1. C O R P O R A T E T E C H N O L O G Y Information & Communications Interaction Technologies ECESS Consortium Agreement Herbert Tropf (Siemens AG)

2. C O R P O R A T E T E C H N O L O G Y © Siemens AG, Tropf, 2004-12-09 Information & Communications Interaction Technologies Impetus for Participation and Progress Achieve (better) components for one‘s own speech synthesis system by communicating, competing and exchanging evaluated/validated results with leading research groups in a common framework Reference for raising national funds

3. C O R P O R A T E T E C H N O L O G Y © Siemens AG, Tropf, 2004-12-09 Information & Communications Interaction Technologies Global Framework RG_future M14 M13 M15 RG_text M1 M3 M2 RG_prosody M4 M5 M2 RG_acoustics M6 M2 M4 Lexicon Cluster M10 M3 M11 ECESS M8 M4 M11 Module Cluster System Cluster SpeechDB Cluster M9 M8 M3 Evaluator M7 M12 Validator

4. C O R P O R A T E T E C H N O L O G Y © Siemens AG, Tropf, 2004-12-09 Information & Communications Interaction Technologies Governance Model : Flat Hierarchy Coordinator Cluster(s) coordinators General Assembly as the only decision maker : unanimous voting, except 2/3 majority for Acceptance of Deliverables Working units (clusters, research groups) purely technically organized, i.e. no power for decisions Each party is member of at least one cluster No formal committees No board

5. C O R P O R A T E T E C H N O L O G Y © Siemens AG, Tropf, 2004-12-09 Information & Communications Interaction Technologies Obligations From time to time each member of a given cluster (except Evaluator/Validator and ?SpeechDB Cluster) has to make available free of charge an Accepted Deliverable of that cluster to all members of that cluster. (Deliverables are determined in the TA, in particular object code and runtime data. Points in time (“rounds“) of Deliverables have to be agreed on by the General Assembly and/or are determined in the TA.) Each Deliverable of the Module/System clusters has to be Evaluated by ELDA free of charge. Each Deliverable of the SpeechDB/Lexicon clusters has to be Validated by SPEX free of charge – if submitted during the lifetime of TC-STAR – or for a favorable prize to be agreed on by the General Assembly – if submitted after the lifetime of TC-STAR. The Evaluator has to Evaluate each submitted Deliverable according to the criteria as determined in the TA (TC-STAR like). The Validator has to Validate each submitted Deliverable according to the criteria as determined in the TA (TC-STAR/LC-STAR like). Based on the evaluation/validation reports the General Assembly Accepts all Evaluated/Validated Deliverables with a 2/3 majority.

6. C O R P O R A T E T E C H N O L O G Y © Siemens AG, Tropf, 2004-12-09 Information & Communications Interaction Technologies Intellectual Property Rights : Access Rights Access Rights for Affiliates Access Rights (for execution of ECESS, not for Use, free of charge) for specific Pre-existing TC-STAR speech DB and ?LC-STAR lexica for ?all parties (?including Evaluator and Validator) (speech DB and lexica to be determined in the TA) Access Rights (for execution of ECESS, not for Use, free of charge, restricted to a “round“) to all Accepted Deliverables of the Module or System Cluster for any party of the same Cluster, provided the requesting party made available an Accepted Deliverable for the same round to the same Cluster afore Access Rights (for execution of ECESS, ?for Use, free of charge) to all Accepted Deliverables of the SpeechDB or Lexicon Cluster for any party of the same Cluster, provided the requesting party made available an Accepted Deliverable for the same Cluster afore Access Rights for Evaluator and Validator (for execution of ECESS, not for Use, free of charge) to all Deliverables submitted for Evaluation and Validation respectively.

7. C O R P O R A T E T E C H N O L O G Y © Siemens AG, Tropf, 2004-12-09 Information & Communications Interaction Technologies Intellectual Property Rights : Joint Ownership If several parties contribute to a Deliverable where it is not possible to separate their contributions for the purpose of applying for, obtaining and/or maintaining the relevant IPR