Seminar history 2012 Januari Jan 13th 13:15 - 14:00 Machines learning to speak Obs tiden! Giampiero Salvi Show information and abstract Docentlecture Jan 24th 15:15 - 16:00 Timbral and melodic characteristics of the Persian singing style of Avaz Hama Biglari Show information and abstract X-job Jan 24th 16:15 - 17:00 Analysis and simulation of the four singing modes defined in the CVT paradigm Andreas Selamtzis Show information Jan 26th 15:00 - 17:00 Gaze, speech and face-to-face interaction Gerard Bailly, GIPSA lab, Grenoble Show information and abstract Jan 27th 10:00 - 13:00 OBS! Held in Sal F3 Lindstedtsvägen 26 From Acoustics to Articulation Ananthakrishnan Gopal Show information and abstract Thesis defense Opp.: Gérard Bailly, Université Stendhal, Grenoble, France Jan 31st Comparing data derived from electroglottograms and from flow glottograms Filipa Lã, University of Aveiro, Portugal Show information and abstract 2011 December Dec 20th Extended REMOS for Additive Noise Results of intership at Lehrstuhl für Multimediakommunikation und Signalverarbeitung (LMS), F.A.U Erlangen Akshaya Thippur Sridatta Show information and abstract November Nov 1st On the use of multimodal cues for the prediction of degrees of involvement in spontaneous conversation Catharine Oertel, Trinity College Dublin Show information and abstract Nov 11th Can we teach/control a robot using brain signals? Luis Montesano, University of Zaragoza Show information and abstract Nov 22nd The functions of non-lexical feedback tokens in Swedish Daniel Neiberg Show information and abstract Nov 25th The challenge of artistic research Gerhard Eckel, Professor of Computer Music and Multimedia, University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz Show information Oktober Oct 4th The Furhat 3D head - new opportunities and challanges in Human-Robot Interaction Samer Al Moubayed Show information Oct 7th Rapport från IVA i Reykjavik och SemDial i Los Angeles Gabriel Skantze och Jens Edlund Show information Oct 18th On the beneficial influence of perceptual knowledge in pronunciation error detection Chris Koniaris Show information and abstract September Sep 21st A computer game for pronunciation training Antonios Skevofylax Show information Opp.: Tian-Lin Gu Sep 23rd ´Highlights´ från sommarens talforskningskonferenser Deltagarna Show information Sep 26th 13:15 - 14:00 Working with sounds. Sound design in computer games, theater and in pedagogical tools for children. Niklas Billström, Konstfack Show information and abstract Sep 27th Two articulographic studies: lip movement variability and exotic Swedish vowels Johan Frid and Susanne Schötz, Lund University Show information and abstract Sep 30th Inkrementell processning i samtalande system - en förutsättning för en mer människolik interaktion Gabriel Skantze Show information and abstract Docentlecture Augusti Juli Juni Jun 13th 10:15 - 11:00 An interactive articulation-to-area-function phonetics modelling tool Mátyás Jani Show information and abstract X-job Opp.: Anton Hedblad Jun 13th 13:15 - 14:00 Why are computer games so entertaining? A study on whether motivational feedback elements from computer games can improve spoken language learning games Tian-Lin Gu Show information X-job Jun 14th 14:00 - 18:00 Symposium - Music is Motion Petri Toiviainen,University of Jyväskylä; Stefania Serafin, Aalborg University Copenhagen; Simon Dixon, Queen Mary University of London; Gerhard Eckel, University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz Show information Jun 15th 10:00 - 13:00 OBS! Held in Sal F3, Lindstedtsvägen 26 Interactive computer-aided expressive music performance - Analysis, control, modification, and synthesis methods Marco Fabiani Show information Thesis defense Opp.: Petri Toiviainen, University of Jyväskylä Jun 17th Imitating adult speech: an infant´s motivation Gopal Ananthakrishnan Show information and abstract Maj May 6th Exploring a design space by prototyping a gesture-controlled augmentation of an operatic lead part Ludvig Elblaus Show information and abstract X-job Opp.: Robin Åkerström May 17th Two ICASSP presentations 1. Resolving non-uniqueness in the acoustic-to-articulatory mapping 2. Online detection of vocal listener responses with maximum latency constraints Gopal Ananthakrishnan Daniel Neiberg Show information May 20th 16:00 - 17:00 A novel Skype interface with virtual speech reading support - field trials in the MonAMI project Sara Avén & Frida Norling Show information and abstract X-job May 24th A data-driven semantic parser for spoken route descriptions Martin Johansson Show information X-job Opp.: Fasih Haider May 26th 09:30 - 12:00 OBS! Held in Sal F3, Lindstedtsvägen 26 The virtual language teacher - models and applications for language learning using embodied conversational agents Preben Wik fakultetsopponent Valerie Hazan, UCL, UK Show information and abstract Thesis defense HumComm series May 27th 10:30 - 12:00 Sonification of physical quantities throughout history: a meta-study of previous mapping strategies Gaël Dubus Show information and abstract HumComm series April Apr 8th Modeling human-robot dialogue under uncertainty Raveesh Meena Show information and abstract Apr 12th Excitation source and intonation modeling for HMM-based speech synthesis Marius Cotescu Show information HumComm series Apr 15th 16:15 - 17:30 Time to strike: Influence of tempo on drumming movements Sofia Dahl, Aalborg University Copenhagen Show information and abstract Apr 19th Evaluation of Musical Feature Extraction Tools Using Perceptual Ratings Anton Hedblad Show information X-job Mars Mar 15th Real time 3D animation of rag dolls and avatars - data and methods Simon Alexanderson Show information HumComm series Mar 17th Recent projects and progress in natural language dialogue for virtual humans at the Institute for Creative Technologies David Traum, USC, Institute for Creative Technologies Show information HumComm series Mar 18th 13:00 - 17:00 OBS! Held in Sal F2, Lindstedtsvägen 26 In search for the conversational homunculus - serving to understand spoken human face-to-face interaction Jens Edlund, faculty opponent: David Traum, USC Show information and abstract Thesis defense HumComm series Februari Thu 10th Towards Speaker Detection using FaceAPI Facial Movements in Multiparty Dialogue Fasih Haider Show