5^TH SEMINAR ON SPEECH PRODUCTION:
MODELS AND DATA

CREST WORKSHOP ON MODELS OF SPEECH PRODUCTION:
MOTOR PLANNING AND ARTICULATORY MODELLING

First Announcement

The fifth in the series of Speech Production Seminars will be held in Kloster Seeon, Bavaria, Germany on May 1^st to 4^th, 2000.

We look foward to continuing the tradition established at the previous meetings in Grenoble, Leeds, Old Saybrook and Autrans of providing a congenial forum for presentation and discussion of current research into all aspects of speech production.

Following the link at Autrans in 1996 with an ESCA workshop, the forthcoming Speech Production Seminar will also be a double-barrelled effort through cooperation with the Japanese CREST initiative ("Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology"). In the speech field this programme is funding projects on computational and mechanical modelling, and motor planning (http://www.brl.ntt.co.jp/cs/speech/crest.html).

Topics

The meeting will maintain the customary focus of the Speech Production Seminars on the analysis and modelling of all aspects of articulatory processes. Results of the earlier meetings are documented in special issues of J. Phonetics (Vols. 19, 20, 23) and Speech Communication (Vol. 22). The following list of themes is not meant to be exhaustive:

• Articulatory-acoustic relations
• Articulatory synthesis
• Acoustic to articulatory inversion
• Connected speech processes
• Coarticulation
• Biomechanical modelling
• Models of motor control
• Audiovisual synthesis
• Aerodynamic models
• Cerebral organization of speech
• Disorders of speech motor control
• Instrumental techniques

In addition, the following special topics are currently being planned:

• Evolution of speech
  Further details from Kiyoshi Honda (honda@hip.atr.co.jp) or Shinji Maeda (maeda@sig.enst.fr)
• Motor expression of the language faculty: non-speech perspectives
  Parallels and differences between the organization of speech and other language-related motor activity such as handwriting and sign-language.
  Further details from Phil Hoole at

In order to achieve maximum flexibility in the arrangement of sessions we will for the first time be using both oral and poster sessions. As in the past, there will, however, be no parallel sessions.

Registration and Deadlines

To be placed on the mailing list for further information please send an email giving your current preferred email address to

The deadline for submission of abstracts will be October 31st, 1999. Further details of deadlines will be announced mid-August, 1999.

A conference web-site (including this announcement) is being constructed at http://www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/~sps5

Venue

The conference venue can be inspected at http://www.kloster-seeon.de (or here for a quick birds-eye view: http://www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/~sps5/kloster_seeon.gif

Kloster Seeon is a former Benedictine monastery now used for educational and cultural purposes. It is attractively located in a small lake about halfway between Munich and Salzburg, and close to the much larger lake Chiemsee and to the Bavarian Alps. It provides the element of monastic seclusion conducive to intensive discussions, but be reassured that it also follows the strong Bavarian tradition of locating monasteries and beer gardens in close proximity to one another.

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Phil Hoole (on behalf of the organizing committee)
Institut für Phonetik und Sprachliche Kommunikation
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Schellingstr. 3
D-80799 Munich
Germany
Tel: + 49 89 2180 3149
Fax: + 49 89 2800362
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