John Local (lang4@york.ac.uk)
Mon, 08 Nov 1999 16:10:01 +0000
Dear all I've received the invitation below from Martin Russell and have
agreed to speak.
I don't really know if I understand enough of the recognition end to
tailor what I've got to say properly but I agreed to talk because I this
might present an opportunity to publicise Prosynth (and impress possible
EPSRC reviewers). So if any of you have ideas about what I
might/could/should say/do I'd be most grateful.
thanks
John
John Local
Professor of Phonetics and Linguistics
Department of Language and Linguistic Science
University of York
Heslington
York YO10 5DD
Tel 01904 432658
Fax 01904 432673
E-mail lang4@york.ac.uk
URL http://www.york.ac.uk/~lang4
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From: "Russell M." <m.j.russell@bham.ac.uk>
To: "'John Local'" <lang4@york.ac.uk>
Subject: One-day IOA Speech Group Meeting - would you be willing to
presen
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Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 09:03:59 -0000
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Dear John
At a recent meeting of the IOA Speech Group Committee I agreed to
organise a
one day meeting here at Birmingham. The theme for the meeting will be
the
relevance of speech production research to automatic speech recognition.
I
hope to hold the meeting soon and have 14th January in mind as a
possible
date. The Speech Group AGM would follow.
It seems to me that the emergence of new approaches to speech
recognition
such as dynamic segmental modelling, which implicitly or explicitly
attempt
to include a model of speech production dynamics, provides a useful
meeting
ground for researchers in speech production and automatic speech
recognition. The meeting would be based on four invited presentations,
two
from each camp, plus the results of a call for contributions. For the
speech recognition invited presentations John Bridle or Hywel Richards
have
agreed to describe their hidden dynamic model, and I am asking Mike
Tomlinson from DERA-SRU to describe the work that we did on accomodating
asynchrony in speech recognition algorithms. On the production side,
Christine Shadle has agreed to give an overview of speech production
research. I am fascinated by the relationship between the current work
on
asynchronous modelling, which is going on in speech recognition, and
non-linear phonology, and I am hoping that the second paper could come
from
this area. I don't know if it strictly counts as 'production', but it's
certainly an area that I have wanted to hear about for some time and
which I
believe is relevant to the speech recognition activity mentioned above!
Would you be willing to give a talk at such a meeting on this topic
area?
It would be great if you would.
Obviously time-scales are short, so I would be grateful for a reply
ASAP.
I am aiming for a 'free' meeting, in the spirit of one day IOA meetings
past.
Best Wishes
Martin
Martin Russell
School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
The University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK
Tel: +44 (0) 121 414 3093
Fax: +44 (0) 121 414 4291
email: m.j.russell@bham.ac.uk
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