Structure-constrained distribution matching using quadratic programming and its application to pronunciation evaluation. ACPR Yu Qiao, Masayuki Suzuki, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
2010	—	`conf`	A method for modeling and generating Mandarin tone contour with phrase intonation based on the generation process model. ISCSLP Miaomiao Wang, Miaomiao Wen, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2010	J	`jnl`	A study on invariance of f-divergence and its application to speech recognition. IEEE Trans. Signal Process. Yu Qiao, Nobuaki Minematsu
2010	—	`conf`	Dialect-based speaker classification using speaker-invariant dialect features. ISCSLP Xuebin Ma, Ruiyuan Xu, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yu Qiao, Keikichi Hirose, Aijun Li
2010	Misc	`conf`	HMM-based sequence-to-frame mapping for voice conversion. ICASSP Yu Qiao, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
2010	—	`conf`	Human Speech Model based on Information Separation. ESSV Nobuaki Minematsu
2010	—	`conf`	Human speech model based on information separation and its application to speech processing. ISCSLP Nobuaki Minematsu
2010	A	`conf`	Improved generation of fundamental frequency in HMM-based speech synthesis using generation process model. INTERSPEECH Miaomiao Wang, Miaomiao Wen, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2010	—	`conf`	Improved generation of prosodic features in HMM-based Mandarin speech synthesis. SSW Miaomiao Wang, Miaomiao Wen, Daisuke Saito, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2010	A	`conf`	Improving Mandarin segmental duration prediction with automatically extracted syntax features. INTERSPEECH Miaomiao Wen, Miaomiao Wang, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2010	A	`conf`	Integration of multilayer regression analysis with structure-based pronunciation assessment. INTERSPEECH Masayuki Suzuki, Yu Qiao, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
2010	—	`conf`	Pitch Pattern Recognition of Isolated Words for the Development of a Japanese Language Call System. ESSV Greg Short, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2010	A	`conf`	Probabilistic integration of joint density model and speaker model for voice conversion. INTERSPEECH Daisuke Saito, Shinji Watanabe, Atsushi Nakamura, Nobuaki Minematsu
2010	A	`conf`	Regularized-MLLR speaker adaptation for computer-assisted language learning system. INTERSPEECH Dean Luo, Yu Qiao, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yutaka Yamauchi, Keikichi Hirose
2010	J	`jnl`	Speech Structure and Its Application to Robust Speech Processing. New Gener. Comput. Nobuaki Minematsu, Satoshi Asakawa, Masayuki Suzuki, Yu Qiao
2010	—	`conf`	Using FO Contour Generation Process Model for Improved and Flexible Control of Prosodie Features in HMM-based Speech Synthesis. ESSV Keikichi Hirose, Keiko Ochi, Miaomiao Wang, Tatsuya Matsuda, Miaomiao Wen, Nobuaki Minematsu
2009	J	`jnl`	A Theory of Phase Singularities for Image Representation and its Applications to Object Tracking and Image Matching. IEEE Trans. Image Process. Yu Qiao, Wei Wang, Nobuaki Minematsu, Jianzhuang Liu, Mitsou Takeda, Xiaoou Tang
2009	C	`conf`	A study on Hidden Structural Model and its application to labeling sequences. ASRU Yu Qiao, Masayuki Suzuki, Nobuaki Minematsu
2009	Misc	`conf`	Affine invariant features and their application to speech recognition. ICASSP Yu Qiao, Masayuki Suzuki, Nobuaki Minematsu
2009	—	`conf`	Analysis and comparison of automatic language proficiency assessment between shadowed sentences and read sentences. SLaTE Dean Luo, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yutaka Yamauchi, Keikichi Hirose
2009	A	`conf`	Analysis and utilization of MLLR speaker adaptation technique for learners' pronunciation evaluation. INTERSPEECH Dean Luo, Yu Qiao, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yutaka Yamauchi, Keikichi Hirose
