TOKUDA, NANKAKU and HASHIMOTO LABORATORY - HOME/NEWS REPORTS の履歴(No.14)

NEWS REPORTS

August 01, 2012

Press Releases: JST CREST uDialogue project (link)
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)
  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)
  Science View

February 28, 2012
- TV: NHK (link)
  Close-up Gendai

February 22, 2012
- TV: NHK Educational (link)
  Dai-Tensai TV-kun

October 18, 2011
- Press Release: FueTrek Co., Ltd. (link - in Japanese only)
  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

September 16, 2011
- Magazine: Japan Printer, October,2011
  Voice interactive guidance digital synergy

September 12, 2011
- Press Release: KDDI R&D Laboratories (link - in Japanese only)
  Release of a free ultraportable Japanese speech synthesis system for Android™~ Anyone can easily have Japanese sentences read out loud

August 05, 2011
- Web: ITmedia (link - in Japanese only)
  MMDAgent gets multi-platform support

June 13, 2011
- Newspaper: Nagoya Institute of Technology Newspaper First page (link - in Japanese only)
  World's first! Voice interactive guidance digital synergy

June 6, 2011
- Magazine: Chubu Zaikai, vol.54, number 6
  Live digital display can talk, get angry or smile

May 10, 2011
- Magazine: Tokai Walker May,24th number
  World's first 3D character display with voice interaction

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)
  MMDAgent has evolved into an university's receptionist——Human-sized 3D Mei-chan to offer guidance at NIT's main entrance
- Web: Field Promotion NEWS (link)
  A university's experience! The world's first 3D character and talking ability digital synergy
- Newspaper: CHUNICHI Newspaper Morning Edition from page 17
  Mei-chan - NIT's guidance
- Newspaper: Chubu Keizai Shimbun from page 5
  Development of a voice interactive signboard

April 6,2011
- Press Release: Nagoya Institute of Technology (pdf)
  World's first voice interactive guidance digital synergy system! 3D characters and voice interaction
- Press Release: V-SYNC stock company (link)
  World's first! 3D characters and voice interaction! NIT's new voice interactive guidance digital synergy system
- TV: Toukai TV
  SUPER NEWS
- TV: CBC TV
  ippou

February 24,2011
- Radio: NIT Radio (link)
  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)
  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)
  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)
  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)

December 25, 2010
- Web: ITmedia (link)
  The alpha release of MMDAgent

November 9, 2010
- Press release: Nagoya Institute of Technology (pdf)
08 November, 2010
- Press release: FUETREK Co., Ltd. (link)

October 9, 2010
- Web: GETNEWS.JP (link)

October 8, 2010
- Web: ASCII.jp (link)

October 7, 2010
- Web: ITmedia (link)
  The details of MMDAgent

October 6, 2010
- Web: Weekly ASCII Plus (link)
- Web: CEATEC JAPAN (link)

October 5, 2010
- TV: TV Asahi "Super morning" (link)
- TV: Fuji TV "Tokudane!"
- Web: Weekly ASCII Plus (link)
- Web: Hatsune Miku Miku (link)

September 28, 2010
- Web: Gizmode Japan (link)

September 24, 2010
- Web: Podcast Journal (link)

September 22, 2010
- Web: ITmedia (link)
  The future provided by MMDAgent

September 21, 2010
- Press release: Nagoya Institute of Technology (pdf)
- Press release: PR Wire Kyodo News (link)
- Press release: CEATEC JAPAN (link)
- Press release (English): Nagoya Insitute of Technology (pdf)
- Press release (English): Virtual Press Office (link)
- Press release (Mandarin): Virtual Press Office (link)

July 13, 2010
- Newspaper: Nitpress (link)

July 19, 2010
- Radio (Swedish): Sveriges Radio (link)

April 15, 2010
- TV (English): Tokai Cable Channel "TCC WORLD" (link)

Febrary 14, 2010
- Radio: NHK Radio 1 "Shibu Maga Z" (link)

December 19, 2008
- Newspaper: Nitpress (link)

September 28, 2008
- Web (English): Scotland on Sunday (link)

September 24, 2008
- Web: SOURCE POD (link)

September 22, 2008
- Newspaper: Nikkei Sangyo Shinbun
- Newspaper: Nikkann Kogyo Shinbun
- Web: ITmedia (link)
- Web: RBBTODAY (link)
- Web: JAGAT (link)
- Web: Do! Ketai(link)

September 19, 2008
- Press release: KDDI Laboratory Co., Ltd. (link)
- Web: Ketai Watch (link)

May 5, 2008
- Radio: ZIP-FM "Z-TIME BIZ"

May 2, 2008
- Newspaper: Chunichi Shinbun