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[[SynSIG]]: The [[ISCA]] Special Interest Group on Speech Synthesis

Annual Report 2004

# Purpose and Motivation
#* Promote interest in speech synthesis (TTS, CTS, related disciplines)
#* Platform for exchanging information on recent research developments
#* Sponsor meetings and workshops
#* Resources for speech synthesis (corpora, tools, software, synthesized data, publications)
#* 194 supporters, as of June 2004.
# Terms of Reference
#* Evaluation: to serve researchers, developers and customers
#* Collaborative experiments: international, multilingual, interdisciplinary 
#* Resources: research and teaching
#* Student exchanges
#* Standardization: interdisciplinary communication and cooperation
# Steering Committee (through June 2004, elected in 2002)
#* Chairman: Bernd M\x{FFFD}bius, University of Stuttgart, Germany 
#* Vice Chairman and ISCA Liaison Representative: Nick Campbell, ATR, Japan 
#* Secretary and Treasurer: Gerard Bailly, ICP Grenoble, France
# Activities: Conferences, Workshops, and Publications
#* sOc'2003, Grenoble, France: Smart objects conference: communicating with objects, agents and environnements (org. G. Bailly)
#** 46 papers, 8 invited papers, 14 demos
#* Internat. Congr. Phonet. Sci. 2003, Barcelona, Spain:
#** 23 papers, 17 posters in speech synthesis sessions
#* Eurospeech 2003, Geneva, Switzerland:
#** SynSIG presentation in Hot Topics session (org. V. Hazan)
#** 24 papers, 38 posters in speech synthesis sessions
#** 1 invited talk on spoken language output (R. Moore)
#* Voqual 2003, Geneva, Switzerland: ITRW on Voice Quality: functions, analysis and synthesis (org. C. d'Alessandro) 
#** 5 papers, 1 hands-on session on VQ synthesis
#* Speech Prosody 2004, Nara, Japan:
#** 7 papers, 18 posters in speech synthesis sessions
#** 2 invited talks on synthesis of expressive speech (B. Granstr\x{FFFD}m, Y. Sagisaka)
#* 5th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop, Pittsburgh, PA, USA:
#** 15 papers, 29 posters, 2 tutorials
#** SynSIG meeting (steering committee and members)
#* Questionnaire "Future of Speech Synthesis":
#** results presented at Eurospeech 2003
#* Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Speech & Audio Processing on Expressive Speech Synthesis (G. Bailly, N. Campbell, co-eds.)
# Activities: Web-Based Services
#* SynSIG web site reworked and moved to [http://feast.his.atr.jp/synsig/]
#* New SynSIG mailing list at [https://mail.icp.inpg.fr/mailman/admindb/synsig]
#** moderated discussion list
#** membership subscription and maintenance service
#* Teaching and education resources web site [http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/~moehler/ISCA-SynSIG]
#** course materials and slides
#** collection of historical photos and images
#** annotated list of links to software tools, tutorials, etc.
# Finances
#* SynSIG did not incur any financial expenditures nor carry out any other financial transactions. The initial ISCA grant to SynSIG has not been asked for so far.
#* Proceeds from the Speech Synthesis Workshop 1998 at Jenolan Caves are being held in a bank account by ISCA.

June 2004

The SynSIG Steering Committee:

Gérard Bailly,<br/>
Nick Campbell,<br/>
Bernd Moebius

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