国際会議論文
  1. Y. Sato, Y. Kashiwagi, N. Minematsu, D. Saito, K. Hirose,
    "Noise-robust and stress-free visualization of pronunciation diversity of World Englishes using a learner's self-centered viewpoint,"
    Proc. OCOCOSDA, pp.xxx-yyy (2015-10)
  2. H. Hirano, N. Minematsu,
    "An online prosodic reading tutor "Suzuki-kun" --visualization of hidden prosodic information of Japanese speech--,"
    Proc. ICPP (2015-9)
  3. H. Uchida, S. Saito, N. Minematsu, K. Hirose,
    "Statistical acoustic-to-articulatory mapping unified with speaker normalization based on voice conversion,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.588-592 (2015-9)
  4. N. Minematsu, H. Hashimoto, H. Hirano, D. Saito,
    "Development of a prosodic reading tutor of Japanese --effective use of TTS and F0 modeling techniques for CALL--,"
    Proc. SLaTE, pp.189 (2015-8)
  5. T. Pongkittiphan, N. Minematsu, T. Makino, D. Saito, K. Hirose,
    "Automatic prediction of intelligibility of English words spoken with Japanese accents,"
    Proc. SLaTE, pp.19-22 (2015-8)
  6. T. Shi, S. Kasahara, T. Pongkittiphan, N. Minematsu, D. Saito, K. Hirose,
    "A measure of phonetic similarity to quantify pronunciation variations by using ASR technology,"
    Proc. ICPhS, CD-ROM (2015-8)
  7. K. Hirose, H. Hashimoto, K. Hyakutake, D. Saito, N. Minematsu,
    "Use of fundamental frequencies shaped by generation process model for HMM-based speech synthesis,"
    Proc. ICSP, pp.555-560 (2014-10)
  8. D. Saito, H. Doi, N. Minematsu, K. Hirose,
    "Application of matirx variate Gaussian model to statistical voice conversion,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.2504-2508 (2014-9)
  9. Y. Kawase, N. Minematsu, D. Saito, K. Hirose,
    "Visualization of pronunciation diversity of World Englishes from a speaker's self-centered viewpoint,"
    Proc. O-COCOSDA, pp.149-153 (2014-9)
  10. T. Pongkittiphan, N. Minematsu, T. Makino, K. Hirose,
    "Improvement of intelligibility prediction of spoken words in Japanese accented English using phonetic pronunciation distance and word confusability,"
    Proc. O-COCOSDA, pp.276-281 (2014-9)
  11. 峯松信明，
    "オンライン日本語アクセント辞書 OJAD の機能拡張とそれを用いた韻律教育"，
    日本語教育国際研究大会（ICJLE） (2014-7)
  12. C. Zhang, M. Suzuki, G. Kurata, M. Nishimura, N. Minematsu,
    "Leveraging phonetic context dependent invariant structure for continous speech recognition,"
    Proc. IEEE China Summit & International Conference on Signal and Information Processing, pp.xxx-yyy (2014-7)
  13. N. Minematsu, S. Kasahara, T. Makino, D. Saito, K. Hirose,
    "Speaker-basis accent clustering using invariant structure analysis and the speech accent archive,"
    Proc. Odyssay, pp.158-165 (2014-6)
  14. T. Mizukami, H. Hashimoto, K. Hirose, D. Saito, N. Minematsu,
    "Training data selection for HMM-based speech synthesis from prosodic features - use of generation process model of fundamental frequency contours -,"
    Proc. Speech Prosody, pp.1042-1046 (2014-5)
  15. S. Kasahara, S. Kitahara, N. Minematsu, H.-P. Shen, T. Makino, D. Saito, K. Hirose,
    "Improved and robust prediction of pronunciation distance for individual-basis clustering of World Englishes pronunciation,"
    Proc. ICASSP, pp.3240-3244 (2014-5)
  16. Y. Luan, D. Saito, Y. Kashiwagi, N. Minematsu, K. Hirose,
    "Semi-supervised noise dictionary adaptation for exemplar-based noise robust speech recognition,"
    Proc. ICASSP, pp.1764-1767 (2014-5)
  17. S. Kasahara, N. Minematsu, H.-P. Shen, D. Saito, K. Hirose,
    "Structure-based prediction of English pronunciation distances and its analytical investigation,"
    Proc. ICIST, pp.331-335 (2014-4)
  18. Y. Kashiwagi, D. Saito, N. Minematsu, K. Hirose,
    "Discriminative piecewise linear transformation based on deep learning for noise robust automatic speech recognition,"
    Proc. ASRU, pp.350-355 (2013-12)
  19. H.-P. Shen, N. Minematsu, T. Makino, S. H. Weinberger, T. Pongkittiphan, C.-H. Wu,
    "Automatic pronunciation clustering using a world English archive and pronunciation structure analysis,"
    Proc. ASRU, pp.222-227 (2013-12)
  20. N. Minematsu and T. Makino,
    "Automatic clustering of world English pronunciations on an individual basis,"
    Annual meeting of International Association of World Englishes (IAWE), (2013-11)
  21. N. Minematsu, Y. Ozaki, K. Hirose, D. Erickson,
    "Speaker-invariant and rhythm-sensitive representation of spoken words,"
    Proc. APSIPA (CD-ROM) (2013-10)
  22. H. Hirano, I. Nakamura, N. Minematsu, M. Suzuki, C. Nakagawa, N. Nakamura, Y. Tagawa, K. Hirose, H. Hashimoto,
    "OJAD: a free online accent and intonation dictionary for teachers and learners of Japanese,"
    Proc. SLaTE, p.94 (2013-8)
  23. T. Pongkittiphan, N. Minematsu, T. Makino, K. Hirose,
    "Automatic detection of the words that will become unintelligible through Japanese accented pronunciation of English,"
    Proc. SLaTE, pp.109-111 (2013-8)
  24. H.-P. Shen, N. Minematsu, T. Makino, S. H. Weinberger, T. Pongkittiphan, C.-H. Wu,
    "Speaker-based accented English clustering using a world English archive,"
    Proc. SLaTE, pp.184-188 (2013-8)
  25. G. Short, K. Hirose, N. Minematsu,
    "Automatic recognition of vowel length in Japanese for a CALL system motivateid by perceptual experiments,"
    Proc. SLaTE, pp.178-183 (2013-8)
  26. D. N. Duc, M. Suzuki, N. Minematsu, K. Hirose,
    "Artificial bandwidth extension based on regularized piecewise linear mapping with discriminative region weighting and long-span features,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.3453-3437 (2013-8)
  27. I. Nakamura, H. Hirano, N. Minematsu, M. Suzuki, C. Nakagawa, N. Nakamura, Y. Tagawa, K. Hirose, H. Hashimoto,
    "Development of a web framework for teaching and learning Japanese prosody: OJAD (Online Japanese Accent Dictionary),"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.2554-2558 (2013-8)
  28. H. Hirano, I. Nakamura, N. Minematsu, M. Suzuki, C. Nakagawa, N. Nakamura, Y. Tagawa, K. Hirose, H. Hashimoto,
    "A free online accent and intonation dictionary for teachers and learners of Japanese,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1875-1876 (2013-8)
  29. J. R. Novak, N. Minematsu, K. Hirose,
    "Failure transitions for joint n-gram models and G2P conversion,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1821-1825 (2013-8)
  30. O. Krityakien, K. Hirose, N. Minematsu,
    "Generation of fundamental frequency contours for Thai speech synthesis using tone nucleus model,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1037-1041 (2013-8)
  31. C. Wang, M. Suzuki, N. Minematsu, K. Sakuraba, K. Hirose,
    "Improved estimation of femininity using GMM supervectors and SVR for voice therapy of gender identity disorder clients,"
    Proc. ICASSP, pp.7751-7754 (2013-5)
  32. T. Pongkittiphan, D. Saito, N. Minematsu, K. Hirose,
    "Eigenvoice-based character conversion for arbitrary speakers using various character voices of a skilled voice actor,"
    Proc. RISP International Workshop on Nonlinear Circuits, Communication and Signal Processing (NCSP), pp.97-100 (2013-3)
  33. D. N. Duc, M. Suzuki, N. Minematsu, K. Hirose,
    "Wideband re-synthesis of narrowband speech using discriminative piecewise linear transformation,"
    Proc. RISP International Workshop on Nonlinear Circuits, Communication and Signal Processing (NCSP), pp.1-4 (2013-3)
  34. O. Krityakien, K. Hirose, N. Minematsu,
    "F0 contour generation of Thai speech using the tone nucleus model,"
    Proc. RISP International Workshop on Nonlinear Circuits, Communication and Signal Processing (NCSP), pp.81-84 (2013-3)
  35. Y. Kashiwagi, M. Suzuki, N. Minematsu, K. Hirose,
    "Audio-visual feature integration based on piecewise linear transformation for noise robust automatic speech recognition,"
    Proc. Spoken Language Technology (SLT), pp.149-152 (2012-12)
  36. Y. Luan, M. Suzuki, Y. Yamauchi, N. Minematsu, K. Hirose,
    "Performance improvement of automatic pronunciaiton assessment in a noisy classroom,"
    Proc. Spoken Language Technology (SLT), pp.428-431 (2012-12)
  37. T. Zhao, A. Hoshino, M. Suzuki, N. Minematsu, K. Hirose,
    "Automatic Chinese pronunciation error detection using SVM with structural features,"
    Proc. Spoken Language Technology (SLT), pp.473-476 (2012-12)
  38. 峯松信明，中川千恵子，田川恭識，
    "効率的な日本語韻律教育の実現に向けたインフラストラクチャの構築　〜アクセントのコーパス分析＋オンラインアクセント辞書の構築＋韻律教育実践〜"，
    国際日本語教育・日本研究シンポジウム (2012-11)
  39. D. Saito, N. Minematsu, K. Hirose,
    "Tensor-based speaker space construction for arbitrary speaker conversion,"
    Proc. ICSP, pp.xx-yy (2012-11)
  40. K. Hirose, H. Hashimoto, J. Ikeshima, N. Minematsu, "
    "Use of generation process model for synthesizing fundamental frequency contours in HMM-based speech synthesis,"
    Proc. ICSP, xx-yy (2012-11)
  41. N. Minematsu, S. Kobayashi, S. Shimizu, K. Hirose,
    "Improved prediction of Japanese word accent sandhi using CRF,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH (2012-9)
  42. M. Suzuki, G. Kurata, M. Nishimura, N. Minematsu,
    "Discriminative reranking for LVCSR leveraging invariant structure,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH (2012-9)
  43. H. Hashimoto, K. Hirose, N. Minematsu,
    "Improved automatic extraction of generation process model commands and its use for generating fundamentl frequency contours for training HMM-based speech synthesis,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH (2012-9)
  44. D. Saito, N. Minematsu, K. Hirose,
    "Effects of speaker adaptive training on tensor-based arbitrary speaker conversion    ,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH (2012-9)
  45. J. Novak, N. Minematsu, K. Hirose,
    "Improving WFST-based G2P conversion with alignment constraints and RNNLM N-best rescoring,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH (2012-9)
