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ISPhS International Society of Phonetic Sciences President: Ruth Huntley Bahr Secretary General: Honorary President: Mária Gósy Harry Hollien Executive Vice President: Eric Keller Vice Presidents: Past Presidents: Angelika Braun Jens-Peter Köster Maria Dohalská-Zichová Harry Hollien Mária Gósy William A. Sakow † Damir Horga Martin Kloster-Jensen Eric Keller Milan Romportl † Heinrich Kelz Bertil Malmberg † Stephen Lambacher Eberhard Zwirner † Asher Laufer Daniel Jones † Judith Rosenhouse Honorary Vice Presidents: A. Abramson P. Janota P. Ladefoged † R. K. Potapova F. Weingartner S. Agrawal W. Jassem A. Marchal M. Rossi R. Weiss L. Bondarko M. Kloster-Jensen H. Morioka M. Shirt E. Emerit M. Kohno R. Nasr E. Stock G. Fant E.-M. Krech T. Nikolayeva M. Tatham Regional Secretaries: M. Bakalla Mid-East M. Dohalská-Zichová & T. Dub ĕda Czech Section C. Paboudjian Southern Europe R. K. Potapova Russia P. French United Kingdom Y. H. Wang South East Pacific H. Yamazawa Japan Auditor: Angelika Braun Treasurer: Ruth Huntley Bahr Affiliated Members (Associations): American Association of Phonetic Sciences J. Hoit & W. S. Brown Dutch Society of Phonetics B. Schouten International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics A. Braun Phonetic Society of Japan I. Oshima & K. Maekawa Polish Phonetics Association G. Demenko Affiliated Members (Institutes and Companies): Kay Elemetrics, Lincoln Park, NJ, USA J. Crump Inst. for Advanced Study of the Communication Processes, Univ. Florida, USA H. Hollien Dept. of Phonetics, University of Trier, Germany J.-P. Köster Dept. of Phonetics, University of Helsinki, Finland A. Iivonen Dept. of Phonetics, University of Zürich, Switzerland S. Schmid Centre of Poetics and Phonetics, University of Geneva, Switzerland S. Vater INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF PHONETIC SCIENCES (ISPHS): ADDRESSES www.isphs.org President: Secretary General: Prof. Ruth Huntley Bahr, Ph.D. Prof. Mária Gósy, DSc President’s Office: Secretary General’s Office: University of South Florida Kempelen Farkas Speech Research Dept. of Communication Science and Laboratory Disorders Hungarian Academy of Sciences 4202 E. Fowler Ave., PCD 1017 Benczúr u. 33 Tampa, FL 33620-8200 H-1068 Budapest USA Hungary Tel.: ++1-813-974-3182 Tel.: ++36 (1) 321-4830 ext. 172 Fax: ++1-813-974-0822 Fax: ++36 (1) 322-9297 e-mail: [email protected] u e-mail: [email protected] Guest Editors: Review Editor: Prof. Gábor Olaszy, DSc Prof. Judith Rosenhouse, Ph.D. and Review Editor’s Office: Prof. Géza Németh, Ph.D. Swantech Guest Editors’ Office: 89 Hagalil St Department of Telecommunications and Haifa 32684 Mediainformatics Israel Budapest University of Technology and Tel.: ++972-4-8235546 Economics Fax: ++972-4-8327399 Magyar tudósok krt. 2 e-mail: [email protected] H-1117 Budapest Hungary Tel.: ++36 (1) 463-3883 Editorial Board: Fax: ++36 (1) 463-3107 e-mail: [email protected] Professor Dr. Angelika Braun [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] Dr. Tomáš Dub ěda e-mail: [email protected] Professor Dr. Mária Gósy e-mail: [email protected] Professor Dr. Eric Keller e-mail: [email protected] Professor Dr. Jens-P. Köster e-mail: [email protected] Dr. Chantal Paboudjian e-mail: [email protected] the Phonetician A Publication of ISPhS/ International Society of Phonetic Sciences ISSN 0741-6164 Number 97 / 2008-I-II CONTENTS From the President....................................................................................................6 Papers.........................................................................................................................7 A formant trajectory database of Hungarian vowels by Gábor Olaszy, Zsuzsanna Zsófia Rácz and Kálmán Abari ..............................................................7 A comparative study of direct and ASR-based modular audio to visual speech systems by Gergely Feldhoffer, Attila Tihanyi and Balázs Oroszi .......................15 Improving naturalness of visual speech synthesis by László Czap and János Mátyás .........................................................................................................27 Exploring differences between phonetic classes in Sleep Apnoea Syndrome Patients using automatic speech processing techniques by Jose Luis Blanco, Rubén Fernández, Eduardo López and Luis Alfonso Hernández.....................................36 Phonetics Institutes Present Themselves...............................................................56 Laboratories of Speech Research & Technology at the Department of Telecommunications and Media Informatics (TMIT), Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) by Géza Németh ...........................................56 Ph.D. research..........................................................................................................60 