Masami Akamine

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1990-2019
Publications (10 Years): 7

Top Topics

Gaussian Mixture

Spoken Dialogue Systems

Speech Synthesis

Text Information

Top Venues

IEEE J. Sel. Top. Signal Process.

Publications

Thomas Drugman, Yannis Stylianou, Yusuke Kida, Masami Akamine
Voice Activity Detection: Merging Source and Filter-based Information. CoRR (2019)
Kenji Iwata, Takami Yoshida, Hiroshi Fujimura, Masami Akamine
Transfer Learning for Unseen Slots in End-to-End Dialogue State Tracking. IWSDS (2019)
Yuka Kobayashi, Takami Yoshida, Kenji Iwata, Hiroshi Fujimura, Masami Akamine
Out-of-Domain Slot Value Detection for Spoken Dialogue Systems with Context Information. SLT (2018)
Takami Yoshida, Kenji Iwata, Hiroshi Fujimura, Masami Akamine
Dialog State Tracking for Unseen Values Using an Extended Attention Mechanism. IWSDS (2018)
Thomas Drugman, Yannis Stylianou, Yusuke Kida, Masami Akamine
Voice Activity Detection: Merging Source and Filter-based Information. IEEE Signal Process. Lett. 23 (2) (2016)
Yamato Ohtani, Masatsune Tamura, Masahiro Morita, Masami Akamine
Statistical Bandwidth Extension for Speech Synthesis Based on Gaussian Mixture Model with Sub-Band Basis Spectrum Model. IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst. (10) (2016)
Tudor-Catalin Zorila, Yannis Stylianou, Tatsuma Ishihara, Masami Akamine
Near and Far Field Speech-in-Noise Intelligibility Improvements Based on a Time-Frequency Energy Reallocation Approach. IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process. 24 (10) (2016)
Yamato Ohtani, Yu Nasu, Masahiro Morita, Masami Akamine
Emotional transplant in statistical speech synthesis based on emotion additive model. INTERSPEECH (2015)
Ranniery Maia, Yannis Stylianou, Masami Akamine
A maximum likelihood approach to the detection of moments of maximum excitation and its application to high-quality speech parameterization. INTERSPEECH (2015)
Langzhou Chen, Mark J. F. Gales, Norbert Braunschweiler, Masami Akamine, Kate Knill
Integrated Expression Prediction and Speech Synthesis From Text. IEEE J. Sel. Top. Signal Process. 8 (2) (2014)
Ranniery Maia, Masami Akamine
On the impact of excitation and spectral parameters for expressive statistical parametric speech synthesis. Comput. Speech Lang. 28 (5) (2014)
Yamato Ohtani, Masatsune Tamura, Masahiro Morita, Masami Akamine
GMM-based bandwidth extension using sub-band basis spectrum model. INTERSPEECH (2014)
Vincent Wan, Javier Latorre, Kayoko Yanagisawa, Norbert Braunschweiler, Langzhou Chen, Mark J. F. Gales, Masami Akamine
Building HMM-TTS Voices on Diverse Data. IEEE J. Sel. Top. Signal Process. 8 (2) (2014)
Ranniery Maia, Masami Akamine, Mark J. F. Gales
Complex cepstrum for statistical parametric speech synthesis. Speech Commun. 55 (5) (2013)
Javier Latorre, Mark J. F. Gales, Kate Knill, Masami Akamine
Training a supra-segmental parametric F0 model without interpolating F0. ICASSP (2013)
Ranniery Maia, Masami Akamine, M. J. F. Gales
Complex cepstrum analysis based on the minimum mean squared error. ICASSP (2013)
Vincent Wan, Robert Anderson, Art Blokland, Norbert Braunschweiler, Langzhou Chen, BalaKrishna Kolluru, Javier Latorre, Ranniery Maia, Björn Stenger, Kayoko Yanagisawa, Yannis Stylianou, Masami Akamine, M. J. F. Gales, Roberto Cipolla
Photo-realistic expressive text to talking head synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2013)
Langzhou Chen, Mark J. F. Gales, Norbert Braunschweiler, Masami Akamine, Kate Knill
Integrated automatic expression prediction and speech synthesis from text. ICASSP (2013)
Ranniery Maia, M. J. F. Gales, Yannis Stylianou, Masami Akamine
Minimum mean squared error based warped complex cepstrum analysis for statistical parametric speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2013)
Javier Latorre, Vincent Wan, Mark J. F. Gales, Langzhou Chen, K. K. Chin, Kate Knill, Masami Akamine
Speech factorization for HMM-TTS based on cluster adaptive training. INTERSPEECH (2012)
Vincent Wan, Javier Latorre, K. K. Chin, Langzhou Chen, Mark J. F. Gales, Heiga Zen, Kate Knill, Masami Akamine
Combining multiple high quality corpora for improving HMM-TTS. INTERSPEECH (2012)
Ranniery Maia, Masami Akamine, Mark J. F. Gales
Complex cepstrum as phase information in statistical parametric speech synthesis. ICASSP (2012)
Yamato Ohtani, Masatsune Tamura, Masahiro Morita, Takehiko Kagoshima, Masami Akamine
