Toshio Hirai

14 papers A 3Journal 1Unranked 9
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
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
Utilization of an HMM-based feature generation module in 5 ms segment concatenative speech synthesis.
SSW
Toshio Hirai, Junichi Yamagishi, Seiichi Tenpaku
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
2005 A conf
Analysis of major factors of naturalness degradation in concatenative synthesis.
INTERSPEECH
Toshio Hirai, Hisashi Kawai, Minoru Tsuzaki, Nobuyuki Nishizawa
2004 — conf
Using 5 ms segments in concatenative speech synthesis.
SSW
Toshio Hirai, Seiichi Tenpaku
2002 A conf
Using start/end timings of spectral transitions between phonemes in concatenative speech synthesis.
INTERSPEECH
Toshio Hirai, Seiichi Tenpaku, Kiyohiro Shikano
2000 A conf
Manipulating speech pitch periods according to optimal insertion/deletion position in residual signal for intonation control in speech synthesis.
INTERSPEECH
Toshio Hirai, Seiichi Tenpaku, Kiyohiro Shikano
1997 J jnl
Automatic extraction of fundamental frequency control rules by statistical analysis.
Syst. Comput. Jpn.
Toshio Hirai, Naoto Iwahashi, Norio Higuchi, Yoshinori Sagisaka
1997 — ch.
Comparison of
Computing Prosody
Toshio Hirai, Norio Higuchi, Yoshinori Sagisaka
1997 — conf
Use of pitch pattern improvement in the CHATR speech synthesis system.
EUROSPEECH
Ken Fujisawa, Toshio Hirai, Norio Higuchi
1995 — conf
Automatic detection of major phrase boundaries using statistical properties of superpositional F0 control model parameters.
EUROSPEECH
Toshio Hirai, Norio Higuchi, Yoshinori Sagisaka
1994 — conf
Automatic extraction of FO control parameters using statistical analysis.
SSW
Toshio Hirai, Naoto Iwahashi, Norio Higuchi, Yoshinori Sagisaka
1994 — conf
Effect of speaking style on parameters of fundamental frequency contour.
SSW
Norio Higuchi, Toshio Hirai, Yoshinori Sagisaka