Publications

Murai, Kitamura, Kawamura, Gamification of Tube Phonation: A Feasibility Study for Voice Therapy Practice, Journal of Voice (accepted).

Jing Sun, Tatsuya Kitamura, Ryoko Hayashi, Extraction of speech organ contours from ultrasound and real-time MRI data using DeepLabCut, Acoustical Science and Technology, 46(4), 338-344 (2025).

• DLC model for tongue extraction from ultrasound images

Sun, Kitamura, Hayashi, Nota, Yamane, Ultrasound measurement of relative tongue size and its correlation with tongue mobility for healthy individuals , JASA Express Letters, 5, 065201 (2025).

Kitamura, Oyama, Sun, Hayashi, Kymograph-based indicator for assessing articulatory motion in repetitive speech production, Acoustical Science and Technology, 46(2), 167-172 (2025).

Lu, Kitamura, Acoustic-to-Articulatory Inversion by Generative Artificial Intelligence and Fine-Tuning Techniques Using Generative Adversarial Networks, JSST 2024. [Student Poster Presentation Award] poster

Shimozaki, et al., Comparative Analysis with Multiple Large-Scale Language Models for Automatic Generation of Funny Dialogues, ERDSE (2024).

Shirose, Kitamura, Preliminary Investigation into Japanese Long Vowel Production: A Comparison between Children and Adults, Ultrafest XI (2024).

Kitamura, Nota, An Ultrasound Probe Headset Prototype with a Damper for Speech Research, Ultrafest XI (2024). poster

Yukiko Nota, Tatsuya Kitamura, Hironori Takemoto, Kikuo Maekawa, Mapping Palatal Shape to Electromagnetic Articulography Data: An Approach Using 3D Scanning and Sensor Matching, JASA Express Letters, 4, 015201 (2024). [letter]

Kawahara et al., Simultaneous Measurement of Multiple Acoustic Attributes Using Structured Periodic Test Signals Including Music and Other Sound Materials, APSIPA/ASA (2023).

Kawahara et al., Acoustic Measurement Framework for Audio Systems Based on Structured Periodic Test Signals, IEEE GCCE 2023.

Ryoji Oguro, Kazuhiro Omura, Norihiko Uchio, Norie Imagawa, Tatsuya Kitamura, Hironori Takemoto, Nobuyoshi Otori, Effects of increased nasal volume due to topical adrenaline on the voice, Journal of Voice (2023).

Tatsuya Kitamura, Vocal tract configuration during imitating voices: A case study for a professional impersonator, Acoustical Science and Technology, 44(5), 407-410 (2023).

Naoko Kawamura, Tatsuya Kitamura, Development and Evaluation of an Internet of Things Device and Social Networking Service-Based e-Health System for Home Practice of Straw Phonation, IALP2023.

Kawahara et al., Singing voice profiling toolbox with real-time interaction and its application to  make recording data reusable, SMAC/SMC2023 (2023).

Tatsuya Kitamura, Naoki Kunimoto, Hideki Kawahara, Shigeaki Amano, Perceptual Evaluation of Penetrating Voices through a Semantic Differential Method, Proc. INTERSPEECH 2022 (2022).

Kawahara et al., An objective test tool for pitch extractors' response attributes, Proc. INTERSPEECH 2022 (2022).

Zhao Zhang, Ju Zhang, Jianguo Wei, Kiyoshi Honda, Tatsuya Kitamura, Vocal-Tract Area Functions with Articulatory Reality for Tract Opening, Proc. INTERSPEECH 2022 (2022).

Kenta Hamada, Tatsuya Kitamura, Naoko Kawamura, Straw fighter: A gamification-based system for supporting vocal exercise by tube phonation, Proc. LifeTech 2021, 220-221 (2021).

Tomohiro UMETANI, Satoshi AOKI, Tatsuya KITAMURA, and Akiyo NADAMOTO: "System Integration for Component-Based Manzai Robots with Improved Scalability," Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 459 - 468, 2020. DOI: 10.20965/jrm.2020.p0459

Naoko Kawamura, Tatsuya Kitamura, Kenta Hamada, Smart Tube: A biofeedback system for vocal training and therapy through tube phonation, Proc. Interspeech 2020, 1011-1012 (2020).

