Junichi Yamagishi received the Ph.D. degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2006 for a thesis that pioneered speaker-adaptive speech synthesis. He is currently a Professor with the National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan, and also a Senior Research Fellow with the Centre for Speech Technology Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, U.K. Since 2006, he has authored and co-authored more than 250 refereed papers in international journals and conferences.
He was an area coordinator at Interspeech 2012. He was one of organizers for special sessions on “Spoofing and Countermeasures for Automatic Speaker Verification” at Interspeech 2013, “ASVspoof evaluation” at Interspeech 2015, “Voice conversion challenge 2016” at Interspeech 2016, “2nd ASVspoof evaluation” at Interspeech 2017, and “Voice conversion challenge 2018” at Speaker Odyssey 2018. He is currently an organizing committee for ASVspoof 2019, an organizing committee for ISCA the 10th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop 2019, a technical program committee for IEEE ASRU 2019, and an award committee for ISCA Speaker Odyssey 2020.
He was a member of IEEE Speech and Language Technical Committee. He was also an Associate Editor of the IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO, SPEECH, AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING and a Lead Guest Editor for the IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN SIGNAL PROCESSING special issue on Spoofing and Countermeasures for Automatic Speaker Verification. He is currently a guest editor for Computer Speech and Language special issue on speaker and language characterization and recognition: voice modeling, conversion, synthesis and ethical aspects. He also serves as a chairperson of ISCA SynSIG currently.
He was the recipient of the Tejima Prize as the best Ph.D. thesis of Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2007. He received the Itakura Prize from the Acoustic Society of Japan in 2010, the Kiyasu Special Industrial Achievement Award from the Information Processing Society of Japan in 2013, the Young Scientists’ Prize from the Minister of Education, Science and Technology in 2014, the JSPS Prize from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in 2016, and Docomo mobile science award from Mobile communication fund in 2018.
Computer Speech and Language, Advisory Committee for Special issue on Advances in Automatic Speaker Verification Anti-spoofing
Jun 2019
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ISCA The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop Odyssey 2020, Local Organizing Committee
May 2019
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IEEE, Senior Area Editor of IEEE/ACM Transaction on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
Apr 2019
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情報処理学会 音声言語情報処理研究会 SIG-SLP 運営委員
Oct 2018
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IEEE ASRU 2019, Technical Program Chair
Sep 2018
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Computer Speech and Language, Guest editor for Special issue on Speaker and language characterization and recognition: voice modeling, conversion, synthesis and ethical aspects
May 2018
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ASVspoof challenge 2019 Organizer
Feb 2018
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ISCA The 10th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW10) Organising committee
Jan 2018
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Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) Multimedia Security and Forensics Technical Committee
Jul 2017
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ISCA Special Interest Group: Speech Synthesis (SynSig) Chairperson
May 2013
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NII湘南会議 運営委員会
Apr 2013
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NII音声資源コンソーシアム 共同代表
Apr 2017
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Mar 2019
情報処理学会 音声言語情報処理研究会 SIG-SLP 幹事
Jan 2013
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Mar 2019
IEEE Signal Processing Society Speech and Language Technical Committee
Jun 2018
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Dec 2018
IEEE SLT workshop 2018 Organizer and chair of special session on Deep Learning for Speech Synthesis
Sep 2017
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Sep 2018
2nd voice conversion challenge 運営委員
Feb 2018
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Jul 2018
Odyssey 2018 (Speaker Odyssey 2018) program committee and session chair
Feb 2018
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Jul 2018
SLSP 2018 (6th International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing) program committee
Apr 2018
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Apr 2018
ICASSP 2018 Session chair for "Neural Network based Speech Synthesis"
Jan 2014
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Dec 2017
IEEE Associate Editor of IEEE/ACM Transaction on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
Sep 2017
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Sep 2017
Interspeech 2017, Session chair for "The 2017 Automatic Speaker Verification Spoofing and Countermeasures Challenge (ASVspoof)"
Dec 2016
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Sep 2017
ASV spoof challenge 2017 運営実行委員
Apr 2016
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Jun 2017
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Special Issue on Spoofing and Countermeasures for Automatic Speaker Verification, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Special Issue on Spoofing and Countermeasures for Automatic Speaker Verification, Lead Guest Editor 特集号編集長
Apr 2016
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Mar 2017
情報処理学会 アクセシビリティ研究グループ SIG-AAC 研究運営委員会委員
Apr 2016
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Mar 2017
情報処理学会 音声言語情報処理研究会 SIG-SLP 研究運営委員会委員
Dec 2016
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Dec 2016
博士論文外部審査委員 Ecole polytechnique f?d?rale de Lausanne, Switzerland, Dr Pierre-Edouard Honnet
Jan 2015
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Dec 2016
2016 Japanese-American Frontiers of Science Symposium Planning Group Member
Sep 2016
