Publications

CONFERENCE (INTERNATIONAL)
PASQA: Pitch-Accent-Focused Speech Quality Assessment Model Trained on Synthetic Speech with Accent Errors: Masaya Kawamura, Yuma Shirahata, Kentaro Mitsui, Reo Shimizu; The 27th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2026); September 30, 2026

CONFERENCE (INTERNATIONAL)
Online Predictive Coding for Dual-Mode Self-Supervised Speech Models: Keita Goto, Takashi Maekaku, Jin Sakuma, Jinchuan Tian (Carnegie Mellon University), Yusuke Shinohara, Shinji Watanabe (Carnegie Mellon University); The 27th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2026); September 28, 2026

CONFERENCE (INTERNATIONAL)
Bagpiper-TTS: Natural Language Guided Universal Speech Synthesis: Jinchuan Tian (Carnegie Mellon University), Haoran Wang (Carnegie Mellon University), Siddhant Arora (Carnegie Mellon University), Takashi Maekaku, Keita Goto, Jin Sakuma, Yusuke Shinohara, Chao-Han Huck Yang (NVIDIA Research), Shinji Watanabe (Carnegie Mellon University); The 27th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2026); September 27, 2026

CONFERENCE (INTERNATIONAL)
Refining Pseudo-Audio Prompts with Speech-Text Alignment for Text-Only Domain Adaptation in LLM-Based ASR: Ryo Magoshi (Kyoto University), Takashi Maekaku, Yusuke Shinohara; The 27th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2026); September 27, 2026

CONFERENCE (INTERNATIONAL)
CC-G2PNP: Streaming Grapheme-to-Phoneme and Prosody with Conformer-CTC for Unsegmented Languages: Yuma Shirahata, Ryuichi Yamamoto; 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2026); May 07, 2026

CONFERENCE (INTERNATIONAL)
CASTELLA: Long Audio Dataset with Captions and Temporal Boundaries: Hokuto Munakata, Takehiro Imamura (Nagoya University), Taichi Nishimura, Tatsuya Komatsu; 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2026); May 06, 2026

CONFERENCE (INTERNATIONAL)
Wave-Trainer-Fit: Neural Vocoder With Trainable Prior And Fixed-Point Iteration Towards High-Quality Speech Generation From SSL Features: Hien Ohnaka (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Yuma Shirahata, Masaya Kawamura; 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2026); May 05, 2026

CONFERENCE (INTERNATIONAL)
Online Register For Dual-Mode Self-Supervised Speech Models: Mitigating the Lack of Future Context: Keita Goto, Takashi Maekaku, Jin Sakuma, Jinchuan Tian (Carnegie Mellon University), Yusuke Shinohara, Shinji Watanabe (Carnegie Mellon University); 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2026); May 04, 2026

CONFERENCE (DOMESTIC)
ニューラルオーディオコーデック特徴量を用いた音声から話者特有の表情予測モデルの構築及び分析: 朴浚鎔 (東京大学), 陳晋升 (東京大学), 土井啓成, 朴炳宣, 白旗悠真, 橘健太郎, 楊棟 (東京大学), 齋藤佑樹 (東京大学), 猿渡洋 (東京大学); 日本音響学会 2026年春季研究発表会 (ASJ 2026 spring); March 19, 2026

CONFERENCE (DOMESTIC)
テキストベースの大規模言語モデルを用いた音声事前学習モデルの評価: 前角高史, 後藤啓太, Jinchuan Tian (カーネギーメロン大学), 篠原雄介, 渡部晋治 (カーネギーメロン大学); 日本音響学会 2026年春季研究発表会 (ASJ 2026 spring); March 17, 2026

OTHERS (INTERNATIONAL)
Online Register for Dual-Mode Self-Supervised Speech Models: Mitigating The Lack of Future Context: Keita Goto, Takashi Maekaku, Jin Sakuma, Jinchuan Tian (Carnegie Mellon University), Yusuke Shinohara, Shinji Watanabe (Carnegie Mellon University); arXiv.org (arXiv); March 02, 2026

OTHERS (INTERNATIONAL)
Bagpiper: Solving Open-Ended Audio Tasks via Rich Captions: Jinchuan Tian (Carnegie Mellon University), Haoran Wang (Carnegie Mellon University), Bo-Hao Su (Carnegie Mellon University), Chien-Yu Huang (Carnegie Mellon University), Qingzheng Wang (Carnegie Mellon University), Jiatong Shi (Carnegie Mellon University), William Chen (Carnegie Mellon University), Xun Gong (Carnegie Mellon University), Siddhant Arora (Carnegie Mellon University), Chin-Jou Li (Carnegie Mellon University), Masao Someki (Carnegie Mellon University), Takashi Maekaku, Keita Goto, Yusuke Shinohara, Jin Sakuma, Chao-Han Huck Yang (NVIDIA Research), Shinji Watanabe (Carnegie Mellon University); arXiv.org (arXiv); February 06, 2026

WORKSHOP (INTERNATIONAL)
CAVIARES: Corpus for Audio-Visual Expressive Voice Agent: Jinsheng Chen (The University of Tokyo), Yuki Saito (The University of Tokyo), Dong Yang (The University of Tokyo), Naoko Tanji (The University of Tokyo), Hironori Doi, Byeongseon Park, Yuma Shirahata, Kentaro Tachibana, Hiroshi Saruwatari (The University of Tokyo); 2025 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2025); December 09, 2025

WORKSHOP (INTERNATIONAL)
Evaluating Self-Supervised Speech Models Via Text-Based LLMs: Takashi Maekaku, Keita Goto, Jinchuan Tian (Carnegie Mellon University), Yusuke Shinohara, Shinji Watanabe (Carnegie Mellon University); 2025 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2025); December 08, 2025

OTHERS (INTERNATIONAL)
CASTELLA: Long Audio Dataset with Captions and Temporal Boundaries: Hokuto Munakata, Takehiro Imamura (Nagoya University), Taichi Nishimura, Tatsuya Komatsu; arXiv.org (arXiv); November 19, 2025

OTHERS (INTERNATIONAL)
Evaluating Self-Supervised Speech Models via Text-Based LLMS: Takashi Maekaku, Keita Goto, Jinchuan Tian (Carnegie Mellon University), Yusuke Shinohara, Shinji Watanabe (Carnegie Mellon University); arXiv.org (arXiv); October 07, 2025

CONFERENCE (DOMESTIC)
BitTTS: 1.58-bit量子化と重みインデキシングによる軽量なテキスト音声合成: 川村真也, 蓮実拓也, 白旗悠真, 山本龍一; 日本音響学会 2025年秋季研究発表会 (ASJ 2025 autumn); September 11, 2025

OTHERS (DOMESTIC)
映画音源分離のための非言語音声を含むデータセット: 蓮実拓也, 藤田雄介; 日本音響学会 2025年秋季研究発表会 (ASJ 2025 autumn); September 10, 2025

CONFERENCE (DOMESTIC)
音声からの音素・韻律ラベルの獲得とその応用: 白旗悠真, 朴炳宣, 山本龍一; 日本音響学会 2025年秋季研究発表会 (ASJ 2025 autumn); September 10, 2025

CONFERENCE (INTERNATIONAL)
BitTTS: Highly Compact Text-to-Speech Using 1.58-bit Quantization and Weight Indexing: Masaya Kawamura, Takuya Hasumi, Yuma Shirahata, Ryuichi Yamamoto; The 26th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2025); August 21, 2025