2. SFI-FastNet Lead Institution:TCD Lead PI: Prof. Nick Campbell with Ailbhe Ni Chasaide & Christer Gobl Stokes Prof. – Prof. Nick Campbell Academic Partners Prof Kashioka Hideki (NAIST, Japan) Drs. Joaquim Gustafson, Jens, Edlund (KTH, Sweden) Prof Julie Berndsen, Dr. Fred Cummins (UCD), Prof. Petra Wagner (Bielefeld). Prof T. Sadanobu, (Kobe) Prof Anton Nijholt (Twente, Netherlands) Prof Anna Esposito (COST 2012, EU) …. …. …. Industry Partners (applications welcome) This research will produce a device for processing human speech, as part of a robot, an information-providing service, a translation service, or an entertainment system, which is able to process not just the text of that speech, but also able to interpret the intentions, or acts, of the speaker. 4 Researchers (in the group) 2 Post Docs 4 PhD Students + support staff Award Size € 950,000 + X% from industry Term 5 Years Commencing April 2010

3. Stokes Prof. – Prof. Nick Campbell Core Activities/Technologies Focus on Actions in Social Talk; network-enabling technology “FastNet” A technology for capturing conversational speech A technology for processing interactive speech Conversational Interaction Modelling Voice & Speech in Social Interaction Text-free Speech Processing Human-machine interface components Interactive speech synthesis technology Key Research Highlights World’s first corpus of the conversational speech of Ireland Demonstration of interactive / social speech technology International links with major speech research laboratories contact details/website Room 3040 Center for Language and Communication Studies Trinity College Dublin, D2 Tel – 01 8961626 E-mail – nick@tcd.ie Web -http://www.speech-data.jp/fastnet/ http://www.tcd.ie/slscs/clcs/phonetics/fastnet/

4. www.sfi.ie E-mail: ruth.freeman@sfi.ie Tel: +353 1 607 3240 Focus on Actions in Social Talk network-enabling technology FastNet