Subject: transcription of continuous speech workshop

coling-acl 98 workshop on partially automated techniques for transcribing naturally occurring , continuous speech august 16 , 1998 ( following acl / coling-98 ) university of montreal , montreal ( quebec , canada ) description - - - - - - - - - - the development of robust systems for speech analysis and synthesis depends crucially on the availability of well-annotated corpora of naturally occurring , continuous speech . yet existing speech corpora are rarely well-annotated . a key to proper annotation is the availability of partially automated systems for linking selected portions of a visual display of speech to the corresponding transcriptions . to be of practical use , such systems must be able to handle large files of digitized speech and they should permit transcriptions at different levels of analysis . this workshop is devoted to the presentation and discussion of papers and software demonstrations which reflect the current state of the art . the presentations address the development , use , and evaluation of such systems . registration - - - - - - - - - - - registration is now open for this workshop . registration details can be found at http : / / coling-acl 98 . iro . umontreal . ca registration befroe july 1 is 50 can ( 35 can for students ) for participants of the main conference . anybody wishing to attend only this workshop can do so by pre-registering the same way and submitting a fee of 150 can . preregistration is strongly advised . workshop program - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - session 1 9 : 15 - 9 : 30 opening remarks nancy belmore concordia university 9 : 30-10 : 05 recognition of spontaneous speech ( invited talk ) peter stubley nortel 10 : 05-10 : 30 break session 2 10 : 30-11 : 05 towards multimodal spoken language corpora : transtool and synctool joachim nivre , elisabeth ahlsen , jens allwood , leif gronqvist , jenny holm , dario lopez - kasten , sylvana sofkova , kristina tullgren goteborg university 11 : 05-11 : 40 speech annotation by multi - sensory recording robert luk hong kong polytechnic university 11 : 40-12 : 15 how phone duration and segmental processing improve continuous speech signal labeling andre - obrecht , n . parlangeau , f . pellegrino universite paul sabatier - cnrs 12 : 15 - 1 : 15 lunch session 3 1 : 15 - 1 : 50 grapheme - to-phoneme transcription rules for spanish with application to automatic speech recognition and synthesis patrizia bonaventura , fabio giuliani , juan m . garrido , isabel orten cluster reply consultant , turin and universitat autonoma de barcelona 1 : 50 - 2 : 25 the value of minimal prosodic information caroline lyon and jill hewitt university of hertfordshire 2 : 25 - 3 : 00 taped demonstrations 3 : 00 - 3 : 30 break session 4 3 : 30 - 4 : 00 on - line demonstrations 4 : 00 - 5 : 00 round table discussion workshop organization sabine bergler department of computer science concordia university 1455 de maisonneuve blvd west montreal , qc h3g 1m8 e-mail trans98 @ cs . concordia . ca program committee nancy belmore sabine bergler john esling eric keller roland kuhn douglas o'shaughnessy ching y . suen
