workshop announcement articulatory databases workshop articulatory databases munich thursday th friday th currently start preparation twoday workshop articulatory database third series workshop organize accor work group consortium phonetic institute finance european community s esprit programme follow electromagnetic articulography meet munich april tongue model meet barcelona december few word aim meet devote apparently dry topic basic premise free availability articulatory datum provide benefit several partly overlap area basic research allow investigator test hypothesis formulate articulatory term much wider range datum individual worker normally able acquire access unaid promote development test algorithm derive articulatory representation acoustic datum relevant both basic understand speech production potential application speech display train speech impair promote development test algorithm speech synthesis recognition articulatory level representation aim workshop generate exchange idea among active area order identify example further suggestion welcome articulatory datum existence beneficial freely available archival retrospective approach standard freely available datum meet specification record condition anatomical frame reference level accuracy reliability linguistic specification speech sample prefer datum structure distribution issue relevant datum without risk misinterpretation actually involve detail acquisition articulatory datum many guise depend speech subsystem tap transduction technique thus possible monitor position dimension force emg airpressure flow technique static dynamic involve image pointtrack etc etc directly involve acquisition benefit consider technique standardize promote maximum comparability recording different site different hardware analogy acoustic database where unlabel datum most limit segmentation label information tool exploitation thereof available raw datum facilitate flexible access different purpose future recording category datum corpus potentially most widespread interest participate please contact phil hoole preferably email address below soon possible further information registration format presentation distribute early please draw letter attention colleague interest phil hoole han tillmann institut fuer phonetik munich university schellingstr d munich germany fax email hoole sun phonetik unimuenchen de 