Speech Communication

Speech Communication Technical Committee
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Scope of Scientific Activities 

We are a special-interest group of about 950 scientists within the ASA concerned with the study of the production, transmission, and perception of spoken language, including the following:

• The acoustic, physiological, psychological, and linguistic phenomena related to the human speech process
• Speech-transmission systems
• Machine processing of speech, including speech analysis, synthesis and automatic recognition
• The measurement and assessment of speech as to its intelligibility and its quality.

Thus, we come from many different disciplines, including at least physics, speech and hearing science, experimental psychology, linguistics, electrical engineering, etc.

Chair of Technical Committee

Carol Espy-Wilson
Professor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Institute for Systems Research

University of Maryland

College Park, MD 20742

(301)405-7411

http://www.ece.umd.edu/~espy

Speech Communication TC Meeting Slides (Carol Espy-Wilson)

STC_Meeting_NO.ppt (New Orleans – Fall 2007)

STC_Meeting_Paris.ppt (Paris – Spring/Summer 2008)

Klatt's History of Speech Synthesis

(audio clips from his 1987 JASA article)

Interesting Speech Web Sites

Acoustic Phonetics (University of Delaware)
Klatt Synthesizer (1980)
Animated vocal fold oscillations and other articulation demos (UCLA Linguistics. Check their Demos and Illustrations page)
Sinewave synthesis of speech (from Haskins Labs)
TTS Text to Speech - audible speech from text (AT&T Labs Research)
X-ray videos of speech production in English and French (Kevin Munhall, Queen's Univ, Kingston, Canada)
Kiel Institute of Phonetics and Digital Speech Processing

Some Major Journals

JASA
JSLHR
IEEE Transactions on Speech & Audio Processing
Speech Communication
Language and Speech
Computer Speech and Language.
Phonetica
The Phonetician
Journal of Phonetics
Journal of the International Phonetic Association
Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan

Some Resource Sites for Speech Communication

Diane Kewley-Port's 'Acoustics of Speech' page   Acoustic analysis, technology, tools, tutorials, etc.
UC Santa Cruz Speech Research Page   A long list of speech perception and speech processing sites.
University of Amsterdam Speech and Language Index   Includes conferences, dictionaries, etc.
MBROLA   A freely available multilingual speech synthesizer developed at TCTS Lab, Mons, Belgium

Speech Intelligibility Index
Articulation Index of Fletcher and Galt
Praat Speech Analysis Software

Alvin - Experiment control software

TubeTalker Speech Synthesis

3D Vocal Tract Images: MRI, CT

Vocal Tract Visualization Laboratory

Speech Processing and Auditory Perception Laboratory

Professional Organizations

ISCA - International Speech Communications Association
ISPhS - International Society of Phonetic Sciences
IAFPA - International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics
IPA - International Phonetic Association

ACSS - Auditory Cognitive Science Society

ASHA - American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

Support for Students

Student Paper Award. The best paper in a Speech Communication session of the Society that is authored primarily by a student receives the Dennis Klatt Award (and a couple hundred dollars)

Student Travel Awards. Travel support for students to attend Society meetings. Applications must be submitted well before the meeting.

Student Receptions. At Society meetings a reception is held for students that offers an opportunity to meet invited senior members. For details see announcements for specific meetings of the Society.

The Raymond T. Stetson Scholarship in Phonetics and Speech Production
More information and an application form are available at the ASA Fellowships page.

Current Members of the STC

Term to 2011

Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza

Freddie Bell-Berti

Ann Bradlow

Kate Bunton

Dani Byrd: www-rcf.usc.edu/~dbyrd/

Rachael Frush Holt

Kate Bunton

Rachel Frush Holt

Zhaoyan Zhang

Term to 2010

Augustine Agwuele

Patrice S. Beddor: www-personal.umich.edu/~beddor/

Tessa C. Bent: tessabent.com

Helen M. Hanson

Diane Kewley-Port

Jody E. Kreiman

Andrew J. Lotto: www.u.arizona.edu/~alotto

Shrikanth S. Narayanan: sail.usc.edu/shri

Dwayne Paschall

Christine H. Shadle

Rahul Shrivastav: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/rahul/

Term to 2009

Jean E. Andruski

Lynne E. Bernstein: www.hei.org/research/scientists/bernstein.html;

www.usc.edu/programs/neuroscience/faculty/profile.php?fid=76

Ocke-Schwen Bohn

Suzanne E. Boyce

Ann R. Bradlow: babel.ling.northwestern.edu/~abradlow

Bruce R. Gerratt

Kenneth W. Grant

Paul E. Iverson: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/dept/person.php?id=36

Benjamin R. Munson

Peggy B. Nelson

Mitchell S. Sommers

Brad H. Story: sal.shs.arizona.edu/~bstory

Joan E. Sussman

Support for Students at Society Meetings

Student Paper Award. The best paper in a Speech Communication session of the Society that is authored primarily by a student receives the Dennis Klatt Award (and a couple hundred dollars)
Student Travel Awards. Travel support for students to attend Society meetings. Applications must be submitted well before the meeting.
Student Receptions. At Society meetings a reception is held for students that offers an opportunity to meet invited senior members. For details see announcements for specific meetings of the Society.
The Raymond T. Stetson Scholarship in Phonetics and Speech Production
More information and an application form are available at the ASA Fellowships page.

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