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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, Nov 8, 2012 10:30 - 18:00
Fri, Nov 9, 2012 09:45 - 16:00
PLACE:
TOPICS:
Speech Synthesis, Generation, Prosody, etc.
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Thu, Nov 8 AM (10:30 - 12:00)
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(1) 10:30 - 11:00
Effects of speaker adaptive training on arbitrary speaker conversion based on tensor representation
Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose (Univ. of Tokyo)
(2) 11:00 - 11:30
Implementation of real-time statistical voice conversion on a DSP
Takuto Moriguchi, Tomoki Toda (NAIST), Motoaki Sano, Hiroshi Sato (FOSTER), Graham Neubig, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura (NAIST)
(3) 11:30 - 12:00
Intra-speaker spectral parameter variation between utterances of the same sentence and its prediction
Tatsuo Inukai, Tomoki Toda, Graham Neubig, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura (NAIST)
----- Lunch Break ( 60 min. ) -----
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Thu, Nov 8 PM (13:00 - 14:30)
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(4) 13:00 - 13:30
Measurement of temporal change of vocal tract volume during production of plosive and fricative consonants
Tatsuya Kitamura, Hiroaki Hatano (Konan Univ.)
(5) 13:30 - 14:00
A study for estimating the length and sectional area of the vocal tract from formants using an acoustic sensitivity function
Yuki Sakamoto, Tokihiko Kaburagi (Kyushu Univ.)
(6) 14:00 - 14:30
Analysis on speaker's intentions conveyed to the listeners by sentence-final particles and their intonations
Kazuhiko Iwata, Tetsunori Kobayashi (Waseda Univ.)
----- Break ( 15 min. ) -----
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Thu, Nov 8 PM (14:45 - 15:45)
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(7) 14:45 - 15:15
Improvements of HMM-based speech synthesis using rich context models
Shinnosuke Takamichi, Tomoki Toda (NAIST), Yoshinori Shiga (NICT), Sakriani Sakti, Graham Neubig, Satoshi Nakamura (NAIST)
(8) 15:15 - 15:45
Modeling of local variance of spectral features and its application to parameter generation in HMM-based speech synthesis
Takashi Nose, Vataya Chunwijitra, Takao Kobayashi (Tokyo Tech)
----- Break ( 15 min. ) -----
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Thu, Nov 8 PM (16:00 - 18:00)
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(9) 16:00 - 16:30
Prosody Generation based on HMM using Tow-stage Clustering
Yasuyuki Mitsui, Reishi Kondo, Masanori Kato (NEC)
(10) 16:30 - 17:00
One-click vocal tract mapping interface and its applications to signal conversion
Kohichi Ogata, Kentaro Yamashita (Kumamoto Univ.)
(11) 17:00 - 17:30
Three-dimensional rectangular vocal-tract model representing the characteristics of asymmetric vocal-tract wall impedances
Kunitoshi Motoki (Hokkai-Gakuen Univ.)
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Fri, Nov 9 AM (09:45 - 10:45)
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(12) 09:45 - 10:45
[Invited Talk]
Speech synthesis
-- Modeling human-like speech output capabilities --
Yoshinori Sagisaka (Waseda Univ.)
----- Break ( 15 min. ) -----
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Fri, Nov 9 AM (11:00 - 12:00)
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(13) 11:00 - 12:00
[Invited Talk]
Trend of Speech Production Research and its Aspects for Speech Synthesis
Masaaki Honda (Waseda Univ.)
----- Lunch Break ( 60 min. ) -----
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Fri, Nov 9 PM (13:00 - 16:00)
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# 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.
=== Technical Committee on Speech (SP) ===
# FUTURE SCHEDULE:
Thu, Dec 20, 2012 - Fri, Dec 21, 2012 (tentative): TITECH(Ookayama) [Thu, Oct 18], Topics: 14th Symposium on Spoken Language
Wed, Jan 30, 2013 - Thu, Jan 31, 2013: Doshisha Univ. [Fri, Nov 9], Topics: Speech, Language, and Dialogue, etc.
Thu, Feb 28, 2013 - Fri, Mar 1, 2013: Daido University [Wed, Dec 12], Topics: speech application systems, etc.
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