Natural Speech Technology Annual Meeting 2013

09:00 - 09:30 - Startup and coffee

09:30 - 11:00 - Talks:

• Steve Renals "Overview of NST" [slides]
• Pierre Lanchantin "Multiple-average-voice-based speech synthesis"[slides]
• Heidi Christensen "The NST 'homeService' application: recent system and experimental developments" [slides]
• Peter Bell "Combining neural network acoustic and language models for lecture transcription" [slides]

11:00 - 11:30 - Coffee

11:30 - 13:00 - Talks:

• Arnab Ghoshal "Sequence-discriminative training of deep neural networks"[slides]
• Christophe Veaux "An update on voice banking and voice reconstruction"[slides]
• Oscar Saz "Asynchronous factorisation of speaker and background in speech recognition"[slides]
• Heng Lu "Deep neural network for speech synthesis" [slides]
• Liang Lu "Acoustic data driven pronunciation lexicon for speech recognition"[slides]
• Andrew Liu "Cross-domain paraphrasing for improving language modelling using out-of-domain data" [slides]

13:00 - 14:00 - Lunch (Informatics Forum Atrium)

(13:00 - 14:30 - Advisory Board meet with PIs + lunch in Turing Room 5.42)

14:00 - 15:30 - Posters + Demos

15:30 - 16:00 - Coffee

16:00 - 17:30 - Future Plans and Discussion

19:00 Dinner at Blonde