Minoru Tsuzaki

According to our database, Minoru Tsuzaki authored at least 41 papers between 1990 and 2021.

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2021

Mixture of Orthogonal Sequences Made from Extended Time-Stretched Pulses Enables Measurement of Involuntary Voice Fundamental Frequency Response to Pitch Perturbation.

Hideki Kawahara, Toshie Matsui, Kohei Yatabe, Ken-Ichi Sakakibara, Minoru Tsuzaki, Masanori Morise, Toshio Irino

Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2021, Brno, Czechia, August 30, 2021

Implementation of Interactive Tools for Investigating Fundamental Frequency Response of Voiced Sounds to Auditory Stimulation.

Hideki Kawahara, Toshie Matsui, Kohei Yatabe, Ken-Ichi Sakakibara, Minoru Tsuzaki, Masanori Morise, Toshio Irino

Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, 2021

2011

Accuracy of Synchrony Judgment and its Relation to the Auditory Brainstem Response: the Difference Between Pianists and Non-Pianists.

Eriko Aiba, Koji Kazai, Takayuki Shimotomai, Toshie Matsui, Minoru Tsuzaki, Noriko Nagata

J. Adv. Comput. Intell. Intell. Informatics, 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

Computational Modeling of Timing Control and its Application to Objective Evaluation of the Second Language Proficiency.

Yoshinori Sagisaka, Hiroaki Kato, Minoru Tsuzaki, Shizuka Nakamura, Chatchawarn Hansakunbuntheung

Proceedings of the Electronic Speech Signal Processing, 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

Analysis on paralinguistic prosody control in perceptual impression space using multiple dimensional scaling.

Yoko Greenberg, Nagisa Shibuya, Minoru Tsuzaki, Hiroaki Kato, Yoshinori Sagisaka

Speech Commun., 2009

Influences of vowel duration on speaker-size estimation and discrimination.

Chihiro Takeshima, Minoru Tsuzaki, Toshio Irino

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

Objective evaluation of English learners' timing control based on a measure reflecting perceptual characteristics.

Shizuka Nakamura, Shigeki Matsuda, Hiroaki Kato, Minoru Tsuzaki, Yoshinori Sagisaka

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

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

Event detection of speech signals based on auditory processing with a dynamic compressive gammachirp filterbank.

Satomi Tanaka, Minoru Tsuzaki, Hiroaki Kato, Yoshinori Sagisaka

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

An evaluation of cost functions sensitively capturing local degradation of naturalness for segment selection in concatenative speech synthesis.

Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai, Minoru Tsuzaki, Kiyohiro Shikano

Speech Commun., 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

Effect of speaking rate on the acceptability of change in segment duration.

Makiko Muto, Hiroaki Kato, Minoru Tsuzaki, Yoshinori Sagisaka

Speech Commun., 2005

Effect of intra-phrase position on acceptability of change in segment duration in sentence speech.

Makiko Muto, Hiroaki Kato, Minoru Tsuzaki, Yoshinori Sagisaka

Speech Commun., 2005

Application of auditory image model for speech event detection.

Minoru Tsuzaki, Satomi Tanaka, Hiroaki Kato, Yoshinori Sagisaka

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

Analysis of major factors of naturalness degradation in concatenative synthesis.

Toshio Hirai, Hisashi Kawai, Minoru Tsuzaki, Nobuyuki Nishizawa

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

Communicative speech synthesis using constituent word attributes.

Yoko Greenberg, Minoru Tsuzaki, Hiroaki Kato, Yoshinori Sagisaka

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

F0 control characterization by perceptual impressions on speaking attitudes using Multiple Dimensional Scaling analysis.

Yoko Kokenawa, Minoru Tsuzaki, Hiroaki Kato, Yoshinori Sagisaka

Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 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

Optimizing sub-cost functions for segment selection based on perceptual evaluations in concatenative speech synthesis.

Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai, Minoru Tsuzaki

Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2004

2003

Optimizing integrated cost function for segment selection in concatenative speech synthesis based on perceptual evaluations.

Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai, Minoru Tsuzaki

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

Segment selection considering local degradation of naturalness in concatenative speech synthesis.

Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai, Minoru Tsuzaki, Kiyohiro Shikano

Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2003

2002

Feature extraction for unit selection in concatenative speech synthesis: comparison between AIM, LPC, and MFCC.

Minoru Tsuzaki, Hisashi Kawai

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

Effects of intra-phrase position on acceptability of changes in segmental duration in sentence speech.

Makiko Muto, Hiroaki Kato, Minoru Tsuzaki, Yoshinori Sagisaka

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

Acoustic measures vs. phonetic features as predictors of audible discontinuity in concatenative speech synthesis.

Hisashi Kawai, Minoru Tsuzaki

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

Evaluation of a speech recognition / generation method based on HMM and straight.

Toshio Irino, Yasuhiro Minami, Tomohiro Nakatani, Minoru Tsuzaki, H. Tagawa

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

Unit selection algorithm for Japanese speech synthesis based on both phoneme unit and diphone unit.

Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai, Minoru Tsuzaki, Kiyohiro Shikano

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2002

2001

Feature extraction by auditory modeling for unit selection in concatenative speech synthesis.

Minoru Tsuzaki

Proceedings of the EUROSPEECH 2001 Scandinavia, 2001

2000

Rules, but what for? - rule description as efficient and robust abstraction of corpora and optimal fitting to applications -.

Yoshinori Sagisaka, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Minoru Tsuzaki, Hiroaki Kato

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

1998

Effects of phonetic quality and duration on perceptual acceptability of temporal changes in speech.

Hiroaki Kato, Minoru Tsuzaki, Yoshinori Sagisaka

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

Measuring temporal compensation effect in speech perception.

Hiroaki Kato, Minoru Tsuzaki, Yoshinori Sagisaka

Proceedings of the Computing Prosody, 1997

1996

A neural matrix model for active tracking of frequency-modulated tones.

Kiyoaki Aikawa, Hideki Kawahara, Minoru Tsuzaki

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

1994

Effects of acoustic discontinuity and phonemic deviation on the apparent duration of speech segments.

Minoru Tsuzaki, Hiroaki Kato, Masako Tanaka

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1994

Human processing of auditory-visual information in speech perception: potential for multimodal human-machine interfaces.

Patricia K. Kuhl, Minoru Tsuzaki, Yoh'ichi Tohkura, Andrew N. Meltzoff

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1994

Acceptability of temporal modification in consonant and vowel onsets.

Hiroaki Kato, Minoru Tsuzaki, Yoshinori Sagisaka

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1994

1992

Effects of typicality and interstimulus interval on the discrimination of speech stimuli: within-subject comparison.

Minoru Tsuzaki

Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1992

Acceptability and discrimination threshold for distortion of segmental duration in Japanese words.

Hiroaki Kato, Minoru Tsuzaki, Yoshinori Sagisaka

Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1992

1990

Effects of different standards on the within-category discrimination of synthesized /ABA/ sequences: comparison between Japanese and Spanish.

Minoru Tsuzaki, Jorge A. Gurlekian

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1990