rolf@speech.kth.se
Title:MultiModal Dialogue Systems and Other Research Projects at KTH
Time:Thursday November 18, 11:30 - 12:30
Place:CS Conference Room in MUDD
Abstract:
The Department of Speech, Music and Hearing at KTH has been active within the field of speech research for more than 30 years. One of the first speech synthesizers was developed at the department by Gunnar Fant. The research now covers most aspects of speech communication including conversational interfaces and animated characters. The department is hosting the Center for Speech Technology, CTT.
Research on multimodal dialogue systems developed in our group will be
one focus of the presentation in addition to a general description of
our activities. The dialog systems accept a mixed initiative dialogue,
use example-based dialogue models and are based on speech tools
developed in the group. Of special interest is our current work on
error handling in dialog systems. This was also the theme for the ISCA
workshop that was arranged jointly between Columbia University, KTH
and Tilburg University. Another joint effort is perceptual studies of
upcoming boundaries in spontaneous speech (joint work with Marc
Swerts, Tilbug University, and Julia Hirschberg, Columbia
University). We will give a report on this work.
About the speaker:
Rolf Carlson is professor in Speech Technology at the Department of Speech Communication and Music Acoustics, KTH, Stockholm. He is active with the competence center CTT (Center for Speech Technology). His background and interested include speech production, speech perception and human-machine dialogue from both an engineering and a linguistic point of view. This scientific work together with Bjorn Granstrom was the basis for the development of the KTH text-to-speech system, commercially exploited by Infovox. Since 1990 he has been active in the development of speech based dialogue systems. He has more than a hundred scientific publications in the field fo Speech Research and Technology. He has been member of the research staff at the department since 1969; a member of the research staff at MIT, USA in 1978/79 and 1990/91; Advisory Editor of the Journal of Phonetics; Member of the Editorial board of the Journal of Speech Communication; Member of the International Speech Communication Association (ISA) board. In 1955 he was awarded the Xerox Chester Carlson research prize.