Hideki Kawahara
Professor Emeritus at Wakayama University
Nara Prefecture, Japan
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Top SchoolHideki Kawahara is a Professor Emeritus and seasoned researcher focused on auditory-based speech signal processing, with a career spanning academia, national labs, and industry collaborations. He has led research on speech analysis, modification, and synthesis at Wakayama University and previous roles at NTT, ATR, RIKEN and a visiting scientist stint at Google, blending deep theoretical work with practical toolmaking for research and education. His work aims to improve human and human–machine communication by modeling interactions between speech production and perception, and he is known for producing software tools that make complex speech science accessible. Based in Nara Prefecture, Japan, he combines decades of institutional leadership with hands-on development, reflecting an unusual blend of long-term systems thinking and pragmatic engineering rooted in a Dr.Eng from Hokkaido University.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Dr.Eng, Speech signal processing, Dr.Eng, Speech signal processing at Hokkaido University
Chinese, Japanese, English
Github Skills (10)
frequency-domain10
gui-application10
wav10
speech-synthesis10
vocoder10
data-augmentation10
speech9
wavelet9
time-measurement9
matlab9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
HidekiKawahara/CAPRICEP
Oct 2020 - Oct 2022
An extended TSP (Time Stretched Pulse). CAPRICEP substantially replaces FVN. CAPRICEP enables interactive and real-time measurement of the linear time-invariant, the non-linear time-invariant, and random and time varying responses simultaneously.
Contributions:67 commits, 110 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
time-measurementacoustic-measurementstspspeech-measurementwav
HidekiKawahara/worldGUItools
Mar 2022 - Feb 2023
GUI tools for WORLD vocoder
Contributions:10 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
vocoder
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