SP Subject Index 1997

{SP97-1} H. Ohmura and K. Tanaka,
``An approach for articulatory  analysis of speech parameters using formant nomograms,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-1, pp.1--6, May 1997.
{ Speech analysis-synthesis, Vocal tract model, Formant nomogram, Articulatory coding }

{SP97-2} T. Shiina,  S. Kotani and S. Itahashi,
``Continuous speech synthesis based on 3-dimensional vocal tract model,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-2, pp.7--12, May 1997.
{ 3-D vocal tract model, Time-varying vocal tract model, Finite element method, Speech synthesis } 

{SP97-3} T. Watanabe, S. Okada and T. Ifukube,
``Speech synthesis technologies assisting blind people to use personal computers,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-3, pp.13--20, May 1997.
{ Speech synthesis, Response time, Speech speed, Pause, Blind people, Screen reader }

{SP97-4} O. Mizuno and S. Nakajima,
``New synthetic speech/sound control language : MSCL,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-4, pp.21--26, May 1997.
{ MSCL, Multi-layer, Prosodic features, Non-verbal information }

{SP97-5} T. Hirai and N. Higuchi,
``Automatic extraction of fundamental frequency control rules using Japanese tone and break indices (J_ToBI) system,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-5, pp.27--32, May 1997.
{ Speech synthesis, Fundamental frequency control, Fujisaki's model, J_ToBI System }

{SP97-6} T. Masuko, T. Kobayashi and K. Tokuda,
``Lip movement synthesis using HMMs,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-6, pp.33--38, May 1997.
{ Lip movement synthesis, Hidden Markov model, Lip synchronization, Multimodal interface }

{SP97-7} G. Kawai and K. Hirose,
``Applying speech recognition to the learning of pronunciation of Japanese long vowels, the mora nasal and mora obstruents,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-7, pp.39--46, May 1997.
{ Japanese language teaching, Pronunciation learning, Speech recognition, CALL }

{SP97-8} Y. Shiraki, 
``Geometry of stochastic differential equations (SDE) and speaker adaptation,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-8, pp.47--54, May 1997.
{ Stochastic process, Margulis's lemma, Ergdic property, Arithmetic subgroup, Arithmeticity theorem }

{SP97-9} S. Nakagawa and M. Saito,
``Speech recognition using automatically acquired units based on ergodic HMMs,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-9, pp.55--62, May 1997.
{ Speech units, Concept of speech unit on human, Ergodic HMM, Speech recognition }

{SP97-10} M. Sugiyama,
``Model Based Voice Decomposition Method,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-10, pp.1--8, June 1997.
{ Voice decomposition, Noisy speech processing }

{SP97-11} J. DANG, K. HONDA and Y. Tohkura,
``3-D observation of tongue articulatory movement for Chinese vowels,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-11, pp.9--16, June 1997.
{ Articulatory movement, Vowel, Speech production, Tongue, 3-D tongue shape }

{SP97-12} Y. Ariki, K. Nishimura and M. Fujimoto,
``Voice Conversion Based on Exchange of Speaker Subspaces,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-12, pp.17--24, June 1997.
{ Voice conversion, Speaker subspace, Singular value decomposition, Orthogonal canonical correlation analysis }

{SP97-13} T. Arai and S. Greenbery,
``A Comparative Analysis of the Temporal Properties of Spoken Japanese and English,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-13, pp.25--32, June 1997.
{ Isochrony, Syllable, Mora, Duration, Modulation spectrum }

{SP97-14} K. Iwano and K. Hirose,
``Detecting Syntactic Boundaries Using Statistical Models of Moraic Transition,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-14, pp.33--40, June 1997.
{ Statistical models of moraic transition, Syntactic boundary detection, Prosodic features }

{SP97-15} T. Fukada, S. Aveline, M. Schuster and Y. Sagisaka,
``Phoneme Boundary Estimation using Recurrent Neural Networks and Its Application to Speech Recognition,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-15, pp.41--48, June 1997.
{ Phoneme boundary, Recurrent neural networks, HMM, Segment model, Speech recognition }

{SP97-16} M. Morishima, T. Isobe and N. Koizumi,
``Normalization of the Feature Vector in Telephone Speech Recognition,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-16, pp.49--54, June 1997.
{ Telephone speech recognition, Robustness, Environment adaptation, CMN, Wireless telephone handset, Cellular phone }

{SP97-17} J. Miwa, Y. Kumagai, J. Tian and M. Imaishi,
``Language Education System for Japanese Speech Using On-demand and Network,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-17, pp.55--62, June 1997.
{ Language education, Japanese speech, Multimedia, On-demand, Network }

{SP97-18} K. Markov and S. Nakagawa,
``Discriminative Training of GMM using Frame Level Likelihood Normalization for Speaker Recognition,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-18, pp.1--8, June 1997.
{ Speaker recognition, Gaussian mixtures, Likelihood normalization, Discriminative training }

{SP97-19} A. Nakamura,
``A Restructuring of Gaussian Mixture Pdfs in Speaker-Independent Acoustic Models,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-19, pp.9--16, June 1997.
{ Speaker-Independent speech recognition, Spontaneous speech, HMM, Recognition error tendency }