information X-job Opp.: Niklas Vanhainen HumComm series Fri 11th On in-service perceptual speech quality monitoring in cellular radio systems Hans-Jürgen Zepernick, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola Show information and abstract Tue 15th Predicting, detecting, and explaining vocal interaction in multi-party conversation Kornel Laskowski Show information and abstract HumComm series Fri 18th Corrective re-synthesis of deviant speech - making it clear or making a mess? Sofia Strömbergsson Show information and abstract HumComm series Fri 25th Timing in turn-taking Mattias Heldner Show information and abstract Januari 2010 December Dec 10th A peek at the Mona-Lisa effect: Gaze in 2D & 3D facial projections and: Report from the Facial Animation & Analysis Workshop, Edinburgh Samer Al Moubayed Jonas Beskow Show information HumComm series Dec 14th Con curdino - Utökning av Böhmflöjtens tonförråd till kvartstoner genom perturbation av tonhålens geometri Rezgar Ahmed Show information X-job Opp.: Ludvig Elblaus November Nov 16th Modeling dynamics in magnetic and conversational materials Kornel Laskowski, guest researcher from CMU Show information and abstract HumComm series Nov 19th 15:15 - 16:00 Reasoning with Norms and Intentions in the Music Performance Søren R. Frimodt-Møller, University of Southern Denmark Søren R. Frimodt-Møller is a PhD fellow at the Institute for Philosophy, Education and the Study of Religions, University of Southern Denmark Show information and abstract HumComm series Nov 19th 16:15 - 17:00 About the sound design for ‘On the String’ Joyce Beetuan Koh, School of the Arts, Singapore PerMagnus Lindborg, School of Art, Design, Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Show information and abstract HumComm series Oktober Oct 12th Interspeech 2010 med satelliter - Rapport och diskussion Show information HumComm series Oct 19th Analysis of non-native pronunciation of Swedish using an auditory model Chris Koniaris Show information HumComm series Oct 22nd Syllabic segmentation of speech Christian Landsiedel Show information X-job Opp.: Martin Johansson September Sep 3rd 10:00 - 13:00 OBS! Held in sal F3, Lindstedsvägen 26 Human interaction as a model for spoken dialogue system behaviour Doktorsdisputation i sal F3 Anna Hjalmarsson fakultetsopponent är David Schlangen, Potsdam Show information and abstract HumComm series Sep 10th Observations on the EGG spectrum slope under various phonatory conditions Angela Libeaux, RWTH Aachen Show information and abstract X-job Opp.: Nils Efraimsson Sep 14th How to build an attentive speaker a report from eNTERFACE 2010, Amsterdam Daniel Neiberg Show information and abstract HumComm series Sep 17th Using Residual Information to Improve the Quality of Synthetic Voices Marius Cotescu, Politehnica University of Bucharest Show information Sep 20th Alternative Measures of Phonation: Collision Threshold Pressure and Electroglottographic Spectral Tilt. Extra: Perception of Swedish Accents Laura Enflo Opponent: Francisco Lacerda, Stockholm University Show information and abstract Licentiate Augusti Aug 27th Hybrid Interaction in Unobtrusive Augmented Reality Alex Olwal, MDI, CSC, KTH Show information and abstract HumComm series Juli Juni Jun 5th 10:00 - 17:00 OBS! Held in Sal D8, Universitetsvägen 10D, Stockholms Universitet Spoken lingua franca English at a Swedish technical university An investigation of form and communicative effectiveness Beyza Björkman Show information Thesis defense Opp.: Professor John M. Swales, University of Michigan Jun 15th SonicAwe Demonstration av och diskussion kring ett nytt verktyg för signalbehandling i spektrogram Christian Lönnholm, Ulf Hammarqvist m. fl., Sonic Awe Show information and abstract Jun 23rd Presentation och diskussion av förstudie om teckenspråksteknologi Jonas Beskow, Björn Granström m fl Show information and abstract Maj May 28th Towards incremental speech production in dialogue systems Gabriel Skantze Show information and abstract April Apr 23rd Accounting for individual speaker properties in automatic speech recognition Daniel Elenius Show information and abstract Licentiate Opp.: Torbjørn Svendsen, NTNU Apr 27th Articulatory strategies. How different can they be? Gopal Ananthakrishnan Show information and abstract Mars Mar 9th Audiovisual detection of pronunciation errors Sebastian Picard Show information and abstract X-job Opp.: Chris Koniaris Mar 26th Auditory models and speech recognition: a path to build robust front-ends Chris Koniaris Show information and abstract Februari Tue 9th 15:15 - 16:30 Human Communication Positioning Seminars HumComm in a Speech-Music-Language perspective Sten Ternström m fl. Leif Dahlberg Human Communication Seminar. Coffee from 14:45. Show information and abstract Thu 11th 14:00 - 18:00 Sound is Motion (SIM10) Show information and abstract Symposium HumComm series Fri 12th 10:00 - 13:00 OBS! Held in Sal F2, Lindstedtsvägen 26 The acoustics and performance of DJ scratching - Analysis and modelling Kjetil Falkenberg Hansen Show information and abstract Thesis defense Opp.: Rolf Inge Godøy, Dept of Musicology, University of Oslo Tue 23rd Audio-visual prominence - from intelligibility to behavior Samer Al Moubayed Show information HumComm series Fri 26th Interaktion med avatarer - ansiktsanimering för verbal och icke-verbal kommunikation Jonas Beskow Show information and abstract Docentlecture Januari Jan 8th 15:15 - 16:00 Outdoor Auralization - Evaluation of a Road Simulation Model Marja Gustin Redovisningen sker på svenska Show information X-job Opp.: Lars Ericsson Jan 8th 16:15 - 17:00 Automatisk diskriminering av tal och musik i ljudfiler Lars Ericsson Show information X-job Opp.: John Häggkvist Jan 19th Human-like dialogue systems and speech technology in studies of human conversation Jens Edlund Show information and abstract HumComm series Jan 22nd A voice source project: Spectral tilt of audio and electroglottography signals Laura Enflo Show information 2009 December Dec 4th Technology and new interfaces for music therapy Kjetil Falkenberg Hansen Show information and abstract HumComm series Dec 8th Intelligent hearing - blind speech extraction Nedelko Grbic, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola Show information and abstract November Nov 3rd “I didn’t say that!” – on children’s