  46. J. Novak, N. Minematsu, K. Hirose,
    "Dynamic grammars with lookahead composition for WFST-based speech recognition,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH (2012-9)
  47. 峯松信明，鈴木雅之，平野宏子，中川千恵子，中村則子，田川恭識，広瀬啓吉，
    "音声出力機能を有したオンライント辞書の構築"，
    日本語教育国際研究大会予稿集，第一分冊，pp.94 (2012-8)
  48. J. Novak, N. Minematsu, K. Hirose,
    "WFST-based grapheme-to-phoneme conversion: open source tools for alignment, model-building and decoding,"
    Proc. Int. Workshop on Finate-State Methods and Natural Language Processing, CD-ROM (2012-7)
  49. M. Wang, M. Wen, K. Hirose, N. Minematsu,
    "Emotional voice conversion for Mandarin using tone nucleus model - small corpus and high efficiency"
    Proc. Speech Prosody, pp.163-166 (2012-5)
  50. K. Hirose, H. Hashimoto, J. Ikeshima, and N. Minematsu,
    "Fundamental frequency contour reshaping in HMM-based speech synthesis and realization of prosodic focus using generation process model,"
    Proc. Speech Prosody, pp.171-174 (2012-5)
  51. S. Kato, G. Short, N. Minematsu, and K. Hirose,
    "Effects of learners' language transfer on native listerners' evaluation of the prosodic naturalness of Japanese words,"
    Proc. Speech Prosody, pp.198-201 (2012-5)
  52. K. Chijiiwa, M. Suzuki, N. Minematsu, K. Hirose,
    "Unseen noise robust speech recognition using adaptive piecewise linear transformation,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp.4289-4292 (2012-3)
  53. M. Suzuki, T. Yoshioka, S. Watanabe, N. Minematsu, K. Hirose,
    "MFCC enhancement using joint corrupted and noise feature space for highly non-stationary noise environments,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp.4109-4112 (2012-3)
  54. N. Minematsu,
    "A modulation-demodulation model for speech communication and its emergence,"
    In The Evolution of Language, edited by T. C. Scott-Phillips, M. Tamariz, E. A. Cartmill, and J. R. Hurford, pp.234-241, World Scientific (2012-3)
  55. S. Shimizu, M. Suzuki, N. Minematsu, and K. Hirose,
    "An experimental study on dynamic features of speech structure,"
    Proc. RISP International Workshop on Nonlinear Circuits, Communication and Signal Processing (NCSP), pp.166-169 (2012-3)
  56. N. Sunada, S. Shimizu, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Efficient phase optimization for sounds with condenced energy density,"
    Proc. RISP International Workshop on Nonlinear Circuits, Communication and Signal Processing (NCSP), pp.716-719 (2012-3)
  57. G. Short, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Perceptually-based lexical accent recognition for a Japanese CALL system,"
    Proc. RISP International Workshop on Nonlinear Circuits, Communication and Signal Processing (NCSP), pp.389-392 (2012-3)
  58. T. Kai, M. Suzuki, K. Chijiiwa, N. Minematsu, and K. Hirose,
    "Combination of SPLICE and feature normalization for noise robust speech recognition,"
    Proc. RISP International Workshop on Nonlinear Circuits, Communication and Signal Processing (NCSP), pp.253-256 (2012-3)
  59. D. Lu, T. Nishimoto, N. Minematsu,
    "Decision of response timing for incremental speech recognition with reinforcement learning",
    Proc. IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU), pp.467-472 (2011-12)
  60. Y. Qiao, M. Suzuki, N. Minematsu and K. Hirose,
    "Structure constrained distributions matching using quadratic programming and its application to pronunciation evaluation",
    Proc. Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition (ACPR), pp.xx-yy (2011-11)
  61. K. Hirose, T. Matsuda, H. Hashimoto, N. Minematsu,
    "Representing fundamental frequency contours generated by HMM-based speech synthesis using generation process model,"
    Proc. IEEE Int. Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP), pp.xx-yy (2011-9)
  62. A. Kunikoshi, Y. Qiao, D. Saito, N. Minematsu, K. Hirose,
    "Gesture design of hand-to-speech converter derived from speech-to-hand converter based on probabilistic integration model,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.3025-3028 (2011-8)
  63. N. Minematsu, K. Okabe, K. Ogaki, K. Hirose,
    "Measurement of objective intelligibility of Japanese accented English using ERJ (English Read by Japanese) database,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1481-1484 (2011-8)
  64. J. R. Novak, N. Minematsu, K. Hirose,
    "Painless WFST cascade construction for LVCSR - Transducersaurus,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1537-1540 (2011-8)
  65. D. Saito, K. Yamamoto, N. Minematsu, K. Hirose,
    "One-to-many voice conversion based on tensor representation of speaker space,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.653-656 (2011-8)
  66. Y. Qiao, T. Tong, N. Minematsu,
    "A study on bag of Gaussian models with application to voice conversion,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.657-660 (2011-8)
  67. K. Hirose, K. Ochi, R. Mihara, H. Hashimoto, D. Saito, N. Minematsu,
    "Adaptation of prosody in speech synthesis by changing command values of the generation process model of fundamental frequency,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.2793-2796 (2011-8)
  68. M. Wen, M. Wang, K. Hirose, N. Minematsu,
    "Prosody conversion for emotional Mandarin speech synthesis using the tone nucleus model,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.2797-2800 (2011-8)
  69. M. Suzuki, G. Kurata, M. Nishimura, N. Minematsu,
    "Continuous digits recognition leveraging invariant structure,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.993-996 (2011-8)
  70. G. Short, K. Hirose, N. Minematsu,
    "Rule-based method for pitch level classification for a Japanese pitch accent CALL system,"
    Proc. Int. Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE), CD-ROM (2011-8)
  71. S. Kato, G. Short, N. Minematsu, C. Tsurutani, K. Hirose,
    "Comparison of native and non-native evaluations of the naturalness of Japanese words with proosdy modified through voice morphing,"
    Proc. Int. Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE), CD-ROM (2011-8)
  72. S. Kobayashi, S. Shimizu, M. Suzuki, N. Minematsu, K. Hirose, H. Hirano,
    "Automatic generation of accent dictionary of conjugational words for any Japanese text,"
    Proc. Int. Conference on Japanese Language Educatoin, pp.784-786 (2011-8)
  73. J. R. Novak, N. Minematsu, K. Hirose,
    "Open-source WFST tools for LVCSR cascade construction,"
    Proc. Int. Workshop on Finate-State Methods and Natural Language Processing, CD-ROM (2011-7)
  74. D. Saito, S. Watanabe, A. Nakamura, N. Minematsu,
    "High accurate model-integration-based voice conversion using dynamic features and model structure optimization,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP'2011), pp.4576-4579 (2011-5)
  75. A. Kunikoshi, Q. Yao, F. Soong, N. Minematsu,
    "Improved F0 modeling and generation in voice conversion,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP'2011), pp.4568-4571 (2011-5)
  76. T. Matsuda, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Quality improvement by SIFT in HMM-based F0 contour synthesis using generation process model,"
    Proc. Int. Workshop on Nonlinear Circuits, Communication and Signal Processing (NCSP'2011), pp.xx-yy (2011-3)
  77. M. Wang, K. Hirose, N. Minematsu,
    "Improvement of prosody in HMM-based speech synthesis using generation process model,"
    Proc. Int. Workshop on Nonlinear Circuits, Communication and Signal Processing (NCSP'2011), pp.xx-yy (2011-3)
  78. X. Ma, R. Xu, N. Minematsu, Y. Qiao, K. Hirose, and A. Li,
    "Dialect-based speaker classification using speaker-invariant dialect features,"
    Proc. Int. Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, pp.171-176 (2010-12)
  79. N. Minematsu,
    "Human speech model based on information separation and its application to speech processing,"
    Proc. Int. Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, pp.477-482 (2010-12)
  80. M. Wang, M. Wen, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "A method for modeling and generating Mandarin tone contour with phrase intonation based on the generation process model,"
    Proc. Int. Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, pp.153-158 (2010-12)
  81. S. Greg, K. Hirose, T. Yamada, N. Minematsu, N. Kitawakai, and S. Makino,
    "Mora pitch level recognition for the development of a Japanese pitch accent acquisition system,"
    Proc. Oriental COCOSDA (2010-11)
  82. N. Minematsu,
    "Speech structure: truly speaker-independent acoustic modeling of speech,"
    Proc. China-Japan Symposium on Natural Language Processing (2010-11)
  83. K. Hirose, K. Ochi, and N. Minematsu,
    "Control of prosodic focus in corpus-based generation of fundamental frequency contours based on the generation process model,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. on Signal Processing, pp.629-632 (2010-10)
  84. M. Wen, M. Wang, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Improved Mandarin segmental duration prediction with automatically estimated grammatical features,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. on Signal Processing, pp.621-624 (2010-10)
  85. M. Wang, M. Wen, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "A new method for F0 tracking errors fix and generation in HMM-based Mandarin speech synthesis using generation process model,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. on Signal Processing, pp.609-612 (2010-10)
  86. N. Minematsu, D. Saito, and K. Hirose,
    "Improved generation of speech from its abstract and structural representation,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. on Signal Processing, pp.597-600 (2010-10)
