人に優しい音声技術へ
Our research area includes speech production, speech perception, psychological acoustics, room acoustics and multimodality. Our mission is to provide user-friendly speech technologies and to improve speech communication.
Major research topics
- Creating barrier-free emergency
PA announcements - Providing public address (PA) announcements more intelligible during an emergency by approaches based on signal processing and speech production/perception
- Prevention of
noise-induced hearing loss among young people - Creating educational content that informs young people about the importance of hearing protection and prevention of noise-induced hearing loss
- Crossmodal integration
between hearing and vision - Crossmodal integration between hearing and vision including Virtual Reality, such as prevention of virtual reality sickness with 3D Computer Graphics and audio stimuli
- Developing
hyperacusis relief software - Studying the types of sounds that people with hyperacusis find difficult to deal with and aim to develop software that relieves hyperacusis
- Effect of storybook reading on children
- Effect of speaking style of storybook reading and surrounding noises on children's comprehension and contentration
Topics
- 2024/02/12 Graduate student Ms. Aburadani presented her work at International Workshop on Image Media Quality and its Applications.
- 2024/02/02 Our department had undergraduate thesis presentations.
- 2023/11/12 Graduate student Ms. Aburadani presented her work at Auditory Research Meeting, The Acoustical Society of Japan.
- 2023/09/12 Graduate student Ms. Aburadani presented her work at Fall Meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan 2023.
- 2023/07/12 Our department had undergraduate thesis presentations.
- 2023/07/12 We had a guest student Mr. Chaisittirerkkul from King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand.
- 2023/02/12 Our department had undergraduate and graduate thesis presentations.
- 2022/12/09 Graduate student Mr. Komatsu presented his work at Auditory Research Meeting, The Acoustical Society of Japan.
- 2022/09/26 Graduate student Mr. Komatsu presented his work at Fall Meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan 2022.
- 2022/08/12 Our department had undergraduate thesis presentations.