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Development of Easy Japanese composition support system using sentence difficulty estimation and speech synthesis

Research Project

Project/Area Number 26284069
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypePartial Multi-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Japanese language education
Research InstitutionTohoku University

Principal Investigator

Ito Akinori  東北大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 教授 (70232428)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 佐藤 和之  弘前大学, 人文学部, 教授 (40133912)
能勢 隆  東北大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 講師 (90550591)
Research Collaborator CHIBA Yuya  東北大学, 大学院工学研究科, 助教 (30780936)
NAGANO Takeshi  東北大学, 大学院工学研究科, 産学官連携研究員
Project Period (FY) 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help
¥12,220,000 (Direct Cost: ¥9,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,820,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000)
Keywords異文化理解・異文化コミュニケーション / やさしい日本語 / 文章作成支援 / 音声合成 / 外国語教育 / 日本語教育 / 在留外国人支援 / 自然言語処理 / 異文化理解・異文化間コミュニケーション / 外国語学習
Outline of Final Research Achievements

We conducted development of Easy Japanese composition support system YANSIS and related investigations. We developed a method of automatic estimation of difficulty of a sentence, and investigated relation between intelligibility of Japanese speech listened by non-Japanese-native speakers and speech rate, pause, and speech degradation by reverberation. This investigation revealed the most appropriate speech rate for Easy Japanese speech. In addition, we implemented the function of automatic sentence difficulty estimation and speech synthesizer into YANSIS.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2016 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2015 Annual Research Report
  • 2014 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (14 results)

All 2017 2016 2015 2014 Other

All Journal Article (3 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 3 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 3 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Presentation (7 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results) Remarks (4 results)

  • [Journal Article] Investigation of Pause Insertion Effect in Spoken Easy Japanese for Non-Native Listeners2015

    • Author(s)
      Hafiyan Prafianto, Takeshi Nagano, Takashi Nose, Akinori Ito
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of 12th Western Pacific Acoustics Conference

      Volume: 1 Pages: 507-511

    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] YANSIS: An “Easy Japanese” writing support system2015

    • Author(s)
      Takeshi Nagano, Akinori Ito
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of 8th International Conference ICT for Language Learning

      Volume: 1 Pages: 1-5

    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] A study on the effect of speech rate on perception of spoken easy Japanese using speech synthesis2014

    • Author(s)
      Hafiyan Prafianto, Takashi Nose, Yuya Chiba, Akinori Ito, Kazuyuki Sato
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of International Conference on Audio, Language and Image Processing

      Volume: 1 Pages: 476-479

    • DOI

      10.1109/icalip.2014.7009839

    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Presentation] 残響環境下での非母語話者による日本語音声の了解度と話速に関する研究2017

    • Author(s)
      魏 稼禾,ハフィヤン・プラフィアント,能勢 隆,千葉祐弥,伊藤彰則
    • Organizer
      日本音響学会2017年春季研究発表会
    • Place of Presentation
      明治大学(神奈川県川崎市)
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Effect of speech rate on the intelligibility of Easy Japanese speech under reverberant environment2016

    • Author(s)
      Jiahe Wei, Yuya Chiba, Takashi Nose, Akinori Ito
    • Organizer
      2016 International Workshop on Emerging ICT
    • Place of Presentation
      東北大学(宮城県仙台市)
    • Year and Date
      2016-10-31
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Gyutan:Java による「日本語HMM音声合成システムOpen JTalk」クローン2016

    • Author(s)
      長野雄,ハフィヤン・プラフィアント,能勢隆,伊藤彰則
    • Organizer
      日本音響学会2016年春季研究発表会
    • Place of Presentation
      桐蔭横浜大学(神奈川県横浜市)
    • Year and Date
      2016-03-09
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] A study on the speech rate and intelligibility of Japanese speech for non-native listeners2016

    • Author(s)
      Jiahe WEI, Takashi NOSE, Akinori ITO
    • Organizer
      The 10th seminar of A3 foresight program
    • Place of Presentation
      ソウル(韓国)
    • Year and Date
      2016-01-29
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 非日本語母語話者による日本語音声の了解度と話速についての検討2015

    • Author(s)
      魏稼禾, 伊藤彰則, 能勢隆, ハフィヤン・プラフィアント
    • Organizer
      第368回音響工学研究会
    • Place of Presentation
      東北大学(宮城県仙台市)
    • Year and Date
      2015-11-19
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 話速・ポーズを考慮した「やさしい日本語」音声合成の評価2015

    • Author(s)
      ハフィヤン・プラフィアント,能勢隆,伊藤彰則
    • Organizer
      日本音響学会2015年春季研究発表会
    • Place of Presentation
      中央大学後楽園キャンパス(東京都文京区)
    • Year and Date
      2015-03-18
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 話速とポーズが非母国語話者の聞き取りやすさに与える影響2014

    • Author(s)
      プラフィアント・ハフィヤン,千葉祐弥,能勢隆,伊藤彰則
    • Organizer
      日本音響学会2014年秋季研究発表会
    • Place of Presentation
      北海学園大学(北海道札幌市)
    • Year and Date
      2014-09-01
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] やんしす:やさしい日本語作成支援システム

    • URL

      http://www.spcom.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/YANSIS/

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] ICN-LAB dashboard

    • URL

      https://github.com/orgs/icn-lab/dashboard

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report 2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] やんしす:やさしい日本語作成支援システム

    • URL

      http://www.spcom.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/~aito/YANSIS/

    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] 「やんしす」  (YAsashii Nihongo SIen System)

    • URL

      http://www.spcom.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/YANSIS/

    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2014-04-04   Modified: 2018-03-22  

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