  87. T. Matsuda, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Control of fundamental frequency contours using the generation process model in HMM-based speech synthesis,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. on Signal Processing, pp.617-620 (2010-10)
  88. D. Saito, S. Watanabe, A. Nakamura, and N. Minematsu,
    "Probabilistic unification of joint density model and speaker model for voice conversion,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1728-1731 (2010-9)
  89. D. Luo, Y. Qiao, N. Minematsu, Y. Yamauchi, and K. Hirose,
    "Regularized-MLLR speaker adaptation for computer-aided language learning system,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.594-597 (2010-9)
  90. M. Suzuki, Y. Qiao, N. Minematsu, and K. Hirose,
    "Integration of multilayer regression with structure-based pronunciation assessment,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.586-589 (2010-9)
  91. M. Wen, M. Wang, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Improving Mandarin segmental duration prediction with automatically extracted syntactic information,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.2178-2181 (2010-9)
  92. M. Wang, M. Wen, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Improved generation of fundamental frequency in HMM-based speech synthesis using generation process model,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.2166-2169 (2010-9)
  93. M. Wang, M. Wen, D. Saito, N. Minematsu, and K. Hirose,
    "Improved generation of prosodic features in HMM-based Mandarin speech synthesis,"
    Proc. ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop, pp.359-364 (2010-9)
  94. M. Suzuki and N. Minematsu,
    "    Pronunciation assessment system using structural features,"
    Proc. Int. Workshop on Second Language Studies, Demonstration session (2010-9)
  95. X. Ma and N. Minematsu,
    "Dialect (regional accent)-based speaker classification of chinese,"
    Proc. Int. Workshop on Second Language Studies, Demonstration session (2010-9)
  96. D. Luo, Y. Yamauchi, and N. Minematsu,
    "Development of an automatic evaluation system of ESL/EFL learners' skills of shadowing,"
    Proc. Int. Workshop on Second Language Studies, Demonstration session (2010-9)
  97. M. Suzuki, Y. Qiao, N. Minematsu, and K. Hirose,
    "Pronunciation proficiency estimation based on multilayer regression analysis using speaker-independent strucural features,"
    Proc. Int. Workshop on Second Language Studies, CD-ROM (2010-9)
  98. D. Luo, Y. Yamauchi, and N. Minematsu,
    "Speech analysis for automatic evaluation of shadowing,"
    Proc. Int. Workshop on Second Language Studies, CD-ROM (2010-9)
  99. G. Short, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Pitch pattern recognition of isolated words for the development of a Japanese language CALL system,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. on Electronic Speech Signal Processing, pp.304-311 (2010-9)
  100. N. Minematsu,
    "Human speech model based on information separation -- collection or separation, that is the question. --,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. on Electronic Speech Signal Processing, pp.273-280 (2010-9)
  101. K. Hirose, K. Ochi, M. Wang, T. Matsuda, M. Wen, and N. Minematsu
    "Using F0 contour generation process model for improved and flexible control of prosodic features in HMM-based speech synthesis,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. on Electronic Speech Signal Processing, pp.84-93 (2010-9)
  102. M. Wang, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Generation of fundamental frequency contours of Mandarin in HMM-based speech synthesis using generation process model,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Speech Prosody, CD-ROM (2010-5)
  103. K. Ochi, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Realization of prosodic focuses in corpus-based generation of fundamental frequency contours of Japanaese based on the generation process model,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Speech Prosody, CD-ROM (2010-5)
  104. N. Minematsu,
    "A modulation-demodulation model of speech communication,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Speech Prosody, CD-ROM (2010-5)
  105. Y. Qiao and N. Minematsu,
    "HMM-based sequence-to-frame mapping for voice conversion,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP'2010), pp.4830-4833 (2010-3)
  106. N. Sunada, T. Matsuda, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Use of paired white noises with inverse polarity in ensenble empirical mode decomposition,"
    Proc. Int. Workshop on Nonlinear Circuits, Communication and Signal Processing (NCSP'2010), pp.512-515 (2010-3)
  107. T. Matsuda, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "HMM-based synthesis of fundamental frequency contours using the generation process model,"
    Proc. Int. Workshop on Nonlinear Circuits, Communication and Signal Processing (NCSP'2010), pp.464-467 (2010-3)
  108. Y. Qiao, M. Suzuki, and N. Minematsu,,
    "A study of Hidden Structure Model and its application of labeling sequences,"
    Proc. Int. Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU'2009), pp.118-123 (2009-12)
  109. M. Suzuki, N. Minematsu, D. Luo, and K. Hirose,
    "Sub-structure-based estimation of pronunciation proficiency and classification of learners,"
    Proc. Int. Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU'2009), pp.574-579 (2009-12)
  110. N. Minematsu,
    "A consideration of ASR based on animal evolution and human development -- what should A of ASR stand for? --,"
    Proc. Int. Workshop on Computational Models of Language Evolution, Acquisition and Processing (2009-9)
  111. D. Luo, Y. Qiao, N. Minematsu, Y. Yamauchi, K. Hirose,
    "Analysis and utilization of MLLR speaker adaptation technique for learners' pronunciation evaluation,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.608-611 (2009-9)
  112. Y. Qiao, S. Asakawa, N. Minematsu, K. Hirose,
    "On invariant structural representation for speech recognition: theoretical validation and experimental improvement,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.3055-3058 (2009-9)
  113. A. R. F. Rebordao, M. A. M. Shaikh, K. Hirose, N. Minematsu,
    "How to improve TTS systems for emotional expressivity,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.524-527 (2009-9)
  114. A. Kunikoshi, Y. Qiao, N. Minematsu, K. Hirose,
    "Speech generation from hand gestures based on space mapping,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.308-311 (2009-9)
  115. X. Ma, A. Nemoto, N. Minematsu, Y. Qiao, K. Hirose,
    "Structural analysis of dialects, sub-dialects, and sub-sub-dialects of Chinese,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.2219-2222 (2009-9)
  116. D. Saito, Y. Qiao, N. Minematsu, K. Hirose,
    "Optimal event search using a structural cost function -- improvement of structure to speech conversion --,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.2047-2050 (2009-9)
  117. N. Minematsu and M. Suzuki,
    "Structure-based pronunciation assessment,"
    Proc. ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE), Demo Session (2009-9)
  118. D. Luo, N. Minematsu, Y. Yamauchi,
    "Development of a CALL system to enhance ESL/EFL learners' skills of shadowing and reading aloud,"
    Proc. ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE), Demo Session (2009-9)
  119. M. Suzuki, L. Dean, N. Minematsu, K. Hirose,
    "Improved structure-based automatic estimation of pronunciation proficiency,"
    Proc. ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE), CD-ROM (2009-9)
  120. D. Luo, N, Minematsu, Y. Yamauchi, K. Hirose,
    "Analysis and comparison of automatic language proficiency assessment between shadowed sentences and read senteces,"
    Proc. ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE), CD-ROM (2009-9)
  121. N. Minematsu,
    "Speech structure: a new framework of speech processing inspired from infants' behaviors and animals' behaviors,"
    Proc. National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communication (NCMMSC'2009), pp.504-509 (2009-8)
  122. X. Ma, N. Minematsu, A. Nemoto, M. Takazawa, Y. Qiao, K. Hirose,
    "Structural analysis of Chinese dialect speakers and their automatic classification,"
    Proc. National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communication (NCMMSC'2009), pp.440-445 (2009-8)
  123. H. Hirano, M. Suzuki, K. Innami, N. Minematsu, and K. Hirose,
    "Development of an on-line word accent dictionary of Japanese,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. on Japanese Language Education (ICJLE'2009) (2009-7)
  124. D. Saito, Y. Qiao, N. Minematsu, and K. Hirose,
    "Improvement of structure to speech conversion using iterative optimization,"
    Proc. Speech and Computer (SPECOM'2009), pp.174-179 (2009-6)
  125. X. Ma, N. Minematsu, Y. Qiao, K. Hirose, A. Nemoto, and F. Shi,
    "Dialect-based speaker classification of Chinese using structural representation of pronunciation,"
    Proc. Speech and Computer (SPECOM'2009), pp.350-355 (2009-6)
  126. N. Minematsu, S. Asakawa, Y. Qiao, D. Saito, and T. Nishimura,
    "Implementation of robust speech recognition by simulating infants' speech perception based on the invariant sound shape embedded in utterances,"
    Proc. Speech and Computer (SPECOM'2009), pp.35-40 (2009-6)
  127. N. Minematsu, M. Takazawa, X. Ma,
    "Pronunciation clinic & dialect-based speaker classification,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP'2009, Show & Tell) (2009-4)
  128. Y. Qiao, M. Suzuki, and N. Minematsu,
    "Affine invariant features and its application to speech recognition,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP'2009), pp.4629-4632 (2009-4)
  129. Y. Qiao and N. Minematsu,
