Kiyohiro Shikano

Research.com Recognitions

• 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Japan Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Japan Leader Award
• 2007 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to speech recognition, dialog systems, voice conversion, and acoustic field realization

Overview

Best Publications

• Phoneme recognition using time-delay neural networks

  Alexander Waibel;Toshiyuki Hanazawa;Geoffrey Hinton;Kiyohiro Shikano

  4099
  Citations

• Julius --- An Open Source Real-Time Large Vocabulary Recognition Engine

  Akinobu Lee;Tatsuya Kawahara;Kiyohiro Shikano

  883
  Citations

• Voice conversion through vector quantization

  Masanobu Abe;Satoshi Nakamura;Kiyohiro Shikano;Hisao Kuwabara

  827
  Citations

• Voice conversion through vector quantization

  M. Abe;S. Nakamura;K. Shikano;H. Kuwabara

  649
  Citations

• ATR Japanese speech database as a tool of speech recognition and synthesis

  Akira Kurematsu;Kazuya Takeda;Yoshinori Sagisaka;Shigeru Katagiri

  397
  Citations

• JNAS: Japanese speech corpus for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition research

  Katunobu Itou;Mikio Yamamoto;Kazuya Takeda;Toshiyuki Takezawa

  373
  Citations

• Blind source separation combining independent component analysis and beamforming

  Hiroshi Saruwatari;Satoshi Kurita;Kazuya Takeda;Fumitada Itakura

  264
  Citations

• Modularity and scaling in large phonemic neural networks

  A. Waibel;H. Sawai;K. Shikano

  263
  Citations

• Speaker adaptation through vector quantization

  K. Shikano;Kai-Fu Lee;R. Reddy

  257
  Citations

• Blind source separation based on a fast-convergence algorithm combining ICA and beamforming

  H. Saruwatari;T. Kawamura;T. Nishikawa;A. Lee

  250
  Citations

• Phoneme recognition: neural networks vs. hidden Markov models vs. hidden Markov models

  A. Waibel;T. Hanazawa;G. Hinton;K. Shikano

  249
  Citations

• Speaking-aid systems using GMM-based voice conversion for electrolaryngeal speech

  Keigo Nakamura;Tomoki Toda;Hiroshi Saruwatari;Kiyohiro Shikano

  229
  Citations

• Voice conversion algorithm based on Gaussian mixture model with dynamic frequency warping of STRAIGHT spectrum

  T. Toda;H. Saruwatari;K. Shikano

  224
  Citations

• Statistical Voice Conversion Techniques for Body-Conducted Unvoiced Speech Enhancement

  T. Toda;M. Nakagiri;K. Shikano

  219
  Citations

• Consonant recognition by modular construction of large phonemic time-delay neural networks

  A. Waibel;H. Sawai;K. Shikano

  181
  Citations

• Lip movement synthesis from speech based on hidden Markov models

  E. Yamamoto;S. Nakamura;K. Shikano

  167
  Citations

• Free software toolkit for Japanese large vocabulary continuous speech recognition

  Tatsuya Kawahara;Akinobu Lee;Tetsunori Kobayashi;Kazuya Takeda

  161
  Citations

• Blind Spatial Subtraction Array for Speech Enhancement in Noisy Environment

  Y. Takahashi;T. Takatani;K. Osako;H. Saruwatari

  147
  Citations

• Localization of multiple sound sources based on a CSP analysis with a microphone array

  T. Nishiura;T. Yamada;S. Nakamura;K. Shikano

  142
  Citations

• Eigenvoice Conversion Based on Gaussian Mixture Model

  Tomoki Toda;Yamato Ohtani;Kiyohiro Shikano

  141
  Citations