next generation speech science and technologies - a cross-country joint project for collaboration...
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Next Generation Speech Science and Technologies
- A Cross-Country Joint Project for Collaboration between Speech Research Labs in Taiwan and in Japan
Lin-shan Lee, Sin-Horng Chen, Hsiao-Chuan Wang, Chiu-yu Tseng, Berlin Chen, Jen-Tzung Chien, Lee-Feng Chien, Jeih-Weih Hung, Yuan-Fu Liao, Hsin-min Wang, Yih-Ru Wang
Members in Taiwan
Lin-shan Lee 李琳山Professor & Research Fellow
National Taiwan University
&Academia Sinica
Members in Taiwan
Sin-Horng Chen 陳信宏Professor
National Chiao Tung University
Members in Taiwan
Hsiao-Chuan Wang 王小川Professor
National Tsing Hua University
Members in Taiwan
Chiu-yu Tseng 鄭秋豫Professor & Research Fellow
Academia Sinica
Members in Taiwan
Berlin Chen 陳柏琳Assistant Professor
National Taiwan Normal University
Members in Taiwan
Jen-Tzung Chien 簡仁宗Associate Professor
National Cheng Kung University
Members in Taiwan
Lee-Feng Chien 簡立峰Research Fellow
Academia Sinica
& National Taiwan University
Members in Taiwan
Jeih-weih Hung 洪志偉Assistant Professor
National Chi Nan University
Members in Taiwan
Yuan-Fu Liao 廖元甫Assistant Professor
National Taipei University
of Technology
Members in Taiwan
Hsin-min Wang 王新民Associate Research Fellow
Academia Sinica
Members in Taiwan
Yih-Ru Wang 王逸如Associate Professor
National Chiao Tung University
Project Structure
Main Project: Theme: New Generation Speech Science and Technologies
Sub-project (I): Prosody, Tones and Text-to-speech Synthesis
Areas: prosody analysis and modeling, tone behavior and modeling, applications in text-to-speech synthesis and speech/speaker recognition, etc.Sub-project (II): Robustness in Speech RecognitionAreas: robustness in speech recognition with respect to various disturbances and variabilities using approaches on the signal level, model level and lexical level, etc.
Sub-project (III): Spoken Language Systems Areas: information extraction and retrieval, spoken document understanding and organization, spoken dialogues, distributed speech recognition, etc.
International Partners of the Project
The University of Tsukuba (Prof. Shuichi Itahashi)
The University of Tokyo (Prof. Keikichi Hirose)
Tokyo Institute of Technology (Prof. Sadaoki Furui)
Waseda University (Prof. Yoshinori Sagisaka)
Kyoto University (Prof. Tatsuya Kawahara)
Satellite1
Satellite2
Satellite3
Satellite4
Satellite5
Advanced Telecommunication Research Institute (ATR) (Dr. Satoshi Nakamura)
Project Goals (1/2)
Teaming up the Majority of Key Researchers in Speech Science and Technologies in Taiwan– 11 members across 7 universities and Academia Sinica, senio
r and younger
– actually a national delegation
Forming an Integrated Research Group with Focused Directions– three sub-projects closely integrated
Exchanging and Learning Research Experiences from Colleagues in Japan, and Developing Real Collaboration Relationships– international partners in Japan including ATR as the core and
five university labs as initial satellites
Project Goals (2/2)
Possible Collaboration Areas
– any area of common interests, mentioned or not in our presentation/website, related to Chinese language or not
– willing to offer experiences in Chinese if helpful, e.g. for cross-language technologies
Project Website:
http://sovideo.iis.sinica.edu.tw/SLG/ngsst/ngsst-index.html
Multi-lingual Environment in Future Networks—Roles of Japanese and Chinese Languages
Internet Users by Language (end of 2004, total 801.4 million)
Clear Trend– Non-English users continuously increasing– Japanese and Chinese are currently (and may continuously be) the two
largest non-English groups Collaboration between the Two Languages should Break New
Grounds for Future Multi-lingual Network World
English, 35.90%
Chinese, 13.20%Japanese, 8.30%
German, 6.80%
Spanish, 6.70%
French, 4.40%Korean, 3.80%
Italian, 3.60%Portuguese, 2.90%
Dutch, 1.70%All Others, 12.70%
Conclusion
We Look forward to Unlimited Space for Future Developments of Speech Science and Technologies
Collaboration between the Two Largest Non-English Languages should Break New Grounds for the Future
We are Seeking Collaboration Opportunities in All Areas
We can Function as a Window for Chinese Speech Science and Technologies