Junichi Yamagishi

John Dines, Hui Liang, Lakshmi Saheer, Matthew Gibson, William Byrne, Keiichiro Oura, Keiichi Tokuda, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Mirjam Wester, Teemu Hirsimäki, Reima Karhila, Mikko Kurimo: Personalising speech-to-speech translation: Unsupervised cross-lingual speaker adaptation for HMM-based speech synthesis. Computer Speech & Language 27(2): 420-437 (2013)

Keiichi Tokuda, Yoshihiko Nankaku, Tomoki Toda, Heiga Zen, Junichi Yamagishi, Keiichiro Oura: Speech Synthesis Based on Hidden Markov Models. Proceedings of the IEEE 101(5): 1234-1252 (2013)

Zhen-Hua Ling, Korin Richmond, Junichi Yamagishi: Articulatory Control of HMM-Based Parametric Speech Synthesis Using Feature-Space-Switched Multiple Regression. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech & Language Processing 21(1): 205-217 (2013)

J. Sebastian Andersson, Junichi Yamagishi, Robert A. J. Clark: Synthesis and evaluation of conversational characteristics in HMM-based speech synthesis. Speech Communication 54(2): 175-188 (2012)

Keiichiro Oura, Junichi Yamagishi, Mirjam Wester, Simon King, Keiichi Tokuda: Analysis of unsupervised cross-lingual speaker adaptation for HMM-based speech synthesis using KLD-based transform mapping. Speech Communication 54(6): 703-714 (2012)

Kei Hashimoto, Junichi Yamagishi, William Byrne, Simon King, Keiichi Tokuda: Impacts of machine translation and speech synthesis on speech-to-speech translation. Speech Communication 54(7): 857-866 (2012)

Phillip L. De Leon, Michael Pucher, Junichi Yamagishi, Inma Hernáez, Ibon Saratxaga: Evaluation of Speaker Verification Security and Detection of HMM-Based Synthetic Speech. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech & Language Processing 20(8): 2280-2290 (2012)

Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Ranniery Maia, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Heiga Zen: Cepstral analysis based on the glimpse proportion measure for improving the intelligibility of HMM-based synthetic speech in noise. ICASSP 2012: 3997-4000

Lakshmi Saheer, Junichi Yamagishi, Philip N. Garner, John Dines: Combining vocal tract length normalization with hierarchial linear transformations. ICASSP 2012: 4493-4496

Rasmus Dall, Christophe Veaux, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King: Analysis of speaker clustering strategies for HMM-based speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2012

Phillip L. De Leon, Bryan Stewart, Junichi Yamagishi: Synthetic Speech Discrimination using Pitch Pattern Statistics Derived from Image Analysis. INTERSPEECH 2012

Zhen-Hua Ling, Korin Richmond, Junichi Yamagishi: Vowel Creation by Articulatory Control in HMM-based Parametric Speech Synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2012

Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Tuomo Raitio, Nicolas Obin, Paavo Alku, Junichi Yamagishi, Juan Manuel Montero: Towards Glottal Source Controllability in Expressive Speech Synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2012

Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Beatriz Martínez-González, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Verónica López-Ludeña, Javier Ferreiros, Junichi Yamagishi, Juan Manuel Montero: Towards an Unsupervised Speaking Style Voice Building Framework: Multi-Style Speaker Diarization. INTERSPEECH 2012

Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King: Mel cepstral coefficient modification based on the Glimpse Proportion measure for improving the intelligibility of HMM-generated synthetic speech in noise. INTERSPEECH 2012

Christophe Veaux, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King: Using HMM-based Speech Synthesis to Reconstruct the Voice of Individuals with Degenerative Speech Disorders. INTERSPEECH 2012

Chen-Yu Yang, Georgina Brown, Liang Lu, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King: Noise-robust whispered speech recognition using a non-audible-murmur microphone with VTS compensation. ISCSLP 2012: 220-223

