On 2nd March 2024, Masaki Takeuchi (D3) and Yutaro Soejima (M2) of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, and Professor Masaki Sekino of the Department of Bioengineering and other researchers received the NIPPON INNOVATION AWARD Grand Prize in the UPDATE EARTH Competition.
Research Members
Masaki Takeuchi(Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, D3)
Yutaro Soejima(Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, M2)
Boyu Wang(Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, M2)
Soichiro Shido (Department of Bioengineering, M2)
Shinichi Chikaki(Department of Bioengineering, Technical Staff)
Motofumi Fushimi(Department of Bioengineering, Project Assistant Professor)
Masaki Sekino(Department of Bioengineering, Professor)
About awarded research(activity)
NIPPON INNOVATION AWARD Grand Prize
Competition for ideas that have the potential to "UPDATE the Earth" out of approximately 20,000 entries. https://update-earth.com/en/innovation-award.html
About awarded research
Syrinx is an electrolarynx worn around the neck that enables people who have lost their voices to restore the voice.We are conducting research and development while communicating with people who have actually lost their voices and receiving feedback.
Your impression & future plan
We would like to manufacture many prototypes and test them on people around the world who have actually lost their voices, while continuing our research to make the vibration sound closer to the natural speech and publish papers.