| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
ZUE Victor W. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Computer Science, Professo, 計算機科学研究所, 教授
POLS Louis C.W. University of Amsterdam, Institute of Phonetic Sciences, Professor, 音声科学研究所, 教授
FOURCIN Adrian University College London, Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, Professor, 音声学部, 教授
ITAHASHI Shuichi Tsukuba University, Institute of Information Science and Electronics, Professor, 電子情報工学系, 教授 (70151454)
SHIRAI Katsuhiko Waseda University, School of Science and Engineering, Professor, 理工学部, 教授 (10063702)
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| Research Abstract |
The aim of the project is to investigate the state of the art, and to establish international coordination in (a) speech databases, (b) prosodic labeling, and (c) assessment methods for speech recognition and speech synthesis. The activities and the results obtained during the three year period from June 1996 to March 1999 are as follows.
(1) Investigation of the state of the art and discussion on international coordination
The state of the art has been investigated in Japan as well as in U.S., U.K., France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Greece, Australia, China, Korea, and Hong Kong with the cooperation of domestic and overseas members, and mechanisms and strategies were discussed for further strengthening international coordination. (
(2) Establishment of international meetings as forums for exchange among researchers in related fields
As a result of the foregoing discussion, an international conference on language resources and evaluation has been organized in May 1998 mainly by the
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initiative of European members of the project, as a forum for presentation and discussion of related research. Considering the characteristic differences of East-Asian languages from Indo-European languages, an international workshop on language resources and evaluation of East-Asian languages has also been organized mainly by the initiative of domestic members. It was agreed that both meetings are important and will be held at regular intervals in the future.
(3) In-depth discussions at workshops
Three workshops were held (Philadelphia 1996, Rhodes 1997, and Sydney 1998) for intensive discussions among members of the project as well as other researchers who are interested in international coordination. These discussions revealed the increasing importance of international coordination in this field, and confirmed the roles of the central coordinating committee, the working sub-committees on corpora and labeling, speech recognition assessment, and speech synthesis assessment, and continuation of the efforts in the future. Less
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