Adriana Stan, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Matthew P. Aylett: The Romanian speech synthesis (RSS) corpus: Building a high quality HMM-based speech synthesis system using a high sampling rate. Speech Communication 53(3): 442-450 (2011)

Tuomo Raitio, Antti Suni, Junichi Yamagishi, Hannu Pulakka, Jani Nurminen, Martti Vainio, Paavo Alku: HMM-Based Speech Synthesis Utilizing Glottal Inverse Filtering. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech & Language Processing 19(1): 153-165 (2011)

Christophe Veaux, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King: Voice banking and voice reconstruction for MND patients. ASSETS 2011: 305-306

João P. Cabral, Steve Renals, Junichi Yamagishi, Korin Richmond: HMM-based speech synthesiser using the LF-model of the glottal source. ICASSP 2011: 4704-4707

Phillip L. De Leon, Inma Hernáez, Ibon Saratxaga, Michael Pucher, Junichi Yamagishi: Detection of synthetic speech for the problem of imposture. ICASSP 2011: 4844-4847

Kei Hashimoto, Junichi Yamagishi, William J. Byrne, Simon King, Keiichi Tokuda: An analysis of machine translation and speech synthesis in speech-to-speech translation system. ICASSP 2011: 5108-5111

Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King: Evaluation of objective measures for intelligibility prediction of HMM-based synthetic speech in noise. ICASSP 2011: 5112-5115

Sandra Andraszewicz, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King: Vocal attractiveness of statistical speech synthesisers. ICASSP 2011: 5368-5371

Zhen-Hua Ling, Korin Richmond, Junichi Yamagishi: Feature-Space Transform Tying in Unified Acoustic-Articulatory Modelling for Articulatory Control of HMM-Based Speech Synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2011: 117-120

Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King: Can Objective Measures Predict the Intelligibility of Modified HMM-Based Synthetic Speech in Noise? INTERSPEECH 2011: 1837-1840

Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King: Unsupervised Continuous-Valued Word Features for Phrase-Break Prediction without a Part-of-Speech Tagger. INTERSPEECH 2011: 2157-2160

Ming Lei, Junichi Yamagishi, Korin Richmond, Zhen-Hua Ling, Simon King, Li-Rong Dai: Formant-Controlled HMM-Based Speech Synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2011: 2777-2780

John Dines, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King: Measuring the Gap Between HMM-Based ASR and TTS. J. Sel. Topics Signal Processing 4(6): 1046-1058 (2010)

Michael Pucher, Dietmar Schabus, Junichi Yamagishi, Friedrich Neubarth, Volker Strom: Modeling and interpolation of Austrian German and Viennese dialect in HMM-based speech synthesis. Speech Communication 52(2): 164-179 (2010)

Roberto Barra-Chicote, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Juan Manuel Montero, Javier Macías Guarasa: Analysis of statistical parametric and unit selection speech synthesis systems applied to emotional speech. Speech Communication 52(5): 394-404 (2010)

Zhen-Hua Ling, Korin Richmond, Junichi Yamagishi: An Analysis of HMM-based prediction of articulatory movements. Speech Communication 52(10): 834-846 (2010)

Junichi Yamagishi, Bela Usabaev, Simon King, Oliver Watts, John Dines, Jilei Tian, Yong Guan, Rile Hu, Keiichiro Oura, Yi-Jian Wu, Keiichi Tokuda, Reima Karhila, Mikko Kurimo: Thousands of Voices for HMM-Based Speech Synthesis-Analysis and Application of TTS Systems Built on Various ASR Corpora. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech & Language Processing 18(5): 984-1004 (2010)

Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Kay Berkling: Synthesis of Child Speech With HMM Adaptation and Voice Conversion. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech & Language Processing 18(5): 1005-1016 (2010)

