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Interspeech is a technical conference focused on speech processing and application, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches addressing all aspects of speech science and technology, ranging from basic theories to advanced applications.

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  • Julia Hirschberg
    Julia Hirschberg (Amazon Scholar)
    Organizing committee member, diversity and inclusion
  • Penny Karanasou
    Penny Karanasou
    Area chair, speech recognition — signal processing, acoustic modeling robustness, and adaptation
  • Dilek Hakkani-Tur.jpg
    Dilek Hakkani-Tür
    Area chair, spoken dialog systems and conversational analysis
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    Thomas Drugman
    SSW 11 Session chair, synthesis and context

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Interspeech 2021 Workshop: Speech Synthesis (SSW11)
August 26 - August 28
Amazon presenters: Thomas Drugman, Pilar Oplustil-Gallegos, Goeric Huybrechts, Bartek Perz, Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Abdelhamid Ezzerg, Adam Gabrys, Bartosz Putrycz, Daniel Korzekwa, Daniel Saez-Trigueros, David McHardy, Kamil Pokora, Viacheslav Klimkov, Raahil Shah, Kamil Pokora, Viacheslav Klimkov, Thomas Merritt, Alejandro Mottini, Sri Karlapati, Ammar Abbas, Bajibabu Bollepalli, Alexis Moinet, Arnaud Joly, Penny Karanasou, Peter Makarov, Simon Slangens

Website:https://ssw11.hte.hu/en/
Non-autoregressive TTS with explicit duration modelling for low-resource highly expressive speech
Raahil Shah, Kamil Pokora, Abdelhamid Ezzerg, Viacheslav Klimkov, Goeric Huybrechts, Bartosz Putrycz, Daniel Korzekwa, Thomas Merritt
2021
Conversational AI / Natural-language processing
Homograph disambiguation with contextual word embeddings for TTS systems
Marco Nicolis, Viacheslav Klimkov
2021
Conversational AI / Natural-language processing
Multi-scale spectrogram modelling for neural text-to-speech
Ammar Abbas, Bajibabu Bollepalli, Alexis Moinet, Arnaud Joly, Penny Karanasou, Peter Makarov, Simon Slangen, Sri Karlapati, Thomas Drugman
2021
Conversational AI / Natural-language processing
Interspeech 2021 Workshop: Speech, Music and Mind (SMM21)
August 27
Amazon organizer: Ajay Srinivasamurthy

Website: https://speech.fit.vutbr.cz/events/SMM21/index.html
Interspeech 2021 Special Session: Privacy-preserving Machine Learning for Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
August 30
Amazon organizer: Amin Fazel

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/ppmlforaudio
Interspeech 2021 Special Session: Non-Autoregressive Sequential Modeling for Speech Processing
September 2
Amazon organizer: Katrin Kirchhoff

Website: https://sw005320.github.io/INTERSPEECH21_SS_NAR_SP/
Interspeech 2021 Workshop: Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing
September 6
Amazon speaker: Yuzong Liu

Website: https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/htang2/sigml/mlslp2021/index.html
Interspeech 2021 Satellite: Text, Speech, and Dialogue (TSD 2021)
September 6 - September 9
Amazon organizer: Anna Rumshisky (Amazon Scholar)

Website: https://www.kiv.zcu.cz/tsd2021/index.php
Interspeech 2021 Clarity Workshop: Machine Learning Challenges for Hearing Aids
September 16 - September 17
Amazon Organizer: Daniel Korzekwa

Website: https://claritychallenge.github.io/clarity2021-workshop/

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