1. Yjlee@wonkwang.ac.kr Recent Activities of Speech Corpora and Assessment in Korea 2000. 10. 16 Yong-Ju Lee Wonkwang University Korea

2. Yjlee@wonkwang.ac.kr Recent trend of speech technology commercial market in Korea  New establishment of the venture company rapidly increased in recent years  Not only for original speech technology solution company  but value added speech application system or service company  CTI, UMS, VoIP,  Voice portal, GPS,  Mobile phone  Toy companies,...

3. Yjlee@wonkwang.ac.kr It’s because  Government’s venture business promotion policy  Speech technology as an attractive item for new technology business  Many researchers and engineers spin off government supported research institutes and big companies  ETRI, LG, SAMSUNG, …  Many labs in University also participated in the business work  Some major international(multinational) corporations also participated in Korean speech technology market  This also influenced to promote the market

4. Yjlee@wonkwang.ac.kr Common requirement of speech technology companies  Common use of language resources  Objective methodology for speech I/O assessment  They all deeply interested in establishment of proper organization to handling above problem

5. Yjlee@wonkwang.ac.kr Spoken Language Resources and Assessment Center(SLRAC)  Role  Systematic construction and distribution of Korean language resources  Speech only at the initial stage  Active role to preparing speech I/O assessment methodologies  Technical information center for speech technology  Status  SLRAC will be set up at first at Speech And Language Science Laboratory(SALL) in Wonkwang University  And will start their job from late this year

6. Yjlee@wonkwang.ac.kr Distribution items  First stage  Results of speech related project funded by government  Common construction results of educational-industrial consortium  Next state  Private results of each organization(industries, Universities & etc)  Long term construction and administration program supported by government

7. Yjlee@wonkwang.ac.kr Distribution Policy,...  Distribution policy  Released to domestic organizations at first  will expand international use with a little time lag  Others  Hope to keep contact and connection with LDC, ELRA  Details will be presented soon!!

8. Yjlee@wonkwang.ac.kr Brief introduction of speech and language corpora and assessment related projects  Construction of speech and language corpora and assessment methodologies(2000 ~ 2001, 2 years)  Supported by Ministry of Science and Technology  Goal  Language part (accomplished by KAIST)  methodology design of machine translation system performance evaluation  methodology design of information retrieved system performance evaluation  Speech part(accomplished by Wonkwang Univ.)  construction of 2000 speaker’s telephone speech corpus  isolated and connected digit, Phonetically Rich Words  set up and modification of K-ToBI transcription system and prototyping of prosody DB  Design and construction of speech and language corpus for Korean dictation system

9. Yjlee@wonkwang.ac.kr Continued  Results(speech corpora) will be distributed at the SLRAC  Details will be presented in next meeting

10. Yjlee@wonkwang.ac.kr Continued  Research on the basic platform of dialog system(Late 2001 ~ 2003, 3 years)  Supported by Ministry of Commerce, Industry of Energy  Accomplished by Seogang Univ. & Wonkwang Univ.  Various kinds of dialog speech corpora will be produced  various tasks and environments

11. Yjlee@wonkwang.ac.kr Continued  Automatic captioning the TV program using speech recognition(2000 ~ 2001)  Supported by Ministry of Information and Communication  Accomplished by ETRI  Broadcast news speech corpus will be produced

12. Yjlee@wonkwang.ac.kr Continued  Speech interface for internet application(2000 ~ 2002)  Supported by Ministry of Information and Communication  Accomplished by Korea Telecom  Various speech corpora is now preparing  words, phrase and sentence speech corpora for web application

13. Yjlee@wonkwang.ac.kr Continued  Brain science research(1998 ~ 2007)  Supported by Ministry of Science and Technology  Accomplished by KAIST  Some speech corpus will be designed for language perceptual study

14. Yjlee@wonkwang.ac.kr Continued  Other private industries  Industries and other organizations are preparing(or already prepared) various speech corpora  telephone speech(wire and mobile)  various kind of speech corpora under PC environment  command words for Car environment(voice dialing, GPS, etc.)  etc.

15. Yjlee@wonkwang.ac.kr New trial for speech corpora in Korean  Several industries share expense for corpora construction  Experienced group produce it  SLRAC host the project and selling the results  Give a benefit for first attendants

16. Yjlee@wonkwang.ac.kr First trial  Korean DIGIT speech corpus  Difficult but essential item for Korean speech recognition  Korean digit = monosyllable  First stage : 500 speaker  Contents  isolated words, connected 4 digit strings  various length digit string  telephone number, ID number, date and time, credit card number, etc.  Various kind of collecting environment  Will be released early next year  Next candidate  names, geographical name, etc.

17. Yjlee@wonkwang.ac.kr Korean COCOSDA  Consult about  Establishment of speech and language resource distribution center(SLRAC etc.)  Planning for speech related national project  Sponsor  The technical meeting for speech I/O assessment and speech corpora under the auspices of academic society  Korean Science Foundation(KOSEF) start to support with Special Interest Group promotion program(2000 ~ 2004)  “SIG for speech I/O assessment and speech corpora”  This will help more active activities

18. Yjlee@wonkwang.ac.kr  Host  The 2001 Oriental COCOSDA workshop in Korea (24 Aug. 2001) Oriental COCOSDA 2001