We would like to cordially invite
you to the Eleventh Winter School on Speech and Audio Processing (WiSSAP-2016),
on the theme "Speech Prosody", to be held at SSN College
of Engineering, Chennai, between the 8th and 11th of January 2016.
Prosody is the information contained
in speech that goes beyond spoken words. Apart from its important communicative
functions, it conveys the emotions of the speaker and also reflects the fluency
of the speaker in a particular language. To enlighten participants on different
aspects of speech prosody, three eminent researchers from abroad and five from
reputed institutes in India, have been invited. Following are the topics that
will be covered by each of the speakers:
Tutorials:
Overview of Speech Prosody – Prof.
Hema A. Murthy, IIT Madras
Acoustics of Speech Prosody – Prof.
Preethi Rao, IIT Bombay
Linguistic Functions of Prosody –
Dr. Kalika Bali, Microsoft Research Labs, Bangalore
Computational Models of Prosody for
TTS – Prof. V. Ramasubramanian, PESIT, Bangalore
Analyzing Tonal Features of
Tibeto-Burman Languages – Prof. Priyankoo Sarmah, IIT Guwahati
Guest Lectures:
Machine
Learning and Speech Recognition for Prosody – Prof. Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Signal
Modeling and Speech Synthesis for Prosody – Prof. Yi Xu, University College
London, UK
Mutimodality
and Dialog for Prosody – Prof. Marc Swerts, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Registration for WiSSAP 2016 is now
open. We urge everyone to register as soon as possible, so that we may make
necessary arrangements.
We look forward to your participation.
Thank
you.
Best regards,