In this paper, we evaluate our previously proposed speakingaid system with voice conversion for laryngectomees. The proposed system employs a sound source unit generating extremely small signals to keep them from annoying other persons, and then it statistically converts articulated signals captured with a body-attached microphone into natural speech. We have so far shown the effectiveness of t...

In NTCIR-6, our Stage-1 results which consist of using old queries retrieving on a different old collection, were not official because of late submission. Stage-2 submissions, which consists of repeating previous experiments, were on time. These NTCIR-6 experiments were conducted as new without referring to any previous knowledge about the runs. Comparisons with old results however were less fa...

In this study, targets were nonsense sentences spoken by a Chinese female, and maskers were nonsense sentences spoken by other 1, 2, 3, or 4 Chinese females. All stimuli were presented by two spatially separated loudspeakers. Using the precedence effect, manipulation of the delay between the two loudspeakers for the masker determined whether the target and masker were perceived as coming from t...

In this second volume of Professor Needham's proposed eight-volume treatise on Chinese science and civilization, he describes in extensive and loving detail the philosophical background against which the specific sciences in China developed. In the first part, Confucianism, Taoism, Mohism and Legalism are analyzed with special attention being paid to the implications of these philosophies for w...