Publications in 2012

    1. T.Arai, “Education in acoustics and speech science using vocal-tract models,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 131, No. 3, pp. 2444-2454, 2012.
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    2. K. Pek, T. Arai and N. Kanedera, “Voice activity detection in noise using modulation spectrum of speech: Investigation of speech frequency and modulation frequency ranges,” Acoustical Science and Technology, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 33-44, 2012.
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    3. K. Yasu, T. Arai, K. Kobayashi and M. Shindo, “Identification of voiceless fricatives/affricates by elderly listeners: Effect of degradation of auditory properties,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of Japan, Vol.68, No. 10, pp. 501-512, 2012 (in Japanese).
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    4. T. Arai, “Acoustic analysis of formant shifts in nasalized vowels,” Phonetician, No. 104-105, pp. 39-50, 2012.
    5. Y. Matsukaze, T. Arai, T. Suzuki and K. Yasu, “Evaluation of speech naturalness with steady-state zero padding for improving intelligibility in reverberant environments,” Acoustical Science and Technology, Vol. 33, No. 6, pp. 370-371, 2012.
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    6. T.Arai, “Foreword to the special issue on children’s speech,” Proc. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Japan,Vol.68-5, pp. 232-233, 2012. (in Japanese).
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    7. T. Arai, “Digital pattern playback for education in digital signal processing and speech science,” Proc. of the IEEE International Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 2769-2772, Kyoto, 2012.
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    8. N. Hodoshima and T. Arai, “Making speech announcements intelligible in public spaces from a speech production view,” Proc. of Acoustics, May 2012.
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    9. T. Arai, “Vowels produced by sliding three-tube model with different lengths,” Proc. of INTERSPEECH, Portland, 2012.
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    10. N. Hodoshima, T. Arai and K. Kurisu, “Intelligibility of speech spoken in noise/reverberation for older adults in reverberant environments,” Proc. of INTERSPEECH, Portland, 2012.
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    11. T. Arai, K. Amino, M. Sonu, K. Yasu, T. Igeta, K. Tomaru and M. Kasuya, “Hands-on speech science exhibition for children at a science museum,” Proc. of Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction, Portland, 2012.
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    12. K. Tomaru and T. Arai , “Effects of surrounding contexts on English /ra/-/la/ perception: For educational purposes,” Proc. Auditory Res. Meeting, The Acoustical Society of Japan, Vol. 42, No. 7, H-2012-107, pp. 591-596, Oct. 2012.
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    13. K. Tomaru and T. Arai, “Production variation of English schwa and Japanese listeners’ perceptual assimilation pattern of English schwa,” Proc. of the General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan, pp. 79-84, Sep. 2012.
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    14. P. Kimhuoch, T. Arai and N. Kanedera, “Voice activity detection in noisy environment by using modulation spectrum: Modulation frequency range using sentence corpus,” Proc. Spring Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn,, pp. 141-144, Mar. 2012.
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    15. H. Masuda and T. Arai, “Perception of /r/ and /l/ in quiet and multi-speaker babble noise by Japanese and English native listeners,” Proc. Spring Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn,, pp. 477-480, Mar. 2012.
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    16. T. Igeta, M. Sonu and T. Arai, “Acoustic characteristics in Korean vowel production by native speakers: Influence of proceeding consonants on vowel quality,” Proc. Spring Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn,, pp. 487-490, Mar. 2012 (in Japanese).
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    17. K. Tomaru and T. Arai, “Japanese listeners’ sensitivity to the difference between fricatives and affricates goes down as surrounding context gets linguistic,” Proc. Spring Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn,, pp. 519-522, Mar. 2012.
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    18. K. Kurisu, S. Nakamura, K. Yasu and T. Arai, “Signal to overlap-masking ratio of the transmitted speech and its listening difficulty: An application for an evaluation tool of sound system tuning,” Proc. Spring Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn,, pp. 1225-1226, Mar. 2012 (in Japanese).
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    19. S. Nakamura, K. Kurisu, K. Yasu and T. Arai, “Signal to overlap-masking ratio of the transmitted speech and its listening difficulty: Cases of various combinations of sound system and acoustic path,” Proc. Spring Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn,, pp. 1227-1228, Mar. 2012 (in Japanese).
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    20. T. Arai, “Applying the digital pattern playback to education in acoustics and signal processing engineering,” Proc. Spring Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn,, pp. 1467-1470, Mar. 2012 (in Japanese).
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    21. M. Kuno and T. Arai, “Phonetics and education in acoustics,” Proc. Spring Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn,, pp. 1541-1544, Mar. 2012 (in Japanese, Invited Talk ).
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    22. H. Masuda and T. Arai, “Perception of voiced English consonants in quiet and multi-speaker babble noise by Japanese and English native listeners,” Proc. Autumn Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 361-364, Sep. 2012.
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    23. M. Kasuya and T. Arai, “Pronunciation of German suffixes by Native Japanese Learners of German,” Proc. Autumn Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 365-368, Sep. 2012 (in Japanese).
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    24. T. Igeta, M. Sonu and T. Arai, “Perception of vowels by speakers of the Seoul dialect of Korean: Perceptual effects of preceding consonants,” Proc. Autumn Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 369-372, Sep. 2012 (in Japanese).
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    25. K. Tomaru, T. Arai, “English speakers’ perception of synthesized /ra/-/la/ continua with the same range of formant transition starting from different formant values, ” Proc. Autumn Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 445-448, Sep. 2012. (Student Presentation Award)
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    26. K. Yasu, T. Arai, K. Kobayashi and M. Shindo, “Identifying specific characteristics of hearing impairments to predict miss-identification of voiceless fricatives/affricates by elderly listeners,” Proc. Autumn Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 503-506, Sep. 2012 (in Japanese).
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    27. Y. Kawashima, T. Arai and K. Yasu, “Improving speech intelligibility in reverberant environments using a zero padding technique as a preprocess: Changing length of zeros inserted between moras or phrases,” Proc. Autumn Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 831-834, Sep. 2012 (in Japanese).
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    28. T. Sannohe, T. Arai and K. Yasu, “Creating masker using a database in a sound masking system,” Proc. Autumn Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 1243-1246, Sep. 2012 (in Japanese).
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    29. T. Iwanami, T. Arai and K. Yasu, “Effects of vocabulary selection on speech masker in sound masking system,” Proc. Autumn Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 1247-1250, Sep. 2012 (in Japanese).
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    30. K. Kurisu, S. Nakamura, K. Yasu and T. Arai, “Broadcasted speeches in various acoustic conditions and their SOR (Signal to Overlap-masking Ratio),” Proc. Autumn Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 1251-1252, Sep. 2012 (in Japanese).
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    31. T. Arai, “Sensing and experiencing sound resonance through tactile,” Proc. Autumn Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 1651-1654, Sep. 2012 (in Japanese).
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