    "Mixture of probabilistic linear regressions: a unified view of GMM-based mapping techniques,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP'2009), pp.3913-3916 (2009-4)
  130. K. Ochi, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Control of prosodic focus in corpus-based generation of fundamental frequency contours of Japanese based on the generation process model,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP'2009), pp.4257-4260 (2009-4)
  131. D. Luo, N. Minematsu, Y. Yamauchi, and K. Hirose,
    "Automatic assessment of non-native shadowed utterances,"
    Proc. Int. Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), pp.41-44 (2008-12)
  132. K. Hirose, Q. Sun, N. Minematsu,
    "Corpus-based synthesis of Madarin speech with F0 contours generated by superposing tone contours on rule-generated phrase components,"
    Proc. IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT), pp.33-36 (2008-12)
  133. N. Minematsu, D. Saito, and K. Hirose,
    "Experimenal study of structure-to-speech conversion -- an implementation of infant-like vocal imitation --,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Signal Processing (ICSP), pp.651-654 (2008-10)
  134. K. Hirose, K. Ochi, and N. Minematsu,
    "Corpus-based generation of F0 contours of Japanese based on the generation process model and its control for prosodic focus,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Signal Processing (ICSP), pp.647-650 (2008-10)
  135. Md. K. I. Molla, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Robust determination of periodic correlation of speech signals using empirical mode decomposition and higher-order spectra,"
    Proc. Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC), CD-ROM (2008-10)
  136. Md. K. I. Molla, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Robust voiced/unvoiced speech classification using empirical mode decomposition and periodic correlation model,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.2530-2533 (2008-9)
  137. K. Ochi, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Control of prosodic focus in corpur-based generation of fundamental frequency based on the generation process model,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1216 (2008-9)
  138. D. Luo, N. Shimomura, N. Minematsu, Y. Yamauchi, and K. Hirose,
    "Automatic assessment of utterances shadowed by learners using speech technologies,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.2807-2810 (2008-9)
  139. D. Saito, S. Asakawa, N. Minematsu, and K. Hirose,
    "Structure to speech -- speech generation based on infant-like vocal imitation --,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1837-1840 (2008-9)
  140. D. Saito, N. Minematsu, and K. Hirose,
    "Decomposition of rotational distortion caused by VTL difference using eigenvalues of its transofmation matrix,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1361-1364 (2008-9)
  141. Y. Qiao and N. Minematsu,
    "f-divergence is a generalized invariant measure between distributions,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1349-1352 (2008-9)
  142. Y. Qiao and N. Minematsu,
    "Metric learning for unsupervised phoneme segmentation,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1060-1063 (2008-9)
  143. K. Hirose, Q. Sun, N. Minematsu,
    "Synthesis of F0 contours for Mandarin speech by superposing corpus-generated tone contours on rule-generated phrase components,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. on Speech Analysis, Synthesis, and Recognition (SASR), Plenary Talk (2008-9)
  144. D. Luo, N. Minematsu, Y. Yamauchi, and K. Hirose,
    "Automatic assessment of non-native shadowed utterances,"
    Proc. Int. Workshop on Language and Speech Science (2008-9)
  145. M. Ma, H. Hirano, K. Hirose, N. Minematsu,
    "A CALL system for Japanese learners of Mandarin speech adaptive to learners' proficiency,"
    Proc. Int. Workshop on Language and Speech Science (2008-9)
  146. N. Minematsu, K. Kamata, M. Takazawa, K. Takeuchi, S. Asakawa, T. Makino, Y. Yamauchi, T. Nishimura, K. Hirose,
    "Pronunciation clinic -- which part of your pronunciation to correct at first to become like your model speaker? --,"
    WorldCALL, Courseware Session (2008-8)
  147. N. Minematsu,
    "Are language learners myna birds? -- a note of warning from a serious speech engineer --,"
    WorldCALL, Poster Session (2008-8)
  148. N. Minematsu and T. Nishimura,
    "Speech as timbre-based melody -- What in parants' voices do infants imitate acoustically? --,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Language, Music, and the Mind, Paper Session (2008-7)
  149. N. Minematsu, T. Nishimura, D. Saito, S. Asakawa, Y. Qiao,
    "Holistic and prosodic representation of the segmental aspect of speech,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Speech Prosody, pp.95-98 (2008-5)
  150. Q. Sun, K. Hirose, N. Minematsu,
    "Improved prediction of tone components for F0 contour generation of Mandarin speech based on the tone nucleus model,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Speech Prosody, pp.95-98 (2008-5)
  151. K. Hirose, Q. Sun, and N. Minematsu,
    "Generation of F0 contours for Mandarin speech in combination with rule-based and corpus-based methods,"
    Proc. The 8th Phonetic Conference of China and Int. Symposium on Phonetic Frontiers, CD-ROM (2008-4)
  152. N. Minematsu,
    "Training of pronunciation as learning of the sound system embedded in utterances,"
    Proc. The 8th Phonetic Conference of China and Int. Symposium on Phonetic Frontiers, CD-ROM (2008-4)
  153. Y. Qiao, W. Wang, N. Minematsu, J. Liu, X. Tang
    "Phase singularities for image representation and matching,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP'2008), pp.885-888 (2008-4)
  154. Y. Qiao, N. Shimomura, N. Minematsu,
    "Unsupervised optimal phoneme segmentation: objectives, algorithm and comparisons,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP'2008), pp.3989-3992 (2008-4)
  155. D. Saito, R. Matsuura, S. Asakawa, N. Minematsu, K. Hirose,
    "Directional dependency of cepstrum on vocal tract length,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP'2008), pp.4485-4488 (2008-4)
  156. S. Asakawa, N. Minematsu, K. Hirose,
    "Multi-stream parameterization for structural speech recognition,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP'2008), pp.4097-4100 (2008-4)
  157. A. Rebordao, M. K. I. Molla, K. Hirose, N. Minematsu,
    "An adaptive speech denoising system based on ICA and voice activity detection,"
    Proc. Int. Workshop on Nonlinear Circuits and Signal Processing, pp.228-231 (2008-3)
  158. E. Deger, M. K. I. Molla, K. Hirose, N. Minematsu,
    "Hard and soft thresholding with EMD for speech enhancement,"
    Proc. Int. Workshop on Nonlinear Circuits and Signal Processing, pp.232-235 (2008-3)
  159. M. K. I. Molla, K. Hirose, N. Minematsu, M. K. Hasan,
    "A multiband approach for voiced/unvoiced discrimination of speech signals,"
    Proc. Int. Workshop on Nonlinear Circuits and Signal Processing, pp.323-326 (2008-3)
  160. Q. Sun, K. Hirose, N. Minematsu,
    "Improved tone component prediction of tone nucleus for F0 contour generation of Mandarin speech,"
    Proc. Int. Workshop on Nonlinear Circuits and Signal Processing, pp.112-115 (2008-3)
  161. Y. Qiao, S. Asakawa, N. Minematsu,
    "Random discriminant structure analysis for continous Japanese vowel recognition,"
    Proc. Int. Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU'07), pp.576-581 (2007-12)
  162. N. Minematsu, K. Kamata, S. Asakawa, T. Makino, and K. Hirose,
    "Structural representation of the pronunciation and its use for classifying Japanese learners of English,"
    Proc. ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE), CD-ROM (2007-10)
  163. N. Minematsu,
    "Are learners myna birds to the averated distributions of native speakers? -- a note of warning from a serious speech engineer --,"
    Proc. ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE), CD-ROM (2007-10)
  164. E. Deger, M. K. I. Molla, K. Hirose, N. Minematsu, and M. K. Hasan,
    "Speech enhancement using soft thresholding with DCT-EMD based hybrid algorithm,"
    Proc. European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO'07), pp.xx-yy (2007-9)
  165. H. Hirano, K. Hirose, G. Kawai, W. Gu, and N. Minematsu,
    "F0 models show Chinese speakers of Japanese insert intonational boundaries and drop pitch,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1885-1888 (2007-8)
  166. S. Takada, Y. Yagi, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "A framework of reply speech generation for concept-to-speech conversion in spoken dialogue systems,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1286-1289 (2007-8)
  167. K. Hirose, K. Ochi, and N. Minematsu,
    "Corpus-based generation of prosodic features from text based on generation process model,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1274-1277 (2007-8)
  168. M. Watanabe, Y. Den, K. Hirose, S. Miwa, and N. Minematsu,
    "Features of pauses and conjunctions at syntactic and discourse boundaries in Japanese monologues,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.118-121 (2007-8)
  169. M. K. I. Molla, K. Hirose, N. Minematsu, and M. K. Hasan,
    "Pitch estimation of noisy speech signals using Empirical Mode Decomposition,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.1645-1648 (2007-8)
  170. E. Deger, M. K. I. Molla, K. Hirose, N. Minematsu, and M. K. Hasan,
    "EMD based soft-thresholding for speech enhancement,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.810-813 (2007-8)
  171. N. Minematsu, K. Kamata, S. Asakawa, T. Makino, T. Nishimura, and K. Hirose,
    "Structural assessment of language learners' pronunciation,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.210-213 (2007-8)
