Urdu Text to Speech: Integrating Prosody of Emotions

Develop emotional speech corpus for Urdu that is prosodically and syntactically annotated.
Develop linguistic resources to concretely represent such analyses, for further research and development in linguistics and computational work.
Conduct joint research and produce joint, collaborative publications with former and current PhD students at UET and KN.
Extend the existing relationship between German and Pakistan universities, to include more senior and junior researchers on both sides.
Extend course curricula in linguistics and computational linguistics reflecting the results of the project.
Conduct workshops and seminars to train the teachers and the young researchers in the field of prosody.