About Our Laboratory
We are working on speech information processing. 
  Our interest includes
  high-performance automatic speech recognition,
  automatic spoken language acquisition and understanding,
  evolutionary DNN system optimization,
  and anomalous sound detection.
What's new
- 2022.8
 - Master students Bowen Zhang-Kun and Yidong Wang-Kun received the outstanding student award in Information and Communications Engineering Course.
 - 2021.8.11
 - The application period for IGP-C (2022 Apr admission) is open. (You have to contact the host faculty well before the application deadline)
 - 2021.7.13
 - A paper by a doctoral student is accepted by Neural Networks.
 - 2021.7.2
 - Our tutorial proposeal "Toward the Realization of Automatic Spoken Language Acquisition Mechanism for Human-Symbiotic Robots," has been accepted in APSIPA ASC 2021.
 - 2021.6.2
 - A paper by master students is accepted by Interspeech 2021.
 - 2021.5.30
 - A master student Mingxin Zhang joined Medical Dialogue System for Automatic Diagnosis Competition at ICLR 2021 Workshop MLPCP, and ranked 6th among 73 in the challenge
 - 2021.1.30
 - A paper by master students is accepted by IEEE ICASSP.
 - 2020.11.3
 - A paper by master students is accepted by IEEE SLT.
 - 2020.10.12
 - A paper by a master student is accepted by ICPR.
 - 2020.9.1
 - Released spoken laguage acquisition agent toolkit (Spolacq).
 - 2020.7.26
 - Four papers by master's and doctoral students are accepted by Interspeech.
 - 2020.4.7
 - Made a SIR model based disease spread process simulation web page.
 - 2020.3
 - A paper by undeargrad and master students is accepted by IEEE CEC.
 - 2020.1
 - A paper by master students is accepted by IEEE ICASSP.
 - 2019.9
 - A paper by a master student is accepted by IEEE ASRU.
 - 2019.8
 - A paper by master students is accepted by APSIPA.
 - 2019.2
 - A paper by a research student is accepted by IEEE ICASSP. This is a joint work with a neuroscientist to optimize a brain model.
 - 2018.12
 - A paper by master students is accepted by DSTC7. It is about a dialogue system that combines image and audio inputs with a dialogue history.
 - 2018.9
 - A paper by formar master students is accepted to IEEE Trans. ASLP. The work was conducted when they were students.
 - 2018.8
 - Two papers are accepted for APSIPA 2018. One is by an undergraduate student, and the other is by master students.
 - 2018.6
 - Takahiro Shinozaki obtained IEICE-ISS Distinguished Achievement and Contributions Award
 - 2018.6
 - Students tried automatic speech recognition of the "Yanny or Laurel" sound using the Chime 5 system. The result was "laurel's". ("laurel" is not in the recognition dictionary).
 - 2018.6
 - A student from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology is visiting for a summer program.
 - 2018.4
 - Gave a presentation at IEEE ICASSP 2018.
 - 2017.12
 - An undergraduate student gave a presentation at IEEE ASRU.
 - 2017.12
 - A master student gave a presentation at IWSLT.
 - 2017.12
 - Research students Bairong et al. published their work on DSTC6.
 - 2017.11
 - Hosted a student from The University of Melbourne as a winter program. She worked on machine translation. (2017.11-2018.2)
 - 2017.6,7
 - Panida Wiriyachaiporn and Sirawit Onpraphai from Thailand stayed our lab for two months as visiting students. Panida (Chulalongkorn University) worked on a Thai singing-voice speech synthesis system, Sirawit (Chiang Mai University) worked on an end-to-end speech recognition system.
 - 2017.3
 - Tomohiro Tanaka, a master student, received an excellent student presentation award from the Acoustic Society of Japan.
 - 2016.10
 - Uploaded slides for invited talk at SP October meeting. (CSJ recipe for Kaldi)
 - 2016.10
 - Uploaded slides for invited talk at GTC2016 conference. (Evolutionary optimization of ASR systems)
 - 2016.10
 - Tomohiro Tanaka, a master student, received an excellent student presentation award from the Acoustic Society of Japan.
 - 2016.9
 - Uploaded speech recognition lecture slides
 - 2016.8
 - Gave a lecture in a seminar held at Kyoto University
 - 2016.7
 - 
Attended Frederick Jelinex Memorial Summer Workshop
photo1photo2 - 2016.5
 - Updated Kaldi CSJ recipe.
 - 2016.4
 - Uploaded LSTM-LM meta-prameters optimized by evolutionary computation peformed on Tsubame super computer.
 - 2016.4
 - Remodeled the homepage following the education reform of Tokyo Tech.
 - 2016.3
 - Takafumi Moriya, a master student, received an excellent student presentation award from the Acoustic Society of Japan.
 - 2016.2
 - Tutorial materials for the Kaldi CSJ recipe is available (in Japanese).
 - 2015.11
 - Our proposal has been accepted for 2016 Jelinek Summer Workshop in Speech and Language Technology.
 - 2015.5.16
 - A Kaldi based recipe is released for Japanese large vocabulary spontaneous speech recognition using the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese (CSJ). The recipe is developed by a cooperation of our lab and Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab in the US. It is included in the official Kaldi package under egs/csj.
 
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