Human-Machine Communication by Voice
Organized by Lawrence Rabiner
February 8-9, 1993
Irvine, CA
Meeting Overview:
The fields of synthesis and speech recognition have matured to the point where a wide range of applications is now within sight and may well become practical within a few years. Because of the impact of speech synthesis and recognition on science and technology, it is important to fully understand both the strengths and limitations of our current understanding in these two key areas of research. It is also important to understand the direction in which the research is heading to see what future applications will emerge as synthetic speech quality becomes more natural and as restrictions on vocabulary size, user population and syntactical constraints become more relaxed in speech recognition.
February 8
Jack Halpern, Chairman, NAS Committee on Scientific Programs, Welcome Address
Lawrence Rabiner. AT&T Bell Laboratories, Colloquium Chair, Charge to the Conference
Session One - Scientific Bases of Human-Machine Communication by Voice
The Role of Voice in Human-Machine Communication
Philip R. Cohen, SRI International
Overview of Speech Communication
James L. Flanagan, CAIP Center, Rutgers University
Ronald W. Schafer, Georgia Institute of Technology, Discussion Leader
Session Two - Speech Synthesis Today
Models of Speech Synthesis
Rolf Carlson, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Linguistic Aspects of Speech Synthesis
Johnathan Allen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mark Liberman, University of Pennsylvania, Discussion Leader
Session Three - Speech Recognition Technology
Overview of Speech Recognition Technology
John Makhoul, BBN Systems and Technologies
Training and Search Methods
Fredrick Jelinek, IBM Watson Research Center
Stephen E. Levinson, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Discussion Leader
Session Four - Natural Language Understanding Technology
Models of Natural Language Understanding
Madeleine Bates, BBN Systems and Technologies
Integration of Speech with Natural Language Understanding
Robert C. Moore, SRI International
Lynette Hirschman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Discussion Leader
Social Hour and Dinner
Lawrence Rabiner, Introduction of After-Dinner Speaker
After Dinner Speaker: Yasuo Kato, NEC Corporation, The Future of Voice Processing Technology in the World of Computers and Communication
February 9
Session Five - Applications of Voice Processing Technology I
Laboratories Applications of Voice Processing Technology in Telecommunications
Jay G. Wilpon, AT&T Bell
Aids for Handicapped People: Assistive Technology for Voice Communication
Harry Levitt, City University of New York Graduate School
Chris Seelbach, Seelbach Associates, Discussion Leader
Session Six - Applications of Voice Processing Technology II
Military/Government Applications of Speech Processing Technology
Clifford J. Weinstein, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
General/Consumer Applications of Voice Processing
George Doddington, SRI International (Currently at SISTO/DARPA)
John Oberteuffer, ASR News, Discussion Leader
Session Seven - Technology Deployment
What Does Voice Processing Technology Support Today
Ryohei Nakatsu, NTT Basic Research Laboratories
Research User Interfaces for Voice Applications
Candace Kamm, Bell Communications
David Roe, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Discussion Leader
Session Eight - Technology in 2001
New Research Directions
Bishnu S. Atal, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Towards the Ultimate Synthesis/Recognition System
Sadaoki Furui, NTT Human Interface Laboratories
New Trends in Natural Language Processing
Mitchell Marcus, University of Pennsylvania
Title TBA
Frank Fallside, University of Cambridge
