Center for Language Engineering lab of KICS UET Lahore brings up its latest project titled ‘Urdu Text to Speech: Integrating Prosody of Emotions’. The project is quite interesting and grabs the attention. It carries numerous objectives such as:
- Developing emotional speech corpus for Urdu that is prosodically and syntactically annotated.
- Developing linguistic resources to concretely represent such analyses, for further research and development in linguistics and computational work.
- Conducting joint research and produce joint, collaborative publications with former and current PhD students at UET and KN.
- Extending the existing relationship between German and Pakistan universities, to include more senior and junior researchers on both sides.
- Extending course curricula in linguistics and computational linguistics reflecting the results of the project.
- Conducting workshops and seminars to train the teachers and the young researchers in the field of prosody.