2009	Misc	`conf`	Control of prosodic focus in corpus-based generation of fundamental frequency contours of Japanese based on the generation process model. ICASSP Keiko Ochi, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2009	—	`conf`	Development of a CALL system to enhance ESL/EFL learners' skills of shadowing and reading aloud. SLaTE Dean Luo, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yutaka Yamauchi
2009	A	`conf`	How to improve TTS systems for emotional expressivity. INTERSPEECH Antonio Rui Ferreira Rebordão, Shaikh Mostafa Al Masum, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2009	—	`conf`	Improved structure-based automatic estimation of pronunciation proficiency. SLaTE Masayuki Suzuki, Dean Luo, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
2009	Misc	`conf`	Mixture of Probabilistic Linear Regressions: A unified view of GMM-based mapping techiques. ICASSP Yu Qiao, Nobuaki Minematsu
2009	A	`conf`	On invariant structural representation for speech recognition: theoretical validation and experimental improvement. INTERSPEECH Yu Qiao, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
2009	A	`conf`	Optimal event search using a structural cost function - improvement of structure to speech conversion. INTERSPEECH Daisuke Saito, Yu Qiao, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
2009	A	`conf`	Speech generation from hand gestures based on space mapping. INTERSPEECH Aki Kunikoshi, Yu Qiao, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
2009	A	`conf`	Structural analysis of dialects, sub-dialects and sub-sub-dialects of Chinese. INTERSPEECH Xuebin Ma, Akira Nemoto, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yu Qiao, Keikichi Hirose
2009	—	`conf`	Structure-based pronunciation assessment. SLaTE Nobuaki Minematsu, Masayuki Suzuki
2009	C	`conf`	Sub-structure-based estimation of pronunciation proficiency and classification of learners. ASRU Masayuki Suzuki, Nobuaki Minematsu, Dean Luo, Keikichi Hirose
2008	—	`conf`	Automatic Assessment of Language Proficiency through Shadowing. ISCSLP Dean Luo, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yutaka Yamauchi, Keikichi Hirose
2008	A	`conf`	Automatic pronunciation evaluation of language learners' utterances generated through shadowing. INTERSPEECH Dean Luo, Naoya Shimomura, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yutaka Yamauchi, Keikichi Hirose
2008	A	`conf`	Control of prosodic focus in corpus-based generation of fundamental frequency based on the generation process model. INTERSPEECH Keiko Ochi, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2008	—	`conf`	Corpus-based synthesis of Mandarin speech with F0 contours generated by superposing tone components on rule-generated phrase components. SLT Keikichi Hirose, Qinghua Sun, Nobuaki Minematsu
2008	A	`conf`	Decomposition of rotational distortion caused by VTL difference using eigenvalues of its transformation matrix. INTERSPEECH Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
2008	Misc	`conf`	Directional dependency of cepstrum on vocal tract length. ICASSP Daisuke Saito, Ryo Matsuura, Satoshi Asakawa, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
2008	J	`jnl`	Filled pauses as cues to the complexity of upcoming phrases for native and non-native listeners. Speech Commun. Michiko Watanabe, Keikichi Hirose, Yasuharu Den, Nobuaki Minematsu
2008	A	`conf`	Metric learning for unsupervised phoneme segmentation. INTERSPEECH Yu Qiao, Nobuaki Minematsu
2008	Misc	`conf`	Multi-stream parameterization for structural speech recognition. ICASSP Satoshi Asakawa, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
2008	Misc	`conf`	Phase singularities for image representation and matching. ICASSP Yu Qiao, Wei Wang, Nobuaki Minematsu, Jianzhuang Liu, Xiaoou Tang
2008	A	`conf`	Robust voiced/unvoiced speech classification using empirical mode decomposition and periodic correlation model. INTERSPEECH Md. Khademul Islam Molla, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2008	J	`jnl`	Speaker Verification in Realistic Noisy Environment in Forensic Science. IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst. Toshiaki Kamada, Nobuaki Minematsu, Takashi Osanai, Hisanori Makinae, Masumi Tanimoto
