SFI-FastNet

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Stokes Prof. Prof. Nick Campbell
SFI-FastNet Lead InstitutionTCD Lead PI Prof.
Nick Campbell with Ailbhe Ni Chasaide Christer
Gobl
Academic Partners Prof Kashioka Hideki (NAIST,
Japan) Drs. Joaquim Gustafson, Jens, Edlund (KTH,
Sweden) Prof Julie Berndsen, Dr. Fred Cummins
(UCD), Prof. Petra Wagner (Bielefeld). Prof T.
Sadanobu, (Kobe) Prof Anton Nijholt (Twente,
Netherlands) Prof Anna Esposito (COST 2012, EU)
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Industry Partners (applications welcome)
This research will produce a device for
processing human speech, as part of a robot, an
information-providing service, a translation
service, or an entertainment system, which is
able to process not just the text of that speech,
but also able to interpret the intentions, or
acts, of the speaker.
4 Researchers (in the group) 2 Post Docs 4 PhD
Students support staff
Award Size 950,000 X from industry
Term 5 Years Commencing April 2010
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Stokes Prof. Prof. Nick Campbell

• Core Activities/Technologies
• Focus on Actions in Social Talk
• network-enabling technology FastNet
• A technology for capturing conversational speech
• A technology for processing interactive speech
• Conversational Interaction Modelling
• Voice Speech in Social Interaction
• Text-free Speech Processing
• Human-machine interface components
• Interactive speech synthesis technology
• Key Research Highlights
• Worlds first corpus of the conversational speech
  of Ireland
• Demonstration of interactive / social speech
  technology
• International links with major speech research
  laboratories

contact details/website Room 3040 Center for
Language and Communication Studies Trinity
College Dublin, D2 Tel [phone] E-mail
nick_at_tcd.ie Web -http//www.speech-data.jp/fastnet
/ http//www.tcd.ie/slscs/clcs/phonetics
/fastnet/
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• Focus on Actions in Social Talk
• network-enabling technology
• FastNet

www.sfi.ie
E-mail ruth.freeman_at_sfi.ie Tel [phone]
3240