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| Committee | Date Time | Place | Paper Title / Authors | Abstract | Paper # | |
| SIP, SP, EA, IPSJ-SLP [detail] | 2024-03-01 09:30 |
Okinawa | (Primary: On-site, Secondary: Online) |
Multi-Dialect Speech Synthesis with Interpretable Accent latent Variable based on VQ-VAE Kazuki Yamauchi, Yuki Saito, Hiroshi Saruwatari (UTokyo)  EA2023-98 SIP2023-145 SP2023-80 |
In this paper, we address two tasks: "Intra-dialect Text-to-Speech (TTS)," aiming to synthesize speech in the same diale... [more] | EA2023-98 SIP2023-145 SP2023-80 pp.220-225 |
| MVE, IPSJ-CVIM, VRSJ-SIG-MR | 2023-01-27 16:30 |
Nara | Nara Institute of Science and Technology (Primary: On-site, Secondary: Online) |
Validation of an Evaluation Model on Speech Proactiveness in Foreign Language Conversation with a Virtual Character in an RPG Naoki Matsumura, Tomoko Yonezawa (Kansai Univ.) MVE2022-45 |
In this study, we aim to improve the speech proactiveness in face-to-face foreign language dialogues. We have evaluated ... [more] | MVE2022-45 pp.60-65 |
| HCGSYMPO (2nd) |
2020-12-15 - 2020-12-17 |
Online | Online | Emotional voice expansion modulates interpersonal communication Miho Kitamura (ideaLab.inc), Katsumi Watanabe (Waseda Univ.) |
In conversation, we express emotional meaning not only through semantics, but also through voice prosody. Prosody attri... [more] | |
| TL | 2020-12-05 14:10 |
Online | Online | Comprehension of negation and adverbial scope ambiguity in Japanese
-- initial findings -- Yukiko Koizumi (Yamagata Univ.) TL2020-7 |
This presentation discusses initial findings on the comprehension of the scope ambiguity involving negation and no-youni... [more] | TL2020-7 pp.5-9 |
| ET | 2020-09-10 16:10 |
Ishikawa | Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology | Development of a Program for the Autonomous Learning of Japanese Prosody Using Python and Julius Tomoyuki Ishiyama (JF) ET2020-21 |
This presentation examined a prototype program, written in Python, for the autonomous learning of Japanese prosody. Some... [more] | ET2020-21 pp.63-68 |
| SP, EA, SIP | 2020-03-03 09:00 |
Okinawa | Okinawa Industry Support Center (Cancelled but technical report was issued) |
[Poster Presentation]
Implementation of a high-accuracy method for automatic fluency scoring of spontaneous English utterances by Japanese learners Ayano Yasukagawa, Shintaro Ando, Eisuke Konno, Zhenchao Lin, Yusuke Inoue, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu (UTokyo), Kazuya Saito (UCL) EA2019-134 SIP2019-136 SP2019-83 |
These days, many teachers claim importance of not native-likeness-based but intelligibility-based assessment of pronunci... [more] | EA2019-134 SIP2019-136 SP2019-83 pp.189-194 |
| SP, EA, SIP | 2020-03-03 09:00 |
Okinawa | Okinawa Industry Support Center (Cancelled but technical report was issued) |
[Poster Presentation]
Automatic estimation of prosodic control made in English utterances using DNN-based acoustic models trained with prosodic features and labels Yang Shen, Shintarou Ando, Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito (UTokyo), Satoshi Kobashikawa (NTT) EA2019-136 SIP2019-138 SP2019-85 |
This paper investigate how to utilize DNN acoustic models trained with prosodic features and labels to detect prosodic e... [more] | EA2019-136 SIP2019-138 SP2019-85 pp.201-206 |
| SP, EA, SIP | 2020-03-03 09:00 |
Okinawa | Okinawa Industry Support Center (Cancelled but technical report was issued) |
[Poster Presentation]
An Educational Study on Prosodic Symbols and Their Acoustic Realization Using Japanese End-to-end Speech Synthesis Fuki Yoshizawa (UTokyo), Tadashi Kumano (NHK), Nobuaki Minematsu (UTokyo), Kiyoshi Kurihara (NHK) EA2019-137 SIP2019-139 SP2019-86 |
In order to examine the educational effect of presenting prosodic symbols to learners of Japanese, a method was proposed... [more] | EA2019-137 SIP2019-139 SP2019-86 pp.207-212 |
| HCS | 2019-08-23 14:00 |
Osaka | Jikei Institute | Holistic Rhythm and Analytic Rhythm
-- An Essay on Real-time Dialogue Function -- Akira Ichikawa (Chiba Univ.), Yuji Nagashima (Kugakuin Univ.), Yasuo Horiuchi (Chiba Univ.), Daisuke Hara (Toyota TI) HCS2019-30 |
We examined the functions of "analytic rhythm" and "holistic rhythm" in auditory language (speech), visual language (sig... [more] | HCS2019-30 pp.7-12 |
| TL | 2019-07-27 16:10 |
Hyogo | Hirao Seminar House, Konan University | [Poster Presentation]
L2 processing of complex scope ambiguity in English
-- Can perceivers learn to access non-structural cues? -- Yukiko Koizumi, Eri Shoji (Yamagata Univ.) TL2019-26 |
Studies show that native perceivers can employ various factors in resolving structural ambiguities. In the case of the E... [more] | TL2019-26 pp.71-75 |
| TL | 2019-07-28 14:40 |
Hyogo | Hirao Seminar House, Konan University | Do children know whanything?
