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Hideki Kawahara

Hideki Kawahara

Overview

Hideki Kawahara is affiliated with Wakayama University in Japan and has a research focus primarily in computer science with significant work in subfields such as signal processing, artificial intelligence, experimental and cognitive psychology, computer vision and pattern recognition, and cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist's research spans multiple topics including speech and audio processing, speech recognition and synthesis, music and audio processing, phonetics and phonology research, hearing loss and rehabilitation, music technology and sound studies, and ultrasonics and acoustic wave propagation.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Hideki Kawahara include:

  • "Modelling speaker-size discrimination with voiced and unvoiced speech sounds based on the effect of spectral lift" (2021, Speech Communication)
  • "Interactive tools for making vocoder-based signal processing accessible: Flexible manipulation of speech attributes for explorational research and education" (2023, Nippon Onkyo Gakkaishi/Acoustical science and technology/Nihon Onkyo Gakkaishi)
  • "Simultaneous measurement of time-invariant linear and nonlinear, and random and extra responses using frequency domain variant of velvet noise" (2020, arXiv (Cornell University))
  • "STRAIGHTMORPH: A Voice Morphing Tool for Research in Voice Communication Sciences" (2024, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory))
  • "Safeguarding test signals for acoustic measurement using arbitrary sounds: Measuring impulse response by playing music" (2022, Nippon Onkyo Gakkaishi/Acoustical science and technology/Nihon Onkyo Gakkaishi)

Hideki Kawahara frequently publishes in venues including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nippon Onkyo Gakkaishi/Acoustical science and technology/Nihon Onkyo Gakkaishi
  • Speech Communication
  • Interspeech 2022
  • Open Research Europe

Collaborations have been a notable aspect of their research career, with frequent coauthors comprising Masanori Morise, Ken-Ichi Sakakibara, Kohei Yatabe, Hideki Banno, and Tatsuya Kitamura.

The combination of research venues, topics, and collaborations reflects a multidisciplinary approach centered around speech and audio technologies and their applications in both theoretical and practical contexts.

Best Publications

  • YIN, a fundamental frequency estimator for speech and music

    Alain de Cheveigné;Hideki Kawahara

  • Restructuring speech representations using a pitch-adaptive time-frequency smoothing and an instantaneous-frequency-based F0 extraction: possible role of a repetitive structure in sounds

    Hideki Kawahara;Ikuyo Masuda-Katsuse;Alain de Cheveigné

  • Tandem-STRAIGHT: A temporally stable power spectral representation for periodic signals and applications to interference-free spectrum, F0, and aperiodicity estimation

    H. Kawahara;M. Morise;T. Takahashi;R. Nisimura

  • STRAIGHT, exploitation of the other aspect of VOCODER : Perceptually isomorphic decomposition of speech sounds

    Hideki Kawahara

  • Aperiodicity extraction and control using mixed mode excitation and group delay manipulation for a high quality speech analysis, modification and synthesis system STRAIGHT.

    Hideki Kawahara;Jo Estill;Osamu Fujimura

  • Speech representation and transformation using adaptive interpolation of weighted spectrum: vocoder revisited

    H. Kawahara

  • Fixed point analysis of frequency to instantaneous frequency mapping for accurate estimation of F0 and periodicity

    Hideki Kawahara;Haruhiro Katayose;Alain de Cheveigné;Roy D. Patterson

  • The processing and perception of size information in speech sounds

    David R. R. Smith;Roy D. Patterson;Richard Turner;Hideki Kawahara

  • Auditory morphing based on an elastic perceptual distance metric in an interference-free time-frequency representation

    H. Kawahara;H. Matsui

  • Technical foundations of TANDEM-STRAIGHT, a speech analysis, modification and synthesis framework

    Hideki Kawahara;Masanori Morise

  • Nearly defect-free F0 trajectory extraction for expressive speech modifications based on STRAIGHT.

    Hideki Kawahara;Alain de Cheveigné;Hideki Banno;Toru Takahashi

  • Underlying Principles of a High-quality Speech Manipulation System STRAIGHT and Its Application to Speech Segregation

    Hideki Kawahara;Toshio Irino

  • Multiple period estimation and pitch perception model

    Alain de Cheveigné;Hideki Kawahara

  • Comparative evaluation of F0 estimation algorithms.

    Alain de Cheveigné;Hideki Kawahara

  • Concurrent vowel identification. I. Effects of relative amplitude and F0 difference

    Alain de Cheveigné;Hideki Kawahara;Minoru Tsuzaki;Kiyoaki Aikawa

  • Speaker perception: Speaker perception

    Stefan R. Schweinberger;Hideki Kawahara;Adrian P. Simpson;Verena G. Skuk

  • Signal reconstruction from modified auditory wavelet transform

    T. Irino;H. Kawahara

  • An instantaneous-frequency-based pitch extraction method for high-quality speech transformation: revised TEMPO in the STRAIGHT-suite.

    Hideki Kawahara;Alain de Cheveigné;Roy D. Patterson

  • Temporally variable multi-aspect auditory morphing enabling extrapolation without objective and perceptual breakdown

    H. Kawahara;R. Nisimura;T. Irino;M. Morise

  • Implementation of realtime STRAIGHT speech manipulation system: Report on its first implementation

    Hideki Banno;Hiroaki Hata;Masanori Morise;Toru Takahashi

Frequent Co-Authors

Roy D. Patterson
Roy D. Patterson University of Cambridge
Alain de Cheveigné
Alain de Cheveigné École Normale Supérieure
Tomoki Toda
Tomoki Toda Nagoya University
Kiyohiro Shikano
Kiyohiro Shikano Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Stefan R. Schweinberger
Stefan R. Schweinberger Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Satoshi Nakamura
Satoshi Nakamura Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Heiga Zen
Heiga Zen Google (United States)
Daniel P. W. Ellis
Daniel P. W. Ellis Google (United States)
Pascal Belin
Pascal Belin Aix-Marseille University

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