Current Projects

Kiselev's Geometry for Kids

Kiselev's Geometry - Simplified for 3rd/4th grades - is based on the famous Kiselev's Geometry course that has been used with great success all around the world for more than 150 years, the material is adapted to German and highly talented kids in 3rd and 4th grades. This project is part of the special program for highly talented kids at Thiebault Elementary School. Class materials will be made available online here.

Singapore Math for English as a Second Language

Ettingen Markt

This course is based on the famous Singapore Math Curriculum that has consistantly resulted in top performance in Pisa and other international studies is used for children in first and second grade. The Mathematics that the kids learn in class is presented to them in English. Less than 20% of kids in Singapore come from English speaking homes. The material is therefore especially designed with a minimum requirement in literacy in order to reduce the barrier of literacy to mathematics. This project is part of the program for highly talented kids at the Thiebault Elementary School. Materials will be made available through this website.

Books are directly imported from the Singapore Program, through our reseller Inline, GmbH. To order, contact kay at berkling dot com for more information with the topic heading of Singapore.


Workshop for Child, Computer and Interaction

wocci

The Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction will be held in Chania, on the island of Crete, on October 23, 2008. The Workshop is a satellite event of the Tenth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI 2008) that took place October 20-22, 2008. This Workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from universities and industry working in all aspects of multimodal child-machine interaction with particular emphasis on, but not limited to, speech interactive interfaces. The next workshop will be in November in Boston jointly with ICMI
Children are special both at the acoustic/linguistic level but also at the interaction level. The Workshop provides a unique opportunity for bringing together different research communities to demonstrate various state-of-the-art components that can make up the next generation of child centred computer interaction. These technological advances are increasingly necessary in a world where education and health pose growing challenges to the core wellbeing of our societies. Noticeable examples are remedial treatments for children with or without disabilities, and first and second language learning. The Workshop should serve for presenting recent advancements in all core technologies for multimodal child-machine interaction as well as experimental systems and prototypes.

For more information refer to the official Wocci website.

First Children's Synthetic Voice

Festival Text-to-Speech Online Demo - Technical

Select a Voice Type the text to synthesise (max 70 chars)


This is an interactive demo of CSTR's "Festival" speech synthesiser, which is software capable of making artificial speech in place of a real human. Festival is the most complete freeware multilingual, general-purpose synthesis system available. It is used by numerous research sites and other projects around the world. Further information is available on the Festival project page.

Unlike the simpler demo here, the demo on this page gives access to many more voices which have been developed for Festival. This is intended to allow closer scrutiny of the results of different synthesis methods and different subsystems at various stages of development. The following voices are included at present, with an indication of the amount of speech data used to build the voice:

  • Scottish male - Alan (ARCTIC), Jon (2hr)
  • English RP male - Nick (8hr), Roger (13hr), Korin (TIMIT, ~20mins)
  • English RP female - Nina (3hr)
  • American male - KAL (Communicator), RMS (ARCTIC), BDL (ARCTIC), JMK (ARCTIC)
  • American female - SLT, CLB (both ARCTIC)
Broadly, three synthesis methods are available in this demo:
  • HTS - a statistical parametric approach (both the 2005 and 2007 systems)
  • Multisyn - standard unit selection concatenative approach
  • Diphone - single instance diphone concatenation
    (the previous TTS generation technology, from mid 1980's to mid 1990's).

Further questions...

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, or experience any difficulties using this demo, then please consult the FAQ in the first place. If that doesn't address your query, please mail


(NOTE: This page is provided for demonstration purposes only. Direct use of the CGI synthesis interface is not permitted (computer resources reserved for this demo are limited). The speech audio produced by this demo is for private, non-commercial use only. For further details on our usage policy, see the usage section of the FAQ.)


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