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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:
Wed, Jan 30, 2013 13:30 - 17:15
Thu, Jan 31, 2013 10:00 - 16:45

PLACE:
Kyotanabe Campus, Doshisha University(1-3 Tatara Miyakodani, Kyotanabe City, 610-0394 Japan. 15 minutes on foot from the Kintetsu Kodo Station. http://www.doshisha.ac.jp/english/access/tanabe-access.html)

TOPICS:
Speech, Language, and Dialogue, etc.

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Wed, Jan 30 PM (13:30 - 15:00)
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(1) 13:30 - 14:00
A Preliminary Investigation on Improving Chinese Pinyin-to-character Conversion Using MI Based Automatic Lexical Formation
Jinsong Zhang (Beijing Language and Culture Univ./NICT), Wei Li (Beijing Language and Culture Univ.), Xiaoyun Wang, Masafumi Nishida, Seiichi Yamamoto (Doshisha Univ.)

(2) 14:00 - 14:30
A Study on Perceptual Training of Mandarin Tone 2 and Tone 3 by Japanese Learners
Jinsong Zhang (Beijing Language and Culture Univ./NICT), Yue Sun (Beijing Language and Culture Univ.), Ting Zou (Leiden Univ.), Xiaoyun Wang, Masafumi Nishida, Seiichi Yamamoto (Doshisha Univ.)

(3) 14:30 - 15:00
Detection Method of Utterances out-of-Scope for Dialogue-based CALL Systems trained with Learner Corpus
Yu Nagai, Xiaoyun Wang, Masafumi Nishida, Seiichi Yamamoto (Doshisha Univ.)

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

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Wed, Jan 30 PM (15:15 - 17:15)
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(4) 15:15 - 15:45
Speaker Recognition Using Formant of Vowels
Naoyuki Urakami, Yuta Shoji, Jun Shiraishi, Hironori Yamauchi, Yohei Fukumizu, Tomonori Izumi (Ritsumeikan Univ)

(5) 15:45 - 16:15
A Study on Speaker Recognition Based on Decomposition of Periodic and Aperiodic Components
Yuki Ishikawa, Masafumi Nishida (Doshisha Univ.), Masakiyo Fujimoto (NTT), Seiichi Yamamoto (Doshisha Univ.)

(6) 16:15 - 16:45
Improvement of context label in HMM-based speech synthesis for Japanese
Hiroya Hashimoto, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu (Univ. of Tokyo)

(7) 16:45 - 17:15
F0 contour generation using rich context models in HMM-based speech synthesis
Shinnosuke Takamichi, Tomoki Toda (NAIST), Yoshinori Shiga (NICT), Sakriani Sakti, Graham Neubig, Satoshi Nakamura (NAIST)

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Thu, Jan 31 AM (10:00 - 12:00)
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(8) 10:00 - 10:30
Consideration of relationship between auditory impression and acoustic feature of death growl and scream singing voice
Keizo Kato, Akinori Ito (Tohoku Univ.)

(9) 10:30 - 11:00
The construction of an evaluation scale for singing voice of popular music
-- in Amateur singing voice --
Ai Kanato, Hideaki Kikuchi (Waseda Univ.)

(10) 11:00 - 11:30
Investigation of correlation between temporal fluctuations of F0 and spectrum in scream vocal style
Hironobu Nishiwaki, Hideki Banno, Kensaku Asahi (Meijo Univ.)

(11) 11:30 - 12:00
Proposals of vibrato feature to reflect magnitude of fluctuations of fundamental frequency and power in singing voice and evaluation method of the feature
Chifumi Suzuki, Hideki Banno, Kensaku Asahi, Fumitada Itakura (Meijo Univ), Masanori Morise (Ritsumeikan Univ)

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Thu, Jan 31 PM (13:00 - 14:00)
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(12) 13:00 - 14:00
[Invited Talk]
Speaker and style diversification in statistical parametric speech synthesis
Takashi Nose (Tokyo Inst. of Tech.)

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

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Thu, Jan 31 PM (14:15 - 16:45)
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(13) 14:15 - 14:45
A study on speaker-normalized style conversion for arbitrary speaker's expressive speech synthesis
Hiroki Kanagawa, Takashi Nose, Takao Kobayashi (Tokyo Inst. of Tech.)

(14) 14:45 - 15:15
A Study on Style Control Based on Multiple-Regression HSMM for Synthesizing Singing Voices with Various Expressivity
Takashi Nose, Misa Kanemoto, Tomoki Koriyama, Takao Kobayashi (Tokyo Inst. of Tech.)

(15) 15:15 - 15:45
A Study on Multi-class Local Prosodic Context for Expressive Prosody Generation
Yu Maeno, Takashi Nose, Takao Kobayashi, Tomoki Koriyama (Tokyo Inst. of Tech.), Yusuke Ijima, Hideharu Nakajima, Hideyuki Mizuno, Osamu Yoshioka (NTT)

(16) 15:45 - 16:15
Labeling of Spoken Dialog for Paralinguistic Information Processing
Tomoyuki Shimakawa, Masanori Morise, Yoichi Yamashita (Ritsumeikan Univ.)

(17) 16:15 - 16:45
Evaluation and Automatic Estimation of Voice Characteristic Similarity Using Isolated Vowels
Shohei Tsujimura, Masanori Morise, Yoichi Yamashita (Ritsumeikan Univ.)

# 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, Feb 28, 2013 - Fri, Mar 1, 2013: Daido University [Wed, Dec 12], Topics: speech application systems, etc.

# SECRETARY:
Hiroki Mori (Utsunomiya University)
E-mail: spee-


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