5^TH SEMINAR ON SPEECH PRODUCTION:
MODELS AND DATA

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

Second 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 () or Shinji Maeda ()
• 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

Instructions for abstract submission are given below.

A conference web-site (including this announcement) is to be found at http://www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/Forschung/SPS5

Important Dates

October 31^st, 1999: Deadline for abstract submission
Late December, 1999: Notification of acceptance or rejection of abstract
March 6^th, 2000: Deadline for submission of full paper, revised abstract and registration at reduced rate
May 1^st to 4^th, 2000: Conference at Kloster Seeon

If considering staying in Munich before or after the meeting the following link can be consulted for tourist information, diary of events, etc.: http://www.muenchen-tourist.de. Here is one example:

April 22^nd to May 7^th, 2000: "Frühlingsfest". Smaller version of the more famous "Oktoberfest" ("Frühling" means "spring")

Conference Fees

The following fees represent a complete package of accommodation (4 nights), all meals, conference facilities, documentation, coffee breaks (to a gross approximation 1 US $ = 1 EURO = 1.9 DM).

Full Fee: DM 999 (single room; a small number of double rooms will be available at DM 860 per person)

Reduced Fee: We expect to have some funds available to offer reduced fees to active participants. Further details will be given as soon as possible, at the latest when notification of abstract acceptance is sent.

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/Forschung/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 one hour's journey from Munich (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. Apart from obedience (to session chairs) no monastic vows will be imposed.

Instructions for submission of abstract

Abstracts should be submitted using the form below in one of the two following ways:

(1) email (much preferred) to:

Place the single word "abstract" in the subject field.
The complete abstract form should be sent as plain text in the body of the email or as an attachment in RTF format if essential formatting features are incompatible with a plain text format.

We will confirm receipt of the abstract by replying to the email address from which the abstract was sent. If you do not receive confirmation within 3 working days send a fax alert (but NOT the abstract itself) to:

Dr. Philip Hoole
5^th Speech Production Seminar
Institut für Phonetik und Sprachliche Kommunikation
Fax: +49 89 2800362

(2) Normal mail (4 copies) to

Dr. Philip Hoole
5^th Speech Production Seminar
Institut für Phonetik und Sprachliche Kommunikation
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Schellingstr. 3
D-80799 Munich
Germany

Points to note

• The body of the abstract should not exceed 600 words.
• Abstracts will be submitted to two reviewers for assessment of originality and relevance to the conference topics.
• Submission deadline is October 31^st, 1999
• Time and space at the conference are limited, so presentations that are flexible regarding mode of presentation (oral, poster) have a better chance of being accepted. Please do not see poster presentation as a second-best option. We expect to be able to give posters a complete day's exposure, i.e not just limited to the poster sessions themselves.
• The submitted abstracts will not be made publicly available. Their purpose is to allow presentations to be selected, and the conference programme to be drawn up. Authors of accepted contributions will be asked to submit an abstract for public dissemination (revised if desired) together with the full version of their paper (deadline March 1^st, 2000). These abstracts will be made available on the conference web-site immediately after the March 1^st deadline. The full papers will be prepared for distribution at the conference in printed and CD-ROM formats. The basic format will probably be a standard "conference" 4-page format, but with the opportunity for including additional audiovisual and demo materials on the CD-ROM. If time permits, the full papers will also be made available in advance on the conference web-site. As in the past, we hope that it will be possible for a special number of a peer-reviewed journal to be based on contributions to the meeting.

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