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  December	The 94th research meeting of SIG-SLP Date: Dec.20th-21st, 2012 Location: Tokyo Institute of Technology (Meguro-ku, Tokyo) Takuya Hiraoka and Yuki Yamauchi (above M2) gave presentations.
  Workshop on Frontiers in Speech and Language Technologies and Their Applications Dec. 11th-12th, 2012 Location: Hefei, China title"Statistical voice conversion and its real-time applications" Associate Prof. Tomoki Toda gave an invited presentation.
  Oriental COCOSDA 2012 Dec. 9th-12th, 2012 Location: Macau, China Auliya Sani(intern student, Jun-Aug 2012) gave a presentaion, and won the Best Student Paper Award!
  The 8th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP) Dec. 5th-8th, 2012 Location: Hong Kong, China title"Statistical approach to voice conversion and its applications for augmented human communication" Associate Prof. Tomoki Toda gave a tutorial.
  IWSLT (the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation) 2012 Date: Dec. 6th-7th, 2012 Location: HongKong, China Assisstant Prof. Graham Neubig, Keigo Kubo(D2), Takatomo Kano(M2), and Hiroaki Shimizu(M1) gave presentations.
  APSIPA ASC 2012 Date: Dec.3rd-6th, 2012 Location: Hollywood, USA Hironori Doi(D3) gave a presentation, and won the Best Paper Award!
  CogInfoCom 2012 (3rd IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications) Date: Dec. 2nd-5th, 2012 Location: Kosice, Slovakia Hiroki Tanaka (D1) gave a presentation.
  Norvember	ACNS(Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society) 2012 Date：Nov. 29th - Dec. 2nd, 2012 Location：Brisbane, Australia Yu Odagaki(M2) gave a presentation［Abstract］
  	IWSDS(International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System) 2012 Date: Nov. 28th-30th, 2012 Location: Ermenonville, France Lasguido(intern students, Jun-Aug 2012) gave a presentation. [Poster]
  	Autumn Open Campus Date: Nov. 10th, 2012 Thank you for coming all the way!
  	IEICE: Meeting of Speech Comitee (SP) Date: Nov. 8th-9th Location: Tohoku Institute of Technology (Sendai-shi, Miyagi) Tatsuo Inukai, Takuto Moriguchi, and Shinnosuke Takamichi (above MC2) gave presentations.
  	Visit (from Sendai National College of Technology) Date: Nov. 7th, 2012 The students of Sendai National College of Technology visit our lab.
  October	Tutorial on HMM-based statistical speech synthesis in Workshop at Shanghai Jiao Tong University Date: Oct. 25th-26th, 2012 Location: Shanghai, China Asscociate Prof. Toda gave a tutorial presentation.
  	ICSP(International Conference on Signal Processing) 2012 Date: Oct. 21st-25th, 2012 Location: Beijing, China Asscociate Prof. Toda gave a special invited presentation.
  September	Innovation Japan 2012 Date: Sep. 27th-28th, 2012 Location: Tokyo International Forum (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo) Asscociate Prof. Toda gave a display presentation. (The then Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Hirano has also visited.)
  	Visitors Date: Sep. 20th, 2012 Prof. Chan Lee Mun, President of Singapore Nanyan Polytechnic, Prof. Thambyrajah T, and Dr. Kenji Taniguchi, President of Nara National College of Technology visited our lab.
  	The Autumn Annual Meeting of Acoustical Society of Japan Date: September 19th-21st, 2012 Location: Shinshu University Nagano Campus (Nagano-shi, Nagano) Shinnosuke Takamichi, Takuto Moriguchi, Tatsuo Inukai, Takuya Hiraoka, Yuki Yamauchi, Takatomo Kano, and Hironori Doi gave presentations.
  	The 35th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society Date: September 18th-21st, 2012 Location: Nagoya Congress Center (Nagoya-shi, Aichi) Yu Odagaki (M2) gave a poster presentation. Handout and Poster(PDF file)
  	INTERSPEECH 2012 Date: September 10th-13th, 2012 Location: Portland, Oregon, USA Associate Prof. Tomoki Toda, Keigo Kubo (D2), Shinnosuke Takamichi (M2) gave presentations.
  	New Technology Presentation Meeting Date: September 7th, 2012 Location: Campus Innovation Center Tokyo (Minato-ku, Tokyo) Presentaion Title: Speech Enhancement Techniques for Silent Speech Communication Associate Prof. Tomoki Toda gave a presentation.
  August	***AWARD*** August 11th, 2012 Our PhD Student, Hironori Doi, won the Best Presentation Award in the 96th IPSJ Special Interest Group on MUSic and computer (SIGMUS) conference! The Abstract of IPSJ-SIGMUS (in Japanese) *The following links are links to each Ustream Movie (All movies are in Japanese). Doi-san's Presentation (Special Session) Lecture by Associate Prf. Toda(1) (Special Session) Lecture by Associate Prf. Toda(2) Award Celemony for The Best Presenter
  	Visitors August 8th, 2012 NARASIA SCHOOL students visited our lab. We provided our research demo on speech translation and speech synthesis.
  July	Visitors July 24th, 2012 Dr. Ntsika Msimang and Mr. Fulufhelo Vincent Nelwamondo, CSIR, South Africa as well as Mr. Cecil B. Masoka, Minister-Counsellor, Science and Technology, and Mr. Daisuke Tanaka, Information Liasion Officer, Science and Technology, South African Embassy in Japan, visited our lab. *South Africa CSIR：http://www.csir.co.za/
  	Visitors July 23rd, 2012 Prof. Masato Akagi, School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and President of the Acoustical Society of Japan as well as Prof. Tetsuo Asano, Dean of School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology visited our lab.
  	The 92nd SIG-SLP Conference (SIG-SLP) Date: July 19th-21st, 2012 Location: Tendo-onsen Taki-no-yu（Tendo-shi, Yamagata） Shinnosuke Takamichi (M2) joined the SIG-SLP conference.
  June	Visitors 19-20 June, 2012 Dr. Yamagishi and Dr. Oliver Watts, Edinburgh University, visited our laboratory. We provided our research demo and Dr. Watts provided a talk on his research. ★See Also HERE (Mainichi News Paper/Japanese Page)
  	Visitors 13 June, 2012 US Air Force cadets visited our lab. Toda-sensei and Graham-sensei presented a brief introduction on speech translation and voice conversion technology.
  May	Award Prof. Nakamura received the Antonio Zampolli Prize at LREC 2012! ★See Also HERE (NAIST's Website/Japanese Page)
  March	2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Date: March 25-30th, 2012 Location: Kyoto Prof. Nakamura and Associate Prof. Toda has been working as the organizing comittee of ICASSP 2012! Micheal Heck Presentation
  February	Toshiba Recruitments Date: February 6th, 2012 Tachibana-san and Ohtani-san, NAIST graduates who work for Toshiba, visited our lab for recruiting NAIST students.

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