the creative speech technology (crest) network alistair edwards & chris newell
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The Creative Speech Technology (CreST) Network
Alistair Edwards & Chris Newell
A research network
Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)Networks are a way to bring together people of related interests to foster new research partnershipsLater additional funding from the Arts Council for England
Is this a first?Not a focussed research project
Our networkDeliberately diverse
From• John Wedgwood Clarke
– poet
To• Roger Moore
– Professor of Spoken Language Processing
From• Alan Martin
– Accessible creative dance, music making, and Light Painting with dance
To• David Mason
– Toby Churchill Ltd
Diversity
Bring together artists, users, technologists and researchers…and see what they can make the technology do
AAC
Is not the only focus…but most of our work has potential application to AAC
Roadshow
Focus of our work3 December 2012 (UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities)
York, City Screen
4 DecemberSheffield, Winter Gardens
5 DecemberHull, Hull Truck Theatre
Roadshow dress rehearsal
September 2012University of York
My Voice is Me
Lee Ridley videoVisitors invited to complete: My voice is…
Can’t Sing, Will sing
Four-part choral harmonyUser controls one of the voices through a games controller
Controllable, Expressive Speech Synthesis
Control the speech of cartoon characters
Select voice• male, female, robot, child
Select mood• angry, happy, sarcastic,…
- using two big silver balls
Voice by Choice
Comedy sketch by Lee RidleyBased on a speed-dating event
at which 3 people all have the same voice
It ain’t what you say, it’s the way that you say it
Hand gestures control voicepitchrate
AnTon, the animatronic tongue
Visitors can play with the tongue muscles
Conversational Kiosk
Engage in a spoken dialogue with a machine
Bespoke
Poems by John Wedgwood ClarkeSpoken by speech synthesizerPerformed by an actor
who cannot speak
Professor Moore’s Digital Voice Factory
Record your own voiceHear it
backwardssdrawkcab
like a dalek and really messed about
My Voice and Me
A melodrama
Frank
Experiments in sympathetic engagement elicited through
Silence in Synthetic Speech
Beyond Speech
Speech becomes something more
controlled by gesture
The CreST Documentary
Where next?
Context awarenessAnnual conferenceWebsite
Thank you
The CreST Networkhttp://crestnetwork.org.uk
Alistair EdwardsUniversity of York
Christopher NewellUniversity of Hull
Debbie HaverstockUniversity of York
Emma-Jane AlexanderUniversity of Hull
Maria AretoulakiDialogCONNECTION Ltd
Matthew AylettBruce Balentine
EIG Labs
James BalentineUniversity of Texas at San Antonio
Paul BarkerCentral School of Speech & Drama, University of London
Art BloklandToshiba Research Europe Limited
Mark BlytheNorthumbria University
Leonardo BottaciUniversity of Hull
Jude BreretonUniversity of York
Rob ClarkUniversity of Edinburgh
John Wedgwood ClarkeUniversity of Hull
Caroline CollinsEnterprise Integration Group
Daniel DoughtyUniversity of Hull
Paul ElsamUniversity of Teesside / Academy of Live and Recorded Arts
Paul FoulkesUniversity of York
James GilbertUniversity of Hull
Mark HildredApollo Creative
David HorowitzHorowitz Immersive Worlds Ltd
David HowardUniversity of York
Ben JohnsonApollo Creative
Kevin JonesComposer, writer, sound artist
Simon KingUniversity of Edinburgh
Pierre LanchantinUniversity of Cambridge
Javier LatorreToshiba Research Europe Limited
Ann LightNorthumbria University
Lucy LowsonGLOSSA
Robert MackayUniversity of Hull
Gill MainUniversity of Plymouth
Alan MartinMouse on the Move Workshops
David MasonToby Churchill Limited
Roger MooreUniversity of Sheffield
Darren MundyUniversity of Hull
George NewellAlan Newell
Dundee University
Rowan OliverUniversity of Hull
Sandra PaulettoUniversity of York
Barry PerksInternational Service
Chris PidcockCereProc Limited
Graham PullinUniversity of Dundee
Darren ReedUniversity of York
Hannah RolfeNeel Shearer
Toby Churchill Limited
Robert StewartPatrick Titley
University of York
Christophe VeauxUniversity of Edinburgh
Vincent WanToshiba Research Europe Limited
Jez WellsUniversity of York
P C WrightUniversity of Newcastle