1997-98 MRC small project grant (£ 40291)
"Evaluation of speech perceptual development using speech pattern audiometry tests".

• Principal Investigator: Valerie Hazan
• Co-investigator: F. Holmes

An integrated prosodic approach to device-independent natural-sounding speech synthesis
An EPSRC funded project which began in October 1997. Principal investigators Jill House, John Local (York) and Sarah Hawkins (Cambridge). Co-investigator Mark Huckvale.

COST-258
Department named as one of two UK representatives on EU Cooperation in Science and Technology project 258 - Naturalness of Synthetic Speech.

Mark Huckvale and Alex Fang, "Enhanced Language Modelling Through Improved Lexical, Grammatical and Syntactic Labelling", April 1998-, 3 years, EPSRC, £150k.

The aim of this project is the creation of measurable enhancements to the performance of statistical language models through the improved use of linguistic information at lexical, grammatical, and syntactic levels.

Summer, 1997: Wellcome Trust Vacation Scholarship £1080

Leverhulme Trust - Extraordinary language learning: £ 47,777