2008	A	`conf`	Structure to speech conversion - speech generation based on infant-like vocal imitation. INTERSPEECH Daisuke Saito, Satoshi Asakawa, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
2008	J	`jnl`	Tone Recognition of Continuous Mandarin Speech Based on Tone Nucleus Model and Neural Network. IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst. Xiaodong Wang, Keikichi Hirose, Jinsong Zhang, Nobuaki Minematsu
2008	Misc	`conf`	Unsupervised optimal phoneme segmentation: Objectives, algorithm and comparisons. ICASSP Yu Qiao, Naoya Shimomura, Nobuaki Minematsu
2008	A	`conf`	f-divergence is a generalized invariant measure between distributions. INTERSPEECH Yu Qiao, Nobuaki Minematsu
2007	A	`conf`	A framework of reply speech generation for concept-to-speech conversion in spoken dialogue systems. INTERSPEECH Seiya Takada, Yuji Yagi, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2007	—	`conf`	Are learners myna birds to the averaged distributions of native speakers? - a note ofwarning from a serious speech engineer -. SLaTE Nobuaki Minematsu
2007	A	`conf`	Automatic recognition of connected vowels only using speaker-invariant representation of speech dynamics. INTERSPEECH Satoshi Asakawa, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
2007	—	`conf`	CRF-based statistical learning of Japanese accent sandhi for developing Japanese text-to-speech synthesis systems. SSW Nobuaki Minematsu, Ryo Kuroiwa, Keikichi Hirose, Michiko Watanabe
2007	—	`conf`	Consideration of Infants' Vocal Imitation Through Modeling Speech as Timbre-Based Melody. JSAI Nobuaki Minematsu, Tazuko Nishimura
2007	A	`conf`	Corpus-based generation of prosodic features from text based on generation process model. INTERSPEECH Keikichi Hirose, Keiko Ochi, Nobuaki Minematsu
2007	—	`conf`	Development of a Femininity Estimator for Voice Therapy of Gender Identity Disorder Clients. Speaker Classification (2) Nobuaki Minematsu, Kyoko Sakuraba
2007	—	`conf`	Development of a Femininity Estimator using Speaker Recognition Techniques for Voice Therapy of Gender Identity Disorder Clients. ICASSP (4) Nobuaki Minematsu, Kazutaka Maruyama, Kyoko Sakuraba, Keikichi Hirose, Niro Tayama, Satoshi Imaizumi, Toshio Yamauchi
2007	A	`conf`	EMD based soft-thresholding for speech enhancement. INTERSPEECH Erhan Deger, Md. Khademul Islam Molla, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Md. Kamrul Hasan
2007	A	`conf`	F INTERSPEECH Hiroko Hirano, Keikichi Hirose, Goh Kawai, Wentao Gu, Nobuaki Minematsu
2007	A	`conf`	Features of pauses and conjunctions at syntactic and discourse boundaries in Japanese monologues. INTERSPEECH Michiko Watanabe, Yasuharu Den, Keikichi Hirose, Shusaku Miwa, Nobuaki Minematsu
2007	A	`conf`	Pitch estimation of noisy speech signals using empirical mode decomposition. INTERSPEECH Md. Khademul Islam Molla, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Md. Kamrul Hasan
2007	C	`conf`	Random discriminant structure analysis for automatic recognition of connected vowels. ASRU Yu Qiao, Satoshi Asakawa, Nobuaki Minematsu
2007	—	`conf`	Speech enhancement using soft thresholding with DCT-EMD based hybrid algorithm. EUSIPCO Erhan Deger, Md. Khademul Islam Molla, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Md. Kamrul Hasan
2007	A	`conf`	Structural assessment of language learners' pronunciation. INTERSPEECH Nobuaki Minematsu, K. Kamata, Satoshi Asakawa, Takehiko Makino, Tazuko Nishimura, Keikichi Hirose
2007	—	`conf`	Structural representation of pronunciation and its application for classifying Japanese learners of English. SLaTE Nobuaki Minematsu, K. Kamata, Satoshi Asakawa, Takehiko Makino, Keikichi Hirose
