University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, GreeceThe Speech Processing Courses in Crete (SPCC) are targeting to teach graduate students and researchers the latest advancements of speech processing covering theory, hands on, and
establishing contacts between the academics and industry. The school will provide the chance to students and professionals to meet world leaders in speech technology, exchanging ideas,
sharing experiences and vision.
This year we will enhance and strongly support the hands-on sessions to provide to the participants a good balance between theory and practice.
Morning sessions will include lectures on theory while all afternoon sessions will be dedicated solely to the hands-on sessions.
The Summer School is organized by the University of Crete, Greece. It is sponsored by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), Google, Uber, and Apple. We thank our sponsors for their support.
For 2019, the school topic is: Conversational Speech Synthesis: from design to evaluation
The topic includes:- Introduction to modern statistical dialogue systems and requests for a conversational speech synthesis system
- Modern Acoustic Modelling Approaches (WaveNet, Tacotron)
- Advanced flexibility for effective conversational TTS: Style token and Voice Conversion
- Evaluation of conversational and multimodal TTS
LATEST NEWS
- 28-7-2019: The participants were asked to decipher the spectrogram of our poster. This competition had a winner:
- Georgia Maniati, from Innoetics-Samsung.
- 28-7-2019: Congratulations to the three "Best Student Poster Award" winners:
- 1st: Xixin Wu, from Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, for his poster titled "Speech Emotion Recognition using Capsule Networks"
- 2nd: Eran Raveh, from Saarland University, Germany, for his poster titled "Modeling Phonetic Accommodation for Adaptive Spoken Dialogue Systems"
- 3rd: Yi Zhou, from National University of Singapore, Singapore, for her poster titled "Cross-lingual Voice Conversion with Bilingual Phonetic PosterioGram and Average Modeling"
- 19-6-2019: The ISCA web portal for travel grant applications is now operational again, and has also the provision for applications without having accepted papers.
- 30-5-2019: Due to technical issues with the ISCA travel grant portal, the interested ISCA students should:
- Collect all relevant information that is required on the ISCA web application form. It is not necessary to have a paper submitted in this school.
- Send their application to grants AT isca-speech DOT org. The subject field of the message should include [ISCAGrant Application].
- In case of problems the back-up solution is to send to: torbjorn DOT svendsen AT ntnu DOT no
- 17-7-2019: School poster is ready!
- 15-5-2019: We are happy to welcome Apple as a sponsor for this year's school!
- 19-4-2019: School leaflet is ready! Check it here! and feel free to share it among your colleagues!
- 19-4-2019: Final programme announced! Check it here!
- 15-3-2019: ISCA students attending the SPCC19 may apply to a travel grant via the ISCA grant application portal.
For any questions regarding SPCC19, please send an e-mail to: spcc AT csd.uoc.gr