3 September: Seminar -- September 5 & September 6

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Dr. Petra Wagner of the University of Bonn will hold a course on speech=20
synthesis at UCD this week. The course has been funded by the Socrates=20
Programme and all are welcome to attend. The course will take place on=20
Thursday 5th and Friday 6th September 2002 from 2.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. in=20
room B1.09, Department of Computer Science, UCD. The programme is as follows=
:

Thursday 5th September 2002, 2.30 p.m.

=B7 Basic architecture of a synthesis system
=B7 Text-Pre-Processing
=B7 Concept-to-Speech vs. Text-to-Speech
=B7 Symbolic Prosodic Processing
=B7 Prediction of Acoustic Prosodic Parameters
=B7 Concatenative Units in Synthesis


Friday 6th September 2002, 2.30 p.m.
=B7 Parametric vs. Data Driven Synthesis Architectures
=B7 Acoustic Synthesis in Parametric Synthesis
=B7 Acoustic Synthesis in Data Driven Synthesis (PSOLA)
=B7 Inventory construction,
=B7 Corpus-based synthesis architectures (Unit Selection=20
Algorithm, Cost Functions)
=B7 Evaluation of Synthesis Systems
=B7 Open Issues/Future Perspectives


Please feel free to forward this email to other interested parties.

Best regards,
Julie

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