cfp workshop spoken language generation multimodal information system nd speak workshop speech generation multimodal information systems practical applications nd rd november gmd ipsi darmstadt germany call contributions workshop aim bring together researcher developer potential producer marketer multimodal information system order consider role speak language synthesis system need able produce speak language appropriately include effective control intonation need practical context speak language most beneficial require dialogue between those provide speak natural language technology those consider practical multimodal information system workshop consist paper presentation practical demonstration roundtable discussion best strategy pursue practical application speak language synthesis technology information system suggest topic area theme include limit functional control intonation synthesize speech speech intelligent interface information system integration speech automatic query system cooperative integration speech text generation information system evaluation strategy information system involve speech synthesis application information system speak language output capability practical requirement information system speak language capability potential participant invite submit short statement interest indicate whether interest present paper offer system demonstration participate round table discussion simply attend statement interest extend abstract max page send st october email bateman gmd de post john bateman gmd ipsi dolivostr d darmstadt germany extend abstract available workshop dure workshop current result demonstration eu copernicus program project speak attachment project information speak project speech generation multimodal information system speak european union fund project copernicus project whose aim embed speak natural language synthesis technology sophisticate user interface order improve access information system multimedium technology knowledgebase text process enhance development type information system offer reference fulltext document user provide access image graphic audio video document diversification formation offer support easyto multimodal user interface capable present each type information item perceive process effectively user user easily process simultaneously graphical medium information presentation linguistic medium separation mode quite appropriate different functionality main graphical interaction supportive metadialogue carry linguistically believe therefore substantial improvement both functionality user acceptance achieve integration speak language capability however textto speech device commercially available today produce speech sound unnatural hard listen high quality synthesize speech sound acceptable human demand appropriate intonation pattern effective control intonation require synthesize meaning rather word sequence require understand function intonation domain sophisticate humanmachine interface increase tendency design interface independent agent themselve engage interactive dialogue both graphical linguistic user agent need maintain model discourse user communicative goal speak project launch recently cooperation between speech research technology laboratory technical university budapest technical university darmstadt cooperation gmdipsi aim develop interface multimedium retrieval system ipsi department komet natural language generation mind information retrieval dialogue contribute project project construct proofof concept prototype multimodal information system combine graphical speak language output variety language work involve four support goal first advance state art domain speech synthesis speak text generation graphical interface design second provide enable technology higher functionality information system appropriate general public third significantly improve public industrial acceptance speech synthesis general hungarian textto speech technology elaborate within project particular fourth act focus point speech work hungary contact point gmd ipsi darmstadt john bateman email bateman gmd de fax tel tu budapest g eza n emeth email nemeth ttt ttt bme hu fax tel 