Monday July 24 |
Lecturer |
Place |
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| 08:30-09:30 | Registration | Entrance | ||
| 09:30-10:00 | Welcome | Yannis Stylianou, University of Crete | K206 | |
| 10:00-12:00 | Vocoders | Yannis Stylianou, University of Crete | Κ206 | |
| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch and coffee | Lounge | ||
| 14:00-16:00 | Prosody Generation | Raul Fernandez, IBM | Κ206 | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee break | Lounge | ||
| 16:30-18:30 | Hands on Prosody | B110 | ||
Tuesday July 25 |
Lecturer |
Place |
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| 10:00-12:00 | Unit Selection Speech Synthesis | Spyros Raptis, Innoetics | Κ206 | |
| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch and coffee | Lounge | ||
| 14:00-16:00 | Unit Selection and voice transformations | Alex Sorin, IBM | Κ206 | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee break | Lounge | ||
| 16:30-18:30 | Hands on Diphone and Unit Selection Speech Synthesis | Simon King, University of Edinburgh | B110 | |
Wednesday July 26 |
Lecturer |
Place |
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| 10:00-12:00 | Text Normalization | Richard Sproat, Google USA | Κ206 | |
| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch and coffee | Lounge | ||
| 14:00-16:00 | HMM-based TTS | Simon King, University of Edinburgh | Κ206 | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee break | Lounge | ||
| 16:30-18:30 | Hands on Text Normalization | Richard Sproat, Google USA | B110 | |
Thursday July 27 |
Lecturer |
Place |
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| 10:00-12:00 | Linear Dynamic Models | Vassilis Tsiaras, University of Crete | Κ206 | |
| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch and coffee | Lounge | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Deep Neural Networks | Simon King, University of Edinburgh | Κ206 | |
| 15:00-16:00 | Wavenet | Vassilis Tsiaras, University of Crete | Κ206 | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee break | Lounge | ||
| 16:30-18:30 | Hands on Wavenet | Vassilis Tsiaras, University of Crete | B110 | |
| 19:00-... | Banquet [Traditional Cretan Tavern, Music, and Dance] | Arolithos Cretan Village | ||
Friday July 28 |
Lecturer |
Place |
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| 10:00-12:00 | Intelligibility and cognitive effort of natural and synthetic speech | Yannis Stylianou, University of Crete | Κ206 | |
| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch and coffee | Lounge | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Student Poster Session I | Lounge | ||
| 15:00-16:00 | Student Poster Session I | Lounge | ||
| 16:00-16:30 | Demo Sessions from Industry and Lecturers | Lounge | ||
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee break | Lounge | ||
| 16:30-17:00 | Closing ceremony and announcement of the Best Student Poster Award | Κ206 |
2017 Speech Processing Courses in Crete
Towards Intelligible and Conversational Speech Synthesis Engines
24-28 July 2017 
University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
PROGRAMME