This review gives a general overview of techniques used in statistical parametric speech
synthesis. One instance of these techniques, called hidden Markov model (HMM)-based …

Despite the presence of many carbohydrolytic activities in insects, their cellulolytic
mechanisms are poorly understood. Whereas cellulase genes are absent from the genomes of …

Ionic liquids (ILs) are ambient temperature molten salts that have attracted considerable
attention because of their negligible volatility, thermal stability, nonflammability, and high ionic …

The alkyl chain length of 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethane sulfonyl)imide ([Rmim][(CF
3 SO 2 ) 2 N], R = methyl (m), ethyl (e), butyl (b), hexyl (C 6 ), and octyl (C 8 )) was …

Room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) based on 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium ([bmim]) with
a variety of fluorinated anions were prepared, and the thermal behavior, density, viscosity, …

This paper derives a speech parameter generation algorithm for HMM-based speech synthesis,
in which the speech parameter sequence is generated from HMMs whose observation …

Room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) are liquids consisting entirely of ions, and their important
properties, eg, negligible vapor pressure, are considered to result from the ionic nature. …

In this paper, we describe a novel spectral conversion method for voice conversion (VC). A
Gaussian mixture model (GMM) of the joint probability density of source and target features is …

In this paper, we describe an HMM-based speech synthesis system in which spectrum, pitch
and state duration are modeled simultaneously in a unified framework of HMM. In the system…

Lasing action of a surface-emitting laser with a two-dimensional photonic crystal structure is
investigated. The photonic crystal has a triangular-lattice structure composed of InP and air …