perception of their recorded voice, and possible implications for speech and language intervention Sofia Strömbergsson Show information Nov 10th The neural correlates of filled pauses: A combined fMRI and EEG study of disfluency perception Robert Eklund, SBI/KI, Voice Provider, Stockholm och ICSI, Berkeley Show information and abstract Nov 17th A framework for classification and analysis with discriminative prototypical spectrograms Daniel Neiberg Show information and abstract Nov 24th 16:00 - 17:00 Mickey’s emotions: report from a study of perception of cartoons PerMagnus Lindborg, Nanyang Technological University, School of Art, Design and Media, Singapore Show information and abstract Nov 27th Mönsterigenkänning - talkvalitet, bildförbättring och ansiktsdetektering Mikael Nilsson, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola Show information HumComm series Oktober Oct 6th Interspeech 2009 med satelliter - Rapport och diskussion Show information HumComm series Oct 9th 15:00 - 17:00 Introduction to sonification and its application to the training of elite athletes Gaël Dubus, TMH Show information and abstract HumComm series Oct 16th Models and Prototypes for Natural Interactive Walking Federico Fontana, University of Verona, Dept. Computer Science, Verona, Italy Show information and abstract HumComm series Oct 21st 09:00 - 17:00 OBS! Held in KTH, Auditorium F2, Lindstedtsvägen 26 Current Trends in Music Instrument Research On the occasion of Anders Askenfelt´s 60th birthday, a Globally Mediated Symposium The symposium is free of charge and open to everyone interested. The auditorium is large, but to ensure that seats will be available, please confirm your attendance, by e-mailing to aa-60@csc.kth.se before 16 October. Show information and abstract HumComm series Oct 27th Statistical voice transformation in Unit Selection TTS framework Fabio Tesser, CNR-ISTC Padova, Italy Show information and abstract September Sep 4th 15:15 - 16:00 Reserapport från PEVOC 8 i Dresden Sten Ternström och Johan Sundberg Show information Sep 4th 16:00 - 17:00 Duplex stringing in grand pianos Fredrik Öberg Show information and abstract X-job Opp.: Marja Gustin Sep 11th Synthesis of speech and song: commonalities and differences, style versus individuality Takeshi Saitou, Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Hideki Kawahara, Wakayama University Show information and abstract Sep 15th Acoustic Gestures in Speech Gopal Ananthakrishnan Show information and abstract Augusti Aug 18th 14:15 - 15:15 Analysis of playing strategies in DJ scratching Kjetil Falkenberg Hansen, TMH Marco Fabiani Show information and abstract Juli Jul 17th 15:00 - 17:00 DJ Tool: A Mobile Phone Audio Player Application Oriol Boix Sancho, Escola Politècnica Superior de Castelldefels, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Show information and abstract X-job Opp.: Fredrik Öberg Juni Jun 5th Voice User Interface as an alternative access point to web-based mobile services - An investigation using an end-to-end design approach Daniel Åkerberg Show information and abstract X-job Opp.: Miray Merkes Jun 8th What´s going on with Ville? - An update and status report on the development and use of Ville, the CTT Virtual Language Teacher. Preben Wik OBS! måndag Show information HumComm series Jun 9th Control and modelling of a 2-D waveguide mesh simulation of the vocal tract Dominic Freeston, University of York Show information X-job HumComm series Jun 16th A keyboard...How quaint! - Building the Next Generation intuitive speech interfaces Joakim Gustafson Show information and abstract Docentlecture HumComm series Maj May 9th 10:45 - 11:15 Musikaliska magneter och missiler. Om konsten att synliggöra stadens offentliga ljudmiljöer Björn Hellström, Konstfack - Enheten för forskningsadministration och externa relationer Show information and abstract HumComm series May 9th 10:15 - 10:45 Den musicerande hjärnan: studier på produktion av rytmiska sekvenser, musikaliska emotioner och improvisation Fredrik Ullén, Karolinska Institutet - Institutionen för kvinnors och barns hälsa Show information and abstract HumComm series May 9th 11:15 - 11:45 Känslomässig kommunikation i musikutförande. Hur snabbt ska det spelas ett glatt utförande? Roberto Bresin, Anders Friberg, Marco Fabiani, Kjetil F. Hansen, KTH - Skolan för Datavetenskap och kommunikation Show information and abstract HumComm series May 12th 15:15 - 16:00 Recognizing and Conveying Emotion in Speech Julia Hirschberg, TMH/KTH & Columbia University, New York OBS! lokal: D2, Lindstedtsvägen 5 Show information and abstract HumComm series May 26th Recording methods for Spoken Dialogue Systems Miray Merkes Show information and abstract X-job Opp.: Petra Hagström May 29th OBS! Held in Seminar room Assessing and Improving the Performance of Speech Recognition for Incremental Systems OBS! In the seminar room Timo Baumann - Doctoral guest researcher, Potsdam University Show information and abstract April Apr 7th Human echolocation: Detection of objects by visually handicapped people Bo Schenkman, Gästforskare från Blekinge Tekniska Högskola Show information and abstract HumComm series Apr 28th Språkteknologi i Uppsala: Vad nytt? Joakim Nivre, Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi, Uppsala universitet Show information and abstract Mars Mar 3rd Singing commercial music: Genre-specific vocal demands Thomas F. Cleveland, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN, USA Show information and abstract Mar 6th 10:00 - 13:00 OBS! Held in Sal F3, Flodis, Lindstedtsvägen 26 Putting the singing voice on the map: Towards improving the quantitative evaluation of the singer´s voice status Anick Lamarche Show information and abstract Thesis defense Opp.: Thomas F. Cleveland, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN, USA Mar 10th Achieving equal loudness between audio files Paul Nygren (The seminar will be held in Swedish) Show information and abstract X-job Opp.: Simon Edwinsson Mar 20th Taking turns and giving them up - turn-taking behavior in the Columbia Games Corpus Julia Hirschberg, TMH/KTH & Columbia University, New York Show information Februari Fri 6th Phonetics and the organisation of topic transitions in talk-in-interaction Rein Ove Sikveland, University of York Show information and abstract Fri 13th Predicting