  172. S. Asakawa, N. Minematsu, and K. Hirose,
    "Automatic recognition of connected vowels only using speaker-invariant representation of speech dynamics,"
    Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp.890-893 (2007-8)
  173. N. Minematsu, R. Kuroiwa, and K. Hirose,
    "CRF-based statistical learning of Japanese accent sandhi for developing Japanese text-to-speech synthesis systems,"
    Proc. ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, pp.148-153 (2007-8)
  174. Q. Sun, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Two-step generation of Mandarin F0 contours based on tone nucleus and superpositional models,"
    Proc. ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, pp.154-159 (2007-8)
  175. K. Sawamura, J. Dang, M. Akagi, D. Erickson, A. Li, K. Sakuraba, N. Minematsu, and K. Hirose,
    "Common factors in emotion perception among different cultures,"
    Proc. Int. Congress on Phonetic Sciences, pp.2113-2116 (2007-8)
  176. N. Minematsu, K. Maruyama, K. Sakuraba, K. Hirose, N. Tayama, S. Imaizumi, and T. Yamauchi,
    "Development of a femininity estimator using speaker recognition techniques for voice therapy of gender identity disorder clients,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP'2007), vol.IV, pp.297-300 (2007-4)
  177. N. Minematsu, K. Sakuraba, and T. Nishimura,
    "Development of a spoken word recognizer without phonemic awareness -- Is this machine a Dyslexia simulator? --,"
    Proc. The 2nd Riken Brain Science Institute and Oxford-Kobe Joint International Symposium -- Reading and Dyslexia in Different Languages --, pp.49-51 (2007-4)
  178. Q. Sun, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Generation of sentence F0 contours for Mandarin speech synthesis by superposing tone components on phrase components,"
    Proc. Int. Workshop on Nonlinear Circuits and Signal Processing (NCSP'2007), pp.317-320 (2007-3)
  179. X. D. Wang, K. Hirose, J. S. Zhang, and N. Minematsu,
    "Tone recognition of continous speech of standard Chinese assissted by MLP and tone nucleus model,"
    Proc. Int. Workshop on Nonlinear Circuits and Signal Processing (NCSP'2007), pp. 571-574 (2007-3)
  180. M. K. I. Molla, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Linear predictive coding of speech signals with empirical mode decomposition,"
    Proc. Int. Workshop on Nonlinear Circuits and Signal Processing (NCSP'2007), pp. 405-408 (2007-3)
  181. M. K. I. Molla, K. Hirose, N. Minematsu, and M. K. Hasan,
    "Voiced/unvoiced detection of speech signals using empirical mode decomposition model,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Information and Communication Technology, pp.311-314 (2007-3)
  182. N. Minematsu, S. Asakawa, and K. Hirose,
    "Structural representation of the pronunciation and its use for CALL,"
    Int. Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT'2006), pp.126-129 (2006-12)
  183. N. Minematsu,
    "Structural representation of the pronunciation and its application to computer-aided language learning,"
    ASA & ASJ Joint meeting (2006-12)
  184. Y. Yagi, S. Takada, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Concept-to-speech conversion for reply speech generation in a spoken dialogue system for road guidance and its prodoci control,"
    Journal of Acoust. Soc. Am. vol.120, no.5, pp.3038, presented at ASA & ASJ Joint meeting (2006-12)
  185. Q. Sun, K. Hirose, W. Gu, and N. Minematsu,
    "Analysis on the effects of tonal co-articulation at word and non-word syllable boundaries of Mandarin based on the tone nucleus model,"
    Journal of Acoust. Soc. Am. vol.120, no.5, pp.3036, presented at ASA & ASJ Joint meeting (2006-12)
  186. M. Watanabe, Y. Den, K. Hirose, S. Miwa, and N. Minematsu,
    "Factors affecting speakers' choice of fillers in Japanese presentations,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'2006), pp.1256-1259 (2006-9)
  187. K. Hirose, Y. Asano, and N. Minematsu,
    "Corpus-baesd generation of fundamental frequency contours using generation process model and considering emotional focuses,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'2006), pp.305-308 (2006-9)
  188. H. Hirano, G. Kawai, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Unfilled pauses in Japanese sentences read aloud by non-native learners,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'2006), pp.725-728 (2006-9)
  189. K. Hirose, H. Hui, X. Wang, and N. Minematsu,
    "Neural-network-based tone recognition for continous speech of standard Chinese focusing tone nucleus,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'2006), pp.2394-2397 (2006-9)
  190. C. Tsurutani, Y. Yamauchi, N. Minematsu, D. Luo, K. Yamauchi, and K. Hirose,
    "Development of a program for self assessment of Japanese pronunciation by English learners,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'2006), pp.841-844 (2006-9)
  191. M. Watanabe, K. Hirose, Y. Den, S. Miwa, and N. Minematsu,
    "Factors influencing ratios of filled pauses at clause boundaries in Japanese,"
    Proc. ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics, pp.253-256 (2006-8)
  192. H. Hirano, K. Hirose, N. Minematsu, and G. Kawai,
    "Pitch patterns of intonational phrases and intonational phrase groups in native and non-native speech,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. on Japanese Language Education (ICJLE'2006) (2006-8)
  193. N. Minematsu and T. Nishimura,
    "Universal and invariant representation of speech,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Infant Study (ICIS'2006) (2006-6)
  194. N. Minematsu, T. Nishimura, K. Nishinari, and K. Sakuraba,
    "Theorem of the invariant structure and its derivation of speech Gestalt,"
    Proc. Workshop on Speech Recognition and Intrinsic Variations, pp.47-52 (2006-5)
  195. N. Minematsu, S. Asakawa, and K. Hirose,
    "Para-linguistic information represented as distortion of the acoustic universal structure in speech,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Acousitcs, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP'2006), vol.1, pp.261-264 (2006-5)
  196. Md. Khademul Islam Molla, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Localization-based separation of mixed audio signals with binary masking of hilbert spectrum,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP'2006), vol.5, pp.85-88 (2006-5)
  197. Md. Khademul Islam Molla, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Localization-based audio source separation by sub-band beamforming,"
    Proc. IEEE Int. Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ICSAS'2006    ), pp.1848-1851 (2006-5)
  198. K. Hirose, Y. Abe, and N. Minematsu,
    "Detection of fillers using prosodic features in spontaneous speech recognition of Japanese,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Speech Prosody, pp.720-723 (2006-5)
  199. X. Wang, W. Gu, K. Hirose, Q. Sun, and N. Minematsu,
    "Tonal co-articulation comparison between intra-word and inter-word in Mandarin,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Speech Prosody, pp.157-160 (2006-5)
  200. Q. Sun, K. Hirose, W. Gu, and N. Minematsu,
    "Rule-based generation of phrase components in two-step synthesis of fundamental frequency contours of Mandarin,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Speech Prosody, pp.561-564 (2006-5)
  201. N. Minematsu, T. Nishimura, T. Murakami, and K. Hirose,
    "Speech recognition only with supra-segmental features --- hearing speech as music ---,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Speech Prosody, pp.589-594 (2006-5)
  202. Md. Khademul Islam Molla, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Localization-based separation of moving audio sources from stereo mixtures of adaptive beamforming,"
    Proc. Int. Workshop. Nonlinear Circuits and Signal Processing (NCSP'2006), pp.5-8 (2006-3)
  203. Md. Khademul Islam Molla, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "    Separation of Mixed Audio Signals by Source Localization and Binary Masking with Hilbert Spectrum,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Independent Component Analysis and Blind Source Separation (ICA'2006), pp.641-648 (2006-3)
  204. T. Murakami, K. Maruyama, N. Minematsu, and K. Hirose,
    "Japanese vowel recognition using external structure of speech,"
    Proc. IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU'2005), pp.203-208 (2005-11)
  205. Y. Yagi, S. Takada, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Improved concept-to-speech generation in a dialogue system on road guidance,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Cyberworld, pp.429-436 (2005-11)
  206. Y. Yagi, S. Takada, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "An improved method of generating speech from concept and its application to a dialogue system of road guidance,"
    Proc. Speech and Computer (SPECOM'2005), pp.703-706 (2005-10)
  207. K. Hirose, Q. Sun, W. Gu, and N. Minematsu,
    "Synthesis of fundamental frequency contours for Standard Chinese based on superpositional and tone nucleus models,"
    Proc. Speech Analysis, Synthesis, and Recognition -- Application of Phonetics -- (2005-9)
  208. M. Watanabe, K. Hirose, Y. Den, and N. Minematsu,
    "Effects of filled pauses on native and non-native listeners' speech processing,"
    Proc. ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS'2005), pp.169-172 (2005-9)
  209. S. Asakawa, N. Minematsu, and K. Hiorse,
    "Structural representation of the non-native pronunciations,"
    Proc. European Conf. Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH'2005), pp.165-168 (2005-9)
  210. T. Murakami, K. Maruyama, N. Minematsu, and K. Hirose,
    "Japanese vowel recognition based on structural representation of speech,"
