From [email protected] Tue Aug 11 12:15:11 1992 Xref: uunet news.announce.newgroups:2609 news.groups:55282 comp.dsp:4052 comp.compression:4318 comp.multimedia:3192 sci.lang:17989 Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,comp.dsp,comp.compression,comp.multimedia,sci.lang Path: uunet!bounce-back From: [email protected] (Andrew Hunt) Subject: RFD: comp.speech Message-ID: <[email protected]> Followup-To: news.groups Sender: [email protected] (David C Lawrence) Organization: University of Sydney, Australia Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 03:41:46 GMT Approved: [email protected] Lines: 59 Request For Discussion (RFD) concerning the creation of a new newsgroup, comp.speech. This news group should be unmoderated. With the growth of interest and research in speech science and the rapid growth in real-world application of speech technology it is appropriate to establish a group for the discussion of the relevant technology and scientific knowledge. Currently such discussion is spread across a variety of groups including comp.ai.neural-nets, comp.dsp, comp.compression, comp.ai.nlang-know-rep, comp.multimedia and sci.lang. A single group is needed for the discussion of the research issues and the application of speech technology. Proposed Charter comp.speech will be a newsgroup for discussion of application and research issues associated with speech technology and speech science. By nature speech science is an inter-disciplinary field and the newsgroup should reflect this. The involvement of people from different backgrounds should add to the quality of the newsgroup. The following is a list of possible topics but certainly does not cover all matters related to the field - no order of importance is implied. [1] Speech recognition - discussion of methodologies, training, techniques, results and applications. This should cover the application of techniques such as HMMs, neural-nets and other techniques to the field. [2] Speech Synthesis - discussion concerning theoretical and practical issues associated with the design on speech synthesis systems. [3] Speech Coding and Compression - discussion of issues related to the representation and coding of speech and issues related to the compression and transmission of speech. Covers both research and application issues. [4] Linguistic Issues - coverage of linguistic and phonetic issues which are pertinent to speech technology applications. Could cover syntactic parsing, natural language processing, and prosodic work. Both practical and theoretical issues are relevant. [5] Psychological Issues - the human information processing of speech. Cover areas from the design and use of auditory models to psycholinguistically motivated models of speech recognition and production. [6] Speech System Design - issues relating to the application of speech technology to real-world problems. Includes the design of user interfaces, the building of real-time systems and so on. Already there are volunteers who will put together a FAQ list, maintain archives and collect relevant papers. A vote will take place in 3 weeks unless there is some major change in the name or the charter. Andrew Hunt [email protected] Tony Robinson [email protected] Andrew Tridgell [email protected] Goh Kawai [email protected] From [email protected] Mon Aug 31 21:21:07 1992 Xref: uunet news.announce.newgroups:2667 news.groups:55993 comp.ai.neural-nets:7789 comp.compression:4495 comp.dsp:4209 comp.multimedia:3384 sci.lang:18526 Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,comp.ai.neural-nets,comp.compression,comp.dsp,comp.multimedia,sci.lang Path: uunet!bounce-back From: [email protected] (Andrew Hunt) Subject: CFV: comp.speech Message-ID:Followup-To: poster Sender: [email protected] (David C Lawrence) Reply-To: [email protected] (Andrew Hunt) Organization: Elec Eng, University of Sydney, Australia Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 00:55:46 GMT Approved: [email protected] Lines: 78 This article is a CALL FOR VOTES on the creation of comp.speech. comp.speech (unmoderated) This group will be for the