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

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

3. 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

4. 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

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

6. COST277: Non-linear speech processing6 Dissemination e-mail distribution list: Cost277@sitma.net Subscribe/unsubscribe majordomo@sitma.net majordomo@sitma.net Website: http://www.ee.ed.ac.uk/ cost277/

7. 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)

8. 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.

9. 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

10. COST277: Non-linear speech processing10 Seminars Vietri Sul Mare (XII/01) Graz (IV/02) Available at the web site: http://www.ee.ed.ac.uk/ cost277/

11. 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 3-540-42237-4 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.

12. 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

13. 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

14. COST277: Non-linear speech processing14 manpower