Hiromichi Kawanami

Keigo Kubo, Hiromichi Kawanami, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano: Evaluation of Many-to-Many Alignment Algorithm by Automatic Pronunciation Annotation Using Web Text Mining. INTERSPEECH 2012

Haruka Majima, Rafael Torres, Yoko Fujita, Hiromichi Kawanami, Tomoko Matsui, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano: Spoken Inquiry Discrimination Using Bag-of-Words for Speech-Oriented Guidance System. INTERSPEECH 2012

Rafael Torres, Shota Takeuchi, Hiromichi Kawanami, Tomoko Matsui, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano: Comparison of methods for topic classification in a speech-oriented guidance system. INTERSPEECH 2010: 1261-1264

Hiroshi Saruwatari, Hiromichi Kawanami, Shota Takeuchi, Yu Takahashi, Tobias Cincarek, Kiyohiro Shikano: Hands-free speech recognition challenge for real-world speech dialogue systems. ICASSP 2009: 3729-3732

Tobias Cincarek, Hiromichi Kawanami, Ryuichi Nisimura, Akinobu Lee, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano: Development, Long-Term Operation and Portability of a Real-Environment Speech-Oriented Guidance System. IEICE Transactions 91-D(3): 576-587 (2008)

Shota Takeuchi, Tobias Cincarek, Hiromichi Kawanami, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano: Question and answer database optimization using speech recognition results. INTERSPEECH 2008: 451-454

Hiroshi Saruwatari, Yu Takahashi, Hiroyuki Sakai, Shota Takeuchi, Tobias Cincarek, Hiromichi Kawanami, Kiyohiro Shikano: Development and evaluation of hands-free spoken dialogue system for railway station guidance. INTERSPEECH 2008: 455-458

Hideki Okamoto, Tomoko Matsui, Hiromichi Kawanami, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano: Speaker verification with non-audible murmur segments by combining global alignment kernel and penalized logistic regression machine. INTERSPEECH 2008: 1369-1372

Tobias Cincarek, Hiromichi Kawanami, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano: Development and portability of ASR and Q&A modules for real-environment speech-oriented guidance systems. ASRU 2007: 520-525

Hideki Okamoto, Mariko Kojima, Tomoko Matsui, Hiromichi Kawanami, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano: Study on speaker verification with non-audible murmur segments. INTERSPEECH 2007: 2017-2020

Hiroyuki Sakai, Tobias Cincarek, Hiromichi Kawanami, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano, Akinobu Lee: Voice activity detection applied to hands-free spoken dialogue robot based on decoding using acoustic and language model. ROBOCOMM 2007: 16

Mariko Kojima, Tomoko Matsui, Hiromichi Kawanami, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano: Speaker verification with non-audible murmur segments. INTERSPEECH 2006

Kazuki Adachi, Tomoki Toda, Hiromichi Kawanami, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano: Designing Target Cost Function Based on Prosody of Speech Database. IEICE Transactions 88-D(3): 519-524 (2005)

Kazuki Adachi, Tomoki Toda, Hiromichi Kawanami, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano: Perceptual Evaluation of Quality Deterioration Owing to Prosody Modification. LREC 2004

Hiromichi Kawanami, Yohei Iwami, Tomoki Toda, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano: GMM-based voice conversion applied to emotional speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2003

Tatsuya Shiraishi, Tomoki Toda, Hiromichi Kawanami, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano: Simple designing methods of corpus-based visual speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2003

Keikichi Hirose, Hiromichi Kawanami: Temporal rate change of dialogue speech in prosodic units as compared to read speech. Speech Communication 36(1-2): 97-111 (2002)

Hiromichi Kawanami, Tsuyoshi Masuda, Tomoki Toda, Kiyohiro Shikano: Designing Japanese speech database covering wide range in prosody for hybrid speech synthesizer. INTERSPEECH 2002

Mikiko Mashimo, Tomoki Toda, Hiromichi Kawanami, Hideki Kashioka, Kiyohiro Shikano, Nick Campbell: Evaluation of cross-language voice conversion using bilingual and non-bilingual databases. INTERSPEECH 2002

Hiromichi Kawanami, Tsuyoshi Masuda, Tomoki Toda, Kiyohiro Shikano: Designing speech database with prosodic variety for expressive TTS system. LREC 2002

Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Hiromichi Kawanami: Analytical and perceptual study on the role of acoustic features in realizing emotional speech. INTERSPEECH 2000: 369-372

Atsuhiro Sakurai, Hiromichi Kawanami, Keikichi Hirose: Detecting accent sandhi in Japanese using a superpositional F0 model. EUROSPEECH 1999

Jin-Song Zhang, Hiromichi Kawanami: Modeling carryover and anticipation effects for Chinese tone recognition. EUROSPEECH 1999

Keikichi Hirose, Hiromichi Kawanami: On the relationship of speech rates with prosodic units in dialogue speech. ICSLP 1998

Keikichi Hirose, Mayumi Sakata, Hiromichi Kawanami: Synthesizing dialogue speech of Japanese based on the quantitative analysis of prosodic features. ICSLP 1996