Histogram-based spectral equalization for HMM-based speech synthesis using mel-LSP. INTERSPEECH (2012)
Masami Akamine, Jitendra Ajmera
Decision tree-based acoustic models for speech recognition. EURASIP J. Audio Speech Music. Process. 2012 (2012)
Yamato Ohtani, Masatsune Tamura, Masahiro Morita, Takehiko Kagoshima, Masami Akamine
HMM-based speech synthesis using sub-band basis spectrum model. INTERSPEECH (2012)
Langzhou Chen, Mark J. F. Gales, Vincent Wan, Javier Latorre, Masami Akamine
Exploring Rich Expressive Information from Audiobook Data Using Cluster Adaptive Training. INTERSPEECH (2012)
Javier Latorre, Mark J. F. Gales, Sabine Buchholz, Kate Knill, Masatsune Tamura, Yamato Ohtani, Masami Akamine
Continuous F0 in the source-excitation generation for HMM-based TTS: Do we need voiced/unvoiced classification? ICASSP (2011)
Masami Akamine, Jitendra Ajmera
Decision Tree-Based Acoustic Models for Speech Recognition with Improved Smoothness. IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst. (11) (2011)
Masatsune Tamura, Masahiro Morita, Takehiko Kagoshima, Masami Akamine
One sentence voice adaptation using GMM-based frequency-warping and shift with a sub-band basis spectrum model. ICASSP (2011)
Masatsune Tamura, Norbert Braunschweiler, Takehiko Kagoshima, Masami Akamine
Unit selection speech synthesis using multiple speech units at non-adjacent segments for prosody and waveform generation. ICASSP (2010)
Yusuke Shinohara, Takashi Masuko, Masami Akamine
Covariance clustering on Riemannian manifolds for acoustic model compression. ICASSP (2010)
Masatsune Tamura, Takehiko Kagoshima, Masami Akamine
Sub-band basis spectrum model for pitch-synchronous log-spectrum and phase based on approximation of sparse coding. INTERSPEECH (2010)
Jitendra Ajmera, Masami Akamine
Decision tree acoustic models for ASR. INTERSPEECH (2009)
Yusuke Shinohara, Masami Akamine
Bayesian feature enhancement using a mixture of unscented transformation for uncertainty decoding of noisy speech. ICASSP (2009)
Javier Latorre, Sergio Gracia, Masami Akamine
Feedback loop for prosody prediction in concatenative speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2009)
Yusuke Shinohara, Takashi Masuko, Masami Akamine
Feature enhancement by speaker-normalized splice for robust speech recognition. ICASSP (2008)
Jitendra Ajmera, Masami Akamine
Speech recognition using soft decision trees. INTERSPEECH (2008)
Javier Latorre, Masami Akamine
Multilevel parametric-base F0 model for speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2008)
Hongfei Ding, Koichi Yamamoto, Masami Akamine
Comparative evaluation of different methods for voice activity detection. INTERSPEECH (2008)
Remco Teunen, Masami Akamine
HMM-based speech recognition using decision trees instead of GMMs. INTERSPEECH (2007)
Takehiko Kagoshima, Masahiro Morita, Shigenobu Seto, Masami Akamine, Yoshinori Shiga
contour codebook. Systems and Computers in Japan 38 (1) (2007)
Takehiko Kagoshima, Masami Akamine
Automatic generation of synthesis units by unit selection based on closed-loop training. Systems and Computers in Japan 30 (9) (1999)
Chang K. Suh, Takehiko Kagoshima, Masahiro Morita, Shigenobu Seto, Masami Akamine
Toshiba English text-to-speech synthesizer (TESS). EUROSPEECH (1999)
Tadashi Amada, Kimio Miseki, Masami Akamine
CELP speech coding based on an adaptive pulse position codebook. ICASSP (1999)
Masami Akamine, Takehiko Kagoshima
Analytic generation of synthesis units by closed loop training for totally speaker driven text to speech system (TOS drive TTS). ICSLP (1998)
Takehiko Kagoshima, Masahiro Morita, Shigenobu Seto, Masami Akamine
An F0 contour control model for totally speaker driven text to speech system. ICSLP (1998)
Masahiro Oshikiri, Masami Akamine
A 2.4 kbps variable bit rate ADP-CELP speech coder. ICASSP (1998)
Shigenobu Seto, Masahiro Morita, Takehiko Kagoshima, Masami Akamine
Automatic rule generation for linguistic features analysis using inductive learning technique: linguistic features analysis in TOS drive TTS system. ICSLP (1998)
Takehiko Kagoshima, Masami Akamine
Automatic generation of speech synthesis units based on closed loop training. ICASSP (1997)
Kimio Miseki, Masami Akamine
Adaptive bit-allocation between the pole-zero synthesis filter and excitation in CELP. ICASSP (1991)
Masami Akamine, Kimio Miseki
CELP coding with an adaptive density pulse excitation model. ICASSP (1990)