{SP97-20} J. Yi, M. Date and K. Miki,
``A Study on Multi-States Sharing of HMM,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-20, pp.17--22, June 1997.
{ Speech recognition, HMM training, State sharing, Multi-states sharing, Clustering, Distortion }

{SP97-21} K. Yamamoto and S. Nakagawa,
``Evaluation of Segmental Unit Input HMM for Speech Recognition in Noisy Environments,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-21, pp.23--30, June 1997.
{ Speech recognition, HMM, Segmental statistics, Noise, Spectral subtraction }

{SP97-22} T. Yamada, S. Nakamura and K. Shikano,
``Hands-free Speech Recognition Based on 3-D Viterbi Search Using a Microphone Array,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-22, pp.31--38, June 1997.
{ Speech recognition, Real environment, Hands-free, Microphone array, Talker localization }

{SP97-23} K. Sugino, Y. Kobayashi and Y. Niimi,
``Word Spotting Based on the Generalized Hough Transform,''    
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-23, pp.39--44, June 1997.
{ Spotting, Template matching, Generalized hough transform, Spectral sequence }

{SP97-24} A. Harada, M. Suzuki and S. Makino,
``Automatic Acquisition of Bunsetsu Model Using Discrete-type HMnet from Newspaper Articles,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-24, pp.45--50, June 1997.
{ Discrete-type HMnet, NL-HMnet, Successive state splitting, Language model, Bunsetsu model }

{SP97-25} A. Ito and M. Kohda,
``On the Vocabulary Size for N-gram Task Adaptation,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-25, pp.51--58, June 1997.
{ Stochastic language model, N-gram, Task adaptation, Vocabulary size }

{SP97-26} A. Ando, J. Suzuki and K. Shirai,
``A Study of Thesaurus-based Statistical Language Model,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-26, pp.59--66, June 1997.
{ Speech recognition, Language model, Thesaurus, Semantic category }

{SP97-27} K. Ohtsuki, T. Matsuoka, S. Matsunaga and S. Furui,
``Large-Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition and Topic Extraction in Broadcast-News Speech,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-27, pp.67--74, June 1997.
{ LVCSR, Broadcast-news speech, N-gram language model, Topic extraction, Keyword extraction }

{SP97-28} T. Imai and R. Schwartz,
``A Model for Improved Topic Discrimination of Broadcast News,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-28, pp.75--82, June 1997.
{ Topic spotting, HMM, Broadcast news, Speech recognition }

{SP97-29} T. Kawashima and M. Kashino,
``The Promotable role of Subsequent Context in the Perception of the Beginning Word in a Sentence,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-29, pp.1--6, July 1997.
{ Word perception, Subsequent context, Phonemic restoration }

{SP97-30} A. Nishimura and T. Tsumura,
``Relative Changes in Pitch of Complex Tones by Mistuned Harmonics,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-30, pp.7--14, July 1997.
{ Harmonic complex tone, Simultaneous masking, Mistuning, Pitch shift, Residue pitch }

{SP97-31} H. Banno, J. Lu, S. Nakamura, K. Shikano and H. Kawahara,
``Efficient Representation of Short-time Phase,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-31, pp.15--20, July 1997.
{ Short-time phase, Fourier transform, Group delay, Time-domain smoothed group delay }

{SP97-32} H. Kawahara, I. Katsuse and K. Toyama,
``Compensatory Time Window for Speech Analysys, Modification and Synthesis Using STRAIGHT,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-32, pp.21--28, July 1997.
{ Speech perception, Time-frequency representation, Spline, Time window, Spectral estimation }

{SP97-33} Y. Yonezawa and M. Akagi,
``A model of Contextual effects considering speaking rate,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-33, pp.29--36, July 1997.
{ Contextual effects, Coarticulation, Speaking rate, Neutralization }

{SP97-34} M. Akagi and M. Mizumachi,
``Noise Reduction by Paired Microphones,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-34, pp.1--8, July 1997.
{ Noise reduction, Microphone pair, Sound direction estimation, Noise estimation, Beamformer }

{SP97-35} M. Mizumachi and M. Akagi,
``Noise Reduction by Multi-Microphone using Spectral Subtraction,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-35, pp.9--16, July 1997.
{ Noise reduction, Microphone array, Spectral subtraction, Speech recognition }

{SP97-36} Y. Nagata,
``A Two-Channel Adaptive Microphone Array with Target Tracking,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-36, pp.17--22, July 1997.
{ Microphone array, Beamformer, Target tracking, Two-Channel, Generalized sidelobe cancellar }

{SP97-37} T. Kimijima, K. Nishikawa and H. Kiya,  
``Pipelining of 2-Dimensional adaptive filters based on the LDLMS algorithm,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-37, pp.1--8, Sept. 1997.
{ Adaptive filter, Pipelining, 2-Dimensional signal processing }

{SP97-38} T. Nishino, S. Kajita, K. Takeda and F. Itakura,  
``Interpolation of Head Related Transfer Functions,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-38, pp.9--14, Sept. 1997.
{ HRTF, Linear interpolation, Principal components analysis, Sound localization  }

