Education

SPCC =

SPCC (Signal Processing Course in Crete) summer school is a speech synthesis/signal processing summer school which is held each year at the university of Heraklion.

2017

• webpage: http://spcc.csd.uoc.gr/

2016

• webpage: http://spcc.csd.uoc.gr/SPCC2016/

• lectures & materials: http://spcc.csd.uoc.gr/SPCC2016/material16.html

2015

• webpage: http://spcc.csd.uoc.gr/SPCC2015/

2014

• webpage: http://spcc.csd.uoc.gr/SPCC2014/

• lectures & materials: http://spcc.csd.uoc.gr/SPCC2014/material14.html

Keynotes & tutorials

• Simon King - EUSIPCO keynote

• Deep Learning for Text-to-Speech Synthesis, using the Merlin toolkit @ Interspeech 2017

• ISCA Medalist: For leadership and extensive contributions to speech and language processing @ Interspeech 2016

• Voice conversion and spoofing countermeasures for speaker verification @ Odyssey 2016

• Understanding individual-level speech variability: From novel speech production data to robust speaker recognition

• Deep Learning for Speech Generation and Synthesis @ ISCSLP 2014

• Speaking in adverse conditions: from behavioural observations to intelligibility-enhancing speech modifications @ Odyssey 2014

Other kind of teaching materials

• Simon King's course website

• An introductory course on speech processing (in French and English) by Thierry Dutoit, , Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium.

• TTSBOX, A Matlab tutorial toolbox on corpus-based Text-to-Speech synthesis, by Thierry Dutoit, Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium.

Samples

• Access to some speech samples

Educational Softwares

• See our list of educational softwares

Historical images

Take a look at our gallery of historical images.

External Links

• See our external references page
• Dennis Klatt's History of Speech Synthesis,
• Examples of Synthesized Speech,
• "The Talking Computer": Text to Speech Synthesis (J.P. Olive in Hal's Legacy, MITPress),
• German-TTS and emotional synthesis ([1] and [2]) demo by Felix Burkhardt.