2007	—	`conf`	Two-step generation of Mandarin F0 contours based on tone nucleus and superpositional models. SSW Qinghua Sun, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2006	A	`conf`	Corpus-based generation of fundamental frequency contours using generation process model and considering emotional focuses. INTERSPEECH Keikichi Hirose, Yasufumi Asano, Nobuaki Minematsu
2006	A	`conf`	Development of a program for self assessment of Japanese pronunciation by English learners. INTERSPEECH Chiharu Tsurutani, Yutaka Yamauchi, Nobuaki Minematsu, Dean Luo, Kazutaka Maruyama, Keikichi Hirose
2006	A	`conf`	Factors affecting speakers² choice of fillers in Japanese presentations. INTERSPEECH Michiko Watanabe, Yasuharu Den, Keikichi Hirose, Shusaku Miwa, Nobuaki Minematsu
2006	—	`conf`	Factors influencing ratios of filled pauses at clause boundaries in Japanese. ExLing Michiko Watanabe, Keikichi Hirose, Yasuharu Den, Shusaku Miwa, Nobuaki Minematsu
2006	—	`conf`	Localization Based Separation of Mixed Audio Signals with Binary Masking of Hilbert Spectrum. ICASSP (5) Md. Khademul Islam Molla, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2006	C	`conf`	Localization based audio source separation by sub-band beamforming. ISCAS M. Khademul Islam Molla, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2006	—	`conf`	Para-Linguistic Information Represented as Distortion of the Acoustic Universal Structure In Speech. ICASSP (1) Nobuaki Minematsu, Satoshi Asakawa, Keikichi Hirose
2006	J	`jnl`	Separation of Mixed Audio Signals by Decomposing Hilbert Spectrum with Modified EMD. IEICE Trans. Fundam. Electron. Commun. Comput. Sci. M. Khademul Islam Molla, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2006	—	`conf`	Separation of Mixed Audio Signals by Source Localization and Binary Masking with Hilbert Spectrum. ICA M. Khademul Islam Molla, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2006	—	`conf`	Structural Representation of the pronunciation and its Use for Call. SLT Nobuaki Minematsu, Satoshi Asakawa, Keikichi Hirose
2006	A	`conf`	Tone recognition of continuous speech of standard Chinese using neural network and tone nucleus model. INTERSPEECH Keikichi Hirose, Hui Hu, Xiaodong Wang, Nobuaki Minematsu
2006	A	`conf`	Unfilled pauses in Japanese sentences read aloud by non-native learners. INTERSPEECH Hiroko Hirano, Goh Kawai, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2005	—	`conf`	Audio source separation by source localization with Hilbert spectrum. ISCAS (6) M. Khademul Islam Molla, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2005	A	`conf`	Corpus-based extraction of F0 contour generation process model parameters. INTERSPEECH Keikichi Hirose, Yusuke Furuyama, Nobuaki Minematsu
2005	A	`conf`	Filled pauses as cues to the complexity of following phrases. INTERSPEECH Michiko Watanabe, Keikichi Hirose, Yasuharu Den, Nobuaki Minematsu
2005	A	`conf`	Generation of fundamental frequency contours for Mandarin speech synthesis based on tone nucleus model. INTERSPEECH Qinghua Sun, Keikichi Hirose, Wentao Gu, Nobuaki Minematsu
2005	C	`conf`	Improved concept-to-speech generation in a dialogue system on road guidance. CW Yuji Yagi, Keikichi Hirose, Seiya Takada, Nobuaki Minematsu
2005	A	`conf`	Japanese vowel recognition based on structural representation of speech. INTERSPEECH Takao Murakami, Kazutaka Maruyama, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
2005	—	`conf`	Mathematical Evidence of the Acoustic Universal Structure in Speech. ICASSP (1) Nobuaki Minematsu
2005	A	`conf`	Multi-band approach of audio source discrimination with empirical mode decomposition. INTERSPEECH Md. Khademul Islam Molla, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2005	A	`conf`	Structural representation of the non-native pronunciations. INTERSPEECH Satoshi Asakawa, Nobuaki Minematsu, Toshiko Isei-Jaakkola, Keikichi Hirose
2005	J	`jnl`	Synthesis of F Speech Commun. Keikichi Hirose, Kentaro Sato, Yasufumi Asano, Nobuaki Minematsu
