Hiromichi Kawanami


2006

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Long-term Analysis of Prosodic Features of Spoken Guidance System User Speech
Hiromichi Kawanami | Takahiro Kitamura | Kiyohiro Shikano
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06)

As a practical information guidance system, we have been developing a speech-oriented system named "Takemaru-kun". The system has been operated on a public space since Nov. 2002. The system answers to user's question about the hall facilities, sightseeing, transportation, weather information around the city, etc. All triggered inputs to the system have been recorded since the operation started. And all system inputs during 22 months are manually transcribed and labelled for speaker’s gender and age category. In this paper, we conduct a long-term prosody analysis of user speech to find a clue to obtain user’s attitude from a user’s speech. In this preliminary analysis, it is observed that F0 decreases regardless of age and gender category when the stability of the dialogue system is not established.

2004

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Perceptual Evaluation of Quality Deterioration Owing to Prosody Modification
Kazuki Adachi | Tomoki Toda | Hiromichi Kawanami | Hiroshi Saruwatari | Kiyohiro Shikano
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’04)

2002

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Designing speech database with prosodic variety for expressive TTS system
Hiromichi Kawanami | Tsuyoshi Masuda | Tomoki Toda | Kiyohiro Shikano
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’02)