workshop announcement articulatory databases workshop articulatory databases munich thursday 25th friday 26th may 1995 currently starting preparations twoday workshop articulatory databases third series workshops organized accor working group consortium phonetic institutes financed european community esprit programme follows electromagnetic articulography meeting munich april 1992 tongue modelling meeting barcelona december 1993 words aims meeting devoted apparently dry topic basic premise free availability articulatory data could provide benefits several partly overlapping areas basic research could allow investigators test hypotheses formulated articulatory terms much wider range data individual worker would normally able acquire access unaided could promote development testing algorithms deriving articulatory representations acoustic data relevant basic understanding speech production well potential applications speech displays training speech impaired could promote development testing algorithms speech synthesis recognition using articulatory level representation aim workshop would generate exchange ideas among people active areas order identify example suggestions welcome 1 articulatory data existence would beneficial make freely available archival retrospective approach 2 standards freely available data meet specification recording conditions anatomical frames reference levels accuracy reliability linguistic specification speech samples preferred data structures distribution issues relevant data used without risk misinterpretation people actually involved details acquisition articulatory data come many guises depending speech subsystem tapped transduction technique used thus possible monitor position 1 2 3 dimensions force emg airpressure flow techniques may static dynamic may involve imaging pointtracking etc etc think people directly involved acquisition also benefit considering techniques standardized promote maximum comparability recordings made different sites different hardware 3 analogy acoustic databases unlabelled data limited use segmentation labelling information tools exploitation thereof could made available raw data facilitate flexible access different purposes 4 future recordings categories data corpora would potentially widespread use interested participating please contact phil hoole preferably email address soon possible information registration format presentations distributed early 1995 please also draw letter attention colleagues think might interested phil hoole hans tillmann institut fuer phonetik munich university schellingstr 3 80799 munich germany fax 49 89 2800362 email hoole sun1 phonetik unimuenchen de