Speech synthesis Schedule (Term paper deadlines: A refers to Author deadlines and R to Reviewer deadlines) Week 37, 2008 Moment Location Mon Sep 8 10:00-17:00 Day 1: Introduction, history, concatenative speech synthesis, HMM synthesis Göteborg, Humanisten, Room C430   Week 43, 2008 Assignment 1 submission Mon Oct 20 A: Term paper topic submitted. Tue Oct 21 8:00-15:00 Day 2: Vocal tract models, formant synthesis, evaluation KTH, Fantum   Week 51, 2008 Mon Dec 15 A: Electronic submission of first version of the term paper.   Week 52, 2008 Mon Dec 22 R: Electronic submission of first term paper reviews.   Week 2, 2009 Thu Jan 8 A: Electronic submission of final term paper Mon Jan 12 R: Electronic submission of second review recommendation and one point of discussion.   Week 3, 2009 Assignment 2 submission Thu Jan 15 10:00-16:00 Day 3: Term paper presentations, assignment correction KTH, Fantum Fantum is the seminar room at the Department of Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH, Lindstedtsv. 24, 5th floor, Stockholm. Course responsible: Olov Engwall, engwall@kth.se, 790 75 65