Publications in 2001

  1. N. Warner and T. Arai, “Japanese Mora-Timing: A Review,” Phonetica, Vol. 58, pp. 1-25, 2001.
    [Abstract] [PDF (156 kB)]
  2. N. Warner and T. Arai, “The role of the mora in the timing of spontaneous Japanese speech,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 109, No. 3, pp. 1144-1156, 2001.
    [Abstract] [PDF (103 kB)]
  3. Y. Murahara, K. Sakamoto, H. Kanai and T. Arai, “Estimation of the propagation time of pulse waves by closing an extremity illiac artery with a cuff,” Japanese Journal of Medical Electronics and Biological Engineering, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 1-8, 2001 (in Japanese).
    [Abstract] [PDF (624 kB)]
  4. Y. Murahara, K. Sakamoto, H. Kanai and T. Arai, “Estimation of the arterial stenosis by means of blood pressure waveform,” Japanese Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 99-104, 2001 (in Japanese).
    [Abstract] [PDF (441 kB)]
  5. N. Kanedera, T. Arai and T. Funada, “Robust automatic speech recognition emphasizing important modulation spectrum,” IEICE Trans. on Information and Communication Engineers, Vol. J84-D-II, No. 7, pp. 1261-1269, 2001 (in Japanese).
    [Abstract] [PDF (410 kB)]
  6. T. Arai, “The replication of Chiba and Kajiyama’s mechanical models of the human vocal cavity,” Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 31-38, 2001.
    [Abstract] [PDF (537 kB)]
  7. M. Komatsu, K. Mori, T. Arai and Y. Murahara, “Human language identification with reduced segmental information: Comparison between monolinguals and bilinguals,” Proc. of the European Conf. on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech), Vol. 1, pp. 149-152, Aalborg, 2001.
    [Abstract] [PDF (57 kB)]
  8. M. Komatsu, S. Tokuma, W. Tokuma and T. Arai, “Modelling the perceptual identification of Japanese consonants from LPC cepstral distances,” Proc. of the European Conf. on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech), Vol. 1, pp. 391-394, Aalborg, 2001.
    [Abstract] [PDF (78 kB)]
  9. S. Greenberg and T. Arai, “The relation between speech intelligibility and the complex modulation spectrum,” Proc. of the European Conf. on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech), Vol. 1, pp. 473-476, Aalborg, 2001.
    [Abstract] [PDF (267 kB)]
  10. Y. Momomura, K. Okada, T. Arai, N. Kanedera and Y. Murahara, “Using the modulation complex wavelet transform for feature extraction in automatic speech recognition,” Proc. of the European Conf. on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech), Vol. 4, pp. 2639-2642, Aalborg, 2001.
    [Abstract] [PDF (322 kB)]
  11. T. Arai, N. Usuki and Y. Murahara, “Prototype of a vocal-tract model for vowel production designed for education in speech science,” Proc. of the European Conf. on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech), Vol. 4, pp. 2791-2794, Aalborg, 2001.
    [Abstract] [PDF (216 kB)]
  12. N. Warner and T. Arai, “Accentual phrase rises as a cue to word boundaries,” Meeting Handbook of the Linguistic Society of America, p. 95, Washington, D.C., 2001.
    [Abstract] [PDF (40 kB)]
  13. Y. Murahara, K. Sakamoto, H. Kanai and T. Arai, “A study on the estimating of a stenosis by wave reflection,” Japanese Journal of Medical Electronics and Biological Engineering, Vol. 39, Suppl., p. 411, 2001 (in Japanese).
    [Abstract] [PDF (85 kB)]
  14. Y. Murahara, K. Sakamoto, H. Kanai and T. Arai, “Myaku-ha ni yoru kekkan-joutai no suitei,” Japanese Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol. 31, Suppl., p. 97, 2001 (in Japanese).
    [Abstract] [PDF (61 kB)]
  15. T. Arai, N. Warner and S. Greenberg, “Analysis of spontaneous Japanese in OGI Multi-Language Telephone-Speech Corpus,” Proc. Spring Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., Vol. 1, pp. 361-362, 2001 (in Japanese).
    [Abstract] [PDF (161 kB)]
  16. N. Usuki, T. Arai and Y. Murahara, “Prototype of vocal-tract models for education in acoustics of vowel production,” Proc. Spring Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., Vol. 1, pp. 399-400, 2001 (in Japanese).
    [Abstract] [PDF (164 kB)]
  17. T. Ishida, T. Arai and Y. Murahara, “Analysis of environmental noises using the modulation spectrum,” Proc. Spring Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., Vol. 1, pp. 617-618, 2001 (in Japanese).
    [Abstract] [PDF (139 kB)]
  18. Y. Momomura, T. Arai, K. Okada, N. Kanedera and Y. Murahara, “Using the modulation complex Wavelet transform for robust feature extraction in automatic speech recognition,” Proc. Autumn Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., Vol. 1, pp. 165-166, 2001 (in Japanese).
    [Abstract] [PDF (171 kB)]
  19. N. Saika, T. Arai, S. Imatomi, Y. Murahara and M. Kato, “Synthesis of hypernasal voice by manipulating spectral envelopes and its effect on hoarseness,” Proc. Autumn Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., Vol. 1, pp. 361-362, 2001 (in Japanese).
    [Abstract] [PDF (111 kB)]
  20. N. Usuki, M. Yoshida, Hasan A. Alwi, T. Arai and Y. Murahara, “Usefulness of a mechanical model of the human vocal tract for education in speech science: Perturbation theory in vowel production,” Proc. Autumn Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., Vol. 1, pp. 403-404, 2001 (in Japanese).
    [Abstract] [PDF (180 kB)]
  21. T. Arai, K. Kinoshita, N. Hodoshima, A. Kusumoto and T. Kitamura, “Effects of suppressing steady-state portions of speech on intelligibility in reverberant environments,” Proc. Autumn Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., Vol. 1, pp. 449-450, 2001 (in Japanese).
    [Abstract] [PDF (179 kB)]
  22. A. Masaki, M. Takasawa and T. Arai, “Akzentwahrnehmung von Japanern bei technisch kontrollierten F0-Konturen,” Sophia Linguistica, No. 48, pp. 213-224, 2001 (in German).
    [Abstract] [PDF (634 kB)]