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Program of the ASI “Dynamics of Speech Production and Perception”

Monday June 24

7:00 pm–10:30 pm
Welcome Reception

Tuesday June 25

Morning Session: 9:00 am–12:15 pm
9:00 am–10:30 am
Pierre Divenyi (VANCHCS and East Bay Institute for Research and Education, Martinez, CA, USA), and
Klára Vicsi (Budapest University of Technology, Budapest, Hungary)
Introduction by the Directors

Understanding Speech Understanding
Chair: Klaus Kohler (Institut für Phonetik und digitale Sprachverarbeitung, Univ. Kiehl, Kiehl, Germany)

Steven Greenberg (International Computer Sciences Institute, Univ. California, Berkeley, CA, USA)
What are the essential cues for understanding spoken language?

10:30 am–11:00 am
Break

11:00 am–12:15 pm
Stephen Grossberg (Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston Univ., Boston, MA, USA)
Neural dynamics of speech perception

12:15 pm–2:30 pm
Lunch/Break

Afternoon Session: 2:30 pm–5:30 pm
2:30 pm–3:45 pm
The Meaning of Vowel Transitions: Session in Memory of William Ainsworth (1941-2002)
Chair: Georg Meyer (MacKay Institute of Communication and Neuroscience, Keele Univ., Keele, U.K.)

René Carré (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications and C.N.R.S., Paris, France)
Speech gestures by deduction, gesture production, and gesture perception

3:45 pm–4:15 pm
Break

4:15 pm–5:30 pm
Georg Meyer (MacKay Institute of Communication and Neuroscience, Keele Univ., Keele, U.K.)
Evidence for multi-resolution analysis of auditory stimuli

Wednesday June 26

Morning Session: 9:00 am–12:00 noon
9:00 am–10:15 am
Speech Production—Articulatory Space
Chair: Barbara Gili-Fivela (Univ. degli Studi di Lecce, Fac. Ling. Lett. Stran., Lecce, Italy)

David Ostry (Department of Psychology, McGill Univ., Montreal, Canada)
Jaws: Dynamics of the orofacial system in planning speech movements

10:15 am–10:45 am
Break

10:45 am–12:00 noon
Elliot Saltzman (Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT, and Boston Univ., Boston, MA, USA)
A task-dynamic model and two spatial reference systems

12:00 noon–2:30 pm
Lunch/Break

Afternoon Session: 2:30 pm–5:30 pm
2:30 pm–3:45 pm
Quantitative Approaches to Speech Perception
Chair: Ken McAnally (Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Melbourne, Australia)

András Illényi (G. von Békésy Acoustics Lab. and Budapest Univ. of Technology, Hungary)
From acoustic source to intelligent user: transformation of dynamic signals into information usable by
human listeners

3:45 pm–4:15 pm
Break

4:15 pm–5:30 pm
Roy Patterson (Centre for the Neural Bases of Hearing, Cambridge Univ., U.K.), and
Toshio Irino (NTT Research, Tokyo, Japan)
The auditory image model and its use in speech analysis

Poster précis by participants (1): Speech in the Brain and Teaching Machines to Speak

Thursday June 27

Morning Session: 9:00 am–12:00 noon
9:00 am–10:15 am
The Role of the Auditory Cortex in Speech Processing
Chair: Lee Miller (H. Wills Neuroscience Institute, Univ. California, Berkeley, CA, USA)

Israel Nelken (Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel, and Oxford Univ.,
Oxford, UK)
Responses of neurons in the auditory cortex to auditory foregrounds and backgrounds

10:15 am–10:45 am
Break

10:45 am–12:00 noon
Shihab Shamma (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Univ. Maryland, College Park, MD, USA)
Representation of speech dynamics in the primary auditory cortex

12:00 noon–2:30 pm
Lunch/Break

Afternoon Session: 2:30 pm–5:30 pm
2:30 pm–3:45 pm
Production to Acoustics to Production
Chair: Keith Bromley (SPAWAR Systems Center, San Diego, CA, USA, and Office of Naval Research International Field Office, London, UK)

Victor Sorokin (Instutute of Information Transmission Problems, Moscow, Russian Federation)
Source identification: Internal model as a tool for inverse problem solving

