Organization: Carstens Medizinelektronik GmbH
Subject: ACCOR WORKSHOP ON ARTICULATORY DATABASES
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                           SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT
                ACCOR WORKSHOP ON ARTICULATORY DATABASES
                                    
             Munich, Thursday 25th and Friday 26th May, 1995

You will find below a registration form for the workshop. Please return it
to us by April 1st at the latest, but preferably as soon as possible since
this will greatly facilitate hotel booking.

FORMAT OF PRESENTATIONS

The basic time slot for oral presentations will be 30 mins., i.e 20 mins.
speaking time, plus 10 mins. for questions. However, we are quite flexible
here. If you would like substantially more (or less) time we can probably
accomodate you.

We also welcome presentations in the form of demonstrations, and will
endeavour to provide any special facilities that may be required.

We also encourage presentations that, rather than presenting results in the
traditional sense, take the form of prepared comments on the topics
outlined in the first announcement (also appended to this announcement), as
seen from the perspective of the participant's special area of expertise.

One of the main aims of the workshop will be to provide a congenial
atmosphere for discussion. In order to help us give an appropriate focus to
the discussions, we would like you to indicate below your own main areas of
interest or expertise, together with the topics you would be most
interested in discussing. It would be greatly appreciated if you could
spare a moment to fill out this section, even if you do not intend to give
a formal presentation. We will distribute a summary of this feedback at the
beginning of May, together with the abstracts and the programme.

ABSTRACTS

Please submit abstracts by April 13th, preferably by email, and preferably
in a format suitable for redistribution by email.

WORKSHOP FEE

There will be a fee of DM 100, payable in cash at the workshop, to cover
conference materials, coffee breaks and a buffet supper on the Friday
evening.

We look forward to seeing you in Munich.

Phil Hoole and Hans Tillmann
Institut fuer Phonetik
Munich University

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                             REGISTRATION FORM
                ACCOR WORKSHOP ON ARTICULATORY DATABASES
             Munich, Thursday 25th and Friday 26th May, 1995

Name, Affiliation, Postal address





I plan to attend the workshop on:
Both days / Thursday only / Friday only

I would like to give:
1.   An oral presentation
     Title:

2.   A demonstration
     Title:
     Special facilities required:

Particular areas of interest / Preferred topics for discussion:



HOTEL ARRANGEMENTS
We aim to accommodate participants in small hotels near our institute. To
facilitate this procedure please give us your dates now even if they are
not completely certain yet. It is usually no problem to make slight changes
later.

Arrival date:
Departure date:
Type of room (e.g single, double, sharing with):

Please indicate a preference, if any:
(Quoted prices are for single room (double in brackets) with shower/WC and
breakfast. Hotel Stephanie also has some simpler rooms at cheaper rates)

Hotel Bosch, Amalienstr. 25.       DM 120 (190)
Hotel Stephanie, Tuerkenstr. 35.   DM 105 (165)
Pension Hauser, Schellingstr. 11.  DM 130 (170)
Hotel Lettl, Amalienstr. 53.       DM 110 (175)

Please return the registration form to:

Phil Hoole
Institut fuer Phonetik
Munich University
Schellingstr. 3
D - 80799 Munich
Germany
Fax: + 49 89 2800362
Email : HOOLE@SUN1.PHONETIK.UNI-MUENCHEN.DE

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                ACCOR WORKSHOP ON ARTICULATORY DATABASES
                                    
             Munich Thursday 25th and Friday 26th May, 1995
                                    
                  Summary of Rationale and Main Topics


The basic premise is that the free availability of articulatory data could
provide benefits in several partly overlapping areas:

     In basic research it could allow investigators to test hypotheses
     formulated in articulatory terms on a much wider range of data than
     the individual worker would normally be able to acquire or access
     unaided.

     It could promote the development and testing of algorithms for
     deriving articulatory representations from acoustic data - relevant
     both for basic understanding of speech production as well as in
     potential applications such as speech displays for training the
     speech impaired.

     It could promote the development and testing of algorithms for speech
     synthesis/recognition using an articulatory level of representation.

The workshop will aim to identify:

1)   What articulatory data is in existence that it would be beneficial to
     make more freely available?

2)   What standards should freely available data meet?
     - Specification of recording conditions
     - Anatomical frames of reference
     - Levels of accuracy/reliability
     - Linguistic specification of the speech samples
     - Preferred data structures for distribution.
     - Any other issues relevant to the data being used without risk of
     misinterpretation by people not actually involved in the the details
     of acquisition

3)   In analogy to acoustic database, what segmentation and labelling
     information (and tools for the exploitation thereof) could/should be
     made available with the raw data to facilitate flexible access for
     different purposes?

4)   For future recordings, what categories of data and corpora would be
     potentially of most widespread use?

Suggestions for further topics are welcome.
