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 (2)
vocoder9
speech-synthesis9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
HidekiKawahara/voiceRTFB
Jul 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:1 release, 12 commits, 19 pushes in 6 months
HidekiKawahara/YANGstraight_source
Dec 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:2 releases, 2 commits, 27 pushes in 7 months
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