Annual Report 1999 Table of Contents 1999 in summary Speech Communication and Technology Centre for Speech Technology Speech Signal Processing Music Acoustics Hearing Technology National and International Contacts Faculty and Staff Teaching Finances, Research Grants Seminars and Conferences Arranged by TMH List of Publications TMH-QPSR Abstracts TMH Series of Seminars January Hur gör vi våra spektrogram egentligen Svante Granqvist, Inger Karlsson, Johan Liljencrants, Kåre Sjölander & Sten Ternström From air to music - Acoustical, physiological and perceptual aspects of reed wind instrument playing and vocal - ventricular fold phonation Leonardo Fuks (Defence of a DSc thesis) Manligt – kvinnligt: identifiering av röster i SpeechDat Niklas Torstensson, Högskolan i Skövde (MSc project work) Användaraspekter av talarverifiering för röstringning Marcus Hoverby (MSc project work) Bandwidth extension of speech Niklas Enbom Skövde (MSc project work) February Grammatisk analys baserad på n-gram Alice Carlberger Talad dialog med ett resebokningssystem Johan Boye och Mats Wirén, Telia Research Analys och simulering av ensembleljud - ett examensarbete Daniel Kahlin A computational memory and processing model for prosody Janet Cahn, MIT Media Laboratory March Quantization noise modeling in predictive speech coding Søren Vang Andersen (MSc thesis) Forskning i K2-lab (Kunskap och kommunikation) med fokus på kognition, lärande, undervisning och IT. Robert Ramberg, DSV Taligenkänning på MIT Lab for Computer Science Nikko Ström April Generering av segmentdurationer i ett text-till-talsystem - ett examensarbete utfört vid Toshiba R&D Center Mattias Ånstrand (MSc project work) Multi-microphone conference systems - changes in speech intelligibility as a function of the source-microphone distance in a room Jakob Holm (MSc project work) Talarverifiering i Per – ett inpasseringssystem Erik Armerén (MSc project work) May Acoustic assessment of pathological voice characteristics and its relation to voice generation and perception Mattias Fröhlich and Dirk Michaelis, Göttingen University, Germany Multi-microphone conference systems - changes in speech intelligibility as a function of the source-microphone distance in a room Jakob Holm (MSc project work) The future of computing: A linguistic user interface Michael Picheny, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY June DynaLite – dynamisk igenkänning med StarLite Victor Sandin (MSc project work) Vad gör olinjära hörapparater med ljudet Arne Leijon och Peter Nordqvist Text-to-speech synthesis of Farsi Keyhan Hadjari (MSc project work Speech recognition based on linear prediction parameters Laurent Feurer (MSc project work) PER - En automatisk receptionist: Systemkonstruktion och dialogdesign Martin Nilsson (MSc project work) September Swedish vowel quantity in L2 speakers – evaluation by manual and automatic methods Julien Roland (MSc project work) Low bit high quality audio coding with combined harmonic and wavelet representations Christophe Delachanal (MSc project work) Workshoprapporter från sommarens möten bl a IDS-99, AVSP 99, ILP-99, ICML, LLL October Självlärande metoder i språkbehandling Henrik Boström, Martin Eineborg och Nikolaj Lindberg Implementering och utvärdering av en metod för mätning av upplevd ljudkvalitet i realtid - ett examensarbete vid Teracom AB Carl Skedinger (MSc project work) Modeling the phase of the pitch cycle in harmonic coding of speech Andrei Jefremov (MSc project work) November Talfilformat, .wav och .smp och .ra och allt vad dom heter Johan Liljencrants, Svante Granqvist och Sten Ternström All-pole spectral envelope modeling of speech Manohar N. Murthi - new post-doc at TMH Speech transmission via the internet Niklas Enbom, Intertex Data AB En himla många program: computer programs for sound and voice analysis. Svante Granqvist Att automatiskt skilja mellan tal och musik – en litteraturstudie Stefan Karnebäck Metoder för talaradaptering av HMM – en jämförelse Ylva Gustafsson (MSc project work) Communication research at the University of Wollongong Professor Joe F Chicharo, Wollongong Univ, NSW, Australia December Formantfrekvenser för svenska vokaler – dialektal variation i SpeechDat-databasen André Heinonen (MSc project work) Structural, computational, and perceptual aspects of sound synthesis by physical modeling with application to the synthesis of piano music Davide Rocchesso, Verona & Giovanni De Poli, Padova Hur man uppfinner ett musikinstrument Sten Ternström (Docentföreläsning) Ett nytt system för analys och prediktion av F0 i tal Gunnar Fant, Anita Kruckenberg och Johan Liljencrants Datadriven semantisk gruppering Joakim Laksov (MSc project work) Special SPEECH Seminars Bullet course, April Chin-Hui Lee, Lucent Technologies, USA Three lectures on automatic speech and speaker recognition: Robust speech recognition -- overview of statistical pattern recognition approach and the implied robustness problems and