cfp workshop spoken language generation multimodal information systems 2nd speak workshop speech generation multimodal information systems practical applications 2nd 3rd november 1995 gmd ipsi darmstadt germany call contributions workshop aims bring together researchers developers potential producers marketers multimodal information systems order consider role spoken language synthesis systems need able produce spoken language appropriately including effective control intonation also need know practical contexts spoken language beneficial requires dialogue providing spoken natural language technology considering practical use multimodal information systems workshop consist paper presentations practical demonstrations well roundtable discussion best strategies pursuing practical application spoken language synthesis technology information systems suggested topic areas themes include limited functional control intonation synthesized speech use speech intelligent interfaces information systems integration speech automatic query systems cooperative integration speech text generation information systems evaluation strategies information systems involving speech synthesis applications information systems spoken language output capabilities practical requirements information systems spoken language capabilities potential participants invited submit short statements interest indicating whether would interested presenting paper offering system demonstration participating round table discussion simply attending statements interest extended abstracts max 7 pages sent 1st october email bateman gmd de post john bateman gmd ipsi dolivostr 15 d64293 darmstadt germany extended abstracts made available workshop workshop current results demonstrations eu copernicus program project speak also given see attachment project information speak project speech generation multimodal information systems speak european union funded project copernicus 93 project 10393 whose aim embed spoken natural language synthesis technology sophisticated user interfaces order improve access information systems multimedia technology knowledgebased text processing enhance development new types information systems offer references fulltext documents user also provide access images graphics audio video documents diversification formation offered supported easyto use multimodal user interfaces capable presenting type information item way perceived processed effectively user users easily process simultaneously graphical medium information presentation linguistic medium separation mode also quite appropriate different functionalities main graphical interaction supportive metadialogue carried linguistically believe therefore substantial improvement functionality user acceptance achieved integration spoken languages capabilities however textto speech devices commercially available today produce speech sounds unnatural hard listen high quality synthesized speech sounds acceptable humans demands appropriate intonation patterns effective control intonation requires synthesizing meanings rather word sequences requires understanding functions intonation domain sophisticated humanmachine interfaces make use increasing tendency design interfaces independent agents engage interactive dialogue graphical linguistic users agents need maintain models discourses users communicative goals speak project launched recently cooperation speech research technology laboratory technical university budapest technical university darmstadt cooperation gmdipsi aims developing interface multimedia retrieval system ipsi departments komet natural language generation mind information retrieval dialogues contribute project project construct proofof concept prototype multimodal information system combining graphical spoken language output variety languages work involves four supporting goals first advance state art domains speech synthesis spoken text generation graphical interface design second provide enabling technology higher functionality information systems appropriate general public use third significantly improve public industrial acceptance speech synthesis general hungarian textto speech technology elaborated within project particular fourth act focusing point speech work hungary contact points gmd ipsi darmstadt john bateman email bateman gmd de fax 49 6151869 818 tel 49 6151869 826 tu budapest g eza n emeth email nemeth ttt 202 ttt bme hu fax 36 1463 3107 tel 36 1463 2401