Graduate School of Language Technology

Nordic Graduate School of Language Technology

Speech Technology Level 1 (2005)

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Closing Seminar January 24, 2006, 10.00 – 16.00

During the course each student should prepare a term paper and present it at the closing seminar.

The term paper should be reviewed by at least two reviewers also participating in the course.

The paper may not exceed 10 printed pages.

Hotel reservation

We have not made preregistration for those wanting to stay at hotel Arcadia. You have to send an email directly to make reservation <reservation.arcadia@elite.se>. You should inform the hotel that you are taking a course at KTH. You need to inform the hotel the relevant information in your mail: your name and check in/out dates.

Directions to hotel: http://www.elite.se/eng/hotell/stockholm/arcadia/

Directions to us: http://www.speech.kth.se/info/location.html

Preliminary Time for Preparing the Term Paper

November 1

Planning the Time table during the meeting

November 15

Topic selection together with a teacher

December 1

Reviewers selected (please volunteer)

December 22

Electronic submission of paper to reviewers and the teacher

January 9

Electronic submission of reviews to author

January 16

Electronic submission of final paper to the reviewers, the teacher and
Rolf Carlson
rolf-at-speech.kth.se

January 24
10.00-16.00

Presentation of paper at the closing seminar at KTH

Program and Term Papers

Time

Name

Title

Reviewers

Teacher

10.00

 

Welcome

 

 

10.15

Magnus Rosell

Acoustic features for automatic speech recognition

Vera Evdokimova
Björn Bringert

Kjell Elenius

10.45

Björn Bringert

Creating small recognizers, quickly

Magnus Rosell
Jenny Brusk

Kjell Elenius

11.30

 

LUNCH

 

 

13.00

Dainora Kuliesiene

Gintare Grigonyte

Potential of the Lithuanian Speech Corpus

Natalia Zinovjeva

David House

13.30

Vera Evdokimova

Comparison of different methods of modeling the voice source in speech synthesis systems

Magnus Rosell
Björn Bringert

Björn Granström

14.00

 

BREAK

 

 

14.30

Natalia Zinovjeva

Speech technology in computer assisted language learning

Gintare Grigonyte

Jenny Brusk

David House

15.00

Jenny Brusk

Current and Future Perspectives on Conversational Agents

Gintare Grigonyte
Natalia Zinovjeva
Dainora Kuliesiene

Rolf Carlson

15.30-16.00

 

SUMMING UP

 

 

 

Term Papers and Closing Seminars

Link to the Closing seminar January 2005 with links to papers

Link to the Closing seminar January 2003 with links to papers

Link to the Closing seminar January 2002 with links to papers.

 

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