4th ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on

Speech Synthesis


Advance Notice and Call for Participation

International Speech Communication Association

Atholl Palace Hotel Perthshire Scotland
August 29th - September 1st, 2001

 

Proceedings from Workshop

 

Aims:

This workshop will bring together researchers in all areas of speech synthesis. This is the 4th such workshop on this theme, and the intention is to carry on the successful traditions of the previous ones. Papers involving any aspect of speech synthesis are encouraged, especially in the areas of:

  • waveform generation: articulatory, formant and concatenative synthesis
  • signal processing
  • unit selection
  • databases for speech synthesis
  • prosody
  • emotion in speech
  • multilinguality: language-independent methodologies for synthesis
  • text analysis and normalisation
  • pronunciation issues
  • applications
  • evaluation


Location and Format:

The workshop, which will be a satellite workshop to Eurospeech 2001, follows on from previous workshops at Jenolan Caves, Mohonk and Autrans and adopts a similar theme. The workshop will be held in the Atholl Palace Hotel, just outside Blair Atholl in the Scottish Highlands. The hotel has been exclusively reserved for the workshop and will accommodate all the attendees, and hold the talks and poster sessions. The hotel is situated in a stunning location at the foot of the Highlands. Although remote, it is about 1 hour 30 mins drive from both Glasgow and Edinburgh international airports and travel to the venue will not be difficult.

The format of the workshop will be similar to previous years, with a plenary session of talks and poster sessions. Some form of evaluation/demonstration is planned, but the details have yet to be worked out. A further announcement giving details of paper submission procedures and timetables will be made soon.


Important Dates:

Full and final paper submission deadline Closed
Notification of paper acceptance/rejection June 29, 2001
Advance registration before July 13, 2001
Conference August 29th, 2001


Accomodation and Registration Fees:

Information regarding accomodation and registration fees can be found here .


Timetable and Travel information

Information regarding times and travel can be found here .

Evaluation:

A main theme of the workshop is a demonstration state-of-the-art in synthesis technology. More details about this session and how to participate are found here.



Proceedings:

Workshop proceedings will be available upon registration at the conference center and subsequently on the workshop web site.


Language:

The official language of the workshop will be English.


Local Organising Committee:

Paul Taylor (chair), University of Edinburgh
Andy Breen, University of East Anglia
John Local, University of York
Bob Damper, University of Southampton


International Scientific Committee:

  • Masanobu Abe, NTT, Japan
  • Christophe d'Alessandro, LIMSI, France
  • Rolf Carlson, KTH, Sweden
  • Thierry Dutoit, TCTS/Faculte Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium
  • Wolfgang Hess, Bonn University, Germany
  • Eric Keller, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Bernd Moebius , University of Stuttgart, Germany
  • Marc Swerts, IPO, Netherlands
  • Richard Sproat, AT&T Research, USA
  • David Talkin, Rhetorical Systems, USA
  • Isabel Trancoso, INESC, Portugal
  • Jan Van Santen, OGI, USA
  • Alan Black, CMU, USA
  • Gerard Bailly, ICP, France
  • Eric Bateson, ATR, Japan
  • Julie Vonwiller, Appen, Australia
  • Nick Campbell, ATR, Japan
  • Louis Pols, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Yoshinori Sagisaka, ATR, Japan


ISCA:

The International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) is a non-profit organisation for promoting Speech communication Science and Technology internationally. For membership and other information, please contact the ISCA secretariat at: c/o Institut fuer Communikationsforschung und Phonetik, Universitaet Bonn, Poppelsdorfer Allee 47, D-53115 Bonn, Germany.
Tel: (+49) 228 735638
Fax: (+49) 228 735639
Email: info@isca-speech.org
Web: http://www.isca-speech.org/