Acoustic Information Science,
Akagi and Unoki Laboratory

The work of Akagi Lab. is speech signal processing and modeling of the speech perception mechanism of humans. Humans have superior speech recognition ability such as recovery from co-articulation, noisy speech recognition, and normalization of individuality. It is believed that modeling these compensation mechanisms will produce tools applicable to co-articulation recovery or other problems in speech recognition, analysis and synthesis. To construct models which mimic human speech perception ability, not only engineering but also knowledge of physiology and/or psychology are required.