Papers

1. Kazuhiro Nakamura, Kei Hashimoto, Yoshihiko Nankaku, and Keiiti Tokuda, “Integration of spectral feature extraction and modeling for HMM-based speech synthesis,” IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, June 2014. (in press)
2. Rasmus Dall, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, “Rating naturalness in speech synthesis: The effect of style and expectation,” Proceedings of Speech Prosody 7, May 2014. (in press)
3. Shinji Takaki, Yoshihiko Nankaku and Keiichi Tokuda, “Spectral modeling with contextual additive structure for HMM-based speech synthesis,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol.8, issue.2, pp.229-238, April 2014. (DOI:10.1109/JSTSP.2014.2305919)
4. Keiichi Tokuda, Yoshihiko Nankaku, Tomoki Toda, Heiga Zen, Junichi Yamagishi, and Keiichiro Oura, “Speech synthesis based on hidden Markov models,” Proceedings of the IEEE, vol.101, no.5, pp.1234-1252, May 2013. （招待論文） (DOI:10.1109/JPROC.2013.2251852)

Invited talk

1. Keiichi Tokuda, “Flexible speech synthesis based on hidden Markov models,” Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference 2013 (APSIPA ASC 2013), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, October 29-November 1, 2013.

International Conference

1. Shinji Takaki, Kei Sawada, Kei Hashimoto, Keiichiro Oura, and Keiichi Tokuda, “Overview of NIT HMM-based speech synthesis system for Blizzard Challenge 2013,” Blizzard Challenge 2013 Workshop, Barcelona, Spain, September 3, 2013 (web proceedings).
2. Takenori Yoshimura, Kei Hashimoto, Keiichiro Oura, Yoshihiko Nankaku, and Keiichi Tokuda, “Cross-lingual speaker adaptation based on factor analysis using bilingual speech data for HMM-based speech synthesis,” 8th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop, pp.317-322, Lyon, France, August 31-September 2, 2013.
3. N. d'Alessandro, J. Tilmanne, M. Astrinaki, T. Hueber, R. Dall, T. Ravet, A. Moinet, H. Cakmak, O. Babacan, A. Barbulescu, V. Parfait, V. Huguenin, E. S. Kalayci, and Q. Hu, “Reactive statistical mapping: Towards the sketching of performative control with data,” IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, Special Issue: Proceedings of the 9th eNTERFACE Workshop, August 2013.
4. Motohiro Shibakawa, Takahiro Uchiya, Ichi Takumi, Tetsuo Kinoshita, “Design and implementation of multiagent-based distributed backup system,” Proceedings of the 12th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science, pp.234-240, June 2013. (DOI: 10.1109/ICIS.2013.6607847)
5. Takahiro Uchiya, Syo Itazuro, Ichi Takumi, Tetsuo Kinoshita, “Design environment of intelligent multiagent systems,” Proceedings of the 12th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science, pp.241-246, June 2013. (DOI: 10.1109/ICIS.2013.6607848)
6. Shinji Takaki, Yoshihiko Nankaku, and Keiichi Tokuda, “Contextual partial additive structure for HMM-based speech synthesis,” Proceedings of ICASSP 2013, pp.7878-7882, Vancouver, Canada, May 26-31, 2013. (DOI:10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6639198)
7. Kazuhiro Nakamura, Kei Hashimoto, Yoshihiko Nankaku, and Keiichi Tokuda, “Integration of acoustic modeling and mel-cepstral analysis for HMM-based speech synthesis,” Proceedings of ICASSP 2013, pp.7883-7887, Vancouver, Canada, May 26-31, 2013. (DOI:10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6639199)
8. Akinobu Lee, Keiichiro Oura, and Keiichi Tokuda, “MMDAgent -a fully open-source toolkit for voice interaction systems-,” Proceedings of ICASSP 2013, pp.8382-8385, Vancouver, Canada, May 26-31, 2013. (DOI:10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6639300)