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SFI-FastNetLead Institution:TCD
Lead PI: Prof. Nick Campbellwith Ailbhe Ni Chasaide & Christer Gobl
Stokes Prof. – Prof. Nick Campbell
Academic PartnersProf Kashioka Hideki (NAIST, Japan)Drs. Joaquim Gustafson, Jens, Edlund (KTH, Sweden)Prof Julie Berndsen, Dr. Fred Cummins (UCD), Prof. Petra Wagner (Bielefeld). Prof T. Sadanobu, (Kobe)Prof Anton Nijholt (Twente, Netherlands)Prof Anna Esposito (COST 2012, EU) …. …. ….
Industry Partners(applicationswelcome)
This research will produce a device for processing human speech, as part of a robot, an information-providing service, a translation service, or an entertainment system, which is able to process not just the text of that speech, but also able to interpret the intentions, or acts, of the speaker.
4 Researchers (in the group)
2 Post Docs4 PhD Students+ support staff
Award Size€950,000 + X% from industry
Term5 Years
Commencing April 2010
Stokes Prof. – Prof. Nick Campbell Core Activities/Technologies• Focus on Actions in Social Talk;
network-enabling technology “FastNet”• A technology for capturing conversational speech • A technology for processing interactive speech
• Conversational Interaction Modelling• Voice & Speech in Social Interaction
• Text-free Speech Processing • Human-machine interface components• Interactive speech synthesis technology
Key Research Highlights• World’s first corpus of the conversational speech of Ireland• Demonstration of interactive / social speech technology• International links with major speech research laboratories
contact details/website Room 3040Center for Language and Communication StudiesTrinity College Dublin, D2Tel – 01 8961626 E-mail – [email protected] -http://www.speech-data.jp/fastnet/ http://www.tcd.ie/slscs/clcs/phonetics/fastnet/
www.sfi.ie
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel: +353 1 607 3240
• Focus on Actions in Social Talk network-enabling technology FastNet
