SPEECH DYNAMICS BY EAR, EYE, MOUTH AND MACHINE

An Interdisciplinary Workshop

Kyoto, Japan

June 27, 2003

Organized by The Institute for Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) and The Acoustical

Society of Japan.

Co-sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society Japan Chapter

WORKSHOP LOCATION

The workshop will be held at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute (ATR) as part of the June monthly

meeting of the IEICE.

ATR Web Site http://www.atr.co.jp/html/access/access.html

Advanced Program

9:30 Introduction

Takayuki Arai

9:40 Computation of Time-Varying Spectra Based on 3-D Vocal Tract

Shape Using Auto-mesh Generation and FEM

Koji Sasaki (Hokkaido University),

Nobuhiro Miki (Future University-Hakodate) and

Yoshikazu Miyanaga (Hokkaido University)

10:05 Speech Inversion for Arbitrary Speaker Using a Stochastic

Speech Production Model

Sadao Hiroya and Masaaki Honda (NTT / CREST)

10:30 Break

10:45 [Invited] Auditory Supplements to Speech reading

Ken W. Grant (Walter Reed Army Medical Center)

11:35 Filtering on Non-Linear Time Axis and its Application for Measuring

Perception to Production Transfer Functions in F0 Control

Hideki Kawahara and Ryuichiro Yanaga (Wakayama University / ATR)

12:00 Lunch

13:30 [Invited] What are the Essential Cues for Understanding

Spoken Language?

Steven Greenberg (University of California, Berkeley)

14:20 Acoustic Analysis of English Lexical-Prosody Reproduction

by Japanese Speakers

Anthony O. Okobi (MIT / University of Tokyo), and

Keikichi Hirose (University of Tokyo)

14:45 Voice Quality and Other Acoustic Changes in Really Sadness

Donna Erickson (Gifu City Women's College),

Parham Mokhtari (ATR),

Caroline Menezes (Ohio State University) and

Akinori Fujino (NTT)

15:10 Break

15:25 [Invited] Modulation Spectral Transforms

Les Atlas (University of Washington)

16:15 Speech Segregation based on Fundamental Periodicity using

Auditory Vocoder

Toshio Irino (Wakayama University),

Roy D. Patterson (Cambridge University) and

Hideki Kawahara (Wakayama University / ATR)

16:40 Improving Intelligibility of Speech by Steady-State Suppression

as Pre-Processing in Small to Medium Sized Halls

Nao Hodoshima, Takayuki Arai, Tsuyoshi Inoue (Sophia University),

Keisuke Kinoshita (NTT) and

Akiko Kusumoto (Portland VA Medical Center)

17:05 Continuous Speech Recognition Based on the Contribution of

Modulation Spectrum

Noboru Kanedera (Ishikawa National College of Technology),

Takayuki Arai, Kenji Okada and Kenji Asai (Sophia University)

17:30 Conclusion

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

IEICE Workshop Secretariat

Professor Takayuki Arai

Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Sophia University

mailto:arai@sophia.ac.jp

Workshop Web Site: http://www.ieice.or.jp/iss/sp/eng/workshop/20030627.html