discussion of issues related to speech technology - relevant research, application issues and other related matters. Please read the full charter below before voting. The request for discussion (RFD) was posted 3 weeks ago and the discussion on forming of the group was generally positive. The charter remains largely unchanged. HOW TO VOTE =========== All votes should be mailed to the address "[email protected]". Each vote will be sent an ACK (acknowledge) which will include the text that contains the actual vote and how it was received. Sample votes are: I vote YES on the creation of comp.speech as proposed I vote NO on the creation of comp.speech as proposed Only one vote from each user account will be accepted. Duplications will be removed. Voting will take place from Tuesday 1st September to Tuesday 22nd September. A second Call for Votes will be posted during the voting period possibly including a mass acknowledgement. The guidelines require that there be 100 more YES votes than NO votes, and that there also be at least 2/3 YES votes for the proposal to pass. Full RESULTS will be posted at the end of the voting period with 5 days for people to verify the results. At the end of this waiting period the group can be created (this would be around the end of September). CHARTER ======= comp.speech will be a newsgroup for discussion of application and research issues associated with speech technology and speech science. By nature speech technology is an inter-disciplinary field and the newsgroup should reflect this. Computer application should be the basic theme of the group. The following is a list of possible topics but does not cover all matters related to the field - no order of importance is implied. [1] Speech Recognition - discussion of methodologies, training, techniques, results and applications. This should cover the application of techniques including HMMs, neural-nets and so on to the field. [2] Speech Synthesis - discussion concerning theoretical and practical issues associated with the design on speech synthesis systems. [3] Speech Coding and Compression - both research and application matters. [4] Phonetic/Linguistic Issues - coverage of linguistic and phonetic issues which are relevant to speech technology applications. Could cover parsing, natural language processing, and prosodic work. [5] Speech System Design - issues relating to the application of speech technology to real-world problems. Includes the design of user interfaces, the building of real-time systems and so on. [6] Other matters - relevant conferences, books, public domain software, hardware, and related products and so on. There are already volunteers who will put together a FAQ list, maintain group archives and collect relevant papers. Thanks, -- Andrew Hunt [email protected] Tony Robinson [email protected] Andrew Tridgell [email protected] Goh Kawai [email protected] From [email protected] Fri Sep 11 11:12:27 1992 Xref: uunet news.announce.newgroups:2713 news.groups:56438 comp.ai.neural-nets:7883 comp.compression:4610 comp.dsp:4289 comp.multimedia:3523 sci.lang:18746 Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,comp.ai.neural-nets,comp.compression,comp.dsp,comp.multimedia,sci.lang Path: uunet!bounce-back From: [email protected] (Andrew Hunt) Subject: 2nd CFV and VOTE ACK: comp.speech Message-ID: Followup-To: poster Sender: [email protected] (David C Lawrence) Reply-To: [email protected] (Andrew Hunt) Organization: University of Sydney, Australia Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 14:39:17 GMT Approved: [email protected] Lines: 462 [This is a repeat of the previous Call-for-Votes on the comp.speech proposal. This is the final CFV. If you read the previous article and voted, you need not vote again. Included is a mass acknowledement of votes receieved to date.] comp.speech (unmoderated) This group will be for the discussion of issues related to speech technology - relevant research, application issues and other related matters. Please read the full charter below before voting. The request for discussion (RFD) was posted 3 weeks ago and the