Sunao Hara

According to our database, Sunao Hara authored at least 46 papers between 2008 and 2023.

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2023

Speech-Emotion Control for Text-to-Speech in Spoken Dialogue Systems Using Voice Conversion and x-vector Embedding.

Shunichi Kohara, Masanobu Abe, Sunao Hara

Proceedings of the Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, 2023

Speech Synthesis Using Ambiguous Inputs From Wearable Keyboards.

Matsuri Iwasaki, Sunao Hara, Masanobu Abe

Proceedings of the Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, 2023

2022

Speech-Like Emotional Sound Generation Using WaveNet.

Kento Matsumoto, Sunao Hara, Masanobu Abe

IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., September, 2022

Prediction method of Soundscape Impressions using Environmental Sounds and Aerial Photographs.

Yusuke Ono, Sunao Hara, Masanobu Abe

CoRR, 2022

Concept drift adaptation for audio scene classification using high-level features.

Ibnu Daqiqil Id, Masanobu Abe, Sunao Hara

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, 2022

Incremental acoustic scene classification using rehearsal-based strategy.

Ibnu Daqiqil Id, Masanobu Abe, Sunao Hara

Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Global Conference on Consumer Electronics, 2022

2021

Model architectures to extrapolate emotional expressions in DNN-based text-to-speech.

Katsuki Inoue, Sunao Hara, Masanobu Abe, Nobukatsu Hojo, Yusuke Ijima

Speech Commun., 2021

Evaluation of concept drift adaptation for acoustic scene classifier based on Kernel Density Drift Detection and Combine Merge Gaussian Mixture Model.

Ibnu Daqiqil Id, Masanobu Abe, Sunao Hara

CoRR, 2021

Phonetic and Prosodic Information Estimation from Texts for Genuine Japanese End-to-End Text-to-Speech.

Naoto Kakegawa, Sunao Hara, Masanobu Abe, Yusuke Ijima

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

2020

Concept Drift Adaptation for Acoustic Scene Classifier Based on Gaussian Mixture Model.

Ibnu Daqiqil Id, Masanobu Abe, Sunao Hara

Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE Region 10 Conference, 2020

Controlling the Strength of Emotions in Speech-Like Emotional Sound Generated by WaveNet.

Kento Matsumoto, Sunao Hara, Masanobu Abe

Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2020

Semi-Supervised Speaker Adaptation for End-to-End Speech Synthesis with Pretrained Models.

Katsuki Inoue, Sunao Hara, Masanobu Abe, Tomoki Hayashi, Ryuichi Yamamoto, Shinji Watanabe

Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2020

Module Comparison Of Transformer-Tts For Speaker Adaptation Based On Fine-Tuning.

Katsuki Inoue, Sunao Hara, Masanobu Abe

Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, 2020

2019

A Signal Processing Perspective on Human Gait: Decoupling Walking Oscillations and Gestures.

Adrien Gregorj, Zeynep Yücel, Sunao Hara, Akito Monden, Masahiro Shiomi

Proceedings of the Interactive Collaborative Robotics - 4th International Conference, 2019

DNN-based Voice Conversion with Auxiliary Phonemic Information to Improve Intelligibility of Glossectomy Patients' Speech.

Hiroki Murakami, Sunao Hara, Masanobu Abe

Proceedings of the 2019 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, 2019

Speech-like Emotional Sound Generator by WaveNet.

Kento Matsumoto, Sunao Hara, Masanobu Abe

Proceedings of the 2019 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, 2019

2018

Naturalness Improvement Algorithm for Reconstructed Glossectomy Patient's Speech Using Spectral Differential Modification in Voice Conversion.

Hiroki Murakami, Sunao Hara, Masanobu Abe, Masaaki Sato, Shogo Minagi

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

2017

Speaker Dependent Approach for Enhancing a Glossectomy Patient's Speech via GMM-Based Voice Conversion.

Kei Tanaka, Sunao Hara, Masanobu Abe, Masaaki Sato, Shogo Minagi

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

Prediction of subjective assessments for a noise map using deep neural networks.

Shota Kobayashi, Masanobu Abe, Sunao Hara

Proceedings of the Adjunct Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, 2017

New monitoring scheme for persons with dementia through monitoring-area adaptation according to stage of disease.

Shigeki Kamada, Yuji Matsuo, Sunao Hara, Masanobu Abe

Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Recommendations for Location-based Services and Social Networks, 2017

An investigation to transplant emotional expressions in DNN-based TTS synthesis.

Katsuki Inoue, Sunao Hara, Masanobu Abe, Nobukatsu Hojo, Yusuke Ijima

Proceedings of the 2017 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, 2017

Sound sensing using smartphones as a crowdsourcing approach.

Sunao Hara, Asako Hatakeyama, Shota Kobayashi, Masanobu Abe

Proceedings of the 2017 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, 2017

2016

Sound collection systems using a crowdsourcing approach to construct sound map based on subjective evaluation.

