Tutorials Day - Sunday 6 September 2009

Errors on Tutorial Proceedings CD: see Errata page

Morning

T-1	Analysis by synthesis of speech prosody, from data to models Daniel Hirst, Directeur de Recherches at the CNRS laboratory Parole et Langage in the University of Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France.
T-2	Dealing with High Dimensional Data with Dimensionality Reduction Neil Lawrence, Senior Research Fellow in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, U.K. Jon Barker, Senior Lecturer in the Speech and Hearing Group at the University of Sheffield, U.K.
T-3	Language and Dialect Recognition Jiri Navratil, Research Staff Member in the Multilingual Analytics and User Technologies department at IBM Research, USA.
T-4	Emerging Technologies for Silent Speech Interfaces Tanja Schultz, Full Professor at the Computer Science Department of Karlsruhe University in Germany and an Assistant Research Professor at the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. Bruce Denby, Full Professor of Electronics and Signal Processing at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris-VI), and Research Scientist at the Laboratoire d’Electronique ESPCI- ParisTech (CNRS) in Paris, France.

Afternoon

T-5	In-Vehicle Speech Processing & Analysis John H.L. Hansen, Professor and Department Chairman of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), USA. Pinar Boyraz, Research Associate in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), Richardson, U.S.A.
T-6	Emotion Recognition in the Next Generation: an Overview and Recent Development Björn Schuller, Senior Researcher on Intelligent Speech and Music Processing and Lecturer in Pattern Recognition and Speech Processing at TUM (Munich University of Technology), Germany.
T-7	Fundamentals and recent advances in HMM-based speech synthesis Keiichi Tokuda, Director of the Speech Processing Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan. Heiga Zen, Research Engineer in the Speech Technology Group of Toshiba Research Europe Ltd., Cambridge Research Laboratory, Cambidge, U.K.
T-8	Statistical approaches to dialogue systems Jason Williams, Principal Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Labs – Research, USA. Steve Young, Professor of Information Engineering and Head of the Information Engineering Division at Cambridge University, UK. Blaise Thomson, completing a Ph. D. in Statistical Dialogue Systems at the University of Cambridge, U.K.