Phillip L. De Leon, Vijendra Raj Apsingekar, Michael Pucher, Junichi Yamagishi: Revisiting the security of speaker verification systems against imposture using synthetic speech. ICASSP 2010: 1798-1801

Keiichiro Oura, Keiichi Tokuda, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Mirjam Wester: Unsupervised cross-lingual speaker adaptation for HMM-based speech synthesis. ICASSP 2010: 4594-4597

Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King: Simple methods for improving speaker-similarity of HMM-based speech synthesis. ICASSP 2010: 4610-4613

Junichi Yamagishi, Oliver Watts, Simon King, Bela Usabaev: Roles of the average voice in speaker-adaptive HMM-based speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2010: 418-421

Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King: The role of higher-level linguistic features in HMM-based speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2010: 841-844

Michael Pucher, Dietmar Schabus, Junichi Yamagishi: Synthesis of fast speech with interpolation of adapted HSMMs and its evaluation by blind and sighted listeners. INTERSPEECH 2010: 2186-2189

Zhen-Hua Ling, Korin Richmond, Junichi Yamagishi: HMM-based text-to-articulatory-movement prediction and analysis of critical articulators. INTERSPEECH 2010: 2194-2197

Junichi Yamagishi, Takao Kobayashi, Yuji Nakano, Katsumi Ogata, Juri Isogai: Analysis of Speaker Adaptation Algorithms for HMM-Based Speech Synthesis and a Constrained SMAPLR Adaptation Algorithm. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech & Language Processing 17(1): 66-83 (2009)

Zhen-Hua Ling, Korin Richmond, Junichi Yamagishi, Ren-Hua Wang: Integrating Articulatory Features Into HMM-Based Parametric Speech Synthesis. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech & Language Processing 17(6): 1171-1185 (2009)

Junichi Yamagishi, Takashi Nose, Heiga Zen, Zhen-Hua Ling, Tomoki Toda, Keiichi Tokuda, Simon King, Steve Renals: Robust Speaker-Adaptive HMM-Based Text-to-Speech Synthesis. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech & Language Processing 17(6): 1208-1230 (2009)

Junichi Yamagishi, Bela Usabaev, Simon King, Oliver Watts, John Dines, Jilei Tian, Rile Hu, Yong Guan, Keiichiro Oura, Keiichi Tokuda, Reima Karhila, Mikko Kurimo: Thousands of voices for HMM-based speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2009: 420-423

Leonardo Badino, J. Sebastian Andersson, Junichi Yamagishi, Robert A. J. Clark: Identification of contrast and its emphatic realization in HMM based speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2009: 520-523

John Dines, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King: Measuring the gap between HMM-based ASR and TTS. INTERSPEECH 2009: 1391-1394

Matthew P. Aylett, Simon King, Junichi Yamagishi: Speech synthesis without a phone inventory. INTERSPEECH 2009: 2087-2090

Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Kay Berkling: HMM adaptation and voice conversion for the synthesis of child speech: a comparison. INTERSPEECH 2009: 2627-2630

Junichi Yamagishi, Hisashi Kawai, Takao Kobayashi: Phone duration modeling using gradient tree boosting. Speech Communication 50(5): 405-415 (2008)

Junichi Yamagishi, Takashi Nose, Heiga Zen, Tomoki Toda, Keiichi Tokuda: Performance evaluation of the speaker-independent HMM-based speech synthesis system "HTS 2007" for the Blizzard Challenge 2007. ICASSP 2008: 3957-3960

Zhen-Hua Ling, Korin Richmond, Junichi Yamagishi, Ren-Hua Wang: Articulatory control of HMM-based parametric speech synthesis driven by phonetic knowledge. INTERSPEECH 2008: 573-576

Junichi Yamagishi, Zhen-Hua Ling, Simon King: Robustness of HMM-based speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2008: 581-584

João P. Cabral, Steve Renals, Korin Richmond, Junichi Yamagishi: Glottal spectral separation for parametric speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2008: 1829-1832

