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Jarvis: A Proactive Speech Agent for Multi-Party Conversations
Seunghyun Oh, Hirotaka Hiraki, Shuyue Stella Li +2
Speech agents are reactive and dyadic: they speak when spoken to, and to one person at a time. We ask what it takes for a speech agent to instead take part in a conversation among…
MaskClip: Detachable Clip-on Piezoelectric Sensing of Mask Surface Vibrations for Real-time Noise-Robust Speech Input
Hirotaka Hiraki, Jun Rekimoto
Masks are essential in medical settings and during infectious outbreaks but significantly impair speech communication, especially in environments with background noise. Existing so…
Real-Time Word-Level Temporal Segmentation in Streaming Speech Recognition
Naoto Nishida, Hirotaka Hiraki, Jun Rekimoto +1
Rich-text captions are essential to help communication for Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) people, second-language learners, and those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). They also…
WhisperMask: A Noise Suppressive Mask-Type Microphone for Whisper Speech
Hirotaka Hiraki, Shusuke Kanazawa, Takahiro Miura +3
Whispering is a common privacy-preserving technique in voice-based interactions, but its effectiveness is limited in noisy environments. In conventional hardware- and software-base…
Pinching Tactile Display: A Cloth that Changes Tactile Sensation by Electrostatic Adsorption
Takekazu Kitagishi, Hirotaka Hiraki, Hiromi Nakamura +2
Haptic displays play an important role in enhancing the sense of presence in VR and telepresence. Displaying the tactile properties of fabrics has potential in the fashion industry…