Masami Akamine

According to our database, Masami Akamine authored at least 50 papers between 1990 and 2019.

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2019

Transfer Learning for Unseen Slots in End-to-End Dialogue State Tracking.

Kenji Iwata, Takami Yoshida, Hiroshi Fujimura, Masami Akamine

Proceedings of the Increasing Naturalness and Flexibility in Spoken Dialogue Interaction, 2019

2018

Out-of-Domain Slot Value Detection for Spoken Dialogue Systems with Context Information.

Yuka Kobayashi, Takami Yoshida, Kenji Iwata, Hiroshi Fujimura, Masami Akamine

Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2018

Dialog State Tracking for Unseen Values Using an Extended Attention Mechanism.

Takami Yoshida, Kenji Iwata, Hiroshi Fujimura, Masami Akamine

Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology, 2018

2016

Near and Far Field Speech-in-Noise Intelligibility Improvements Based on a Time-Frequency Energy Reallocation Approach.

Tudor-Catalin Zorila, Yannis Stylianou, Tatsuma Ishihara, Masami Akamine

IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process., 2016

Voice Activity Detection: Merging Source and Filter-based Information.

Thomas Drugman, Yannis Stylianou, Yusuke Kida, Masami Akamine

IEEE Signal Process. Lett., 2016

Statistical Bandwidth Extension for Speech Synthesis Based on Gaussian Mixture Model with Sub-Band Basis Spectrum Model.

Yamato Ohtani, Masatsune Tamura, Masahiro Morita, Masami Akamine

IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., 2016

2015

Emotional transplant in statistical speech synthesis based on emotion additive model.

Yamato Ohtani, Yu Nasu, Masahiro Morita, Masami Akamine

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

A maximum likelihood approach to the detection of moments of maximum excitation and its application to high-quality speech parameterization.

Ranniery Maia, Yannis Stylianou, Masami Akamine

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

2014

Building HMM-TTS Voices on Diverse Data.

Vincent Wan, Javier Latorre, Kayoko Yanagisawa, Norbert Braunschweiler, Langzhou Chen, Mark J. F. Gales, Masami Akamine

IEEE J. Sel. Top. Signal Process., 2014

Integrated Expression Prediction and Speech Synthesis From Text.

Langzhou Chen, Mark J. F. Gales, Norbert Braunschweiler, Masami Akamine, Kate M. Knill

IEEE J. Sel. Top. Signal Process., 2014

On the impact of excitation and spectral parameters for expressive statistical parametric speech synthesis.

Ranniery Maia, Masami Akamine

Comput. Speech Lang., 2014

GMM-based bandwidth extension using sub-band basis spectrum model.

Yamato Ohtani, Masatsune Tamura, Masahiro Morita, Masami Akamine

Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2014

2013

Complex cepstrum for statistical parametric speech synthesis.

Ranniery Maia, Masami Akamine, Mark J. F. Gales

Speech Commun., 2013

Photo-realistic expressive text to talking head synthesis.

Vincent Wan, Robert Anderson, Art Blokland, Norbert Braunschweiler, Langzhou Chen, BalaKrishna Kolluru, Javier Latorre, Ranniery Maia, Björn Stenger, Kayoko Yanagisawa, Yannis Stylianou, Masami Akamine, Mark J. F. Gales, Roberto Cipolla

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

Minimum mean squared error based warped complex cepstrum analysis for statistical parametric speech synthesis.

Ranniery Maia, Mark J. F. Gales, Yannis Stylianou, Masami Akamine

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

Complex cepstrum analysis based on the minimum mean squared error.

Ranniery Maia, Masami Akamine, Mark J. F. Gales

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2013

Training a supra-segmental parametric F0 model without interpolating F0.

Javier Latorre, Mark J. F. Gales, Kate M. Knill, Masami Akamine

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2013

Integrated automatic expression prediction and speech synthesis from text.

Langzhou Chen, Mark J. F. Gales, Norbert Braunschweiler, Masami Akamine, Kate M. Knill

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2013

2012

Decision tree-based acoustic models for speech recognition.

Masami Akamine, Jitendra Ajmera

EURASIP J. Audio Speech Music. Process., 2012

Combining multiple high quality corpora for improving HMM-TTS.

Vincent Wan, Javier Latorre, K. K. Chin, Langzhou Chen, Mark J. F. Gales, Heiga Zen, Kate M. Knill, Masami Akamine

Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2012

HMM-based speech synthesis using sub-band basis spectrum model.

Yamato Ohtani, Masatsune Tamura, Masahiro Morita, Takehiko Kagoshima, Masami Akamine

Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2012

Histogram-based spectral equalization for HMM-based speech synthesis using mel-LSP.