visual intelligibility gain in the Synface application Petra Hagström Show information and abstract X-job Opp.: Kristian Ronge Fri 27th Ljudmiljöklassificering och taligenkänning med talrörskompensering - ett doktorandseminarium Daniel Elenius Show information and abstract Januari Jan 23rd The privileged position of the phrase-final accent - perception theory and intonation in Kammu David House Show information and abstract Jan 27th On Clarinet Playing. Reed Properties and Room Influence. Tarmo Pajusaar Show information and abstract Jan 30th 10:30 - 13:00 OBS! Held in Salongen, KTHB, Osquars Backe 31 Mechanics and acoustics of violin bowing - Freedom, constraints and control in performance Erwin Schoonderwaldt Show information and abstract Thesis defense Opp.: Prof. Jim Woodhouse, Dept of Engineering, Cambridge University, UK Jan 30th On the control of virtual violins Matthias Demoucron Seminariet följs av paneldiskussion med Jim Woodhouse, Cambridge University, Colin Gough, University of Birmingham, Kia Ng, University of Leeds och Knut Guettler, Norges Musikhögskole. Show information and abstract 2008 December Dec 2nd Från Norrland till Skåne. Uppfattning av svenska dialekter Laura Enflo Show information Dec 16th Automatic Methods for Dialogue Classification and Prediction Kristian Ronge Show information and abstract X-job Opp.: Daniel Åkerberg Dec 18th Statistical methods for predicting articulation from speech Gopal Ananthakrishnan Show information and abstract November Nov 4th On the acoustic clothes of singing Johan Sundberg Show information and abstract Nov 7th Incremental dialogue processing Gabriel Skantze Show information and abstract Nov 20th 09:30 - 21:00 OBS! Held in see program - registration needed SLTC 2008 - Swedish Language Technology Conference more information at: http://www.speech.kth.se/sltc2008/ Show information Nov 21st 09:00 - 16:00 OBS! Held in see program - registration needed SLTC 2008 - Swedish Language Technology Conference more information at: http://www.speech.kth.se/sltc2008/ Show information Nov 28th Affordance based word-to-meaning association Giampiero Salvi Show information and abstract Oktober Oct 1st 13:15 - 14:15 Assessing the singing voice with the Voice Range Profile - preview of doctoral thesis Anick Lamarche Supervisor: Sten Ternström Show information and abstract Oct 3rd Summer of ´08: Music Acoustics Conference Highlights Music Acoustics Group Show information and abstract Oct 10th Att tala utan att veta vad man ska säga eller när man ska sluta – Generering av spontant tal i dialogsystem Anna Hjalmarsson Show information Oct 13th 16:00 - 16:45 Docentföreläsning: Vad gör tal till samtal? Mattias Heldner Show information and abstract Docentlecture Oct 16th 08:30 - 17:00 The Jan Gauffin Memorial Symposium - heldagsseminarium program på: http://www.speech.kth.se/voice/announcement.pdf - anmälan önskas Show information Oct 21st A European cross-linguistic study of emotions through the voice - An overview and some methodological issues Vincenzo Galatà, Department of Linguistics - University of Calabria Show information and abstract Oct 24th Interspeech 2008, Brisbane - Rapport och diskussion Show information September Sep 2nd Automatic speech-driven facial animation Goranka Zoric, Univ of Zagreb Show information and abstract Sep 5th Report from Enterface summer school, Paris - Results from three projects on multimodality Gopal Ananthakrishnan, Samer Moubayed and Daniel Neiberg Show information Sep 12th Detecting deception in speech: human vs. machine performance Julia Hirschberg, TMH/KTH & Columbia University, New York Show information and abstract Augusti Juli Juni Jun 3rd Vad bestämmer tonen hos gitarren? Peter Johansson Bergholtz och Johannes Larsson Show information X-job Jun 10th /Nja/, /ja / och /aa/ - datainsamling och analys av diskursmarkörer med fokus på generering av responsiver i dialogsystem Jenny Klarenfjord Show information X-job Opp.: Björn Söderström Jun 17th Pronunciation Training of Swedish Vowels Using Speech Technology, Embodied Conversational Agents and an Interactive Game David Lucas Show information X-job Opp.: Jenny Klarenfjord Jun 24th Measuring the harmonics-to-noise ratio in voice signals at high frequencies Lucas León Oller Show information and abstract X-job Opp.: John Lindberg Maj May 9th Genomgång av Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Kyoto, 2007, baserad på konferenspublikationen. Mats Blomberg, Daniel Elenius, Kjell Elenius och Daniel Neiberg Show information May 23rd 15:15 - 16:00 Modelling the sound propagation in the vocal tract with a three-dimensional digital waveguide mesh Matt Speed, University of York Show information and abstract X-job Opp.: Lucas León Oller May 23rd 16:15 - 17:00 Expressive music performance as a research motor Roberto Bresin Lärarkommitten består av Ninni Carlsund och Yngve Sundblad Show information and abstract Docentlecture May 30th Skatta - A Multiplatform System for the Design and Running of Audio and Visual Perception Tests John Lindberg Show information and abstract X-job Opp.: Matt Speed April Apr 18th Teleping: Automatic evaluation of spoken dialogue systems Björn Söderström Show information and abstract X-job Opp.: Janine Wicke Apr 25th New date OBS! Seminariet uppskjutet till 9 maj! (Genomgång av Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Kyoto, 2007) Show information Mars Mar 4th Integration of an animated talking face in a portable device for multimodal speech synthesis Teodor Gjermani Show information X-job Opp.: David Lucas Mar 7th Narrationen som en iterativ arbetsprocess Katarina Borg Gyllenbäck, Manusförfattare och Data-systemvetare på SU Show information and abstract Mar 14th Physics-based modeling of the piano Heidi-Maria Lehtonen, Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics, Helsinki University of Technology, TKK Show information and abstract Februari Fri 8th Acoustical properties of children´s singing voices. First results and new plans Ann-Christine Mecke Show information and abstract Fri 15th New date Embodied interaction strategies in music Lars Graugaard, (PhD, composer and flautist) Dept. of Software and Media Technology, Aalborg Universitet, Esbjerg Show information and abstract Tue 19th Towards a methodology for the evaluation of Multimodal Interactive Systems: case studies Álvaro Trapote Show