* Research Promotion [#y86283cc] - ''Reserch about the improvement of intelligibility in fast-talking Speech Synthesis based on Hidden Markov Model'' -- Investment: [[Kayamori Foundation of Informational Science Advancement(Japanese page)>http://www.kayamorif.or.jp/]] -- Category: [[research promotion in 2012(Japanese page)>http://www.kayamorif.or.jp/H11.htm]] (delegate:Tokuda) -- Term: Apr.2012 - Mar.2013 - ''Voice system that automatically learn and reproduce how to sing and voice quality of the singer-'' -- Investment: [[The Hori Sciences & Arts Foundation >http://www.hori-foundation.or.jp/l]] -- Category: [[2012 22th Research Assistance(Japanese page) >http://www.jsps.go.jp/j-bilat/jrss.htm]] (delegate: Oura) -- Term: Apr.2012 - Mar.2013 - ''Bayesian factor analysis representing various voice characteristics for Speech Synthesis'' -- Investment: [[Research Foundation for the Electrotechnology of Chubu >http://www006.upp.so-net.ne.jp/refec/WELCOME.HTM]] -- Category: research promotion in 2012 (delegate: Nankaku) -- Term: Apr.2012 - Mar.2013 - ''A statistical approach to construct generic image models'' -- Investment: [[Artificial Intelligence Research Promotion Foundation >http://www.airpf.or.jp/]] -- Category: [[2010 Artificial Intelligence Research Assistance(Japanese page) >http://www.airpf.or.jp/kofu.htm]] (delegate: Nankaku) -- Term: Apr.2011 - Mar.2013 - ''Flexible speech synthesis based on the formulation of cross-language prosody'' -- Investment: [[Japan Society for the Promotion of Science >http://www.jsps.go.jp/]] -- Category: [[Bilateral Joint Projects/Seminars(Japanese page) >http://www.jsps.go.jp/j-bilat/semina/jrss.html]] (Shared) -- Term: Apr.2010 - Dec.2012 - ''A statistical approach to construct generic image models'' -- Investment: [[The Hori Sciences & Arts Foundation >http://www.hori-foundation.or.jp/l]] -- Category: [[2010 20th Research Assistance(Japanese page) >http://www.jsps.go.jp/j-bilat/jrss.htm]] (delegate: Nankaku) -- Term: Apr.2011 - Mar.2012 - ''Japan-Finland International Bilateral Seminar'' -- Investment: [[Japan Society for the Promotion of Science >http://www.jsps.go.jp/]] -- Category: [[Bilateral Joint Projects/Seminars(Japanese page) >http://www.jsps.go.jp/j-bilat/semina/jrss.html]] (Shared) -- Term: Aug.2008 - Aug.2008 - ''Expressive multilingual Speech Synthesis'' -- Investment: [[Japan Society for the Promotion of Science >http://www.jsps.go.jp/english/index.html]] -- Category: [[Bilateral Joint Projects/Seminars(Japanese page) >http://www.jsps.go.jp/j-bilat/jrss.htm]] (Share) -- Term: Apr.2006 - Dec.2008 - ''Various technology of Speech Synthesis to produce digital media contents'' -- Investment: [[The Hori Information Science Promotion Foundation(Japanese page) >http://www.hori-foundation.or.jp/]] -- Category: [[research promotion in 2007(Japanese page) >http://www.hori-foundation.or.jp/activity/pdf/winh18.pdf]] (delegate:Zen) -- Term: Apr.2007 - Mar.2008 - ''The realization of high efficient parallel Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition based on Dynamic Constrained Search Strategy'' -- Investment : [[Nagoya Institute of Technology >http://eng.nitech.ac.jp/]] -- Category: internal furtherance research promotion in 2005 (delegate:Ri) -- Term: Apr.2005 - Mar.2006 - ''Trajectory models for Speech Processing'' -- Investment: [[EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)>http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/default.htm]] -- Category: [[Trajectory models for Speech Processing>http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/ViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/D033888/1]] (Share) -- Term: Aug.2005 - Oct.2005 - ''Research for improvement of Speech Synthesis based on HMM'' -- Investment: [[The Hori Information Science Promotion Foundation(Japanese page) >http://www.hori-foundation.or.jp/]] -- Category: [[research promotion in 2004(Japanese page)>http://www.hori-foundation.or.jp/activity/pdf/winh15.pdf]] (delegate:Maia) -- Term: Apr.2004 - Mar.2005 - ''Speech Synthesis using Hidden Markov Model --The aim at developing emotional computer--'' -- Investment: [[Nagoya Institute of Technology >http://eng.nitech.ac.jp/]] -- Category: rejuvenation of university promotion in 2003 (delegate:Tokuda) -- Term: Apr.2003 - Mar.2004 - ''Research for Speech Recognition using mechanism based on Kernel'' -- Investment: [[The Hori Information Science Promotion Foundation(Japanese page) >http://www.hori-foundation.or.jp/]] -- Category: [[research promotion in 2003(Japanese page)>http://www.hori-foundation.or.jp/activity/pdf/winh14.pdf]] (delegate:Amaro) -- Term: Apr.2003 - Mar.2004 - ''Research for Speech Recognition using mechanism based on Kernel'' -- Investment : [[The Hori Information Science Promotion Foundation(Japanese page) >http://www.hori-foundation.or.jp/]] -- Category: [[research promotion in 2002(Japanese page)>http://www.hori-foundation.or.jp/activity/pdf/winh13.pdf]] (delegate:Miyazima) -- Term: Apr.2002 - Mar.2003 - ''Pioneering research on Voice Personal Authentication based on Minimum Classification Error Criterion and Mixtures of Factor Analyzers'' -- Investment: [[Research Foundation for the Electrotechnology of Chubu(Japanese page)>http://www006.upp.so-net.ne.jp/refec/WELCOME.HTM]] -- Category: research promotion in 2002 (delegate:Miyazima) -- Term: Apr.2002 - Mar.2003 - ''Speech Synthesis based on Hidden Markov Model --The realization variety of voice quality and speaking style--'' -- Investment: [[International Communications Foundation>http://www.icf.or.jp/english/index.html]] -- Category: research promotion in 2000 (delegate:Tokuda) -- Term: Apr.2000 - Mar.2002 - ''Speech Synthesis based on Hidden Markov Model --The aim at developing computer talk like human--'' -- Investment: [[Kayamori Foundation of Informational Science Advancement(Japanese page)>http://www.kayamorif.or.jp/]] -- Category: [[research promotion in 1999(Japanese page)>http://www.kayamorif.or.jp/H11.htm]] (delegate:Tokuda) -- Term: Nov.1999 - Oct.2001 - ''Speech Synthesis based on Hidden Markov Model --The aim at developing computer talk like human--'' -- Investment: [[Research Foundation for the Electrotechnology of Chubu(Japanese page)>http://www006.upp.so-net.ne.jp/refec/WELCOME.HTM]] -- Category: research promotion in 1999 (delegate:Tokuda) -- Term: Apr.1999 - Mar.2000 - ''Development of Speech Synthesis System based on Hidden Markov Model.Development of interface of Multi-Modal Speech Recognition and Synthesis'' -- Investment: [[Nagoya Institute of Technology >http://eng.nitech.ac.jp/]] -- Category: furtherance improvement of education cost (delegate:Tokuda) -- Term: Apr.1998 - Mar.1999 - ''Speech Synthesis using Hidden Markov Model --The aim at developing emotional computer--'' -- Investment: [[CASIO Science Promotion Foundation(Japanese page)>http://www.casio.co.jp/company/zaidan/]] -- Category: [[research promotion in 1997(Japanese page)>http://www.casio.co.jp/company/zaidan/naiyou/1997ichiran.html]] (delegate:Tokuda) -- Term: Dec.1997 - Nov.1998 - ''Speech Synthesis using Hidden Markov Model --The aim at developing emotional computer--'' -- Investment: [[The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation(Japanese