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Technical Committee on Speech (SP)
Chair: Takeshi Kawabata (Kwansei Gakuin Univ.) Vice Chair: Norihide Kitaoka (Nagoya Univ.)
Secretary: Tomoki Toda (NAIST), Koji Iwano (Tokyo City Univ.)
Assistant: Takanobu Oba (NTT), Takashi Nose (Tohoku Univ.)
DATE:
Thu, Nov 13, 2014 13:45 - 17:45
Fri, Nov 14, 2014 09:00 - 14:15
PLACE:
Chikushi Campus, Kyushu University(6-1, Kasuga Koen, Kasuga, Fukuoka, 816-8580, Japan.)
TOPICS:
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Thu, Nov 13 PM (13:45 - 15:00)
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(1) 13:45 - 14:10
A comparative study of paralinguistic information control methods for HMM-based dialogue speech synthesis
Hiroki Mori, Shunsuke Takahashi, Tomohiro Nagata (Utsunomiya Univ.)
(2) 14:10 - 14:35
Variable factor of laughter in an utterance for dialogue speech synthesis
Tomohiro Nagata, Hiroki Mori (Utsunomiya Univ.)
(3) 14:35 - 15:00
Shared emotion additive model for HMM-based emotional speech synthesis
Yamato Ohtani, Yu Nasu, Ryo Morinaka, Masatsune Tamura, Masahiro Morita, Masami Akamine (Toshiba)
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Thu, Nov 13 PM (15:15 - 16:15)
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(4) 15:15 - 16:15
[Invited Talk]
Speech Synthesis for Conversation System
Tetsunori Kobayashi, Kazuhiko Iwata (Waseda Univ.)
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Thu, Nov 13 PM (16:30 - 17:45)
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(5) 16:30 - 16:55
A study on intuitive control of emotional expressions and speaking styles using facial features by Kinect
Yu Bi, Takashi Nose, Akinori Ito (Tohoku Univ.)
(6) 16:55 - 17:20
Emphasized Accent Phrase Prediction from Advertisement Text towards Expressive Text-to-speech Synthesis
Hideharu Nakajima, Hideyuki Mizuno, Sumitaka Sakauchi (NTT)
(7) 17:20 - 17:45
Emotional speech synthesis for long words by generalizing accent types
Yuko Aoyama (hakase.com), Tsuyoshi Moriyama (Tokyo Polytechnic Univ.)
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Fri, Nov 14 AM (09:00 - 10:15)
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(8) 09:00 - 09:25
Influence of the phase of voiced sound in source-filter speech synthesis on nerve cell responses in the auditory cortex
-- A study based on nerve cell responses in the primary auditory cortex of an awake cat --
Masanori Morise, Kaito Okubo, Sohei Chimoto, Yu Sato, Kenji Ozawa (Univ. of Yamanashi)
(9) 09:25 - 09:50
A study for estimating the vocal-tract shape from speech spectrum using a sensitivity function
Tokihiko Kaburagi (Kyushu Univ.)
(10) 09:50 - 10:15
Application of a vocal tract mapping interface to inverse estimation of vocal tract shapes
Kohichi Ogata, Tayuto Kodama, Tomohiro Hayakawa (Kumamoto Univ.)
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Fri, Nov 14 AM (10:30 - 11:45)
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(11) 10:30 - 10:55
A study of speaker normalization based on voice conversion for statistical acoustic-to-articulatory mapping
Hidetsugu Uchida, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose (Univ. of Tokyo)
(12) 10:55 - 11:20
Design of control parameters for voice quality control based on multiple-regression Gaussian mixture model
Kazutaka Kubo, Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Tomoki Toda, Graham Neubig, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura (NAIST)
(13) 11:20 - 11:45
An evaluation of target speech for nonaudible murmur enhancement focusing on its intelligibility under noisy environments
Sakura Tsuruta, Kou Tanaka, Tomoki Toda, Graham Neubig, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura (NAIST)
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Fri, Nov 14 PM (13:00 - 14:15)
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(14) 13:00 - 13:25
Analysis of color attributes derived from vowel sound impression
-- for multimodal expression of sentiment information --
Kanako Watanabe, Yoko Greenberg, Yoshinori Sagisaka (Waseda Univ.)
(15) 13:25 - 13:50
An Acoustical Analysis of Singing Voice of Kugaki and Ufugaki in Ryukyuan Classical Music "Nomura Style"
Yasufumi Uezu, Tokihiko Kaburagi (Kyushu Univ.)
(16) 13:50 - 14:15
A method of measuring articulatory space using NDI Wave speech research system
Tatsuya Kitamura (Konan Univ.), Yukiko Nota (ATR-Promotions), Michiko Hashi (Pref. Univ. Hiroshima), Hiroaki Hatano (ATR/Kobe Univ.)
# Information for speakers
General Talk will have 20 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for discussion.
Invited Talk will have 50 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion.
=== Technical Committee on Speech (SP) ===
# FUTURE SCHEDULE:
Mon, Dec 15, 2014 - Wed, Dec 17, 2014: Tokyo Institute of Technology (Suzukakedai Campus) [Thu, Oct 23], Topics: The 6th Symposium on Collective Knowlege
Thu, Jan 22, 2015: Juroku Plaza [Mon, Nov 10]
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