information and abstract Fri 22nd Musical Creativity Jan Cedervall, DSV Show information and abstract Fri 29th P g a sportlov är Katarina Borg Gyllenbäcks seminarium flyttat till 7 mars Show information Januari Jan 8th Investigating intonation in Kammu: Report from an excursion in Laos David House Show information and abstract Jan 18th När, var och hur väcker musik känslor? Patrik Juslin, Uppsala universitet Show information and abstract Jan 29th Recognizing expressivity in human-computer dialog Daniel Neiberg and Kjell Elenius Show information and abstract Jan 30th On the control of virtual violins Matthias Demoucron Demoucron som har varit antagen till gemensam forskarutbildning vid KTH och Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)presenterar sin avhandling som han försvarade i Paris 24 nov 2008. Seminariet följs av paneldiskussion med Jim Woodhouse, Cambridge Uni Show information and abstract 2007 December Dec 7th Akustisk Design Björn Hellström, Konstfack, Stockholm Show information and abstract Dec 11th Talteknologiska möjligheter i behandlingen av barn med fonologisk språkstörning Sofia Strömbergsson Show information and abstract Dec 18th Högtalarkonstruktion i snabbversion Svante Granqvist Show information and abstract November Nov 12th 14:15 - 15:00 Mot mer reaktiva talbaserade dialogsystem Joakim Gustafson Show information Nov 22nd 14:00 - 17:00 Spoken Dialog with Humans and Machines A mini symposium Show information Nov 23rd 10:00 - 13:00 OBS! Held in Sal F3, Lindstedtsvägen 26 Error handling in spoken dialogue systems – Managing uncertainty, grounding and miscommunication Gabriel Skantze Show information and abstract Thesis defense Opp.: Alexander Rudnicky, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Nov 27th 15:00 - 17:00 Anpassning till talrör och röstkälla vid barntaligenkänning - experiment och förstudier Daniel Elenius Show information Oktober Oct 18th 14:00 - 16:00 The MICASE Corpus of American Academic Speech John Swales, University of Michigan Show information and abstract Oct 19th Ville at SLaTE. Intryck från en workshop om ´Speech and Language Technology in Education´ och presentation av eget bidrag Preben Wik Show information Oct 26th Some characteristics of dialogue flow Jens Edlund, Mattias Heldner and Joakim Gustafson Show information and abstract September Sep 7th 15:15 - 16:00 New date Sonification of a diary Anna de Witt Show information and abstract X-job Opp.: To be decided Sep 7th 16:00 - 17:00 The male modal and falsetto registers: perceptual relevance of voice source characteristics Gláucia Laís Salomao, Pontifical Catholic University, São Paulo Show information Sep 18th Mer naturlig interaktionskontroll (turtagning) i ett automatiskt kundtjänstsystem Joakim Gustafson Show information Sep 28th Sommarens konferenser, bl a ICPhS, Saarbrücken och Interspeech, Antwerpen - rapport och diskussion Show information Augusti Aug 21st 15:00 - 15:45 TMH presentations for ICMC 2007 Hansen, Fabiani Show information and abstract Aug 21st 15:45 - 16:30 The pianist´s body and mind during performance Isabella Poggi, Dipartimento di Scienze dell´Educazione, Università Show information and abstract Juli Juni Jun 5th From expressive walking to expressive music performance Åsa Wrange Show information and abstract X-job Opp.: Johan Bjurling Jun 12th 15:15 - 16:00 Implementing Perceived Loudness in Broadcasting at Sveriges Radio Matti Zemack Show information X-job Opp.: Leonardo Aldrey Jun 19th 10:15 - 12:00 New date Timing i pianospel Johan Bjurling Show information and abstract X-job Opp.: Anna de Witt Jun 26th Acoustic Echo Suppression in the Spectral Domain – A low-complexity solution suitable for Voice over IP with high sound quality and home PC-equipment as terminals Mikael Waldenmark Show information and abstract X-job Opp.: Ricardo Santos Jun 27th Utvärdering av ett språkinlärningsverktyg Helena Bergström Show information X-job Opp.: Laura Enflo Jun 28th 15:15 - 16:00 A real-time performance system for interactively layered audio sequences Leonardo Aldrey Show information X-job Opp.: Juan Morago Guijarro Jun 28th 16:15 - 17:00 Speech Enhancement of ACELP Coded Speech Signals Sebastian de Bachtin Show information X-job Opp.: Per Wennersten Maj May 10th Acoustical correlates of perceived emotions in speech Mimmi Forsell Show information and abstract X-job Opp.: Teodor Gjermani May 11th OBS! Held in Seminarierummet, plan 5 Can the singer’s self-perceptions be mapped into the phonetogram? Anick Lamarche, Sten Ternström, Stellan Hertegård (Pre-conference presentation) Show information and abstract May 15th 15:00 - 18:00 OBS! Held in Sal F3, Lindstedtsvägen 26 Investigating communicative feedback phenomena across languages and modalities Disputation - fakultetsopponent är Marianne Gullberg, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen Loredana Cerrato Show information Thesis defense May 16th 10:15 - 12:00 What gestures reveal about the development of semantic representations in first and second language acquisition Marianne Gullberg, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics Show information and abstract May 21st Virtuella språklärare - teknik, fonetik och pedagogik Olov Engwall Docentföreläsning, som beskriver hur datoranimerade språklärare för uttalsträning utvecklas vid Centrum för talteknologi, KTH. Show information and abstract April Apr 13th Which way, SIRR? - Spatial Impulse Response Rendering of digital waveguide mesh room acoustic simulations Report on a M.Sc.Eng thesis work performed at the University of York Stefan Enroth Show information and abstract X-job Opp.: Åsa Wrange Apr 20th Ett nyutvecklat databasverktyg för hantering av talkorpora Alexander Seward Show information Apr 24th Presentation av några nya projekt vid CTT Show information Mars Mar 2nd Människolik yttrandegenerering i dialogsystem Anna Hjalmarsson Show information and abstract Mar 6th The current music acoustics scene in Brazil Leonardo Fuks, a multi-instrumentalist and acoustics professor at University of Brazil -UFRJ Show information Mar 7th Sensors at Medialogy, Aalborg University Copenhagen Smilen Dimitrov, Aalborg University Copenhagen Show information and abstract Mar 9th Arraymikrofon och talaridentifiering Jonas Nahlin Show information X-job Opp.: Tommie Gannert Mar 30th Communication of musical expression from