Interspeech 2007

Interspeech 2007 Conference Schedule at a Glance

The program is now final!
Detailed session information can be found by clicking on the session name.

Note: All plenary sessions will take place in the Elisabeth Hall. All tutorials take place in Antwerp University, Rodestraat 14 (rooms R008, R012, R013, R124), see the Map.

Floor plans are available for the conference areas.

Session Code (Key)

First 2 Characters	Third Character	Last 2 Characters
Day	Time Slot	Session Type and Room
Tu - Tuesday We - Wednesday Th - Thursday Fr - Friday	B - 10:00 – 12:00 C - 13:30 – 15:30 D - 16:00 – 18:00	O1 - Oral Session in the Elisabeth Hall O2 - Oral Session in the Darwin Hall O3 - Oral Session in the Marble Hall P1x - Poster Session in the Foyer P2x - Poster Session in the Alpaerts Room P3x - Poster Session in the Keurvels Room SS - Special Session in the Astrid Scala 1

Day 1: Tutorial Day, Monday, August 27

	R008	R012	R013	R124
08:00	Registration for Morning Tutorials
09:00	Spoken Language Processing by Mind and Machine, Roger K. Moore and Anne Cutler	The Modulation Spectrum and Its Application to Speech Science and Technology, Les Atlas, Steven Greenberg and Hynek Hermansky	Voice Quality in Vocal Communication, Christophe d’Alessandro	Processing Morphologically-Rich Languages, Katrin Kirchhoff and Ruhi Sarikaya
12:30	Lunch / Registration for Afternoon Tutorials (from 13:00 on)
14:00	A Mathematical Theory of Speech Signals – Beyond the Linear Model, Gernot Kubin and Erhard Rank	Voice Transformation, Yannis Stylianou	Talking to Computers: from Speech Sounds to Human Computer Interaction, Giuseppe Riccardi and Sebastian Varges	Machine Learning for Text and Speech Processing, Antal van den Bosch and Walter Daelemans
17:30
	Note: 30 min. coffee breaks at 10:30 and 15:30 Registration for the Main Conference is open in the Conference Center from 17:00 until 20:00 Special Session on "Presentation Skills" organized by the ISCA student council in Astrid Scala 1 from 18:00 until 20:00, see the ISCA students' website.

Day 2: Tuesday, August 28

	Elisabeth	Darwin	Marble	Foyer	Alpaerts	Keurvels	Astrid Scala 1
08:00	Conference Registration
10:00	Opening Ceremony
11:00	Plenary Session (Elisabeth Hall) ISCA Medalist - Victor Zue: "On Organic Interfaces"
12:00	Lunch
13:30	TuC.O1 Discriminative and large margin techniques in acoustic modeling	TuC.O2 Speech production I	TuC.O3 Phonetic segmentation and classification I	TuC.P1a Discourse, dialogue and conversation TuC.P1b Spoken dialogue systems I	TuC.P2a Accent and language identification I TuC.P2b Education and training	TuC.P3a Robust ASR I TuC.P3b Adaptation in ASR I	TuC.SS Synthesis of singing challenge
15:30	Coffee Break
16:00	TuD.O1 Speaker verification & identification I	TuD.O2 Spoken data retrieval I	TuD.O3 Accent and language identification II	TuD.P1 Speech perception I	TuD.P2a Prosody: prosodic structure TuD.P2b Prosodic modeling I	TuD.P3a Speech analysis TuD.P3b Spectral analysis, formants and vocal tract models	TuD.SS Speech and audio processing for intelligent environments
18:00
18:15	Welcome Reception in the Conference Center

