Detailed Programme

Sunday, August 10, 2008

15.00 Special bus for VISPP'2008 participants: departure at National Opera (city centre)
15.30 Special bus for VISPP'2008 participants: departure at Tallinn Airport
~19.30 Arrival Kuressaare, Hotel Arensburg
20.00 Opening
21.00 Welcome dinner

Monday, August 11, 2008

09.00 Nick Campbell L1: Features of spoken interaction
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Nick Campbell L2: Methods of speech synthesis
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Student presentations
15.30 Coffee break
16.00 Student presentations
18.00 Dinner
19.00 Social activity

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

09.00 Nick Campbell L3: Corpus-based speech processing
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 KTH L1: General issues of multi-modal interaction
12.30 Lunch
14.00 KTH P1: Multi-modal interaction: recording
15.30 Coffee break
16.00 Student presentations
18.00 Dinner
19.00 Social activity

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

09.00 Nick Campbell L4: Conversational speech synthesis
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 KTH L2: Multi-modal interaction: analysis
12.30 Lunch
14.00 - 21.00 Excursion (incl dinner)

Thursday, August 14, 2008

09.00 John Local L1: Theoretical perspectives 1. Structures and evidence in naturally occurring talk: introduction to the methodology of Conversation Analysis
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 KTH L3: Multi-modal interaction: synthesis
12.30 Lunch
14.00 KTH P2: Multi-modal interaction: analysis
15.30 Coffee break
16.00 KTH P3: Multi-modal interaction: synthesis
18.00 Dinner
19.00 Social activity

Friday, August 15, 2008

09.00 John Local L2: Theoretical perspectives 2. Rethinking phonetics in the context of talk-in-interaction
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 John Local P1
12.30 Lunch
14.00 John Local L3: Putting it all together: parametric phonetics and the organisation of talk-in-interaction
15.30 Coffee break
16.00 Final discussion/summing up
18.00- 21.00 Excursion and dinner in Kuressaare episcopal castle

Saturday, August 16, 2008

09.00 Special bus to Tallinn, departure at Arensburg
~13.00 Arrival to Tallinn

L - Lecture, P -Practicals

Last changed April 30, 2008 18:29 EET by local organizers, vispp2008(at)phon.ioc.ee