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** The Music and Science list is managed by the Institute of Musical Research (www.music.sas.ac.uk) as a bulletin board and discussion forum for researchers working at the shared boundaries of science and music. ** MESSAGE FOLLOWS: Dear all, At 2.45pm on Tuesday 24 February, Hiroshi Saruwatari will present the seminar Blind Source Separation for Real-World Speech Applications. The seminar will take place in room 105 in the Electronic Engineering Department, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS. Directions of how to get to Queen Mary are available at http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/research/seminars/ as are details of future seminars. The room is under access control, so people from outside QM will need to contact C4DM to get in - the lab phone number is +44 (0)20 7882 5528 and if I'm not available, anyone else in the lab should be able to help. If you are coming from outside Queen Mary's, please let me know, so I can make sure no-one's stuck outside the doors... All are welcome to attend. If you wish to be added to / removed from our mailing list, please send me an email and I'll be happy to do so. Next seminar: Title: Blind Source Separation for Real-World Speech Applications Speaker: Hiroshi Saruwatari Nara Institute of Science and Technology Abstract: In this talk, I review blind source separation technology and its recent current. Blind source separation (BSS) is an approach taken to estimate original source signals using only observed signals without knowing a priori information. Owing to the attractive feature of BSS, much attention has been paid to BSS in many fields of signal processing. In this talk, first, the basic principle of speech/ acoustic signal separation based on independent component analysis is explained, and the recent research and development trends are shown. Next, I can demonstrate our recently developed real-time BSS unit which is one of the world's smallest BSS microphone miniaturized into pocket-size hardware. Finally, I show a hands-free spoken dialogue system with real-time BSS used for real-world speech applications. Tim Murray Browne -- Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) Electronic Engineering Department Queen Mary, University of London [log in to unmask] Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 5528 Fax: +44 (0)20 7882 7997 C4DM Web-site : http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/digitalmusic/index.html