Winter School on Speech and Audio Processing (WiSSAP) 2015

Production-Perception Based New Models of Speech Analysis

4-7 January 2015
Organized by

Dhirubhai Ambani
Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar, India
About WiSSAP
Background
WiSSAP - Winter School on Speech and Audio Processing is being organized as a
part of ISCA SIG-ILSP (SIG on Indian Language Speech Processing) activities. It
provides a forum for students, researchers and professionals to enhance their
background and get exposed to evolving research areas in the field of speech and
audio signal processing. WiSSAP 2015 is the tenth one in the series, following the
very successful earlier winter schools: WiSSAP 2006 to WiSSAP 2014 (organized
by IISc/IITs/IIIT Hyderabad) focusing on different topics in speech and audio
processing.

Invited Speakers
Shrikanth (Shri) S. Narayanan is Andrew J. Viterbi
Professor of Engineering at the University of Southern
California (Los Angeles, CA, USA). His research interests
include speech and language processing, automatic
speech/speaker recognition, speech translation, human
behavioral signal processing, behavioral informatics,
human-machine and mediated interactions, spoken dialog
and multimodal systems, virtual humans, speech
production modeling, articulatory-acoustics, speech and
audio synthesis, audio and music, biomedical signal
processing and modeling: Imaging and instrumentation.

Focus
Human speech production and perception systems are two key components of
speech communication chain. The production based speech models aim at
describing the encoding of different linguistic and paralinguistic
information in speech signal. On the other hand, the perception-based
speech models target decoding different streams of information from the
speech signal. Several evidences claim that the speech perception is
closely linked with the speech production both being part of an integrated
communication system. With the advent of new modalities of acquiring speech
production/perception data, it is now possible to answer, in a principled way, the
insights about these links and develop new engineering models for speech analysis
and processing. WiSSAP 2015 would highlight latest data acquisition, multi-modal
analysis, representation and potential of these new approaches to speech modeling.

Committees

Shihab Shamma is a Professor at University of Maryland

(College Park, Maryland, USA). His research interests
include representation of the acoustic signal at various
levels in mammalian auditory systems. Theoretical
models of auditory processing in early and central
auditory stages, neurophysiological investigations of
auditory cortex, psychoacoustical experiments of human
perception of acoustic spectral profiles.

Program Schedule
08:00-08:30
08:30 10:00

Prof. V.
10:30 12:00 Ramasubramanian
(VR1)
12:00 13:30
13:30 15:00

T. V. Sreenivas, IISc Bangalore

C. Chandra Sekhar, IIT Madras
Hema A. Murthy, IIT Madras
K. Sreenivasa Rao, IIT Kharagpur

V. Ramasubramanian is a Professor at the PESIT (People's

Education Society Institute of Technology), Bangalore South
Campus (PESIT-BSC). His research interests include
speech-recognition, speaker-recognition, ultra low bit-rate
speech-coding, speech synthesis, speech enhancement and
language identification.

K. Samudravijaya, TIFR Mumbai

Kishore S. Prahallad, IIIT Hyderabad
Preeti Rao, IIT Bombay
Rohit Sinha, IIT Guwahati
Rajesh M. Hedge, IIT Kanpur
S. R. M. Prasanna, IIT Guwahati
S. Umesh, IIT Madras
V. Ramasubramanian, PESIT Bangalore
Organizing Committee at DA-IICT Gandhinagar
Hemant A. Patil
Suman K. Mitra
Manjunath V. Joshi
Asim Banerjee

Confirmed Sponsors:

Prasanta Kumar Ghosh is an Assistant Professor in

Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc),
Bangalore. His research interests include non-linear signal
processing methods for speech and audio, speech
production and its relation to speech perception, and
automatic speech recognition inspired by the speech
production and perception link.
Neeraj Sharma is a doctoral student in Speech and Audio
Group (SAG), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. His
research encapsulates employing understandings of the
mammalian auditory system in proposing robust schemes
for information extraction from sound signals. His
interests include signal sampling and reconstruction, timevarying signal analysis, and auditory signal processing.

