NEWS REPORTS
- May 16, 2013
- Newspaper: The Nikkei evening Edition from page 9 (link)
Associate Prof. Yamamoto appeared
- October 13, 2012
- Magazine:Keisetsu Jidai, November,2012
University guidance voice interaction service for smart phones "Mobile Mei-chan"
- October 01, 2012
- Newspaper: Yomiuri Shinbun from page 25
Voice interaction guidance digital signage "Mei-chan"
- August 04, 2012
- Newspaper: Chunichi Shinbun Morning Edition from page 14 (link)
Voice interaction on a smart phone with Mei-chan
- August 02, 2012
- News paper: Chubu Keizai Shinbun from page 5
3D character university guidance
- 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
- July 16, 2012
- Newspaper: Bunkyo News No.2197 P.40
Mei-chan's inspection by Mr. Yamanaka, Deputy Minister of MEXT
- July 02, 2012
- TV: TV Asahi (link)
Morning Bird
- June 30, 2012
- Newspaper: Asahi Shinbun from page b4
< be report > Spreading degital signage
- May 02, 2012
- Newspaper: 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
- 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 7, 2010
- Web: ITmedia (link)
The details of MMDAgent
- October 5, 2010
- TV: TV Asahi "Super morning" (link)
- TV: Fuji TV "Tokudane!"
- Web: Weekly ASCII Plus (link)
- Web: Hatsune Miku Miku (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 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)
- September 28, 2008
- Web (English): Scotland on Sunday (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