* RESEARCH TOPICS [#h371a1d2] - Security system using speaker recognition. - Fast speaker adaptation technique for speaker-independent continuous speech recognition system. - Hierarchical statistical model for fast speech recognition. - Speech recognition system using neural network. - Text-to-speech synthesis based on hidden Marcov model. - Voice conversion using HMM-based speech synthesis technique. - Very low bit rate (100 bit/s) speech coder. - Individual classification using bimodal (audio-visual) speech towards robust security system. - Text-to-audiovisual speech synthesis. - Image recognition model for automatic lipreading. - Automatic part extraction from facial image for individual classification.