    Proc. European Conf. Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH'2005), pp.1261-1264 (2005-9)
  211. K. Hirose, Y. Furuyama, and N. Minematsu,
    "Corpus-based extraction of F0 contour generation process model parameters,"
    Proc. European Conf. Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH'2005), pp.3257-3260 (2005-9)
  212. K. Hirose, Q. Sun, W. Gu, and N. Minematsu,
    "Generation of fundamental frequency contours for Mandarin speech synthesis based on tone nucleus model,"
    Proc. European Conf. Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH'2005), pp.3265-3268 (2005-9)
  213. Md. Khademul Islam Molla, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Multi-band approach of audio source discrimination with empirical mode decomposition,"
    Proc. European Conf. Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH'2005), pp.673-676 (2005-9)
  214. M. Watanabe, K. Hirose, Y. Den, and N. Minematsu
    "Filled pauses as cues to the complexity of following phrases,"
    Proc. European Conf. Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH'2005), pp.37-40 (2005-9)
  215. Md. Khademul Islam Molla, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Audio source indexing by sub-band PCA with empirical mode decomposition,"
    Proc. Int. Symposium, Intelligent Signal Processing (WISP'2005) (2005-9)
  216. N. Minematsu,
    "Structural representation of individual learners,"
    ASSTA Research Workshop of Assessing Spoken Language Proficiency (2005-8)
  217. C. Tsurutani, Y. Yamauchi, and N. Minematsu,
    "Assessment of the second language learners' pronunciation of Japanese using automatic speech recognition system,"
    ASSTA Research Workshop of Assessing Spoken Language Proficiency (2005-8)
  218. N. Minematsu, S. Asakawa, K. Hirose, and T. Makino,
    "Structural representation of the pronunciation and its use in the pronunciation training,"
    Proc. Workshop on Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference, CD-ROM, (2005-7)
  219. Md. Khademul Islam Molla, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Audio source separation by source localization and spatial beamforming with binaural model,"
    Proc. IEEE Int. Workshop on Non-linear Signal and Image Processing (NSIP'2005), pp.517-520 (2005-5)
  220. Md. Khademul Islam Molla, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "On the empirical mode decomposition in time-frequency representation of audio signals considering disjoint orthogonality,"
    Proc. IEEE Int. Workshop on Non-linear Signal and Image Processing (NSIP'2005), pp.521-524 (2005-5)
  221. Md. Khademul Islam Molla, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Audio source separation by sources localization with Hilbert spectrum,"
    Proc. IEEE Int. Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ICSAS'2005), pp.5734-5737 (2005-5)
  222. N. Minematsu,
    "Mathematical evidence of the acoustic universal structure in speech,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Acousitcs, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP'2005), pp.889-892 (2005-3)
  223. Md. Khademul Islam Molla, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Single mixture separation of speech and interfering audio signal using subspace decomposition,"
    Proc. Int. Workshop on Non-linear Circuits and Signal Processing (NCSP'2005), pp.463-466 (2005-3)
  224. Md. Khademul Islam Molla, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Single mixture audio source separation using KLD-based clustering of independent basis functions,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE'2004), pp.605-608 (2004-12)
  225. N. Minematsu, S. Asakawa, K. Okabe, H. Shyu, and K. Hirose,
    "Pronunciation portfolio; how were, are, and will be you?"
    Proc. Int. Workshop on Language e-Learning (IWLeL'2004), pp.87-95 (2004-12)
  226. N. Minematsu, S. Asakawa, K. Okabe, H. Shyu, and K. Hirose,
    "Pronunciation diagnosis; what to correct at first in YOUR case?"
    Proc. Int. Workshop on Language e-Learning (IWLeL'2004), pp.105-113 (2004-12)
  227. N. Minematsu, S. Asakawa, K. Okabe, H. Shyu, and K. Hirose,
    "Pronunciation understood; how intelligible do you think you are?"
    Proc. Int. Workshop on Language e-Learning (IWLeL'2004), pp.97-104 (2004-12)
  228. N. Minematsu, S. Asakawa, and K. Hirose,
    "The acoustic universal structure in speech and its correlation to para-linguistic information in speech,"
    Proc. Int. Workshop on Man-Machine Symbiotic Systems (IWMMS'2004), pp.69-79 (2004-11)
  229. K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Use of prosodic features for speech recognition,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'2004), pp.1445-1448 (2004-10)
  230. K. Hirose, K. Sato, and N. Minematsu,
    "Improvement in corpus-based generation of F0 contours using generation process model for emotional speech synthesis,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'2004), pp.1349-1352 (2004-10)
  231. M. Watanabe, Y. Den, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Clause types and filled pauses in Japanese spontaneous monologues,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'2004), pp.2981-2984 (2004-10)
  232. Md. Khademul Islam Molla, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Audio source separation from the mixture using empirical mode decomposition with independent subspace analysis,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'2004), pp.2449-2452 (2004-10)
  233. S. Chung, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "N-gram language modeling of Japanese using Bunsetsu boundaries,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'2004), pp.993-996 (2004-10)
  234. N. Minematsu,
    "Pronunciation assessment based upon the compatibility between a learner's pronunciation structure and the target language's lexical structure,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'2004), pp.1317-1320 (2004-10)
  235. N. Minematsu,
    "Pronunciation assessment based upon the phonological distortions observed in language learners' utterances,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'2004), pp.1669-1672 (2004-10)
  236. K. Hirose, K. Sato, and N. Minematsu,
    "Corpus-based generation of F0 contours using generation process model for emotional speech synthesis,"
    Proc. Int. Workshop, Sound to Sense (2004-6)
  237. K. Hirose, K. Sato, and N. Minematsu,
    "Corpus-based synthesis of fundamental frequency contours with various speaking styles from text using F0 contour generation process model,"
    Proc. Int. Workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW'2004) (2004-6)
  238. N. Minematsu,
    "Yet another acoustic representation of speech sounds,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Acousitcs, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP'2004), pp.585-588 (2004-5)
  239. N. Minematsu, Y. Tomiyama, K. Yoshimoto, K. Shimizu, S. Nakagawa, M. Dantsuji, and S. Makino,
    "Development of English speech database read by Japanese to support CALL research,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Acoustics (ICA'2004), pp.557-560 (2004-4)
  240. K. Nishina, Y. Yoshimura, I. Saita, Y. Takai, K. Maekawa, N. Minematsu, S. Nakagawa, S. Makino, and M. Dantsuji,
    "Development of Japanese speech database read by non-native speakers for constructing CALL system,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Acoustics (ICA'2004), pp.561-564 (2004-4)
  241. N. Minematsu, B. Matsuoka, and K. Hirose,
    "Prosodic modeling of Nagauta singing and its evaluation,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Speech Prosody, pp.487-490 (2004-3)
  242. S. Narusawa, N. Minematsu, K. Hirose, and H. Fujisaki,
    "Evaluation of an improved method for automatic extraction of model parameters from fundamental frequency contours of speech,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Speech Prosody, pp.443-446 (2004-3)
  243. K. Hirose, K. Sato, and N. Minematsu,
    "Emotional speech synthesis with corpus-based generation of F0 contours using generation process model,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Speech Prosody, pp.421-424 (2004-3)
  244. K. Hirose, Y. Furuyama, S. Narusawa, N. Minematsu, and H. Fujisaki,
    "Use of linguistic information of accent phrases for automatic extraction of F0 contour generation process model parameters,"
    Proc. Oriental COCOSDA, pp.38-45 (2003-10)
  245. K. Hirose, T. Ono, and N. Minematsu,
    "Corpus-based synthesis of fundamental frequency contours of Japanese using automatically-generated prosodic corpus and generation process model,"
    Proc. European Conf. Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH'2003), pp.333-336 (2003-9)
  246. K. Hirose, Y. Furuyama, S. Narusawa, N. Minematsu, and H. Fujisaki,
    "Use of linguistic information for automatic extraction of F0 contour generation process model parameters,"
    Proc. European Conf. Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH'2003), pp.141-144 (2003-9)
  247. K. Hirose, J. Tago, and N. Minematsu,
    "Speech generation from concept for realizing conversation with an agent in a virtual room,"
    Proc. European Conf. Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH'2003), pp.1693-1696 (2003-9)
  248. N. Minematsu, B. Matsuoka, and K. Hirose,
    "Prosodic analysis and modeling of the NAGAUTA singing to synthesize its prosodic patterns from the standard notation,"
    Proc. European Conf. Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH'2003), pp.385-388 (2003-9)
  249. N. Minematsu, K. Yamauchi, and K. Hirose,
    "Automatic estimation of perceptual age using speaker modeling techniques,"
    Proc. European Conf. Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH'2003), pp.3005-3008 (2003-9)
