(Apologies for multiple postings) Summer School on Speech Synthesis 27-31 July 2015, Heraklion, Crete, Greece http://www.csd.uoc.gr/~spcc Organized by Computer Science Dept., University of Crete, Greece Topic: From Diphones to Modern Speech Synthesis Engines - Speech signal modelling and modifications - Acoustic modelling: HMM, LDM, DNN - Approaches: diphones, unit selection, statistical, hybrid - Listening context aware speech synthesis systems - Singing synthesis and voice conversion Confirmed lecturers: - Yannis Agiomyrgiannakis, Google UK - Masami Akamine, Toshiba Japan - Daniel Erro, Ikerbasque, Spain - Spyros Raptis, ILSP Athena Research Centre, Athens, Greece - Alex Sorin, IBM Haifa Israel - Yannis Stylianou, University of Crete, Greece - Vassilis Tsiaras, University of Crete, Greece - Fernando Villavicencio, NII, Japan - Heiga Zen, Google UK RegistrationStudents: €300, Non-students: €450, to cover lunches, coffee breaks, banquet, school materials, bus transfer between city and campus. Limited number of places for highly motivated researchers and students, so reserve your position soon (yannis@csd.uoc.gr).
Beyond lecturesParticipants, if they wish, are expected to present their work as a poster, during 1 hour in each day (at the mid of each school day). The best student poster/demo will be awarded. Theory will be followed by hands on sessions while speech synthesis systems will be demonstrated by the lecturers during the last day of the school.
Information - Prof. Yannis Stylianou, University of Crete: yannis@csd.uoc.gr - http://www.csd.uoc.gr/~spcc/ Sponsored by Google, Toshiba, IBM, NII, ...
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