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What does the USC Phonetics & Phonology Group do? We study how the sound patterns of languages shape the form of words and phrases (phonology), and What the articulatory, acoustic, and perceptual characteristics of those sounds are and how they are produced and processed (phonetics). Recent & Past News
Professor
Dani Byrd has been elected a Fellow of the
Acoustical Society of America "For research on the relation of
linguistic structures to the temporal realization of speech." The
USC Phonetics and Phonology group is delighted to
congratulate Professor
Dani Byrd The
USC Phonetics Laboratory and the USC Department of Linguistics welcomes
Professor Louis Goldstein as the
newest member of our faculty! We
congratulate Professor Shri Narayanan of the USC Ming Hsieh Department
of Electrical Engineering (and the Dept. of Linguistics!) on his
appointment as the first holder of the Viterbi Professorship in
Engineering. The Dean's announcement can be found here. Congratulations
to Jelena
Krivokapic on her appointment as Assistant Professor in the
Department of Linguistics at Yale University and to Rebeka
Campos-Astorkiza on her appointment as Assistant Professor at The Ohio
State University. Professor
Dani Byrd (PI) with Professors Shri Narayanan and Sungbok Lee was
awarded an R-01 from the National Institutes of Health NIDCD for
$2,844,550 (total costs) titled Prosody and Articulatory Dynamics in Spoken
Language.
(September 2006 - August 2010). We are all so saddened to learn of
the death of Professor Peter Ladefoged, Distinguished Professor
Emeritus of Phonetics at UCLA and Adjunct Professor at USC, on January
24th in London. Our
hearts are with Jenny and their children. A rememberance website is here,
and the family asks that donations, in lieu of flowers, be made to the Endangered
Language Fund. Congratulations
to Professor Shri Narayanan and his colleague Prof. Alex Potamianos
(Technical University of Crete) who have been awarded a 2005 Best Paper
Award from
the IEEE Signal Processing Society for their paper "Creating
conversational interfaces for children." Introducing
the USC Speech Production and
Articulation kNowledge
Group (SPAN) including And read about the USC
Phonetics Laboratory and Speech Production Research Group. in the USC
College Magazine (reprinted in Medical
Science News and ADVANCE
for Speech-Language Pathologists & Audiologists).
The
Phonetics Laboratory and the SAIL Laboratory are pleased to host the Happy Birthday,
Peter Ladefoged website in honor of Professor Ladefoged's
80th birthday. Professor
Shri Narayanan of EE-Systems and Linguistics has been elected Fellow of
The Acoustical Society of America, effective November 1, 2005, "for
contributions in speech production and imaging." The USC Chronicle
(7/7/05) features Professor Shri Narayanan's machine speech translation
project--Transonics. Congratulations to Jelena
Krivokapic for receiving the Acoustical Society
of America's 2005 Stetson Scholarship! Professor Shri Narayanan
gave the "Hot
Topics" talk at the Vancouver meeting of the Acoustical Society
of America (May 2005). We are pleased to announce that the National Institutes of Health NIDCD has awarded Shri Narayanan (PI) (EE, Ling, CS), Dani Byrd (Co-lead Investigator) (Ling), Krishna Nayak (EE), Sungbok Lee (Ling & EE), and Richard Leahy (EE) an award of $1,767,992 (May 2005-April 2009) for their research project entitled “Dynamics of Vocal Tract Shaping.” This is a brand new grant taking advantage of the real-time MRI technique recently developed by the group. We are pleased to
announce that the Office of Naval Research has awarded its 5-year 5
million dollar Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI)
grant to a
collaboration among USC (Shri Narayanan [EE] & Dani Byrd [LAS]),
Stanford, and University of Washington (J. Blimes, PI) for a project
entitled Human-like Speech Processing, in response to its call
for “radically new approaches to speech-to-text conversion.” This
was the only award made for this announced MURI topic. Daylen Riggs and Jason
Adams received an Honorable Mention in the USC Undergraduate Research
Symposium for their poster on “Interacting effects of syllable and
phrase position on consonant articulation.” At the 75th Anniversary
Meeting
of the Acoustical Society, Dani Byrd was invited to speak at a special
session on the Future of Acoustics. Her talk on the Future
Challenges
in Speech Communication Research is available here. In the news--emotion
research at Professor Narayanan’s Speech Analysis and Interpretation
Lab! A case study on automated call centers has attracted
national and international media attention recently! (C. M. Lee
& Narayanan, IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, in
press.) In February, Professor Narayanan was interviewed about
his
system on: MSNBC--Countdown with Keith Olberman, MIT
Technology Review, wired.com,
Canadian Broadcast Corporation (locally on KPCC, Pasadena), Scotland
Sunday Herald, Germany’s Focus magazine, Inc. Magazine, and Inside
Edition. On November 14th, USC hosted a phonology workshop "Where are we going? Phonology at the edge." Professor Shri Narayanan (USC EE--Systems, IMSC, & Linguistics) has been appointed a Faculty Fellow for the Provost's Center for Interdisciplinary Research for 2003-2004. Professor Shri Narayanan has won an Early Career Award from the National Science Foundation [USC News, IMSC News, July 10, 2003]. Professor Dani Byrd was awarded the R. Bruce Lindsay Award from the Acoustical Society of America. She is the first winner from the Speech Communication Technical Area in 17 years. Professor Dani Byrd (with Professors Shri Narayanan, USC EE--Systems & IMSC, and Elliot Saltzman, BU) has been awarded $910,000 (total award to USC $1,470,220) over the next 4 years from NIH in ongoing support of research on Prosody and Articulatory Dynamics in Spoken Language. Professor Narayanan has won the Electrical Engineering Department's Junior Research Award [article from the Chronicle]. |
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