Integrating prosody into Automatic Speech Recognition by György Szaszák ..........60 Research project......................................................................................................68 Report on building a tool for Romanian spontaneous speech recognition by Corneliu Burileanu, Cristina-Sorina Petrea, Andi Buzo, Horia Cucu and Alina Pasca ....................................................................................................68 Tools using speech technology for research and education.................................83 Glottalizer: A tool to transform regular voice into irregular voice by Tamás B ıhm and Nicolas Audibert ..................................................................83 On line acoustic features of segmental level speech data (Hungarian) by Gábor Olaszy ....................................................................................................88 From text-to-sound - A Hungarian word level pronunciation database using IPA symbols by Kálmán Abari .....................................................................................93 Applications using speech technology research results......................................105 Mindroom – Video news search system by voice by Tibor Fegyó and Sándor Somos ......................................................................................................105 Spoken dialogue-based phone information system for pharmaceuticals by Gábor Olaszy ..................................................................................................109 On the Hungarian Language and Speech Technology Platform by Tamás Váradi .................................................................................................119 Book reviews ..........................................................................................................122 Lingua Americana Revista de Linguistica reviewed by Judith Rosenhouse ...........122 Sánchez Miret, Fernando: La diptongación en las lenguas románicas reviewed by José María García Martín ..............................................................................124 Daniel Jones (edited by Peter Roach, James Hartman and Jane Setter): Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary reviewed by Wiktor Jassem .............................130 Watson, Janet C.E.: The phonology and morphology of Arabic reviewed by Judith Rosenhouse ...............................................................................................134 Richard V. Teschner & M. Stanley Whitley: Pronouncing English reviewed by Wiktor Jassem .....................................................................................................138 Daniel Schreier: Consonant change in English worldwide. Synchrony meets diachrony reviewed by Judith Rosenhouse ..........................................................141 Jeroen van de Weijer, Kensuke Nanjo, Tetsuo Nishihara (eds.): Voicing in Japanese reviewed by Eric Rosen ........................................................................144 Gábor Olaszy: Mássalhangzó-kapcsolódások a magyar beszédben [Consonant Clusters in Hungarian Speech] reviewed by Péter Siptár ...................................150 Hangid ıtartamok és id ıszerkezeti elemek a magyar beszédben [Sound durations and temporal factors in Hungarian speech] reviewed by Kálmán Abari .............152 Jacob Benesty, M. M. Sondhi and Yiteng Huang (eds.): Handbook of speech processing reviewed by Eduardo López Gonsalo ................................................154 Meetings, conferences and workshops.................................................................156 Call for papers .......................................................................................................176 Instructions for book reviewers ...........................................................................176 ISPhS Membership Application Form................................................................177 News on Dues .........................................................................................................178 5 FROM THE PRESIDENT A new double issue of the Phonetician is now ready. Our guest editors, Géza Németh and Gábor Olaszy, have done an excellent job! I am extremely grateful for their hard work in putting this issue together. They have brought together a fine group of researchers, who have shared their expertise with us in the area of speech technology. This issue offers both traditional research papers, as well as articles describing practical applications of speech technology research. There is even a section on tools that involve speech technology. I particularly enjoyed reading about the applications involving medicine, voice analysis, and pronunciation
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