... of research on speech analy-sis, speech recognition, speaker recognition, speech synthesis, and multimodal human-computer interaction, and he has authoredor coauthored over 700 published articles.He ... an HMMfor sudden noise. The recognition units in clean-speechHMMs were triphones, which were trained using clean-speech data. An HMM for sudden noise was trained using sudden noise samples. ... Profes-sor with Tokyo Institute of Technology. His research interests in-clude speech recognition, audio and video information retrieval,statistical pattern recognition, and human interface. He receivedthe...