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The tutorials

Click on each tutorial title to see a full description of the contents.
  1. The acoustics and perception of (filtered) speech sounds
  2. Semantic Networks and Building WordNets
  3. Unit selection speech synthesis using Festival
  4. Introduction to NLTK and Python
  5. Vocal Dialogue Management: VoiceXML and frame-based approches
  6. Speech synthesis using Festival - short version
  7. Auditory processing of speech in noise
  8. Building Corpora from Scratch

Tutorial timetable

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
morning afternoon morning afternoon morning afternoon morning afternoon morning afternoon
Opening session 1 2 Keynote 5 Closing session Free time
3 6 7
4a 4b 8
Notes:

  • Tutorial 4 has two parts: an optional introduction (4a) and the main tutorial (4b). Read the full description to decide whether you want to take 4a.
  • You cannot take both tutorial 3 and tutorial 6 together.