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W3C Workshop on Internationalizing the Speech Synthesis Markup Language — Agenda

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(Some presentations will contain content that is discussed in later sessions)

 

Wednesday November 2

Session 1. Introduction - Minutes by Richard Ishida

Moderator:
Jim Larson
Scribe:
Richard Ishida

9:00-9:05 Welcome to the workshop by James Larson

9:05-9:20 Introduction to W3C by Max Froumentin [Slides]

9:20-9:35 SSML Background by Dan Burnett [Slides]

9:35-9:50 Pronunciation Lexicon Background by Paolo Baggia [Slides]

9:50-10:05 Internationalizing SSML by Kazuyuki Ashimura [Slides]

10:05-10:15 Question & Answer

 

Session 2. Diacritics for auto-completion - Minutes by Helen Meng

Moderator:
Paolo Baggia
Scribe:
Helen Meng/Wai-Kit Lo

10:15-10:35 Telekommunikacja Polska: An extension to the <say-as> element for diacritics auto-completion [Slides]

10:35-11:00 BREAK

11:00-11:20 Focused discussion: How to represent diacritics for auto-completion?

 

Session 3. Representing special word classes - Minutes by Richard Ishida

Moderator:
Dan Burnett
Scribe:
Richard Ishida

11:20-11:40 InfoQuick SinoVoice: An Introduction of S3ML [Slides]

11:40-12:00 Chinese U of Hong Kong: SSML Extensions for Chinese Voice Browsing [Slides]

12:00-12:30 Focused discussion: How to represent special word classes such as names, fractions, measure, net, percentage, ratio, etc.?

 

12:30-14:00 LUNCH

 

Session 4. Representing word boundaries - Minutes by Dan Burnett

Moderator:
Zhi Wei Shuang
Scribe:
Dan Burnett

14:00-14:20 iFLYTEK: Overview of Chinese Speech Synthesis Markup Language [Slides]

14:20-14:40 IBM: Chinese Romanization for Chinese Voice Browsing [Slides]

14:40-15:00 Toshiba: Suggestions on Tone and Word Boundary of Mandarin for SSML [Slides]

15:00-15:30 BREAK

15:30-15:50 Panasonic: Position Paper of Panasonic Beijing Laboratory for W3C Workshop on Internationalizing the SSML [Slides]

15:50-16:20 Focused discussion: How to represent word boundaries?

 

Session 5. Denoting languages and character sets - Minutes by Zhi Wei Shuang / Summary by Dan Burnett

Moderator:
Kazuyuki Ashimura
Scribe:
Zhi Wei Shuang

16:20-16:40 JEITA: Issues of SSML in Japanese [Slides]

16:40-17:00 Korea Telecom & Information and Communications University : SSML Extension for Korean [Slides]

17:00-17:30 Focused discussion: How to denote language/dialects?

17:30-18:00 Focused discussion: What character sets should be used to represent Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc.?

 

19:00 DINNER

 

Thursday November 3

 

Session 6. Tones - Minutes by Kazuyuki Ashimura

Moderator:
Dan Burnett
Scribe:
Kazuyuki Ashimura

9:00-9:10 Overview: Approaches for representing tones and tones sandhi by Helen Meng [Slides] and Jianhua Tao [Slides]

9:10-10:00 Focused discussion: How to represent tones and tones sandhi?

 

Session 7. Sentence structure - Minutes by Zhi Wei Shuang

Moderator:
Kazuyo Tanaka
Scribe:
Zhi Wei Shuang

10:00-10:20 Chinese Academy of Sciences: The Concept of Speech Synthesis Markup Language [Slides]

10:20-11:00 Focused discussion: How to represent the structure of text using SSML?

 

11:00-11:30 BREAK

 

Session 8. Words with multiple pronunciations and meanings - Minutes by Max Froumentin

Moderator:
Helen Meng/Wai-Kit Lo
Scribe:
Max Froumentin

11:30-11:50 Korea Telecom: Usage of Pos for Resolving Multiple Pronunciations in SSML [Slides]

11:50-12:10 Focused discussion: How to represent a single word with different pronunciations and meanings?

 

Session 9. Text with multiple languages - Minutes by Jim Larson

Moderator:
Richard Ishida
Scribe:
Jim Larson

12:10-12:30 Nokia: SSML Extensions Aimed To Improve Asian Languages TTS Rendering [Slides]

12:30-13:00 Focused discussion: How to deal with multiple languages in the same text?

 

13:00-14:20 LUNCH

 

Session 10. Expression, speaking style, and focus - Minutes by Max Froumentin

Moderator:
Dan Burnett
Scribe:
Max Froumentin

14:20-14:40 Tsinghua University: Toward Synthesizing Expressive Mandarin Speech [Slides]

14:40-15:00 France Telecom: TOWARDS SYNTHESIS OF FOCUS IN MANDARIN TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM [Slides]

15:00-15:15 Focused Discussion: Should a <focus> element be added to SSML?

15:15-15:30 Focused Discussion: Should expressive elements be added to SSML?

15:30-15:45 Focused Discussion: Should elements for speaking style be added to SSML?

 

15:45-16:15 BREAK

 

Session 11. Other issues - Minutes by Dan Burnett

Moderator:
Jim Larson
Scribe:
Dan Burnett

16:15-17:15 Open discussion:

 

Session 12. Next steps - Minutes by Jim Larson

Moderator:
Max Froumentin
Scribe:
Jim Larson

17:15-18:00 Discussion: What are the next steps?

 

 

18:00 Workshop ends

 

 

The Call for Participation and the Participants List are available.


Jim Larson and Kazauyuki Ashimura, Workshop Co-chairs
Max Froumentin, Voice Activity Lead

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