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Deadline approaching (14th October, 2012):
Special issue of Computer Speech and Language on
‘The Listening Talker’
When talkers speak, they also listen. Talkers routinely adapt
to their interlocutors and environment, maintaining intelligibility
and dialogue fluidity to facilitate the efficient exchange of
information. In contrast, current speech output technology is
largely deaf, incapable of adapting to the listener’s context,
inefficient in use and lacking the naturalness that comes from
rapid appreciation of the speaker-listener environment. As a
result, there is no guarantee that the intended message is
intelligible, appropriate or well-timed, which can lead to divided
attention and fatigue in safety-critical situations. A key scientific
challenge is to better understand how ‘talker-listeners’ respond
to context and to apply these findings to the modification of
natural (live/recorded) and generated (synthetic) speech in
applications such as dialogue, public address and
navigation systems.
Submissions to the special issue are invited on any aspect
of the listening talker, including but not limited to:
• theories/models of human communication involving the listening talker
• human speech production modifications induced by noise
• speech production changes with manipulated feedback
• algorithms/vocoders for speech modification
• transformations from casual to clear speech
• characterisation of the listening context
• intelligibility and quality metrics for modified speech
See http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-speech-and-language/
for the aims and scope of the journal. Authors should follow the
Elsevier Computer Speech and Language manuscript format described
at the journal site. Prospective authors should submit an electronic
copy of their manuscript via http://ees.elsevier.com/csl/, selecting
“Special Issue: listening Talker”.
Timetable
Submission deadline: October 14, 2012
First round of reviews: Feb 1, 2013
Final version of manuscripts: May 1, 2013
Target publication date: September 1, 2013
Guest Editors
Martin Cooke, Ikerbasque (Basque Science Foundation),
Spain, [email protected]
Simon King, University of Edinburgh, UK,
[email protected]
Bastiaan Kleijn, Victoria University Wellington,
New Zealand, [email protected]
Yannis Stylianou, FORTH Institute of Computer Science,
Crete, Greece, [email protected]
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