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Sep 2016
Interspeech 2016, session chairs for "Prosody and expressive speech" and "Voice conversion challenge 2016"
Nov 2015
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Sep 2016
Voice conversion challenge 2016 運営委員
Mar 2016
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Mar 2016
ICASSP 2016, Session chair for "Speech Synthesis III"
The HMM-based Speech Synthesis System (HTS) Version 2.0, Best paper award (SSW6 2007, test-of-time award), The 10th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop
Winner: Heiga Zen, Takashi Nose, Junichi Yamagishi, Shinji Sako, Takashi Masuko, Alan W. Black, Keiichi Tokuda
http://ssw10.oeaw.ac.at/awards.html
Sep 2019
Investigating Very Deep Highway Networks for Parametric Speech Synthesis, Best paper award (SSW9 2016, test-of-time award), The 10th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop
17th DOCOMO Mobile Science Award, Mobile Communication Fund, Japan
Winner: Junichi Yamagishi
Dec 2017
An Approach for Gait Anonymization Using Deep Learning,, Best Paper Award,, 9th IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS) 2017,
Winner: Ngoc-Dung T. Tieu, Huy H. Nguyen, Hoang-Quoc Nguyen-Son, Junichi Yamagishi, Isao Echizen
Nov 2017
Most popular data 2016-17,, Edinburgh Datashare Award,, Research Data Service, University of Edinburgh,
The greatest number of page views over the academic year 2016-17: “Automatic Speaker Verification Spoofing and Countermeasures Challenge (ASVspoof 2015) Database”
Nov 2017
"An autoregressive recurrent mixture density network for parametric speech synthesis" (共著), IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Japan Student Best Paper Award, IEEE Signal Processing Society Tokyo Joint Chapter
The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technolog, The Young Scientists’ Prize, The Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Jun 2013
The 2012 Kiyasu Special Industrial Achievement Award, The Information Processing Society of Japan
Massimiliano Todisco, Xin Wang, Ville Vestman, Md Sahidullah, Héctor Delgado, Andreas Nautsch, Junichi Yamagishi, Tomi Kinnunen, Nicholas Evans and Kong Aik Lee
Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria Sep 2019 [Refereed]
YAMAGISHI Junichi, TOKUDA Keiichi, TODA Tomoki, MIWA Yoshiko (Part:Joint Work)
丸善ライブラリ Apr 2015 ISBN:978-4-621-05385-0
Building personalised synthesised voices for individuals with dysarthria using the HTS toolkit
S. Creer, P. Green, S. Cunningham, and J. Yamagishi (Part:Contributor, Computer Synthesized Speech Technologies: Tools for Aiding Impairment)
IGI Global press Jan 2010 ISBN:978-1-61520-725-1
Speaker Recognition Anti-spoofing
Nicholas Evans, Tomi Kinnunen, Junichi Yamagishi, Zhizheng Wu, Federico Alegre and Phillip de Leon (Part:Contributor, Chapter 7, Handbook of Biometric Anti-Spoofing)
Introduction to Voice Presentation Attack Detection and Recent Advances
Md Sahidullah, Hector Delgado, Massimiliano Todisco, Tomi Kinnunen, Nicholas Evans, Junichi Yamagishi, and Kong-Aik Lee (Part:Joint Work, Chapter 15, Handbook of Biometric Anti-Spoofing, 2nd edition)
Springer 2019 ISBN:978-3-319-92626-1
https://www.springer.com/la/book/9783319926261
In press
Junichi Yamagishi, Massimiliano Todisco, Md Sahidullah, Héctor Delgado, Xin Wang, Nicholas Evans, Tomi Kinnunen, Kong Aik Lee, Ville Vestman, and Andreas Nautsch Database Jun 2019 - Today
This dataset is a new variant of the voice cloning toolkit (VCTK) dataset: device-recorded VCTK (DR-VCTK), where the high-quality speech signals recorded in a semi-anechoic chamber using professional audio devices are played back and re-recorded i...
Kinnunen, Tomi Sahidullah, Md Delgado, H?ctor Todisco, Massimiliano Evans, Nicholas Yamagishi, Junichi Lee, Kong Aik Database Aug 2017 - Today
This is a database used for the Second Automatic Speaker Verification Spoofing and Countermeasuers Challenge, for short, ASVspoof 2017 (http://www.asvspoof.org) organized by Tomi Kinnunen, Md Sahidullah, H?ctor Delgado, Massimiliano Todisco, Nicho...
This dataset includes 96kHz version of the CSTR VCTK Corpus including speech data uttered by 109 native speakers of English with various accents. The main dataset can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.7488/ds/1994 (containing a lower quality set of...
The database has been used in the first Automatic Speaker Verification Spoofing and Countermeasures Challenge (ASVspoof 2015). Genuine speech is collected from 106 speakers (45 male, 61 female) and with no signi?cant channel or background noise ef...
Amir Mohammadi, Fernando Villavicencio, and Junichi Yamagishi at National Institute of Informatics, Japan Database Aug 2015 - Today
The database contains speech recording from 6 male speakers and 1 female speaker and their playbacks. The database can be used for liveness detection of speech samples and spoofing attack (replay attack) detection in automatic speaker verification...
This dataset is associated with the paper "'SAS: A speaker verification spoofing database containing diverse attacks': presents the first version of a speaker verification spoofing and anti-spoofing database, named SAS corpus. The corpus includes ...
Project Year: May 2011 - Apr 2016 Investigator(s): Steve Renals, Simon King, Phil Green, Mark Gales, Thomas Hain, Phil Woodland, Junichi Yamagishi, Bill Byrne
IniciMinisterio de Economía y Competitividad (Spain): Programa Nacional de Proyectos de Investigación, Fundamental
Project Year: Apr 2013 - Mar 2016 Investigator(s): Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Martin Cooke, Simon King, Junichi Yamagishi, Jan Volin, Esther Gómez Lacabex, Francisco Gallardo
2011ー2014
Participating in EC FP7 STREP project ``Simple4All'' (Speech synthesis that improves through adaptive learning) as a coauthor of the proposal and a researcher.
http://simple4all.org
Oct 2011
2011-Present
Participating in JST CREST uDialogue project
http://www.udialogue.org/
May 2010
2010ー2013
Participating in EC FP7 Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Open project, ``LISTA'' (The Listening Talker) as a researcher.
http://listening-talker.org
Feb 2008
2008ー2011
Participated in an EC FP7 STREP project ``EMIME'' (Effective multilingual interaction in mobile environments) as a coauthor of the proposal and as a postdoctoral researcher
http://www.emime.org
nii.ac.jp