Dear all,

Aplogies for any cross-postings. Please find below a final programme for the
Talking to Computers II meeting this Friday 9th July. Note the event has
been shortened to a single day, and this is reflected in the costings.
Places are still available, and it will be possible to register/pay on the
day, but we would appreciate that you mail [log in to unmask] to let us know
you intend to come (please give names + numbers for multiple attendees)
before 3-00pm Thursday 8th July. The pricings include lunch / proceedings,
and a limited no of bursaries are available for those with physical
disabilities.

Those that have requested updates will recieve more information on the event
by Wednesday 7th July.

Any enquiries should be directed to [log in to unmask]

Please do not reply to the author of this mail - thank you.

On behalf of the organising committee
Paul Martland

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Costs:

Disabled / unemployed / Students (proof may be required) : £25-00
All others:  £60-00

Programme of Events:


CONFERENCE

8.45    REGISTRATION OPENS

9.00    Welcome

9.05 - 10.20 Session I - ASR and People with special needs

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            INVITED SPEAKERS

9.05    Present and future technology to empower communication

            G. Busby MBE
            Chairman of the British Computer Society Disability Group

9.35    Automatic Speech Recognition and people with severe
            physical disabilities: An overview and examples of clinical
            experience

             M. Hawley and A. Zahid
             Barnsley District General Hospital NHS Trust, UK

10.20 - 10.50    Refreshments and Exhibition

10.50 - 11.50 Session II - technology
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10.50    Speech recognition in the ENABL project

                N.Talbot
                Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

11.20    Visual tests of subphonetic models in a HMM speech recogniser

                R. Lopez Barquilla, J. I. Puertas Tera, R. Garcia Gomez
                Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

11.50     POSTER SESSION
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12.15 - 14.00     Lunch

14.00 -15.15 Session III - Applications I : Writing
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14.00    Talking Mathematics with my computer

                A.D.N. Edwards*, E. Mitsopoulos*, E. Montgomery**
                *University of York, **Armature Ltd., Leeds, UK

14.30     Voice recognition software: successful implementation with
dyslexic users

                M. Litten
                Mark College, UK

15.00    "How can I know what I mean 'til I see what I say" - Talking as
writing

                N.R. Williams and P. Hartley
                Sheffield Hallam University, UK

15.30    Refreshments and Exhibition

16.00 - 16.45   Session IV - Applications II : other
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16.00    Collection and segmentation of a large speech database for
              spanish text-to-speech synthesis

                J. Gomez-Mena, M. Cardo-Rodriguez
                Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

16.30    Application of visual representation of speech for hearing-impaired
people

                J.I. Puertas Tera, R. Lopez Barquilla, R. Garcia Gomez
                Universidad politecnica de Madrid, Spain

17.00     Farewell - refreshments


PARALLEL EVENT

Video talks
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    Our use of Automatic Speech Recognition
        C. Barton and  C. Hodgkinson
        Sheffield, UK

    ENAbler for computer Based vocational systems with speech and
    Language - ENABL

        C. Bickley
        Concentra ltd, UK

These video presentations will be repeated during the day.

Exhibition :
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Posters

        Learning French with and without computers : integrating intonation,

        variation and expressiveness.

            C. Fiandino , P. Green , A. Rouxeville
            University of Sheffield, UK

        ASR and the psychological and environmental effects on voice

            D.Syder, S.P. Whiteside, P.A. Cudd, C. deBruijn
            University of Sheffield, UK

        Acoustic measures of voice changes during ASR use

            C. deBruijn, S.P. Whiteside, P.A.Cudd, D. Syder
            University of Sheffield, UK

        ENABL project overview

            P.A. Cudd, C. Bickley, S. Hunnicutt, R. Carlson, S. P. Whiteside
            ENABL project, European Union

        ASR users group

            P. Martland*, P.A. Cudd**
            *University of Sheffield, Independant Consultant, Sheffield, UK

Commercial Exhibit

Quantum Electronics

"Home automation through voice control"
R. Alexander, C. Reed, C. Campbell UK

presentations at  various times during the day and at 13.20 - 13.50





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