discussion on forming of the group was generally positive. The charter remains largely unchanged. HOW TO VOTE =========== All votes should be mailed to the address "[email protected]". Each vote will be sent an ACK (acknowledge) which will include the text that contains the actual vote and how it was received. Sample votes are: I vote YES on the creation of comp.speech as proposed I vote NO on the creation of comp.speech as proposed Only one vote from each user account will be accepted. Duplications will be removed. Voting will take place from Tuesday 1st September to Tuesday 22nd September. A second Call for Votes will be posted during the voting period possibly including a mass acknowledgement. The guidelines require that there be 100 more YES votes than NO votes, and that there also be at least 2/3 YES votes for the proposal to pass. Full RESULTS will be posted at the end of the voting period with 5 days for people to verify the results. At the end of this waiting period the group can be created (this would be around the end of September). CHARTER ======= comp.speech will be a newsgroup for discussion of application and research issues associated with speech technology and speech science. By nature speech technology is an inter-disciplinary field and the newsgroup should reflect this. Computer application should be the basic theme of the group. The following is a list of possible topics but does not cover all matters related to the field - no order of importance is implied. [1] Speech Recognition - discussion of methodologies, training, techniques, results and applications. This should cover the application of techniques including HMMs, neural-nets and so on to the field. [2] Speech Synthesis - discussion concerning theoretical and practical issues associated with the design on speech synthesis systems. [3] Speech Coding and Compression - both research and application matters. [4] Phonetic/Linguistic Issues - coverage of linguistic and phonetic issues which are relevant to speech technology applications. Could cover parsing, natural language processing, and prosodic work. [5] Speech System Design - issues relating to the application of speech technology to real-world problems. Includes the design of user interfaces, the building of real-time systems and so on. [6] Other matters - relevant conferences, books, public domain software, hardware, and related products and so on. There are already volunteers who will put together a FAQ list, maintain group archives and collect relevant papers. Thanks, Andrew Hunt [email protected] Tony Robinson [email protected] Andrew Tridgell [email protected] Goh Kawai [email protected] ================================================================== Here is the Vote Acknowledgement for votes received as of Friday Sept 11 at 14:30 (EST). Vote Acknowledgement: comp.speech "Benjamin J. Moreland 727 7792" <@mrgate.utc.com:BJM%A1@UTRC> "Brendt Wohlberg" "Carlo *EIC for AIT* @VBE Valbonne(F), (+33) 9295 5463 03-Sep-1992 2357" "Edmond H. Shiva" "Fred Swartz" "G.J. Flanagan" "Gerard V. Talatinian" "Helmer Strik, tel:31-80-612908, fax:31-80-615939" "Horacio Martinez-Alfaro" "J. Porter Clark" "Javier C. Caballero" "Lawrence S. Brakmo" "Leon Gulikers KUN, 080-61 29 03" "Pat Gonzalez" "STEPHEN ADAM..MUSIC DEPT..LA TROBE UNI" "Sue Browning. SRU DRA, Tel. 0684 894102." <"MVUC::SRB%hermes.mod.uk"@relay.mod.uk> "William Y. Lai" (Dave Bockus) Aamir Husain Adam Sbrana Akira Ushioda Alan Crowe Alex Monaghan Alexander Clark [email protected] Amnon Jonas Andrew Reilly Andy DeJaco Art Blokland [email protected] B.J. 02-Sep-1992 1106 [email protected] Barry Arons Bengt Larsson [email protected] Bhaskar Bhattacharya Bill Turkel Brian Shapiro Briony Williams Carolyn Penstein Rose Christian Wilk Christina Scott Christopher Mullins Claus Engdahl D. James [email protected] (Ederveen D.) [email protected] [email protected] Dave Murphy David Cole David Graff Dean Rubine Debbie Yarrington Demetrios Karis Ed Hall Eric Tholome [email protected] (Richard Fahey) Fergus McInnes Gavin Cawley Guy Sirton Gyger Markus Hans Kuehnel [email protected] (Hans