Speech and Music Technology

Spoken language processing is considered as one of the most important technological areas of research and development in the field of human language technologies and signal processing. The recognition, processing and production of speech signal, is a challenging field of research and constitutes a major factor in human-machine interaction, offering many new and significant applications. Main fields of research in this domain are speech recognition, speech synthesis and speech coding. In addition, robust analysis and representation of speech signal is a continuous pursuit and is regarded as a major technological aim internationally, supporting and feeding research and development in many domains. During the last years, ILSP actively contributes to developing methods, systems, resources and tools in the areas of speech synthesis and speech recognition. In this context, research on music technology is of equal importance. ILSP’s research agenda in this field includes music recognition, extraction of high-level music features, music representation and symbolic processing. The ongoing effort and development on the above fields, together with complementary technologies such as speaker indexing and diarization as well as audio mining, constitutes contemporary scenery of multimedia as well as multimodal human-machine interaction which offers many potential applications in areas such as, electronic publishing, electronic education, multimedia, internet, virtual reality and games etc. In this context, ILSP continuously plans and adapts its research and development activities so as to effectively respond to this rapid technological evolution.