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From: andrewh@ee.su.OZ.AU (Andrew Hunt)
Subject: Welcome to comp.speech
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Welcome to comp.speech.  Thank you to all who voted for the formation of
the group.  Thanks to Tony Robinson (Cambridge Uni), Andrew Tridgell
(Australian National Uni), Goh Kawai (SRI International, Calif), and
David Leip (Uni of Guelp, Canada) for their work in setting up the group.

I've included a copy of the Group's charter below.

I am working on a FAQ andbut will need volunteers to help in several areas.
And, Tony Robinson has set up an archive site.  More about these matters later.

Looking forward to a productive newsgroup.

Cheers,
Andrew Hunt

Speech Technology Group              email: andrewh@ee.su.oz.au
Dept Electrical Engineering          Ph:  61-2-692 4509
University of Sydney, Australia.     Fax: 61-2-692 3847


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Comp.Speech Charter
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comp.speech is an unmoderated newsgroup for discussion of application and
research issues associated with speech technology and speech science.
By nature speech technology is an inter-disciplinary field and the 
newsgroup should reflect this.  Computer application should be the basic
theme of the group.

The following is a list of possible topics but does not cover 
all matters related to the field - no order of importance is implied.

[1] Speech Recognition - discussion of methodologies, training, 
techniques, results and applications.  This should cover the application
of techniques including HMMs, neural-nets and so on to the field.

[2] Speech Synthesis - discussion concerning theoretical and practical
issues associated with the design on speech synthesis systems.

[3] Speech Coding and Compression - both research and application matters.

[4] Phonetic/Linguistic Issues - coverage of linguistic and phonetic issues 
which are relevant to speech technology applications.  Could cover parsing, 
natural language processing, and prosodic work.

[5] Speech System Design - issues relating to the application of
speech technology to real-world problems.  Includes the design of
user interfaces, the building of real-time systems and so on.

[6] Other matters - relevant conferences, books, public domain software, 
hardware, and related products and so on.
