Creative Speech Technology: Editorial introduction to this special issue

Abstract

CreST is the Creative Speech Technology Network, a research network which brought together people from a wide variety of backgrounds spanning arts technology and beyond. The papers in this volume represent some of the outcomes of that collaboration. This editorial introduces the background of the network and each of the papers. In conclusion we demonstrate that this work helped to realize many of the objectives of the network.

Key words::

• AAC
• communication aids
• emotion
• speech technology

Acknowledgements

Many thanks are due to the entire membership for the success of the CreST Network and the Articulate roadshow, but, with around 50 active members, there are too many to be listed here. However, we must mention the people who were mainly responsible for the administration that made it all work but are not listed herein as authors, namely Amelia Chester, Debbie Haverstock, Caron Lett, and Barry Perks. Also, much of the information in Table I, above, was provided by Lucy Lowson.

Declaration of interest: The authors have no declarations of interest to report.