Jinfu Ni

According to our database, Jinfu Ni authored at least 45 papers between 1996 and 2020.

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2020

Text-to-Speech Synthesis.

Yoshinori Shiga, Jinfu Ni, Kentaro Tachibana, Takuma Okamoto

Proceedings of the Speech-to-Speech Translation, 2020

2019

Duration Modeling with Global Phoneme-Duration Vectors.

Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai

Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2019

2018

Multilingual Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion with Global Character Vectors.

Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai

Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2018

2017

Global Syllable Vectors for Building TTS Front-End with Deep Learning.

Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai

Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2017

2016

Superpositional HMM-Based Intonation Synthesis Using a Functional F0 Model.

Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Chiori Hori

J. Signal Process. Syst., 2016

Using Zero-Frequency Resonator to Extract Multilingual Intonation Structure.

Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai

Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2016

2015

The Application of Phrase Based Statistical Machine Translation Techniques to Myanmar Grapheme to Phoneme Conversion.

Ye Kyaw Thu, Win Pa Pa, Andrew M. Finch, Jinfu Ni, Eiichiro Sumita, Chiori Hori

Proceedings of the Computational Linguistics, 2015

HMM based myanmar text to speech system.

Ye Kyaw Thu, Win Pa Pa, Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Andrew M. Finch, Chiori Hori, Hisashi Kawai, Eiichiro Sumita

Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2015

Extraction of pitch register from expressive speech in Japanese.

Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Chiori Hori

Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2015

2014

Tuning intonation with pitch accent decomposition for HMM-based expressive speech synthesis.

Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Chiori Hori

Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, 2014

2013

A targets-based superpositional model of fundamental frequency contours applied to HMM-based speech synthesis.

Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Chiori Hori, Yutaka Kidawara

Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2013

2012

Distributed speech translation technologies for multiparty multilingual communication.

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

ACM Trans. Speech Lang. Process., 2012

Experiments on unsupervised statistical parametric speech synthesis.

Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai, Hideki Kashioka

Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2012

Resonance-based spectral deformation in HMM-based speech synthesis.

Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai, Hideki Kashioka

Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2012

2011

Estimation of Perceptual Spaces for Speaker Identities Based on the Cross-Lingual Discrimination Task.

Minoru Tsuzaki, Keiichi Tokuda, Hisashi Kawai, Jinfu Ni

Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2011

2010

An investigation of the impact of speech transcript errors on HMM voices.

Jinfu Ni, Hisashi Kawai

Proceedings of the Seventh ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 2010

An unsupervised approach to creating web audio contents-based HMM voices.

Jinfu Ni, Hisashi Kawai

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2010

NICT Blizzard Challenge 2010 Entry.

Yoshinori Shiga, Tomoki Toda, Shinsuke Sakai, Jinfu Ni, Hisashi Kawai, Keiichi Tokuda, Minoru Tsuzaki, Satoshi Nakamura

Proceedings of the Blizzard Challenge 2010, Kansai Science City, Japan, September 25, 2010, 2010

2009

Hyperbolic structure of fundamental frequency contour.

Jinfu Ni, Shinsuke Sakai, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura

Proceedings of the 3rd International Universal Communication Symposium, 2009

CART-based modeling of Chinese tonal patterns with a functional model tracing the fundamental frequency trajectories.

Jinfu Ni, Shinsuke Sakai, Tohru Shimizu, Satoshi Nakamura

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2009

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.

Ranniery Maia, Tomoki Toda, Shinsuke Sakai, Yoshinori Shiga, Jinfu Ni, Hisashi Kawai, Keiichi Tokuda, Minoru Tsuzaki, Satoshi Nakamura

Proceedings of the Blizzard Challenge 2009, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, September 4, 2009, 2009

2008

Prosody Modeling from Tone to Intonation in Chinese using a Functional F0 Model.

Jinfu Ni, Shinsuke Sakai, Tohru Shimizu, Satoshi Nakamura

Proceedings of the ISUC 2008, 2008

Frequency Modulation Technique for Prosodic Modification.

Jinfu Ni, Shinsuke Sakai, Tohru Shimizu, Satoshi Nakamura

Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2008

The NICT/ATR speech synthesis system for the Blizzard Challenge 2008.

