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| Committee | Date Time | Place | Paper Title / Authors | Abstract | Paper # | |
| WIT, HI-SIGACI | 2021-12-09 13:25 |
Online | Online (Online) | Acceptability of Distributed Audio Descriptions Complementing Live TV Sports Programs through Practical Experiment Manon Ichiki, Masaru Miyazaki (NHK), Atsushi Imai, Tohru Takagi (NHK-ES)  WIT2021-37 |
We are conducting research with the aim of realizing a new type of audio descriptions with the aim of further enhancing ... [more] | WIT2021-37 pp.28-33 |
| WIT, SP | 2018-10-28 09:25 |
Fukuoka | Kyushu Institute of Technology(Kitakyushu) (Fukuoka) | Timing determination method to insert an automated audio description in live television broadcast Manon Ichiki, Tadashi Kumano, Atsushi Imai (NHK), Tohru Takagi (NHK-ES) SP2018-41 WIT2018-29 |
We are conducting research on "automated audio description (ADD)" which automatically generates audio descriptions for v... [more] | SP2018-41 WIT2018-29 pp.45-50 |
| PRMU, SP, WIT, ASJ-H | 2016-06-13 14:00 |
Tokyo | (Tokyo) | Improvement and evaluation of emotional speech conversion method using difference between emotional and neutral acoustic features of another speaker Reiko Takou, Kazuo Onoe, Nobumasa Seiyama, Atsushi Imai (NHK), Tohru Takagi (NHK-ES) PRMU2016-41 SP2016-7 WIT2016-7 |
[more] | PRMU2016-41 SP2016-7 WIT2016-7 pp.35-39 |
| SP, WIT | 2013-06-14 14:30 |
Niigata | (Niigata) | Development of an Adjusting Device for Elderly Person's TV
-- Aim to make broadcasting sounds easier to listen to -- Tomoyasu Komori (NHK Engineering System), Atsushi Imai, Nobumasa Seiyama, Reiko Takou (NHK), Tohru Takagi (NHK Engineering System), Yasuhiro Oikawa (Waseda Univ.) SP2013-49 WIT2013-19 |
With the aim of making speech easier to listen to on a TV receiver. We are researching effective ways of combining speec... [more] | SP2013-49 WIT2013-19 pp.107-112 |
| SP, WIT | 2012-09-29 15:45 |
Tokyo | Shibaura Institute of Technology (Tokyo) | A fast speech rate conversion technology to assist efficient information acquisition for visually impaired persons Naoyuki Tazawa (NHK-ES), Atsushi Imai (NHK STRL), Yukio Iwahana, Tohru Takagi (NHK-ES), Shinichi Torihara (Keio Research Institute at SFC) SP2012-69 WIT2012-21 |
We have performed studies and evaluation experiments of more acceptable rapid speech, aimed at implementation in applica... [more] | SP2012-69 WIT2012-21 pp.57-61 |
| WIT, SP | 2011-10-07 15:45 |
Tokyo | TFT Bldg. (Tokyo) | A Study on Switch Method to Suppress the Background Sound using Speech Segments Detection Tomoyasu Komori (NHK ES), Atsushi Imai, Nobumasa Seiyama, Reiko Takou, Toru Imai, Shinichi Homma (NHK), Tohru Takagi (NHK ES) SP2011-66 WIT2011-48 |
(To be available after the conference date) [more] | SP2011-66 WIT2011-48 pp.77-82 |
| WIT | 2010-08-06 10:30 |
Tokyo | NHK Sci. Tech. Res. Labs. (Tokyo) | An Objective Evaluation Method of Appropriate Broadcasting Sound Balance for Elderly Listeners Tomoyasu Komori, Tohru Takagi (NHK), Koichi Kurozumi (NHK ES), Kiyotake Shoda (NHK), Kazuhiro Murakawa (Yamaki Electric Corp.) WIT2010-24 |
Elderly people complain that they sometimes have a hard time hearing the narration of broadcast TV programs because the ... [more] | WIT2010-24 pp.35-40 |
| SP, NLC | 2008-12-10 16:10 |
Tokyo | Waseda Univ. (Tokyo) | Discriminative Rescoring Based on Minimization of Word Errors for Speech Recognition Akio Kobayashi, Takahiro Oku, Shinichi Homma, Shoei Sato, Toru Imai, Tohru Takagi (NHK) NLC2008-67 SP2008-122 |
This paper describes a novel method of rescoring that reflects tendencies of errors in word hypotheses in speech recogni... [more] | NLC2008-67 SP2008-122 pp.255-260 |
| SP | 2008-03-21 13:00 |
Tokyo | Univ. Tokyo (Tokyo) | A study on perceptual naturalness and spectrum features of a phoneme replaced with other speaker's one in short sentence. Reiko Takou, Hiroyuki Segi (NHK Sci. & Tech. Res.), Nobumasa Seiyama (NHK Eng. Serv., Inc.), Tohru Takagi (NHK Sci. & Tech. Res.) SP2007-207 |
It could be useful to apply other speaker's speech data to a concatenative speech synthesis system for complementing lac... [more] | SP2007-207 pp.123-128 |
| WIT, TL, SP | 2008-01-24 13:25 |
Shimane | Shimane Univ. (Shimane) | Investigation of the Audio Balance Control based on the Loudness Level Tomoyasu Komori, Setu Komiyama, Hiroya Dan, Tohru Takagi, Kiyotake Shoda (NHK), Koichi Kurozumi (NHK-ES), Hideaki Hoshi, Kazuhiro Murakawa (Yamaki) TL2007-61 SP2007-156 WIT2007-61 |
We conducted the subjective evaluation test of the TV program audio balance between narration and BGM(Back Ground Music)... [more] | TL2007-61 SP2007-156 WIT2007-61 pp.37-42 |
| HIP | 2007-12-06 - 2007-12-07 |
Miyagi | RIEC (Miyagi) | Detection/tolerance thresholds of audio-visual asynchrony between time-expanded speech and talker's moving face in spoken word recognition Shun Numahata, Shuichi Sakamoto (Tohoku Univ.), Akihiro Tanaka (Univ. Tokyo), Atsushi Imai, Tohru Takagi (NHK), Yo-iti Suzuki (Tohoku Univ.) HIP2007-139 |
Speech-rate conversion techniques are useful to support speech recognition, especially for aged person. However, if only... [more] | HIP2007-139 pp.55-60 |
| EA | 2006-04-21 14:20 |
Tokyo | Kikai-Shinko-Kaikan Bldg. (Tokyo) | [Invited Talk]
Development of a Radio and Television Receiver with Function to Slow Down the Speech Rate Tohru Takagi (NHK), Hiroyuki Takeishi (Victor) |
[more] | EA2006-6 pp.31-36 |
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