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What is a PUMS?

What is a PUMS?. Jouni Isoaho University of Turku, Department of Information Technology Laboratory of Communication Systems, FIN-20520 Turku Tel. +358-2-333 6947, Fax. +358-2-333 6950 Email: jouni.isoaho@utu.fi. A Meeting Place for Many Branches of Sciences.

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What is a PUMS?

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  1. What is a PUMS? Jouni Isoaho University of Turku, Department of Information Technology Laboratory of Communication Systems, FIN-20520 Turku Tel. +358-2-333 6947, Fax. +358-2-333 6950 Email: jouni.isoaho@utu.fi

  2. A Meeting Place for Many Branches of Sciences • Language technology is multidisciplinary branch of science covering all forms and dimensions of human language • Speech technology is multidisciplinary branch of science covering all forms and dimensions of human speech • Phonetics is study of speech production, acoustics and perception • Digital signal processing covers methods and techniques to manipulate digital signals (e.g. speech, audio, image, video, …) • Communication systems covers communication concepts, applications and implementation technologies • Computer sciences covers algorithmics, AI, programming techniques, information systems, bioinformatics, human-computer interaction • Teaching technology (didactic IT) electric tools and methods for promoting learning process

  3. Key objective is to create a new technology sector to Finland Collect together all interest groups Enhance co-operation to gain enough critical mass Do this consortium to global key player Education to provide competent working power Human-technology interaction Provide human pull to IT technology development Multidisciplinary co-operation Objectives of the “Project” End-users Technology appliers Technology developers

  4. Towards New Development Drivers Current Driver Technology development Technology Products Applications User’s needs User’s needs / applications ???

  5. Summary • Speech and language technology will impact very strongly on future IT development • Own technology programme or a part of larger real multidisciplinary IT programme (human – technology)? • Leading multidisciplinary universities should take much stronger role in IT technology development • Current funding mechanisms and working procedures are not valid anymore for creating continuously agile, global innovation and development centres/areas • Long-term research, short-term R&D, education, mobility/globalisation and new business should be approached as overall • It requires coherent programmes between Academy of Finland, TEKES, Ministry of Education, SITRA, …

  6. The structure of the project • Speech recognition, production and learning • Speech as a biometric identifier • Speech based human interaction

  7. T1: Core speech production / Olli Aaltonen D1.1 Highly intelligible truly artificial speech for Finnish (TY) D1.2 Highly intelligible truly artificial speech for English (TY) D1.3 Application study for speed control (TY) D1.4 Ubiquitous implementation for mobile environments (TY) D1.5 Multilingual text-to-phoneme implementation using neural networks (TTY,TY)

  8. T2: Interactive learning / Tapio Salakoski D2.1 Reinforcement of phonemic memory models (HY, TY) D2.2 Audio-visual feedback from articulation: vowels (TY, HY) D2.3 Audio-visual feedback from articulation: consonants (TY, HY) D2.4 Audio-visual feedback from prosody (HY, TY, TTY) D2.5 Characterisation of core speech for improved learning (TY)

  9. T3: Speech and speaker adaptation / Mikko Kurimo D3.1 Speaker adaptation for recognition (TKK) D3.2 Speaker adaptation for synthesis (HY) D3.3 Utilisation of syntactic information for synthesis (HY, TY)

  10. Universities and Research Institutes University of Turku Communication Systems (coordinator) Prof. Jouni Isoaho Computer Science Prof. Tapio Salakoski Phonetics Prof. Olli Aaltonen University of Helsinki Phonetics Prof. Antti Iivonen Language technology Ph.D Martti Vainio Translation Sciences Prof. Kristiina Jokinen Helsinki University of Technology Computer and Information Science Prof. Mikko Kurimo Acoustics Prof. Unto K. Laine University of Tampere Computer-Human Interaction Prof. Markku Turunen Tampere University of Technology Signal Processing Prof. Jaakko Astola University of Joensuu Computer Science Prof. Pasi Fränti VTT Products and Production Ari Virtanen Project Research Partners

  11. Panel Discussion: Future of Speech Technology • Moderator: Jouni Isoaho (TY) • Panel members: Olli Aaltonen (TY), Markku Turunen (TaY), Pasi Fränti (JoY), Johanna Lehtonen (Lingsoft), Aapo Puskala (Kone), Matti Sihto (TEKES) Questions: • The future of speech technology in Finland and abroad? • What are the most important application and R&D areas in future? Why? • Which concrete actions should be done? - Research, education and other actions • Impact on business and labor policy? - volumes, time-schedules and competence profiles

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