Tomohiro Umetani, Satoshi Aoki, Tatsuya Kitamura, Akiyo Nadamoto, System Integration for Component-Based Manzai Robots with Scalability, Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, 32(2), 459-468 (2020). 

Kazuki HARAGUCHI, Satoshi AOKI, Tomohiro UMETANI, Tatsuya KITAMURA and Akiyo NADAMOTO: "Omotenashi Robots: Generating Funny Dialog Using Visitor Geographical Information," in Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems (NBis 2019) (Advances in Networked-based Information Systems, L. Barolli, H. Nishino, T. Enokido and M. Takizawa Eds., Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol. 1036, Springer), pp. 669 - 679, 2019. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-29029-0_66

Tatsuya Kitamura, Hisanori Makinae, Masashi Ito, Estimation of three-dimensional tongue shape from midsagittal tongue contour using regression models, IEICE Tech. Rep., SP2019-40, 67-72 (2019).

H. Takemoto, T. Goto, Y. Hagihara, S. Hamanaka, T. Kitamura, Y. Nota, K. Maekawa, Speech Organ Contour Extraction using Real-Time MRI and Machine Learning Method, Proc. of Interspeech 2019, 904–908 (2019).

Parham Mokhtari, Hiroaki Kato, Hironori Takemoto, Ryouichi Nishimura, Seigo Enomoto, Seiji Adachi, Tatsuya Kitamura, Further observations on a principal components analysis of head-related transfer functions, Scientific Reports, 9, 7477 (2019).

Ju Zhang, Kiyoshi Honda, Jianguo Wei, and Tatsuya Kitamura, Morphological characteristics of male and female hypopharynx: A magnetic resonance imaging-based study, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 145, 734 (2019).

Maho Morimoto, Tatsuya Kitamura, Geminated liquids in Japanese, ASA meeting (2018).

Tatsuya Kitamura, Ryo Nagata, Kotaro Funakoshi, Audio-visual teaching aid for instructing English stress timings, Memoirs of Konan University, Intelligent & Informatics Series, 11(1), 1-7 (2018).

Tatsuya Kitamura, Yukiko Nota, Michiko Hashi, Hiroaki Hatano, Replacement of sensor cables for reducing effects on articulation in the Northern Digital Incorporated's Wave electromagnetic articulography system, JASA Express Letters 143, EL154-EL159 (2018).

Hironori Takemoto, Parham Mokhtari, Tatsuya Kitamura, Complementary relationship between 1D and 3D acoustic analyses of the vocal tract, JAIST World Conference 2018 (2018).

Umetani, Kitamura, Nadamoto, Manzai Robots: Entertainment robots as passive media based on autocreated Manzai scripts from Web snews articles, Handbook of digital games and entertainment technologies, 1041-1068, Springer (2017).

Tatsuya Kitamura, Hironori Takemoto, Hisanori Makinae, Tetsutaro Yamaguchi, Kotaro Maki, Acoustic measurement of the transfer function of a solid model of the nasal and paranasal cavities, ISSP-2017 (2017).

Hironori Takemoto, Tatsuya Kitamura, Parham Mokhtari, Tetsutaro Yamaguchi, Kotaro Maki, [Invited talk] Three-dimensional acoustic analysis of the nasal and paranasal cavities, ISSP-2017 (2017).

Tatsuya Kitamura, Hironori Takemoto, Hisanori Makinae, Tetsutaro Yamaguchi, Kotaro Maki, Acoustic analysis of detailed three-dimensional shape of the human nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses, Proc. Interspeech2017, 3472-3476 (2017).

Satoshi Aoki, Tomohiro Umetani, Tatsuya Kitamura, Akiyo Nadamoto, Generating Manzai-scenario using entity mistake, The 6th International Workshop on Advances in Data Engineering and Mobile Computing (DEMoC-2017) (2017).

Tomohiro Umetani, Satoshi Aoki, Kazuhiro Akiyama, Ryo Mashimo, Tatsuya Kitamura, and Akiyo Nadamoto, Scalable Component-Based Manzai Robots as Automated Funny Content Generators, Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, Vol. 28, No. 6, pp. 862-869 (2016).

Ayako Shirose, Yukiko Nota, Tatsuya Kitamura, Preliminary study on physiological contrasts between long and short vowels in Japanese, ASA/ASJ joint meeting, 3111 (2016).

