Projects / Programmes
Computer System for Voice Information (VOICE WEB)
Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
2.07.07 |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Computer science and informatics |
Intelligent systems - software |
Code |
Science |
Field |
P176 |
Natural sciences and mathematics |
Artificial intelligence |
Intelligent systems, speech portals, telecommunication applications, slovenian text-to-speech synthesis, natural language
Researchers (16)
no. |
Code |
Name and surname |
Research area |
Role |
Period |
No. of publicationsNo. of publications |
1. |
20242 |
PhD Andraž Bežek |
Computer science and informatics |
Junior researcher |
2005 |
25 |
2. |
08952 |
PhD Damjan Bojadžiev |
Computer science and informatics |
Researcher |
2003 |
78 |
3. |
02275 |
PhD Ivan Bratko |
Computer science and informatics |
Researcher |
2004 - 2005 |
740 |
4. |
02590 |
PhD France Dacar |
Mathematics |
Researcher |
2003 - 2005 |
42 |
5. |
16415 |
PhD Damjan Demšar |
Computer science and informatics |
Researcher |
2003 |
46 |
6. |
11973 |
PhD Matija Drobnič |
Computer science and informatics |
Researcher |
2003 - 2005 |
63 |
7. |
24770 |
MSc Jure Ferlež |
Computer science and informatics |
Researcher |
2004 |
11 |
8. |
08501 |
PhD Matjaž Gams |
Computer science and informatics |
Head |
2003 - 2005 |
1,649 |
9. |
17137 |
Marko Grobelnik |
Computer science and informatics |
Researcher |
2003 |
424 |
10. |
11562 |
PhD Viljem Križman |
Computer science and informatics |
Researcher |
2003 - 2005 |
30 |
11. |
02571 |
Mitja Lasič |
Computer science and informatics |
Technical associate |
2004 - 2005 |
24 |
12. |
20815 |
PhD Aleksander Pivk |
Computer science and informatics |
Junior researcher |
2005 |
34 |
13. |
01074 |
PhD Vladislav Rajkovič |
Computer science and informatics |
Researcher |
2004 - 2005 |
2,205 |
14. |
15656 |
PhD Tomaž Šef |
Computer science and informatics |
Researcher |
2003 - 2005 |
390 |
15. |
21346 |
Maja Škrjanc |
Computer science and informatics |
Researcher |
2003 |
41 |
16. |
24894 |
PhD Tea Tušar |
Computer science and informatics |
Researcher |
2004 - 2005 |
202 |
Organisations (1)
no. |
Code |
Research organisation |
City |
Registration number |
No. of publicationsNo. of publications |
1. |
0106 |
Jožef Stefan Institute |
Ljubljana |
5051606000 |
87,078 |
Abstract
Project similar to the internet model yet via phone (fixed or mobile) introduces information providing and services of information society. System dynamically speaks any information from the Internet (HTML, XML, email agent) or any other information transformed to electronic format by the user and directed as an input to the system (information about institutions, organizations, enterprises). System settings will be accessible via tone selection, SMS or computer; further we plan enhancements of voice recognition of the limited Slovene word set. This is a long term project. Some additional features like e-business services, internet shopping, order processing, fax services will be added.
The main advantage of the open systems is that it enables users to select their own services. The project is adopted to the needs of the Ljubljana Municipality, Association of the Blind and Partially Sighted of Slovenia, Minister of the Information Society.
The aim of the proposed project is to develop an all-purpose, high-quality, intelligible and near- to-natural sounding text-to-speech system for Slovenian language. We expect to achieve that by a unit-selection-based speech synthesis. Further, the existing linguistic sources (suitably marked text and speech corpuses, large morphological and phonetic dictionaries), methods for text analysis (accentuation for unknown words, homograph dissambiguation) and existing prosody models have to be expanded and improved. The development will be mainly focused on research of linguistically dependant parts of the system. Namely, each language is specific and uncomparable to other languages through speech parameters. For linguistically independent parts, state-of-the-art findings will be utilised. The system will be compatibile with the industrial standards and other programs.
All research activities will be performed in the cooperation with the company AMEBIS and trensfered to the system GOVOREC that will be traded as an end-product.
By this we can follow the world-wide trends in this field in bring the applicability of the Slovene language closer to more spread world languages, which is with no doubt important for the existence of the Slovene national identity as well as for the integration in the global electronic space with equal rights.