Project Details

Nové směry ve výzkumu a využití hlasových technologií

Project Period: 1. 1. 2005 – 31. 12. 2007

Project Type: grant

Code: GA102/05/0278

Agency: Czech Science Foundation

Program: Standardní projekty

English title
New trends in research and application of voice technology
Type
grant
Keywords

voice technology;automatic speech recognition;multi-lingual systems;speaker
recognition and verification;spontaneous speech recognition;accoustic-visual
speech processing;automatic transcription;large speech databases;dialogue
systems;prosody optimization

Abstract


The proposed project follows up the previous research activities carried out in
the speech processing area by the team that integrates all Czech research groups
which are recently active in speech analysis, synthesis and recognition. It was
established in 1996 to participate on an ambitious 6-year project supported by
the GACR and later continued in another speech oriented project ending in 2002.
Each of the groups involved has its own proficiency in a specific domain, which
allows the consortium to work on integrated and complex tasks. In the previous
years the team has created large databases of annotated speech recordings, which
are now available both training and testing purposes in speech recognition domain
as well as for speech synthesis. In addition, a set of powerful tools and
platforms for developing own recognition and synthesis systems has been built
together with several working prototypes that serve for evaluation and
demonstration purposes. Based on this state and with respect to the recent trends
in voice technologies, the project will focus on the investigation and
implementation of algorithms that are applicable in distributed, embedded and
mobile systems, in recognition engines working with very large vocabularies, in
TTS modules for interactive communication and information services, in automatic
transcription of broadcast news as well as in multimodal audio-visual interfaces.
Primarily, the research will address specific needs of Czech.

Team members
Publications

2007

2006

2005

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