Ranniery Maia, Jinfu Ni, Shinsuke Sakai, Tomoki Toda, Keiichi Tokuda, Tohru Shimizu, Satoshi Nakamura

Proceedings of the Blizzard Challenge 2008, 2008

2007

Communicative speech synthesis with XIMERA: a first step.

Shinsuke Sakai, Jinfu Ni, Ranniery Maia, Keiichi Tokuda, Minoru Tsuzaki, Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura

Proceedings of the Sixth ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 2007

Use of Poisson Processes to Generate Fundamental Frequency Contours.

Jinfu Ni, Satoshi Nakamura

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2007

ATRECSS - ATR English speech corpus for speech synthesis.

Jinfu Ni, Toshio Hirai, Hisashi Kawai, Tomoki Toda, Keiichi Tokuda, Minoru Tsuzaki, Shinsuke Sakai, Ranniery Maia, Satoshi Nakamura

Proceedings of the Evaluation of text-to-speech systems: Blizzard Challenge 2007, 2007

2006

Quantitative and structural modeling of voice fundamental frequency contours of speech in Mandarin.

Jinfu Ni, Keikichi Hirose

Speech Commun., 2006

Constructing a Phonetic-Rich Speech Corpus While Controlling Time-Dependent Voice Quality Variability for English Speech Synthesis.

Jinfu Ni, Toshio Hirai, Hisashi Kawai

Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, 2006

Developing a Test Bed of English Text-to-Speech System XIMERA for the Blizzard Challenge 2006.

Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai, Toshio Hirai, Jinfu Ni, Nobuyuki Nishizawa, Junichi Yamagishi, Minoru Tsuzaki, Keiichi Tokuda, Satoshi Nakamura

Proceedings of the Blizzard Challenge 2006, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, September 16, 2006, 2006

2005

Discriminative training and explicit duration modeling for HMM-based automatic segmentation.

Yi-Jian Wu, Hisashi Kawai, Jinfu Ni, Ren-Hua Wang

Speech Commun., 2005

Estimation of intonation variation with constrained tone transformations.

Jinfu Ni, Hisashi Kawai, Keikichi Hirose

Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 2005

2004

XIMERA: a new TTS from ATR based on corpus-based technologies.

Hisashi Kawai, Tomoki Toda, Jinfu Ni, Minoru Tsuzaki, Keiichi Tokuda

Proceedings of the Fifth ISCA ITRW on Speech Synthesis, 2004

A study on automatic detection of Japanese vowel devoicing for speech synthesis.

Yi-Jian Wu, Hisashi Kawai, Jinfu Ni, Ren-Hua Wang

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2004

Formulating contextual tonal variations in Mandarin.

Jinfu Ni, Hisashi Kawai, Keikichi Hirose

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2004

Minimum segmentation error based discriminative training for speech synthesis application.

Yi-Jian Wu, Hisashi Kawai, Jinfu Ni, Ren-Hua Wang

Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2004

2003

Tone pattern discrimination combining parametric modeling and maximum likelihood estimation.

Jinfu Ni, Hisashi Kawai

Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 2003, 2003

Tone feature extraction through parametric modeling and analysis-by-synthesis-based pattern matching.

Jinfu Ni, Hisashi Kawai

Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2003

2002

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.

Jinfu Ni, Hisashi Kawai

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP2002, 2002

2000

Experimental Evaluation of A Functional Modeling of Fundamental Frequency Contours of Standard Chinese Sentences.

Jinfu Ni, Keikichi Hirose

Proceedings of the 2000 International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2000

Synthesis of fundamental FDrequency contours of standard Chinese sentences from tone sandhi and focus conditions.

Jinfu Ni, Keikichi Hirose

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2000

1998

A synthesis-oriented model of phrasal pitch movements in standard Chinese.

Jinfu Ni, Goh Kawai, Keikichi Hirose

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Incorporating The 7th Australian International Speech Science and Technology Conference, Sydney Convention Centre, Sydney, Australia, 30th November, 1998

1997

Quantitative analysis and formulation of tone concatenation in Chinese F0 contours.

Jinfu Ni, Ren-Hua Wang, Keikichi Hirose

Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1997

1996

USTC95 - a putonghua corpus.

Ren-Hua Wang, Deyu Xia, Jinfu Ni, Bicheng Liu

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1996

A functional model for generation of the local components of F0 contours in Chinese.

Jinfu Ni, Ren-Hua Wang, Deyu Xia

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1996