mobile robots to humans: recognition of music emotions by means of robot gestures Birgitta Burger, TMH and Musikwissenschaftliches Institut der Universität zu Köln Show information and abstract Februari Tue 6th Psycho-acoustic interpretation of vocal performance quality Evangelos Himonides Show information and abstract Fri 9th En datadriven beslutsteoretisk metod för val av återkopplingsstrategier i dialogsystem Gabriel Skantze Show information and abstract Thu 15th 15:00 - 16:00 Why do we have music? Steven R. Livingstone, University of Queensland, Brisbane Show information and abstract Fri 16th Utvärdering av taligenkännare för naturligt och spontant tal Joakim Nordström Show information and abstract X-job Opp.: Mikael Waldenmark Fri 23rd Nätbaserat läromedel om pipors akustik inom projektet RealSimple Viktor Crageus Show information X-job Januari Jan 21st 15:00 - 17:00 TMH presentations for ICMC 2007 Hansen, Fabiani, Bresin Show information and abstract Jan 21st 15:00 - 17:00 TMH presentations for ICMC 2007 Hansen, Fabiani, Bresin Show information and abstract Jan 24th Phonetic dimensions and function of preaspirated voiceless fricatives in Scottish English Olga Gordeeva and James M Scobbie, Acapela Group, Mons, Belgium and Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh, U.K. Show information and abstract Jan 30th 15:15 - 16:00 Ett talarverifieringssystem under luppen: ALIZE Tommie Gannert Show information X-job Opp.: Joakim Nordström Jan 30th 16:15 - 17:00 Eye Gaze Analysis in Human-Human Interactions Vanessa Hugot Show information X-job Opp.: Mimmi Forsell 2006 December Dec 4th 13:30 - 15:30 Researching Chinese Englishes Kingsley Bolton, Department of English, Stockholm University Show information and abstract Dec 8th 14:00 - 17:00 OBS! Held in Sal F3, Lindstedtsvägen 26 Why so different? - Aspects of voice characteristics in operatic and musical theatre singing Disputation - fakultetsopponent är Ronald Scherer, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA Eva Björkner Show information Thesis defense Dec 11th 13:00 - 16:00 OBS! Held in Sal F3, Lindstedtsvägen 26 Modelling phone-level pronunciation in discourse context Disputation - fakultetsopponent är Merle Horne, Lunds Universitet Per-Anders Jande Show information and abstract Thesis defense Dec 13th 13:30 - 14:30 Developing Methods and Tools for Studying Body Actions and Musical Sound Alexander Refsum Jensenius, Department of Musicology, University of Oslo Show information and abstract Dec 18th Expressivness in virtual talking faces Licentiatseminarium. Granskare: Francisco Lacerda, Lingvistik, SU Gunilla Svanfeldt Show information and abstract Dec 19th 14:00 - 17:00 OBS! Held in Sal F3, Lindstedtsvägen 26 Automatic speaker verification on site and by telephone: methods, applications and assessment Disputation - fakultetsopponent är Josef Bigün, Högskolan i Halmstad Håkan Melin Show information and abstract Thesis defense November Nov 7th Interfaces for expressive interaction, scratching and more Kjetil Falkenberg Hansen Show information and abstract Nov 16th 14:15 - 16:00 Preparing exchange students for their time abroad Fred Dervin, Department of French, University of Turku, Finland Show information and abstract Nov 21st Towards an automatic modification of the performance in audio recordings: background and ideas. Marco Fabiani Show information Nov 22nd Dialogue Systems at Carnegie Mellon OBS! ONSDAG Alexander I Rudnicky, CMU, USA Show information and abstract Nov 28th Prosodi hos fragmentariska grounding-yttranden i dialogsystem Jens Edlund, David House och Gabriel Skantze Show information and abstract Oktober Oct 6th 13:00 - 17:00 OBS! Held in F3, Lindstedtsvägen 26 Mining Speech Sounds Machine Learning Methods for Automatic Speech Recognition and Analysis Giampiero Salvi, TMH Show information and abstract Thesis defense Opp.: Torbjørn Svendsen Oct 17th 15:00 - 17:00 Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh - rapport och diskussion Show information Oct 31st 15:00 - 17:00 Språkundervisning med en virtuell lärare - designstrategier, implementering och test Preben Wik Show information September Sep 8th 15:00 - 17:00 Akustisk analys och formantsyntes av talarålder Susanne Schötz Show information and abstract Sep 12th 15:00 - 17:00 När klarinetten låter dåligt - en identifikationsstudie Athanasia Zlatintsi Show information and abstract X-job Opp.: Birgitta Burger Sep 29th 15:00 - 17:00 Några hörseltekniska forskningsprojekt vid CTT Peter Nordqvist Show information Augusti Aug 22nd 15:00 - 17:00 Symfoniorkesterns podieakustik Malin Cederlöf Show information X-job Opp.: Arne Wallander Juli Jul 5th 15:00 - 17:00 Informal seminar (OBS! Onsdag 5 Juli!) Kenneth N. Stevens, MIT Show information Juni Jun 9th 15:00 - 17:00 OBS!! FLYTTAT TILL 20 JUNI Geststyrning av musik Johan Strandell Show information X-job Opp.: Ivett Flores-Backlund Jun 13th 15:00 - 17:00 OBS!! FLYTTAT TILL 22 AUGUSTI!!! Symfoniorkesterns podieakustik Malin Cederlöf Show information X-job Opp.: Arne Wallander Jun 15th 10:00 - 13:00 OBS! Held in Sal F2, Lindstedtsvägen 28 Computer-based speech therapy using visual feedback with focus on children with profound hearing impairments Disputation - fakultetsopponent är James J. Mahshie, Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C. USA Anne-Marie Öster Show information and abstract Jun 16th 15:00 - 17:00 Exploring the Speech of Deaf Individuals James J. Mahshie, Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C. USA Show information and abstract Jun 20th 15:00 - 17:00 Geststyrning av musik Johan Strandell Show information X-job Opp.: Ivett Flores-Backlund Maj May 8th 15:00 - 16:00 OBS! Held in Sal F2, Lindstedtsvägen 26, intill institutionen Mot bättre förståelse mellan människor och datorer - konverserande agenter och artikulerade avatarer Jonas Beskow Show information and abstract May 12th 15:00 - 17:00 Children-machine conversations: User studies in public settings Linda Bell & Joakim Gustafson, TeliaSonera Show information and abstract May 16th 15:00 - 17:00 A multi-dimensional interpolation scheme for improved control of sample-based synthesis Arne Wallander Show information X-job Opp.: Athanasia Zlatintsi May 19th 15:00 - 17:00 Monkey Business: Creating social awareness among distributed group members, using a network of animatronic agents (presenteras på svenska) Paulina Modlitba Show information and abstract X-job Opp.: Helena Bergström May 23rd 15:00 - 16:00 Automatic decoder configuration for Ambisonic loudspeaker rigs Robert Humphrey, Univ. of York Show information X-job Opp.: Malin Cederlöf May 23rd 16:15 - 17:15 Steady-state behaviour of the bowed string - Experimental investigations of playability and tone quality Erwin Schoonderwaldt Show information May 30th 15:00 - 17:00 Texturbaserad emotionsmodellering för ansiktssyntes Daniel Höglind Show information X-job Opp.: Jonas Nahlin April Apr 4th 15:00 - 17:00 The role of prosody in the communicative function of short expressions in Italian and Swedish Loredana Cerrato Show information Apr 7th 15:00 - 17:00 OBS!! FLYTTAT TILL 30 MAJ !!! Texturbaserad emotionsmodellering för ansiktssyntes Daniel Höglind Show information Apr 18th 15:00 - 16:00 Threshold Pressure For Vocal Fold Collision (presenteras på engelska) Laura Enflo Show information and abstract X-job Apr 18th 16:00 - 17:00 An exploration of skin acceleration level as a measure of phonatory function in singing. Anick Lamarche Show information and abstract Apr 21st 15:00 - 17:00 Digital control of the mechanical parameters of a loudspeaker using current feedback (presenteras på svenska) Magnus Wideberg Show information and abstract X-job Opp.: Laura Enflo Apr 25th 15:00 - 17:00 OBS!! FLYTTAT TILL 12 MAJ !!! Children-machine conversations: User studies in public settings Linda Bell & Joakim Gustafson, TeliaSonera Show information Apr 28th 15:00 - 17:00 Experiment med olika metoder för igenkänning av barntal Daniel Elenius Show information Mars Mar 31st 15:00 - 17:00 Syntes av disfluenser i tal Rolf Carlson, Kjell Gustafson och Eva Strangert Show information and abstract Februari Fri 3rd 15:00 - 17:00 Analysis of drumbeats with regard to the interaction between player, striking tool and instrument Andreas Wagner Show information X-job Opp.: Håkan Landsberg Tue 7th 10:00 - 11:00 Development of tangible human-machine interface exploiting in-solid vibrational signals acquired by multiple sensors Marco Fabiani, Politecnico di Milano, Facoltà di Ingegneria, Corso di laurea in Ingegneria delle Telecomunicazioni Show information and abstract X-job Opp.: Andreas Wagner Tue 7th 11:00 - 12:00 Enhancing the perception of short text messages by adding expressive music and pictures Ivett Lilian Backlund Show information and abstract X-job Opp.: Marco Fabiani Tue 7th 15:00 - 17:00 Speech technology and human-dolphin communication Preben Wik Show information Fri 10th 15:00 - 17:00 Ett verktyg för konstruktion av MPEG-4-baserade talande huvuden Fredrik Hedberg Show information X-job Opp.: Daniel Höglind Tue 14th 15:00 - 17:00 NAP-projektet - navigationshjälp för funktionshindrade Jan-Ingvar Lindström En preliminär version av rapporten finns att hämta via en länk efter abstract (Weblink). Show information and abstract Fri 17th 15:00 - 17:00 Effektiv visuell återkoppling i datorbaserade talträningssystem Anne-Marie Öster Show information and abstract Thu 23rd 15:00 - 17:00 Subjektivt vald ljudåtergivning för olika lyssningssituationer Samuel Munkstedt Show information X-job Opp.: Fredrik Hedberg Fri 24th 15:00 - 17:00 Exploring prosody in interaction control Jens Edlund and Mattias Heldner Show information and abstract Januari Jan 10th 15:00 - 17:00 Spektrumlutning hos blåsinstrument Håkan Landsberg Show information and abstract X-job Opp.: Matti Zemack Jan 24th 15:00 - 17:00 The role of frequency warping in sound synthesis, transformation and representation Gianpaolo Evangelista, Linköpings universitet, campus Norrköping Show information and abstract Jan 26th 15:00 - 17:00 Små ljud av stor betydelse - prosodisk manipulering av syntetiska "backchannels" på svenska Åsa Wallers Show information and abstract X-job Opp.: Samuel Munkstedt Jan 31st 15:00 - 17:00 Speech research at LORIA, Nancy Anne Bonneau, Jacques Feldmar, Yves Laprie Show information and abstract 2005 December Dec 2nd 15:00 - 17:00 Induktiva metoder för dependensanalys av texter på naturligt språk Joakim Nivre, Växjö universitet Show information and abstract Dec 9th 15:00 - 17:00 Grammatiskt stöd för personer utan funktionell skrift - en språkteknologisk tillämpning Tina Magnuson Show information and abstract November Nov 1st 15:00 - 17:00 Distribution of speaker verification errors in time and (speaker) space Håkan Melin Show information and abstract Nov 11th 10:15 - 13:00 OBS! Held in Sal D3, Lindstedtsvägen 5 Computer support for learners of spoken English Disputation - fakultetsopponent är Robert H McAllister, Stockholms universitet Rebecca Hincks Show information and abstract Nov 15th 15:00 - 17:00 IMUTUS: developing tools for rendering educational feedback to a child's music performance - Summary of an EU project Anders Askenfelt, Erwin Schoonderwaldt, Kjetil Falkenberg Hansen Show information and abstract Nov 18th 15:00 - 17:00 Experiment med adaption och talrörslängdsnormalisering vid automatisk igenkänning av barntal Sara Öhgren Show information and abstract X-job Opp.: Åsa Wallers Nov 22nd 15:00 - 17:00 An aerodynamically driven multi-mass model of the vocal folds Svante Granqvist Show information and abstract Nov 25th 15:00 - 17:00 Does the acoustic waveform mirror the voice? A keynote address from PEVOC 6 Sten Ternström Show information and abstract Nov 29th 15:00 - 17:00 Presentation av EU-projektet NICE - ett dialogprojekt i H C Andersens anda Johan Boye och Joakim Gustafson, TeliaSonera Show information and abstract Oktober Oct 25th 15:00 - 17:00 Machine Learning: a methodology survey with practical examples. Giampiero Salvi Show information and abstract September Sep 16th 15:00 - 17:00 Sound-source perception in walking sounds: walkers' emotion, gender, weight and shoe properties Bruno L. Giordano, CIRMMT, Faculty of Music, McGill University,Montréal, Québec, Canada Show information and abstract Sep 28th 15:00 - 17:00 Describing Music, Interpreting Music, Explaining Music David Huron, Ohio State University Show information and abstract Sep 29th 10:00 - 13:00 OBS! Held in Salongen, KTHB, Osquars backe 31 On the beat: Human movement and timing in the production and perception of music Sofia Dahl Show information and abstract Thesis defense Opp.: Prof David Huron, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA Augusti