Kawahara's Group [Wakayama University] Hideki Kawahara: Head of CrestMuse's sub-project "Music Style Manipulation based on Auditory Information Representation" He is a professor at the Department of Design Information Sciences, Faculty of Systems Engineering, Wakayama University, Japan. His research interests are auditory based signal processing, speech perception and production models and computational auditory scene analysis. Dr. Kawahara received his M.E. (1975) and Ph.D.(1977) in Electrical Engineering from Hokkaido University, Japan. Ryuichi Nishimura: Research member. He is an assistant professor of Faculty of Systems Engineering, Wakayama University. He received the B.E. degree in electrical engineering from Nagoya University in 1999 and the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in engineering from the Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) in 2001 and 2004, respectively. His research interests include speech interface, speech recognition, and spoken dialogue processing. He is a member of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), the Human Interface Society (HIS), and the Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ). Hayato Akagiri: Research member(Graduate student). He is a graduate student of Graduate School of Wakayama University. He received the B.E. degree in engineering from Wakayama University in 2009. He is currently involved in research on spectral envelope estimation method for voiced sounds. Erika Okamoto: Research member.(Graduate studnet). She is a graduate student of Graduate School of Wakayama University. She received the B.E. degree in engineering from Wakayama University in 2010. She is currently involved in research on voice morphing based on vocal tract normalization. Her goal is to implement an automatic and high-quality singing voice morphing system. Yoshika Wada: Research member(Graduate student). She is a graduate student of Graduate School of Wakayama University. She received the B.E. degree in engineering from Wakayama University in 2010. She is currently involved in research on excitation source structure extraction (XSX algorithm) for singing voice and pathological voice. Her goal is to implement a singing style editor based on XSX. Former Members Yoshiki Asaka: Former member (Research member.(Graduate studnet) during ~2010/3). He is a graduate student of Graduate School of Wakayama University. He received the B.E. degree in engineering from Wakayama University in 2008. He is currently involved in research on voice conversion by manipulating speech parameters in terms of vocal tract area function derived from speech waveform. Saori Nishida: Former member (Research member(Graduate student) during ~2010/3). She is a graduate student of Graduate School of Wakayama University. She was promoted to the graduate school when she was at her 3rd grade in Wakayama University in 2008. She is currently involved in research on media conversion and synesthesia. She wishes to make hearing impaired people entertain auditory experience in such augmented media. Hanae Itagaki: Former member (Research member(Graduate student) during ~2010/3). She is a graduate student of Graduate School of Wakayama University. She received the B.E. degree from Kinki University in 2009. She is involved in research on F0 extraction based on TANDEM-STRAIGHT. Her target is to develop a speech analysis and synthesis method that is capable for handling pathological speech. She is currently conducting statistical performance evaluation of F0 extractors. Taichi Ikoma: Former member (Research member(Graduate student) during ~2009/3). He is a graduate student of Graduate School of Wakayama University. He received the B.E. degree in engineering from Wakayama University in 2006. He is currently involved in research on singer's identity and singing style manipulation based on partial morphing using STRAIGHT. Yuri Yoshida: Former member (Research member(Graduate student) during ~2009/3). She is a graduate student of Graduate School of Wakayama University. She received the B.E. degree in engineering from Wakayama University in 2007. She is currently involved in research on statistical analysis on speech parameters and perceptual attributes of singing sounds. She is planning to design a 'Personalized Singer' based on her investigations. Masato Onishi: Former member (Research member(Graduate studnet) during ~2009/3). He is a graduate student of Graduate School of Wakayama University. He received the B.E. degree in engineering from Wakayama University in 2007. He is currently involved in research on voice conversion only using Japanese five vowels. He is planning to apply his voice conversion method to singing voice conversion paying special attention to preserve naturalness of the original singing. Masanori Morise: Former Member(Research member during 〜2008/3) He is a post-doctoral research scientist at the Department of Infomatics, School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan.)