2005	—	`conf`	The effects of filled pauses on native and non-native listeners DiSS Michiko Watanabe, Yasuharu Den, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2004	J	`jnl`	A spoken dialogue system for document information retrieval utilizing topic knowledge. Syst. Comput. Jpn. Shinya Kiriyama, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2004	A	`conf`	Audio source separation from the mixture using empirical mode decomposition with independent subspace analysis. INTERSPEECH Md. Khademul Islam Molla, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2004	A	`conf`	Clause types and filed pauses in Japanese spontaneous monologues. INTERSPEECH Michiko Watanabe, Yasuharu Den, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2004	—	`conf`	Corpus-based synthesis of fundamental frequency contours with various speaking styles from text using F0 contour generation process model. SSW Keikichi Hirose, Kentaro Sato, Nobuaki Minematsu
2004	—	`ch.`	Galatea: Open-Source Software for Developing Anthropomorphic Spoken Dialog Agents. Life-like characters Shinichi Kawamoto, Hiroshi Shimodaira, Tsuneo Nitta, Takuya Nishimoto, Satoshi Nakamura, Katsunobu Itou, Shigeo Morishima, Tatsuo Yotsukura, Atsuhiko Kai, Akinobu Lee, Yoichi Yamashita, Takao Kobayashi, Keiichi Tokuda, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Atsushi Yamada, Yasuharu Den, Takehito Utsuro, Shigeki Sagayama
2004	A	`conf`	N-gram language modeling of Japanese using bunsetsu boundaries. INTERSPEECH Sungyup Chung, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2004	A	`conf`	Pronunciation assessment based upon the compatibility between a learner's pronunciation structure and the target language's lexical structure. INTERSPEECH Nobuaki Minematsu
2004	A	`conf`	Pronunciation assessment based upon the phonological distortions observed in language learners' utterances. INTERSPEECH Nobuaki Minematsu
2004	J	`jnl`	Prosodic Analysis and Modeling of Nagauta Singing to Generate Prosodic Contours from Standard Scores. IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst. Nobuaki Minematsu, Bungo Matsuoka, Keikichi Hirose
2004	A	`conf`	Use of prosodic features for speech recognition. INTERSPEECH Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2004	—	`conf`	Yet another acoustic representation of speech sounds. ICASSP (1) Nobuaki Minematsu
2003	A	`conf`	A pronunciation training system for Japanese lexical accents with corrective feedback in learner's voice. INTERSPEECH Keikichi Hirose, Frédéric Gendrin, Nobuaki Minematsu
2003	A	`conf`	Automatic estimation of perceptual age using speaker modeling techniques. INTERSPEECH Nobuaki Minematsu, Keita Yamauchi, Keikichi Hirose
2003	A	`conf`	CART-based factor analysis of intelligibility reduction in Japanese English. INTERSPEECH Nobuaki Minematsu, Changchen Guo, Keikichi Hirose
2003	A	`conf`	Considerations on vowel durations for Japanese CALL system. INTERSPEECH Taro Mouri, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2003	A	`conf`	Corpus-based synthesis of fundamental frequency contours of Japanese using automatically-generated prosodic corpus and generation process model. INTERSPEECH Keikichi Hirose, Takayuki Ono, Nobuaki Minematsu
2003	J	`jnl`	Data-driven generation of F Speech Commun. Atsuhiro Sakurai, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2003	A	`conf`	Estimation of resonant characteristics based on AR-HMM modeling and spectral envelope conversion of vowel sounds. INTERSPEECH Nobuyuki Nishizawa, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2003	A	`conf`	Improvement of non-native speech recognition by effectively modeling frequently observed pronunciation habits. INTERSPEECH Nobuaki Minematsu, Koichi Osaki, Keikichi Hirose
2003	J	`jnl`	Mora F0 representation for accent type identification in continuous speech and considerations on its relation with perceived pitch values. Speech Commun. Carlos Toshinori Ishi, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2003	A	`conf`	Prosodic analysis and modeling of the NAGAUTA singing to synthesize its prosodic patterns from the standard notation. INTERSPEECH Nobuaki Minematsu, Bungo Matsuoka, Keikichi Hirose
