Jinfu Ni

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1996-2019
Publications (10 Years): 5

Top Topics

Grapheme To Phoneme Conversion

Fundamental Frequency

Speech Synthesis

Top Venues

Publications

Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai
Duration Modeling with Global Phoneme-Duration Vectors. INTERSPEECH (2019)
Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai
Multilingual Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion with Global Character Vectors. INTERSPEECH (2018)
Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai
Global Syllable Vectors for Building TTS Front-End with Deep Learning. INTERSPEECH (2017)
Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Chiori Hori
Superpositional HMM-Based Intonation Synthesis Using a Functional F0 Model. J. Signal Process. Syst. 82 (2) (2016)
Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai
Using Zero-Frequency Resonator to Extract Multilingual Intonation Structure. INTERSPEECH (2016)
Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Chiori Hori
Extraction of pitch register from expressive speech in Japanese. ICASSP (2015)
Ye Kyaw Thu, Win Pa Pa, Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Andrew M. Finch, Chiori Hori, Hisashi Kawai, Eiichiro Sumita
HMM based myanmar text to speech system. INTERSPEECH (2015)
Ye Kyaw Thu, Win Pa Pa, Andrew M. Finch, Jinfu Ni, Eiichiro Sumita, Chiori Hori
The Application of Phrase Based Statistical Machine Translation Techniques to Myanmar Grapheme to Phoneme Conversion. PACLING (2015)
Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Chiori Hori
Tuning intonation with pitch accent decomposition for HMM-based expressive speech synthesis. APSIPA (2014)
Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Chiori Hori
Superpositional HMM-based intonation synthesis using a functional F0 model. ISCSLP (2014)
Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Chiori Hori, Yutaka Kidawara
A targets-based superpositional model of fundamental frequency contours applied to HMM-based speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2013)
Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai, Hideki Kashioka
Resonance-based spectral deformation in HMM-based speech synthesis. ISCSLP (2012)
Sakriani Sakti, Michael Paul, Andrew M. Finch, Xinhui Hu, Jinfu Ni, Noriyuki Kimura, Shigeki Matsuda, Chiori Hori, Yutaka Ashikari, Hisashi Kawai, Hideki Kashioka, Eiichiro Sumita, Satoshi Nakamura
Distributed speech translation technologies for multiparty multilingual communication. ACM Trans. Speech Lang. Process. 9 (2) (2012)
Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai, Hideki Kashioka
Experiments on unsupervised statistical parametric speech synthesis. ISCSLP (2012)
Minoru Tsuzaki, Keiichi Tokuda, Hisashi Kawai, Jinfu Ni
Estimation of Perceptual Spaces for Speaker Identities Based on the Cross-Lingual Discrimination Task. INTERSPEECH (2011)
Jinfu Ni, Hisashi Kawai
An unsupervised approach to creating web audio contents-based HMM voices. INTERSPEECH (2010)
Jinfu Ni, Hisashi Kawai
An investigation of the impact of speech transcript errors on HMM voices. SSW (2010)
Jinfu Ni, Shinsuke Sakai, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura
Hyperbolic structure of fundamental frequency contour. IUCS (2009)
Jinfu Ni, Shinsuke Sakai, Tohru Shimizu, Satoshi Nakamura
CART-based modeling of Chinese tonal patterns with a functional model tracing the fundamental frequency trajectories. ICASSP (2009)
Jinfu Ni, Shinsuke Sakai, Tohru Shimizu, Satoshi Nakamura
Prosody Modeling from Tone to Intonation in Chinese using a Functional F0 Model. ISUC (2008)
Jinfu Ni, Shinsuke Sakai, Tohru Shimizu, Satoshi Nakamura
Frequency Modulation Technique for Prosodic Modification. ISCSLP (2008)
Shinsuke Sakai, Jinfu Ni, Ranniery Maia, Keiichi Tokuda, Minoru Tsuzaki, Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura
Communicative speech synthesis with XIMERA: a first step. SSW (2007)
Jinfu Ni, Satoshi Nakamura
Use of Poisson Processes to Generate Fundamental Frequency Contours. ICASSP (4) (2007)
Jinfu Ni, Keikichi Hirose
Quantitative and structural modeling of voice fundamental frequency contours of speech in Mandarin. Speech Commun. 48 (8) (2006)
Jinfu Ni, Toshio Hirai, Hisashi Kawai
Constructing a Phonetic-Rich Speech Corpus While Controlling Time-Dependent Voice Quality Variability for English Speech Synthesis. ICASSP (1) (2006)
Jinfu Ni, Hisashi Kawai, Keikichi Hirose
Estimation of intonation variation with constrained tone transformations. INTERSPEECH (2005)
Yi-Jian Wu, Hisashi Kawai, Jinfu Ni, Ren-Hua Wang
Discriminative training and explicit duration modeling for HMM-based automatic segmentation. Speech Commun. 47 (4) (2005)
Yi-Jian Wu, Hisashi Kawai, Jinfu Ni, Ren-Hua Wang
Minimum segmentation error based discriminative training for speech synthesis application. ICASSP (1) (2004)
Yi-Jian Wu, Hisashi Kawai, Jinfu Ni, Ren-Hua Wang
A study on automatic detection of Japanese vowel devoicing for speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2004)
Jinfu Ni, Hisashi Kawai, Keikichi Hirose
Formulating contextual tonal variations in Mandarin. INTERSPEECH (2004)
Hisashi Kawai, Tomoki Toda, Jinfu Ni, Minoru Tsuzaki, Keiichi Tokuda
XIMERA: a new TTS from ATR based on corpus-based technologies. SSW (2004)
Jinfu Ni, Hisashi Kawai
Tone pattern discrimination combining parametric modeling and maximum likelihood estimation. INTERSPEECH (2003)
Jinfu Ni, Hisashi Kawai
Tone feature extraction through parametric modeling and analysis-by-synthesis-based pattern matching. ICASSP (1) (2003)
Jinfu Ni, Hisashi Kawai
Design of a Mandarin sentence set for corpus-based speech synthesis by use of a multi-tier algorithm taking account of the varied prosodic and spectral characteristics. INTERSPEECH (2002)
Jinfu Ni, Keikichi Hirose
Synthesis of fundamental FDrequency contours of standard Chinese sentences from tone sandhi and focus conditions. INTERSPEECH (2000)
Jinfu Ni, Goh Kawai, Keikichi Hirose
A synthesis-oriented model of phrasal pitch movements in standard Chinese. ICSLP (1998)
Jinfu Ni, Ren-Hua Wang, Keikichi Hirose
Quantitative analysis and formulation of tone concatenation in Chinese F0 contours. EUROSPEECH (1997)
Ren-Hua Wang, Deyu Xia, Jinfu Ni, Bicheng Liu
USTC95 - a putonghua corpus. ICSLP (1996)
Jinfu Ni, Ren-Hua Wang, Deyu Xia
A functional model for generation of the local components of F0 contours in Chinese. ICSLP (1996)