Co-Chairs

• Yoshinori Sagisaka, Waseda Univ., Japan
• Keiichi Tokuda, Nagoya Inst. of Tech., Japan

Local Organizing Committee

• Committee Chair
  • Hisashi Kawai, NICT, Japan
• Committee Members
  • Takehiko Kagoshima, Toshiba, Japan
  • Shinsuke Sakai, NICT, Japan
  • Yoshinori Shiga, NICT, Japan
  • Tomoki Toda, NAIST, Japan
  • Yoichi Yamashita, Ritsumeikan Univ., Japan

Advisory Committee

• Gerard Bailly, CNRS/INPG, France
• Alan Black, CMU, USA
• Nick Campbell, Univ. of Dublin, Ireland
• Rolf Carlson, KTH, Sweden
• Thierry Dutoit, Univ. of Mons, Belgium
• Wolfgang Hess, Univ. of Bonn, Germany
• Keikichi Hirose, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
• Julia Hirschberg, Columbia Univ., USA
• Mari Ostendorf, Univ. of Washington, USA
• Jan van Santen, OHSU, USA
• Juergen Schroeter, AT&T Labs, USA
• Minoru Tsuzaki, Kyoto City Univ. of Arts, Japan

Program Committee

• Committee Chair
  • Yoichi Yamashita, Ritsumeikan Univ., Japan
• Committee Members
  • Masami Akamine, Toshiba, Japan
  • Matthew Aylett, Cereproc, UK
  • Gerard Bailly, CNRS/INPG, France
  • Jerome Bellegarda, Apple, USA
  • Alan Black, CMU, USA
  • Andrew Breen, Nuance Communications, USA
  • Nick Campbell, Univ. of Dublin, Ireland
  • Alistair Conkie, AT&T Labs, USA
  • Thierry Dutoit, Univ. of Mons, Belgium
  • Raul Fernandez, IBM, USA
  • Simon King, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK
  • Takao Kobayashi, Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan
  • Bernd Moebius, Univ. of Bonn, Germany
  • Jinfu Ni, NICT, Japan
  • Nobuyuki Nishizawa, KDDI, Japan
  • Mari Ostendorf, Univ. of Washington, USA
  • Kishore Prahallad, IIIT, India
  • Marc Schroeder, DFKI, Germany
  • Frank Soong, Microsoft Research Asia, China
  • Yannis Stylianou, Univ. of Crete, Greece
  • David Talkin, Google, USA
  • Jianhua Tao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
  • Paul Taylor, Phonetic Arts, UK
  • Minoru Tsuzaki, Kyoto City Univ. of Arts, Japan
  • Johan Wouters, SVOX, Switzerland
  • Junichi Yamagishi, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK
  • Heiga Zen, Toshiba Research Europe, UK