Aug 19th 15:00 - 15:30 PEVOC 6 conference paper rehearsal Björkner E, Sundberg J & Alku P: NAQ variation with Ps in classically trained baritone singers Eva Björkner Show information Aug 19th 15:30 - 17:00 Enhancing vocal performance with EEG-biofeedback Boris Kleber, Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, Tübingen Show information and abstract Juli Juni Jun 1st 09:30 - 11:30 Systematization and application of large-scale knowledge resources Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology Kortkurs vid CTT - Även deltagare utanför CTT är mycket välkomna! Show information and abstract Maj May 17th 15:00 - 17:00 Are tones aligned with articulatory events? Evidence from Italian and French Mariapaola D'Imperio, Université de Provence Show information and abstract May 20th 15:00 - 17:00 The Sound Port: Development of a bi-directional sound transducer Alastair Moore Show information and abstract X-job May 24th 15:00 - 17:00 Interactive music: Compositional techniques for communicating different emotional qualities Robert Winter Show information and abstract X-job May 27th 15:00 - 17:00 The Multi-dimensional Digital Waveguide Mesh: applications in modelling of room acoustics and of the vocal tract Damian Murphy, Media Engineering Group, Dept of Electronics, University of York Show information and abstract May 30th 09:30 - 11:30 Recent progress in spontaneous speech recognition Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology Kortkurs vid CTT - Även deltagare utanför CTT är mycket välkomna! Show information and abstract May 31st 09:30 - 11:30 Robust speech recognition and understanding Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology Kortkurs vid CTT - Även deltagare utanför CTT är mycket välkomna! Show information and abstract April Apr 12th 15:00 - 17:00 A CALL system for training Danish single word pronunciation Thomas K. Hansen, gästdoktorand, Odense Show information Apr 15th 15:00 - 17:00 M.A.T. (Multilayer Analysis Toolkit) Ett verktyg för utveckling av TTS Björn Adolfsson Show information X-job Opp.: Jonas Skubic Apr 29th 15:00 - 17:00 Automatisk talsegmentering och röstanalys - nya möjligheter i WaveSurfer Kåre Sjölander Show information Mars Mar 8th 15:00 - 17:00 Automatiserad normalisering av utländska namndatabaser Cristina Eriksson Show information X-job Opp.: Elina Eriksson Mar 11th 15:00 - 17:00 Sound source perception in impact sounds Bruno Giordano, Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Italy Show information and abstract Mar 22nd 15:00 - 17:00 Pensionärernas arv och en blick framåt Gunnar Fant, Anita Kruckenberg, Johan Liljencrants och Arne Risberg Show information Februari Fri 4th 15:00 - 17:00 Formant frequency adjustment in barbershop quartet singing Gustaf Kalin Show information X-job Opp.: Robert Winter Tue 8th 15:00 - 17:00 Vocal expression of emotion Petri Laukka, Uppsala universitet Show information Fri 11th 15:00 - 17:00 Do we perceive speech and singing using different mechanisms? Rachel van Besouw, Media Engineering Group, University of York Show information Tue 22nd 15:00 - 17:00 HMM-baserad talsyntes Anders Lundgren Show information X-job Opp.: Björn Adolfsson Fri 25th 15:00 - 17:00 Hantering av fel och missförstånd i dialogsystemet Higgins Gabriel Skantze Show information Januari Jan 19th 15:00 - 17:00 PEVOC 6 conference paper rehearsal: Björkner E, Sundberg J & Alku P: NAQ variation with Ps in classically trained baritone singers Eva Björkner Show information Jan 25th 15:00 - 17:00 e-inclusion i det europeiska informationssamhället- forskning och utveckling Erfarenheter från tre år i Bryssel Gunnar Fagerberg, Hjälpmedelsinstitutet Show information 2004 December Dec 7th 15:00 - 17:00 A multi-tier theoretical framework for understanding spoken language Steven Greenberg, ICSI, Berkeley, now at Technical University of Denmark Show information and abstract Dec 10th 15:00 - 16:00 Designrekommendationer till ett talträningsstöd för hörselskadade Elina Eriksson Show information X-job Opp.: Cristina Eriksson Dec 10th 16:00 - 17:00 Taligenkänningsmetoder för bedömning av barns uttal i ett främmande språk Linda Oppelstrup Show information X-job Opp.: Sara Öhgren Dec 14th 15:00 - 17:00 Cluster Analysis Methods for Phonetic Classification Julien Neel Show information X-job November Nov 2nd 15:00 - 17:00 'Interesting' Acoustics - An Arts/Science project investigating spatial audio composition through surround-sound impulse response measurement and realisation. Damian Murphy, AHRB/ACE Arts & Science Research Fellow, Media Engineering Research Group, Department of Electronics, University of York Show information Nov 4th 15:00 - 17:00 Spectro-temporal properties of the acoustic speech signal used for speech/music discrimination Stefan Karnebäck Show information Licentiatseminarium Opp.: Unto Laine, Helsinki University of Technology Nov 9th 15:00 - 17:00 Beating frequency modulation of piano tones Bo Cartling, KTH/Fysik Show information Nov 16th 15:00 - 16:00 A Comparison of Different Methods to Measure the EGG Contact Quotient Christian Herbst Show information X-job Opp.: Madeleine Svensson Nov 16th 16:00 - 17:00 Musikers preferenser för spektrumlutning hos syntetiserade toner Mickael Klimczak Show information X-job Opp.: Christian Herbst Nov 19th 15:00 - 17:00 Automatisk musikalisk gestaltning av oförutsägbara förlopp med inriktning på musiksättning av dataspel och andra interaktiva berättelser Jonas Edlund, InterAmus Music Systems Show information Nov 30th 15:00 - 17:00 Uppfattad naturlighet av syntetiskt tal: inflytande av talhastighet, ordfrekvens och fonologisk reduktion Sara Gotthardsson Show information Opp.: Anders Lundgren Oktober Oct 1st 15:00 - 17:00 Tools for numerical simulation of room acoustics using three-dimensional waveguide meshes Mark Beeson, Media Engineering Research Group, Dept of Electronics, University of York, UK Show information Oct 19th 15:00 - 17:00 Datadriven modellering av uttalsvariation Per-Anders Jande Show information Oct 26th 15:00 - 17:00 Measures and perceptions of liveliness in student presentation speech Becky Hincks Show information Oct 27th 16:00 - 17:00 Datormodeller för musikalisk, expressiv kommunikation: Lyssnaren, musikern och nya kombinationer. Anders Friberg Show information Docentföreläsning (The seminar database was initiated October '04)