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| ISCA Special Interest Group on Speech Prosody |
The subject of Speech Prosody today covers a huge multidisciplinary area of research involving scientists from very different backgrounds and traditions, including linguistics, acoustics, speech synthesis and recognition, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, speech therapy, language teaching. Work in each of these fields has evolved very rapidly over the last few years and it is today impossible for any one person to keep up with the most recent work in all of these fields. The subject is particularly daunting for young researchers coming into the area who need to acquire a background in several fields which are often taught in entirely different departments or institutions.
The aims of the Special Interest Group on Speech Prosody SProSIG are to promote the study and diffusion of knowledge about Speech Prosody in general in a number of ways, including:
The International nature of the SIG also provides a means for diffusing information both to and from the different language communities involved in research on various languages.
The SIG has received official approval from the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). Elections have been organised for the SIG officers respecting the ISCA by-laws:
The purpose of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) Special Interest Group on SPEECH PROSODY (the SIG) shall be to promote interest in SPEECH PROSODY; to provide members of ISCA with a special interest in SPEECH PROSODY with a means of exchanging news of recent research developments and other matters of interest in SPEECH PROSODY; to sponsor meetings and workshops in SPEECH PROSODY that appear to be timely and worthwile, operating within the framework of ISCA's by-laws for SIGs; and to provide and make available resources relevant to SPEECH PROSODY, including text and speech corpora, analysis tools, analysis and generation software, research papers and generated data.
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The creation of SProSIG is supported by 72 founder members from 23 different countries (Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, UK, USA, Venezuela).
Please connect to our on-line database <http://teck.lpl.univ-aix.fr/sprosig/sprosig.htm> to become a member of SProSIG or modify your record. No payment is required.
Till 25 May 2003, SProSIG ran a general-purpose email discussion list in English. The list archive is still accessible to its former members (follow this link).
We recommend that SproSIG members subscribe to the new Speech Prosody discussion list. Information specific to SProSIG activities is now dispatched to its members. There is no need to join a specific list if you already have a personal record in the SProSIG database.
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