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Timetable

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
morning afternoon morning afternoon morning afternoon morning afternoon morning afternoon
Opening session
Poster session A		 Tutorials A Keynote lecture
Poster session B		 Tutorials B Poster session C
Closing session
Prizes!		 Free time

Times of sessions

Please do not arrive late - sessions will start on time!
  • Monday, Wednesday, Friday morning sessions will start at 10.00. If you are presenting a poster, please arrive at 9.30
  • Morning tutorial sessions run from 9.00 - 13.00
  • Afternoon tutorial sessions run from 14.00 - 18.00
    • Except Tutorial 1, which is offered twice: 14.00 - 16.00 or 16.30 - 18.30
See the tutorial allocations page to find out which tutorials you are doing.

Please refer to the summer school booklet (online copy coming soon; hardcopy will be handed out at the summer school) for information on the locations of each item in the programme.

Programme

  • Opening session

    • Presenters for poster session A should arrive
    • 10.00 Opening session
      • Welcome address
      • Information about laboratory locations, computing regulations and access
      • Suggestions for lunch, dinner and evening activities
    • 11.00 Registration desk opens
    • 11.30 - 13.00 Student posters, session A

  • Tutorials, block A

    See printed booklet for locations and times.
    • The acoustics and perception of (filtered) speech sounds
    • Semantic Networks and Building WordNets
    • Unit selection speech synthesis using Festival
    • Introduction to NLTK and Python

  • Midweek session

    • 9.30 presenters for poster session B should arrive
    • 10.00 - 11.00 Keynote lecture: Multimodal Meeting Segmentation
      Marc A. Al-Hames,Technische Universität München
      • AMI-Meetings,
      • what are individual and group actions in meetings,
      • audio-, visual-, and lexical features used for meeting segmentation,
      • models for the automatic segmentation and classification of individual and group actions in meetings
    • 11.00 - 11.30 Break
    • 11.30 - 13.00 Student posters, session B

  • Tutorials, block B

    See printed booklet for locations and times.
    • Vocal Dialogue Management: VoiceXML and frame-based approches
    • Speech synthesis using Festival - short version
    • Auditory processing of speech in noise
    • Building Corpora from Scratch

  • Closing session

    • 9.30 presenters for poster session C should arrive
    • 10.00 - 11.30 Student posters, session C
    • 11.30 - 12.00 Break.
    • 12.00 - 13.00 Closing session
      • Closing address
      • CASH PRIZES for the best student posters