Report 2004 to ISCA
From SynSIG
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.)
- sOc'2003, Grenoble, France: Smart objects conference: communicating with objects, agents and environnements (org. G. Bailly)
- Activities: Web-Based Services
- SynSIG web site reworked and moved to [1]
- New SynSIG mailing list at [2]
- moderated discussion list
- membership subscription and maintenance service
- Teaching and education resources web site [3]
- 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,
Nick Campbell,
Bernd Moebius