solutions. Speaker and speech verification -- overview of statistical pattern verification approach and applications to speaker and speech verification. A detection approach to speech recognition and understanding -- a paradigm to combine feature-based detection and state-of-the-art recognition to open up new possibilities. Bullet course, May Anne Cutler, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Holland Three lectures on human recognition of spoken words The psycholinguistic approach From input to lexicon Language-specificity Bullet course, June Gerard Chollet, ENST, Paris,France Speech analysis, coding, synthesis and recognition:Time-frequency representations, wavelets, Temporal decomposition, Time-dependent models, Analysis by synthesis, H+N, HMMs, Markov fields,… ALISP (Automatic Language Independent Speech Processing): Learning from examples, Segmental models, Speaker normalisation, Very Low bit rate coding, Multilingual speech recognition… Applications: Identity verification, decision fusion, Interactive Voice Servers, 'Majordome', Multicasting…. Pre-Speech-Coding-Workshop, June The adaptive multi-rate speech coder Roar Hagen (Ericsson) Reverse water-filling in predictive encoding of speech Soren V Andersen (KTH) Auditory modeling for speech coding Gernot Kubin, Vienna Technical University Making waveform coded WI possible Ian Burnett, University of Wollongong Spectrum Analyisis: Alternative Linear Prediction Techniques Nicola Chong, University of Wollongong Optimized error correction of MELP speech parameters via maximum a posteriori (MAP) techniques Douglas Rahikka (NSA) Speech services in third generation wireless systems Eric Ekudden (Ericsson) Interoperable global communications, a government perspective John Collura (NSA) Discussions and KTH demos MiLaSS - 7th European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication, July 12-23 Multimodal speech perception: A paradigm for speech science (Plenary) Dominic W. Massaro Multimodality of meaning in speech and gesture (Parallel) David McNeill Multimodality in language and speech systems - from theory to design support tool (Parallell) Niels Ole Bernsen Intelligent multimedia presentation systems (Parallel) Elisabeth André and Björn Granström Architectures for integrated multimodal input-output systems and the humanoid interface (Parallel) Kristinn Thórisson Face-to-face communication including different modalities (Plenary) Jens Allwood Multimodal interaction and people with disabilities (Parallel) Alistair Edwards Developing intelligent multimedia applications (Parallel) Paul Mc Kevitt Multimodal dialogue systems & audio-visual synthesis (Parallel) Hands-on sessions, the KTH group Bullet course, October Sharon Oviatt, Professor and Co-Director, Center for Human-Computer Communication, Dept of Computer Science, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology Modeling hyperarticulate speech to interactive systems Mutual disambiguation of recognition errors in a multimodal architecture Designing and evaluating conversational interfaces with animated characters TMH Generalseminarium, November Vad är utmärkande för mänsklig ljudkommunikation? Vårt forskningsområde Gunnar Fant Gruppering och differentiering i musikalisk interpretation Johan Sundberg Simulera känslor i musik med strukturmarkeringsregler Anders Friberg och Robert Bresin Perception av accentuering och frasering i tal David House Visuell återkoppling och motorkontroll i tal Anne-Marie Öster Phase perception in speech Harald Pobloth Talteknologi och mänsklig kommunikation Rolf Carlson Special seminar, November Microsoft’s tap and talk interface research X D Huang, Sr Researcher and Manager, Speech Technology Group TMH Seminars in MUSIC Acoustics January From air to music - Acoustical, physiological and perceptual aspects of reed wind instrument playing and vocal - ventricular fold phonation Leonardo Fuks (Defence of a DSc thesis) On the effect of phase relations for the perception of pitch and timbre of bass tones Alex Galembo, Anders Askenfelt and Lola Cuddy February Analys och simulering av ensembleljud Daniel Kahlin (MSc project work) Violinens gåta löst? Huvudresonansen i ny tolkning Erik Jansson and Benedykt Niewczyk March Breathing habits in singers. Monica Thomasson April Sammanfattning av litteratur inom biomekanik, bl.a. Biomechanics and motor control of human movement, by David A Winter Sofia Dahl October Old Estonian folksongs: Tradition, structure and acoustics Jaan Ross November 3D sounds in virtual reality. Peter Lundén, Interactive Institute En himla många program: computer programs for sound and voice analysis. Samseminarium med TMH. Svante Granqvist December Current projects at Laboratorio de Informatica Musicale, DIST, Genova, Italy http://www.infomus.dist.unige.it/ Antonio Camurri Study on the adjustment ofperformance parameters in the education of the performer Giovanni Umberto Battel, Conservatorio de Musica "B. Marcello", Venedig