1) K. Kobayashi, K. Yasu, N. Hodoshima, T. Arai and M. Shindo, ``A study of syllable enhancement for elderly listeners by suppressing energy of steady-state portions of vowels,'' J. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., Vol. 64, No. 5, pp. 278-289, 2008 (in Japanese).
[Abstract] [PDF (799 kB)]

2) T. Arai, E. Ohki and K. Iitaka, ``Perception of long vowels in Japanese by children,'' Acoustical Science and Technology, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 106-109, 2008.
[Abstract] [PDF (129 kB)]

3) T. Arai, ``Gel-type tongue for a physical model of the human vocal tract as an educational tool in acoustics of speech production,'' Acoustical Science and Technology, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 188-190, 2008.
[Abstract] [PDF (173 kB)]

4) T. Arai, ``Foreword to the special issue on attractive education in acoustics in the modern era,'' J. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 27-28, 2008 (in Japanese).
[Abstract] [PDF (202 kB)]

5) T. Arai, ``Education in acoustics for elementary and junior high school students,'' J. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 29-34, 2008 (in Japanese).
[Abstract] [PDF (1,148 kB)]

6) S. Imaizumi and T. Arai, ``Education of acoustics for speech-language-hearing pathologists: From the basis to practice,'' J. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 47-51, 2008 (in Japanese).
[Abstract] [PDF (533 kB)]

7) N. Hodoshima, W. Yoshida and T. Arai, ``Improving consonant identification in noise and reverberation by steady-state suppression as a preprocessing approach,'' Proc. of the Interspeech, pp. 1793-1796, Brisbane, 2008.
[Abstract] [PDF (212 kB)]

8) K. Amino and T. Arai, ``Perceptual speaker identification using monosyllabic stimuli: Effects of the nucleus vowels and speaker characteristics contained in nasals,'' Proc. of the Interspeech, pp. 1917-1920, Brisbane, 2008.
[Abstract] [PDF (408 kB)]

9) H. Masuda and T. Arai, ``Perception and production of consonant clusters in Japanese-English bilingual and Japanese monolingual speakers,'' Proc. of the Interspeech, pp. 1988-1991, Brisbane, 2008.
[Abstract] [PDF (151 kB)]

10) T. Arai, ``Physical models of the human vocal tract with gel-type material,'' Proc. of the Interspeech, pp. 2651-2654, Brisbane, 2008.
[Abstract] [PDF (514 kB)]

11) T. Arai, ``Science workshop with sliding vocal-tract model,'' Proc. of the Interspeech, pp. 2827-2830, Brisbane, 2008.
[Abstract] [PDF (514 kB)]

12) H. Masuda and T. Arai, ``Perception of consonant clusters in Japanese native speakers: Influence of foreign language learning,'' Proc. of the ISCA Workshop on Experimental Linguistics (ExLing), pp. 161-164, Athens, 2008.
[Abstract] [PDF (515 kB)]

13) K. Amino and T. Arai, ``Differential effects of the phonemes on identification of previously unknown speakers,'' J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 123, No. 5, Pt. 2, p. 3328, 2008.
[Abstract] [PDF (2,209 kB)]

Proc. of Acoustics, pp. 2381-2386, Paris, 2008.
[PDF (445 kB)]

14) N. Hodoshima, T. Arai and K. Kurisu, ``Effects of training, style, and rate of speaking on speech perception of young people in reverberation,'' J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 123, No. 5, Pt. 2, p. 3329, 2008.
[Abstract] [PDF (2,371 kB)]

Proc. of Acoustics, pp. 2393-2397, Paris, 2008.
[PDF (370 kB)]

15) K. Yasu, H. Ishida, R. Takahashi, T. Arai, K. Kobayashi and M. Shindo, ``Critical-band compression method of speech enhancement for elderly people: Investigation of syllable and word intelligibility,'' J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 123, No. 5, Pt. 2, p. 3718, 2008.
[Abstract] [PDF (2,178 kB)]

16) A. Iida, S. Kajima, K. Yasu, J. M. Kominek, Y. Aikawa and T. Arai, ``Developing a bilingual communication aid for a Japanese ALS patient using voice conversion technique,'' J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 123, No. 5, Pt. 2, p. 3884, 2008.
[Abstract] [PDF (1,770 kB)]

17) H. Masuda and T. Arai, ``Observation of the preceding consonant of voiced stop consonant clusters: In the case of Japanese native speakers of different English proficiency,'' International Workshop on Language and Speech Science, p. 2, Tokyo, 2008.
[Abstract] [PDF (79 kB)]

