Committee |
Date Time |
Place |
Paper Title / Authors |
Abstract |
Paper # |
SP |
2009-06-24 13:00 |
Hokkaido |
Clark Memorial Hall, Hokkaido Univ. |
Auto-meshing Algorithm for Acoustic Analysis of Vocal Tract Kyohei Hayashi, Nobuhiro Miki (Future Univ. Hakodate) SP2009-23 |
We propose a new method for an auto-meshing algorithm for an acoustic analysis of the vocal tract using the Finite Eleme... [more] |
SP2009-23 pp.1-6 |
SP |
2009-06-24 13:30 |
Hokkaido |
Clark Memorial Hall, Hokkaido Univ. |
Laryngeal Source Production of Inspiratory Phonation Ken-Ichi Sakakibara (Health Sci. Univ. Hokkaido), Hiroshi Imagawa (Univ. Tokyo/Dept.Otorhinolaryngology, Univ. of Tokyo), Hisayuki Yokonishi (Univ. Tokyo), Takao Goto (Intn'l Med. Center. of Jpn.), Takaharu Nito (Dept.Otorhinolaryngology, Univ. of Tokyo), Miwako Kimura (Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center), Niro Tayama (Intn'l Med. Center. of Jpn.) SP2009-24 |
In this paper, the laryngeal movements of ispiratory phonation were
observed using endoscopic high-speed digital imagin... [more] |
SP2009-24 pp.7-10 |
SP |
2009-06-24 14:00 |
Hokkaido |
Clark Memorial Hall, Hokkaido Univ. |
[Invited Talk]
Overview of methods and techniques used in MRI-based speech production studies Hironori Takemoto (NICT), Tatsuya Kitamura (Konan Univ.) SP2009-25 |
MRI is a powerful tool for the study of speech production. Although MRI sequences specifically designed for vocal tract ... [more] |
SP2009-25 pp.11-16 |
SP |
2009-06-24 15:15 |
Hokkaido |
Clark Memorial Hall, Hokkaido Univ. |
Super High Temporal Resolution MRI movie for Observing Dynamic Aspects of Speech Organs Hironori Nishimoto, Yasuhiro Shimada, Ichiro Fujimoto, Shinobu Masaki (ATR/ATR-Promotions) SP2009-26 |
This paper proposes an MRI scanning method for super high temporal resolution movie to observe aspects of speech organs ... [more] |
SP2009-26 pp.17-22 |
SP |
2009-06-24 15:45 |
Hokkaido |
Clark Memorial Hall, Hokkaido Univ. |
Larygo-topographic analysis of vocal fold vibration patterns Hiroshi Imagawa (Univ. of Tokyo/Univ. of Tokyo.), Ken-Ichi Sakakibara (Health Sci. Univ. Hokkaido), Miwako Kimura (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center), Niro Tayama (Univ. of Tokyo./Intn'l Med. Center. of Jpn.) SP2009-27 |
Laryngo-topography is a new method for analysis of digital high-speed recording of vocal fold vibrations by Fourier tran... [more] |
SP2009-27 pp.23-28 |
SP |
2009-06-24 16:15 |
Hokkaido |
Clark Memorial Hall, Hokkaido Univ. |
Acoustic and Electroglottographic (EGG) analysis of pressed phonation in spontaneous expressive speech Carlos T. Ishi, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Norihiro Hagita (ATR/IRC) SP2009-28 |
Pressed voice is a voice quality that appears in conversational speech for expressing paralinguistic information related... [more] |
SP2009-28 pp.29-34 |
SP |
2009-06-24 17:00 |
Hokkaido |
Clark Memorial Hall, Hokkaido Univ. |
A Programming Laboratory for Sound Effects Naofumi Aoki (Hokkaido Univ.) SP2009-29 |
Computer programming experience can be a trigger for attracting student's interest in multimedia technologies such as so... [more] |
SP2009-29 pp.35-38 |
SP |
2009-06-24 17:30 |
Hokkaido |
Clark Memorial Hall, Hokkaido Univ. |
Determining the keyness of lexical items found in the classroom speech of native and non-native English language instructors Noriaki Katagiri (Hokkaido Sapporo Kaisei Senior High School), Goh Kawai (Hokkaido Univ.) SP2009-30 |
This research revealed lexical items with high keyness of native and non-native English instructors. We searched core l... [more] |
SP2009-30 pp.39-44 |
SP |
2009-06-25 09:00 |
Hokkaido |
Clark Memorial Hall, Hokkaido Univ. |
Effects of Mora in English Rhythm Control by Japanese Learners Shizuka Nakamura (Waseda Univ.), Hiroaki Kato (NICT/ATR), Yoshinori Sagisaka (Waseda Univ./NICT/ATR) SP2009-31 |
