Masami Akamine Personal Homepage

Masami Akamine, PhD

Senior Fellow at Toshiba Research and Development Center
1, Komukai-Toshiba-cho, Saiwai-ku, 2128582 Japan

http://www.toshiba.co.jp/rdc/index.htm

Short Bio

In Yosemite National Park

Masami Akamine received the B.E. degree in electrical engineering from University of the Ryukyus in 1979 and the M.E. and the Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Tohoku University in 1982 and 1985, respectively. Since 1985 he has been with the Corporate Research & Development Center, Toshiba Corporation. He is currently a senior fellow. His research interests include speech coding, speech synthesis, automatic speech recognition and their applications. He received the TELECOM System Technology Prize, the Technology Development Award from the Acoustical Society of Japan and the Society Paper Award from IEICE of Japan. He is a member of IEICE and ASJ, and a senior member of IEEE.