W3C Workshop on Internationalizing the Speech Synthesis Markup Language III — Agenda

General information:

• Note that some presentations will contain material that is relevant to multiple sessions. Thus, material may be presented in an earlier session than the one in which it is discussed.
• Presentation time is strictly limited to 15 minutes to ensure sufficient time for questions and discussion at the end of each session.
• During the discussion, new issues that are identified will be added to the "discussion list" which will be reviewed during session 7.
• Attendees will be ask to write detailed descriptions of issues during the conference. These descriptions will be inserted into the conference minutes.

Saturday, 13 January 2007

Session 1. Introduction

Moderator:

Dan Burnett

Scribe:

Nixon Patel

8:30-8:45 Welcome to the workshop by Dan Burnett

8:45-9:00 Host welcome and logistics by Nixon Patel

9:00-9:15 Introduction to W3C & VBWG by Kazuyuki Ashimura

9:15-9:35 Internationalization and new language tags by Richard Ishida

9:35-10:00 SSML 1.1 Activities by Dan Burnett

10:00-10:15 Pronunciation Lexicon Background by Paolo Baggia

10:15-10:30 Question & Answer

10:30-11:00 BREAK

Session 2. Language-specific (or Indic-specific) issues, part I

Moderator:

Richard Ishida

Scribe:

Kishore Prahallad

11:00-11:20 Overview of Indian languages by Richard Ishida [ Handout / Slides (TBD)]

11:20-11:35 CHARACTERISTICS OF INDIAN LANGUAGES, Madhavi Varalwar [ Paper / Slides ]

11:35-11:50 A Note on Interpreting Text for Indian Language TTS, Kalika Bali [ Paper / Slides (TBD) ]

11:50-12:35 Focused discussion: Echo expressions, word compounding

12:35-14:00 LUNCH

Session 3. Language-specific (or Indic-specific) issues, part II

Moderator:

Nixon Patel

Scribe:

Paolo Baggia

14:00-14:15 SSML for Urdu Speech Synthesis, Sarmad Hussain [ Paper / Slides ]

14:15-14:30 Characteristics of Sinhala Pronunciation, Ruvini Ramanayake [ Slides ]

14:30-14:45 TEXT TO SPEECH SYSTEM FOR KONKANI (GOAN) LANGUAGE, Sangam P. Borkar [ Paper / Slides (TBD) ]

14:45-15:45 Focused discussion: optional/missing diacritics, space is a bad word delimiter, lack of vowel modifier in traditional orthography

15:45-16:00 Using SSML for Indian Languages Text to Speech Synthesis, Vibhu Agarwal [ Paper / Slides ]

16:00-16:30 BREAK

Session 4. Alternative/mixed-language support, Part I

Moderator:

Paul Bagshaw

Scribe:

Kazuyuki Ashimura

16:30-16:45 SSML Extensions for Indian Languages, Samuel Thomas [ Paper / Slides ]

16:45-18:00 Focused discussion: broader language/dialect/script support, loan words

19:00 DINNER

Sunday, 14 January 2007

Session 5. Alternative/mixed-language support, Part II

Moderator:

Richard Ishida

Scribe:

Kazuyuki Ashimura

8:30-8:45 Indic extensions Accent marks and Concrete text, R. K. Joshi [ Paper / Slides ]

8:45-9:00 Internationalizing W3C's Speech Synthesis Markuup Language Workshop III, Raxit Sheth [ Slides ]

9:00-10:00 Focused discussion: support for mixed-language text

10:00-10:30 BREAK

Session 6. Pronunciation Alphabets

Moderator:

Paolo Baggia

Scribe:

Paul Bagshaw

10:30-10:45 IT-3 Transliteration, M Nageshwara Rao [ Slides ]

10:45-11:30 Focused discussion: Transliteration

11:30-12:30 Focused discussion: non-IPA and syllable-based pronunciation alphabets

12:30-14:00 LUNCH

Session 7. Miscellaneous

Moderator:

Kishore Prahallad

Scribe:

Paolo Baggia

14:00-14:15 Pronunciation of Nouns in Text to Speech systems, Lavanya Prahallad [ Paper / Slides ]

14:15-15:00 Discussion: Pronunciation of proper names, alternate say-as types

15:00-16:00 Discussion: Review discussion list (other issues raised during the workshop)

16:00-16:30 BREAK

Session 8. Conclusions and next steps

Moderator:

Dan Burnett

Scribe:

Richard Ishida

16:30-17:30 Finish writing problem statements

17:30-18:00 W3C participation recap by Kazuyuki Ashimura

18:00 Workshop ends

The Logistics, the Presentation guideline and the Call for Participation are available.

Dan Burnett and Kazuyuki Ashimura, Workshop Co-chairs
Max Froumentin, Voice Activity Lead

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