Programme Schedule

Day 1 - Friday, 8th Jan 2016

Time
07:00 - 08:00
07:00 - 08:15
08:30 - 09:00
09:00 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 - 12:00
12:00 - 13:30
13:30 - 15:00
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 - 17:00
17:30 - 19:00
19:30 onwards

Session
Registration
Breakfast
Overview of Speech Prosody
Acoustics of Speech Prosody
Tea Break
Linguistic Functions of Prosody
Lunch
Tonal Mechanisms
Tea Break
Computational Models of Prosody for TTS
Interspeech 2018 Meeting
Dinner

Speaker

Prof. Hema A. Murthy

Prof. Preeti Rao
Dr. Kalika Bali
Prof. Yi Xu
Prof. V. Ramasubramanian

Day 2 - Saturday, 9th Jan 2016

Time
07:00 - 08:15
08:30 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 - 12:00
12:00 - 13:30
13:30 - 15:00
15:00 - 15:30

15:30 - 17:00
17:30 - 19:00
19:30 onwards

Session

Speaker
Breakfast
Speech production, speech perception, and phonology
Prof. Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
Tea Break
Theories and models of prosody
Prof. Yi Xu
Lunch
Audiovisual prosody - General introduction
Prof. Marc Swerts
Tea Break
Analysis and synthesis of speech prosody based on
articulatory dynamics and communicative functions: from
concept to practice
Prof. Yi Xu
TTS Consortium Meeting
Dinner

Day 3 - Sunday, 10th Jan 2016

Time
07:00 - 08:15
08:30 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 - 12:00
12:00 - 13:30
13:30 - 15:00
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 - 17:00
17:30 - 19:00
19:30 onwards

Session
Breakfast
Vocal expressions of emotions in speech
Tea Break
Non-verbal communication Discourse structure
Lunch
Prosody
Tea Break
Audiovisual prosody Communication problems
TTS Demo
Dinner

Speaker
Prof. Yi Xu
Prof. Marc Swerts
Prof. Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
Prof. Marc Swerts

Day 4 - Monday, 11th Jan 2016

Time
07:00 - 08:15
08:30 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 - 12:00
12:00 - 13:30
13:30 - 15:00
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 - 17:00
17:30 - 19:00
19:30 onwards

Session
Breakfast
Audiovisual prosody - Emotion and Deception
Tea Break
Multivariate-state models for speech recognition
Lunch
Analyzing Tonal Features of Tibeto-Burman Languages
Tea Break
Limited data settings
Prof. Israel Cohen
Dinner

Venue: Main Auditorium, SSNCE

Speaker
Prof. Marc Swerts
Prof. Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
Prof. Priyankoo Sarmah
Prof. Mark Hasegawa-Johnson