Committee |
Date Time |
Place |
Paper Title / Authors |
Abstract |
Paper # |
SP |
2012-03-08 - 2012-03-09 |
Saitama |
Riken Brain Science Institute |
Spatial expression of tone pitch
-- Behavioral and fMRI studies -- Saori Yamaoka, Hiroshi Riquimaroux (Doshisha Univ.) SP2011-165 |
The Spatial-Musical Association of Response Codes (SMARC) effect was previously reported, where perceived pitch height a... [more] |
SP2011-165 pp.55-59 |
SP |
2012-03-08 - 2012-03-09 |
Saitama |
Riken Brain Science Institute |
How auditory selective attention changes intelligibility of dichotically presented speech sounds
-- Behavioral investigation and fMRI studty -- Hiroshi Takaoka, Hiroshi Riquimaroux (Doshisha Univ.) SP2011-155 |
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SP2011-155 pp.1-6 |
SP |
2012-03-08 11:00 |
Saitama |
Riken Brain Science Institute |
Perceptual characteristics of Japanese geminate consonants by Korean native listeners
-- Focusing on the relationship between geminate insertion and Korean intervocalic tense consonants -- Mee Sonu (Waseda Univ.), Keiichi Tajima (Hosei Univ.), Hiroaki Kato (NICT), Yoshinori Sagisaka (Waseda Univ.) SP2011-156 |
The present paper reports an investigation into the characteristics of native Korean listeners’ identification of gemina... [more] |
SP2011-156 pp.7-12 |
SP |
2012-03-08 11:30 |
Saitama |
Riken Brain Science Institute |
Syllable intelligibility of profoundly hearing-impaired rehabilitants using bone-conducted ultrasonic hearing aid Toshie Matsui, Ryota Shimokura, Osamu Saito, Fumi Fukuda, Tadashi Nishimura, Hiroshi Hosoi (Nara Medical Univ.), Seiji Nakagawa (AIST) SP2011-157 |
A monosyllable identification task was tested and syllable intelligibility was measured for two profoundly hearing-impai... [more] |
SP2011-157 pp.13-18 |
SP |
2012-03-08 13:30 |
Saitama |
Riken Brain Science Institute |
Acoustic Analysis of Infant Directed Speech Using the Multi-Timescale Phoneme Acquisition Model Kouki Miyazawa (Waseda Univ./RIKEN), Hideaki Kikuchi (Waseda Univ.), Reiko Mazuka (RIKEN) SP2011-158 |
We propose the phoneme acquisition model that simulates human auditory system that perceives the temporal variations of ... [more] |
SP2011-158 pp.19-24 |
SP |
2012-03-08 14:00 |
Saitama |
Riken Brain Science Institute |
Estimating the vocabulary spurt onset using two piece linear regression Yasuhiro Minami, Tessei Kobayashi, Hiroaki Sugiyama (NTT) SP2011-159 |
Vocabulary spurt is the term used to describe the rapid increase in word-learning speed at around 18 months of age. Howe... [more] |
SP2011-159 pp.25-30 |
SP |
2012-03-08 14:30 |
Saitama |
Riken Brain Science Institute |
[Invited Talk]
Language development in preverbal infants
-- From voice to words -- Etsuko Haryu (Univ. Tokyo) SP2011-160 |
In order to acquire words, infants must learn to segment words from fluent speech, and to associate those words with app... [more] |
SP2011-160 pp.31-34 |
SP |
2012-03-08 15:45 |
Saitama |
Riken Brain Science Institute |
A basic study of amplification equipment for an electro-larynx Ken-ichiro Yabu, Kazutaka Ueda (Tokyo Univ.), Kiyofumi Inanaga (Southern Acoustics), Tohru Ifukube (Tokyo Univ.) SP2011-161 |
Laryngectomized patient cannot vocalize because of unavailability of their vocal cord. An electro-larynx device is one o... [more] |
SP2011-161 pp.35-38 |
SP |
2012-03-08 16:15 |
Saitama |
Riken Brain Science Institute |
Speech feature integration and its visualization for a computer-aided diagnosis of the dysarthric speech Yuichi Ueda, Tadashi Sakata (Kumamoto Univ.), Mana Shinnakasu, Narihiro Hirahara (Kagoshima Univ.), Akinori Gomi (Gunma Univ.) SP2011-162 |
For diagnosis and rehabilitation based on the specialists' auditory images, we have developed a diagnostic support syste... [more] |
SP2011-162 pp.39-44 |
SP |
2012-03-08 16:45 |
Saitama |
Riken Brain Science Institute |
Control of Speech Rate with Visual Feedback Keiko Ochi, Koichi Mori, Minae Okada, Akikazu Nishikido (NRCD) SP2011-163 |
This paper describes an experiment to control speech rate with visual feedback of the speakers own speech rate.
