Conference Papers

• Nagano, M., Fujita, K., Ijima, Y., and Hiroya, S., “The impact of perceived emotions on purchase intention in synthesized advertising speech,” in Proc. Speech Prosody, accepted, 2026.
• Hiroya, S., Sato, T. G., and Shiraki, Y., “Effect of perturbation onset and duration in pitch-shifted auditory feedback during violin performance,” in 189th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, A176, 2025.
• Ono, A., Nakane, A., Watanabe, J., and Hiroya, S., “Vibrotactile effects on speech perception in individuals with hearing impairment,” in 33rd International Congress of Psychology (ICP2024), 2024.
• Hiroya, S., Uezu, Y., and Mochida, T., “Effect of broadband background noise on adaptation of speech motor control,” in the 9th CiNet Conference, 2024.
• Nagano, M., Ijima, Y., and Hiroya, S., “A stimulus-organism-response model of willingness to buy from advertising speech using voice quality,” in Proc. Interspeech 2023, pp. 5202-5206, 2023.
• Hiroya, S., Kamei, K., Hattori, T., and Naya, F., “Investigation to deploy speech rhythm converters for English-language learners in Japanese high schools,” in Proc. the thirteenth international conference on learning analytics & knowledge, pp. 111-113, 2023.
• Hiroya, S., and Mochida, T., “Simultaneous perturbation of fundamental and formant frequencies in auditory feedback of speech,” in Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 2021.
• Nagano, M., Ijima, Y., and Hiroya, S., “Impact of emotional state on estimation of willingness to buy from advertising speech,” in Proc. Interspeech 2021, pp. 2486-2490, 2021.
• Hiroya, S., and Mochida, T., “Formant-altered auditory feedback on non-native vowel production,” in Proc. the 12th international seminar on speech production, 2020.
• Ono, A., Nakatani, M., Nakane, A., Watanabe, J., and Hiroya, S., “Effects of vibrotactile stimuli on perception of voiced and unvoiced bilabial stop consonants in noise,” in Proc. the 12th international seminar on speech production, pp. 194-197, 2020.
• Uezu, Y., Hiroya, S., and Mochida, T., “Naturalness of transformed auditory feedback sounds changes the patterns of compensatory responses and self-agency ratings in speech production,” in Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 2019.
• Uezu, Y., Hiroya, S., and Mochida, T., “Broadband masking noise contributes to speech motor control under formant transformed auditory feedback,” in Neural Control of Motor, 2019.
• Hiroya, S., Cai, Q., Sethi, A., Lavan, N., Chen, S. H., Meekings, S., and Scott, S. K., “Representational similarity analysis reveals the involvement of supplementary motor area in perceiving speech rhythm,” in Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 2018.
• Uezu, Y., Hiroya, S., and Mochida, T., “Sound naturalness of wideband speech affects articulatory compensation for altered formant feedback,” in Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 2018.
• Hiroya, S., “Speech production and perception share common brain mechanisms,” (invited) in Joint Workshop of UCL-ICN, NTT, UCL-Gatsby, and AIBS, 2018.
• Uezu, Y., Hiroya, S., and Mochida, T., “Sound naturalness of feedback speech affects articulatory compensation for transformed auditory feedback,” in Joint Workshop of UCL-ICN, NTT, UCL-Gatsby, and AIBS, 2018.
• Hiroya, S., and Mochida, T., “Neural mechanisms underlying the impact of speech sound naturalness during transformed auditory feedback,” in Society for Neurobiology of Language, 2018.
• Hiroya, S., Lavan, N., Chen, S. H., Meekings, S., and Scott, S. K., “Impact of articulator velocity-controlled rhythm in perceiving speech,” in Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 2017.
• Hiroya, S., and Mochida, T., “Speech sound naturalness alters compensation in response to transformed auditory feedback,” in Proc. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 140, no. 4, pt. 2, p. 3228, 2016.
• Hiroya, S., Jasmin, K., Evans, S., Krishnan, S., Lima, C., Ostarek, M., Boebinger, D., and Scott, S. K., “Speech rhythm measure of non-native speech using a statistical phonemic duration model,” in Society for Neurobiology of Language, 2016.
• Jasmin, K., Hiroya, S., Evans, S., Krishnan, S., Lima, C., Ostarek, M., Boebinger, D., and Scott, S. K., “The neural basis of perceiving speech with a non-native rhythm,” in 23rd annual meeting, cognitive neuroscience society, 2016.