3:45 pm–4:15 pm
Break

4:15 pm–5:30 pm
Chin-Hui Lee (Department of Computer Sciences, National Univ. of Singapore)
Back to speech science—A bottom-up detection approach to speech recognition

General discussion (1)

Friday June 28

Free day

Saturday June 29

Morning Session: 9:00 am–12:00 noon
9:00 am–10:15 am
The Cocktail-party Effect from the Perspective of Humans and Machines
Chair: Birgit Gaschler-Markefski (Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany)

Pierre Divenyi (VANCHCS and East Bay Institute for Research and Education, Martinez, CA, USA)
Segregation of speech-like auditory streams with dynamically changing spectral profiles

10:15 am–10:45 am
Break

10:45 am–12:00 noon
Les Atlas (Department of Electrical Engineering, Univ. Washington, Seattle, WA, USA)
Acoustic/modulation frequency transforms for single-channel talker separation

12:00 noon–2:30 pm
Lunch/Break

Afternoon Session: 2:30 pm–5:30 pm
2:30 pm–3:45 pm
Speech Production—Articulatory Time
Chair: Pascal Perrier (Institut de la Communication Parlée, Grenoble, France)

David Ostry (Department Psychology, McGill Univ., Montreal, Canada)
Jaws 2: Kinematic variability of speech via robotics

3:45 pm–4:15 pm
Break

4:15 pm–5:30 pm
Elliot Saltzman (Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT, and Boston Univ., Boston, MA, USA)
Temporal aspects of gestural control

Sunday June 30

Morning Session: 9:00 am–12:00 noon
9:00 am–10:15 am
Speaking and Singing
Chair: László Tóth (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Group on Artificial Intelligence, Szeged, Hungary)

Hiroshi Riquimaroux (Department of Physiology, Doshisha Univ., Japan)
Is extraction of a melody in a song related to the perception of lyrics?

10:15 am–10:45 am
Break

10:45 am–12:00 noon
Jaan Ross (Department of the Arts, Univ. of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia)
Quantity oppositions in spoken Estonian and their transformation in sung utterances

12:00 noon–3:30 pm
Lunch/Break

Afternoon Session: 3:30 pm–6:30 pm
3:30 pm–4:45 pm
Temporal Dynamics of Speech
Chair: Takayuki Arai (Department of Electrical Electronics Engineering, Sophia Univ., Tokyo, Japan)

Hynek Hermansky (Jan Masaryk Univ., Brno, Czech Rep., and Department of Computer Sciences, Oregon Graduate Inst., Beaverton, OR, USA)
Temporal domain for speech processing – the role of syllable-length dynamics

4:45 pm–5:15 pm
Break

5:15 pm–6:30 pm
Steven Greenberg (International Computer Sciences Institute, Univ. California, Berkeley, USA)
Time frames of spoken language

Poster précis by participants (2): Speech as Humans Hear and Speak It

Monday July 1

Morning Session: 9:00 am–12:00 noon
9:00 am–10:15 am
The Dimension of Time and Space in Speech
Chair: Minoru Tsuzaki (ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan)

Roy Patterson (Centre for the Neural Bases of Hearing, Cambridge University, U.K.)
Time-domain auditory processing of the dynamic aspects of speech

10:15 am–10:45 am
Break

10:45 am–12:00 noon
Constantine Trahiotis (Univ. Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT, USA)
Binaural perception of speech

12:00 noon–2:30 pm
Lunch/Break

Afternoon Session: 2:30 pm–5:30 pm
2:00 pm–3:45 pm
Speech Acoustics and Speech Production Dynamics
Chair: Brian Gygi (VANCHCS and East Bay Institute for Research and Education, Martinez, CA, USA)

Louis Pols (Faculty of Linguistics, Univ. Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Speech acoustics and perceptual phonetics

3:45 pm–4:15 pm
Break

4:15 pm–5:30 pm
Björn Lindblom (Department of Linguistics, Stockholm Univ., Sweden, and Univ. Texas, Austin, TX, USA)
Energetics and its relation to the dynamics of speech production

General discussion (2)

7:00 pm–10:00 pm
Banquet and best poster award ceremony

Tuesday July 2

Free day

Wednesday July 3

Morning Session: 9:00 am–12:00 noon
9:00 am–10:15 am
Psychophysics of Speech
Chair: Werner Deutsch (Acoustics Research Department, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria)