Day 3: Wednesday, August 29

	Elisabeth	Darwin	Marble	Foyer	Alpaerts	Keurvels	Astrid Scala 1
08:00	Conference Registration
08:30	Plenary Session (Elisabeth Hall) Sophie Scott: "The Neural Basis of Speech Perception – a view from functional imaging"
09:30	Coffee Break
10:00	WeB.O1 Language modelling I	WeB.O2 Prosody production and perception	WeB.O3 Multimodal speech recognition	WeB.P1a Speech and other modalities WeB.P1b Multimodal / multimedia signal processing	WeB.P2 Speaker verification & identification II	WeB.P3 Speech enhancement	WeB.SS Structure-based and template-based automatic speech recognition
12:00	Lunch
13:30	WeC.O1 Robust ASR against noise and reverberation	WeC.O2 Language resources and tools	WeC.O3 Single-channel speech enhancement	WeC.P1 Phonetics and phonology	WeC.P2 Robust ASR II	WeC.P3 Features for ASR	WeC.SS Objective assessment of voice and speech quality
15:30	Coffee Break
16:00	WeD.O1 Speaker verification & identification III	WeD.O2 Discourse, dialogue and emotion expression	WeD.O3 Prosodic modeling II	WeD.P1 Resource acquisition and preparation; resource and system evaluation	WeD.P2 Speech production II	WeD.P3 ASR: new paradigms	WeD.SS Speech and language technology for less-resourced languages
18:00
18:15	ISCA General Assembly (Elisabeth Hall)
19:30	Student Reception Brasserie Horta Reviewers Reception City Hall

Day 4: Thursday, August 30

	Elisabeth	Darwin	Marble	Foyer	Alpaerts	Keurvels	Astrid Scala 1
08:00	Conference Registration
08:30	Plenary Session (Elisabeth Hall) Alex Waibel: "Computer Supported Human-Human Multilingual Communication"
09:30	Coffee Break
10:00	ThB.O1 Adaptation in ASR II	ThB.O2 Speech perception II	ThB.O3 Spoken language understanding	ThB.P1a Pitch extraction I ThB.P1b Speech coding and transmission	ThB.P2a Topics in acoustic modeling ThB.P2b Confidence measures (and related topics)	ThB.P3a Grapheme-to- phoneme conversion ThB.P3b Lexical and prosodic modelling	ThB.SS Speech recognition by automatic attribute transcription
12:00	Lunch
13:30	ThC.O1 Speaker diarization	ThC.O2 First and second language learning	ThC.O3 Speech synthesis I	ThC.P1a Phonetic segmentation and classification II ThC.P1b Voice conversion and modification	ThC.P2 Speaker verification & identification IV	ThC.P3 Improved acoustic modeling for ASR	ThC.SS Multilingualism in speech and language processing
15:30	Coffee Break
16:00	ThD.O1 Systems for LVCSR and rich transcription I	ThD.O2 Language learning and assessment	ThD.O3 Multimodal interaction: analysis and technology	ThD.P1a Emotion ThD.P1b Speakers: expression, emotion and personality recognition	ThD.P2 First language, second language, cross-language	ThD.P3a Language modelling II ThD.P3b Spoken data retrieval II	ThD.SS Novel techniques for the NATO non-native air-traffic control and HIWIRE cockpit databases
18:00
19:00	Conference Banquet Zuiderkroon

Day 5: Friday, August 31

	Elisabeth	Darwin	Marble	Foyer	Alpaerts	Keurvels	Astrid Scala 1
08:00	Conference Registration
08:30	Plenary Session (Elisabeth Hall) Pierre-Yves Oudeyer: "Self-Organization in the Evolution of Shared Systems of Speech Sounds: a Computational Study"
09:30	Coffee Break
10:00	FrB.O1 Systems for spoken language translation I	FrB.O2 Articulatory features	FrB.O3 Wideband speech processing	FrB.P1a Accessibility issues FrB.P1b New application areas	FrB.P2a Story segmentation FrB.P2b Systems for LVCSR and rich transcription II	FrB.P3a Prosody: production FrB.P3b Prosody: perception	FrB.SS Machine learning for spoken dialogue systems
12:00	Lunch
13:30	FrC.O1 Spoken dialogue systems II	FrC.O2 Phonetics	FrC.O3 Pitch extraction II	FrC.P1a Spoken language understanding and summarization FrC.P1b Systems for spoken language translation II	FrC.P2 Speech synthesis II	FrC.P3 Voice activity detection and sound classification
15:30	Closing Ceremony
16:30 17:30	Closing Drink - Belgian Beer Tasting