The Acoustical Society of Japan 2023 Spring Meeting was held from the 15th March to the 17th March. We had presentations for speech communication, education in acoustics, and special sessions from Arai Lab.
The topics of our presentations are below:
March 15th
Session: Speech communication
・K. Takeuchi, N. Aoki, T. Arai, K. Suzuki, H. Seki, W. Hata, and K. Yasu, “Hearing Impairment Clinical and Auditory psychology”
・S. Tsuji and T. Arai, “Those with longstanding unilateral hearing loss indicate some improvement in release from masking of reverberation and spatial release from masking under reverberation for speech recognition comparing monaural listeners with normal hearing”
Session: Special session [modalities of communication]
・T. Arai, “Perception of geminate consonants and modality in Japanese”
March 16th
Session: Speech communication
・W. Li, M. Morimoto, A. Mizoguchi, and T. Arai, “Japanese voicing contrast in word-medial plosives produced by native speakers and comparison with Chinese-native Japanese learners”
・M. Morimoto, W. Li, A. Mizoguchi, and T. Arai, “Durational characteristics of Japanese geminates produced by speakers of Standard Chinese: The effect of pitch accent type”
・T. Kawai, E. Osawa, A. Mizoguchi, and T. Arai, “Identification of /ba/-/wa/ in reverberant environments with synthesized continuum by changing formant transitions”
・T. Arai, “Physical models of the human vocal tract at a special exhibition of the National Museum of Ethnology, Japan and a related workshop activity”
Session: Special session [sport and sound]
・S. Tsuji and T. Arai, “Those with unilateral hearing loss require more sound pressure of melody than binaural listeners to hear out a melody from accompaniment: Investigation of the effect of reverberation and spatial release from masking”
March 17th
Session: Education in acoustics
・K. Takeuchi, N. Aoki, T. Arai, K. Suzuki, H. Seki, W. Hata, and K. Yasu, “Attempt to make it “usable acoustics””
(Updated on 2023/03/17)