SynSIG

Once Upon A Time

SynSIG is the ISCA Speech Synthesis Special Interest Group.

History

Following discussion at the ESCA/COCOSDA Jenolan Speech Synthesis Workshop and confirmation by a formal meeting at ICSLP-98 on Wednesday December 2nd, the ESCA (now ISCA) board has approved the first ESCA Special Interest Group, in the area of Speech Synthesis.

You can consult the list of initial members.

Constitution draft

See the Constitution of ESCA Special Interest Group on Speech Synthesis page.

Purposes

Speech Synthesis Special Interest Group was formed to promote activities related to furthering the science of speech synthesis.

The SIG will brings together colleagues with a special interest in Speech Synthesis.
It promotes interest in speech synthesis including text-to-speech conversion, concept-to-speech conversion and related disciplines, provides a means of exchanging news on recent developments in research and applications through a web site and the organisation of meetings, workshops and other activities (for instance evaluation), and makes available relevant resources for education.

See this 2001 position paper on SynSIG's activities for more details.

Committee members

• Chairman: Junichi Yamagishi (National Institute of Informatics, Japan & CSTR, Edinburgh, UK)
• Co-chairman: Sébastien Le Maguer (ADAPT Centre/Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
• ISCA liaison officer: Esther Klabbers (ReadSpeaker, USA)

You can contact the Committee by sending mail using this form.

Membership

Membership is open to anyone with an interest in speech synthesis. In order to become a member, simply register to the SynSIG mailing list (moderated mailing list with low load).

Meetings and reports

• Meeting Minutes
• Reports to ISCA

What's next ?

• Future events

External links

• Official ISCA website
• ISCA SIGs