Filled pauses as cues to the complexity of upcoming phrases for native and non-native listeners M Watanabe, K Hirose, Y Den, N Minematsu
Speech communication 50 (2), 81-94, 2008
194 2008 Free software toolkit for Japanese large vocabulary continuous speech recognition T Kawahara, A Lee, T Kobayashi, K Takeda, N Minematsu, S Sagayama, ...
162 2000 WFST-based grapheme-to-phoneme conversion: Open source tools for alignment, model-building and decoding JR Novak, N Minematsu, K Hirose
Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Finite State Methods and …, 2012
148 2012 Phonetisaurus: Exploring grapheme-to-phoneme conversion with joint n-gram models in the WFST framework JR Novak, N Minematsu, K Hirose
Natural Language Engineering 22 (6), 907-938, 2016
125 2016 Unsupervised optimal phoneme segmentation: Objectives, algorithm and comparisons Y Qiao, N Shimomura, N Minematsu
2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal …, 2008
112 2008 One-to-many voice conversion based on tensor representation of speaker space D Saito, K Yamamoto, N Minematsu, K Hirose
Twelfth Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2011
100 2011 A Study on Invariance of -Divergence and Its Application to Speech Recognition Y Qiao, N Minematsu
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing 58 (7), 3884-3890, 2010
100 2010 Automatic estimation of one's age with his/her speech based upon acoustic modeling techniques of speakers N Minematsu, M Sekiguchi, K Hirose
2002 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal …, 2002
100 2002 Mathematical evidence of the acoustic universal structure in speech N Minematsu
Proceedings.(ICASSP'05). IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech …, 2005
95 2005 A method for automatic extraction of model parameters from fundamental frequency contours of speech S Narusawa, N Minematsu, K Hirose, H Fujisaki
2002 IEEE International conference on acoustics, speech, and signal …, 2002
91 2002 Development of English speech database read by Japanese to support CALL research N Minematsu, Y Tomiyama, K Yoshimoto, K Shimizu, S Nakagawa, ...
Proc. ICA 1 (2004), 557-560, 2004
87 2004 Sharable software repository for Japanese large vocabulary continuous speech recognition T Kawahara, T Kobayashi, K Takeda, N Minematsu, K Itou, M Yamamoto, ...
72 1998 Wasserstein GAN and waveform loss-based acoustic model training for multi-speaker text-to-speech synthesis systems using a WaveNet vocoder Y Zhao, S Takaki, HT Luong, J Yamagishi, D Saito, N Minematsu
IEEE access 6, 60478-60488, 2018
69 2018 Galatea: Open-source software for developing anthropomorphic spoken dialog agents S Kawamoto, H Shimodaira, T Nitta, T Nishimoto, S Nakamura, K Itou, ...
Life-like characters: Tools, affective functions, and applications, 187-211, 2004
60 2004 English Speech Database Read by Japanese Learners for CALL System Development. N Minematsu, Y Tomiyama, K Yoshimoto, K Shimizu, S Nakagawa, ...
LREC, 2002
54 2002 Yet another acoustic representation of speech sounds N Minematsu
2004 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal …, 2004
53 2004 Synthesis of F0 contours using generation process model parameters predicted from unlabeled corpora: Application to emotional speech synthesis K Hirose, K Sato, Y Asano, N Minematsu
Speech communication 46 (3-4), 385-404, 2005
51 2005 Improving WFST-based G2P Conversion with Alignment Constraints and RNNLM N-best Rescoring. JR Novak, N Minematsu, K Hirose, C Hori, H Kashioka, PR Dixon
Interspeech, 2526-2529, 2012
50 2012 Structural representation of the pronunciation and its use for CALL N Minematsu, S Asakawa, K Hirose
2006 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 126-129, 2006
45 2006 Japanese dictation toolkit-1997 version T Kawahara, A Lee, T Kobayashi, K Takeda, N Minematsu, K Itou, A Ito, ...
Journal of the Acoustical Society of Japan (E) 20 (3), 233-239, 1999
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