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HATANO Hiroaki, Ph.D. (Associate Professor) [KUID]

Personal Background

HATANO Hiroaki received his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Intercultural Studies, Kobe University, in March 2012. After holding positions at the Japan Foundation Japanese-Language Institute, Urawa, the Institute of Language Education, Tokyo International University, and the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba, he has been a Lecturer at the Global Education Center, Institute for Promotion of Higher Education, Kobe University, since October 2025.

Fields of Specialization

Speech Science, Speech Communication

Major Publications and Papers

• ・“Which One Sounds More Human-like? Comparison of Synthetic Speech Trained on Japanese Daily Conversational Data with and without Disfluency.” Journal of Natural Language Processing, 33(1), 2026. (co-authored)
• ・“Toward expressive and disfluent speech synthesis.” Toshiyuki Sadanobu (ed.) Disfluencies We Live with in Japanese: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Routledge, 2026. (co-authored)
• ・“Automatic evaluation of accentuation of Japanese read speech.” Ueyama, M. & Srdanovic, I. (ed.) Digital resources for learning Japanese, Bologna University Press, 2018. (co-authored)