SSW8 Accepted Papers

Program Overview

Saturday, August 31:

08:00Registration opens
09:10 - 09:20Opening
09:20 - 11:00Oral Session 1: Prosody and pausing
11:00 - 12:40Poster Session 1 & Coffee
12:45 - 14:45Lunch Break
14:45 - 16:00Oral Session 2: Open Challenges in speech synthesis
16:00 - 16:30Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:20Keynote Session 1: Deep Learning in Speech Synthesis, by Heiga Zen
17:20 - 17:30SynSIG Message
17.30 - 18.30``Jam'' Music Session
18.30 - 20.00Reception at Institut de Estudis Catalans (SSW8 Venue)

Sunday, September 1:

08:00Registration opens
09:00 - 10:15Oral Session 3: Robustness in synthetic speech
10:15 - 10:45Coffee Break
10:45 - 12:25Oral Session 4: Issues in HMM-based speech synthesis
12:30 - 14:00Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:50Keynote Session 2: Prosodic Patterns in Dialog, by Nigel Wards
14:50 - 16:30Poster Session 2 & Coffee
16:30 - 20:00Guided visit to Sagrada Familia & Park Güell
20:00 - 22:00 Dinner at the Restaurant of the Royal Barcelona Maritim Club

Monday, September 2:

08:00Registration opens
09:00 - 09:50Keynote Session 3: Singing voice synthesis, by Xavier Serra
09:50 - 10:40Oral Session 5: Synthetic singing voices
10:40 - 11:10Coffee Break
11:10 - 12:50Oral Session 6: Expressive speech synthesis
12:50 - 14:20Lunch Break
14:20 - 15:20Demo Session
15:20 - 17:00Poster Session 3 & Coffee
17:00 - 17:10Closing
ISCA

International Speech Communication Association.

SynSIG

The aim of SynSIG is to promote the study of Speech Synthesis in general. Its international and multi-disciplinary nature provides a means for sharing information both to and from different research communities involved in the synthesis of various languages.

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