Katsuhiko Shirai

Also published as: K. Shirai


2012

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Method for Collection of Acted Speech Using Various Situation Scripts
Takahiro Miyajima | Hideaki Kikuchi | Katsuhiko Shirai | Shigeki Okawa
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)

This study was carried out to improve the quality of acted emotional speech. In the recent paradigm shift in speech collection techniques, methods for the collection of high-quality and spontaneous speech has been strongly focused on. However, such methods involve various constraints: such as the difficulty in controlling utterances and sound quality. Hence, our study daringly focuses on acted speech because of its high operability. In this paper, we propose a new method for speech collection by refining acting scripts. We compared the speech collected using our proposed method and that collected using an imitation of the legacy method that was implemented with traditional basic emotional words. The results show the advantage of our proposed method, i.e., the possibility of the generating high F0 fluctuations in acoustical expressions, which is one of the important features of the expressive speech, while ensuring that there is no decline in the naturalness and other psychological features.

1997

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Application of NLP technologyto production of closed-caption TV. programs in Japanese for the hearing impaired
Takahiro Wakao | Terumasa Ehara | Eiji Sawamura | Yoshiharu Abe | Katsuhiko Shirai
Natural Language Processing for Communication Aids

1986

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Linguistic Knowledge Extraction from Real Language Behavior
K. Shirai | T. Hamada
Coling 1986 Volume 1: The 11th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

1982

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Japanese Sentence Analysis System Essay - Evaluation of Dictionary Derived From Real Text Data
K. Shirai | J. Kubota | Y. Hayashi
Coling 1982 Abstracts: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Linguistics Abstracts

1980

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A Trial of Japanese Text Input System Using Speech Recognition
K. Shirai | Y. Fukazawa | T. Matzui | H. Matzuura
COLING 1980 Volume 1: The 8th International Conference on Computational Linguistics