page)>http://www.taf.or.jp/]] -- Category: research promotion in 1997 (delegate:Tokuda) -- Term: Apr.1997 - Mar.1998 - ''Vector Quantization based on statistics of vectors --Application to low bit rate speech and image coding--'' -- Investment: [[The Hori Information Science Promotion Foundation(Japanese page) >http://www.hori-foundation.or.jp/]] -- Category: [[research promotion in 1997(Japanese page)>http://www.hori-foundation.or.jp/activity/winh8.htm]] (delegate:Tokuda) -- Term: Apr.1997 - Mar.1998 - ''Speech Synthesis using Hidden Markov Model --The aim at developing emotional computer--'' -- Investment: [[JGC-S SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION(Japanese page)>http://www.jgcs.or.jp/]] -- Category: research promotion in 1996 (delegate:Tokuda) -- Term: Sep.1996 - Aug.1997 - ''Speech Synthesis based on Hidden Markov Model --The aim at developing emotional computerて--'' -- Investment: [[The Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications>http://www.okawa-foundation.or.jp/e/index.html]] -- Category: research promotion in 1996 (delegate:Tokuda) -- Term: Sep.1996 - Aug.1997 - ''Speech Synthesis using Hidden Markov Model --The aim at developing machine talk like human--'' -- Investment: [[THE TATEMATSU FOUNDATION(Japanese page)>http://www.tatematsu.or.jp/]] -- Category: additional research promotion (delegate:Tokuda) -- Term: Apr.1996 - Mar.1997 - ''Development of low bit rate speech coding system using Mel-Generalized Cepstrum'' -- Investment: [[Tokyo Institude of Technology>http://www.titech.ac.jp/home.html]] -- Category: cooperative research fund (share) -- Term: Apr.1995 - Mar.1996 - ''Mel-Cepstral Analysis of Speech and its application to Adaptive Signal Processing'' -- Investment: [[Tokyo Institude of Technology>http://www.titech.ac.jp/home.html]] -- Category: cooperative research fund (share) -- Term: Apr.1990 - Mar.1991 //-''その他の国際会議参加助成など'' * Attending international conferences Promotion and another Promotion [#acbd4574] -- Investment: [[Research Foundation for the Electrotechnology of Chubu(Japanese page)>http://www006.upp.so-net.ne.jp/refec/WELCOME.HTM]] -- Category: Publication Promotion (delegate:Miyazima) -- Year: 2001 -- Investment: [[International Information Science Foundation>http://www.iisf.or.jp/index-en.html]] -- Category: [[Promotion for dispatching researchers to overseas>http://www.iisf.or.jp/subsidize-en.html]] (delegate:Miyazima) -- Year: 2001 -- Investment: [[NEC C&C Foundation>http://www.candc.or.jp/en/index.html]] -- Category: [[Grants for Researchers Attending International Conferences>http://www.candc.or.jp/en/grants.html]] (delegate:Miyazima) -- Year: 2000 -- Investment: [[The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation(Japanese page)>http://www.taf.or.jp/]] -- Category: [[Promotion of travel expenses for overseas(Japanese page)>http://www.taf.or.jp/fbunka/D_ktoko.html]] (delegate:Tokuda) -- Year: 1995 -- Investment: [[The Hara Research Foundation(Japanese page)>http://www.hara-rf.jp/]] -- Category: [[The 5th Promotion for giving papers in International Conference(Japanese page)>http://www.hara-rf.jp/subsidy/results/result005]] (delegate:Tokuda) -- Year: 1994 -- Investment: [[Tokyo Institude of Technology>http://www.titech.ac.jp/home.html]] -- Category: Tokyo Institute of Technology The Centennial Memorial International Academic exchange fund(first class) (delegate:Tokuda) -- Year: 1992 -- Investment: [[NEC C&C Foundation>http://www.candc.or.jp/en/index.html]] -- Category: [[Grants for Researchers Attending International Conferences>http://www.candc.or.jp/en/grants.html]] (delegate:Tokuda) -- Year: 1990