Simon King, Keiichi Tokuda, Heiga Zen, Junichi Yamagishi: Unsupervised adaptation for HMM-based speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2008: 1869-1872

Gregor Hofer, Junichi Yamagishi, Hiroshi Shimodaira: Speech-driven lip motion generation with a trajectory HMM. INTERSPEECH 2008: 2314-2317

Junichi Yamagishi, Takao Kobayashi: Average-Voice-Based Speech Synthesis Using HSMM-Based Speaker Adaptation and Adaptive Training. IEICE Transactions 90-D(2): 533-543 (2007)

Takashi Nose, Junichi Yamagishi, Takashi Masuko, Takao Kobayashi: A Style Control Technique for HMM-Based Expressive Speech Synthesis. IEICE Transactions 90-D(9): 1406-1413 (2007)

Makoto Tachibana, Keigo Kawashima, Junichi Yamagishi, Takao Kobayashi: Performance evaluation of HMM-based style classification with a small amount of training data. INTERSPEECH 2007: 2261-2264

Makoto Tachibana, Junichi Yamagishi, Takashi Masuko, Takao Kobayashi: A Style Adaptation Technique for Speech Synthesis Using HSMM and Suprasegmental Features. IEICE Transactions 89-D(3): 1092-1099 (2006)

Yuji Nakano, Makoto Tachibana, Junichi Yamagishi, Takao Kobayashi: Constrained structural maximum a posteriori linear regression for average-voice-based speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2006

Takashi Nose, Junichi Yamagishi, Takao Kobayashi: A style control technique for speech synthesis using multiple regression HSMM. INTERSPEECH 2006

Katsumi Ogata, Makoto Tachibana, Junichi Yamagishi, Takao Kobayashi: Acoustic model training based on linear transformation and MAP modification for HSMM-based speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2006

Makoto Tachibana, Takashi Nose, Junichi Yamagishi, Takao Kobayashi: A technique for controlling voice quality of synthetic speech using multiple regression HSMM. INTERSPEECH 2006

Junichi Yamagishi, Koji Onishi, Takashi Masuko, Takao Kobayashi: Acoustic Modeling of Speaking Styles and Emotional Expressions in HMM-Based Speech Synthesis. IEICE Transactions 88-D(3): 502-509 (2005)

Makoto Tachibana, Junichi Yamagishi, Takashi Masuko, Takao Kobayashi: Speech Synthesis with Various Emotional Expressions and Speaking Styles by Style Interpolation and Morphing. IEICE Transactions 88-D(11): 2484-2491 (2005)

Naotake Niwase, Junichi Yamagishi, Takao Kobayashi: Human Walking Motion Synthesis with Desired Pace and Stride Length Based on HSMM. IEICE Transactions 88-D(11): 2492-2499 (2005)

Takashi Yamazaki, Naotake Niwase, Junichi Yamagishi, Takao Kobayashi: HumanWalking Motion Synthesis Based on Multiple Regression Hidden Semi-Markov Model. CW 2005: 445-452

Juri Isogai, Junichi Yamagishi, Takao Kobayashi: Model adaptation and adaptive training using ESAT algorithm for HMM-based speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2005: 2597-2600

Makoto Tachibana, Junichi Yamagishi, Takashi Masuko, Takao Kobayashi: Performance evaluation of style adaptation for hidden semi-Markov model based speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2005: 2805-2808

Junichi Yamagishi, Takashi Masuko, Takao Kobayashi: MLLR adaptation for hidden semi-Markov model based speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2004

Junichi Yamagishi, Koji Onishi, Takashi Masuko, Takao Kobayashi: Modeling of various speaking styles and emotions for HMM-based speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2003

Junichi Yamagishi, Masatsune Tamura, Takashi Masuko, Keiichi Tokuda, Takao Kobayashi: A context clustering technique for average voice model in HMM-based speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2002