Conference Date |
Thu, Jun 14, 2012 11:00 - 17:30
Fri, Jun 15, 2012 10:30 - 17:45 |
Topics |
Speech perception, production, auditory communication, etc. |
Conference Place |
NTT Atsugi Research and Development Center |
Address |
3-1 Wakamiya, Morinosato, Atsugi-shi, Kanagawa, 243-0198 Japan |
Transportation Guide |
Get off at Hon-Atsugi Station or Aikou-Ishida Station (Odakyu line), and take a bus or taxi (about 20 minutes) from there. When you take a bus, it is convenient to get off at Aikou-Ishida Station. http://www.ntt.co.jp/sclab/e_maps/a.html |
Contact Person |
Sadao Hiroya, NTT Communication Science Laboratories |
Sponsors |
This conference is co-sponsored by Technical Committee on Electroacoustics, ASJ, and is supported by IEEE Signal Processing Society Japan Chapter.
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Announcement |
Please join us for an welcome party at June 14. |
Thu, Jun 14 AM Regular session 1 11:00 - 12:00 |
(1) |
11:00-11:30 |
A Study on Automatic Prosodic Context Labeling for Emphatic Speech Synthesis |
Yu Maeno, Takashi Nose, Takao Kobayashi (Tokyo Tech), Yusuke Ijima, Hideharu Nakajima, Hideyuki Mizuno, Osamu Yoshioka (NTT) |
(2) |
11:30-12:00 |
Eigenvoice-based character conversion and its evaluation |
Teeraphon Pongkittiphan, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose (Univ. of Tokyo) |
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12:00-13:00 |
Break ( 60 min. ) |
Thu, Jun 14 PM Organized session 1 (Regular session) 13:00 - 14:00 |
(3) |
13:00-13:30 |
A low-cost concatenative TTS for monosyllabic languages |
Trung-Nghia Phung (JAIST), Mai Chi Luong (IOIT), Masato Akagi (JAIST) |
(4) |
13:30-14:00 |
Comparison of Methods for Emotion Dimensions Estimation in Speech Using a Three-Layered Model |
Reda Elbarougy, Masato Akagi (JAIST) |
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14:00-14:15 |
Break ( 15 min. ) |
Thu, Jun 14 PM Organized session 2 (Invited talk) 14:15 - 15:15 |
(5) |
14:15-15:15 |
[Invited Talk]
Perception and communication from the viewpoint of the motor theory |
Makio Kashino (NTT) |
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15:15-15:30 |
Break ( 15 min. ) |
Thu, Jun 14 PM Organized session 3 (Regular session) 15:30 - 17:30 |
(6) |
15:30-16:00 |
Personalization of the physiological articulatory model using MR image based deformation |
Nana Nishimura, Shin'ichi Kawamoto (JAIST), Jianwu Dang (JAIST/Tianjin Univ.) |
(7) |
16:00-16:30 |
Perceptual evaluation of synthesized speech reflecting "personalities" |
Minoru Tsuzaki (KCUA), Keiichi Tokuda (NITEC), Hisashi Kawai (KDDI R&D Labs), Yoshinori Shiga, Jinfu Ni (NICT), Keiichiro Oura, Sayaka Shiota (NITEC) |
(8) |
16:30-17:00 |
Speaker size discrimination and vowel identification for aoustically scaled vowels
-- Dependence of vowel duration -- |
Cihiro Takeshima (Oberlin Univ.), Minoru Tsuzaki (KCUA), Toshio Irino (Wakayama Univ.) |
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Research introduction of NTT Communication Science Laboratories (17:00 - 17:30) |
Fri, Jun 15 AM Regular session 2 10:30 - 12:00 |
(9) |
10:30-11:00 |
The effects of the combination of respiratory rate and acoustic tempo on the autonomic nervous system |
Ken Watanabe (Tokyo Inst. of Tech.), Yuki Ooishi (NTT), Makio Kashino (NTT/Tokyo Inst. of Tech./JST) |
(10) |
11:00-11:30 |
Analysis of Tempo Control Characteristics using Tapping |
Manami Haruki, Kiyoaki Aikawa (Tokyo Univ. of Tech.) |
(11) |
11:30-12:00 |
A Japanese version of an audio-visual corpus for Coordinate Response Measure (CRM) |
Shigeto Furukawa (NTT), Shogo Kominato (Toyohashi Univ. Tech.) |
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12:00-13:00 |
Break ( 60 min. ) |
Fri, Jun 15 PM Organized session 4 (Invited talk) 13:00 - 14:00 |
(12) |
13:00-14:00 |
[Invited Talk]
Mirror neuron as a link between motor control and cognitive function |
Akira Murata (Kinki Univ.) |
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14:00-14:15 |
Break ( 15 min. ) |
Fri, Jun 15 PM Organized session 5 (Invited talk) 14:15 - 15:30 |
(13) |
14:15-15:15 |
[Invited Talk]
Measurement of Brain Activation during Speech Recognition Using Optical Topography |
Hirokazu Atsumori, Yukiko Hirabayashi, Atsushi Maki (Hitachi), Hideaki Sakata (Mejiro Univ.), Hiroki Sato (Hitachi) |
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A ceremony of 2011 SP meeting young researcher award (15:15 - 15:30) |
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15:30-15:45 |
Break ( 15 min. ) |
Fri, Jun 15 PM Regular session 3 15:45 - 17:45 |
(14) |
15:45-16:15 |
Analysis of the correlation between various acoustic features and the audibility of speech with noise |
Hosana Kamiyama, Yusuke Ijima, Mitsuaki Isogai, Hideyuki Mizuno (NTT) |
(15) |
16:15-16:45 |
Correlation between otoacoustic emissions and temporal fine-structure processing. |
Sho Otsuka, Koichi Hirota (The Univ. of Tokyo), Makio Kashino (NTT) |
(16) |
16:45-17:15 |
Does Recovering Sound Sources from Embedded Repetition Require Directed Attention? |
Keiko Masutomi (TiTech/NTT), Nicolas Barascud, Tobias Overath (UCL), Makio Kashino (NTT/TiTech), Josh H. McDermott (New York Univ.), Maria Chait (UCL) |
(17) |
17:15-17:45 |
Recalibration of tactile distance induced by auditory feedback |
Norimichi Kitagawa (NTT), Ana Tajadura-Jimenez (Royal Holloway, Univ. of London), Aleksander Valjamae (Univ. of Graz), Iwaki Toshima, Toshitaka Kimura (NTT), Manos Tsakiris (Royal Holloway, Univ. of London) |