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The auditory research meeting (ASJ-H)
Chair: Minoru Tsuzaki (KCUA) Vice Chair: Kaoru Ashihara (AIST)
Secretary: Katsuhiro Maki (Aichi Shukutoku Univ.), Sadao Hiroya (NTT), Shuichi Sakamoto (Tohoku Univ.)

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Technical Committee on Speech (SP)
Chair: Satoru Hayamizu (Gifu Univ.) Vice Chair: Hisashi Kawai (KDDI Labs.)
Secretary: Hiroki Mori (Utsunomiya Univ.), Motoyuki Suzuki (Osaka Inst. of Tech.)
Assistant: Masakiyo Fujimoto (NTT), Yamato Ohtani (Toshiba)

DATE:
Thu, Jun 14, 2012 11:00 - 17:30
Fri, Jun 15, 2012 10:30 - 17:45

PLACE:
NTT Atsugi Research and Development Center(3-1 Wakamiya, Morinosato, Atsugi-shi, Kanagawa, 243-0198 Japan. 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. Sadao Hiroya, NTT Communication Science Laboratories)

TOPICS:
Speech perception, production, auditory communication, etc.

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Thu, Jun 14 AM Regular session 1 (11:00 - 12:00)
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(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)

----- Break ( 60 min. ) -----

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Thu, Jun 14 PM Organized session 1 (Regular session) (13:00 - 14:00)
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(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)

----- Break ( 15 min. ) -----

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Thu, Jun 14 PM Organized session 2 (Invited talk) (14:15 - 15:15)
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(5) 14:15 - 15:15
[Invited Talk]
Perception and communication from the viewpoint of the motor theory
Makio Kashino (NTT)

----- Break ( 15 min. ) -----

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Thu, Jun 14 PM Organized session 3 (Regular session) (15:30 - 17:30)
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(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.)

Research introduction of NTT Communication Science Laboratories (17:00 - 17:30)

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Fri, Jun 15 AM Regular session 2 (10:30 - 12:00)
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(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.)

----- Break ( 60 min. ) -----

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Fri, Jun 15 PM Organized session 4 (Invited talk) (13:00 - 14:00)
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(12) 13:00 - 14:00
[Invited Talk]
Mirror neuron as a link between motor control and cognitive function
Akira Murata (Kinki Univ.)

----- Break ( 15 min. ) -----

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Fri, Jun 15 PM Organized session 5 (Invited talk) (14:15 - 15:30)
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(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)

A ceremony of 2011 SP meeting young researcher award (15:15 - 15:30)

----- Break ( 15 min. ) -----

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Fri, Jun 15 PM Regular session 3 (15:45 - 17:45)
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(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)

# Information for speakers
General Talk will have 25 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for discussion.
Invited Talk will have 50 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion.

# CONFERENCE SPONSORS:
- This conference is co-sponsored by Technical Committee on Electroacoustics, ASJ, and is supported by IEEE Signal Processing Society Japan Chapter.

# CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT:
- Please join us for an welcome party at June 14.

=== The auditory research meeting (ASJ-H) ===

# SECRETARY:
Shuichi Sakamoto (Tohoku University)
E-mail：

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Tel: +81-22-217-5461
Fax: +81-22-217-5535

=== Technical Committee on Speech (SP) ===
# FUTURE SCHEDULE:

Thu, Jul 19, 2012 - Sat, Jul 21, 2012: Hotel Takinoyu (Yamagata Pref.) [Wed, May 16], Topics: Speech recognition, understanding, dialog, etc.
Fri, Sep 28, 2012 - Sat, Sep 29, 2012: Shibaura Institute of Technology [Mon, Jul 23], Topics: Welfare and speech processing, etc.

# SECRETARY:
Masakiyo Fujimoto (NTT Communication Science Laboratories)
E-mail: