Symposium on Prosody and Speech Processing
Organized by Scientific Research of Priority Areas
gRealization of advanced spoken language information processing from prosodic features,
h Ministry of Science, Culture, Sports, Education, Japanese Government
Major Meeting Room, Sanjo-Kaikan, University of Tokyo
January 31 (Thursday), 2002
Program
| 9:30 | Registration desk opens. | |
| 9:50 | Opening | Keikichi Hirose (Project Head) |
| Session 1 Fundamentals | Chair: Zendo Uwano | |
| 10:00 | gQuantitative Analysis of Vocal Fold Vibration during Register Change by High Speed Digital Imaging System -2nd Report on the Study of Prosody and the Interaction between Articulators and Phonators-h | Masanobu Kumada (National Rehabilitation Center for the Disabled), Noriko Kobayashi, Hajime Hirose (Kitazato Univ.), Niro Tayama, Hiroshi Imagawa (Univ. of Tokyo), Ken-Ichi Sakakibara (NTT Communication Science Laboratories), Takaharu Nito (Univ. of Tokyo), Mamiko Wada (Tokyo Metropolitan Rehabilitation Hospital), Shinfichi Kakurai, Chieko Kumada (Univ. of Tokyo), Seiji Niimi (International Univ. for Health & Welfare) |
| 10:20 | gOn the Perceptual Sensitivity of the Naturalness for Speech with Temporal Distortionsh | Yoshinori Sagisaka, Makiko Muto (Waseda Univ.), Hiroaki Kato, Minoru Tsuzaki (ATR) |
| 10:40 | gAutomatic Extraction of Model Parameters from Fundamental Frequency Contours of Speechh | Hiroya Fujisaki (Univ. of Tokyo) |
| 11:00 | gSpeech Timing and Phonological Structureh |
Haruo Kubozono (Kobe Univ.) |
| 11:20 | gDiscriminating Ironies from Praising -Acoustic Parameters vs. Prosodic Parameters -h | Masuzo Yanagida (Doshisha Univ.) |
| 11:40 | gVoice Quality, Voice Individuality and Related Acoustic Featuresh | Hisao Kuwabara (Teikyou Univ. of Science & Technology) |
| 12:00`13:20 | Lunch Break@ | |
| 13:20 | gDesign and Creation of Prosodic Corpus of Guide-Task Sentencesh | Shuichi Itahashi, Motoki Shimada, Mikio Yamamoto (Univ. of Tsukuba) |
| 13:40 | gCollecting Really Spontaneous Speechh | Nick Campbell (ATR) |
| Session 2 Invited Talks | Chair: Keikichi Hirose | |
| 14:00 | gLearning the Hidden Structure of Speech: from Communicative Functions to Prosodyh | Gerard Bailly, Bleike Holm (ICP, France) |
| 14:50`15:10 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:10 | gAnalysis and Synthesis of Intonationh | Jan P.H. van Santen (Oregon Health & Science Univ., U.S.A.) |
| Session 3 Applications | Chair: Yasushi Ishikawa | |
| 16:00 | gAdjusting the Speaking Rate to Suit the User in Number-Givingh | Satoshi Nakagawa, Nigel Ward (Univ. of Tokyo) |
| 16:20 | gSpeech Synthesis with Arbitrary Speaker's Voice from Average Voiceh |
Takao Kobayashi, Masatsune Tamura, Takashi Masuko(Tokyo Institute of Technology) |
| 16:40 | gRecovery of Japanese Dependency Structure Using Prosodic Informationh | Kazuhiko Ozeki, Kazuyuki Takagi, Hajime Kubota (Univ. of@Electro-Communications) |
| 17:00 | gN-gram Language Modeling of Japanese Using Prosodic Boundariesh | Nobuaki Minematsu (Univ. of Tokyo) |
| 17:20 | gAnalysis of Prosodic Features on Key-phrases and Corrections in Spoken Dialogueh | Atsuhiko Kai (Shizuoka Univ.), Seiichi Nakagawa (Toyohashi Univ. of Technology) |
| 17:40 | Discussion | |
| 18:30 | Closing | |