| Friday,
June 11, 2004 |
| 8:00 –
9:00 |
Registration |
| 9:00 –
9:15 |
Welcome
Conference Organizers
MIT President Charles Vest
RLE Director Jeffrey H. Shapiro |
| 9:20 –
9:55 |
Historical
overview
Speech research in a historical perspective
Gunnar Fant |
| 10:00 –
10:45 |
History
1: Phonetics and Phonology
Phonetics and phonology in the last 50 years
Peter Ladefoged |
| 10:45-11:15 |
Break
(Beverages & Light Snacks) |
| 11:15 –12:15 |
Current
Research in Phonetics and Phonology
Linguistic phonetics in the UCLA Phonetics Lab
Patricia Keating
Current developments in phonetics
Louis C.W. Pols |
| 12:15 –
1:30 |
Students
- Special Lunch with Invited Speakers
Other Attendees – Lunch
on your own today |
| 1:30 –
2:15 |
History
2: Acoustics of Speech
A half-century—and more—of the acoustics of speech
John J. Ohala |
| 2:15 –
3:15 |
Current
Research in Acoustics of Speech
Articulatory strategies, speech acoustics and variability
Carol Espy-Wilson
Invariance and variability in speech: Interpreting acoustic
evidence
Kenneth N. Stevens |
| 3:15 –
3:30 |
IEEE James
L. Flanagan Speech & Audio Processing Award Presentation to
Professor Gunnar Fant and Professor Kenneth N. Stevens
Presented by Dr. Arthur Winston, President of the IEEE |
| 3:30 –
5:30 |
Poster
Session A and Refreshments |
| 5:30 –
7:30 |
Reception
with light food & beverages in Grier Room
and
Open House in Speech Communication
Group |
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| Saturday,
June 12, 2004 |
| 8:30 –
9:15 |
History
3: Speech Planning and Production
The organization of speech movements: Specification of units
and modes of control Björn Lindblom |
| 9:15 –
10:15 |
Current
Research in Planning and Production of Speech
A neural model of speech production and supporting experiments
Frank H. Guenther & Joseph S. Perkell
Measurements and modeling in speech production research
D. H. Whalen |
| 10:15 –
12:15 |
Poster
Session B and Refreshments |
| 12:15 –1:30 |
Lunch
Provided |
| 1:30 –
2:15 |
History
4: Speech Perception
Puzzles and patterns in 50 years of research on speech perception
Sarah Hawkins |
| 2:15 –
3:15 |
Current
Research in Speech Perception
From sound to sense and back again: The integration of lexical
and speech processes
David Gow & Bob McMurray
Speech perception in deaf children with cochlear implants
David Pisoni |
| 4:00 |
Board
Busses for Ride to Long Wharf & Boat Trip
for Banquet at Thompson Island |
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| Sunday,
June 12, 2004 |
| 9:30 –
10:15 |
Continental
Breakfast in Stata Center |
| 10:15 –
11:00 |
History
5: Development, Disorders, and Remediation of Speech
Development, pathology, and remediation of speech
Ray D. Kent |
| 11:00 –
12:00 |
Current
Research in Development, Disorders and Remediation of Speech
Enhancement of learning for children with phonological disorders
Judith A. Gierut
Improving the assessment and treatment of voice disorders:
Emerging technologies
Robert E. Hillman |
| 12:00 –
1:15 |
Lunch
Provided |
| 1:15 –
2:00 |
History
6: Technology: Speech Synthesis and Speech Recognition
Eighty challenges facing speech input/output technologies
Victor Zue |
| 2:00 –
3:00 |
Current
Research in Technology: Speech Synthesis and Speech Recognition
Speech-centric multimodal interfaces
J. L. Flanagan
Towards a computational model of human speech recognition
Partha Niyogi |
| 3:00 –
3:30 |
Break
(Beverages & Light Snacks) |
| 3:30 –
4:00 |
Summarizing
Address: Kenneth N. Stevens |
| 4:00 –
5:00 |
Forum
Moderator: Abeer Alwan
Adjournment |