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Technical Committee on Speech (SP)
Chair: Takao Kobayashi (Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) Vice Chair: Kazunori Mano (Shibaura Inst. of Tech.)
Secretary: Yoshiaki Ito (Iwate Pref. Univ.), Akinobu Lee (Nagoya Inst. of Tech.)
Assistant: Takaaki Hori (NTT), Tatsuya Kitamura (Konan Univ.)
DATE:
Thu, Oct 23, 2008 13:00 - 18:00
Fri, Oct 24, 2008 09:00 - 12:15
PLACE:
Kurokami South Campus, Kumamoto University(2-39-1, Kurokami, Kumamoto-shi, 860-8555, Japan.http://www.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/e/aboutKU/visitorinfo/location.html. Koichi Ogata. 096-342-3637)
TOPICS:
Speech Sysnthesis, Speech Production, Prosody, etc.
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Thu, Oct 23 PM (13:00 - 18:00)
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(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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(5) 15:15 - 16:15
[Invited Talk]
Speech Prosody in Spoken Language Processing
Keikichi Hirose (The Univ. of Tokyo)
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(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)
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Fri, Oct 24 AM (09:00 - 12:15)
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(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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(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.)
# CONFERENCE SPONSORS:
- This conference is co-sponsored by the Acoustical Society of Japan and IEEE SP Society Japan Chapter.
=== Technical Committee on Speech (SP) ===
# FUTURE SCHEDULE:
Thu, Nov 20, 2008 (changed): Softopia Japan (Ogaki) [Fri, Sep 19], Topics: Multi-modal, etc.
Tue, Dec 9, 2008 - Wed, Dec 10, 2008: Waseda Univ. [Mon, Oct 20]
Thu, Jan 29, 2009 - Fri, Jan 30, 2009: NAIST [Fri, Nov 14]
# SECRETARY:
Tatsuya Kitamura (Konan University)
Tel:078-435-2535, FAX:078-435-2540
E-mail:t-kitamu [at] konan-u.ac.jp
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