N. Sharma
(NS1)

15:00-15:30
15:30 17:00

Prof. P.
Ghosh
(PG2)

17:00 17:30
17:30 18:30

5th Jan.
6th Jan.
Prof. S.
Prof. S.
Narayanan
Shamma
(SN1)
( SS2)
Tea Break
Prof. S.
Prof. H.
Shamma
Hermansky
(SS1)
(HH2)
Lunch Break
Prof. H.
Prof. S.
Hermansky
Narayanan
(HH1)
(SN3)
Tea Break
Prof. S.
Prof. S.
Narayanan
Shamma
(SN2)
(SS3)
Tea Break

Me and My Research*
DeitY ASR
Meeting

DeitY TTS
Meeting
Banquet
Dinner

7th Jan.
Prof. H.
Hermansky
(HH3)
Prof. S.
Narayanan
(SN4)
Prof. S.
Shamma
(SS4)

Please fill in the registration form and send it along with a Demand
Draft (DD) drawn in favor of DAIICT WISSAP 2015 payable at
Gandhinagar,

Research work
Posters/Demo

NS1

Auditory models and audio perception

PG2
SN1

A communication perspective to speech processing - Part II

Multi-modal data acquisition/analysis: rfMRI, EMA, ultrasound

SS1

Auditory representation of speech

HH1

SS2

Speech communication (humans & machines)

Production inspired models: Task dynamics, Directions Into
Velocities of Articulators (DIVA)
Neural encoding of auditory objects (speech, music)

HH2

Getting information from speech signal (belief-guided techniques)

SN3

Applications: Speech science (analysis and modeling); productionperception link

SS3

Perceptual models vs. cognitive models (speech vs. language)

HH3

Getting information from speech signal (data-guided techniques)

SN4

Applications: Recognition (production-oriented: speech recognition,

speaker modeling, affect), synthesis (articulatory synthesis)

HH4

Applications to enhancement, source segregation, reconstruction

Robustness of speech processing

Technical
Co-sponsors

URL: http://www.daiict.ac.in/

to
WiSSAP 2015 Secretariat,
Dhirubhai Ambani
Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Near Indroda
Circle, Gandhinagar -382007, Gujarat, India
For online payment details please visit:

Topics

VR1

SS4

Registration

Sponsors
Presentation

A communication perspective to speech processing - Part I

Production-perception based speech analysis

SN2

ISCA/IEEE
Outside
Category
Others
Members*
India
Details ofRegistration
Academia (Students)
$ 200
2700
Fee
3000
Academic Faculty
$ 400
5500
6000
Industry Personnel
$ 600
9500
10000
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The registration form can be downloaded from,

Technical Content (Tentative)

PG1

Venue of the Workshop

DA-IICT Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
Details of Registration Fees

Prof. H.
Hermansky
(HH4)

20:00
Dinner
Dinner
Onwards
* Selected PhD Scholars from IISc/IITs/IIIT/DA-IICT will present their research work

Speakers
Program Committee

4th Jan.
Registration
Prof. P.
Ghosh
(PG1)

10:00 10:30

18:30-19:30

Hynek Hermansky is Julian S. Smith Professor of the

Electrical Engineering and the Director of Centre for
Language and Speech Processing at the Johns Hopkins
University (Baltimore, Maryland, USA). His main
research interests are bio-inspired speech processing,
design and development of systems that reliably detect,
identify, classify and transmit information in speech.

Details of Registration

Bangalore Chapter

URL: http://www.daiict.ac.in/
Last date of receiving the registration form and fee is 5th Dec. 2014.

Contact Person
Ms. Vibha Prajapati,
Email: wissap2015@daiict.ac.in, Tel: 079-30510587

Refund Policy
Request for refund of registration fee must be made on or before 10th Dec.
2014 by writing an e-mail to wissap2015@daiict.ac.in
A 10 % admin processing fee will be charged for any refund request.
Requests made after above mentioned date will NOT be entertained.
Accommodation : DA-IICT may provide hostel accommodation (seats
limited) to student participants on request on payment basis. A list of hotels
in Gandhinagar will be made available for participants to directly reserve
their accommodation.
Registration fee does not include accommodation charges.