{SP97-39} M. Omura, S. Kajita, K. Kakeda and F. Itakura,  
``Changes of Room Transfer Function Caused by Temperature Fluctuation and Its Correction,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-39, pp.15--20, Sept. 1997.
{ Transfer Function, Temperature fluctuation, Taylor expansion, Frequency band limt, Correciton of transfer function }

{SP97-40} F. Matsumoto, J. Sato and M. Kohata,  
``A Low Bit Rate Speech Coding with Sinusoids Based on Perceptual Characteristics,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-40, pp.21--28, Sept. 1997.
{ Perceptual coding, Very low bit speech coding, Gammatone filter, Auditory characteristics, Harmonic coding }

{SP97-41} G. Hirabayashi, K. Koishida, K. Tokuda and T. Kobayashi,  
``A Study on Wideband Celp Speech Coder Based on Mel-Generalized Cepstral Analysis,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-41, pp.29--36, Sept. 1997.
{ Wideband speech, Mel-generalized cepstrum, Characteristics auditory sensation, CELP, G.722 }

{SP97-42} M. Hasumi, T. Funada and Y. Morita, 
``Noise Reduction of LSP Parameters   - Comparison between Neural Networks and K-L transform - ,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-42, pp.37--44, Sept. 1997.
{ LSP parameter, Noise reduction, Neural networks, K-L transform }

{SP97-43} T. Yonezaki, K. Yoshida and Y. Toshio,  
``An Error Correction Method with HMMs based on Maximum Likelihood Estimation,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-43, pp.45--51, Sept. 1997.
{ Error correction, HMMs, Source model, Channel model, Maximum likelihood estimation }

{SP97-44} P. Boonpramuk and T. Funada,  
``Synthesis of Japanese Speech Word by Concatenating Isolated Syllable Wave Forms,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-44, pp.1--6, Sept. 1997.
{ PARCPR, Word synthesis }

{SP97-45} G. Ohyama,  
``A Study on the Modification of the Disordered Voice,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-45, pp.7--14, Sept. 1997.
{ Voice, Disorder, Modification, Communication aids speech analysis synthesis, Speech conversion }

{SP97-46} T. Mochida and M. Honda,  
``Evaluation of an Acoustical Measurement Method for Measuring Vocal Tract Area,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-46, pp.15--22, Sept. 1997.
{ Speech production, Vocal tract area function, Acoustical measurement, Nonlinear least-squares method }

{SP97-47} T. Hori, T. Funada and N. Kanedera,  
``Effect of Retraining Noise EHMM for Extracting Word Bundary of Speech,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-47, pp.23--28, Sept. 1997.
{ Noisy speech word, Word boundary extraction, Ergodic HMM }

{SP97-48} A. Kobayashi, T. Imai and A. Ando,  
``A Study on Broadcast Time of News Scripts to Train a Language Model for News Speech Recognition,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-48, pp.29--36, Sept. 1997.
{ News speech recognition, N-Gram language model, Perplexity }

{SP97-49} T. Ikeda, S. Kajita, K. Takeda and F. Itakura,  
``Word Spotting Using Variable Length Segment Prototypes''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-49, pp.37--42, Sept. 1997.
{ Spotting, 'Local' dynamic, segment, False alarm }

{SP97-50} S. Kawachi, S. Kajita and K. Takeda,  
``Automatic Classification of Broadcasting Sound Based on VQ Distorion,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-50, pp.43--48, Sept. 1997.
{ Broadcasting sound, VQ distortion }

{SP97-51} T. Hamagami,  
``Speech Analysis-Synthesis System Using One Pitch Source Power Distribution Control By Harmonic Phases,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-51, pp.1--8, Oct. 1997.
{ Speech synthesis, Phase, Tone color }

{SP97-52} N. Aoki and T. Ifukube,    
``The Generation of waveform Fluctuations for the Enhancement of the Naturalness of synthesized sustained Vowels and its Subjective and Objective Evaluations,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-52, pp.9--16, Oct. 1997.
{ Naturalness of sustained vowels, Waveform fluctuation, 1/f fluctuation, Speech synthesis, Inharmonic energy ratio }

{SP97-53} M. Watanabe, Y. Horiuchi and A. Ichikawa,   
``Speech Expression of Mathematical Formula,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-53, pp.17--22, Oct. 1997.
{ Blind people, Mathematical formula, GUI }

{SP97-54} K. Takahashi and A. Nakamura,   
``Generation Driven Speech Recognition(GD-SR),''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-54, pp.23--30, Oct. 1997.
{ Continuous speech recognition, Language constraints, Speech translation, Sentence hypotheses generation }

{SP97-55} H. Kikuchi, Y. Sugita, K. Shirai, School of Science and Engineering and Waseda University,    
``Analysis of Influence of Time Constraint in Natural Dialogue,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-55, pp.31--36, Oct. 1997.
{ Natural dialogue, Time constraint, Dialogue corpus, Utterance generation, Turn-taking, Timing of utterance }

{SP97-56} M. Okada, N. Suzuki, K. Ishii and S. Indoh,    
``On a Primary Inter-Subjectivity on Joint Remembering,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-56, pp.37--43, Oct. 1997.
{ Spontaneous chatting, Everyday dialogue, Multivoicedness, Inter-subjectivity, Joint remembering }

{SP97-57} M. Nishida and Y. Ariki,    
``Speaker Segmentation by Automatic Training,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-57, pp.1--6, Nov. 1997.
{ Speaker verification, Subspace method, Speaker segmentation }

{SP97-58} K. Sugino, Y. Kobayashi and Y. Niimi,     
``Improvement of Word Spotting Performance Based on the Generalized Hough Transform,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-58, pp.7--12, Nov. 1997.
{ Spotting, Generalized hough transform, DP matching, Spectral sequence }

{SP97-59} T. Nishimoto, Y. Kobayashi and Y. Niimi,     
``The Configuration of Speech Input System for Net-Surfing,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-59, pp.13--18, Nov. 1997.
{ Multi-modal interface, Speech recognition, Spontaneous speech, WWW }

{SP97-60} H. Takeuchi, S. Arai, K. Kido and Y. Miida,      
``Searching Keyword from News Speech by Word Spotting,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-60, pp.19--26, Nov. 1997.
{ Word spotting, News speech, False alarm }

{SP97-61} T. Ostuki and T. Ohtomo,      
``On Feature Vector for Speech Recognition,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-61, pp.27--34, Nov. 1997.
{ Speech recognition, Feature vector, Segment, Separation, Cluster analysis }

{SP97-62} K. Ozeki,      
``Performance Comparison of Recognition Systems Based on the a Posteriori Probability of True Recognition Rate,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-62, pp.35--42, Nov. 1997.
{ Recognition rate, Performance evaluation, Statistical test, A posteriori probability, Bayesian statistics }

{SP97-63} L. Zhao, Y. Kobayashi and Y. Niimi,      
``Recognition of Chinese Continuous Speech Based on the Integration of Phonetic and Prosodic Information Using the 3-Dimension Viterbi Search,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-63, pp.43--50, Nov. 1997.
{ Recognition of Chinese continuous speech, Phonetic information, Prosodic information, 3-Dimension viterbi search, Integration }

{SP97-64} S. Sasaki,      
``Wideband CELP Coding Using Higher Order Backward Prediction of Residual,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-64, pp.51--56, Nov. 1997.
{ Wideband signal, CELP, Backward prediction, Frequency domain search, Mode switching, G.722 }

{SP97-65} N. Minematsu and S. Nakagawa,      
``Analysis of Cepstral Coefficient Variation Caused by Fo Change and Its Application to Speech Processing,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-65, pp.57--64, Nov. 1997.
{ Fundamental frequency, Cepstral coefficients, Multivariate regression analysis, Analysis-synthesis, Vowel recognition }

{SP97-66} M. Shigenaga,       
``Characteristic Features of Emotionally Uttered Speech Revealed by Discriminant Analysis (III),''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-66, pp.65--72, Nov. 1997.
{ Emotion, Prosodic features, Discrimination of emotions, Discriminant analysis }

{SP97-67} H. Kawanami and K. Hirose,       
``Considerations on the Prosodic Features of Utterances with Attitudes and Emotions,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-67, pp.73--80, Nov. 1997.
{ Attitude, Emotion, Fo contour, Speech rate, Speech analysis }

{SP97-68} T. Hamagami,       
``A Study of Speech Power Control Model for Synthesis by Rule,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-68, pp.1--8, Dec. 1997.
{ Speech synthesis by rule, Power pattern, Power control, Speech rate }

{SP97-69} Y. Sukegawa and K. Maekawa,       
``Long Vowel Shortening and Its Relations to Positions and Speech Style,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-69, pp.9--14, Dec. 1997.
{ Long vowel, Vowel shortening, Syllable position in the word, Speech style }

{SP97-70} N. Kanedera, H. Hermansky, T. Arai and T. Funada,       
``On Properties of the Modulation Spectrum for Robust Automatic Speech Recognition,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-70, pp.15--22, Dec. 1997.
{ Automatic speech recognition, Modulation frequency }

{SP97-71} S. Tsuge, T. Fukada, H. Singer and P. Kuldip,       
``Noise Environment Speech Recognition Using Spectral Subband centroids,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-71, pp.23--28, Dec. 1997.
{ Spectral subband centroids, Supplement parameter, Noise environment, Speech recognition }

{SP97-72} M. Sakuragi and Y. Ariki,       
``Unsupervised Speaker Normalization by Canonical Correlation Analysis to Phoneme Representation Vectors,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-72, pp.29--34, Dec. 1997.
{ Speaker-independent HMMs, Supervised speaker normalization, Unsupervised speaker normalization, Viterbe decoding algorithm }

{SP97-73} M. Naito, L. Deng and Y. Sagisaka,       
``A Study on Speaker Clustering Methods Using Vocal Tract Parameters,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-73, pp.35--40, Dec. 1997.
{ Speaker clustering, Vocal tract parameters, Speech recognition }

{SP97-74} T. Abe, M. Suzuki, S. Makio and H. Aso,       
``A Speaker Adaptation Based on Speaker Clustering Considering Phoneme Characteristics,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-74, pp.41--46, Dec. 1997.
{ Speaker-independent speech recognition, Speaker adaptation, Tree-structured speaker clustering, SSS-Free }

