Latest AnnoucementsDay 5 - September 8th.

Closing Cerimony

The closing cerimony will be held, today at 4:00 PM, in GA.

Includes the "Fado Explained and Performed" session.

The next Blizzard speech synthesis challenge meeting

If you are interested in designing or running the next chalenge, please attend the open meeting to be held at lunch time (12:00-13:00) in Room O2 (Siaca).

Day 4 - September 7th.

Panel: Toward a Special Interest Group (SIG) on Iberian Languages

• This panel will be held today, 7 Sep., Wednesday, during the lunch break (12:00-13:30), in room S1 (Calempluy).

• Today, 7. Sep, in room O1 (Grande Auditorio/Large Auditorium)

If you have a banquet ticket and do not plan to attend, please leave it at the reception desk so that it can be offered to a participant with no invitation.

If you need a banquet invitation please contact the reception.

Banquet location

• Time: 19:30 to ?
• People attending the ISCA general assembly will leave CCB just after the meeting
• Place: Restaurante Kais
• Take the train to Santos station (train ticket supplied)
• Do not forget your banquet ticket!
  • Check that you have the train ticket with you.
  • Follow the orange team guys from here to Belem train station;
  • Take a train going to Cais do Sodr� (city center)
  • Leave the train at Santos station
  • Follow the orange team to the riverside
  • Restaurante Kais: a big old warehouse with a huge letter ?K? outside

• Yes, we do change t-shirts every day (each one of us have 5 t-shirts)

Day 3 - September 6th.

Poster room P3 has moved

Due to noise problem in room S1 (Calempluy) the poster room P3 (originally located in foyer Calempluy) was moved to the second floor, above the reception.

Panels (Room S1, Calempluy)

• 6 Sep., 16:00-17:00 Bridging the Gap ASR-HSR (following the poster session on room P3)
  Co-chairs: Louis ten Bosch, Katrin Kirchhoff
• 6 Sep., 17:00-18:00 History of Speech Technology
  Co-Chairs: Janet M. Baker and Patri J. Pugliese
  Printed abstracts available in room S1

• This panel will be held in Day 4, 7 Sep., Wednesday, during the lunch break (12:00-13:30), in room S1 (Calempluy).

• Lunch will be held in Camoy room

Given the extraordinary number of participants,we stopped offering banquet tickets for late registrations.

If you have a banquet ticket and do not plan to attend, please leave it at the reception desk so that it can be offered to a participant with no invitation.

If you need a banquet invitation please contact the reception.

Oral presentations

Please test you presentations in advance: Rooms open at 7:30; There is always an orange team member there (including lunch hours).

Students Reception (sponsored by IBM research)

• Time: 19:00 to 20:00
• Place: Hawaii Bar at Doca de Santo Amaro (Docas)
• 3 Km walk by the river side
• Do not forget your ticket!

• Time: 19:00 to 20:00
• Place: Castelo de S. Jorge
• Be at the CCB lobby at 18:15
• Do not forget your ticket!