Conference Date |
Thu, Oct 23, 2008 13:00 - 18:00
Fri, Oct 24, 2008 09:00 - 12:15 |
Topics |
Speech Sysnthesis, Speech Production, Prosody, etc. |
Conference Place |
Kurokami South Campus, Kumamoto University |
Address |
2-39-1, Kurokami, Kumamoto-shi, 860-8555, Japan. |
Transportation Guide |
http://www.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/e/aboutKU/visitorinfo/location.html |
Contact Person |
Koichi Ogata
096-342-3637 |
Sponsors |
This conference is co-sponsored by the Acoustical Society of Japan and IEEE SP Society Japan Chapter.
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Thu, Oct 23 PM 13:00 - 18:00 |
(1) |
13:00-13:30 |
Glottal flow analysis based on boundary-layer approximation
-- A comparison between one- and two-dimensional cases -- |
Tokihiko Kaburagi (Kyushu Univ.), Yosuke Tanabe (Hitachi) |
(2) |
13:30-14:00 |
Speech Synthesis Using a Constrained Acoustic Tube Model |
Hayato Kinoshita, Jun Toyama (Hokkaido Univ.) |
(3) |
14:00-14:30 |
Speech synthesis based on a transmission line model
-- Development of an adjustment function for phoneme duration -- |
Mamio Hokazono, Kohichi Ogata (Kumamoto Univ.) |
(4) |
14:30-15:00 |
Development of Three Dimensional Vocal Tract Mechanism for Anthropomorphic Talking Robot aimed to improve Resonance |
Kotaro Fukui, Yuma Ishikawa, Keisuke Ohno, Nana Sakakibara, Atsuo Takanishi, Masaaki Honda (Waseda Univ.) |
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15:00-15:15 |
Break ( 15 min. ) |
(5) |
15:15-16:15 |
[Invited Talk]
Speech Prosody in Spoken Language Processing |
Keikichi Hirose (The Univ. of Tokyo) |
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16:15-16:30 |
Break ( 15 min. ) |
(6) |
16:30-17:00 |
Automatic estimation of the accent type for spoken sentences based on CRF and a stochastic F0 model |
Kazuhiro Suzuki, Asami Yamamoto, Kook Cho, Yoichi Yamashita (Ritsumeikan Univ.) |
(7) |
17:00-17:30 |
Model-based duration analysis on English natives and Thai learners |
Chatchawarn Hansakunbuntheung (Waseda Univ.), Hiroaki Kato (ATR), Yoshinori Sagisaka (Waseda Univ.) |
(8) |
17:30-18:00 |
An MRHSMM-based voice quality control technique for synthetic speech using speaker adaptation from average voice model |
Makoto Tachibana, Akifumi Kouno, Takashi Nose, Takao Kobayashi (Tokyo Tech) |
Fri, Oct 24 AM 09:00 - 12:15 |
(9) |
09:00-09:30 |
Selection of adjective phrases for characterizing elderly speech |
Takeshi Miyazaki, Mitsunori Mizumachi, Katsuyuki Niyada (KIT) |
(10) |
09:30-10:00 |
Phonetics Research for Language of Nepal
-- Nepali -- |
Adhikari Madhusudan (Kagoshima Univ.) |
(11) |
10:00-10:30 |
The phonetics research for Language of Pakistan
-- Urdu -- |
Ur Rehman Anis (Kagoshima Univ.) |
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10:30-10:45 |
Break ( 15 min. ) |
(12) |
10:45-11:15 |
A real-time engine estimating speech feature vector for development of speech application systems |
Yuichi Ueda, Tadashi Sakata, Akira Watanabe (Kumamoto Univ.), Naomitu Ikeda (Yatsushiro NCT.) |
(13) |
11:15-11:45 |
Fitting method on pitch and speech rate for a compound hearing aid processing |
Dan Zhang, Tadashi Sakata, Yuichi Ueda (Kumamoto Univ.) |
(14) |
11:45-12:15 |
Analysis and application of distance matrix between the input speech and the standard patarn |
Hiroyuki Nishi, Yoshimasa Kimura, Nguyen Van Don (Sojo Univ.) |