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Technical Committee on Speech (SP)
Chair: Satoru Hayamizu (Gifu Univ.) Vice Chair: Yoichi Yamashita (Ritsumeikan Univ.)
Secretary: Norihide Kitaoka (Nagoya Univ.), Hiroki Mori (Utsunomiya Univ.)
Assistant: Hideki Banno (Meijo Univ.), Masakiyo Fujimoto (NTT)

DATE:
Mon, Nov 28, 2011 13:00 - 17:00
Tue, Nov 29, 2011 10:30 - 14:30

PLACE:
Chikushi Campus, Kyushu University(6-1 Kasuga-koen Kasuga-city Fukuoka 816-8580 JAPAN. http://www.kyushu-u.ac.jp/english/university/location/location.php. Associate Professor Tokihiko Kaburagi (Kyushu University). +81-92-583-7555 (Venue))

TOPICS:
Speech Synthesis, Generation, Prosody, etc.

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Mon, Nov 28 PM Organized session [Advances in speech decomposition] 1 (Invited talk) (13:00 - 14:00)
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(1) 13:00 - 14:00
[Invited Talk]
Creating a Biomechanical Model of the Oral, Pharyngeal and Laryngeal Complex for use in Speech Research
Sidney Fels (Univ. of British Columbia)

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

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Mon, Nov 28 PM Organized session [Advances in speech decomposition] 2 (Regular session) (14:15 - 15:45)
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(2) 14:15 - 14:45
Voice conversion from/to arbitrary speakers based on tensor representation of speaker space
Daisuke Saito, Keisuke Yamamoto, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose (Univ. of Tokyo)

(3) 14:45 - 15:15
Multi-closure-interval linear prediction analysis based on phase equalization
Sadao Hiroya (NTT), Nobuhiro Miki (none), Takemi Mochida (NTT)

(4) 15:15 - 15:45
Spectrum envelope estimation using templates of formant peak shape
Ryo Morinaka, Masahiro Morita, Takehiko Kagoshima (Toshiba)

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

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Mon, Nov 28 PM Organized session [Advances in speech decomposition] 3 (Regular session) (16:00 - 17:00)
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(5) 16:00 - 16:30
A study on the inverse estimation from formant frequencies to the vocal-tract shape using a sensitivity function
Tetsuro Takano, Yuki Sakamoto, Tokihiko Kaburagi (Kyushu Univ.)

(6) 16:30 - 17:00
A study on the control of vocal-tract area function by using articulatory data
Sho Mouri, Tetsuro Takano, Tokihiko Kaburagi (Kyushu Univ.)

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Tue, Nov 29 AM Organized session [Advances in speech decomposition] 4 (Regular session) (10:30 - 12:00)
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(7) 10:30 - 11:00
On the effect of source-filter coupling in the transition of voice registers
Tokihiko Kaburagi (Kyushu Univ.)

(8) 11:00 - 11:30
A Study of less-variant characteristics during /VCV/ speech production investigated by physiological perioral dynamics model.
Iwaki Toshima, Sadao Hiroya, Takemi Mochida, Hiroaki Gomi (NTT)

(9) 11:30 - 12:00
Addressing the mismatch of pause position in training data for statistical alaryngeal speech enhancement
Mayumi Kishimoto, Hironori Doi, Tomoki Toda, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura (NAIST)

----- Lunch break ( 60 min. ) -----

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Tue, Nov 29 PM Regular session (13:00 - 14:30)
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(10) 13:00 - 13:30
Dialectal Differences in Vowel Articulation
-- Analyses of MRI Movies --
Masako Fujimoto (NINJAL), Ryosuke Tachibana (Konan Univ./Doshisha Univ.), Tatsuya Kitamura (Konan Univ.)

(11) 13:30 - 14:00
Analysis and Evaluation of Voice Quality Similarity for Speech Synthesis
Teppei Goto, Shohei Tsujimura, Kook Cho, Yoichi Yamashita (Ritsumeikan Univ), Shinji Sako (NIT)

(12) 14:00 - 14:30
Pitch Level Fall Transition Probability for Bimoraic Units in Japanese Words
Greg Short, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu (Unv. of Tokyo)

# 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:
- A demonstration session and an welcome party will be held after the SP meeting in Nov. 28. Please join us.


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

Mon, Dec 19, 2011 - Tue, Dec 20, 2011: [Fri, Oct 14]
Thu, Feb 9, 2012 - Fri, Feb 10, 2012: [Wed, Dec 14]

# SECRETARY:
Masakiyo Fujimoto (NTT Communication Science Laboratories)
E-mail:
Tel: +81-774-93-5164
Fax: +81-774-93-1945


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