{SP97-75} T. Hori, M. Katoh, A. Ito and M. Kohda,       
``A Study on A State Clustering-Based Topology Design Method for HM-Nets,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-75, pp.47--52, Dec. 1997.
{ Speech recognition, Hidden markov model, Context dependent model, Hidden markov network, State clustering }

{SP97-76} T. Jitsuhiro, S. Takahashi and K. Akikawa,       
``Rejection by Confidence Measure Based on Likelihood Difference Between Competing Phonemes,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-76, pp.1--8, Dec. 1997.
{ Speech recognition, Rejection, Unknown word, Confidence measure, MCE }

{SP97-77} M. Katoh, T. Hori, A. Ito and M. Kohda,       
``A Study on Word Spotting Based on Likelihood Normalization Using Phoneme HMMs,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-77, pp.9--14, Dec. 1997.
{ Normalization of likelihood, Word spotting, Score function, Connected phoneme HMMS }

{SP97-78} T. Kawahara, K. Ishizuka, S. Doshita and C. Lee,       
``Speaking-Style Dependent Lexicalized Filler Model for Key-Phrase Detection and Verification,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-78, pp.15--20, Dec. 1997.
{ Speech recognition, Word spotting, Utterance verification, Key-phrase detection, Speech understanding }

{SP97-79} K. Takagi, R. Oguro, K. Hashimoto and K. Ozeki,       
``Performance Evaluation of Language Models for Broadcast News Speech Recognition,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-79, pp.21--28, Dec. 1997.
{ Broadcast news speech, LVCSR, Word association ratio, Compound noun, POS class }

{SP97-80} H. Mori, H. Aso and S. Makino,       
``Natural Language Models Based on Repetitional String,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-80, pp.29--34, Dec. 1997.
{ Language model, Superword, N-gram, Speech recognition, Character recognition }

{SP97-81} S. Mori, O. Yamaj and  M. Nagao,       
``An Improvement of N-grem Model by a Change of the Unit,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-81, pp.35--42, Dec. 1997.
{ N-gram, Stochastic language model, String, Phrase, EDR corpus }

{SP97-82} M. Ishiba, T. Takeyama, T. Aoki, Y. Hyodo and T. Ikeda,       
``An Error Detection Method Using N-gram Statistical Data on Parts of Speech in Japanese text,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-82, pp.43--48, Dec. 1997.
{ Error detection, Statistical data on parts of speech, Japanese text, Natural language, Morphological analysis, Document processing }

{SP97-83} H. Tsukada, H. Yamamoto, T. Takezawa and Y. Sagisaka,       
``Reliable Utterance Segment Recognition by Integrating Grammar and Statistical Language Constraints,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-83, pp.49--54, Dec. 1997.
{ CFG, FSA, N-gram, Langeage model, Speech recognition }

{SP97-84} K. Arai, J. Wright, G. Riccardi and A. Gorin,       
``Grammar Fragment Acquisition Using Syntactic and Semantic Clustering,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-84, pp.55--62, Dec. 1997.
{ Spoken understanding, Preceding and succeeding contexts, Kullback-leibler distance, Phrase similarity, Phrase clustering }

{SP97-85} H. Hayagoshi, M. Dantsuji, J. Nakamura and T. Kawahara,       
``A Tentative Approach to the CALL System of the Center for Information and Multimedia Studies at Kyoto University,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-85, pp.63--70, Dec. 1997.
{ CALL, LL, CAL, Interactive language learning }

{SP97-86} T. Akiba, T. Kamishima and K. Itou,
``MILES: Multimodal Interaction LEading Script, which can express time relations between events and communicative elements in dialogues,''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-86, pp.71--78, Dec. 1997.
{ Multimodal interaction, Dialogue systems, System designing, Dialogue model }

{SP97-87} H. Jun-ichi and K. Takeshi,       
``A Computer that Nods''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-87, pp.79--86, Dec. 1997.
{ Spoken dialogue system, Dialogue coordination, Incremental processing, Inter-module communication protocol }

{SP97-88} A. Fujiwara and S. Masaki,       
``Effect of place and manner of articulation on reaction time in CV utterance production''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-88, pp.1--8, Jan. 1998.
{ Place of articulation, Manner of articulation, Reaction time, Motor control }

{SP97-89} Y. Sonoda and K. Ogata,       
``Modeling of Articulatory Dynamics Using Cascaded First-Order Systems''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-89, pp.9--16, Jan. 1998.
{ Ariculatory organs, Articulatory movements, Articulatory model, Cascaded first-order system }

{SP97-90} K. Motoki,       
``A Model of Vocal-tract with Propagation and Radiation of Higher-order Modes''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-90, pp.17--24, Jan. 1998.
{ Vocal-tract model, Radiation model, Higher-order mode, Mode matching }

{SP97-91} O. Takesi, T. Kaburagi, S. Suzuki and M. Honda,       
``Trajectory Formation of Articuratory Movement from Phonemic Sequence''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-91, pp.25--32, Jan. 1998.
{ Articulator movement, Minimum-jerk model, Speech production, Trajectory formation }

