LISTA

The Listening Talker

Coordinatore	UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO EHU UPV    more  Organization address address: Paseo de la Universidad 5 city: Vitoria, Alava postcode: 1006 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Martin Cognome: Cooke Email: send email Telefono: +34 619616100 Fax: +34 945013201
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Spain [ES]
Totale costo	2˙338˙250 €
EC contributo	1˙791˙000 €
Programma	FP7-ICT Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies
Code Call	FP7-ICT-2009-C
Funding Scheme	CP
Anno di inizio	2010
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2010-05-01   -   2013-04-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO EHU UPV  Organization address address: Paseo de la Universidad 5 city: Vitoria, Alava postcode: 1006 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Martin Cognome: Cooke Email: send email Telefono: +34 619616100 Fax: +34 945013201	ES (Vitoria, Alava)	coordinator	0.00
2	Nome Ente NON disponibile  Organization address city: BILBAO postcode: 48011 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Martin Cognome: Cooke Email: send email Telefono: +34 619616100 Fax: +34 945013201	ES (BILBAO)	participant	0.00
3	FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY HELLAS  Organization address address: N PLASTIRA STR city: HERAKLION postcode: 70013 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Zinovia Cognome: Papatheodorou Email: send email Telefono: +30 2810 391522 Fax: +30 2810 391555	EL (HERAKLION)	participant	0.00
4	KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN  Organization address address: Valhallavaegen city: STOCKHOLM postcode: 10044 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Bastiaan Cognome: Kleijn Email: send email Telefono: +46 8 7908869 Fax: +46 8 411 2323	SE (STOCKHOLM)	participant	0.00
5	THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH  Organization address address: OLD COLLEGE, SOUTH BRIDGE city: EDINBURGH postcode: EH8 9YL contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Caroline Cognome: Hastings Email: send email Telefono: +44 131 651 3176 Fax: +44 131 650 6626	UK (EDINBURGH)	participant	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

Speech remains the method of choice for human communication, and as a consequence live, recorded and synthetic speech is increasingly used to deliver information. However, current speech output technologies lack an essential element of human interaction, namely the ability to listen while talking. Talkers react and adapt to both the environment and the listener, and make modifications to their speech in order to promote intelligible and fluid communication. For example, talkers modify fundamental frequency, spectral tilt and duration in response to noisy conditions, and produce more prototypical speech sounds when speaking clearly, resulting in increased intelligibility. Speech output technology, in contrast, does not listen while talking, so there is no guarantee that the message is understandable in a given environment and by specific listeners. The purpose of LISTA -- the LIStening TAlker -- is to develop scientific foundations for spoken language technologies based on human communicative strategies. LISTA will investigate how talkers react to changes in the environment, measure the relative success of these strategies using behavioural studies and models of speech intelligibility/quality and study algorithms for rapid characterisation of the listening context. The central objective of LISTA is to apply this information to develop novel techniques for spoken output generation of artificial and natural speech. LISTA will have an impact in all situations where synthetic speech is embedded in devices such as computers and PDAs, mobile and fixed telephones, public information kiosks and information systems, in addition to the domains where live speech is employed e.g. public address systems and teleconferencing. In all these applications, the ability to increase intelligibility in noise has an immediate value, not only in terms of message comprehension but in reducing overall time-of-interaction, noise pollution and individual noise exposure.