News

Project Updates

2/8/08 - Notification of fully funded second year of Phase II Technology Transfer (STTR) grant from the NIH National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIH Grant Number R42 DC006193-04).

3/30/07 - All new beta users of InvTool will be required to record a short 14 phrase inventory (included) and upload it before recording a full inventory. This is to insure that everything is working properly and the inventory is being correctly recorded. Once the screening inventory is checked and verified by our staff, we will send users the full inventory for recording.

1/1/07 - Development of the ModelTalker and InvTool programs is now being supported by a Phase II Technology Transfer (STTR) grant from the NIH National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIH Grant Number R42 DC006193-03). This grant will help us finish commercializing this technology from the Speech Research Laboratory of the A.I. duPont Hospital for Children and Nemours Biomedical Research.

Recent and Upcoming Presentations

2008

Bunnell, H. T., & Lilley, J. (to be presented). Schwa variants in American English. Paper to be presented at the InterSpeech 2008, Brisbane, Australia.

Yarrington, D., Pennington, C., Bunnell, T., Gray, J., Lilley, J., Nagao, K., & Polikoff, J. B. (to be presented). ModelTalker Voice Recorder (MTVR) - A System for Capturing Individual Voices for Synthetic Speech. Paper to be presented at the ISAAC 13th Biennial Conference, Montreal, Canada.

Yarrington, D., Gray, J., Pennington, C., Bunnell, H. T., Cornaglia, A., Lilley, J., Nagao, K., & Polikoff, J. B. (2008). ModelTalker Voice Recorder – An Interface System for Recorded a Corpus of Speech for Synthesis. Paper presented at the 46th Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-08:HLT), Columbus, OH.

2007

Bunnell, H.T., & Lilley, J. (2007). Analysis Methods for Assessing TTS Intelligibility. Paper presented at the 6th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, Bonn, Germany.

Pennington, C. (2007). ModelTalker: Automatically Creating Personal Synthetic Voices. Presentation given at Messiah College Senior Computer Science Seminar, Grantham, PA.