SATO Hiroaki joined NHK in 2017. After working at the Hiroshima Station, he moved to the Science & Technology Research Laboratories (STRL) in 2019, where he is involved in speech recognition research.

Techniques to input characters by speech recognition have been around since long ago, but there are many cases when you have the impression that it is still far from practical use. However, it turned ...

Speech synthesis is a very convenient means of conveying spoken information without the need for human labor. The most commonly used method of speech synthesis in program production compiles speech ...

Speech recognition has evolved from rudimentary pattern‐matching systems into sophisticated, data‐driven technologies that convert spoken language into written text. Modern automatic speech ...