5 January 1994, IoA meeting, Sheffield, England

[mmalcolm Crawford <M.Crawford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Interest in this meeting is growing rapidly, to the point where we are
considering a second day.  Would anybody interested in attending, and
particularly anybody contemplating making a presentation, please contact us as
soon as possible so that we can make arrangements as appropriate.

Have fun,

mmalcolm.

posn.   research facilitator
where   institute for language speech and hearing
        sheffield university
        c/o department of computer science
        regent court
        211 portobello street
        sheffield s1 4dp
        england

vox     (+44) 114 282 5569
fax     (+44) 114 278 0972
email   m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk


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               INSTITUTE OF ACOUSTICS SPEECH GROUP

                       One Day Meeting on
    LINKS BETWEEN SPEECH TECHNOLOGY, SPEECH SCIENCE AND HEARING

     Hosted by the Institute for Language, Speech and Hearing
                   University of Sheffield, UK

                   Thursday, 5th January, 1995

The theme of this meeting is to explore ways in which research in hearing,
speech technology and phonetics can be mutually beneficial.

Contributions received so far are given below. There is room for a few more.
Prospective speakers should send their title and a short abstract of their
talk to:

Phil Green
        Institute for Language Speech and Hearing
        Sheffield University
        c/o Department of Computer Science
        Regent Court
        211 Portobello Street
        Sheffield S1 4DP
        England

vox     (+44) 114 282 5578
fax     (+44) 114 278 0972
email   p.green@dcs.shef.ac.uk

DEADLINE: 1st December 1994

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    LINKS BETWEEN SPEECH TECHNOLOGY, SPEECH SCIENCE AND HEARING

                         OUTLINE PROGRAMME

Auditory representations of speech sounds
. Roy Patterson, APU Cambridge

Cocktail Party Speech Recognition
. Markus Bodden, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum

Modelling Auditory Organisation to detect and remove interfering sounds
. Dan Ellis, MIT Media Lab Perceptual Computing - Machine Listening group

Auditory Scene Analysis and Recognition of Speech in Noise
. Phil Green, Martin Cooke & Malcolm Crawford, Sheffield University

Phonetic classification and the macro-structure of speech -- the neglected
dimension of time (provisional title)
. Steve Greenberg, ICSI Berkeley

Prosodically driven syllabic speech recognition using abductive inference
. Kevin Lenzo, ATR Kyoto

Recent progress in hybrid connectionist-statistical speech recognition:
the ABBOT large vocabulary system.
. Steve Renals (Sheffield), Tony Robinson, Mike Hochberg (Cambridge)

Dynamic Acoustic Features in the Recognition of Speech Sounds
. Gerhard Prinsloo, Technikon OFS, Bloemfontein, South Africa

Amplitude modulation in wideband filter channels: useless artifact or useful
information?
. Leslie Smith, Stirling University, Scotland