Yukiko Nota, Tatsuya Kitamura, Michiko Hashi, Hiroaki Hatano, Improvement of sensor for electromagnetic articulograpy to reduce detrimental effects of sensor attachment on articulation, ASA/ASJ joint meeting, 3115 (2016). poster

Tatsuya Kitamura, Hironori Takemoto, Hisanori Makinae, Tetsutaro Yamaguchi, Kotaro Maki, A preliminary acoustic analysis of three-dimensional shape of the human nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses extracted from cone-beam CT, ASA/ASJ joint meeting, 3223 (2016). poster

Ryo Mashimo, Tatsuya Kitamura, Tomohiko Umetani, Akiyo Nadamoto, Implicit communication robots based on automatic scenario generation using web intelligence, International Journal of Web Information Systems, 12, 3, 312-335 (2016).

Tatsuya Kitamura, Effects of Emotions on Configuration of the Speech Articulators, The Fourth Workshop of A3 Foresight Program, 2016. slide

Tomohiro Umetani, Tatsuya Kitamura, Akiyo Nadamoto, Manzai robots: Entertainment robots as passive-media based on auto-created manzai scripts from web news articles, Springer Handbook of Digital Games and Entertainment Technologies.

Ryo Mashimo, Tomohiro Umetani, Tatsuya Kitamura, Akiyo Nadamoto, Human-robots implicit communication based on dialogue between robots using automatic generation of funny scenarios from web, Proc. Human-Robot Interaction 2016.

Rongna A, Ryoko Hayashi, Tatsuya Kitamura, Crucial prosodic features in Japanese learners’ pronunciation: Evidence from naturalness judgments of synthetic speech, J. Phonet. Soc. Japan, 19, 3, 37-42 (2015).

R. Mashimo et al., Automatic Generation of Japanese Traditional Funny Scenario from Web Content based on Web Intelligence , iiWAS2015

Tomohiro Umetani, Satoshi Aoki, Kazuhiro Akiyama, Ryo Mashimo, Tatsuya Kitamura, Akiyo Nadamoto, Manzai sobot system with scalability based on distributed software components, 26th 2015 International Symposium on Micro-NanoMechatronics and Human Science (MHS2015)

Tatsuya Kitamura, Keisuke Ohtani, Non-contact measurement of facial surface vibration patterns during singing by scanning laser Doppler vibrometer, Frontiers in Psychology, section Performance Science (2015).

Tatsuya Kitamura, An editing system with a word-level identification function for adjustment sentence difficulty, Construction of digital resources for learning Japanese (2015). slide

Tatsuya Kitamura, Keisuke Ohtani, Measurement of vibration on foreheads of soprano singers during singing, International Symposium on Performance Science (2015).

Tatsuya Kitamura, Yukiko Nota, Michiko Hashi, Hiroaki Hatano, Improvement of five-degree-of-freedom sensors for Northern Digital Incorporated's Wave speech research system, Acoustical Science and Technology, 36, 4, 347-350 (2015).

Ryo Mashimo, Tomohiro Umetani, Tatsuya Kitamura, Akiyo Nadamoto, Generating Funny Dialogue between Robots based on Japanese Traditional Comedy Entertainment, IE2014 (2014)

(Development report) Tomohiro Umetani, Ryo Mashimo, Akiyo Nadamoto, Tatsuya Kitamura, Hirotaka Nakayama, Manzai robots: Entertainment robots based on auto-created Manzai scripts from web news articles, Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, 26, 5, 662-664 (2014).

Kanae Amino, Hisanori Makinae, Tatsuya Kitamura, Nasality in Speech and Its Contribution to Speaker Individuality, Proc. Interspeech2014, 1688-1692 (2014)

Hideki Kawahara, Tatsuya Kitamura, Hironori Takemoto, Ryuichi Nisimura, Toshio Irino, Vocal tract length estimation based on vowels using a database consisting of 385 speakers and a database with MRI-based vocal tract shape information, Proc. Interspeech2014, 870-874 (2014)

Hironori Takemoto, Parham Mokhtari, Tatsuya Kitamura, Comparison of vocal tract transfer functions calculated using one-dimensional and three-dimensional acoustic simulation methods, Proc. Interspeech2014, 408-412 (2014)

Tatsuya Kitamura, Kaede Tanijiri, Saya Kanazawa, Yoshiko Kawamura, Appearance frequency of idiomatic phrase in fixed-length tag set of BCCWJ corpus, ICJLE2014 (2014). poster

Hironori Takemoto, Seiji Adachi, Parham Mokhtari, Tatsuya Kitamura, Acoustic interaction between the right and left piriform fossae in generating spectral dips, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134, 4, 2965-2974 (2013).