Bol) Harald Ljoen FBA Ian "A." Nairn [email protected] Jennifer Seberry Jim Polikoff Joe Keane John Miller John Posey Jon Iles Jonathan A. Marshall [email protected] Joshua Simons Julian Beech Jyrki Kuoppala [email protected] [email protected] Kar Seng LOKE Karen Jenkin Keith Edwards Kevin B Cohen Kevin Johnson Kurt Siegl L. Z. Wu Les Niles M. Jones [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Mahesan Niranjan Malcolm Slaney Marco Petroni Mark Huckvale Mark Plumbley Martin Schoenhacker Metin Gunsay [email protected] Michio OKADA Mike Arras Monika Woszczyna [email protected] [email protected] Nathalie Vergeynst Nick Haddock Nick Smith Nigel "R." Ellis [email protected] (Nils-Erik.Gustafsson) Ola Fosheim Gr|stad Othman Mohamed [email protected] Paul Danset Paul Otto Peter Assmann Peter Duke Peter Ladefoged Phil Sutherland Ray Berry Richard Birkett Richard Favero Richard Myers Rick Ellis [email protected] Ron Zuckerman Russell Collingham Sascha Wildner Shi Hong Simon Tong Stein Kulseth FBA Steve Austin Steve Isard Steve Young Takayuki Arai Ted Bullen Thomas Erskine Tiejun Zhang Tilo Sloboda Timothy VanFosson Uli Bodenhausen V. Valtchev Vicki Kitsa William Idsavdi William J Phillips [email protected] (Paul Yatrou) Zuqiang Zhao (5n.7.11) [email protected] (Adam Kowalczyk) [email protected] (Alejandro Acero) [email protected] (George Ritchie) [email protected] (Ahmady SATRIAWAN) [email protected] (Ashok Krishnamurthy) [email protected] (Alvin H. White) [email protected] [email protected] (Andreas Hauenstein) [email protected] (Andrew Lea) [email protected] (Andrew Hunt) [email protected] (Arthur McGUFFIN) [email protected] [email protected] (Rene Bach) [email protected] (Steve Salani) [email protected] (William J. Byrne) [email protected] (Ben Bryant) [email protected] (Tom Benoist) [email protected] (Bert Shi) [email protected] (Bill Treurniet) [email protected] (Bill O'Hanlon) [email protected] (Alex Ferworn) [email protected] (Bruce Kulik) [email protected] (David Blackman) [email protected] (Art Blair 952-6341) [email protected] [email protected] (Michael Bobak) [email protected] (Zverev Boris Vasilyevich) [email protected] (David A. 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Miller) [email protected] (Leif Rilbe) [email protected] rmsdell!root (Yanek Martinson) [email protected] (G.Robert Arrabito) [email protected] (Roberto Togneri) [email protected] (ruman) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (Scott A. Markel x2683) [email protected] [email protected] (Steve Schear) [email protected] (Stephen Williams) [email protected] [email protected] (Hidetoshi SHIMODAIRA) [email protected] (Shinn Lee) [email protected] (sahng h park) [email protected] (Lynda L. True) [email protected] (Shuping RAN) [email protected] (Alexander L. Gorlovsky) [email protected] (Peter Silsbee) [email protected] (Stan Janet) steve%[email protected] (Steve Cassidy) [email protected] (Stu Labovitz) [email protected] [email protected] (Steven R. Bryan) [email protected] [email protected] (Jim Talley) [email protected] [email protected] (Jeff Tedeschi) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (Tim F O'Donoghue) [email protected] (Toby Skinner) [email protected] (Tomokiyo Mutsuko) [email protected] (Tony BURKITT) [email protected] (tony maher) [email protected] (Andrew Tridgell) [email protected] [email protected] (Dana Uehling - Code 522) [email protected] (Maximus) [email protected] (Vassilios Digalakis) [email protected] (Vassil Lolov) [email protected] (Tom Veatch) [email protected] (Evelyn van de Veen) [email protected] [email protected] (Brett Watson) [email protected] [email protected] (Bill Gardner) [email protected] (Wilf Leblanc) [email protected] (Ken Woo) [email protected] [email protected] (paul bagshaw) [email protected] (Yeshwant K Muthusamy) [email protected] (Zhang Ya Xin) [email protected] -- Andrew Hunt [email protected] 14:30 (EST) - 11 Sept, 1992 From [email protected] Thu Sep 24 18:20:51 1992 Xref: uunet news.announce.newgroups:2765 news.groups:56918 comp.dsp:4366 comp.compression:4698 comp.multimedia:3650 