| Aug 14, 2024 | I gave an invited talk on voice conversion at CITI, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Please find the slides here. |
| Jul 16, 2024 | I gave a lecture on voice conversion. Please find the slides here. |
| Jul 01, 2024 | We wrote a review paper on evaluation of synthesis speech, which was published at Acoustical Science and Technology, a journal in Japan. The English version can be found here. |
| Jun 14, 2024 | The VoiceMOS Challenge 2024 is officially over! Now you can freely get the datasets by registering through the CodaBench page. There will also be a special session at SLT 2024! |
| May 17, 2024 | One paper was accepted to IEEE/ACM TASLP. [Pretraining and Adaptation Techniques for Electrolaryngeal Speech Recognition] |
| Apr 16, 2024 | One paper was accepted to IEEE/ACM TASLP. [A Large-Scale Evaluation of Speech Foundation Models] |
| Apr 14, 2024 | One paper was presented at ICASSP 2024. [Electrolaryngeal Speech Intelligibility Enhancement through Robust Linguistic Encoders] |
| Apr 01, 2024 | I am now an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University. |
| Feb 16, 2024 | I successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis! |
| Dec 15, 2023 | Four papers were presented at ASRU 2023. [SVCC2023] [VoiceMOS Challenge 2023] [NU-SVCC2023] [N2D-VC-GST] |
| Aug 25, 2023 | A paper was accepted to APSIPA ASC 2023. [Evaluate-FAC] |
| Jun 26, 2023 | The Singing Voice Conversion Challenge 2023 is over! We have a summary paper submitted to arXiv. There will also be a special session at ASRU 2023! |
| Jun 05, 2023 | I was honored the Outstanding Graduate Student Award (学術奨励賞) of Nagoya University! |
| Apr 10, 2023 | I start serving as a student researcher at Google Japan. |
| Apr 07, 2023 | I open-sourced the seq2seq-vc toolkit! It is a toolkit for sequence-to-sequence voice conversion research. Please check it out! |
| Mar 15, 2023 | I open-sourced the s3prl-vc toolkit! It also comes with a HuggingFace Spaces demo. Please check them out! |
| Jan 19, 2023 | The first Singing Voice Conversion Challenge kicks off today! This is a new version of the voice conversion challenge (VCC) series that aims to compare techniques for singing voice conversion, in contrast to normal voice conversion. We are still accepting new challengers! If you are interested in participating, please fill in the registration form. |
| Dec 27, 2022 | The VTN journal paper received the 16th IEEE Signal Processing Society Japan Student Best Paper Award. Open access. |
| Jul 25, 2022 | One journal was accepted to the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing. ArXiv version. |
| Jun 14, 2022 | One paper [Expressive Speech-to-Speech Translation] was accepted to ICASSP 2023. Also, one paper I co-authored [Intermediate fine-tuning for pathological ASR] was also accepted. |
| Jun 14, 2022 | Two papers [End-to-end binaural synthesis] [VoiceMOS Challenge 2022] were accepted to Interspeech 2022. Also, one paper I co-authored [SSL for pathological ASR] was also accepted. |
| May 16, 2022 | I started my internship at FAIR (Fundamental AI Research), Meta. |
| Mar 23, 2022 | I was invited to give a talk at 音声言語情報処理研究会/音声研究会 (SLP/SP), a Japanese domestic conference. Slides are [here]. |
| Mar 23, 2022 | The VoiceMOS Challenge 2022 is over! We have a [summary paper] submitted to arXiv. The CodaLab competition page is still opened, and ANYONE can register to get the dataset and give it a try! |
| Jan 22, 2022 | Two first-author papers [S3PRL-VC] [LDNet] and one co-first author paper [N2D VC] were accepted to ICASSP 2022. Also, two papers I co-authored [mos-finetune-ssl] [Direct N2N VC] were also accepted. |
| Jan 13, 2022 | The VoiceMOS Challenge was accepted as a special session at INTERSPEECH 2022! Again, we are still accepting new challengers. If you are interested in participating, please contact us at voicemos2022@nii.ac.jp first then register at the CodaLab page. |
| Dec 20, 2021 | The first VoiceMOS Challenge kicks off today! This is a new challenge that aims to compare techniques for predicting the mean opinion score (MOS) of synthetic speech. We are still accepting new challengers! If you are interested in participating, please contact us at voicemos2022@nii.ac.jp. |
| Dec 17, 2021 | Received the Best Paper Award at APSIPA ASC 2021! |
| Sep 11, 2021 | One first-author paper [Prosody for ASR+TTS VC] was accepted to ASRU 2021. Also, one paper I co-authored [ELVC w/ Seq2seq] was accepted. |
| Aug 31, 2021 | Three co-author papers were accepted to APSIPA ASC 2021. [ELVC w/ lip] [Noisy-to-noisy VC] [Investigation of non-parallel seq2seq VC w/ synthetic data] |
| Aug 31, 2021 | I started my internship at Facebook Reality Labs Research. |
| Jul 27, 2021 | You can read some posts I wrote in the blog page, as long as you understand Mandarin Chinese. |
| Jun 04, 2021 | One first-author paper [Dysarthric VC w/ VTN+VAE] was accepted to Interspeech 2021. Also, one paper I co-authored [Relational data selection] was accepted. |
| Feb 22, 2021 | I successfully defensed my master’s thesis. Also, I successfully passed the Ph.D. entrance exam, and will become a Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University. |
| Jan 30, 2021 | One paper [EMA2S] was accepted to IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2021. |
| Jan 30, 2021 | Two first-author papers [VQVAE-VC] [BERT-ASR] were accepted to ICASSP 2021. Also, two papers I co-authored [crank] [NonAR seq2seq VC] were also accepted. |
| Jan 07, 2021 | One journal was accepted to the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing. The early access version is available now on IEEE Xplore. There is also an arXiv version. |
| Oct 17, 2020 | Four papers are accepted to the Joint Workshop for the Blizzard Challenge and Voice Conversion Challenge 2020! [Challenge Summary] [Objective Assesement] [Baseline ASR+TTS] [NU entry] |
| Oct 17, 2020 | The proceeding of the Joint Workshop for the Blizzard Challenge and Voice Conversion Challenge 2020 is online now! |
| Jul 29, 2020 | The implementation of VTN is open-sourced on ESPnet. |
| Jul 28, 2020 | One paper [VTN] was accepted to Interspeech 2020. |
| May 20, 2020 | One journal paper [ASVspoof 2019 database] was accepted to the Computer Speech & Language. |
| Mar 09, 2020 | I am co-organizing the Voice Conversion Challenge 2020. I developed a seq-to-seq baseline w/ ESPnet. |
| Jan 19, 2020 | One journal paper [CDVAE-CLS-GAN] was accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence. |