| Budget Amount *help |
¥18,720,000 (Direct Cost: ¥14,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,320,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2008: ¥5,070,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,170,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000)
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| Research Abstract |
This project focused on the relationships between "dialogue structure" and the processes of "active listening". The project did not result in specific new technology but gave us a better understanding of the nature of spoken language in a way that will allow us improve speech synthesis and recognition technology. Our research theme inspired the new European project on Social Signal Processing. Further- more, we collected a large multi-modal corpora cooperating with other universities in three countries, published the database on the website (http://www.speech-data.jp/nick/mmx/d64.html). We finally made a prototype of a robot "Herme" which employs image and speech processing modules developed in this study. The robot is currently in exhibition in Ireland where it is collecting a new corpus of interactive speech.
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