{SP97-92} T. Kaburagi, M. Honda and T. Tsumura,       
``A Study on the Synthesis of Speech from Articulator Movements using a Search of an Articulatory-Acoustic Codebook with Phoneme Labels''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-92, pp.33--40, Jan. 1998.
{ Articulatory measurement, Articuratory movement, Vocal-tract Spectrum, Codebook search, Phoneme classification, Speech synthesis }

{SP97-93} Y. Ishikawa,       
``Duration Control Method Based on Two Morae Units for Japanese Text-to-Speech System''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-93, pp.41--48, Jan. 1998.
{ Text-to-speech, Speech synthesis, Prosody, Duration control, Timing, Rhythm }

{SP97-94} Y. Meron and K. Hirose,       
``Waveform Concatenation Speech Synthesis Using Phonetic Clustering and Sinusoidal Modeling''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-94, pp.49--56, Jan. 1998.
{ Speech synthesis, Waveform concatenation, Phonetic clustering, Sinusoidal modeling }

{SP97-95} H. Kobayashi, T. Shimamura and J. Suzuki,       
``Fundamental Frequency Extraction in Noisy Environments''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-95, pp.1--10, Jan. 1998.
{ Fundamental frequency, Harmonics structure, Cripping, Band limitation, Cepstrum method }

{SP97-96} S. Kuroiwa, T. Katou and N. Higuchi,       
``Real-Time Cepstrum Mean Subtraction using the Most Likely Partial State Sequence''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-96, pp.11--18, Jan. 1998.
{ CMS, Real-time, Channel adaptation, Telephone }

{SP97-97} N. Iwahashi, H. Pao, H. Honda, K. Minamino, M. Omoto,       
``Stochastic Representation of Features for Noise Robust Speech Recognition''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-97, pp.19--24, Jan. 1998.
{ Speech recognition, Feature, Noise, Stochastic feature }

{SP97-98} H. Masataki, K. Tanigaki and Y. Sagisaka,       
``Statistical Model for Speech and Language Understanding''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-98, pp.25--32, Jan. 1998.
{ Speech understanding system, Formal representation, Hidden markov model, MCE training }

{SP97-99} A. Kai, Y. Hirose and S. Nakagawa,        
``Investigation on a large-vocabulary continuous Speech Recognition System Using N-gram Language Model and Fast-Match Methods''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-99, pp.33--40, Jan. 1998.
{ Large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition, N-gram language model, Fast-match method }

{SP97-100} I. Nakamura, T. Idogawa, T. Taguti, Y. Nagai, K. Nagai and S. Adachi,     
``Report of the International Symposium on Musical Acoustic '97''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-100, pp.1--12, Feb. 1998.
{ Musical instruments, International symposium, Simulation, Modering }

{SP97-101} Y. Takasawa,     
``On the Structure of Sound Wave and its Tone Sensation''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-101, pp.13--16, Feb. 1998.
{ Jew's harp, Shamisen, Xoomij, Vowel, Chopped sound, Primitive, Tone sensation }

{SP97-102} A. Kiyotsugu and A. Masato,    
``A singing Synthesis System Based in the Karhunen-Loeve Transform''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-102, pp.17--24, Feb. 1998.
{ Singing voice, Music synthesizer, Additive synthesis, Karhunen-loeve transform, Vowel, Vibrato }

{SP97-103} T. Sonoda, M. Goto and Y. Muraoka,    
``A WWW-based Melody Retrieval System''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-103, pp.25--32, Feb. 1998.
{ Music database, Song retrieval, Melody retrieval, WWW Application, Java Application }

{SP97-104} K. Kashino and H. Murase,    
``An Automatic Unmixer for Recording of Real Ensemble Music Performances''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-104, pp.33--40, Feb. 1998.
{ Sound source separation, Sound source identification, Music scene analysis, Auditory scene analysis, Automatic music transcription }

{SP97-105} A. Imai, N. Seiyama, T. Takagi and E. Miyasaka,    
``A Speech-Rate Converter and its Applications''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-105, pp.41--42, Feb. 1998.
{ Speech rate converter, AVsynchronous, Pitch changer, Broadcasting use, Effector, VTR }

{SP97-106} H. Kawahara and H. Katayose,    
``Musical Instruments Manipulation Using a High Quality Sound Analysis-Modification-Synthesis Method''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-106, pp.43--44, Feb. 1998.
{ Tome-frequency representation, F0, Jitter, Spectral transformation, Instruments }

{SP97-107} Y. Yoshida and S. Nakajima,     
``Singing Voice Synthesis System''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-107, pp.45--46, Feb. 1998.
{ Singing voice synthesis, Speech synthesis, Waveform speech synthesis, MIDI, DTM }

{SP97-108} K. Sakakibara and N. Osaka,     
``On concatenation of Musical Sounds a Sinusoidal Model''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-108, pp.1--6, Feb. 1998.
{ Sinusoidal model, DP, Timbre interpolation, Sound hybridization, Spectral model, Musical information attachment }

{SP97-109} T. Hikichi and N. Osaka,    
``On the Timbre Perception of Sound Morphing using a Physical Model''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-109, pp.7--14, Feb. 1998.
{ Timbre control, Physical models, Sound morphing, Struck strings, Plucked strings, Multidimensional scaling }

