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