Natural Speech Technology Annual Meeting 2012

• Overview of Natural Speech Technology (Steve Renals) [pdf]
• Natural Speech Transcription (Phil Woodland) [pdf]
• Natural Speech Synthesis (Simon King) [pdf]
• homeService Application (Phil Green, Heidi Christensen) [pdf]

More details of specific research topics were presented in these talks:

• Structuring Diverse Data (Pierre Lanchantin) [pdf]
• BBC Sample Data Processing (Yanhua Long) [pdf]
• Acoustic Modelling with Subspace Gaussian Mixture Models (Arnab Ghoshal) [pdf]
• Deep Neural Networks for Cross-lingual Speech Recognition (Pawel Swietojanski) [pdf]
• Natural Speech Recognition Output (Marcus Tomalin) [pdf]
• Paraphrastic Language Models (Xunying Liu) [pdf]

These are some initial demonstrations, presented at the NST Annual Meeting in Edinburgh on 24 April 2012:

• Voice banking and reconstruction
• Live voice cloning
• Examples of BBC data processing
• Podcastle
• Lecture Processing - Initial Work on Domain Independence 
• Transcription and navigation of conference talks and lectures
• homeService demonstrations
• Family Life Corpus - Initial Work on Domain Independence  and Structuring Diverse Data
• The Ambient Spotlight