{SP97-110} T. Suzuki, T. Miyamoto , F. Nishida, T. Tokunaga and H. Tanaka,     
``Kagurame Phase-I - An Example-Based Expressive Performance Generation System -''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-110, pp.15--22, Feb. 1998.
{ Musical expression, Example-based, Expressive performance, Natural sounding performance }

{SP97-111} M. Suzuki and M. Sugiyama,    
``Study on Characterization of Music Based on Music Score Information''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-111, pp.23--30, Feb. 1998.
{ Music feature, Feature extraction }

{SP97-112} H. Kawahara and H. Katayose,   
``Refinement of Source Representations in a Speech Analysys-Modeification-Synthesis Method ,STRAIGHT''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-112, pp.31--38, Feb. 1998.
{ Excitation, Periodicity, Analisis, Modification, Synthesis }

{SP97-113} K. Murase,   
``Difference of Sound and Timbre Perception According to Mother Language''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-113, pp.39--46, Feb. 1998.
{ Electronic ear, Pass band, Retard, Precession }

{SP97-114} I. Nakayama, F. Amano, T. Uehata, A. Kawauchi, T. Kojima, N. Kobayashi, M. Sugito, H. Takagi and M. Yanagida,   
``An Attempt to Compare Vocal Expressions in Japanese Traditional and Western Classical-Style Singing A Common Verse''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-114, pp.47--54, Feb. 1998.
{ Vocal expressions, Japanese traditional singing, Western classical-style singing, Common verse, Voice timbre, Phoneme }

{SP97-115} J. Tian and J. Miwa,   
``A Discrimination of Chinese Aspirated/Unaspirated Sounds for Speech Learning System''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-115, pp.55--62, Feb. 1998.
{ Chinese speech, Aspirated/Unaspirated, Recognition, Analysis, CAI, Speech learning }

{SP97-116} K. Ninomiya, T. Otsuki and T. Ohtomo,   
``The Efficiency of the Dual-Width Windowed Segment on Speech Recognition''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-116, pp.63--70, Feb. 1998.
{ Cepstrm, $B&$(Bcepstrum, Discrete HMM, Dual-width windowed segment, Clustering }

{SP97-117} H. Itoh, S. Murayama and H. Imaizumi,   
``Sound Production in Post-Operative Cleft Lip And/Or Palate Adults with Near-Normal Articulation''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-117, pp.1--8, March 1998.
{ Cleft lip and/or palate, Oral cavity shape, Lingual articulation, Palatogram }

{SP97-118} H. Itoh and T. Taira,   
``Individual Speech Articulation Characteristics of Edentulous Cases Using Electro-Palatoguraphy''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-118, pp.9--16, March 1998.
{ Edutulous subjects, Oral cavity shape, Lingual articulation, Electroparatography, Personal characteristics }

{SP97-119} M. Ogata, H. Itoh and H. Imaizumi,   
``Effect of Palatal Bar Devices on Consecutive Sound Production''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-119, pp.17--24, March 1998.
{ Palatal bar, Electro-palatography, Simultaneous observation, Sound }

{SP97-120} T. Sasaki, H. Itoh and A. Kanuma,   
``Effect of the S-Shaped Curve on Lingual Articulation and Mandibular Movement During Sound Production''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-120, pp.25--32, March 1998.
{ S-shaped curve, Electro-palatography, Mandibular movement, Simultaneous observation }

{SP97-121} M. Yamazaki, H. Itoh and H. Nakahara,   
``Lingually Attached Prosthesis Fabrication for Varying Glossectomies Using Palatography''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-121, pp.33--40, March 1998.
{ Palatograms of /ta/,/ki/ and /Ka/, Glossectomy patients, Lingually attached prosthesis }

{SP97-122} H. Saito, N. Suzuki, M. Akagi, T. Takahashi and K. Michi,  
``Articulatory Movment and Acoustic Features After Tongue and Mouth Floor Resection''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-122, pp.41--48, March 1998.
{ Tongue and mouth floor resection, Palatal augmentation prosthesis, Articulation disorders, Acoustic features }

{SP97-123} M. Wakumoto, S. Masaki, K. Honda, I. Fujimoto, Y. Nakamura and Y. Shimada,   
``Effect of MRI dental crown imaging plate on fricative articulation: An X-ray microbeam study''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-123, pp.49--56, March 1998.
{ MRI, Imaging dental crown shape, Speech intelligibility, Acooustical analysis, X-ray microbeam }

{SP97-124} A. Ujihira,   
``Stutterers' Voice and Vocal Code''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-124, pp.57--64, March 1998.
{ Stuttering, Phonetic transition defect, Pathologic voice, Glottis, Pitch control }

{SP97-125} K. Hiyane, N. Sawabe and J. Iio,   
``Study of Spectrum Structure of Short-time Sounds and its Onomatopoeia Expression''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-125, pp.65--72, March 1998.
{ Onomatopoeia, Short-time sounds, Spectrum, Auditory scene analysis, Gammatone }

{SP97-126} N. Aoki and T. Ifukube,   
``Wavelect compression of the waveform of source signal for vowels in PARCOR analysis/synthesis system''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-126, pp.73--80, March 1998.
{ Speech coding, Speech synthesis, Wavelet transform, Fractal interpoation }