18) K. Amino and T. Arai, ``Perception of speaker identity and its relation to the phonological features,'' Asian Workshop on Speech Science and Technology, Technical Report of IEICE Japan, Vol. SP2007-191, pp. 29-34, 2008.
[Abstract] [PDF (224 kB)]

19) Y. Hatagishi, S. Hirai, T. Arai and M. Shindo, ``Choukaku-teki gakushuu niyoru kategori-chikaku no henka: Kenchou-sha to kan'on-sei nanchou-sha no hikaku,'' Jpn. J. Commun. Disord., Vol. 25, No. 3, p. 245, 2008 (in Japanese).
[Abstract] [PDF (102 kB)]

20) S. Kajima, A. Iida, K. Yasu, Y. Aikawa, T. Arai and T. Sugawara, ``Development of a Japanese and English speech synthesis system based on HMM using voice conversion for the people with speech communication disorder,'' IPSJ SIG Technical Report, Vol. 2008-SLP-70, pp. 121-126, 2008 (in Japanese).
[Abstract] [PDF (416 kB)]

21) K. Amino and T. Arai, ``Perceptual speaker recognition using noise-added monosyllables,'' Trans. Tech. Comm. Psychol. Physiol. Acoust., The Acoustical Society of Japan, Vol. 38, No. 6, H-2008-101, pp. 579-584, 2008 (in Japanese).
[Abstract] [PDF (516 kB)]

22) T. Arai, K. Tanaka and R. Kataoka, ``Physical model of the vocal tract with flexible velum,'' Technical Report of IEICE Japan, Vol. SP2008-103, pp. 143-148, 2008 (in Japanese).
[Abstract] [PDF (989 kB)]

23) T. Arai, ``Vocal tract model with flexible tongue as an education tool,'' Proc. Spring Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 439-442, 2008 (in Japanese).
[Abstract] [PDF (1,002 kB)]

24) K. Amino and T. Arai, ``Effects of the consonants and the following vowels in monosyllabic stimuli on identification of previously unknown speakers,'' Proc. Spring Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 443-444, 2008 (in Japanese).
[Abstract] [PDF (247 kB)]

25) N. Hodoshima, T. Arai and K. Kurisu, ``Effects of training, style and rate of speaking on young people's word identification under simulated reverberant conditions,'' Proc. Spring Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 593-594, 2008 (in Japanese).
[Abstract] [PDF (396 kB)]

26) K. Takahashi, K. Yasu, N. Hodoshima, T. Arai, T. Amitani and K. Kurisu, ``A preprocessing technique for improving speech intelligibility in reverberant environments: Implementation of simple algorithm for steady-state suppression with DSP,'' Proc. Spring Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 865-866, 2008 (in Japanese).
[Abstract] [PDF (201 kB)]

27) T. Arai, ``Science workshop on sound: Wonderful world of sounds, let's create our voice,'' Proc. Spring Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 1483-1486, 2008 (in Japanese).
[Abstract] [PDF (815 kB)]

28) H. Masuda and T. Arai, ``Vowel epenthesis between stop consonants by Japanese native speakers with different English learning backgrounds,'' Proc. Autumn Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 323-326, 2008 (in Japanese).
[Abstract] [PDF (516 kB)]

29) N. Hodoshima, T. Arai and K. Kurisu, ``Comparison between intelligibility and listening impression of clear speech when talkers speak as if they are in reverberation,'' Proc. Autumn Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 345-346, 2008 (in Japanese).
[Abstract] [PDF (320 kB)]

30) K. Amino and T. Arai, ``Speaker individualities in the energy contours of nasal articulation,'' Proc. Autumn Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 359-360, 2008 (in Japanese).
[Abstract] [PDF (378 kB)]

31) T. Kubo, K. Kurisu, N. Hodoshima and T. Arai, ``Intelligibility of speech by steady-state suppression in the case of binaural hearing in reverberant environments,'' Proc. Autumn Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 377-378, 2008 (in Japanese).
[Abstract] [PDF (265 kB)]

32) W. Yoshida, N. Hodoshima and T. Arai, ``Evaluation of steady-state suppression for improving speech intelligibility in noisy and reverberant environments,'' Proc. Autumn Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 493-496, 2008 (in Japanese).
[Abstract] [PDF (362 kB)]

33) T. Arai, ``Comparing reed-type sound sources for the sliding vocal-tract model,'' Proc. Autumn Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 1563-1566, 2008 (in Japanese).
[Abstract] [PDF (489 kB)]

34) T. Arai, ``Speech education for persons with disabilities using talking heads,'' Proc. Autumn Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 1579-1582, 2008 (in Japanese).
[Abstract] [PDF (732 kB)]

35) T. Arai, ``Hamamatsu Science Museum,'' J. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., Vol. 64, No. 8, p. 490, 2008 (in Japanese).
[Abstract] [PDF (876 kB)]