Rongna A, Ryoko Hayashi, Tatsuya Kitamura, Naturalness on Japanese pronunciation before and after shadowing training and prosody modified stimuli, Proceedings of SLaTE2013, 143-146 (2013).

Masako Fujimoto, Tatsuya Kitamura, Hiroaki Hatano, Ichiro Fujimoto, Timing differences in articulation between voiced and voiceless stop consonants: An analysis of cine-MRI data, Proceedings of Interspeech2013, 955-958 (2013).

Ryoko Hayashi, Hironori Nakae, Tatsuya Kitamura, Wie kann man die gerundeten Vokale besser aussprechen?: Beobachtungen der Vokalartikulation im Deutschen durch MRI-Movies und High-Speed-Kamera, Internationaler Tagung der Deutschlehrer (2013).

Tatsuya Kitamura, Hiroaki Hatano, Takeshi Saitou, Yui Shimokura, Eri Haneishi, Hiroko Kishimoto, Pilot study of vibration pattern measurement for facial surface during singing by using scanning vibrometer, Proceedings of SMAC2013 (2013) poster

Ryo Nagata, Kotaro Funakoshi, Tatsuya Kitamura, Mikio Nakano, A method for predicting stressed words in teaching materials for English jazz chants, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, E95-D(11), 2658-2663 (2012).

Ryosuke O. Tachibana, Tatsuya Kitamura, Masako Fujimoto, Differences in articulatory movement between voiced and voiceless stop consonants, Acoustical Science and Technology, 33, 6, 391-393 (2012).

Hiroaki Hatano, Tatsuya Kitamura, Hironori Takemoto, Parham Mokhtari, Kiyoshi Honda, Shinobu Masaki, Correlation between vocal tract length, body height, formant frequencies, and pitch frequency for the five Japanese vowels uttered by fifteen male speakers, Proceedings of Interspeech2012 (2012). poster

Hironori Takemoto, Kiyoshi Honda, Takeshi Saitou, Yosuke Tanabe, Hiroko Kishimoto, Tatsuya Kitamura, Changes in the vocal tract shape of sopranos at high pitch, Acoustics2012 (2012).

Tatsuya Kitamura, Measurement of vibration velocity pattern of facial surface during phonation using scanning vibrometer, Acoustical Science and Technology, 33, 2, 126-128 (2012).

Yosuke Tanabe, Parham Mokhtari, Hironori Takemoto, Tatsuya Kitamura, Simulation of the coupling between vocal-fold vibration and time-varying vocal tract, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 130, 4, 2441 (2011).

Tatsuya Kitamura, Hironori Nishimoto, Ichiro Fujimoto, Yasuhiro Shimada, Dental imaging using a magnetic resonance visible mouthpiece for measurement of vocal tract shape and dimension, Acoustical Science and Technology, 32, 5, 224-227 (2011).

Tsuyoshi Izumida, Tatsuya Kitamura, Study of perceptual factors for speaker identification focusing on perceptual similarity of speaker characteristics, Acoustical Science and Technology, 32, 5, 216-219 (2011).

Ryo Nagata, Toshiaki Marueki, Kotaro Funakoshi, Tatsuya Kitamura, Mikio Nakano, A method for predicting stressed words in English Jazz Chants, Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2011 Satellite Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, P2-3 (4 pages) (2011).

Hironori Takemoto, Seiji Adachi, Parham Mokhtari, Tatsuya Kitamura, Acoustic interaction between right and left piriform fossae, Proceedings of International Seminar of Speech Production 2011 (2011).

Tatsuya Kitamura, Tomonori Narishige, Development of plug-in for ImageJ to extract vocal tract area function, Proceedings of International Seminar of Speech Production 2011 (2011).

Sadao Hiroya, Tatsuya Kitamura, Generation of a vocal-tract MRI movie based on sparse sampling, Proceedings of International Seminar of Speech Production 2011 (2011).