Central and Eastern European Survey

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Type of Organisation: public
Number of Employees: 10-50
Activities developed: Research, Education.

The Laboratory was founded in 1974 first as a department of the Central Institute of the Ministry of Telecommunications and then, from 1986 as a present department. From this time the following soft&hardware systems were created: - a multi-lingual model of speech synthesis from text based on the formants speech signal description. Languages: Russian, English, German and French; - a multilingual model of speech synthesis from text based on the microwaves(MW) speech signal description. Languages: Russian, Belarussian, Ukrainian, Polish and Czech; - the PHONEMAPHONE - the first PC-based Russian text-to-speech synthesizer providing high intelligibility and sufficient naturalness of synthetic speech. It is utilized in the several commercial products: telephone services, workstations for the blind, Russian oral speech training systems, transport and in some other applications; - a knowledge-based phonemic interpretation model of the spoken Russian words. - a model of discrete words recognition. It provides robust real-time PC-based speaker-independent words (about 100) recognition and is designed for computer telephony applications; - a model of noise-resistant connected words recognition with problem-oriented vocabulary designed for aircraft applications;

Current research projects:

- creation of a high quality text-to-speech synthesis model based on allophonic wave-vorms speech signal representation and on syntax- morphological analysis of reading text; - creation of a DTW & HMM-based robust speech recognizer providing speaker-and channel independent words recognition for computer telephony applications;

Programming Languages and Operating Systems:

- ASSEMBLER and C++ on MS-DOS; - C++, Visual C++ V4.0 on WINDOWS 95.

Computing and Communications Facilities: - different models of COMPAQ - PENTIUM including COMPAQ - PENTIUM-MMX; - different types of Sound Cards and Voice-Modems; - Internet, E-mail.

The collaborative activities in 1995-1997 include participation in the following international projects:

- "Bilingual Speech Synthesis - German/Russian". Participant: University of Dresden, Germany. Foundation: FTU Karlsruhe.

- "Creation of Linguistic Resources and Pilot Applications". Participants: University of Saarbrücken, Germany; University of Manchester, U.K.; Institute of Information Problems, Russia. Foundation: INTAS.

- "Research and Creation of Noise-Resistant Speech Recognition Algorithm". Foundation: French Ministry of Defence.

- "Investigation the Robustness of Speech Recognition through Telephone". Foundation: NovCom Corporation, USA.

- "Library Workstation for Blind". Foundation: SOROS, USA.

- "School E-mail station for Blind". Foundation: SOROS, USA.

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