, graduate from and professor at the
Nagoya Institute of Technology
The , abbreviated to Nitech (or in Japanese to 名工大, ''Meikōdai''), is a public highest-level educational institution of science and technology located in Nagoya, Japan.
Nitech was founded in 1905 as ''Nagoya Higher Technical School'', then ...
from 2004,
doctor of engineering
The Doctor of Engineering, or Engineering Doctorate, (abbreviated DEng, EngD, or Dr-Ing) is a degree awarded on the basis of advanced study and a practical project in the engineering and applied science for solving problems in the industry. In the ...
granted by
Tokyo Institute of Technology
is a national research university located in Greater Tokyo Area, Japan. Tokyo Tech is the largest institution for higher education in Japan dedicated to science and technology, one of first five Designated National University and selected as ...
[TOKUDA Keiichi / Nagoya Institute of Technology]
/ref> and CEO
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& CTO of
Techno-Speech, Inc., was named (IEEE) in 2014 ''for contributions to hidden Markov model-based speech synthesis''. He was awarded Medal with Purple Ribbon
are medals awarded by the Government of Japan. They are awarded to individuals who have done meritorious deeds and also to those who have achieved excellence in their field of work. The Medals of Honor were established on December 7, 1881, and we ...
in 2020.Prof. Keiichi Tokuda awarded Medal with Purple Ribbon / 2013 Nagoya Institute of Technology
Publications
*Keiichi Tokuda et al.,
Speaker adaptation and the evaluation of speaker similarity in the EMIME speech-to-speech translation project (with Mirjam Wester, John Dines, Matthew Gibson, Hui Liang, Yi-Jian Wu, Lakshmi Saheer, Simon King, Keiichiro Oura, Philip N. Garner, William Byrne, Yong Guan, Teemu Hirsimäki, Reima Karhila, Mikko Kurimo, Matt Shannon, Sayaka Shiota, Jilei Tian & Junichi Yamagishi)
* Keiichi Tokuda et al.,
Personalising speech-to-speech translation: Unsupervised cross-lingual speaker adaptation for HMM-based speech synthesis Computer Speech & Language Vol. 27, Issue 2, Feb. 2013, pp. 420–437 (with JohnDines, Hui Lian,Lakshmi Saheer, Matthew Gibson, William Byrne, Keiichiro Oura, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Mirjam Westerd, Teemu Hirsimäki, Reima Karhil & Mikko Kurimoe)
* Keiichi Tokuda et al.,
THE BLIZZARD MACHINE LEARNING CHALLENGE 2017 2017 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), 2017, 331-337 (with Kei Sawada, Simon King & Alan W. Black)
* Keiichi Tokuda et al.,
Generalization of Thai Tone Contour in HMM-Based Speech Synthesis 2017 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC), 2017, 1102-1105 (with Anocha Rugchatjaroen, Sittipong Saychum & Keiichiro Oura)
References
Fellows of the IEEE
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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