Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

Collaborations in European Programs, except FP7

• Program: Interreg

• Project acronym: Allegro

• Project title: Adaptive Language LEarning technology for the Greater Region

• Duration: 01/01/2009 to 31/12/2012

• Coordinator: Saarland University

• Other partners: Supélec Metz and DFK Kaiserslautern

• Abstract: Allegro is an Interreg project (in cooperation with the Department of COmputational LInguistics and Phonetics of the Saarland University and Supélec Metz) which started in April 2010. It is intended to develop software for foreign language learning. Our contribution consists of developing tools to help learners to master the prosody of a foreign language, i.e. the prosody of English by french learners, and then prosody of French by german learners. We started by recording (with the project Intonale) and segmentating of a corpus made up of English sentences uttered by French speakers and we analyzed specific problems encountered by French speakers when speaking English.

• Program: Eurostar

• Project acronym: Emospeech

• Project title: Interagir naturellement et émotiennellement avec des environnements virtuels

• Duration: 01/06/2009 to 01/06/2012

• Coordinator: Artefacto

• Other partners: Acapela Speech group

• Abstract: The Emospeech project is an Eurostar project started on 1st June 2010 in cooperation with SMEs Artefacto (France) and Acapela (Belgium). This project comes within the scope of serious games and virtual worlds. If existing solutions reach a satisfying level of 3D physical immersion, they do not provide satisfactory natural language interactions. The objective is thus to add spoken interactions via automatic speech recognition and speech synthesis. EPI Parole and Talaris take part in this project and the contribution of Parole will be about the interaction between the virtual world, automatic speech recognition and the dialogue management.