IEICE Technical Report

Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685 Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380

Speech

Workshop Date : 2012-09-28 - 2012-09-29 / Issue Date : 2012-09-21

SP2012-58
Evaluation of the factor to affect the spatial recognition of enlarged presentation on a tactile display -- To convey a figure/graph information to the visually impaired people --
Tadahiro Sakai, Takuya Handa, Toshihiro Shimizu (NHK)
pp. 1 - 6

SP2012-59
Recognition of Upward Stairs Using a Kinect Cane and Its Performance Evaluation
Shotaro Yamaguchi, Hotaka Takizawa, Mayumi Aoyagi (Univ. of Tsukuba), Nobuo Ezaki (Toba National College of Maritime Technology), Shinji Mizuno (Aichi Institute of Technology)
pp. 7 - 11

SP2012-60
Development of a DAISY player that utilizes a Braille display for document structure presentation and navigation
Kazunori Minatani (National Center for University Entrance Examinations)
pp. 13 - 16

SP2012-61
A case survey on care facility staff's daily attempts -- Toward technology introduction into care facilities --
Isamu Kajitani, Tamio Tanikawa, Takanori Shibata, Tetsuo Kotoku (AIST)
pp. 17 - 22

SP2012-62
IT-based arithmetic learning method for children with difficulty in linguistic and attention skills.
Kimito Takamaru, Kouhei Yamada, Hiroyuki Inoue, Masahiko Nawate (Shimane Univ.)
pp. 23 - 28

SP2012-63
Improvement of interactive system to assist rehabilitation of upper extremity
Tomohiko Miki (Shibaura Institute of Technology), Fumihito Kasai (Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Showa University School o), Michiko Ohkura (Shibaura Institute of Technology)
pp. 29 - 31

SP2012-64
A Preliminary Study on Text Input Method using Statistical Model of Cerebral Blood Flow Change
Yoshiyuki Tazawa, Hiroki Mori (Utsunomiya Univ.)
pp. 33 - 38

SP2012-65
Visualization system for a log of versatile communication aid "VCAN/1A"
Chihiro Ueno, Toyohiko Hayashi, Maiko Iriyama (Niigata Univ.), Satsuki Aoki (Meirin College)
pp. 39 - 44

SP2012-66
A Proposal for Improvement of Supporting for Communication Aids
Fumihito Ito (Hitotsubashi Univ.), Keiji Imai, Emiko Nishina, Hiroki Okabe (ICT RT), Kentaro Ishijima (Tokyo Univ.), Yumiko Kawaguchi (Sakura Kai)
pp. 45 - 49

SP2012-67
[Invited Talk] When the near future sound study affects assistive technology, what happens?
Eiichi Ono (NRCD)
pp. 51 - 52

SP2012-68
[Invited Talk] Assistive Technology for Aged and Person with Disabilities
Takuro Hatakeyama (Waseda Univ.)
pp. 53 - 56

SP2012-69
A fast speech rate conversion technology to assist efficient information acquisition for visually impaired persons
Naoyuki Tazawa (NHK-ES), Atsushi Imai (NHK STRL), Yukio Iwahana, Tohru Takagi (NHK-ES), Shinichi Torihara (Keio Research Institute at SFC)
pp. 57 - 61

SP2012-70
The Development and Evaluation of Bandwidth Extension of Speech for Mobile Device -- The Proposal of Adaptive Low-Frequency Bandwidth Extending Method and an Objective Evaluation Method --
Takashi Sudo (TOSHIBA/YNU), Masataka Osada, Yusaku Kikugawa, Hirokazu Tanaka, Shigenobu Minami (TOSHIBA), Ryuji Kohno (YNU)
pp. 63 - 68

SP2012-71
Detection of Phoneme Boundary in Serial Inaudible Utterance Based on Center-of-Balance Transition by Wavelet Factors with Consideration of Muscle Activity
Kazushi Miyatake, Hidetoshi Nagai, Teigo Nakamura (KIT)
pp. 69 - 74

Note: Each article is a technical report without peer review, and its polished version will be published elsewhere.

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