Spring 1999 COST 258 Meeting (reply requested)
Mark Huckvale (mark@phonetics.ucl.ac.uk)
Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:26:33 +0000
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>To: Ove Andersen <oa@cpk.auc.dk>, Veronique Auberge <auberge@icp.inpg.fr>,
> Gerard Bailly <bailly@icp.grenet.fr>, ER Banga
<erbanga@tsc.uvigo.es>,
> Ellen Bosgoed <e.a.bosgoed@research.kpn.com>,
> Giorgio Bosoni <jorgengb@tele.ntnu.no>,
> Andy Breen <apb@dwarf.bt.co.uk>,
> Genevieve Caelen <Genevieve.Caelen@lpl.univ-aix.fr>,
> Rolf Carlson <rolf@speech.kth.se>,
> Pedro Carvalho <Pedro.Carvalho@inesc.pt>,
> Ricardo de Cordoba <cordoba@die.upm.es>,
> Ales Dobnikar <ales.dobnikar@ijs.si>,
> Marie Dohalska <marie.dohalska@ff.cuni.cz>,
> Gudrun Flach <flach@eakss1.et.tu-dresden.de>,
> Diamantino Freitas <dfreitas@fe.up.pt>, Georg Fries
<fries@berkom.de>,
> Dafydd Gibbon <gibbon@spectrum.uni-bielefeld.de>,
> Prof Georg Guekos <guekos@iqe.phys.ethz.ch>,
> Gonzalo Eduardo Lopez <eduardo@gaps.ssr.upm.es>,
> Mike Eddington <mike.edgington@bt-sys.bt.co.uk>,
> Bjorn Granstrom <bjorn@speech.kth.se>,
> Kjell Gustafson <kjellg@speech.kth.se>,
> Rudiger Hoffmann <kom@eakss1.et.tu-dresden.de>,
> Peter Molbek Hansen <pm@cphling.dk>,
> Per Olav Heggtveit <per.heggtveit@fou.telenor.no>,
> Wolfgang Hess <wgh@ikp.uni-bonn.de>,
> Daniel Hirst <daniel.hirst@lpl.univ-aix.fr>,
> Mark Huckvale <mark@phonetics.ucl.ac.uk>,
> Steve Isard <stepheni@cstr.ed.ac.uk>, Gernot Kubin
<g.kubin@ieee.org>,
> Unto K Laine <unto.laine@hut.fi>, John Local
<lang4@tower.york.ac.uk>,
> Helmut Mangold <mangold@dbag.ulm.daimlerbenz.com>,
> Marios Mantakas <marios@ilsp.gr>, Alex Monaghan
<alex@compapp.dcu.ie>,
> Karim Nedir <karim.nedir@swisscom.com>,
> Luis C Oliveira <Luis.Oliveira@inesc.pt>,
> Olives Jean-Luc <Jean-Luc.Olives@hut.fi>,
> Georg Ottesen <Georg.E.Ottesen@informatics.sintef.no>,
> Hannes Pirker <hannes@ai.univie.ac.at>,
> Thomas Portele <tpo@ikp.uni-bonn.de>, Julian Page
<jhp@dwarf.bt.co.uk>,
> Jose Manuel Pardo <pardo@die.upm.es>,
> Niels Reinholt Petersen <nrp@cphling.dk>,
> Beat Pfister <pfister@tik.ee.ethz.ch>,
> Marcel Riedi <riedi@tik.ee.ethz.ch>,
> Xavier Salgado <xsalgado@tsc.uvigo.es>,
> Shala Sehhati <sehhati@cs.tu-berlin.de>,
> Beat Siebenhaar <Beat.Siebenhaar-Rolli@imm.unil.ch>,
> Gerit "P." Sonntag <gso@ikp.uni-bonn.de>,
> Sverre Stensby <sverre.stensby@informatics.sintef.no>,
> Joao Paulo Teixeira <joaopt@ipb.pt>,
> Jacques Terken <terken@ipo.tue.nl>,
> Harald Trost <harald@ai.univie.ac.at>,
> Martti Vainio <martti.vainio@helsinki.fi>,
> Bert Van Coile <vancoile@elis.rug.ac.be>,
> Halewijn Vereecken <halewijn@elis.rug.ac.be>,
> Robert Vich <vich@ure.cas.cz>,
> Stefan Werner <stefan.werner@joensuu.fi>,
> Antje Wirth <wirth@berkom.de>,
> Brigitte Zellner <Brigitte.Zellner@imm.unil.ch>,
> Eric Keller <Eric.Keller@imm.unil.ch>,
> DGXIII COST Telecom Secretariat <cost@postman.dg13.cec.be.unil.ch>
>From: Eric Keller <Eric.Keller@imm.unil.ch>
>Subject: Spring 1999 COST 258 Meeting (reply requested)
>
>Dear COST 258 members,
>
>Happy new year -- belatedly.