Sunao Hara, Shota Kobayashi, Masanobu Abe

Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo Workshops, 2016

LiBS: lifelog browsing system to support sharing of memories.

Atsuya Namba, Sunao Hara, Masanobu Abe

Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, 2016

Safety vs. privacy: user preferences from the monitored and monitoring sides of a monitoring system.

Shigeki Kamada, Masanobu Abe, Sunao Hara

Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, 2016

Enhancing a glossectomy patient's speech via GMM-based voice conversion.

Kei Tanaka, Sunao Hara, Masanobu Abe, Shogo Minagi

Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, 2016

2015

Sound collection and visualization system enabled participatory and opportunistic sensing approaches.

Sunao Hara, Masanobu Abe, Noboru Sonehara

Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication Workshops, 2015

Sub-band text-to-speech combining sample-based spectrum with statistically generated spectrum.

Tadashi Inai, Sunao Hara, Masanobu Abe, Yusuke Ijima, Noboru Miyazaki, Hideyuki Mizuno

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

Extracting daily patterns of human activity using non-negative matrix factorization.

Masanobu Abe, Akihiko Hirayama, Sunao Hara

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, 2015

Algorithm to Estimate a Living Area Based on Connectivity of Places with Home.

Yuji Matsuo, Sunao Hara, Masanobu Abe

Proceedings of the HCI International 2015 - Posters' Extended Abstracts, 2015

Extraction of Key Segments from Day-Long Sound Data.

Akinori Kasai, Sunao Hara, Masanobu Abe

Proceedings of the HCI International 2015 - Posters' Extended Abstracts, 2015

A spoken dialog system with redundant response to prevent user misunderstanding.

Masaki Yamaoka, Sunao Hara, Masanobu Abe

Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, 2015

2014

A Graph-Based Spoken Dialog Strategy Utilizing Multiple Understanding Hypotheses.

Norihide Kitaoka, Yuji Kinoshita, Sunao Hara, Chiyomi Miyajima, Kazuya Takeda

Inf. Media Technol., 2014

New approach to emotional information exchange: Experience metaphor based on life logs.

Masanobu Abe, Daisuke Fujioka, Kazuto Hamano, Sunao Hara, Rika Mochizuki, Tomoki Watanabe

Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication Workshops, 2014

A hybrid text-to-speech based on sub-band approach.

Takuma Inoue, Sunao Hara, Masanobu Abe

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

2012

Acoustic Model Training Using Pseudo-Speaker Features Generated by MLLR Transformations for Robust Speaker-Independent Speech Recognition.

Arata Itoh, Sunao Hara, Norihide Kitaoka, Kazuya Takeda

IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., 2012

Causal analysis of task completion errors in spoken music retrieval interactions.

Sunao Hara, Norihide Kitaoka, Kazuya Takeda

Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2012

Evaluation of Invalid Input Discrimination Using Bag-of-Words for Speech-Oriented Guidance System.

Haruka Majima, Rafael Torres, Hiromichi Kawanami, Sunao Hara, Tomoko Matsui, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano

Proceedings of the Natural Interaction with Robots, 2012

Development of a Toolkit Handling Multiple Speech-Oriented Guidance Agents for Mobile Applications.

Sunao Hara, Hiromichi Kawanami, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano

Proceedings of the Natural Interaction with Robots, 2012

2011

On-line detection of task incompletion for spoken dialog systems using utterance and behavior tag N-gram vectors.

Sunao Hara, Norihide Kitaoka, Kazuya Takeda

Proceedings of the Paralinguistic Information and its Integration in Spoken Dialogue Systems, 2011

Detection of Task-Incomplete Dialogs Based on Utterance-and-Behavior Tag N-Gram for Spoken Dialog Systems.

Sunao Hara, Norihide Kitaoka, Kazuya Takeda

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

Music Recommendation System Based on Human-to-human Conversation Recognition.

Hiromasa Ohashi, Sunao Hara, Norihide Kitaoka, Kazuya Takeda

Proceedings of the Workshop Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, 2011

Robust seed model training for speaker adaptation using pseudo-speaker features generated by inverse CMLLR transformation.

Arata Itoh, Sunao Hara, Norihide Kitaoka, Kazuya Takeda

Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding, 2011

2010

Estimation Method of User Satisfaction Using N-gram-based Dialog History Model for Spoken Dialog System.

Sunao Hara, Norihide Kitaoka, Kazuya Takeda

Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2010

Automatic detection of task-incompleted dialog for spoken dialog system based on dialog act n-gram.

Sunao Hara, Norihide Kitaoka, Kazuya Takeda

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

2008

In-car Speech Data Collection along with Various Multimodal Signals.

Akira Ozaki, Sunao Hara, Takashi Kusakawa, Chiyomi Miyajima, Takanori Nishino, Norihide Kitaoka, Katunobu Itou, Kazuya Takeda

Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2008