Conference Date |
Thu, Nov 26, 2009 13:00 - 18:00
Fri, Nov 27, 2009 09:30 - 14:45 |
Topics |
language acquisition, language learning, speech synthesis, speech production, prosody, etc. |
Conference Place |
Hamamatsu Campus, Shizuoka University |
Address |
3-5-1, Johoku, Nakaku, Hamamatsu-shi, 432-8561 Japan. |
Transportation Guide |
Get on the bus at the Entetsu bus terminal, or at platforms No.15 or No.16 at the bus terminal in front of the north exit of JR Tokai Hamamatsu Station, and get off at "Shizuoka-Daigaku". http://www-en.shizuoka.ac.jp/access/index.html |
Contact Person |
Faculty of Informatics, Prof. Shigeyoshi Kitazawa
+81-53-478-1471 |
Sponsors |
This conference is co-sponsored
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Thu, Nov 26 PM 13:00 - 18:00 |
(1) |
13:00-13:30 |
Noise reduction of speech using LPC and Wiener filter |
Xin Dang, Takayoshi Nakai (Shizuoka Univ.) |
(2) |
13:30-14:00 |
Bit Rate Reduction of Vocoder-Type Speech Coder by Temporal Redundancy |
Minoru Kohata (Chiba Inst. of Tech), Motoyuki Suzuki (Tokushima Univ.), Akinori Ito, Shozo Makino (Tohoku Univ.) |
(3) |
14:00-14:30 |
Voice Production Model Considering Boundary-layer Analysis of Glottal Flow and Source-filter Interactions |
Tokihiko Kaburagi, Katsunori Daimo (Kyushu Univ.) |
(4) |
14:30-15:00 |
An effect of dental edges to the speech production |
Masayuki Ando (ADC), Kazuyoshi Senzaki (MSF), Kayoko Ueno, Shigeki Okawa (CIT) |
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15:00-15:15 |
Break ( 15 min. ) |
(5) |
15:15-16:15 |
[Invited Talk]
Fundamental Frequency Models and the Applications |
Yoichi Yamashita (Ritsumeikan Univ.) |
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16:15-16:30 |
Break ( 15 min. ) |
(6) |
16:30-17:00 |
Flexible Control of Focusing in Corpus-based Generation of Prosodic Features based on the F0 Contour Generation Process Model |
Keiko Ochi, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu (Univ. of Tokyo) |
(7) |
17:00-17:30 |
Deliberations on speech perception experiments using binaural integration of phonemic and prosodic information |
Kazuki Matsui, Kanae Amino, Takayuki Arai, Chikashi Michimata (Sophia Univ.), Hirofumi Kamata (Wako Univ.) |
(8) |
17:30-18:00 |
Speaker variabilities of speech in noise and reverberation |
Nao Hodoshima, Takayuki Arai (Sophia Univ.), Kiyohiro Kurisu (TOA Corp.) |
Fri, Nov 27 AM 09:30 - 11:30 |
(9) |
09:30-10:00 |
Improvement of structure to speech conversion based on a structural cost function |
Daisuke Saito, Yu Qiao, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose (Univ. of Tokyo) |
(10) |
10:00-10:30 |
Cross-speaker and cross-language voice conversion based on structural representation of speech |
Ryusuke Mihara, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose (Univ. of Tokyo.) |
(11) |
10:30-11:00 |
A Functional Model for Acquisition of Spoken Language based on the Clustering Method
-- In Case of Words and Vowel Phonemes -- |
Tomio Takara, Yutaka Fujita, Taiki Sunagawa, Takeshi Oshiro, Sanshiro Iwai (Univ. of the Ryukyus) |
(12) |
11:00-11:30 |
The dynamic structure of vowels in Infant-directed speech
-- RIKEN Japanese Mother-Infant Conversation Corpus -- |
Kouki Miyazawa, Hideaki Kikuchi (Waseda Univ.), Takahito Shinya, Reiko Mazuka (Riken) |
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Lunch Break |
Fri, Nov 27 PM 13:00 - 14:45 |
(13) |
13:00-14:00 |
[Invited Talk]
Minsky's Multi-level Commonsense Thinking Models in Speech Communication
-- What are Commonsense, Emotion, Consciousness and the Self? -- |
Yoichi Takebayashi (Shizuoka Univ.) |
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14:00-14:15 |
Break ( 15 min. ) |
(14) |
14:15-14:45 |
Analysis of Language Acquisition Process Focused on Seen of Imitation Utilizing a Speech Behavior Corpus |
Sota Kawasaki, Shinya Kiriyama, Yoichi Takebayashi, Shigeyoshi Kitazawa (Shizuoka Univ) |