WISH-LIST FROM SEBASTIAN AND SARAH
N.B. We=92ve discussed these ideas, but Sebastian hasn=92t seen this write-=
up
of our ideas, so he may want to amend it next week.
Continue with:
* longer foot structures, and possibly longer structures i.e. with more
feet.
* PROCSY:
(a) combine YorkTalk and PROCS technology, and UCL knowledge of
prosody, to make a system that will generate (possibly just a small set
of) utterances. Much of the knowledge can, of course, remain
device-independent.
(b) possible work on voice quality. Sarah is going to ask Ken what
he=92s doing there.
(c) to show the potential of HLsyn to produce a wide range of speech
styles using very small changes in rules.
(More or less) new:
* Speech styles:
(a) hyper-speech, as in noise: what do people do; what needs to
be synthesized to increase intelligibility naturally?
(b) fast speech
These areas allow us to look at what=92s essential in the signal: syllable
structure (re)organisation, especially in the case of fast speech (what
gets left in, and how is it combined with other features), and what gets
emphasized (durationally, and in terms of =93features=94 like voicing) in
hyper-speech. So we=92d be looking at how syllable, word, and phrase
structures are changed to meet particular needs.
Connections with others
(1) preferably UCL and York!
(2) SOLE/Janet H, e.g. for looking at rate changes within discourse (so
you could do BITS of fast speech, or hyper-speech, where necessary in an
utterance that is mainly produced in a normal style (just as humans do).
Applications:=20
(1) hyper-speech (obvious: talking in high ambient noise; telephone
bandwidths)
(2) fast speech: reading machines for the blind (and any application
involving transmission of lots of information fast)
[for sh info: File: wish1.txt]
best
Sarah
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Dept. of Linguistics Phone: +44 1223 33 50 52
University of Cambridge Fax: +44 1223 33 50 53 =20
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