| Home > Research Projects Work Plan (2002-2005) | CRSLP has two main ongoing research areas, the work plan for 2001 to 2005 is as follows. |
| Area I: Human Processing of Language and Speech | 1.1
Mother-Child Interaction or Infant Directed Speech (IDS) in collaboration with Professor Denis K. Burnham, MARCS Auditory Laboratories, the University of Western Sydney, Australia granted by Australian Research Council, Australia
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Language Acquisition
| 1.2.1. Tone Acquisition in collaboration with Professor Denis K. Burnham, MARCS Auditory Laboratories, the University of Western Sydney granted by Australian Research Council, Australia. | | 1.2.2. First Language Acquisition of Thai: A Study in Comparative Developmental Psycholinguistics (Spatial cognition) with Dr. Jordan Zlatev, Lund University, supported by a grant from the Swedish Foundation for Cooperation in Research and Higher Education, STINT. | | 1.2.3. 'The Acquisition of Temporality in Thai frog story narratives' and 'The acquisition of story telling in Thai children through interactions with their mothers' in collaboration with Dr. Heather Winskel, School of Psychology, University of Western Sydney funded by a UWS Grant. |
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Lexical Access in Bilingual Speakers with a Royal Golden Jubilee Ph.D. Grant, Thailand Research Fund granted to Ms. Panornuang Sudasna Na Ayudhaya.
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International Reading Study in collaboration with Dr. Jeesun Kim and Dr. Chris Davis, Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne sponsored by National Academy of Education, New York University.
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Eye Movement in Thai Reading in collaboration with Professor Ronan Reilley, the Department of Computer Engineering, The National University of Ireland at Maynooth, the Republic of Ireland. The aim of this project is to construct a reading model of the Thai language.
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Top ^ | Area II: Computer Processing of Language and Speech | 2.1 |
Chulalongkorn University Thai Text-to-Speech System (CU-TTS) This project started in 1989 with support from Chulalongkorn University and the National Electronic and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC). The funding was granted to Dr. Sudaporn Luksaneeyanawin for 3 years. The first Thai Text-to-Speech Engine was launched in December 1991. The system has been developed into CU-Talk, a hardware plug in unit for the blind with the grant from Chulalongkorn University and the Rachasuda Foundation. In 2002 the CU-TTS was developed into a professional software unit for the blind, the Homepage Reader, in collaboration with the research team from IBM Thailand. The CU-TTS engine has been in demand in this Information Age. CRSLP has become a center that helps educate students and the public for the understanding of the theories and techniques in Thai text processing and speech synthesis since 1989.
Home Page Reader
The Voice of the World Wide Web
For Windows (Version 3.02 Thai CD-ROM)
- Speaking web browser using Thai text-to-speech
- Simple, voice prompted installation and setup
- Access to complete web information
- Bilingual support (Thai and English)
- Electronic mail feature
- Easy to use | |
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Speech Synthesis CRSLP has collaborated with Professor Hiroya Fujisaki (Emeritus Professor at Tokyo university) and Dr. Hansjoerg Mixdorff from the University of applied Science-Berlin, to implement the Fujisaki Model in the synthesis of Thai suprasegmental features, such as vowel quantity, tones, stress.
The project is a support from DAAD to Dr. Mixdorff for a 2 month visit to CRSLP. The collaboration is still ongoing.
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Thai Speech Recognition System This project started at the Digital Signal Processing Research Laboratory (DSPRL), the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, under the supervision of Associate Professor Dr. Somchai Jitapankul. At the beginning the work was mainly pattern recognition, and word based. Later when DSPRL collaborated more with the Linguistic Research Unit, linguistic knowledge, such as distinctive features of Thai sounds, research has been more linguistically oriented. Now as we joined under the CE Scheme as CRSLP, we have got support to develop a better Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) engine. The engine will be developed for the IT need in collaboration with the industrial sector in the near future.
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Thai Text Analysis – Word Parser. This project originally was part of the project on Thai Text-to-speech System. With the CE grant we now work more on the distribution of words in Thai, with a corpus of 1 million words collected from 15 genres, 9 from the information giving text-type, such as news, editorials, academic writing etc., and 6 from fictional text-type, such as novels, science fictions etc. With our existing electronic dictionaries of common words, borrowings, proper names, acronyms, technical terms and the corpus we built, Thai text processing would be very intelligent. The knowledge from our study on text analysis will be very useful for the advancement of our Thai Text-to-Speech, and the Thai Speech-to-Text which we plan to research in the near future.
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Thai Text To Speech And Thai Automatic Word Recognition For The Interactive Voice Response - IVR System of Sun Systems Corporation Limited. The project is granted to CRSLP by Sun Systems Corporation Limited for one year from January 9 2003 to January 8 2004. The project leader is Dr. Sudaporn Luksaneeyanawin (CRSLP Director) with nineteen researchers from the Linguistics, the Electrical Engineering and the Physics Departments of Chulalongkorn University. The system will be developed for wireless and wireline communication with research assistance from the research team of Sun Systems Corporation Limited lead by Mr. Nuttapong Jatabut.
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Thai Speech Recognition in Collaboration with the IBM Thailand. This project aims to develop the speech recognition engine that can recognize continuous speech in Thai. The speech corpus used in the training the system is all from narratives of scripted and unscripted texts. The research is a five year project divided into 3 different phases aiming towards IBM Viavoice Technology. Director of the project is Dr. Sudaporn Luksaneeyanawin and her research team consists of Dr. Nuttakorn Thubthong from the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and 4 research assistants: Mr. Patavee Charnvivit, an MEng Graduate from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering; Ms. Prajaree Tantong MA Graduate, and Ms. Ruangsuk Khongthong, an MA student both from the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts; Mr. Jakapan Meechai a BSc graduate from the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science. Phase 3 of this project will have the built in Language Model that would help enhance the engine by a lot of top down processing. The project started in January 2004 and hope to be finished in December 2009.
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CRSLP has signed the agreement to work
with Nuance Communications
Inc. to work on Thai RealSpeak in March
2006. The name given to the female synthesized voice
is Narisa. Narisa can read Thai and also English which
is code mixed in the Thai language. Nuance has released
Thai RealSpeak in the Thailand ICT EXPO in August 2006.
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