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CSTR's 21st Anniversary
1 - 2 September 2005
The Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) is twenty-one this year! To celebrate the coming of age of our interdisciplinary research centre, we are delighted to invite you to join us on 1st and 2nd September 2005. In particular, all past members of CSTR are warmly invited to join us then.
Logistics
Registration: If you are planning to attend, please register free of charge at the CSTR-21 Registration Page
Accommodation See the CSTR-21 Accommodation Page for details of hotels, etc.
Programme
The schedule is as follows:
Recordings of the presentations are available 
- Thursday 1 September: CSTR open day
- 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee [David Hume Tower, Lecture Theatre B]
- 11:00 - 13:00 An overview of CSTR
- 11:00 - 11:40 Steve Renals An introduction to CSTR
- 11:40 - 12:20 Rob Clark FESTIVAL: Speech
synthesis research
- 12:20 - 13:00 Simon King Novel approaches to
speech recognition
- 11:00 - 11:40 Steve Renals An introduction to CSTR
- 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch [HCRC Conference Suite, 2 Buccleuch Place]
- 14:30 - 16:00 CSTR Research Talks (PhD students) [DHT LTB]
- 14:30 - 15:00 Gregor Hofer Individuality of lifelike characters
- 15:00 - 15:30 Sasha Calhoun Intonation and Meaning for Speech Technology
- 15:30 - 16:00 Gabriel Murray Automatically Summarizing Meeting Speech
- 14:30 - 15:00 Gregor Hofer Individuality of lifelike characters
- 16:00 - 18:00 CSTR Demos and Posters [CSTR, 5 Buccleuch Place]
- 18:00 - 19:30 Reception [Level 4 foyer, Appleton Tower]
- Friday 2 September: CSTR at 21
- 09:30 - 09:50 Coffee [DHT LTB]
- 09:50 - 12:15 Morning Session [DHT LTB]
- 09:50 - 10:00 Steve Renals: Welcome
- 10:00 - 10:45 John Bridle: Some memories of ASR around
21 years ago
- 10:45 - 11:30 XD (Xuedong) Huang Challenges in adopting speech technologies
- 11:30 - 12:15 Richard Rohwer From neural nets to
Bayesian inference and information geometry
- 12:15 - 14:00 Lunch [HCRC Conference Suite]
- 14:00 - 15:40 Afternoon session [DHT LTB]
- 14:00 - 14:45 Steve Isard: A history of speech
synthesis at CSTR
- 14:45 - 15:30 Paul Taylor: Speech technology:
the next 21 years
- 15:30 - 15:40 Wrap-up
- 14:00 - 14:45 Steve Isard: A history of speech
synthesis at CSTR
- 15:40 Coffee [DHT LTB]
- 19.00 Evening social event - a private function at the former Cellar Bar, 1a Chambers Street
Information
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