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[hts-users:04281] 2nd Announcement - Summer School on Speech Synthesis



(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

Registration
Students: €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 lectures
Participants, 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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