2003	A	`conf`	Speech generation from concept for realizing conversation with an agent in a virtual room. INTERSPEECH Keikichi Hirose, Junji Tago, Nobuaki Minematsu
2003	A	`conf`	Use of linguistic information for automatic extraction of f_0 contour generation process model parameters. INTERSPEECH Keikichi Hirose, Yusuke Furuyama, Shuichi Narusawa, Nobuaki Minematsu, Hiroya Fujisaki
2002	Misc	`conf`	A method for automatic extraction of model parameters from fundamental frequency contours of speech. ICASSP Shuichi Narusawa, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose, Hiroya Fujisaki
2002	A	`conf`	Acoustic modeling of sentence stress using differential features between syllables for English rhythm learning system development. INTERSPEECH Nobuaki Minematsu, Satoshi Kobashikawa, Keikichi Hirose, Donna Erickson
2002	Misc	`conf`	Automatic estimation of one's age with his/her speech based upon acoustic modeling techniques of speakers. ICASSP Nobuaki Minematsu, Mariko Sekiguchi, Keikichi Hirose
2002	A	`conf`	Automatic extraction of model parameters from fundamental frequency contours of English utterances. INTERSPEECH Shuichi Narusawa, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose, Hiroya Fujisaki
2002	A	`conf`	Corpus-based analysis of English spoken by Japanese students in view of the entire phonemic system of English. INTERSPEECH Nobuaki Minematsu, Gakuto Kurata, Keikichi Hirose
2002	B	`conf`	English Speech Database Read by Japanese Learners for CALL System Development. LREC Nobuaki Minematsu, Yoshihiro Tomiyama, Kei Yoshimoto, Katsumasa Shimizu, Seiichi Nakagawa, Masatake Dantsuji, Shozo Makino
2002	A	`conf`	Improved corpus-based synthesis of fundamental frequency contours using generation process model. INTERSPEECH Keikichi Hirose, Masaya Eto, Nobuaki Minematsu
2002	A	`conf`	Integration of MLLR adaptation with pronunciation proficiency adaptation for non-native speech recognition. INTERSPEECH Nobuaki Minematsu, Gakuto Kurata, Keikichi Hirose
2002	A	`conf`	Robust speech recognition using inter-speaker and intra-speaker adaptation. INTERSPEECH Baojie Li, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2002	A	`conf`	Separation of voiced source characteristics and vocal tract transfer function characteristics for speech sounds by iterative analysis based on AR-HMM model. INTERSPEECH Nobuyuki Nishizawa, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2002	A	`conf`	Statistical language modeling with prosodic boundaries and its use for continuous speech recognition. INTERSPEECH Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Makoto Terao
2001	A	`conf`	Corpus-based synthesis of fundamental frequency contours based on a generation process model. INTERSPEECH Keikichi Hirose, Masaya Eto, Nobuaki Minematsu, Atsuhiro Sakurai
2001	Misc	`conf`	Generation of F ICASSP Atsuhiro Sakurai, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2001	A	`conf`	Identification of accent and intonation in sentences for CALL systems. INTERSPEECH Carlos Toshinori Ishi, Nobuaki Minematsu, Ryuji Nishide, Keikichi Hirose
2001	A	`conf`	Instantaneous estimation of accentuation habits for Japanese students to learn English pronunciation. INTERSPEECH Naoki Nakamura, Nobuaki Minematsu, Seiichi Nakagawa
2001	A	`conf`	Use of topic knowledge in spoken dialogue information retrieval system for academic documents. INTERSPEECH Shinya Kiriyama, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2000	A	`conf`	Analytical and perceptual study on the role of acoustic features in realizing emotional speech. INTERSPEECH Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Hiromichi Kawanami
2000	A	`conf`	Data-driven intonation modeling using a neural network and a command response model. INTERSPEECH Atsuhiro Sakurai, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
