Hiroya
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Professor Emeritus
Mailing address: 3-31-12 Ebisu, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, 150-0013 Japan
Email address: fujisaki@alum.mit.edu
Phone/Fax: +81-3-3444-1851
Mobile: +81-90-3248-8423
Research Areas
Current Research Program
Brief Biography
Education and Professional Career: BS, MS,
PhD from University of Tokyo; Fulbright Scholar at MIT ('58 -'61), Guest
Researcher at KTH ('60) Joined the Faculty of Engineering, University of
Tokyo ('62), Full Professor at EE Dept. ('73 - '91), serving twice as Chairman,
Also Professor of Speech Science, Graduate School of Medicine ('74 -'77)
and Lecturer, Dept. of Linguistics, Graduate School of Humanities ('64-'91)
Prof. Emeritus, University of Tokyo ('91- present);
Professor, Tokyo University of Science ('91- '06)
Visiting Professorship: U. Texas, Austin, U.S.('80);
KTH, Stockholm, Sweden ('81), U. Goettingen, Germany ('81),.Nanjing University,
Nanjing, China ('85-'86), University of Science and Technology of China,
Hefei, China ('87-'91).
Project Leader, the Japanese
National Project on Advanced Human-Machine Interface Through Spoken Language
('87-'91)
Project Leader, the Japanese 'Research-for-the-Future'
Project on Human-Machine Spoken Dialogue Systems ('96-'00)
General Chairman, IEEE-ASJ International Conference
on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP-86) ('86)
Founder and Chairman, the International Conference
on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP) ('90)
Member, the Permanent Council for the Organization
of ICPhS ('79 - present)
Life Member, the Permanent Council for the Organization
of ICSLP ('92-present)
Member, ISCA Board ('00-'07), Life Member, International
Advisory Council of ISCA ('04- )
President, the MIT Association
of Japan ('82 - '90)
President, the Boston Association of Japan ('97
-'99)
Vice President, the Japan-China Science and Technology
Exchange Association ('03 - present)
Fellowships and Memberships of Academic Societies, etc.
Fellow, Acoustical Society of America,
Fellow, Institute of Electroincs, Information
and Communication Engineers,
Life Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers,
Honorary Member, Acoustical Society of Japan,
Member, Engineering Academy of Japan,
Corresponding Member, Goettingen Academy of Sciences
Recent Publications and Speeches
- The Roles of Models in Speech Communication Research (Invited Paper for the Special Session in Honor of Manfred Schroeder), Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 120, no. 5, p. 3100 (November 2006).
- The Command-Response Model for F0 Contours and its Application to Phonetics and Phonology of Tone, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 120, no. 5, p. 3086 (November 2006).
- Spoken Language Processing - Its Goals, Problems and Prospects (Invited Plenary Speech), The 8th International Conference on Signal Processing,, Guilin, China (November 2006).
- History of the Committee on Speech Research and Related Activites in Japan (Invited Speech in Japanese), Meeting of the Committee on Speech Research of the ASJ/IEICE, Tsukuba, Japan (November 2006).
- Modeling the Effects of Emphasis and Question on Fundamental Frequency Contours of Cantonese Utterances, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 14, pp. 1155 -1170 (July 2006).
- The Roles of Physiology, Physics and Mathematics in Modeling Prosodic Features of Speech (Invited Paper), Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2006, Dresden, Germany (May 2006).
- The Roles of a Generative Model in the Study of Tonal Features of Speech (Keynote Speech), TAL 2006. La Rochelle, France (April 2006).
- Some Issues in Intelligent Processing of Linguistic Information (Keynote Paper), Proceedings of SNLP 2005, Chiang Rai, Thailand (December 2005).
- The Interplay Between Physiology, Physics and Phonetics in the Production of Tonal Features of Speech of Various Languages (Invited Paper), Proceedings of 10th Internatioanl Conference on Speech and Computer, Patras, Greece (October 2005).
- Analysis and Synthesie of Fundamental Frequency Contours of Standard Chinese Using the Command-Response Model, Speech Communication, vol. 47, pp. 59- 70 (September/October 2005).
- The Melodic Features of Speech -- Interplay Between Phonetics, Physiology and Physics -- (Invited Speech), Workshop in Honor of Prof. Maa Dah-You in Celebration of his 90th Birthday, Beijing, China (February 2005).
- Industry-Academia Interaction in Japan for Development of Technologies in Speech and Language Processing (Invited Paper), Proceedings of International Conference on Speech and Language Systems for Human Communication, New Delhi, India (November 2004).,
- Problems and Prospects of Spoken Language Processing (Invited Paper), Proceedings of International Conference on Speech and Language Systems for Human Communication, New Delhi, India (November 2004).
- Modeling the Process of Speech Production as a Method for Elucidating the Underlying Phonological Structure (Invited Speech), Conference on Methods in Phonology (in Honor of John Ohala), Berkeley, CA (May 2004).
- Retrospects and Prospects of Speech Communication Research (Invited Paper), Proceedings of ICA 2004, Kyoto, Japan (April 2004).
- From Traditional Phonology to Modern Speech Processing (G. Fant, H. Fujisaki, J. Cao and Y. Xu, editors), Festschrift for Prof. Zong-ji Wu in Celebration of his 95th Birthday, Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, Beijing, China (April 2004).
- Analysis and Synthesis of Fundamental Frequency Contours of Speech of Some Tone Languages Based on the Command-Response Model (Invited Paper), Proceedings of TAL 2004, Beijing, China (March 2004).
- Information, Prosody, and Modeling (Invited Keynote Paper), Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2004, Nara, Japan (March 2004).
- Models in Speech Communication Research (Invited Speech), Special Workshop in Maui - Masters in Speech Processing - , Maui, Hawaii (January 2004).