Kiyoshi Kurihara received his B.E. and M.E. in Department of Electronics and Communications from Meiji University, Japan, in 2004 and 2006 respectively. After his graduation, he joined NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) and experience in master control & radio studio engineer in a broadcasting station. He joined the Science & Technology Research Laboratories in 2016. His current research interests include speech synthesis and automatic generation of audio description in broadcast.