COST277: Non-linear speech processing1 COST277 Non-linear speech processing PROGRESS REPORT Period: from (June-2001) to (June-2002)

COST277: Non-linear speech processing2 OUTLINE Overview Organisation Countries Dissemination Successes Manpower Summary

COST277: Non-linear speech processing3 Overview DISCRETE MODELS SYNTHETIC SPEECH HUMAN SPEECH CODED SPEECH WRITTEN SPEECH TtS StT StC CtS Analysis Synthesis Recogn. Coding © ukl 2002

COST277: Non-linear speech processing4 Organisation Chair: Marcos Faúndez Vice-Chair: Gernot Kubin Secretary: Stephen McLaughlin –WG1: Bastiaan Kleijn –WG2: Bojan Petek –WG3: Stephen McLaughlin –WG4: Gerard Chollet

COST277: Non-linear speech processing5 Countries Austria Belgium France Germany Ireland Italy Portugal Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland UK Slovakia Canada Greece (not yet)

COST277: Non-linear speech processing6 Dissemination distribution list: Subscribe/unsubscribe Website: cost277/

COST277: Non-linear speech processing7 Meetings of the management committee MCM-0 (pre-inaugural meeting): September, 1999, Budapest (Hungary) MCM-1 (Inaugural meeting): June, 2001, Brussels (Belgium) MCM-2 (Unofficial EUROSPEECH meeting): September, 2001, Aalborg (Danmark) MCM-3 (Vietri Sul Mare meeting): 6 th /7 th December, 2001, Vietri Sul Mare (Italy) MCM-4 (Graz meeting): 11 th /12 th April, 2002, Graz (Austria)

COST277: Non-linear speech processing8 Future meetings MCM-5 (Unofficial EUSIPCO02 meeting): September, 2002, Toulouse (France) MCM-6 (Edinburgh meeting): October 2002, Edinburgh (UK) MCM-7 (Unofficial ICSLP02 meeting): September, 2002, Denver (USA) MCM-8 (Rennes meeting): June, 2003, Rennes (France) MCM-9 (unofficial ICPH03 meeting): July, 2003, Barcelona (Spain) MCM-10 (Geneve meeting): September, 2003, Geneve (Switzerland) Unofficial means that the expenses are not paid for by the COST-277 fund, and attendance is not mandatory.

COST277: Non-linear speech processing9 Publications and reports International Journal of control and intelligent systems, special issue on Non-linear Speech processing techniques and applications ACTAPRESS. Invited editor: A. Hussain (COST-277 MC member) Spanish publication: Proyectos COST277 Cooperación europea en investigación científica y técnica. M. Faúndez & F. Ferrándiz, Mundo Electrónico 327, January 2002

COST277: Non-linear speech processing10 Seminars Vietri Sul Mare (XII/01) Graz (IV/02) Available at the web site: cost277/

COST277: Non-linear speech processing11 Conferences and workshops IWANN2001, June 2001, Granada (Spain) International Workshop on Artificial and Natural Neural Networks, a special session on Non-linear speech processing was organized. Organizer: M. Faúndez (COST-277 Chairman). The papers are published on Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS 2085 Vol. II, ISBN Ed. Springer Verlag (see annex 1) EUSIPCO2002, September 2002, Toulouse (France) European Signal Processing Conference, a special session on Non-linear speech processing is accepted. Organizer: M. Faúndez (COST- 277 Chairman) (see annex 1). Working plan will be presented! EUSIPCO2002, September 2002,, Toulouse (France) European Signal Processing Conference, Invited Plenary Talk & Paper on Nonlinear Speech Synthesis by Prof. Steve McLaughlin.

COST277: Non-linear speech processing12 Coordination with other COSTs A brochure about COST-275, 277, 278 was disseminated at Eurospeech conference and other national conferences

COST277: Non-linear speech processing13 Successes Expression of Interests (EoI) submitted to the fp6 (Network of Excellence). Topic: Advanced Methods for speech processing (AMSP) Canada has joined the action Short term mission between Belgium and Switzerland Joint publications between COST members

COST277: Non-linear speech processing14 manpower