An Edinburgh Speech Production Facility

该提案旨在建立一种设备，用于记录和分析口头对话过程中嘴唇、舌头和下巴的运动。该设备将是英国第一个此类设备，将有助于语音识别和语音合成的应用，以及开发涉及正常和受损语音产生的认知表征和过程的理论。该设施的第一个产出将是一个录音对话数据库，这将有助于研究人员对语音运动和声学之间的关系(对语音技术应用很重要)以及发言者在自发对话期间使用的特定类型的发音感兴趣。

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.