The su... [more] |
SP2011-163 pp.45-48 |
SP |
2012-03-09 10:30 |
Saitama |
Riken Brain Science Institute |
Relation between acoustic features and impression evaluation in singing voices. Shun Kojima, Takeshi Saitou, Masato Miyoshi (Kanazawa Univ.) SP2011-164 |
As expression denoting several characteristics of singing voices, there are impression words like vocal timbre and singi... [more] |
SP2011-164 pp.49-53 |
SP |
2012-03-09 11:00 |
Saitama |
Riken Brain Science Institute |
Analysis of vocal response to open-loop auditory feedback with altered formant frequencies Akikazu Nishikido, Minae Okada, Keiko Ochi, Koichi Mori (NRCD) SP2011-166 |
Auditory feedback perturbation experiments of formant frequencies was conducted using open-loop system. Results showed t... [more] |
SP2011-166 pp.61-64 |
SP |
2012-03-09 11:30 |
Saitama |
Riken Brain Science Institute |
Differences between males and females in voice F0 control to pitch-shifted auditory feedback Minae Okada, Koichi Mori (NRCD), Shuntaro Okazaki (NIPS), Chang Cai (NICT), Akikazu Nishikido, Keiko Ochi (NRCD) SP2011-167 |
Fluent speech requires smooth coordination of organs involved in auditory-vocal systems in precise timing. In the case o... [more] |
SP2011-167 pp.65-69 |
SP |
2012-03-09 13:30 |
Saitama |
Riken Brain Science Institute |
Developmental Process of Speech Production in Infancy
-- Comparison of Japanese- and English-learning Infants -- Yuko Yamashita, Yoshitaka Nakajima, Kazuo Ueda (Kyushu Univ.), Yoko Shimada (Kyoto Univ.), David Hirsh (Sydney Univ.) SP2011-168 |
The aim of this study was to examine acoustic changes and rhythm in vocal development. Infant speech sounds at 15, 18, ... [more] |
SP2011-168 pp.71-75 |
SP |
2012-03-09 14:00 |
Saitama |
Riken Brain Science Institute |
Real-time Visualization of English Pronunciation on an IPA Chart Based on Articulatory Feature Extraction Takurou Mori, Yurie Iribe, Kouichi Katsurada, Tsuneo Nitta (TUT) SP2011-169 |
CALL systems that can support Japanese students to study foreign languages have been developed in recent years. We have ... [more] |
SP2011-169 pp.77-82 |
SP |
2012-03-09 14:30 |
Saitama |
Riken Brain Science Institute |
[Invited Talk]
Acquisition of English Sounds by Native Speakers of Japanese
-- Basic Research and Development of e-Learning System -- Reiko Akahane-Yamada (ATR IRC) SP2011-170 |
A series of experiments were conducted in order to examine the perception, production and learning of English phonemes b... [more] |
SP2011-170 pp.83-88 |
SP |
2012-03-09 15:45 |
Saitama |
Riken Brain Science Institute |
Modeling of perception and cognition process of impressions of speaker Asato Sato, Hideaki Kikuchi, Akira Ichikawa (Waseda Univ.) SP2011-171 |
In this research, we paid attention to impressions of a speaker which is informed by prosody that his or her voice has a... [more] |
SP2011-171 pp.89-94 |
SP |
2012-03-09 16:15 |
Saitama |
Riken Brain Science Institute |
Improvement of CRF-Based Accent Sandhi Prediction Using The Features Derived from Accent Rules Shumpei Kobayashi, Shinya Shimizu, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose (Tokyo Univ.), Hiroko Hirano (Huaqiao Foreign Languages Institute) SP2011-172 |
When developing Japanese text-to-speech (TTS) systems, algorithms to accurately predict accent types of each constituent... [more] |
SP2011-172 pp.95-100 |
SP |
2012-03-09 16:45 |
Saitama |
Riken Brain Science Institute |
Effects of frequency-band elimination on syllable identification in Japanese noise-vocoded speech
-- Analyses with two speakers -- Kiyoto Noguchi, Yuichi Satsukawa, Kazuo Ueda, Yoshitaka Nakajima (Kyushu Univ.) SP2011-173 |
The present investigation aimed at specifying the perceptual roles of each frequency bands in 4-band-noise-vocoded speec... [more] |
SP2011-173 pp.101-106 |