12th International Seminar on Speech Production; Providence, RI - June 2020

本次会议将于2020年6月在罗德岛普罗维登斯举行，届时专家和学生将齐聚一堂，探讨在测量和分析语音在物理层面组织方式的新方法和创新方法方面的进展。语音产生国际研讨会（ISSP）在过去的31年里每隔三到四年举办一次，旨在为语音产生各个方面的研究人员提供一个跨学科的论坛，这些领域包括音韵学、语音学、韵律学、力学、声学、生理学、运动控制、神经科学、语音技术和人类互动。该系列会议已在世界各地举行，最后一次是1993年在美国举行的。每次会议都吸引了相当一部分活跃的研究人员在这一重要但具有挑战性的语音研究领域。目前的项目将允许10名学生参加会议，并与选定的高级研究人员进行特别活动和一对一的会议。像这样的国际会议极大地促进了跟上最新的技术和理论，它为学生进入该领域提供了一个特别有用的入口。语音对人类交流至关重要，而产生语音的机制复杂且难以量化。可见的关节，如嘴唇和下巴（与下巴高度有关）相对容易评估，但它们的精确测量是困难的。视频图像当然可以显示可见关节的各个方面，但将3D人脸非线性压缩为2D视频图像使得测量不可靠，通常使用更复杂的设备。现代技术，如超声波和磁共振成像（MRI），可以更详细地观察舌头，尽管舌头是语言产生的主要组成部分，但很难测量。这些数据收集方面的进步已经开始用于改进语音运动控制模型。会议的8位主题演讲者将重点介绍广泛的相关主题，从神经科学到言语障碍，从语言习得到衰老，从测量技术到测量对消费技术的影响。简而言之，这次会议是对语音产生研究的范围和影响的一个很好的展示。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This conference, to be held in Providence, RI, in June, 2020, will bring experts and students together to explore the progress in new and innovative approaches to the measurement and analyses of the way in which speech is organized at the physical level. Iterations of the International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP) have taken place at three or four year intervals for the past 31 years with the aim of providing an interdisciplinary forum for researchers working on all aspects of speech production from fields as diverse as phonology, phonetics, prosody, mechanics, acoustics, physiology, motor control, neuroscience, speech technology and human interaction. The conference series has been held throughout the world, and was last in the US in 1993. Each meeting has attracted a substantial portion of the active researchers in this important yet challenging area of speech research. The current project will allow attendance by 10 students at the conference, with special events and one-on-one meetings with selected senior researchers. Keeping up with the latest in technology and theory is greatly facilitated by an international meeting such as this one, and it provides students with an especially useful entry into the field.Speech is of critical importance to human communication, and the mechanisms used to produce it are complex and difficult to quantify. Visible articulators such as the lips and chin (related to jaw height) are relatively easy to assess, but their accurate measurement is difficult. Video images can certainly show aspects of the visible articulators, but the nonlinear compression of the 3D face into a 2D video image makes measurement unreliable, and generally more sophisticated devices are used. Modern technology, such as ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), allow a more detailed look at the tongue, which, despite being a major component of speech production, is quite difficult to measure. These advances in data collection have begun to feed into improved models of speech motor control. The 8 keynote speakers at the conference will highlight the wide range of relevant topics, from neuroscience to disordered speech, from acquisition of speech to aging, from the technology of measurement to the influence of measurement on consumer technology. In short, the conference is an excellent showcase for the range and impact of speech production research.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.