Acronym
SCALE
Title
Speech Communication with Adaptive LEarning
Programme
Marie Curie - Initial training network
Contract number
GA N° 213850
Abstract
All aspects of speech processing are rapidly growing in commercial importance. A leading market analyst reports 129.8 million USD were generated by speech products in North America in 2004, but predicts these revenues will increase to nearly one billion USD by 2011. In order to accelerate the rate of advance in speech technology, a new elite of researchers are required who are well-versed in all aspects of speech processing, as opposed to the narrowly-concentrated specialists who are currently the norm. Educating such an elite class of researchers will be a primary goal of the SCALE - Speech Communication with Adaptive Learning – Initial Training Network.
SCALE research is concerned with adaptive learning approaches to all areas of speech processing with particular focuses on automatic speech recognition and synthesis, signal processing, human speech recognition, and machine learning. In particular, SCALE has three principal scientific objectives: 1. To bridge the gap between speech recognition and speech synthesis; 2. To bridge the gap between human and automatic speech recognition; 3. To bridge the gap between signal processing and adaptive learning. In this context Scale aims to create an environment that fosters synergistic cooperation between researchers in each of the aforementioned disciplines. The network specifically promotes collaboration between academia and industry through the inclusion of two major industrial partners in the consortium, whose presence will ensure that the research training contributes directly to the next generation of speech products.
Duration
48 months (01/01/2009 - 31/12/2012)
EC contribution
3,000,021.36 €
Coordinator
Saarland University, Germany
Spoken Language Systems
Prof. Dietrich Klakow
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Partners
- University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Centre for Speech Technology Research (Prof. Steve Renals)
- IDIAP research institute, Switzerland (Dr. Hervé Bourlard)
- Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Department of Language and Speech (Prof Lou Boves, Dr. Louis ten Bosch, Dr. Bert Cranen) - Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH), German
Department of Computer Science (Prof. Hermann Ney, Dr. Ralf Schlüter) - University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Department of Computer Science - Speech and Hearing Research Group (Prof. Roger Moore)
Associated Partners
- Nuance Communications, Germany (Stephan Kanthak, Daniel Willett, Markus Buck)
- Toshiba Research Europe, United Kingdom
- Cambridge Research Laboratory (Dr. Kate Knill, Dr. K.K. Chin)
- Eurice GmbH, Germany (Dr. Vera Siegmund)
Contact at Eurice
Cornelia Köck
Project Officer
Phone: +49 681 95923366
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