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7th SID Management Comittee Meeting

April 8th, 2010

(and Working Group Meetings on April 9th)


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Venues

April 8th, Thu

Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm, Sweden

 (website)  (map)

April 9th, Fri

KTH - Royal Institute of Technology

 (website)  (map)

Program Day 1

April 8th, Thu SID MC Meeting

Venue: Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm, Sweden  (website)

 (map)

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SID Open Seminar

  • 9.00 - 11.00 - SID Open Seminar - ISon2010 Satellite Event - Voice and Voice Functions

Invited talk by Sten Ternström and Christine Ericsdotter

Abstract
The voice as a sound generator
The human voice is an extremely versatile machine for making sounds. As lifetime listeners and speakers, we are highly attuned to its possibilities and constraints. Everyday sounds are often imitated in conversation, and many sounds have found their way into words of spoken language. We will first review the basic anatomy of the voice organ, the ways in which the vocal mechanism is used to produce sound, and how these are categorised by phoneticians. Then, we will discuss and demonstrate different ways in which vocal sounds can be simulated by machines, as well as some standard techniques for machine recognition of voice sounds. Imitation is fun, and we are inherently skilled at deducing how other people produce most vocal sounds. But could a machine without a body learn to do the same? We look finally at the classic problem of acoustic-to-articulatory inversion: is it possible to deduce how a voice sound was produced, from the acoustic signal alone?

(Recordings of lecture by Christine Ericsdotter and Sten Terstrom on voice production. Stockholm, April 8th, 2010:  Voice_Lecture_I.aac  Voice_Lecture_II.aac)


  • 11.00 - 11.30 - Coffee break
  • 11.30 - 11.50 - Presentation of  TD0804 COST Action About Soundscape of European Cities and Landscapes by Action's delegates Prof. Mats E. Nilsson and Dr. Jian Kang
  • 11.50 - 12.30 - SID MC Meeting
  • 12.30 - 13.30 - Lunch
  • 13.30 - 17.00 SID MC Meeting

MCM Participants

Daniel Arfib, Maria Grazia Ballerano, Frauke Behrendt, Alvaro Barbosa, Nicola Bernardini, Eoin Brazil, Roberto Bresin, Sofia Dahl, Gerhard Eckel, Christine Ericsdotter, Erkut Cumhur, Jean-Julien Filatriau, Rolf Inge Godøy, Fabien Gouyon, Björn Hellström, Thomas Hermann, Daniel Hug, Jian Kang, Trond Lossius, Mats Nilsson, Kjartan Olafsson, Sandra Pauletto, Davide Rocchesso, Patrick Susini, Sten Ternström.

Agenda of the MC Meeting

Welcome to SID participants (Tour-de-table) and

Presentation of TD0804 COST Action “Soundscape of European Cities and Landscapes” by delegates Prof. Mats Nilsson and Dr. Jian Kang.

1. <12.10> Adoption of agenda

2. <12.15> Reading minutes of last meeting (Holon, Nov. 17th, 2009)

3. <12.20> Administration

  • a. Budget
  • b. e-COST system

12.30 Lunch break – Konstfack cafeteria (at SID delegate’s own charge)


4. <13.30> Report of activities in 2010

5. <13.40> Organization of Activities in 2010/2011 (including meetings)

  • a. COST Annual Progress Conference (Tallinn, Estonia, 28-29 June 2010)

  • b. Next MC Meetings
  • c. Training School in Helsinki "SID Interactive Product Sound Design Summer School" tentatively Aug. 23-26, 2010
  • e. Locations and dates of future meetings: winter-spring 2011

6. <14.30> Progress report of working groups

7. <15.10> STSMs status

  • a. Winter applications
  • b. Next Call (deadline for applications june 1st)

8. <15.20> Publications, dissemination and outreach activities

  • a. SID Book
  • b. Sonification Handbook
  • c. Dissemination: SID website designing: BEK
  • d. Outreach activities: STSM to Australia - Nina Schaffert

9. <15.50> SID Final Event

10. <16.30> AOB

  • a. Ideas for a new COST Action? Related projects and networks?

11. Closing of meeting

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After the MC Meeting

Program Day 2

April 9th, Fri

KTH - Royal Institute of Technology
  • 9.00 - 15.00 - Working Group 1, 2, 3 and 4 Meetings

4 rooms will be at disposal at KTH main campus  Department of Speech, Music and Hearing (location and map)

Travel info

Flights:

 Cheap flights with Ryanair

Accommodation:

 link to ISon2010 Accommodation suggestions

Hotels nearby Konstfack:

 Hotel Attache

 Hotel Ibis

Getting around Stockholm:

 Stockholm underground

Please note you can reach Konstfack (red line underground, Telefonplan station  see here) from city centre in only 13 mins.

Local organizers

Roberto Bresin & Björn Hellström
 KTH Royal Institute of Technology  Acoustic Design
--  Konstfack

Questions?

secretary@…

roberto@…

Bjorn.Hellstrom@…

 KTH  ISon2010
 Stockholm Public Transport website  Stockholm rail system map
 Stockholm metro map  visit-stockholm

This SID activity is sponsored by
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