The recent methodological and technological developments of the Sound Perception and Design team will be briefely contextualized and put in perspective of the current research activities of the team. Among these new developments, a focus will be explicitely done on the environement Speak for Web.

SpeaK for Web is web application developed for the SpeaK project aiming to propose a collaborative platform for organizing, presenting and sharing sound lexicons combining words, definitions and sound examples. The lexicon words4sounds.speak is the first sound lexicon available for SpeaK. It provides a list of words frequently used to describe the perceived characteristics of a sound. Each word is related to a sound characteristic explained by a definition and highlighted by a corpus of sound examples created at Ircam by composer Roque Rivas.