-- Acquisition of wh-ambiguity in Mandarin -- Yu'an Yang, Daniel Goodhue, Valentine Hacquard, Jeffrey Lidz (UMD) TL2019-35 |
Identifying interrogatives in a language is a challenging task, especially for children acquiring languages like Mandari... [more] | TL2019-35 p.121 |
| SIP, EA, SP, MI (Joint) [detail] |
2018-03-20 09:00 |
Okinawa | [Poster Presentation]
Do prosodic manual annotations matter for Japanese speech synthesis systems with WaveNet vocoder? Hieu-Thi Luong, Xin Wang, Junichi Yamagishi (NII), Nobuyuki Nishizawa (KDDI Research) EA2017-140 SIP2017-149 SP2017-123 |
We investigated the impact of noisy linguistics features on the performance of a Japanese neural net- work based speech ... [more] | EA2017-140 SIP2017-149 SP2017-123 pp.215-220 |
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| TL | 2017-07-22 16:40 |
Tokyo | NINJAL | Mora-based control for the length effect
-- A self-paced reading study in Japanese -- Kiyoshi Ishikawa (Hosei Univ.), Ryo Yamashita, So Ishii (Hosei Univ.) TL2017-25 |
In reading research, the effect of the length of a region is usually controlled for using the number of characters/lette... [more] | TL2017-25 pp.63-66 |
| SIS | 2017-06-01 11:20 |
Oita | Housen-Sou (Beppu) | A study on distinctive acoustic features among different languages by prosody analysis Yuma Omori, Akinori Seo (Kyutech), Hideaki Orii (Fukuoka Univ), Hideaki Kawano (Kyutech) SIS2017-5 |
The speech language has both phonological information representing the content of utterance and prosodic information rep... [more] | SIS2017-5 pp.23-27 |
| SP | 2016-01-14 11:20 |
Kanagawa | Sunpian Kawasaki | Experimental verification of improvement of naturalness by prosody training of Japanese with OJAD Nobuaki Minematsu (UTokyo), Hiroko Hirano, Noriko Nakamura (TUFS), Koji Oikawa (JASLON) SP2015-87 |
To support Japanese prosody instruction, the Online Japanese Accent Dictionary (OJAD) has been developed by using NLP an... [more] | SP2015-87 pp.13-18 |
| TL | 2015-08-05 10:40 |
Tokyo | Tsuda College | Japanese Children's Sensitivity to Prosody and Grammar in Interpreting Adjectives Motoki Nakajima (Nagano Pref. Coll.), Nae Watanabe, Saki Yoshihira TL2015-18 |
In this study, we experimentally investigated how Japanese children interpret adjectives located in front of noun phrase... [more] | TL2015-18 pp.5-8 |
| HCS | 2015-01-30 15:00 |
Kagawa | Bay Resort Hotel Shodoshima (Shodoshima, Kagaewa Pref.) | [Poster Presentation]
Prosodic Features of Calls from Human to Robot
-- Robot that Learns Evasive Actions from Prosody of Attention Attracting Speech -- Ami Tsukamoto, Motoyuki Ozeki, Chie Fukada (KIT), Takayuki Nagai (UEC), Takashi Omori (Tamagawa Univ.), Natsuki Oka (KIT) HCS2014-82 |
Human notices the matter which can't be perceived with only its sense by the surrounding voice. If robot is also possibl... [more] | HCS2014-82 pp.55-59 |
| NLC, IPSJ-NL, SP, IPSJ-SLP, JSAI-SLUD (Joint) [detail] |
2014-12-16 11:00 |
Kanagawa | Tokyo Institute of Technology (Suzukakedai Campus) | Prosody Correction Preserving Speaker Individuality in English-Read-By-Japanese Speech Synthesis Based on HMM Yuji Oshima, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Tomoki Toda, Graham Neubig, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura (NAIST) SP2014-112 |
To build an English acoustic model that well captures speaker individuality of each Japanese speaker, a framework using ... [more] | SP2014-112 pp.63-68 |
| NLC, IPSJ-NL, SP, IPSJ-SLP, JSAI-SLUD (Joint) [detail] |
2014-12-16 11:00 |
Kanagawa | Tokyo Institute of Technology (Suzukakedai Campus) | HMM-Based Speech Synthesis System with Prosody Modification Based on Speech Input Yuri Nishigaki, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Tomoki Toda, Graham Neubig, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura (NAIST) SP2014-115 |
As a creative activity using speech synthesis technologies has been grown rapidly, it is desired to develop an interface... [more] | SP2014-115 pp.81-86 |
| SP | 2014-11-13 17:20 |
Fukuoka | Kyushu Univ. Chikushi Campus | Emotional speech synthesis for long words by generalizing accent types Yuko Aoyama (hakase.com), Tsuyoshi Moriyama (Tokyo Polytechnic Univ.) SP2014-96 |
More desirable speech synthesis methods require fewer number of training samples in synthesizing various kinds and stren... [more] | SP2014-96 pp.37-40 |
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