International Standardization of Spoken Language Detabases

该项目的目的是研究国际协调和最终标准化的可能性：1)世界各国正在建设的口语数据库；2)语音识别和语音合成的评估技术。1993年6月至1996年3月三年期间的活动如下：日本成员和海外成员之间进行了互访，以调查当前的技术状况和找出需要解决的具体问题。研究成果的介绍和传播正在进行的研究的结果已经在1993年和1995年的欧洲语音通信和技术会议上以及1994年在日本横滨举行的国际口语处理会议上进行了介绍和讨论。讲习班的深入讨论举办了三次讲习班（1993年柏林、1994年横滨和1995年马德里），在项目成员和其他研究人员之间进行了深入的讨论。这些讨论确认了这一领域的国际协调日益重要、中央协调委员会（由包括藤崎在内的8名成员组成）和语料库和标签、语音识别评价和语音合成评价工作小组委员会的作用以及1995年财政年度以后继续努力的重要性。

The aim of the project is to investigate the possibility of international coordination and eventual standardization of 1) spoken language databases that are being constructed in various countries of the world, and 2) assessment techniques for speech recognition and speech synthesis. The activities during three year period from June 1993 to March 1996 are as follows.1. Investigation of the state of the artMutual visits have been made between Japanese members and overseas members for investigating the state of the art and for finding out specific problems to be solved.2. Presentation and dissemination of research resultsThe results of on-going research have been presented and discussed at the European Conferences on Speech Communication and Technology in 1993 and 1995, as well as at the 1994 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing held in Yokohama, Japan.3. In-depth discussions at workshopsThree workshops were held (Berlin 1993, Yokohama 1994, and Madrid 1995) for intensive discussions among members of the project as well as other researchers. These discussions confirmed the increasing importance of international coordination in this field, the roles of the central coodinating committe (consisting of 8 members including Fujisaki) and the working sub-committees on corpora and labeling, speech recognition assessment, and speech synthesis assessment, and continuation of the efforts beyond the fiscal year 1995.