An Edinburgh Speech Production Facility

该方案设计了一种设备，用于记录和分析口头对话中嘴唇、舌头和下巴的运动。该设施将是英国首个此类设施，将有助于语音识别和语音合成的应用，以及发展正常和受损语音产生的认知表征和过程的理论。该设施的第一个输出将是一个记录对话的数据库，这将对对语音运动和声学之间的关系感兴趣的研究人员（对语音技术应用很重要）以及说话者在自发对话中使用的特定类型的发音很有用。

The proposal is for a facility designed to record and analyse the movements of the lips, tongue, and jaw during spoken dialogue. This facility will be the first of its kind in the UK, and will be useful for applications in speech recognition and speech synthesis, as well as for developing theories of the cognitive representations and processes involved in normal and impaired speech production. The first output of the facility will be a database of recorded dialogue that will be useful for researchers interested in the relationships between speech movement and acoustics (important for speech technology applications), as well as in the particular types of pronunciations that speakers use during spontaneous dialogue.