Yamato Ohtani, Masatsune Tamura, Masahiro Morita, Takehiko Kagoshima, Masami Akamine

Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2012

Speech factorization for HMM-TTS based on cluster adaptive training.

Javier Latorre, Vincent Wan, Mark J. F. Gales, Langzhou Chen, K. K. Chin, Kate M. Knill, Masami Akamine

Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2012

Exploring Rich Expressive Information from Audiobook Data Using Cluster Adaptive Training.

Langzhou Chen, Mark J. F. Gales, Vincent Wan, Javier Latorre, Masami Akamine

Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2012

Complex cepstrum as phase information in statistical parametric speech synthesis.

Ranniery Maia, Masami Akamine, Mark J. F. Gales

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2012

2011

Decision Tree-Based Acoustic Models for Speech Recognition with Improved Smoothness.

Masami Akamine, Jitendra Ajmera

IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., 2011

One sentence voice adaptation using GMM-based frequency-warping and shift with a sub-band basis spectrum model.

Masatsune Tamura, Masahiro Morita, Takehiko Kagoshima, Masami Akamine

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2011

Continuous F0 in the source-excitation generation for HMM-based TTS: Do we need voiced/unvoiced classification?

Javier Latorre, Mark J. F. Gales, Sabine Buchholz, Kate M. Knill, Masatsune Tamura, Yamato Ohtani, Masami Akamine

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2011

2010

Sub-band basis spectrum model for pitch-synchronous log-spectrum and phase based on approximation of sparse coding.

Masatsune Tamura, Takehiko Kagoshima, Masami Akamine

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

Unit selection speech synthesis using multiple speech units at non-adjacent segments for prosody and waveform generation.

Masatsune Tamura, Norbert Braunschweiler, Takehiko Kagoshima, Masami Akamine

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2010

Covariance clustering on Riemannian manifolds for acoustic model compression.

Yusuke Shinohara, Takashi Masuko, Masami Akamine

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2010

2009

Feedback loop for prosody prediction in concatenative speech synthesis.

Javier Latorre, Sergio Gracia, Masami Akamine

Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2009

Decision tree acoustic models for ASR.

Jitendra Ajmera, Masami Akamine

Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2009

Bayesian feature enhancement using a mixture of unscented transformation for uncertainty decoding of noisy speech.

Yusuke Shinohara, Masami Akamine

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2009

2008

Multilevel parametric-base F0 model for speech synthesis.

Javier Latorre, Masami Akamine

Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2008

Comparative evaluation of different methods for voice activity detection.

Hongfei Ding, Koichi Yamamoto, Masami Akamine

Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2008

Speech recognition using soft decision trees.

Jitendra Ajmera, Masami Akamine

Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2008

Feature enhancement by speaker-normalized splice for robust speech recognition.

Yusuke Shinohara, Takashi Masuko, Masami Akamine

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2008

2007

An F₀ contour control model using an F₀ contour codebook.

Takehiko Kagoshima, Masahiro Morita, Shigenobu Seto, Masami Akamine, Yoshinori Shiga

Syst. Comput. Jpn., 2007

HMM-based speech recognition using decision trees instead of GMMs.

Remco Teunen, Masami Akamine

Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2007

1999

Automatic generation of synthesis units by unit selection based on closed-loop training.

Takehiko Kagoshima, Masami Akamine

Syst. Comput. Jpn., 1999

Toshiba English text-to-speech synthesizer (TESS).

Chang K. Suh, Takehiko Kagoshima, Masahiro Morita, Shigenobu Seto, Masami Akamine

Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1999

CELP speech coding based on an adaptive pulse position codebook.

Tadashi Amada, Kimio Miseki, Masami Akamine

Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1999

1998

Automatic rule generation for linguistic features analysis using inductive learning technique: linguistic features analysis in TOS drive TTS system.

Shigenobu Seto, Masahiro Morita, Takehiko Kagoshima, Masami Akamine

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

An F0 contour control model for totally speaker driven text to speech system.

Takehiko Kagoshima, Masahiro Morita, Shigenobu Seto, Masami Akamine

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

Analytic generation of synthesis units by closed loop training for totally speaker driven text to speech system (TOS drive TTS).

Masami Akamine, Takehiko Kagoshima

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

A 2.4 kbps variable bit rate ADP-CELP speech coder.

Masahiro Oshikiri, Masami Akamine

Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1998

1997

Automatic generation of speech synthesis units based on closed loop training.

Takehiko Kagoshima, Masami Akamine

Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1997

1991

Adaptive bit-allocation between the pole-zero synthesis filter and excitation in CELP.

Kimio Miseki, Masami Akamine

Proceedings of the 1991 International Conference on Acoustics, 1991

1990

CELP coding with an adaptive density pulse excitation model.

Masami Akamine, Kimio Miseki

Proceedings of the 1990 International Conference on Acoustics, 1990