  250. N. Minematsu, K. Ohsaki, and K. Hirose,
    "Improvement of non-native speech recognition by effectively modeling frequently observed pronunciation habits,"
    Proc. European Conf. Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH'2003), pp.2597-2600 (2003-9)
  251. N. Minematsu, C. Guo, and K. Hirose,
    "CART-based factor analysis of intelligibility reduction in Japanese English,"
    Proc. European Conf. Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH'2003), pp.2069-2072 (2003-9)
  252. K. Hirose, F. Gendrin, and N. Minematsu,
    "A pronunciation training system for Japanese lexical accents with corrective feedback in learner's voice,"
    Proc. European Conf. Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH'2003), pp.3149-3152 (2003-9)
  253. N. Nishizawa, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Estimation of resonant characteristics based on AR-HMM modeling and spectral envelope conversion of vowel sounds,"
    Proc. European Conf. Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH'2003), pp.885-888 (2003-9)
  254. T. Mouri, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Considerations on vowel durations for Japanese CALL system,"
    Proc. European Conf. Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH'2003), pp.3153-3156 (2003-9)
  255. N. Minematsu, G. Kurata, and K. Hirose,
    "Corpus-based analysis of production and perception of Japanese English in view of the entire phonemic system of English,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Phonetic Science (ICPhS'2003), pp.1569-1572 (2003-8)
  256. K. Hirose, T. Katsura, and N. Minematsu,
    "Corpus-based synthesis of F0 contours for emotional speech using the generation process model,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Phonetic Science (ICPhS), pp.2945-2948 (2003-8)
  257. N. Minematsu, K. Hirose, and K. Yamauchi,
    "How old do you sound ? --- Automatic estimation of your perceptual age ---,"
    Proc. Int. Workshop Man-Machine Symbiotic Systems, Demonstrations, pp.7 (2002-11)
  258. S. Kawamoto, H. Shimodaira, T. Nitta, T. Nishimoto, S. Nakamura, K. Itou, S. Morishima, T. Yotsukura, A. Kai, A. Lee, Y. Yamashita, T. Kobayashi, K. Tokuda, K. Hirose, N. Minematsu, A. Yamada, Y. Den, T. Utsuro, and S. Sagayama,
    "Open-source software for developing anthropomorphic spoken dialog agents,"
    Proc. Int. Workshop on Lifelike Animated Agents, pp.64-69 (2002-8)
  259. S. Narusawa, N. Minematsu, K. Hirose, and H, Fujisaki,
    "Automatic extraction of model parameters from fundamental frequency contours of English utterances,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'2002), pp.1725-1728 (2002-9)
  260. B. Li, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Robust speech recognition using inter-speaker and intra-speaker adaptation,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'2002), pp.1397-1400 (2002-9)
  261. N. Nishizawa, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Separation of voiced source characteristics and vocal tract transfer function characteristics for speech sounds by iterative analysis based on AR-HMM model,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'2002), pp.1721-1724 (2002-9)
  262. K. Hirose, N. Minematsu, and M. Terao,
    "Statistical language modeling with prosodic boundaries and its use for continuous speech recognition,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'2002), pp.937-940 (2002-9)
  263. K. Hirose, M. Eto, and N. Minematsu,
    "Improved corpus-based synthesis of fundamental frequency contours using generation model,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'2002), pp.2085-2088 (2002-9)
  264. N. Minematsu, S. Kobashikawa, K. Hirose, and D. Erickson,
    "Acoustic modeling of sentence stress using differential features between syllables for English rhythm learning system development,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'2002), pp.745-748 (2002-9)
  265. N. Minematsu, G. Kurata, and K. Hirose,
    "Corpus-based analysis of English spoken by Japanese students in view of the entire phonemic system of English,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'2002), pp.1213-1216 (2002-9)
  266. N. Minematsu, G. Kurata, and K. Hirose,
    "Integration of MLLR adaptation with pronunciation proficiency adaptation for non-native speech recognition,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'2002), pp.529-532 (2002-9)
  267. N. Minematsu, R. Kita, and K. Hirose,
    "Automatic estimation of accentual attribute values of words to realize accent sandhi in Japanese text-to-speech conversion,"
    CD-ROM of IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW'2002) (2002-9)
  268. S. Kiriyama, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Prosodic focus control in reply speech generation for a spoken dialogue system of information retrieval,"
    CD-ROM of IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW'2002) (2002-9)
  269. N. Minematsu, Y. Tomiyama, K. Yoshimoto, K. Shimizu, S. Nakagawa, M. Dantsuji, and S. Makino,
    "English speech database read by Japanese learners for CALL system development,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'2002), pp.896-903 (2002-5)
  270. K. Nishina, Y. Yoshimura, I. Saita, Y. Takai, K. Maekawa, N. Minematsu, S. Nakagawa, S. Makino, and M. Dantsuji,
    "Speech database construction for Japanese as second language learning,"
    Proc. SNLP-Oriental COCOSDA'2002, pp.187-191 (2002)
  271. N. Minematsu, M. Sekiguchi, and K. Hirose,
    "Automatic estimation of one's age with his/her speech based upon acoustic modeling techniques of speakers,"
    Proc. IEEE Inf. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP'2002), pp.137-140 (2002-5)
  272. S. Narusawa, N. Minematsu, K. Hirose, and H. Fujisaki,
    "A method for automatic extraction of model parameters from fundamental frequency contours of speech,"
    Proc. IEEE Inf. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP'2002), pp.509-512 (2002-5)
  273. C. T. Ishi, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Using perceptually-related F0- and power-based parameters to identify accent types of accentual phrases,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Speech Prosody, pp.407-410 (2002-4)
  274. S. Kiriyama, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Control of prosodic focuses for reply speech generation in a spoken dialogue system of information retrieval on academic documents,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Speech Prosody, pp.431-434 (2002-4)
  275. N. Minematsu, M. Sekiguchi, and K. Hirose,
    "Performance improvement in estimating subjective agedness with prosodic features,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Speech Prosody, pp.507-510 (2002-4)
  276. K. Hirose, N. Minematsu, and M. Terao,
    "N-gram language modeling of Japanese using prosodic boundaries,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Speech Prosody, pp.395-398 (2002-4)
  277. K. Hirose, N. Minematsu, and M. Eto,
    "Data-driven synthesis of fundamental frequency contours for TTS systems based upon a generation process model,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Speech Prosody, pp.391-394 (2002-4)
  278. N. Minematsu, S. Kobashikawa, K. Hirose, and D. Erickson,
    "Acoustic modeling of sentence stress and its detection for learning English rhythm,"
    Proc. Conf. Integration of Speech Technology into Learning (INSTIL'2002) (2002-3)
  279. C. T. Ishi, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "F0 representation for a perceptually meaningful audio-visual feedback in the learning of accent and intonation,"
    Proc. Conf. Integration of Speech Technology into Learning (INSTIL'2002) (2002-3)
  280. S. Kawamoto, H. Shimodaira, S. Sagayama, T. Nitta, T. Nishimoto, S. Nakamura, K. Itou, S. Morishima, T. Yotsukura, A. Kai, A. Lee, Y. Yamashita, T. Kobayashi, K. Tokuda, K. Hirose, N. Minematsu, A. Yamada, Y. Den, and T. Utsuro,
    "Developments of anthropomorphic dialog agent: A plan and development and its significance,"
    Proc. Int. Workshop on Information Presentation and Natural Multimodal Dialogue (2001-12)
  281. T. Moriya, K. Hirose, N. Minematsu, and H. Jiang,
    "Enhanced MAP adaptation of N-gram language models using indirect correlation of distant words,"
    Proc. IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU'2001) (2001)
  282. K. Hirose, N. Minematsu, Y. Hashimoto, and K. Iwano,
    "Continuous speech recognition of Japanese using prosodic word boundaries detected by mora transition of fundamental frequency contours,"
    Proc. ISCA Workshop on Prosody in Speech Recognition and Understanding, pp.61-66 (2001)
  283. C. T. Ishi, N. Minematsu, and K. Hirose,
    "Recognition of accent and intonation types of Japanese using F0 parameters related to human pitch perception,"
    Proc. ISCA Workshop on Prosody in Speech Recognition and Understanding, pp.71-76 (2001)
  284. S. W. Lee, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Incorporation of prosodic modules for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition,"
    Proc. ISCA Workshop on Prosody in Speech Recognition and Understanding, pp.97-101 (2001)
  285. N. Minematsu, K. Tsuda, and K. Hirose,
    "Quantitative analysis of F0-induced variations of cepstrum coefficients,"
    Proc. ISCA Workshop on Prosody in Speech Recognition and Understanding, pp.113-117 (2001)
  286. N. Minematsu, Y. Tomiyama, K. Yoshimoto, K. Shimizu, S. Nakagawa, M. Dantsuji, and S. Makino,
    "Development of English speech database spoken by Japanese learners,"
    Proc. COCOSDA Workshop'2001, pp.76-81 (2001)
  287. S. Kiriyama, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Use of topic knowledge in spoken dialogue information retrieval system for academic docuemnts,"
