WISSAP -2016 Winter school on Speech and Audio Processing

[Suresh GR]

WiSSAP-2016 Winter school on Speech and Audio Processing
Background of the Winter School:

WISSAP is organized by the Consortium to carry out a project on developing text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis systems for Indian languages. The project is funded by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT), Government of India for Rs.12.66Cr.

Phase I of the project consisted of six institutions and Festival-based TTS systems were developed for Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi and Bengali.

Phase II of the project commenced in 2012 and will progress till 2015 with six more institutions The institutions/organisations involved in the project are listed below.

• IIT-Madras (Hindi and Bodo)
• IIT-Guwahati (Assamese and Manipuri)
• IIT-Kharagpur (Story telling all languages)
• IIIT-Hyderabad (Telugu)
• IIT-Mandi (Rajasthani)
• IISc-Bangalore (Signal Processing)
• DAIICT, Gandhinagar (Gujarati)
• PESIT, Bangalore (Kannada)
• CDAC-Mumbai (Marathi, Odia)
• CDAC-Trivandrum (Malayalam)
• CDAC-Kolkata (Bengali)
• SSNCE (Tamil)

WISSAP- 2016 is the eleventh in the series following the very successful earlier ten winter schools: WiSSAP 2006 to WiSSAP 2015 focusing on different topics in speech and audio processing which provides a forum for students, researchers and professionals to enhance their background and get exposed to intricate research areas in the field of speech and audio signal processing. The schools constitute of a theme topic and tutorials surrounding it. WiSSAP 2016, scheduled between 8^th and 11^th January, 2016, and organized by the Department of Information Technology, SSNCE.

For more details refer the link below:
http://www.ssn.edu.in/wissap2016/wissap2016/index.html

Share the information with all UG and PG students and those who are interested may feel free to contact me for information about the importance of the event.

Regards
Dr.Suresh

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