Lawrence Feth (Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, USA)
Psychophysics of the dynamic center-of-gravity effect

10:15 am–10:45 am
Break

10:45 am–12:00 noon
Georg Meyer (MacKay Institute of Communication and Neuroscience, Keele Univ., Keele, U.K.)
Psychophysical processes in speech perception

12:00 noon–2:30 pm
Lunch/Break

Afternoon Session: 2:30 pm–5:30 pm
2:30 pm–3:45 pm
Machine Learning Approaches to Speech Processing
Chair: Taras Vintsiuk (International Research and Training Centre for Information Technologies and Systems, Kyiv, Ukraine)

Hynek Hermansky (Brno Univ. of Technology, Brno, Czech Rep., and Department of Computer Sciences, Oregon Graduate Inst., Beaverton, OR, USA)
Perceptually-based and data-guided approaches in speech processing

3:45 pm–4:15 pm
Break

4:15 pm–5:30 pm
Steven Greenberg (International Computer Sciences Institute, Univ. California, Berkeley, USA)
Automatic phonetic and prosodic annotation of spontaneous speech

Thursday July 4

Morning Session: 9:00 am–12:00 noon
9:00 am–10:15 am
Speech Acoustics, Speech Perception, and their Application
Chair: P. G. Patel (Department Linguistics, Univ. Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada)

Louis Pols (Faculty of Linguistics, Univ. Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
From speech signal acoustics to perception

10:15 am–10:45 am
Break

10:45 am–12:00 noon
Klára Vicsi (Budapest Univ. of Technology, Budapest, Hungary)
Adaptation of phonetic knowledge for audio-visual speech training methods and their psychoacoustical
evaluation

12:00 noon–2:30 pm
Lunch/Break

Afternoon Session: 2:30 pm–5:30 pm
2:30 pm–3:45 pm
The Speech Laboratory at the Pavlov Institute of Physiology in Leningrad
Chair: András Illényi (G. von Békésy Acoustics Lab. and Budapest Univ. of Technology, Budapest, Hungary)

Valentina Lublinskaya (Pavlov Institute of Physiology, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation)
The role of amplitude modulation in speech perception—a review of the work of the
Chistovich - Kozhevnikov group and their followers at the Pavlov Institute of Physiology in then-
Leningrad

3:45 pm–4:15 pm
Break

4:15 pm–5:30 pm
René Carré, Lawrence Feth, Björn Lindblom, Jaan Ross, and Victor Sorokin
Speech research in Leningrad and St. Petersburg as viewed by visitors

Friday July 5

Morning Session: 9:00 am–12:00 noon
9:00 am–10:15 am
Perceptual and Quantitative Approaches to Vowels
Chair: Bojan Petek (Univ. Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Björn Lindblom (Department of Linguistics, Stockholm Univ., Sweden, and Univ. Texas, Austin, TX, USA)
Vowel perception: Exemplar models and the emergence of phonetic categories

10:15 am–10:45 am
Break

10:45 am–12:00 noon
Victor Sorokin (Instutute of Information Transmission Problems, Moscow, Russian Federation)
Vowel inverse problems: Tasks and solutions

12:00 noon–2:30 pm
Lunch/Break

Afternoon Session: 2:30 pm–5:30 pm
2:30 pm–3:45 pm
Speech dynamics: Are they essential?
Chair: Björn Lindblom (Department of Linguistics, Stockholm Univ., Sweden, and Univ. Texas, Austin, TX, USA)

Steven Greenberg (International Computer Sciences Institute, Univ. California, Berkeley, USA)
Beyond the phoneme—A juncture-accent model of spoken language

3:45 pm–4:15 pm
Break

4:15 pm–5:30 pm
René Carré, Steven Greenberg, Björn Lindblom, Valentina Lublinskaya, Louis Pols, and Victor Sorokin
Speech dynamics: are they essential? A round-table discussion

Saturday July 6

Morning Session: 9:00 am–12:00 noon
9:00 am–12:00 noon
General Discussion on the Dynamics of Speech Production and Perception
Moderators: Pierre Divenyi (VANCHCS and East Bay Institute for Research and Education, Martinez, CA, USA), and Klára Vicsi (Budapest Univ. of Technology, Budapest, Hungary)

12:00 noon
Farewell luncheon

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