Jens Edlund - projects in which I'm directly or indirectly involved.

Speech that occurs in conversation differs from other types of speech - speech where the speaker is reading, or where there is no conversational partner present. In this project we expand on our previous work on intonation, and investigate how the phrasing and rythm of conversational speech works.

The visionary goal for the researchers behind Prosody in conversation is to create an artificial conversational partner. While this is far beyond the scope of the project, this goal has already revealed gaps in our knowledge concerning human conversations. For example, state-of-the-art speech technology neither sounds like a conversational partner, nor understands fundamental aspects of human conversational behavior.

Asking questions is fundamental to people's need for social contact as well as for information gathering. In this project we ask ourselves what a question really is, and what makes it a question.

The project will develop and verify ways of including interactional phenomena in speech synthesis, resulting in well-described and tested methods for synthesizing these phenomena in such a way that they can be employed to recreate human interactional behaviour.

URO is a EU-Research programme (STREP) and started on February 1st, 2010. It will be funded for three years with 3.5 million euros. Apart from the Institute of Automatic Control Engineering at TUM the following partners are involved: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Universität Salzburg and the TUM Spin-off ACCREA Engineering in Poland.

This is a national project started in 2007 and funded by the Swedish Research Council. The goal is to gather 60 hours of spontaneous dialogues in an audio-visual database, complete with basic annotation.

The MonAMI project, instigated in 2006, is a research project aimed at researching and developing prototype dialogue systems suitable for testing and evaluating human-like dialogue behaviour, such as error handling strategies and responsivity.

The Higgins project, instigated in 2003, is a research project aimed at researching and developing prototype dialogue systems suitable for testing and evaluating human-like dialogue behaviour, such as error handling strategies and responsivity.

Centlex is the central lexicon resource produced and maintained by the Centre for Speech Technology. It is currently dormant.