Welcome to 2019 Speech Processing Courses in Crete School

	Monday July 22	Lecturer	Place
08:30-09:30	Registration		Entrance
09:30-10:00	Welcome & Presentation of ISCA activities	Yannis Stylianou, University of Crete	K206
10:00-13:00	Statistical Dialogue Systems and requirements/requests for TTS	Alex Papangelis, Uber USA	K206
13:00-14:00	Lunch break		Lounge
14:00-17:00	Hands on building state-of-the art statistical dialogue systems	Alex Papangelis, Uber USA	K206
	Tuesday July 23	Lecturer	Place
10:00-13:00	End-to-end speech synthesis: Tacotron and Stable Wavenet training	Vassilis Tsiaras, University of Crete	Κ206
13:00-14:00	Lunch break		Lounge
14:00-17:00	Hands on Neural TTS: build you own Tacotron and stable Wavenet	Vassilis Tsiaras, University of Crete	K206
	Wednesday July 24	Lecturer	Place
10:00-13:00	Learning representations of prosody and speaking style for end-to-end speech synthesis	Matt Shannon, Google USA	Κ206
13:00-14:00	Lunch break		Lounge
14:00-17:00	Hands on speaking style for end-to-end speech synthesis	Matt Shannon, Google USA	K206
	Thursday July 25	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	K206
	Friday July 26	Lecturer	Place
10:00-13:00	Modeling and evaluating multimodal TTS	Catherine Pelachaud, Sorbonne University	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
17:00-18:00	Short visit at Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH)	Researchers at FORTH	ICS, FORTH
18:30-...	Banquet [Food, Music, Live Concert]		Houdetsi Village