Computer System for Voice Information (VOICE WEB)

Code

L2-5373 (C) - included in ARIS records

Head

PhD Matjaž Gams

Period

1/1/2003 - 12/31/2005

Range in 2005

0.53 FTE

Science

Natural sciences and mathematics (1)
Engineering sciences and technologies (15)

Reseacher status

Researcher (13)
Junior expert or technical associate (3)

Education

Doctor's degree (12)
Master's degree (1)
Other (3)

Sex

Woman (2)
Man (14)

Status

Employed at RO (1)
Employed at RO and RRD (8)
No data on employment in RO (3)
Retired (3)
Deceased (1)

No. of publications

10–99 (10)
100–999 (4)
1,000–9,999 (2)

Projects / Programmes source: ARIS

source: ARIS

Computer System for Voice Information (VOICE WEB)

Research activity

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

Keywords

Intelligent systems, speech portals, telecommunication applications, slovenian text-to-speech synthesis, natural language

Evaluation (rules)

source: COBISS

Evaluation of bibliographic research performance indicators according to ARIS methodology

Citations Citations for bibliographic records in COBIB.SI that are linked to records in citation databases

source: WoS

source: Scopus

source: COBISS

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	743
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	12
8.	08501	PhD Matjaž Gams	Computer science and informatics	Head	2003 - 2005	1,690
9.	17137	Marko Grobelnik	Computer science and informatics	Researcher	2003	439
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	2,207
14.	15656	PhD Tomaž Šef	Computer science and informatics	Researcher	2003 - 2005	394
15.	21346	Maja Škrjanc	Computer science and informatics	Researcher	2003	42
16.	24894	PhD Tea Tušar	Computer science and informatics	Researcher	2004 - 2005	209

Organisations (1)

no.	Code	Research organisation	City	Registration number	No. of publicationsNo. of publications
1.	0106	Jožef Stefan Institute	Ljubljana	5051606000	90,724

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.