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
Hsiao-Chuan Wang 王小川 National Tsing Hua University Professor Members in Taiwan
Professor & Research Fellow Chiu-yu Tseng 鄭秋豫 Academia Sinica Members in Taiwan
National Taiwan Normal University Berlin Chen 陳柏琳 Assistant Professor Members in Taiwan
National Cheng Kung University Jen-Tzung Chien 簡仁宗 Associate Professor Members in Taiwan
Members in Taiwan Lee-Feng Chien 簡立峰 Research Fellow Academia Sinica & National Taiwan University
Jeih-weih Hung 洪志偉 National Chi Nan University Assistant Professor Members in Taiwan
Members in Taiwan Yuan-Fu Liao 廖元甫 Assistant Professor National Taipei University of Technology
Associate Research Fellow Hsin-min Wang 王新民 Academia Sinica Members in Taiwan
National Chiao Tung University Yih-Ru Wang 王逸如 Associate Professor Members in Taiwan
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 Recognition Areas: 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 Advanced Telecommunication Research Institute (ATR) (Dr. Satoshi Nakamura) Satellite1 The University of Tsukuba (Prof. Shuichi Itahashi) Satellite2 The University of Tokyo (Prof. Keikichi Hirose) Satellite3 Tokyo Institute of Technology (Prof. Sadaoki Furui) Satellite4 Waseda University (Prof. Yoshinori Sagisaka) Satellite5 Kyoto University (Prof. Tatsuya Kawahara)
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, senior 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) All Others, 12.70% Dutch, 1.70% Portuguese, 2.90% English, 35.90% Italian, 3.60% Korean, 3.80% French, 4.40% Spanish, 6.70% German, 6.80% Chinese, 13.20% Japanese, 8.30% � 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
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
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