Music and Motion - at Italienska Kulturinstitutet: Four years of research on "music and motion" Johan Sundberg: Simulating body movement in music performance. Anders Friberg Analysis of music performance: interpretation of a virtual pianist as mean of interpretations of different pianists. Maestro Giovanni Umberto Battel (invited speaker), Conservatorio di musica "Benedetto Marcello", Venezia, Italia Happy or sad? Computer simulation of different emotional states in music performance. Roberto Bresin Recognizing gestures and emotions in interactive systems for music and dance. Professor Antonio Camurri (invited speaker), Università degli Studi di Genova, Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Telematica SensOrg: cyber instrument for real-time music performance. Professor Tamas Ungvary, Kacor – KTH Software system for automatic choreography. Peter Rajka, Kacor – KTH Real-time simulation of moving sound sources in virtual 3-dimentional spaces. Peter Lundén, Kacor – KTH APEX: an articulatory model of speech production. Christine Ericsdotter Bresin, Johan Stark, TMH - KTH & Stockholm university, Department of Linguistics, Phonetics Temporal and kinematic analysis of percussionists. Sofia Dahl, TMH – KTH The essential guide to boring sounds - or, why is it so hard to make interesting sounds with synthesizers? Sten Ternström, TMH – KTH Concert Maestro Giovanni Umberto Battel, pianoforte Conservatorio di musica "Benedetto Marcello", Venezia, Italia M. RAVEL - Valses nobles et sentimentales (1911) I. STRAVINSKIJ - Trois mouvements de Pétrouchka (1911/1921) Åsa Unander-Scharin, i samarbete med Kacor – KTH Music: Monteverdi Coreography and digital video Peter Rajka, Kacor – KTH Virtuosi Virtuali: tre studi per ballerini virtuali Coreography and digital video: Peter Rajka Music: Domenico Scarlatti Interpretation of MIDI-data: Roberto Bresin, Anders Friberg, Julieta Gleiser Peter Lundén, Kacor – KTH Big Bang on Whispering Water (DAT tape) Professor Tamas Ungvary, SensOrg, & Georg Weidinger (Austria), piano, Kacor – KTH 4 FINGERPRINTs (DAT tape) Music Acoustics Group at KTH: http://www.speech.kth.se/music Kacor Group at KTH: http://www.speech.kth.se/kacor Seminars on the Singing Voice February Röstkällan i modal- och falsettregister hos bas, bariton, tenor och counter tenor Carl Høgset, counter-tenorsångare, sångpedagog och körledare från Oslo, och Johan Sundberg March Velumöppning i vokaler hos operasångare Peer Birch, sångpedagog, Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium, Aarhus; Bodil Gümoes, sångpedagog, Det Kgl Danske Musikkonservatorium, Köpenhamn; Svend Prytz, foniater, Bispebjergshospitalet, Köpenhamn Om sångpedagogutbildningen i Danmark Peer Birch & Bodil Gümoes April Perceptuell röstbedömning – erfarenheter, design och u tvärdering av analysmetoder Eva B Holmberg Demonstration och jämförelse av datorprogram skräddarsydda för perceptuell röstanalys Svante Granqvist Other participators: Jan Dahlqvist, Britta Hammarberg, Anita McAllister, Maria Södersten, Joakim Westerlund May Expressivitetssignaler, använder sångare och talare samma? Sångformantens mittfrekvens och styrka Johan Sundberg November Sång fast på annat vis. Jaan Ross, professor i musikvetenskap i Tartu, Estland Muscle memory for pitch: relevance of auditory feedback to pitch control. Dirk Mürbe, Dresden Röstbehandling utan röstbehandling 1. Naprapaterna Marie Andersson och Ulrika Bergman och Sten Ternström December Om flyttning av F1 inom sångkonsten Christine Ericsdotter och Johan Sundberg & Johan Stark Current projects at Audiovisual Institute /IUA), Pompeo Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain http://www.iua.upf.es Xavier Serra Structural, computational and perceptual aspects of sound synthesis by physical modeling with application to the synthesis of piano http://www.sci.univr.it/~rocchesso/talks/Stockholm1999 Davide Rocchesso, Verona, and Giovanni De Poli, Padova KTH Voice Research Centre (VRC) Seminar International symposium, October Real-Time Biofeedback In Voice Therapy And Pedagogy Principles of biofeedback David Krebs Stroboscopy Janina Casper & Laryngograph Ltd (Adrian Fourcin) Electromyography Katherine Verdolini & Medtronic Symetics (Magnus Skytt) Real-time spectrum display Anne-Maria Laukkanen & Nyvalla DSP (Sten Ternström) Phonetography Maria Södersten & Nyvalla DSP (Sten Ternström) Advanced phonetography Peter Pabon The new Glottal Enterprises Oronasal System Martin Rothenberg Real-time displays and singing (the SINGAD system) David Howard Real-time spectrogram display Katherine Verdolini & Laryngograph Ltd (Adrian Fourcin) Palatography Anita & Bob McAllister & SNORS+ Electrolaryngography Eva Carlsson & Laryngograph Ltd (Adrian Fourcin) Larynx height Anne-Marie Laukkanen & Glottal Enterprises (Martin Rothenberg) Inverse filtering Johan Sundberg & Glottal Enterprises (Martin Rothenberg) Discussion: Potentials and limitations of real-time biofeedback in voice therapy and training