In our previous studies on an objective evaluation of English rhythm control by Japanese learners, we noticed that the a... [more] |
SP2009-31 pp.45-50 |
SP |
2009-06-25 09:30 |
Hokkaido |
Clark Memorial Hall, Hokkaido Univ. |
Analysis and Utilization of Speaker Adaptation Techniques for Shadowing and Read-Speech Pronunciation Evaluation Dean Luo, Yu Qiao, Nobuaki Minematsu (Univ. of Tokyo), Yutaka Yamauchi (Tokyo International Univ.), Keikichi Hirose (Univ. of Tokyo) SP2009-32 |
In this paper, we investigate the effects and problems of MLLR speaker adaptation when applied to pronunciation evaluati... [more] |
SP2009-32 pp.51-56 |
SP |
2009-06-25 10:00 |
Hokkaido |
Clark Memorial Hall, Hokkaido Univ. |
An auditory conceptual-model based on human auditory perception-process for automatic speech recognition Atsushi Haniu, Masashi Unoki, Masato Akagi (JAIST) SP2009-33 |
This paper describes a conceptual model of human auditory perception mechanisms for automatic speech recognition (ASR) s... [more] |
SP2009-33 pp.57-62 |
SP |
2009-06-25 10:45 |
Hokkaido |
Clark Memorial Hall, Hokkaido Univ. |
Effects of spectral envelope representations on resynthesized speech quality Hayato Akagiri, Noboru Onishi (Wakayama Univ.), Masanori Morise (Ritsumeikan Univ.), Ryuichi Nisimura, Toshio Irino, Hideki Kawahara (Wakayama Univ.) SP2009-34 |
A speech analysis, modification and synthesis method TANDEM-STRAIGHT consists of two key components;
a) temporally inde... [more] |
SP2009-34 pp.63-68 |
SP |
2009-06-25 11:15 |
Hokkaido |
Clark Memorial Hall, Hokkaido Univ. |
Sound quality improvement based on vocal tract length normalization in simplified speech morphing Yoshiki Asaka, Saori Nishida, Hayato Akagiri, Ryuichi Nisimura, Toshio Irino, Hideki Kawahara (Wakayama Univ) SP2009-35 |
Need of careful manual placement of anchoring points is the major obstacle for application of current speech morphing ba... [more] |
SP2009-35 pp.69-74 |
SP |
2009-06-25 11:45 |
Hokkaido |
Clark Memorial Hall, Hokkaido Univ. |
An evaluation of Audio Lossless Coding (ALS) based on robust complex AR analysis Keiichi Funaki (Univ. of the Ryukyus) SP2009-36 |
Recently, next generation network called ``NGN'' has been in service.
On the NGN, bitrates of speech does not have to b... [more] |
SP2009-36 pp.75-80 |
SP |
2009-06-25 13:15 |
Hokkaido |
Clark Memorial Hall, Hokkaido Univ. |
[Invited Talk]
How to start functional brain imaging study
-- Introduction for speech scientists -- Yukiko Nota (ATR/ATR-Promotions) SP2009-37 |
This manuscript is an introduction to brain activity imaging study for speech scientists. First, I show a brief overview... [more] |
SP2009-37 pp.81-86 |
SP |
2009-06-25 14:30 |
Hokkaido |
Clark Memorial Hall, Hokkaido Univ. |
A mean F0 speaker adaptation method for regression model-based F0 contour generation Hosana Kamiyama, Takahiro Shinozaki (Tokyo Inst. of Tech.), Koji Iwano (Tokyo City Univ.), Sadaoki Furui (Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) SP2009-38 |
This paper proposes a new speaker adaptation method for the fundamental frequency ($F_0$) contour generation models base... [more] |
SP2009-38 pp.87-92 |
SP |
2009-06-25 15:00 |
Hokkaido |
Clark Memorial Hall, Hokkaido Univ. |
Fundamental Frequency Extraction Based on p-th Power Subtraction of Amplitude Spectrum Saori Motegi, Tetsuya Shimamura (Saitama Univ.) SP2009-39 |
In this paper, a fundamental frequency extraction method of noisy speech is proposed.
A p-th power amplitude spectrum i... [more] |
SP2009-39 pp.93-98 |
SP |
2009-06-25 15:30 |
Hokkaido |
Clark Memorial Hall, Hokkaido Univ. |
Segmentation of the Accentual Phrase Based on the F0 Model Hiroki Oohashi, Hideaki Kikuchi, Akira Ichikawa (Waseda Univ.) SP2009-40 |
We examined whether information that notified of the boundary of accentual phrase beforehand was included in F0. In the ... [more] |
SP2009-40 pp.99-103 |