2000	A	`conf`	Development of a formant-based analysis-synthesis system and generation of high quality liquid sounds of Japanese. INTERSPEECH Nobuyuki Nishizawa, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
2000	A	`conf`	Efficient search strategy in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition using prosodic boundary information. INTERSPEECH Shi-wook Lee, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2000	A	`conf`	Free software toolkit for Japanese large vocabulary continuous speech recognition. INTERSPEECH Tatsuya Kawahara, Akinobu Lee, Tetsunori Kobayashi, Kazuya Takeda, Nobuaki Minematsu, Shigeki Sagayama, Katsunobu Itou, Akinori Ito, Mikio Yamamoto, Atsushi Yamada, Takehito Utsuro, Kiyohiro Shikano
2000	B	`conf`	IPA Japanese Dictation Free Software Project. LREC Katsunobu Itou, Kiyohiro Shikano, Tatsuya Kawahara, Kazuya Takeda, Atsushi Yamada, Akinori Ito, Takehito Utsuro, Tetsunori Kobayashi, Nobuaki Minematsu, Mikio Yamamoto, Shigeki Sagayama, Akinobu Lee
2000	A	`conf`	Identification of Japanese double-mora phonemes considering speaking rate for the use in CALL systems. INTERSPEECH Carlos Toshinori Ishi, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2000	A	`conf`	Instantaneous estimation of prosodic pronunciation habits for Japanese students to learn English pronunciation. INTERSPEECH Nobuaki Minematsu, Seiichi Nakagawa
2000	A	`conf`	Modeling phone correlation for speaker adaptive speech recognition. INTERSPEECH Baojie Li, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
2000	A	`conf`	Performance comparison among HMM, DTW, and human abilities in terms of identifying stress patterns of word utterances. INTERSPEECH Nobuaki Minematsu, Yukiko Fujisawa, Seiichi Nakagawa
2000	A	`conf`	Quality improvement of PSOLA analysis-synthesis using partial zero-phase conversion. INTERSPEECH Nobuaki Minematsu, Seiichi Nakagawa
1998	—	`conf`	Continuous speech recognition using segmental unit input HMMs with a mixture of probability density functions and context dependency. ICSLP Kengo Hanai, Kazumasa Yamamoto, Nobuaki Minematsu, Seiichi Nakagawa
1998	—	`conf`	Evaluation of Japanese manners of generating word accent of English based on a stressed syllable detection technique. ICSLP Yukiko Fujisawa, Nobuaki Minematsu, Seiichi Nakagawa
1998	—	`conf`	Modeling of variations in cepstral coefficients caused by F0 changes and its application to speech processing. ICSLP Nobuaki Minematsu, Seiichi Nakagawa
1998	—	`conf`	Sharable software repository for Japanese large vocabulary continuous speech recognition. ICSLP Tatsuya Kawahara, Tetsunori Kobayashi, Kazuya Takeda, Nobuaki Minematsu, Katsunobu Itou, Mikio Yamamoto, Atsushi Yamada, Takehito Utsuro, Kiyohiro Shikano
1997	—	`conf`	Automatic detection of accent in English words spoken by Japanese students. EUROSPEECH Nobuaki Minematsu, Nariaki Ohashi, Seiichi Nakagawa
1996	—	`conf`	Automatic detection of accent nuclei at the head of words for speech recognition. ICSLP Nobuaki Minematsu, Seiichi Nakagawa
1996	—	`conf`	Prosodic manipulation system of speech material for perceptual experiments. ICSLP Nobuaki Minematsu, Seiichi Nakagawa, Keikichi Hirose
1995	J	`jnl`	Duration Modeling with Decreased Intra-Group Temporal Variation for HMM-Based Phoneme Recognition. IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst. Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
1994	—	`conf`	Role of prosodic features in the human process of speech perception. ICSLP Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
1994	—	`conf`	Speech recognition using HMM with decreased intra-group variation in the temporal structure. ICSLP Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose
1992	—	`conf`	The influence of semantic and syntactic information on spoken sentence recognition. ICSLP Nobuaki Minematsu, Sumio Ohno, Keikichi Hirose, Hiroya Fujisaki
1990	—	`conf`	Influence of context and knowledge on the perception of continuous speech. ICSLP Hiroya Fujisaki, Keikichi Hirose, Sumio Ohno, Nobuaki Minematsu