Recent development of the HMM-based speech synthesis system (HTS) (2009)
Zen, Heiga, Oura, Keiichiro, Nose, Takashi, Yamagishi, Junichi, Sako, Shinji, Toda, Tomoki, ...
APSIPA ASC 2009: Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association, 2009 Annual Summit and Conference. 4-7 October 2009. Sapporo, Japan. Oral session: Infrastructure Software for Speech...
Developing a Test Bed of English Text-to-Speech System XIMERA for the Blizzard Challenge 2006 (2008)
Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai, Toshio Hirai, Jinfu Ni, Nobuyuki Nishizawa, Junichi Yamagishi, ...
This paper describes the development of a test bed English Textto-Speech (TTS) system XIMERA at ATR for Blizzard Challenge 2006. The original XIMERA is aimed at constructing very highquality Japanese...
Festival Multisyn Voices for the 2007 Blizzard Challenge (2008)
Korin Richmond, Volker Strom, Robert Clark, Junichi Yamagishi, Sue Fitt
This paper describes selected aspects of the Festival Multisyn entry to the Blizzard Challenge 2007. We provide an overview of the process of building the three required voices from the speech data...
Towards an Improved Modeling of the Glottal Source in Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis (2008)
João P. Cabral, Steve Renals, Korin Richmond, Junichi Yamagishi
This paper proposes the use of the Liljencrants-Fant model (LFmodel) to represent the glottal source signal in HMM-based speech synthesis systems. These systems generally use a pulse train to model...
Yamagishi, Junichi, Kobayashi, Takao, Renals, Steve, King, Simon, Zen, Heiga, Toda, Tomoki, ...
For constructing a speech synthesis system which can achieve diverse voices, we have been developing a speaker independent approach of HMM-based speech synthesis in which statistical average voice...
Festival multisyn voices for the 2007 blizzard challenge. (2007)
Richmond, Korin, Strom, Volker, Clark, Robert A J, Yamagishi, Junichi, Fitt, Sue
This paper describes selected aspects of the Festival Multisyn entry to the Blizzard Challenge 2007. We provide an overview of the process of building the three required voices from the speech data...
Lip motion synthesis using a context dependent trajectory hidden Markov model (2007)
Hofer, Gregor, Shimodaira, Hiroshi, Yamagishi, Junichi
Lip synchronisation is essential to make character animation believeable. In this poster we present a novel technique to automatically synthesise lip motion trajectories given some text and speech....
Speech-driven head motion synthesis based on a trajectory model. (2007)
Hofer, Gregor, Shimodaira, Hiroshi, Yamagishi, Junichi
Making human-like characters more natural and life-like requires more inventive approaches than current standard techniques such as synthesis using text features or triggers. In this poster we...
Towards an improved modeling of the glottal source in statistical parametric speech synthesis (2007)
Cabral, Joao P, Renals, Steve, Richmond, Korin, Yamagishi, Junichi
This paper proposes the use of the Liljencrants-Fant model (LF-model) to represent the glottal source signal in HMM-based speech synthesis systems. These systems generally use a pulse train to model...
Speaker-Independent HMM-based Speech Synthesis System (2007)
Yamagishi, Junichi, Zen, Heiga, Toda, Tomoki, Tokuda, Keiichi
This paper describes an HMM-based speech synthesis system developed by the HTS working group for the Blizzard Challenge 2007. To further explore the potential of HMM-based speech synthesis, we...
YAMAGISHI, Junichi, KOBAYASHI, Takao
In speaker adaptation for speech synthesis, it is desirable to convert both voice characteristics and prosodic features such as F0 and phone duration. For simultaneous adaptation of spectrum, F0 and...
A Style Adaptation Technique for Speech Synthesis Using HSMM and Suprasegmental Features (2006)
TACHIBANA, Makoto, YAMAGISHI, Junichi, MASUKO, Takashi, KOBAYASHI, Takao
This paper proposes a technique for synthesizing speech with a desired speaking style and/or emotional expression, based on model adaptation in an HMM-based speech synthesis framework. Speaking...
Acoustic Modeling of Speaking Styles and Emotional Expressions in HMM-Based Speech Synthesis (2005)
YAMAGISHI, Junichi, ONISHI, Koji, MASUKO, Takashi, KOBAYASHI, Takao
This paper describes the modeling of various emotional expressions and speaking styles in synthetic speech using HMM-based speech synthesis. We show two methods for modeling speaking styles and...
Production and Characterization of Recombinant Human Neutrophil Chemotactic Factor (1989)
Furuta, Ryuji, Yamagishi, Junichi, Kotani, Hirotada, Sakamoto, Fumiko, Fukui, Toshikazu, Matsui, Yukiharu, ...
A putative mature human neutrophil chemotactic factor (NCF) corresponding to the C-terminal 72 amino acids of its precursor was directly produced in Escherichia coli by recombinant DNA technology....
Mode of Incomplete Cross-Resistance Among Pipemidic, Piromidic, and Nalidixic Acids
Inoue, Satoru, Ohue, Tomio, Yamagishi, Junichi, Nakamura, Shinichi, Shimizu, Masanao
Spontaneous mutants with various patterns of resistance to pipemidic acid (PPA), piromidic acid (PA), and nalidixic acid (NAL) were isolated from Escherichia coli K-12. Most mutants were less...
Mode of Incomplete Cross-Resistance Among Pipemidic, Piromidic, and Nalidixic Acids
Inoue, Satoru, Ohue, Tomio, Yamagishi, Junichi, Nakamura, Shinichi, Shimizu, Masanao
Spontaneous mutants with various patterns of resistance to pipemidic acid (PPA), piromidic acid (PA), and nalidixic acid (NAL) were isolated from Escherichia coli K-12. Most mutants were less...