Arai Lab. presented numerous research findings at the Sixth Joint Meeting Acoustical Society of America and Acoustical Society of Japan, held from December 1st to 5th.
The titles of our presentations are below:
December 1st
Session: The History of Speech Communication Research
・T. Arai, “Two educational tools developed from history of speech communication research: Digital pattern playback and vocal-tract models”
Session: The Mechanical and Numerical Modeling of Speech Production from the Past to the Future
・T. Arai, “Mechanical modeling of speech production: Learning from the past and going beyond”
December 2nd
Session: Musical Acoustics Performance Practice I
・Y. Muto, S. Tsuji and T. Arai, “Effects of reverberation on string instrument performance: A preliminary experiment using markerless motion capture”
Session: Degraded Speech Perception and its Modeling (Cosponsors: PP)
・H. Tsujita and T. Arai, “Split and filtered: Intelligibility effects of band-dependent modulation cutoffs”
Session: Visualizing Articulation of L1 and L2: Part 1
・A. Mizoguchi, M. Shimizu, M. Morimoto, W. Li and T. Arai, “The tongue position and gestural timing of palatalized /p/ in Japanese”
Session: Visualizing Articulation of L1 and L2: Part 2
・T. Arai, “Visualizing articulation in speech production with physical models of human vocal tract”
Session: Degraded Speech Modeling and Visualizing Articulation (Poster Session) (Cosponsors: PP)
・W. Li, A. Mizoguchi, M. Morimoto and T. Arai, “An acoustic and articulatory study on the acquisition of Japanese plosive consonants by native Standard Chinese-speaking learners of Japanese”
・M. Morimoto, A. Mizoguchi, W. Li and T. Arai, “L2 acquisition of tongue-raising gesture duration for Japanese geminate /t/: Ultrasound data from native speakers of Standard Chinese”
・S. Tsuji and T. Arai, “People with longstanding unilateral hearing loss shifted their cue weighting toward high-frequency components for speech perception particularly in reverberant environments”
・R. Hayashi, S. Tsuji, Y. Hioka, C. T. Justine Hui and T. Arai, “Evaluating the ability of modified binaural short-time objective intelligibility to detect spatial release from masking”
December 3rd
Session: Music Data Science
・K. Ueda, S. Tsuji and T. Arai, “Effect of reverberation time on the accuracy of keeping tempo in drum performance”
Session: Speech and the Individual: Acquisition, Aging, Bilingualism, and More (Poster Session)
・T. Kawai, S. Tsuji, W. Li and T. Arai, “Effects of speech styles and acoustic environments with noise and reverberation on the production of voiced and voiceless Japanese stops”
December 4th
Session: Acoustic Demonstration Session
・T. Arai, “Acoustic demonstrations of speech production”
Session: Speech Perception (Poster Session)
・S. Matsumoto, M. Sato, S. Tsuji, T. Arai, T. Sugimoto, K. Kinoshita and Y. Nakayama, “Perception of speaker’s facing direction: A comparison between binaural and mono recordings”
・Y. Sugiyama, C. T. Justine Hui and T. Arai, “The effect of lexical accent and downstep in perceiving Japanese pitch accent”
December 5th
Session: Education in acoustics
・T. Arai, “Let’s learn how we produce our voice by making your own speaking device”
Session: Speech Production: Acoustics (Poster Session)
・M. Kasuya and T. Arai, “Interaction between final /t/ weakening and prosodic factors in German: Effects of accent and utterance boundary”
Session: Speech Articulation, Methods, and Tools (Poster Session)
・K. Kamada, S. Tsuji and T. Arai, “Developing synchronous source generation for PC-controlled Umeda-Teranishi’s vocal-tract model”
・C. Kawabata, S. Tsuji and T. Arai, “Mechanical model of lips with a loudspeaker mimicking human speech production”
You can find further details of the meeting here.
(Updated on 2026/01/12)