Comprehensive research on extension and supporting technologies for auditory and speech functions

2009 Fiscal Year Self-evaluation Report

• Project/Area Number: 19200017
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Perception information processing/Intelligent robotics
• Research Institution: Wakayama University
• Principal Investigator: KAWAHAEA Hideki Wakayama University, システム工学部, 教授 (40294300)
• Project Period (FY): 2007 – 2010
• Keywords: 音声情報処理 / ユニバーサルデザイン / QOL / 能力の拡張

Research Abstract

本研究では,衰えた聴力や声を取り戻すだけではなくそれらをより優れたものとするための支援技術の基盤確立を目的とする。本研究の狙いは、衰えた能力の機械による貧弱な模倣と置き換えにではなく、それぞれの個人が有する能力を自然に拡張する形で支援するところにある。

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Laetitia Bruckert, Patricia Bestelmeyer, Marianne Latinus, Julien Rouger, Ian Charest, Guillaume (2010)
  • Author(s): A. Rousselet, Hideki Kawahara
  • Journal Title: Pascal Belin, Vocal Attractiveness Increases by Averaging, Current Biology Volume 20, Issue 2 Pages: 116-120
• [Journal Article] 分析時刻に依存しない周期信号のパワースペクトル推定法を用いた音声分析 (2009)
  • Author(s): 森勢将雅, 高橋徹, 河原英紀, 入野俊夫
  • Journal Title: 電子情報通信学会論文誌 Vol. J92-A, No. 3 Pages: 163-171
• [Journal Article] 音声モーフィングの背景と可能性 (2009)
  • Author(s): 河原英紀
  • Journal Title: 音声言語医学 50 (2) Pages: 131-135
• [Journal Article] 窓関数による分析時刻の影響を受けにくい周期信号のパワースペクトル推定法 (2007)
  • Author(s): 森勢将雅, 高橋徹, 河原英紀, 入野俊夫
  • Journal Title: 電子情報通信学会論文誌 Vol. J90-D, No. 12 Pages: 3265-3267
• [Presentation] Statistical approach to enhancing esophageal speech based on Gaussian mixture models (2010)
  • Author(s): H. Doi, K. Nakamura, T. Toda, H. Saruwatari, K. Shikano
  • Organizer: Proc. ICASSP
  • Place of Presentation: Dallas, USA
  • Year and Date: 20100300
• [Presentation] MMSE STSA Estimator with nonstationary noise estimation based on ICA for high-quality speech enhancement (2010)
  • Author(s): Ryoi Okamoto, Yu Takahashi, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano
  • Organizer: Proc. ICASSP
  • Year and Date: 20100300
• [Presentation] Higi-quality and light-weight voice transformation enabling extrapolation without perceptual and objective breakdown (2010)
  • Author(s): Hideki Kawahara, Ryuichi Nisimura, Toshio Irino, Masanori Morise, Toru Takahashi, Hideki Banno
  • Organizer: ICASSP
  • Year and Date: 20100300
• [Presentation] Electrolaryngeal speech enhancement based on statistical voice conversion (2009)
  • Author(s): K. Nakamura, T. Toda, H. Saruwatari, K. Shikano
  • Organizer: Proc. INTERSPEECH
  • Place of Presentation: Brighton, UK
  • Year and Date: 20090900
• [Presentation] Development of exploratory research tools based on TANDEM-STRAIGHT (2009)
  • Author(s): Hideki Kawahara, Toru Takahashi, Masanori Morise, Hideki Banno
  • Organizer: Proc. APSIPA, Sapporo
  • Year and Date: 20090000
• [Presentation] Observation of empirical cumulative distribution of vowel spectral distances and its application to vowel based voice conversion (2009)
  • Author(s): Hideki Kawahara, Masanori Morise, Toru Takahashi, Hideki Banno, Ryuichi Nisimura, Toshio Irino
  • Organizer: Proc. Interspeech
  • Place of Presentation: Brighton
  • Year and Date: 20090000
• [Presentation] Temporally variable multi-aspect auditory morphing enabling extrapolation without objective and perceptual breakdown (2009)
  • Author(s): H. Kawahara, R. Nisimura, T. Irino, M. Morise, T. Takahashi, B. Banno
  • Organizer: Proc. ICASSP
  • Year and Date: 20090000
• [Presentation] Binaural Hearing-Aid System Using SIMO-Model- Based ICA and Directivity- (2008)
  • Author(s): Ryota Takafuji, Yoshimitsu Mori, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano
  • Organizer: Dependency- Reduced Binary Masking, International Conference on Signal Processing (ICSP'08)
  • Place of Presentation: Beijing, China
  • Year and Date: 20081000
• [Presentation] Evaluation of Speaking- Aid System with Voice Conversion for Laryngectomees Toward Its Use in Practical Environments, INTERSPEECH (2008)
  • Author(s): Keigo Nakamura, Tomoki Toda, Yoshitaka Nakajima, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano
  • Organizer: Brisbane, Australia
  • Year and Date: 20080900
• [Presentation] TANDEM- STRAIGHT : A temporally stable power spectral representation for periodic signals and applications to interference-free spectrum, F0, and aperiodicity estimation (2008)
  • Author(s): Hideki Kawahara, Masanori Morise, Toru Takahashi, Ryuichi Nisimura, Toshio Irino, Hideki Banno
  • Organizer: Proc. ICASSP
  • Place of Presentation: Las Vegas
  • Year and Date: 20080000
• [Presentation] Design and Implementation of 3D Auditory Scene Visualizer towards Auditory Awareness with Face Tracking (2008)
  • Author(s): Yuji Kubota, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno
  • Organizer: Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM08)
  • Place of Presentation: Berkeley
  • Year and Date: 2008-12-16
• [Presentation] Remaking Speech Revisited--STRAIGHT and TANDEM-STRAIGHT and Their Implications (2008)
  • Author(s): Hideki Kawahara
  • Organizer: Asian Workshop on Speech Science and Technology
  • Place of Presentation: Tokyo, Japan
  • Year and Date: 2008-03-20
• [Book] Research on emotinal perception of voices based on a morphing method(Emotions in the human voice voulme III) (2008)
  • Author(s): Kazuhiko Kakehi, Yuko Sogabe, Hideki Kawahara, Ed. Krzysztof Izdebski
  • Total Pages: 1-14
  • Publisher: Plural Publishing