International Coordination of Speech Databases, Prosodic Labeling, and Speech Input/Output Systems Assessment

该项目的目的是调查最新技术水平，并在（a）语音数据库、（B）韵律标记和（c）语音识别和语音合成评估方法方面建立国际协调。1996年6月至1999年3月这三年期间的活动和取得的成果如下。(1)技术现状调查和国际协调讨论在日本和美国都调查了技术现状，英国，法国、德国、荷兰、西班牙、希腊、澳大利亚、中国、韩国、香港等地与国内外会员合作，就进一步加强国际协调的机制和策略进行了探讨。((2)建立国际会议，作为相关领域研究人员交流的论坛。 ...更多信息 这是该项目欧洲成员的倡议，作为介绍和讨论相关研究的论坛。考虑到东亚语言与印欧语言的特点差异，主要在国内成员的倡议下，还组织了一次关于东亚语言的语言资源和评价的国际讲习班。双方一致认为，这两次会议都很重要，今后将定期举行。(3)举办了三次讲习班（1996年费城、1997年罗兹和1998年悉尼），供项目成员和其他对国际协调感兴趣的研究人员进行深入讨论。这些讨论揭示了该领域国际协调的重要性日益增加，并确认了中央协调委员会、语料库和标记工作小组委员会、语音识别评估工作小组委员会和语音合成评估工作小组委员会的作用，以及今后继续努力的方向。少

The aim of the project is to investigate the state of the art, and to establish international coordination in (a) speech databases, (b) prosodic labeling, and (c) assessment methods for speech recognition and speech synthesis. The activities and the results obtained during the three year period from June 1996 to March 1999 are as follows.(1) Investigation of the state of the art and discussion on international coordinationThe state of the art has been investigated in Japan as well as in U.S., U.K., France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Greece, Australia, China, Korea, and Hong Kong with the cooperation of domestic and overseas members, and mechanisms and strategies were discussed for further strengthening international coordination. ((2) Establishment of international meetings as forums for exchange among researchers in related fieldsAs a result of the foregoing discussion, an international conference on language resources and evaluation has been organized in May 1998 mainly by the … More initiative of European members of the project, as a forum for presentation and discussion of related research. Considering the characteristic differences of East-Asian languages from Indo-European languages, an international workshop on language resources and evaluation of East-Asian languages has also been organized mainly by the initiative of domestic members. It was agreed that both meetings are important and will be held at regular intervals in the future.(3) In-depth discussions at workshopsThree workshops were held (Philadelphia 1996, Rhodes 1997, and Sydney 1998) for intensive discussions among members of the project as well as other researchers who are interested in international coordination. These discussions revealed the increasing importance of international coordination in this field, and confirmed the roles of the central coordinating committee, the working sub-committees on corpora and labeling, speech recognition assessment, and speech synthesis assessment, and continuation of the efforts in the future. Less