• Hiroya, S., Jasmin, K., Evans, S., Krishnan, S., Ostarek, M., Boebinger, D., and Scott, S. K., “Effects of speaking rhythm naturalness on the neural basis of speech perception,” in Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 2015.
• Oohashi, H., Hiroya, S., and Mochida, T., “Real-time formant tracking system using a phase equalization-based autoregressive exogenous model,” in Proc. ICASSP 2015, pp. 5118-5121, 2015.
• Hiroya, S., “A relationship between speaking and listening to speech: Impact of speech sound naturalness” (invited), in Neuro2013, 2013.
• Mochida, T., Kimura, T., Hiroya, S., Kitagawa, N., Gomi, H., and Kondo, T., “Effects of temporal asynchrony between sensory and articulatory events on speech perception during speech articulation,” in Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 2011.
• Hiroya, S., Miki, N., and Mochida, T., “Multi-closure-interval linear prediction analysis based on phase equalization,” in Proc. APSIPA ASC 2011, 2011.
• Hiroya, S., and Kitamura, T., “Generation of a vocal-tract MRI movie based on sparse sampling,” in Proc. the 9th international seminar on speech production, pp. 1-8, 2011. [PDF]
• Toshima, I., Hiroya, S., Mochida, T., and Gomi, H., “Motor command invariance during speech production investigated by physiological perioral dynamics model,” in Proc. the 9th international seminar on speech production, pp. 195-202, 2011.
• Hiroya, S., and Guenther, F. H., “Effects of speech sound naturalness on the neural basis of formant frequency discrimination,” in Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 2010.
• Mochida, T., Kimura, T., Hiroya, S., Kitagawa, N., Gomi, H., and Kondo, T., “Effector-specific effect of self-articulatory movement on speech perception,” in Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 2010.
• Hiroya, S., and Mochida, T., “Phase equalization-based autoregressive model of speech signals,” in Proc. Interspeech 2010, pp. 42-45, 2010. [PDF]
• Hiroya, S., “Non-negative temporal decomposition of speech parameters,” in Proc. ICASSP 2010, pp. 5066-5069, 2010.
• Mochida, T., Kimura, T., Hiroya, S., Kitagawa, N., Gomi, H., and Kondo, T., “Impact of articulatory movement on speech perception,” in Neuro2010, 2010.
• Hiroya, S., “Acoustic-to-articulatory inversion using a speaker-normalized HMM-based speech production model” (invited), in Proc. the 8th international seminar on speech production, pp. 7-12, 2008.
• Hiroya, S., Mochida, T., and Kashino, M., “Japanese native speakers discriminate English vowel formant frequencies better than English native speakers,” in Proc. the 7th international seminar on speech production, pp. 143-150, 2006.
• Hiroya, S., Mochida, T., and Kashino, M., “Articulatory gestures, not auditory frequency resolution, determine formant frequency discrimination thresholds in vowels,” in Proc. the 29th ARO midwinter meeting, p. 249, 2006.
• Hiroya, S., and Mochida, T., “Multi-speaker articulatory reconstruction based on an eigen articulatory HMM,” in Proc. ICASSP 2005, pp. 909-912, 2005.
• Hiroya, S., Mochida, T., and Kashino, M., “Reducing redundancy in acoustic-to-articulatory inversion by fundamental frequency,” in Proc. from sound to sense: 50+ years of discoveries in speech communication, p. 19, 2004.
• Hiroya, S., and Honda, M., “Adaptation method for a stochastic speech production model toward speech inversion,” in Proc. the 6th international seminar on speech production, pp. 91-96, 2003.
• Mochida, T., Hiroya, S., Honda, M., Nishikawa, K., and Takanishi, A., “Articulatory control on talking robot by mimicking formant trajectories of human speech,” in Proc. the 6th international seminar on speech production, pp. 173-178, 2003.
• Hiroya, S., and Honda, M., “Speech inversion for arbitrary speaker using a stochastic speech production model,” in Proc. an interdisciplinary workshop on speech dynamics by ear, eye, mouth and machine, vol. 103, no. 155, SP2003-45, pp. 9-14, 2003.
• Hiroya, S., and Honda, M., “Acoustic-to-articulatory inverse mapping using an HMM-based speech production model,” in Proc. 7th international conference on spoken language processing, vol. 4, pp. 2305-2308, 2002.
• Hiroya, S., and Honda, M., “Determination of articulatory movements from speech acoustics using an HMM-based speech production model,” in Proc. ICASSP 2002, vol. 1, pp. 437-440, 2002.