International Workshop on

Frontiers in Speech and Hearing Research

FSHR2006

Tokyo, Japan

Mar 27, 2006

http://www.ieice.org/iss/sp/eng/workshop/fshr2006.htm

*NOTE TO POSTER SESSION AUTHORS

- Poster size – ISO paper size – A0 – landscape

- Posters will be on display for the duration of the workshop. All posters should be displayed by 9:50.

---SCHEDULE---

9:55 OPENING REMARKS

10:00-11:00 [INVITED TALK] The potential for applied phonology: The role of phonetics

John J. Ohala (University of California)

11:10-12:10 [INVITED TALK] How and why does our voice change when we are really sad?

Donna Erickson (Gifu City Women$B!G(Bs College)

--- LUNCH BREAK (at your own) ---

13:30-14:30 [INVITED TALK] Some challenges in the detection of acoustic landmarks in models of speech recognition

Janet Slifka (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

14:40-17:00 POSTER SESSION (19 posters)

(14:40-15:50 Odd numbered posters, 15:50-17:00 Even Numbered posters)

17:00 CLOSING REMARKS

17:30 BANQUET (fee required)

---POSTER SESSION---

1. The effect of the steady-state suppression on consonant identification by native and non-native listeners in reverberant environments

Nao Hodoshima (Sophia University), Dawn Behne (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Takayuki Arai (Sophia University)

2. The effects of speech-rate slowing for improving speech intelligibility in reverberant environments

Yuki Nakata, Yoshiaki Murakami, Nao Hodoshima, Nahoko Hayashi, Yusuke Miyauchi, Takayuki Arai (Sophia University), Kiyohiro Kurisu (TOA)

3. Implementation of steady-state suppression using a digital signal processor for real-time processing: Evaluation of the processing in an actual hall

Kei Takahashi, Takahito Goto, Fumihiro Tadokoro, Keiichi Yasu, Takayuki Arai (Sophia University)

4. Improving speech intelligibility for elderly listeners by steady-state suppression

Kei Kobayashi, Yukari Hatta, Keiichi Yasu, Shinji Minamihata, Nao Hodoshima, Takayuki Arai, Mitsuko Shindo (Sophia University)

5. A MAP estimator for the enhancement of speech signal separated by ICA algorithm

Rajkishore Prasad (University of Electro Communication), Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano (NAIST)

6. Building an English speech synthesis system from a Japanese ALS patient's voice

Akemi Iida, Jun Ito (Tokyo University of Technology), Shimpei Kajima, Tsutomu Sugawara (Sophia University)

7. Study on noise reduction of ventilator noise in recorded speech signals

Shimpei Kajima, Ori Takeshita, Keiichi Yasu, Takayuki Arai (Sophia University), Akemi Iida (Tokyo University of Technology)

8. Speech processing for hearing-impaired listeners considering threshold elevation in the critical band with an expanded auditory filter

Shinji Minamihata, Keiichi Yasu, Kei Kobayashi, Takayuki Arai, Mitsuko Shindo (Sophia University)

9. On quality improvement of degraded MPEG audio due to packet loss using highly compressed overhead data

Tadaaki Niizeki, Kazuhiro Kondo, Katsumi Takano, Kiyoshi Nakagawa (Yamagata University)

10. A study on restoration of bone-conducted speech with the lpc-based model

Thang tat Vu, Masashi Unoki, Masato Akagi (JAIST)

11. Sub-band temporal envelope restoration for ASR in reverberation environment

Xugang Lu, Masashi Unoki, Masato Akagi (JAIST)

12. Low dimensional representation of intrinsic structure of vowels in articulatory space

Xugang Lu (JAIST), Jianwu Dang (JAIST, ATR)

13. Parameter optimization for a coarticulation model based on observation and simulation

Jianguo Wei, Xugang Lu (JAIST), Jianwu Dang (JAIST, ATR)

14. Non-acoustical contribution to recognition of word made of noise-vocoded speech sound

Megumi Saruta, Yuki Shinohara, Ryosuke Tachibana, Hiroshi Riquimaroux (Doshisha University)

15. Cortical representation for allophone discrimination: An MEG study

Seiya Funatsu, Satoshi Imaizumi (The Prefectural University of Hiroshima), Akira Hashizume, Kaoru Kurisu (Hiroshima University)

16. On a revised word-pair list for the Japanese intelligibility test

Masaya Fujimori, Kazuhiro Kondo, Katsumi Takano, Kiyoshi Nakagawa (Yamagata University)

17. Effects of the syllable structure on perceptual speaker identification

Kanae Amino, Tsutomu Sugawara, Takayuki Arai (Sophia University)

18. A model of event detection for perceptual extraction of the temporal structures of speech

Satomi Tanaka (Kyoto City University of Arts), Minoru Tsuzaki (Kyoto City University of Arts, ATR Spoken Language Communication Research Labs.), Hiroaki Kato (ATR Human Information Science Labs.), Yoshinori Sagisaka$B!!(B(Waseda University, GITI)

19. What is rhythm? Can we capture syllable shapes from intensity contours?

Masahiko Komatsu (Health Sciences University of Hokkaido), Takayuki Arai (Sophia University)

---WORKSHOP LOCATION---

The workshop is held at Sophia University, Yotsuya Campus, Main Library (Room L-921)

Sophia University's Web Site http://www.sophia.ac.jp/

---REGISTRATION---

The conference proceedings as part of the IEICE's monthly technical report will be distributed on-site with charge. No registration fee is required for the workshop.

---BANQUET---

The workshop banquet will be held at the Sophians club (Sophia University). Banquet fee will be required on-site.

---FOR FURTHER INFORMATION---

Workshop Secretariat:

- Arai, Takayuki (Sophia Univ., arai@sophia.ac.jp)

- Mochida, Takemi (NTT, mochida@idea.brl.ntt.co.jp)

- Unoki, Masashi (JAIST, unoki@jaist.ac.jp)

---SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE---

- Technical Committee of Speech, IEICE (Chair: Tanaka, Kazuyo)

- Technical Committee of Psychological and Physiological Acoustics, ASJ (Chair: Nakajima, Yoshitaka)

---CO-ORGANIZED BY---

- the Speech Committee of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) / the Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ),

- the Psychological and Physiological Acoustics Committee of the Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ),

---CO-SPONSERED BY---

- the Phonetic Society of Japan (PSJ)

- the IEEE Signal Processing Society Japan Chapter

---SUPPORTED BY---

- the Grants-in-aid for Scientific Research of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science