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〒466-8555 愛知県名古屋市昭和区御器所町
ri@nitech.ac.jp
Welcome! Here at Lee Laboratory of Nagoya Institute of Technology, we focus on human-to-human and human-to-machine communication through speech and language, and are conducting research on speech recognition, spoken dialogue systems, natural language processing, speech-based interaction, and avatar communication. Our goal is to advance technologies related to spoken language processing and to realize highly sophisticated, voice- and language-driven man–machine interfaces that are truly natural and user-friendly for everyone.
LEE Akinobu was born in Kyoto, Japan, on December 19, 1972. He received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in information science, and the Ph.D. degree in informatics from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1996, 1998 and 2000, respectively. He worked on Nara Institute of Science and Technology as an assistance professor from 2000-2005. Currently he is a professor of Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan. His research interests include speech recognition, spoken language understanding, and spoken dialogue system. He is a member of IEEE, ISCA, JSAI, IPSJ and the Acoustical Society of Japan.
He is also a researcher who loves coding and has been involved in open-source activities for over 25 years. Below is a list of open-source software and CG avatars for which he serves as the lead developer:
As part of the NITech Festival 2025 held on November 15 (Sat) and 16 (Sun), 2025, our laboratory (Lee Lab) will exhibit its remote-conversation CG Avatar System.
We will also have an interactive hands-on area, where visitors can experience conversations through the avatar interface.
For more details, please see the page below (in Japanese).
At the 31st Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP2025), held from March 10 to March 14, B4 student Yukito Minari gave a presentation on the following topic.
At the HAI Symposium 2025, held from February 28 to March 1, M2 students Akari Kawamata and Yuki Fujioka, as well as B4 students Soma Suzuki, Takumi Yoshida, and Koki Yamada, presented on the following topics.