    Proc. European Conf. Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH'2001), pp.1315-1318 (2001)
  288. K. Hirose, M. Eto, N. Minematsu, and A. Sakurai,
    "Corpus-based synthesis of fundamental frequency contour based on a generation process model,"
    Proc. European Conf. Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH'2001), pp.2255-2258 (2001)
  289. C. T. Ishi, N. Minematsu, and K. Hirose,
    "Identification of accent and intonation in sentences for CALL systems,"
    Proc. European Conf. Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH'2001), pp.2455-2458 (2001)
  290. N. Nakamura, N. Minematsu, and S. Nakagawa,
    "Instantaneous estimation of accentuation habits for Japanese students to learn English pronunciation,"
    Proc. European Conf. Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH'2001), pp.2811-2814 (2001)
  291. S. Narusawa, N. Minematsu, K. Hirose, and H. Fujisaki,
    "Automatic extraction of parameters from fundamental frequency contours of speech,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Speech Processing (ICSP'2001), pp.833-838 (2001)
  292. C. T. Ishi, N. Minematsu, K. Hirose, and R. Nishide,
    "Investigation on perceived pitch and observed F0 features to represent Japanese pitch accent pattern,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Speech Processing (ICSP'2001), pp.437-442 (2001)
  293. A. Sakurai, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Generation of F0 contours using a model-constrained data-driven method,"
    Proc. IEEE Inf. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP'2001), pp.817-820 (2001)
  294. S. Kiriyama, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Development and evaluation of a spoken dialogue system for academic document retrieval with a focus on reply generation,"
    Proc. Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST'2000), pp.32-37 (2000)
  295. T. Kawahara, A. Lee, T. Kobayashi, K. Takeda, N. Minematsu, S. Sagayama, K. Itou, A. Itou, and K. Shikano,
    "Free software toolkit for Japanese large oral vocabulary continuous speech recognition,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'2000), pp.476-479 (2000)
  296. B. Li, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Modeling phone correlation for speaker adaptive speech recognition,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'2000), pp.350-353 (2000)
  297. N. Nishizawa, N. Minematsu, and K. Hirose,
    "Development of a formant-based analysis-synthesis system and generation of high quality liquid sounds of Japanese,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'2000), pp.725-728 (2000)
  298. C. Ishi, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Identification of Japanese double-mora phonemes considering speaking rate for the use in CALL systems,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'2000), pp.786-789 (2000)
  299. K. Hirose, N. Minematsu, and H. Kawanami,
    "Analytical and perceptual study on the role of acoustic features in realizing emotional speech,
    Proc. Int. Conf. Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'2000), pp.369-372 (2000)
  300. A. Sakurai, N. Minematsu, and K. Hirose,
    "Data-driven intonation modeling using a neural network and a command response model,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'2000), pp.223-226 (2000)
  301. S. W. Lee, K. Hirose, and N. Minematsu,
    "Efficient search strategy in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition using prosodic boundary information,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'2000), pp.274-277 (2000)
  302. N. Minematsu and S. Nakagawa,
    "Instantaneous estimation of prosodic pronunciation habits for interactive instructions to learn English pronunciation,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'2000), pp.191-194 (2000)
  303. N. Minematsu, Y. Fujisawa and S. Nakagawa,
    "Performance comparison among HMM, DTW, and human abilities in terms of identifying stress patterns of word uterances,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'2000), pp.617-620 (2000)
  304. N. Minematsu} and S. Nakagawa,
    "Quality improvement of PSOLA analysis-synthesis using partial zero-phase conversion,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'2000), pp.779-782 (2000)
  305. N. Minematsu and S. Nakagawa,
    "Visualization of pronunciation habits using speech recognition techniques,"
    Proc. Western Pacific Regional Acoustics Conference (WESTPRAC'2000), pp.141-144 (2000)
  306. N. Minematsu and S. Nakagawa,
    "Instantaneous estimation of prosodic pronunciation habits for interactive feedback to Japanese learning English,"
    Proc. European Conference on Computer Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL'2000) (2000)
  307. N. Minematsu and S. Nakagawa,
    "Visualization of pronunciation habits based upon abstract representation of acoustic observations,"
    Proc. Conf. Integration of Speech Technology into Learning (INSTIL'2000), pp.130-137 (2000)
  308. K. Shikano, T. Kawahara, K. Takeda, A. Yamada, A. Itou, K. Itou, T. Utsuro, T. Kobayashi, N. Minematsu, M. Yamamoto, S. Sagayama, and A. Lee,
    "IPA Japanese Dictation Free Software Project,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'2000), (2000)
  309. T. Kawahara, T. Kobayashi, K. Takeda, N. Minematsu, K. Itou, M. Yamamoto, A. Yamada, T. Utsuro and K. Shikano,
    "Japanese dictation toolkit: plug-and-play framework for speech recognition R&D,"
    Proc. Int. Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU'99), pp.393-396 (1999)
  310. S. Nakagawa, K. Hanai, K. Yamamoto and N. Minematsu,
    "Comparison of syllable-based HMMs and triphone-based HMMs in Japanese speech recognition,"
    Proc. Int. Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU'99), pp.197-200 (1999)
  311. N. Minematsu, Y. Fujisawa and S. Nakagawa,
    "Estimation of pronunciation habits and its application to prosodic evaluation of pronunciation proficiency,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Computers in Education (ICCE'99), pp.177-200 (1999)
  312. N. Minematsu and S. Nakagawa,
    "Acceleration of lexical access caused by word familiarity and by accent nucleus perception in Japanese,"
    Proc. Int. Workshop on Speech and Computer (SPECOM'99), pp.83-86 (1999)
  313. T. Kawahara, T. Kobayashi, K. Takeda, N. Minematsu, K. Itou, M. Yamamoto, A. Yamada, T. Utsuro and K. Shikano,
    "Japanese dictation toolkit --- free software repository for speech recognition ---,"
    Proc. European Speech Communication Association (ESCA) Workshop on Interactive Dialogue in Multi-Modal Systems, p.161 (1999)
  314. N. Minematsu and S. Nakagawa,
    "Role of accent nuclei and word familiarity in accelerating Japanese word recognition,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Speech Processing (ICSP'99), pp.601-606 (1999)
  315. N. Minematsu, Y. Fujisawa and S. Nakagawa,
    "Prosodic evaluation of English words spoken by Japanese based upon estimating their pronunciation habits,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Speech Processing (ICSP'99), pp.439-444 (1999)
  316. T. Kawahara, A. Lee, T. Kobayashi, K. Takeda, N. Minematsu, K. Itou, A. Ito, M. Yamamoto, A. Yamada, T. Utsuro and K. Shikano,
    "Common platform of Japanese large vocabulary continuous speech recognizer assessment --- proposal and initial results ---,"
    Proc. 1st Int. Workshop on East-Asian Language Resource and Evaluation (EALREW'98, Oriental-COCOSDA Workshop), pp.117-122 (1998)
  317. T. Kawahara, T. Kobayashi, K. Takeda, N. Minematsu, K. Itou, M. Yamamoto, T. Utsuro and K. Shikano,
    "Sharable software repository for Japanese large vocabulary continuous speech recognition,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'98), pp.3257-3260 (1998)
  318. K. Hanai, K. Yamamoto, N. Minematsu and S. Nakagawa,
    "Continuous speech recognition using segmental unit input with a mixture of probability density functions and context dependency,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'98), pp.2935-2938 (1998)
  319. N. Minematsu and S. Nakagawa,
    "Modeling of variations in cepstral coefficients caused by F0 changes and its application to speech processing,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'98), pp.1063-1066 (1998)
  320. N. Minematsu, Y. Fujisawa and S. Nakagawa,
    "Evaluation of Japanese manners of generating word accent of English based on a stressed syllable detection technique,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'98), pp.3103-3106 (1998)
  321. N. Minematsu, N. Ohashi and S. Nakagawa,
    "Automatic detection of accent in English words spoken by Japanese students,"
    Proc. European Conf. Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH'97), pp.701-705 (1997)
  322. N. Minematsu and S. Nakagawa,
    "Correlation between acoustic pauses and perceptual pauses in speech,"
    Proc. Acoust. Soc. America (ASA) & Acoust. Soc. Japan (ASJ) Joint Meeting, pp.1193-1198 (1996)
  323. N. Minematsu and S. Nakagawa,
    "Automatic detection of accent nuclei at the head of words for speech recognition,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'96), pp.1620-1623 (1996)
  324. N. Minematsu, S. Nakagawa and K. Hirose,
    "Prosodic manipulation system of speech material for perceptual experiments,"
    Proc. Int. Conf. Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'96), pp.2056-2059 (1996)
  325. N. Minematsu and K. Hirose,
    "Influence of prosodic features on the human process of speech perception,"
    Proc. Japan-China Symposium on Advanced Information Technology, pp.69-75 (1994)
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    "Role of prosodic features in the human process of speech perception,"
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