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University Of Crete
FORTH
Sponsored by:

TOSHIBA
Google
ILSP
Innoetics
LISTEN
ENRICH

2018 Speech Processing Courses in Crete
Towards Flexible and Intelligible End-to-End Speech synthesis systems

23-27 July 2018    University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

FINAL PROGRAMME
 

 

Monday July 23

 

Lecturer

 

Place

 
08:30-09:30 Registration Entrance  
09:30-10:00 Welcome Yannis Stylianou, University of Crete K206  
10:00-13:00 The Art of Unit Selection Spyros Raptis, Innoetics/Samsung Κ206  
13:00-14:00 Lunch break Lounge  
14:00-17:00 Hands on Unit Selection Spyros Raptis, Innoetics/Samsung B110  
 

 

Tuesday July 24

 

Lecturer

 

Place

 
10:00-13:00 Building efficient Wavenet synthesizers Vassilis Tsiaras, University of Crete Κ206  
13:00-14:00 Lunch break Lounge  
14:00-17:00 Hands on Wavenet Vassilis Tsiaras, University of Crete B110  
 

 

Wednesday July 25

 

Lecturer

 

Place

 
10:00-11:00 End-to-end Speech Synthesis Vassilis Tsiaras, TUC Κ206  
11:00-13:00 Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) Yannis Pantazis, IACM, FORTH Κ206  
13:00-14:00 Lunch break Lounge  
14:00-17:00 Hands on GANs Yannis Pantazis, IACM, FORTH B110  
 

 

Thursday July 26

 

Lecturer

 

Place

 
10:00-13:00 Advanced Voice Conversion Tomoki Toda, Nagoya University, Japan Κ206  
13:00-14:00 Lunch break Lounge  
14:00-17:00 Hands on Voice Conversion Tomoki Toda, Nagoya University, Japan B110  
19:00-... Banquet [Food, Music, Dancing] Historical Museum of Crete  
 

 

Friday July 27

 

Lecturer

 

Place

 
10:00-13:00 Intelligibility and cognitive effort in speech synthesis Yannis Stylianou, University of Crete Κ206  
13:00-14:00 Lunch break Lounge  
14:00-16:00 Student Poster Session and Demos Lounge  
16:00-17:00 Closing ceremony and announcement of the Best Student Poster Award Κ206