IEICE Technical Report

Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685 Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380

Speech

Workshop Date : 2014-11-13 - 2014-11-14 / Issue Date : 2014-11-06

SP2014-90
A comparative study of paralinguistic information control methods for HMM-based dialogue speech synthesis
Hiroki Mori, Shunsuke Takahashi, Tomohiro Nagata (Utsunomiya Univ.)
pp. 1 - 6

SP2014-91
Variable factor of laughter in an utterance for dialogue speech synthesis
Tomohiro Nagata, Hiroki Mori (Utsunomiya Univ.)
pp. 7 - 12

SP2014-92
Shared emotion additive model for HMM-based emotional speech synthesis
Yamato Ohtani, Yu Nasu, Ryo Morinaka, Masatsune Tamura, Masahiro Morita, Masami Akamine (Toshiba)
pp. 13 - 18

SP2014-93
[Invited Talk] Speech Synthesis for Conversation System
Tetsunori Kobayashi, Kazuhiko Iwata (Waseda Univ.)
pp. 19 - 24

SP2014-94
A study on intuitive control of emotional expressions and speaking styles using facial features by Kinect
Yu Bi, Takashi Nose, Akinori Ito (Tohoku Univ.)
pp. 25 - 30

SP2014-95
Emphasized Accent Phrase Prediction from Advertisement Text towards Expressive Text-to-speech Synthesis
Hideharu Nakajima, Hideyuki Mizuno, Sumitaka Sakauchi (NTT)
pp. 31 - 36

SP2014-96
Emotional speech synthesis for long words by generalizing accent types
Yuko Aoyama (hakase.com), Tsuyoshi Moriyama (Tokyo Polytechnic Univ.)
pp. 37 - 40

SP2014-97
Influence of the phase of voiced sound in source-filter speech synthesis on nerve cell responses in the auditory cortex -- A study based on nerve cell responses in the primary auditory cortex of an awake cat --
Masanori Morise, Kaito Okubo, Sohei Chimoto, Yu Sato, Kenji Ozawa (Univ. of Yamanashi)
pp. 41 - 46

SP2014-98
A study for estimating the vocal-tract shape from speech spectrum using a sensitivity function
Tokihiko Kaburagi (Kyushu Univ.)
pp. 47 - 52

SP2014-99
Application of a vocal tract mapping interface to inverse estimation of vocal tract shapes
Kohichi Ogata, Tayuto Kodama, Tomohiro Hayakawa (Kumamoto Univ.)
pp. 53 - 58

SP2014-100
A study of speaker normalization based on voice conversion for statistical acoustic-to-articulatory mapping
Hidetsugu Uchida, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose (Univ. of Tokyo)
pp. 59 - 64

SP2014-101
Design of control parameters for voice quality control based on multiple-regression Gaussian mixture model
Kazutaka Kubo, Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Tomoki Toda, Graham Neubig, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura (NAIST)
pp. 65 - 70

SP2014-102
An evaluation of target speech for nonaudible murmur enhancement focusing on its intelligibility under noisy environments
Sakura Tsuruta, Kou Tanaka, Tomoki Toda, Graham Neubig, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura (NAIST)
pp. 71 - 76

SP2014-103
Analysis of color attributes derived from vowel sound impression -- for multimodal expression of sentiment information --
Kanako Watanabe, Yoko Greenberg, Yoshinori Sagisaka (Waseda Univ.)
pp. 77 - 82

SP2014-104
An Acoustical Analysis of Singing Voice of Kugaki and Ufugaki in Ryukyuan Classical Music "Nomura Style"
Yasufumi Uezu, Tokihiko Kaburagi (Kyushu Univ.)
pp. 83 - 88

SP2014-105
A method of measuring articulatory space using NDI Wave speech research system
Tatsuya Kitamura (Konan Univ.), Yukiko Nota (ATR-Promotions), Michiko Hashi (Pref. Univ. Hiroshima), Hiroaki Hatano (ATR/Kobe Univ.)
pp. 89 - 93

Note: Each article is a technical report without peer review, and its polished version will be published elsewhere.

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