Toshio Hirai

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1994-2007
Publications (10 Years): 0

Publications

Toshio Hirai, Junichi Yamagishi, Seiichi Tenpaku
Utilization of an HMM-based feature generation module in 5 ms segment concatenative speech synthesis. SSW (2007)
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)
Toshio Hirai, Hisashi Kawai, Minoru Tsuzaki, Nobuyuki Nishizawa
Analysis of major factors of naturalness degradation in concatenative synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2005)
Toshio Hirai, Seiichi Tenpaku
Using 5 ms segments in concatenative speech synthesis. SSW (2004)
Toshio Hirai, Seiichi Tenpaku, Kiyohiro Shikano
Using start/end timings of spectral transitions between phonemes in concatenative speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2002)
Toshio Hirai, Seiichi Tenpaku, Kiyohiro Shikano
Manipulating speech pitch periods according to optimal insertion/deletion position in residual signal for intonation control in speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2000)
Ken Fujisawa, Toshio Hirai, Norio Higuchi
Use of pitch pattern improvement in the CHATR speech synthesis system. EUROSPEECH (1997)
Toshio Hirai, Naoto Iwahashi, Norio Higuchi, Yoshinori Sagisaka
Automatic extraction of fundamental frequency control rules by statistical analysis. Systems and Computers in Japan 28 (3) (1997)
Toshio Hirai, Norio Higuchi, Yoshinori Sagisaka
Automatic detection of major phrase boundaries using statistical properties of superpositional F0 control model parameters. EUROSPEECH (1995)
Norio Higuchi, Toshio Hirai, Yoshinori Sagisaka
Effect of speaking style on parameters of fundamental frequency contour. SSW (1994)
Toshio Hirai, Naoto Iwahashi, Norio Higuchi, Yoshinori Sagisaka
Automatic extraction of FO control parameters using statistical analysis. SSW (1994)