>
>As you know, our spring meeting will be held in the Lausanne area.
>
>After a considerable search for a moderately expensive, easily accessible
>and attractive location to hold our meeting, we have decided to hold the
>meeting at the
> =09
> Hotel Mont-Blanc in Morges, VD
> (a medieval city to the west of Lausanne)
>
> Dates:
> Corpus-recording speakers: 7.4.99 14h - 10.4.99 12h
> All others: 8.4.99 14h - 10.4.99 12h
>
>This hotel is situated right on the port of Morges. All rooms have a direct
>view on the lake. Rooms are modern and cheerful and are equipped with
>showers and telephones. Please find more details, including the way from
>the station to the hotel, at http://www.hotel-mont-blanc.ch/, tel. +41 21
>804 87 87.
>
>Our arrangement with the hotel foresees that *all* participants can stay
>there, at prices that are close to impossible to match in the
>Lausanne-Morges area. HOWEVER, to be sure to get your room, YOU HAVE TO
>COMMIT YOURSELF to your room by JANUARY 31, 1999. After that date, the
>hotel will be free to reserve the rooms to other customers.
>
> Single room: 85 Swiss Francs (53 ECUs) (limited availability)
> Double room: 70 Swiss Francs/person, shared accommodation (44 ECUs)
>
>This includes half-pension (breakfast and a main meal). For scheduling
>reasons, we're planning to organize nearly all meals at the hotel.
>
>When calling the hotel, PLEASE MENTION THE COST 258 MEETING.
>
>Here is the preliminary planning for the meeting. Please remember that
>corpus-recording speakers (roughly one person per laboratory) begin the
>meeting one day early, on April 7. All others should arrive on April 8,=
1999.
>
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>
>Wednesday, April 7, 1999. CORPUS-RECORDING SPEAKERS
>Morning/noon: Arrival in Morges, transfer to Hotel Mont-Blanc.
>14h00-18h00 Recording of multilingual corpus
>Evening: free evening
>
>Thursday Morning, April 8, 1999 (for official corpus-recording speakers=
only)
>9h00-13h00 Recording of multilingual corpus
>
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>
>Thursday, April 8, 1999: ALL COST 258 ATTENDEES
>16h00-19h00 Scientific meetings
>Evening: free evening
>
>Friday, April 9, 1999: ALL COST 258 ATTENDEES
>9h00-13h00 Scientific meetings
>14h00-18h00 Scientific meetings
>Evening: special evening
>
>Saturday, April 10, 1999: ALL COST 258 ATTENDEES
>9h00-13h00 Scientific meetings and MCM
>Afternoon: optional excursion to the "Musee des automates" in Ste-Croix
(Jura).
>
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>
>Here are the special events planned for the meeting:
>
>1. Multilingual recording of different styles of speech (coordinator for
>stimulus development: Jacques Terken <terken@ipo.tue.nl>, local organizer
>of recordings: Beat Siebenhaar <Beat.Siebenhaar-Rolli@imm.unil.ch>)
>2. First discussion of signal generation test array ( person in charge:
>Gerard Bailly <bailly@icp.grenet.fr>)
>3. Special meeting on automatic segmentation techniques (person in charge:
>Eric Keller <eric.keller@imm.unil.ch>)
>4. Invited speaker on emotion in speech: Dr. B. Zei, Geneva (person in
>charge: Brigitte Zellner <brigitte.zellner@imm.unil.ch>,)
>5. Meeting of Porto, Vigo and Lausanne editors for tri-meeting Proceedings
>(person in charge: Eric Keller <eric.keller@imm.unil.ch>)
>6. Optional excursion to the Mus=E9e des automates (person in charge: Beat
>Siebenhaar <Beat.Siebenhaar-Rolli@imm.unil.ch>)
>
>More details later.
>
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>
>Here is what you should do in the next few days (please):
>
>1. Designate a speaker for the multilingual corpus recording.
>2. Decide how many nights you want to stay.
>3. Call the hotel and make your reservations.
>4. Report the "official speaker" for corpus recording to Jacques Terken and
>Eric Keller.
>5. Report the dates of your stay to Brigitte Zellner
><brigitte.zellner@imm.unil.ch>.
>
>Fares are relatively cheap now. We recommend that you book your flight=
early.
>
>In case of problems, please contact Brigitte Zellner
><brigitte.zellner@imm.unil.ch>
>
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>
>The LAIP team is delighted to welcome you to our spring meeting. We are
>looking forward to seeing you again.
>
> Eric Keller, chair, COST 258
>
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