* NEWS REPORTS [#t803d7b1] August 01, 2012 -- Press Releases: JST CREST uDialogue project [[(link)>http://www.sp.nitech.ac.jp/index.php?plugin=attach&pcmd=open&file=20120726_press_release.pdf&refer=%A5%DB%A1%BC%A5%E0%2F%CA%F3%C6%BB]]~ ''World's first! Speech dialog service for smart phones for university guidance〜Voice interaction with 3D character anywhere〜'' -July 31, 2012 -- TV: Nagoya TV [[(link)>http://www.nagoyatv.com/up/special/backnumber.html?key=464f26744c54bd9948093555550b9f62]]~ ''UP!'' -July 16, 2012 -- News paper: Bunkyo News No.2197 P.40~ ''Mei-chan's inspection by Mr. Yamanaka, Deputy Minister of MEXT'' - June 30, 2012 -- News paper: Asahi Shinbun from page b4~ ''< be report > Spreading degital signage'' - May 02, 2012 -- News paper: Chunichi Shinbun from page 1~ ''Message in the deceased's voice'' - March 11, 2012 -- TV: NHK WORLD TV [[(link)>http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/tv/scienceview/archives20120305.html]]~ ''Science View'' - February 28, 2012 -- TV: NHK [[(link)>http://cgi4.nhk.or.jp/gendai/]]~ ''Close-up Gendai'' - February 22, 2012 -- TV: NHK Educational [[(link)>http://www9.nhk.or.jp/tvkun/]]~ ''Dai-Tensai TV-kun'' - October 18, 2011 -- Press Release: FueTrek Co., Ltd. [[(link - in Japanese only)>http://www.fuetrek.co.jp/newsapp/NewsApp/uptmp/201110010.pdf]]~ ''vGate Speech dialogue, developed by the Fue Trek group is to be used in NTT Docomo's 2011-2012 Spring-Winter models. The system enables interaction to a screen character and basic mobile phone operations activated by speech commands''~ //フュートレックグループの音声対話技術vGate音声対話を使った「音声クイック起動」が//NTTドコモ2011−2012冬春モデルに搭載〜画面上のキャラクターと会話し//て、携帯電話を操作する「音声クイック起動」 -September 16, 2011 --Magazine: Japan Printer, October,2011~ ''Voice interactive guidance digital synergy'' //雑誌: 印刷雑誌 2011年10月号 //双方向音声案内デジタルサイネージ -September 12, 2011 -- Press Release: KDDI R&D Laboratories [[(link - in Japanese only)>http://www.kddilabs.jp/assets/files/press/196.pdf]]~ ''Release of a free ultraportable Japanese speech synthesis system for Android™~ Anyone can easily have Japanese sentences read out loud'' //プレスリリース: 株式会社KDDI研究所 (link) //''超軽量Android™向け日本語音声合成ソフトウェアの無償提供を開始〜誰でも手軽に日//本語の文章読上げを利用可能に〜'' -August 05, 2011 -- Web: ITmedia [[(link - in Japanese only)>http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1108/05/news080.html]]~ ''MMDAgent gets multi-platform support'' //マルチプラットフォーム対応に向け前進した「MMDAgent」 -June 13, 2011 -- Newspaper: Nagoya Institute of Technology Newspaper First page [[(link - in Japanese only)>http://nitpress.wordpress.com/2011/06/22/%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E5%88%9D%E5%8F%8C%E6%96%B9%E5%90%91%E9%9F%B3%E5%A3%B0%E6%A1%88%E5%86%85%E3%83%87%E3%82%B8%E3%82%BF%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B5%E3%82%A4%E3%83%8D%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8/]]~ ''World's first! Voice interactive guidance digital synergy'' //新聞: 名古屋工業大学新聞 1面 (link) //世界初!双方向音声案内デジタルサイネージ - June 6, 2011 -- Magazine: Chubu Zaikai, vol.54, number 6~ ''Live digital display can talk, get angry or smile'' //雑誌: 中部財界 54巻 6号 //喋る、怒る、笑顔になる 「生きている」電子看板登場! -May 10, 2011 -- Magazine: Tokai Walker May,24th number~ ''World's first 3D character display with voice interaction'' //雑誌: 東海Walker 23年5月24日号 //MMDAgent 世界初の3Dキャラクターと会話のできる看板 - April 22, 2011 -- News paper: THE NIKKAN KOGYO SHIMBUN from page 2-12~ ''Voice interaction on digital display'' - April 8,2011 -- Journal: THE NIKKAN KOGYO SHIMBUN from page 19~ ''Voice interactive electronic guidance edition'' - April 7,2011 -- Web: ITmedia [[(link)>http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1104/07/news088.html]]~ ''MMDAgent has evolved into an university's receptionist——Human-sized 3D Mei-chan to offer guidance at NIT's main entrance'' //MMDAgentがさらに進化して大学受付嬢に——等身大3Dメイちゃんが名工大の正門でご案内'' -- Web: Field Promotion NEWS [[(link)>http://www.field-pr.net/news_WNhqq82k2.html]]~ ''A university's experience! The world's first 3D character and talking ability digital synergy'' //名工大で体験!世界初、3Dキャラとおしゃべりできるデジタルサイネージ'' -- Newspaper: CHUNICHI Newspaper Morning Edition from page 17~ ''Mei-chan - NIT's guidance'' //メイちゃん 名工大案内'' -- Newspaper: Chubu Keizai Shimbun from page 5~ ''Development of a voice interactive signboard'' //対話型の電子看板開発'' - April 6,2011 -- Press Release: Nagoya Institute of Technology &ref(20110406_nit.pdf,noicon,(pdf));~ ''World's first voice interactive guidance digital synergy system! 3D characters and voice interaction'' //''双方向音声案内デジタルサイネージ〜世界初!3Dキャラクターと音声で会話!〜'' //-- Press Realease: ValuePress! [[(link)>http://www.value-press.com/pressrelease.php?article_id=75574]]~ -- Press Release: V-SYNC stock company [[(link)>http://files.value-press.com/data/24496_3_bnmJFwA6UO.pdf]]~ ''World's first! 3D characters and voice interaction! NIT's new voice interactive guidance digital synergy system'' //''世界初!3Dキャラクターと音声で会話!名工大「双方向音声案内デジタルサイネージ」を開発'' -- TV: Toukai TV~ ''SUPER NEWS'' -- TV: CBC TV~ ''ippou'' - February 24,2011 -- Radio: NIT Radio [[(link)>http://radio3.nitech.ac.jp/?p=2498]]~ ''Introduction to MMDAgent - a toolkit for building voice interaction systems:Professor Keiichi Tokuda, Professor Lee Akinobu, Assistant Professor Keiichiro Oura'' - February 23,2011 -- Radio: NIT Radio [[(link)>http://radio3.nitech.ac.jp/?p=2496]]~ ''Introduction to Speech Synthesis related research - transforming human speech characteristics into models and using the computer to produce speech that sounds natural'' - February 22,2011 -- Radio: NIT Radio [[(link)>http://radio3.nitech.ac.jp/?p=2494]]~ ''Introduction Speech Recognition related research - making the computer understand and analyse human speech, transforming it into text data'' - February 21,2011 -- Radio: NIT Radio [[(link)>http://radio3.nitech.ac.jp/?p=2489]]~ ''Introduction to Singing Voice Synthesis related research - reproduction of natural speech by making use of various speaker's voice characteristics:Professor Keiichi Tokuda '' -February 5, 2011 -- TV: NHK Education "SCIENCE ZERO" [[(link)>http://www.nhk.or.jp/zero/contents/dsp334.html]] - December 25, 2010 -- Web: ITmedia [[(link)>http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1012/25/news010.html]]~ ''The alpha release of MMDAgent'' -November 9, 2010 -- Press release: Nagoya Institute of Technology &ref(20101109_nit.pdf,noicon,(pdf));~ - 08 November, 2010 -- Press release: FUETREK Co., Ltd. [[(link)>http://www.fuetrek.co.jp/newsapp/NewsApp/uptmp/201011003.pdf]]~ -October 9, 2010 -- Web: GETNEWS.JP [[(link)>http://getnews.jp/archives/80376]] -October 8, 2010 -- Web: ASCII.jp [[(link)>http://ascii.jp/elem/000/000/560/560132/]] -October 7, 2010 -- Web: ITmedia [[(link)>http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1010/07/news052.html]]~ ''The details of MMDAgent'' -October 6, 2010 -- Web: Weekly ASCII Plus [[(link)>http://weekly.ascii.jp/elem/000/000/026/26015/]] -- Web: CEATEC JAPAN [[(link)>http://www.ceatec.com/2010/ja/news/webmagazine_detail.html?mag_vol=038&mag_type=]] -October 