2021 Speech Processing Courses in Crete
Inclusive Neural Speech Synthesis

26-30 July 2021    University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

PROGRAMME
EEST

 

Monday July 26

 

Lecturer

 

Place

 
09:30-10:00 Welcome Yannis Stylianou, UoC Zoom - LIVE : Q&A through Slack by the end of the week (30/7)  
10:00-13:00 Neural Acoustic Modeling Vassilis Tsiaras, UoC Zoom - LIVE : Q&A through Slack by the end of the week (30/7)  
14:00 Hands on neural acoustic modeling Vassilis Tsiaras, UoC Released offline - Q&A through Slack by the end of the week (30/7)  
 

 

Tuesday July 27

 

Lecturer

 

Place

 
10:00-13:00 Advanced Neural Vocoders Junichi Yamagishi - Xin Wang, NII, Japan Zoom - LIVE : Q&A through Slack by the end of the week (30/7)  
14:00 Hands on Neural Vocoders Junichi Yamagishi - Xin Wang, NII, Japan Released offline - Q&A through Slack by the end of the week (30/7)  
 

 

Wednesday July 28

 

Lecturer

 

Place

 
08:30-11:30 Front-end Processing Alistair Conkie, Apple Zoom - LIVE : Q&A through Slack by the end of the week (30/7)  
14:00 Hands on front-end processing Alistair Conkie, Apple Released offline - Q&A through Slack by the end of the week (30/7)  
 

 

Thursday July 29

 

Lecturer

 

Place

 
08:30-11:30 Preserving the naturalness of fast speech Malcolm Slaney, Google Zoom - LIVE : Q&A through Slack by the end of the week (30/7)  
08:30-11:30 Using WaveNet to reunite speech-impaired users with their original voices Yutian Chen, DeepMind Zoom - LIVE : Q&A through Slack by the end of the week (30/7)  
08:30-11:30 Parrotron: unified E2E speech-to-speech conversion and ASR model for atypical speech Fadi Biadsy, Google Zoom - LIVE : Q&A through Slack by the end of the week (30/7)  
 

 

Friday 30/7

 

Lecturer

 

Place

 
10:00-11:00 Intelligibility of speech in adverse listening conditions I Yannis Stylianou, UoC Zoom - LIVE : Q&A through Slack by the end of the week (30/7)  
11:00-12:00 Intelligibility of speech in adverse listening conditions II Petko Petkov, Apple Zoom - LIVE : Q&A through Slack by the end of the week (30/7)  
12:00-13:00 Neural Based Intelligibility Enhancement M. Shifas PV, UoC Zoom - LIVE : Q&A through Slack by the end of the week (30/7)  
14:00 Hands on Intelligibility M. Shifas PV, UoC Released offline - Q&A through Slack by the end of the week (30/7)  


Videos from all lectures and sessions will be compiled and released 48-72 hours after their scheduled time.