Education
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SPCC
The Speech Processing Courses in Crete (SPCC) are targeting to teach graduate students and researchers the latest advancements of speech processing covering theory, hands on, and establishing contacts between the academics and industry. The school will provide the chance to students and professionals to meet world leaders in speech technology, exchanging ideas, sharing experiences and vision. The Summer School is organized by the University of Crete, Greece.
2017
- webpage: http://spcc.csd.uoc.gr/
- the school topic is: Towards Intelligible and Conversational Speech Synthesis Engines, The topic includes:
- Modern Acoustic Modelling Approaches (DNN/LSTM, WaveNet)
- Text Normalization and Linguistic Analysis
- Prosody
- Advanced Vocoders and Modifications (Voice Conversion)
- Intelligibility and Cognitive Effort in Speech Synthesis
2016
- webpage: http://spcc.csd.uoc.gr/SPCC2016/
- the school topic is: Advancements in Modern Speech Synthesis Engines, The topic includes:
- Advanced Speech Signal Modelling and Modifications
- Current Acoustic Modelling Approaches
- Challenges in Fornt-End Processing
- Listening Context Aware Speech Synthesis Systems
- Text Normalization and Linguistic Analysis
2015
- webpage: http://spcc.csd.uoc.gr/SPCC2015/
- the school topic is: From Diphones to Modern Speech Synthesis Engines, The topic includes:
- Speech Signal Modelling and Modifications
- Acoustic Modelling: HMM, LDM, DNN
- Approaches: Diphones, Unit Selection, Statistical, Hybrid
- Listening Context Aware speech synthesis systems
2014
- webpage: http://spcc.csd.uoc.gr/SPCC2014/
Keynotes & tutorials
Other kind of teaching materials
- 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.