5, 2010 -- TV: TV Asahi "Super morning" [[(link)>http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/onair/info.php?b=morning&id=1963]]~ -- TV: Fuji TV "Tokudane!" -- Web: Weekly ASCII Plus [[(link)>http://weekly.ascii.jp/elem/000/000/025/25874/]] -- Web: Hatsune Miku Miku [[(link)>http://vocaloid.blog120.fc2.com/blog-entry-6920.html]] -September 28, 2010 -- Web: Gizmode Japan [[(link)>http://www.gizmodo.jp/2010/09/post_7693.html]] -September 24, 2010 -- Web: Podcast Journal [[(link)>http://podcast-j.net/archives/2010/09/mmdagent-mikumikudance-mmd.php]] -September 22, 2010 -- Web: ITmedia [[(link)>http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1009/22/news028.html]]~ ''The future provided by MMDAgent'' -September 21, 2010 -- Press release: Nagoya Institute of Technology &ref(20100921_nit_j.pdf,noicon,(pdf)); -- Press release: PR Wire Kyodo News [[(link)>http://prw.kyodonews.jp/open/release.do?r=201009201627]] -- Press release: CEATEC JAPAN [[(link)>http://www.ceatec.com/2010/ja/news/exhibitor_detail.html?press_type=exh&press_id=00047]] -- Press release (English): Nagoya Insitute of Technology &ref(20100921_nit_e.pdf,noicon,(pdf)); -- Press release (English): Virtual Press Office [[(link)>http://www.virtualpressoffice.com/detail.do?contentId=376375&showId=340]] -- Press release (Mandarin): Virtual Press Office [[(link)>http://www.virtualpressoffice.com/publicsiteContentFileAccess?fileContentId=376389&fromOtherPageToDisableHistory=T&menuName=Events]] -July 13, 2010 -- Newspaper: Nitpress [[(link)>http://nitpress.wordpress.com/2010/07/13/%E5%BE%B3%E7%94%B0%E3%83%BB%E6%9D%8E%E7%A0%94dtm%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%B3%E3%81%AB%E7%B4%B9%E4%BB%8B/]] -July 19, 2010 -- Radio (Swedish): Sveriges Radio [[(link)>http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=406&artikel=3859170]] -April 15, 2010 -- TV (English): Tokai Cable Channel "TCC WORLD" [[(link)>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvpXL987nzw]] -Febrary 14, 2010 -- Radio: NHK Radio 1 "Shibu Maga Z" [[(link)>http://www.nhk.or.jp/shibuz-blog/070/36206.html]] -December 19, 2008 -- Newspaper: Nitpress [[(link)>http://nitpress.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/%E5%BE%B3%E7%94%B0%E3%83%BB%E6%9D%8E%E7%A0%94-kddi%E7%A0%94%E7%A9%B6%E6%89%80%E3%81%A8%E6%90%BA%E5%B8%AF%E9%9B%BB%E8%A9%B1%E7%94%A8%E9%9F%B3%E5%A3%B0%E5%90%88%E6%88%90%E3%82%BD%E3%83%95%E3%83%88/]] -September 28, 2008 -- Web (English): Scotland on Sunday [[(link)>http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/scotland/See-the-future-from-tower.4535692.jp]] -September 24, 2008 -- Web: SOURCE POD [[(link)>http://www.source-pod.com/newsheadline/20080924-02.html]] -September 22, 2008 -- Newspaper: Nikkei Sangyo Shinbun -- Newspaper: Nikkann Kogyo Shinbun -- Web: ITmedia [[(link)>http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0809/22/news009.html]] -- Web: RBBTODAY [[(link)>http://www.rbbtoday.com/article/2008/09/22/54417.html]] -- Web: JAGAT [[(link)>https://www.jagat.jp/content/view/88/105/]] -- Web: Do! Ketai[[(link)>http://doplaza.at.webry.info/200809/article_80.html]] -September 19, 2008 -- Press release: KDDI Laboratory Co., Ltd. [[(link)>http://www.kddilabs.jp/press/img/100_1.pdf]] -- Web: Ketai Watch [[(link)>http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/news_toppage/41895.html]] -May 5, 2008 -- Radio: ZIP-FM "Z-TIME BIZ" -May 2, 2008 -- Newspaper: Chunichi Shinbun