{SP97-127} K. Sato, M. Inman and S. Hangai,   
``Speaker Identification Using Digital Cochlear Model and Hidden Markov Model''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-127, pp.81--88, March 1998.
{ Auditory system, Digital cochlear model, Speaker identification, HMM }

{SP97-128} H. Ohno and M. Akagi,   
``Speaker individuarity in fundamental frequency contours of sentences''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-128, pp.89--96, March 1998.
{ Fundamental frequency contours, Speaker individuarity, Fujisaki model, STRAIGHT }

{SP97-129} M. Unoki and M. Akagi,   
``An Extraction Method of the complex tone considering temporal variation of the fundamental frequency''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-129, pp.97--104, March 1998.
{ Auditory scene analysis, Segregation, Grouping, Fundamental frequency, TEMPO }

{SP97-130} N. Takagi,   
``On the possibility and Limitation of training Japanese speakers to identify English /r/ and /l/''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-130, pp.1--8, March 1998.
{ L2 speech perception, English /r/ and /l/, Japanese speakers }

{SP97-131} R. Numabe and N. Takagi,   
``A comparison of discriminabilities of English phonemic contrasts problematic for native speaker of Japanese and the influence of pre-pubescent linguistic exposure''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-131, pp.9--14, March 1998.
{ L2 speech perception, English, Japanese }

{SP97-132} H. Kato, M. Tsuzaki and Y. Sagisaka,   
``Acceptability of temporal modifications in segments including special morae''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-132, pp.15--22, March 1998.
{ Speech perception, Time perception, Durational rules, Objective evaluation of synthetic rules }

{SP97-133} M. Fujimoto and S. Kiritani,   
``Phonetic Variations of the CVYVV Sequence in accordance with Speech Rate and their Perceptual Characteristics''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-133, pp.23--28, March 1998.
{ Speech rate, Contraction into CyV syllable, Vowel shortening, Geminate consonant, Speech perception } 

{SP97-134} T. Minakawa and M. Akagi,   
``Fundamental frequency fluctuation in continuous vowel utterance and its discrimination''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-134, pp.29--36, March 1998.
{ Laryngograph, Continuous vowel utterance, Variations of fundamental frequency, Manegement to variations of fundamental frequency, Percieve of changing voice quality } 

{SP97-135} K. Noda, M. Tonoike, I. Koizuka, K. Doi, M. Yamaguchi, R. Seo, N. Matsumoto and T. Kubo,   
``Measurement of the Auditory Evoked Off Responses Using Magnetoencephalography''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-135, pp.37--40, March 1998.
{ Off response, Auditory evoked fields, Magnetoencephalography, Dipole model analysis }

{SP97-136} N. Watakabe, T. Sakaguchi, Y. Watanabe, H. Hosoi, S. Imaizumi, K. Aiba, K. Murata, N. Sadato and Y. Yonekura,   
``Magneto-encepharographic and Positron Emission Topographic Observation of Auditory Perception of Ultrasound''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-136, pp.41--48, March 1998.
{ Bone-conducted ultrasound, MEG, PET } 

{SP97-137} H. Uno and K. Okanoya,   
``Neural Bases for Song Production in Bengalese Finches: Effects of Partial Lesions on the Higher Vocal Center''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-137, pp.49--56, March 1998.
{ Song bird, Vocal control nucleus, Partial lesion, Temporal pattern coding } 

{SP97-138} K. Ito and M. Akagi,   
``A function model of auditory sound localization''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-138, pp.57--64, March 1998.
{ ITD, Jeffress model, Synaptic transmission, Nervous impulse, Inhibitory neuron } 

{SP97-139} M. Ishii, N. Uemi, H. Shoji, J. Matsushima and T. Ifukube,      
``The hearing-impaired's perception characteristics of a formant transition of voiced stop consonants''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-139, pp.65--72, March 1998.
{ Sensorineural hearing-impairment, Hearing aid, Formant transition, Frequency-modulated tone }

{SP97-140} J. Yamamoto and H. Shimizu,     
``Estalising Language in children with developmental disabilities  The Effects of Computer-Based Teaching''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-140, pp.73--80, March 1998.
{ Computer-based teaching, Language acquisition, Character, Word, Sentence, Children with developmental disabilities }

{SP97-141} Y. Fukuda, H. Kimura, Y. Ichida, K. Fukushima, Y. Izumi, T. Sekine, K. Suzuki, N. Nakajima, A. Kasugai and M. Norimatsu,     
``Expression through hand and finger action used in "words in continuous signing   - A study in reference to the dialogue in Japanese Sign Language by the deaf persons''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-141, pp.81--86, March 1998.
{ Japanese sign, Language, Word, expression hand and finger actions, Co-articulation phoneme }

{SP97-142} Y. Fukuda, H. Kimura, Y. Ichida, K. Fukushima, Y. Izumi, T. Sekine, K. Suzuki, N. Nakajima, A. Kasugai and M. Norimatsu,     
``Construction of a database for the Japanese Sign Language research using materials of dialogue sign gesture by deaf persons''
IEICE Technical Report, SP97-142, pp.87--92, March 1998.
{ Japanese sign language, Dialogue research database }