sci.lang:18940 Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,comp.dsp,comp.compression,comp.multimedia,sci.lang Path: uunet!bounce-back From: [email protected] (Andrew Hunt) Subject: RESULT: comp.speech passes 474:7 Message-ID: Followup-To: news.groups Sender: [email protected] (David C Lawrence) Reply-To: [email protected] (Andrew Hunt) Organization: University of Sydney, Australia Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1992 12:25:49 GMT Approved: [email protected] Lines: 518 Voting on comp.speech is over. comp.speech (unmoderated) This newsgroup will be for the discussion of issues related to speech technology - relevant research, application issues and related matters. RESULTS The vote ran for 3 weeks ending 22nd Sept 1992. This article contains a full list of Yes and No votes received. If you voted and your name does not appear correctly in the list then please send a message indicating the circumstances to either [email protected] OR [email protected]. Total votes cast: 481 Total YES votes: 474 Total NO votes: 7 The vote passes with a 98.5% Yes vote and a 467 vote margin. Under the USENET guidelines there is now a 5 day waiting period in which problems with the vote can be raised. If there are no major objections within this waiting period the newsgroup creation message will be issued. VOTE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT YES Votes: "Amy Uhrbach" "Benjamin J. Moreland 727 7792" <@mrgate.utc.com:BJM%A1@UTRC> "Brendt Wohlberg" "Carlo *EIC for AIT* @VBE Valbonne(F), (+33) 9295 5463 03-Sep-1992 2357" "Denis Bigorgne 52631 53219" "Edmond H. Shiva" "Fred Swartz" "G.J. Flanagan" "Gerard V. Talatinian" "Gordon A. Sterling" "Helmer Strik, tel:31-80-612908, fax:31-80-615939" "Horacio Martinez-Alfaro" "I. KHEIRALLAH" "J. Porter Clark" "Javier C. Caballero" "Lawrence S. Brakmo" "Leon Gulikers KUN, 080-61 29 03" "Nils Chr. Hertzberg" "Pat Gonzalez" "STEPHEN ADAM..MUSIC DEPT..LA TROBE UNI" "Sue Browning. SRU DRA, Tel. 0684 894102." <"MVUC::SRB%hermes.mod.uk"@relay.mod.uk> "Thomas Gruen" "William Y. Lai" (Dave Bockus) 22-Sep-1992 1528 Aamir Husain Adam Sbrana Akira Ushioda Alan Crowe Alex Monaghan Alexander Clark [email protected] (Alistair Hirst) [email protected] Amnon Jonas Andrew Reilly Andy DeJaco Art Blokland [email protected] B.J. 02-Sep-1992 1106 [email protected] Barry Arons Ben Gerber Bengt Larsson [email protected] Bhaskar Bhattacharya Bill Goldenthal Bill Turkel Brian Shapiro Briony Williams Carl Swail Carlos Reyes Carolyn Penstein Rose Christian Wilk Christina Scott Christopher Mullins Claus Engdahl D. James [email protected] (Ederveen D.) [email protected] [email protected] Dan Frankowski Darek Zwierzynski Dave Reynolds David Cole David Graff David Powers Dean Rubine Debbie Yarrington Demetrios Karis Ed Hall Eric Tholome [email protected] [email protected] (Richard Fahey) Fergus McInnes Gavin Cawley Gess Shankar Graeme Smith Guy Sirton Gyger Markus Haffner Patrick Hans Kuehnel [email protected] (Hans Bol) Harald Ljoen FBA Ian "A." Nairn [email protected] Jennifer Seberry Jim Polikoff Joe Keane Joerg Ueberla John Miller John Posey Jon Iles Jonathan A. Marshall Jonathon Ralston [email protected] Joshua Simons Juhani Talvela Julian Beech Jutta Degener Jyrki Kuoppala [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Kar Seng LOKE Karen Jenkin Keith Edwards Kevin B Cohen Kevin Johnson [email protected] Kurt Siegl L. Z. Wu Laurent Miclet Les Niles M. Jones [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Mahesan Niranjan Malcolm Slaney Marc Boucher Marco Petroni Marilyn Walker Mark Huckvale Mark Plumbley Martin Schoenhacker Metin Gunsay [email protected] Michio OKADA Mike Arras [email protected] (Miklos.Boda) Monika Woszczyna [email protected] [email protected] Nathalie Vergeynst Nick Haddock Nick Smith Nigel "R." Ellis [email protected] (Nils-Erik.Gustafsson) Ola Fosheim Gr|stad Othman Mohamed [email protected] [email protected] Paul Danset Paul Otto Paul Palmer Peter Assmann Peter Duke Peter Ladefoged Phil Sutherland Philip Secker Ray Berry Richard Birkett Richard Favero Richard Myers Rick Ellis