Special Session at Interspeech 2015: Active Perception in Human and Machine Speech Communication (Martin Heckmann )

Subject: Special Session at Interspeech 2015: Active Perception in Human and Machine Speech Communication From: Martin Heckmann <Martin.Heckmann@xxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 10:53:56 +0100 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY> This is a multipart message in MIME format. --=_alternative 00365FD3C1257DD6_= Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" ------------------------------------------------------------ Call for participation in the Special Session Active Perception in Human and Machine Speech Communication at Interspeech, September 6-10, 2015 in Dresden **Deadline: March 20, 2015** ------------------------------------------------------------- We are pleased to announce the special session *Active Perception in Human and Machine Speech Communication* to be held at Interspeech 2015. In this special session, we want to look at how listeners adapt to better understand the talker in a communication and how they actively perceive the message. A main target of the session is to explore how behavioral research can enrich the development of active machine listening. Active auditory perception has received relatively little research attention despite the facts that (1) auditory perception is still a bottleneck on current robotic systems, (2) human listening appears to rely substantially on feedback (e.g. outer hair cells) and (3) that speech communication, i.e. intention-driven goal-oriented communication, provides the possibility to jointly create an optimal situation for mutual understanding. We plan to address this exciting topic at Interspeech 2015 and therefore solicit contributions on active speech perception in humans and machines and on the adaptation of human or machine interaction behavior to guide the communication. Topics of particular interest for the special session are: - active speech perception in humans - adaptive interaction behavior in humans (e.g. entrainment as an implicit method to guide the interaction partner's communicative behavior) - adaptation of human or machine listening to the environment (e.g. adaptation of volume to noise, adaptation to situation) - systems changing their orientation, position in the room or appearance to actively shape their perception - systems which control their attention in the communication actively - systems which change their interaction with the communication partner to seek the information they want - systems that encourage their interaction partner to change their interaction such that the system's needs are better fulfilled (e.g. "please speak more slowly") - research on entrainment in communications with the focus to derive the desired information You can find further details at: http://www.honda-ri.de/tiki-index.php?page=IS2015_Active_Perception Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. Martin Heckmann (martin.heckmann@xxxxxxxx) Britta Wrede (bwrede@xxxxxxxx) Dorothea Kolossa (dorothea.kolossa@xxxxxxxx) Alexander Raake (alexander.raake@xxxxxxxx) --=_alternative 00365FD3C1257DD6_= Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" ------------------------------------------------------------       Call for participation in the Special Session Active Perception in Human and Machine Speech Communication      at Interspeech, September 6-10, 2015 in Dresden                  **Deadline: March 20, 2015** ------------------------------------------------------------- We are pleased to announce the special session *Active Perception in Human and Machine Speech Communication* to be held at Interspeech 2015. In this special session, we want to look at how listeners adapt to better understand the talker in a communication and how they actively perceive the message. A main target of the session is to explore how behavioral research can enrich the development of active machine listening. Active auditory perception has received relatively little research attention despite the facts that (1) auditory perception is still a bottleneck on current robotic systems, (2) human listening appears to rely substantially on feedback (e.g. outer hair cells) and (3) that speech communication, i.e. intention-driven goal-oriented communication, provides the possibility to jointly create an optimal situation for mutual understanding. We plan to address this exciting topic at Interspeech 2015 and therefore solicit contributions on active speech perception in humans and machines and on the adaptation of human or machine interaction behavior to guide the communication. Topics of particular interest for the special session are: -  active speech perception in humans -  adaptive interaction behavior in humans (e.g. entrainment as an implicit method to guide the interaction partner's communicative behavior) -  adaptation of human or machine listening to the environment (e.g. adaptation of volume to noise, adaptation to situation) -  systems changing their orientation, position in the room or appearance to actively shape their perception -  systems which control their attention in the communication actively -  systems which change their interaction with the communication partner to seek the information they want -  systems that encourage their interaction partner to change their interaction such that the system's needs are better fulfilled (e.g. "please speak more slowly") -  research on entrainment in communications with the focus to derive the desired information You can find further details at: <a href="http://www.honda-ri.de/tiki-index.php?page=IS2015_Active_Perception">http://www.honda-ri.de/tiki-index.php?page=IS2015_Active_Perception</a> Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. Martin Heckmann (martin.heckmann@xxxxxxxx) Britta Wrede (bwrede@xxxxxxxx) Dorothea Kolossa (dorothea.kolossa@xxxxxxxx) Alexander Raake (alexander.raake@xxxxxxxx) --=_alternative 00365FD3C1257DD6_=--

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