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Universität Stuttgart

Institute for Natural Language Processing

Experimental Phonetics

Research

• Research projects
• Partners in Germany
• International partners

Research projectstop

• Sonderforschungsbereich 732
  Incremental specification in context
  (supported by DFG, 7/2006-6/2010)
  • Project A1: Incremental specification of focus and givenness in a discourse context
    Project A2: Exemplar-based speech representation
    Project A3: Incremental specification in speech
• Schwerpunktprogramm 1234
  Sprachlautliche Kompetenz: Zwischen Grammatik, Signalverarbeitung und neuronaler Aktivität
  
  • Project: Phonetic perceptual reference space for prosodic phonological categories
    (supported by DFG, 7/2006-6/2009)
• Prosody Acquisition
  • Project: Tonal and temporal development of L1 prosodic categories
    (supported by DFG, 7/2008-6/2011)
  • Project: First language acquisition of acoustic correlates of word stress
    (supported by DFG, 10/2004-9/2007)
• SmartWeb
  • Project: Speech synthesis in a system enabling mobile access to the Semantic Web
    (supported by BMBF, 4/2004-3/2007)
• Prosody Production
  • Project: A computational model of target oriented production of prosody
    (supported by DFG, 10/2001-9/2004)
• SmartKom
  • Project: Speech output component for a multimodal system
    (supported by BMBF, 9/1999-9/2003)
• Schwerpunktprogramm Sprachproduktion
  • Project: The neuroanatomic foundation of language production: Visual examination using functional Magnet Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
    (supported by DFG, 1997-2003)
• Speech Synthesis
  • Project: Modeling of the linguistic context for speech synthesis
    (supported by DFG; project completed)
• Alignment Project
  • Project: Segmentation of Speech Data from the Mannheim Institute of German Language ( IDS)
    (supported by the Ministery of Research and Education, Baden-Wuerttemberg; project completed)
• Sonderforschungsbereich 340
  • Project C4: Aspects of Prosodic Structure for Discourse Representation Theory
    (supported by DFG; project completed)

Partners in Germanytop

• Neurophonetics research group
  at the Neurological Clinic, University of Tübingen
  (Hermann Ackermann, Ingo Hertrich)
  • Access to physiological equipment (Electromagnetic Articulography EMA, ELITE-system); formant synthesis tuesyn.
• Experimental MRI of the CNS
  at the Dept of Neuroradiology, University of Tübingen
  (Walter Grodd, Dirk Wildgruber)
  • Access to fMRI technique; joint project Neuroimaging of language production.
• Language and speech therapy group
  at the Edith-von-Stein Rehabilitation Clinic, Bad Bergzabern
  (Gabriele Scharf)
  • Cooperation in the areas of clinical linguistics and neurolinguistics.
• Institute of Phonetics
  at University of Saarbrücken
  (William Barry, Martine Grice, Manfred Pützer)
  • Cooperation in the areas of intonation analysis and modelling of voice quality.
• Language and speech research group
  at Daimler-Benz Research Center in Ulm
  (Peter Regel-Brietzmann)
  • The cooperation here concerns primarily automatic speech recognition. The research center in Ulm provides industrial internship opportunities for students.
• Advanced developments group
  at Sony International (Europe) GmbH, Stuttgart
  (Stefan Rapp, Krzysztof Marasek)
  • Multimodal dialogue systems, speech technology.

International partnerstop

International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)

• Dept. of Linguistics and Phonetics
  at Lund University, Sweden
  (Gösta Bruce, Merle Horne)
• Dept. of Phonetics
  at Umeå University, Sweden
  (Robert Bannert)
• Research Unit for Experimental Phonology
  at University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
  (Justus Roux)
• Research unit Phonétique expérimentale et modélisation phonologique
  at CNRS-Paris III, France
  (G. Nick Clements, Annie Rialland)
• Speech Synthesis group, Dept. of Speech and Image Processing Services Research
  at AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA
  (Juergen Schroeter, Mark Beutnagel, Alistair Conkie, Ann Syrdal)
• Center for Spoken Language Understanding (CSLU)
  at OGI School of Science and Engineering / Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, OR, USA
  (Jan van Santen, Alexander Kain, Esther Klabbers)

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