THALES COMMUNICATIONS IST Proposal MobiNews Meeting - June 10th, 2003 “Automatic and Personalised Compilation of Broadcast News with Audio Playback on Mobile Devices” June 10th, 2003 François CAPMAN, PhD Research Engineer, Technologies Radio & Signal Unit [email protected]Tel : +33 (0) 1 46 13 29 63 Fax : +33 (0) 1 46 13 25 55
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THALES COMMUNICATIONS
IST Proposal
MobiNews Meeting - June 10th, 2003“Automatic and Personalised Compilation of Broadcast News with Audio Playback
on Mobile Devices”
June 10th, 2003
François CAPMAN, PhD
Research Engineer, Technologies Radio & Signal Unit
Radio & Signal Technologies TBU- 2THALES COMMUNICATIONS
MobiNews Workshop Agenda
• 10h00 - 10h15 Agenda, objectives of the meeting
• 10h15 - 10h30 Presentation of MobiNews IST proposal , current status
• 10h30 - 11h30 Presentation of each organisation 1 (5mn/10mn)
• 11h30 - 11h45 Break
• 11h45 - 12h15 Presentation of each organisation 2 (5mn/10mn)
• 12h15 - 12h45 Definition of contributions and overall structure of the project
• 12h45 - 13h45 Lunch
• 13h45 - 15h15 Detailed structure of the project, description of work-packages
• 15h15 - 15h45 Other topics (additional partners, ...)
• 15h45 - 16h00 Further steps, planning for the proposal
• 16h00 - 16h30 Discussion - Conclusion
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Radio & Signal Technologies TBU- 3THALES COMMUNICATIONS
IST Objectives (2nd Call)
Call 2: publication 17/6 2003, closing 15/10 2003 – would have an indicative budget of around 525 MEuros (80 % pre-distributed).
Objectives covered in Call 2
• Advanced displays• Optical, opto-electronic, & photonic functional components• Open development platforms for software and services• Cognitive systems• Embedded systems• Applications and services for the mobile user and worker (60 MEuros)• Cross-media content for leisure and entertainment (55 MEuros)• GRID-based Systems for solving complex problems• Improving Risk management• eInclusion
Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP) : 2.5 / 3.0 MEuros (Funding)
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Radio & Signal Technologies TBU- 4THALES COMMUNICATIONS
IST Objectives (2nd Call)2.3.2.7 Cross-media content for leisure and entertainment
Objective: To improve the full digital content chain, covering creation, acquisition, management and production, through effective multimedia technologies enabling multi-channel, cross-platform access to media, entertainment and leisure content in the form of film, music, games, news and alike. It will accelerate take up in B2B, B2C and C2C, currently hampered by insufficient productivity, convergence and high cost.Focus is on:– Developing technologies supporting the creation of new, compelling forms of content for interactive, creative or artistic consumption. Research should aim at advancing imaging technologies and audio-visual representation, multi-dimensional immersive environments and experience portals, as well as virtual, augmented and mixed reality technologies featuring higher levels of quality and accuracy. Device adaptivity and contextualisation, personalisation and (emotive) feedback, and ability to capture real-time, multimodal and multisensorial input will be embedded as needed.– Developing integrated content programming environments allowing to retrieve content from different sources, types and locations, and to store, compress and categorise it, with a view to realising programming appropriate to a particular audience and delivery channel, including interactive TV, e-cinema, radio, online games and music.
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Radio & Signal Technologies TBU- 5THALES COMMUNICATIONS
IST Objectives (2nd Call)2.3.2.6 Applications and Services for the Mobile User and worker
Objective: To foster the emergence of rich landscape of innovative applications and services for the mobile user and worker and to support the use and development of new work methods and collaborative work environments. These should be based on interoperable mobile, wireless technologies and the convergence of fixed and mobile communication infrastructures. Such applications and services will enable new business models, new ways of working, improved customer relations and government services in any context. The target applications and services will be capable of being seamlessly accessed and provided anywhere, anytime and in any context.Focus is on:– The integration of technologies into a wide range of innovative mobile and multimodal applications and services including workplace designs that enhance creativity and productivity.(Intelligent, adaptive and self-configuring services that deploy wearable interfaces and enable automatic context-sensitivity, user profiling and personalisation in a trusted and secure environment as well as multi-lingual and multi-cultural presentation, and multiple modes of interaction)– Addressing the major hurdles for the deployment of applications and services for the mobile user.
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Radio & Signal Technologies TBU- 6THALES COMMUNICATIONS
MobiNews Proposal
• Targeted Application• Automatic compilation of broadcast news (audio, text) with audio playback on mobile
devices (2.5G, 3G).
• Access to personally selected text and audio news from a service/source provider using Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) transmission protocol.
• Expected Features• Fast and reliable access to synthetic newscast on a regular basis (daily, weekly, …) or upon
request.
• Access to various identified sources within the same compilation, using scheduled programme.
• Automatic server-based generation of the synthetic newscast, with MMS WAP 2.0 Low-cost transmission towards mobile devices.
• User-defined profile for automatic download
• Enhanced Man Machine Interface (MMI) for queries’ submission, key-word-based search, ...
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Radio & Signal Technologies TBU- 7THALES COMMUNICATIONS
• 6 - Petr Motlicek (BRNO University of Technology)
• 7 - Stéphane Deketelaere (MULTITEL)
• 8 - Isabel Trancoso (INESC-ID)
• 9 - Nuno Beires (PT INOVACAO)
• 10 - Caroline Roy (RADIO France MULTIMEDIA)
General Presentation and Potential Contributions to MobiNews
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Radio & Signal Technologies TBU- 14THALES COMMUNICATIONS
Contributions
• Thales Communications:• Speech segmentation / classification• Very-Low Bit Rate speech compression using parametric approaches• optimisation of VLBR for a mobile plug-in
• E.N.S.T.:• voice conversion using improved HNM synthesis,• joint-optimisation of speech units for coding and synthesis
• E.S.I.E.E.:• Very Low Bit Rate speech compression using recognition/synthesis• Very Low Bit Rate speech compression using parametric approaches• voice conversion• joint-optimisation of speech units for coding and synthesis
• BRNO University of Technology:• Very Low Bit Rate speech compression using recognition/synthesis
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Radio & Signal Technologies TBU- 15THALES COMMUNICATIONS
Contributions• ELAN SPEECH:
• distributed architecture (mobile/server) for speech synthesis• optimisation for a mobile plug-in• voice personalization, voice conversion
• INESC-ID, and L.I.A.:• audio data structuring
• MULTITEL:• Man-Machine Interface, Natural Language Processing