2 paper accepted for LLU 2026!

2026

1. Building Kagoshimashi-dialect text-to-speech with automatic estimation of dialect accents

   Nanako Sato ,  Ryoya Muradome ,  Ryuichi Taki ,  Shinnosuke Takamichi ,  Tetsuro Takahashi ,  and  Mika Sakai

   In Language Learning and Understanding for AI Scientists and Linguists (LLU) , Nov 2026

   Bib

   @inproceedings{sato26llu_kagoshimashi-tts,
     abbr_publisher = {LLU},
     booktitle = {Language Learning and Understanding for AI Scientists and Linguists (LLU)},
     title = {Building Kagoshimashi-dialect text-to-speech with automatic estimation of dialect accents},
     author = {Sato, Nanako and Muradome, Ryoya and Taki, Ryuichi and Takamichi, Shinnosuke and Takahashi, Tetsuro and Sakai, Mika},
     year = {2026},
     month = nov
   }

2. Evaluating Dialectness in Low Resource Text-to-Speech: A Case Study of Ikema-Nishihara Miyako Ryukyuan

   Nanako Sato ,  Ryosuke Sakai ,  Wataru Nakata ,  Shinnosuke Takamichi ,  Natsuko Nakagawa ,  Yuka Hayashi ,  So Miyagawa ,  and  Mika Sakai

   In Language Learning and Understanding for AI Scientists and Linguists (LLU) , Nov 2026

   Bib

   @inproceedings{sato26llu_ikema-dialectness,
     abbr_publisher = {LLU},
     booktitle = {Language Learning and Understanding for AI Scientists and Linguists (LLU)},
     title = {Evaluating Dialectness in Low Resource Text-to-Speech: A Case Study of Ikema-Nishihara Miyako Ryukyuan},
     author = {Sato, Nanako and Sakai, Ryosuke and Nakata, Wataru and Takamichi, Shinnosuke and Nakagawa, Natsuko and Hayashi, Yuka and Miyagawa, So and Sakai, Mika},
     year = {2026},
     month = nov
   }