Keiichiro Oura received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan, in 2010. He was an intern/co-op resercher at ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan, from September 2007 to December 2007. From Mar. 2008 to Nov. 2009, he was a postdoctral fellow of the EMIME project at the Nagoya Institute of Technology. From Dec. 2009 to Mar. 2012, he was a postdoctral fellow of the SCOPE project at the Nagoya Institute of Technology. He is currently a postdoctral fellow of the CREST project at the Nagoya Institute of Technology. His research interests include statistical speech recognition and synthesis. He received the ISCSLP Best Student Paper Award and the Yamashita SIG Research Award in 2008 and 2010, respectively. He is a member of the Acoustical Society of Japan and Information Processing Society of Japan.

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