Graduate School of Language Technology

Nordic Graduate School of Language Technology

Speech Technology Level 1 (2006)

Meeting October 19 – 20, 2006

Thursday, October 19

Speech and Speaker Recognition

10.00 Speech Recognition 1: Acoustic Analysis, Modelling, Search
Kjell Elenius

11.00 Speech Recognition 2: Training, Adaptation

Mats Blomberg

12.00 Lunch

13.15 Finite State Transducers

Alec Seward

13.45 Speaker Verification

Mats Blomberg

Solutions to at least three questions in the Speech Recognition exercises distributed during the meeting should be submitted to Mats Blomberg before December 1.

14.15 - Discussion of the phonetic analysis assignments

David House

14.45 - Discussion of term paper assignments

All teachers

15.00 – 15.30 Coffee break

15.30 – 18.00 Speech Recognition Laboration

Alec Seward

18.30 Pizza

TMH Lunch room

Friday, October 20

Spoken Dialog Systems and Synthesis

9.00 – 11.30 Dialog systems

Joakim Gustafson - Telia Sonera

11.30 – 12.30 Lunch

12.30 – 14.00 Speech synthesis practical – Basement computer room

Björn Granström

14.00 – 14.30 Presentation/discussion of results from practical - Basement computer room

14.00 - 15.00 Final discussion