General information:
8:30-8:45 Welcome to the workshop by Dan Burnett
8:45-9:00 Host welcome and logistics by Nixon Patel
9:00-9:15 Introduction to W3C & VBWG by Kazuyuki Ashimura
9:15-9:35 Internationalization and new language tags by Richard Ishida
9:35-10:00 SSML 1.1 Activities by Dan Burnett
10:00-10:15 Pronunciation Lexicon Background by Paolo Baggia
10:15-10:30 Question & Answer
10:30-11:00 BREAK
11:00-11:20 Overview of Indian languages by Richard Ishida [ Handout / Slides (TBD)]
11:20-11:35 CHARACTERISTICS OF INDIAN LANGUAGES, Madhavi Varalwar [ Paper / Slides ]
11:35-11:50 A Note on Interpreting Text for Indian Language TTS, Kalika Bali [ Paper / Slides (TBD) ]
11:50-12:35 Focused discussion: Echo expressions, word compounding
12:35-14:00 LUNCH
14:00-14:15 SSML for Urdu Speech Synthesis, Sarmad Hussain [ Paper / Slides ]
14:15-14:30 Characteristics of Sinhala Pronunciation, Ruvini Ramanayake [ Slides ]
14:30-14:45 TEXT TO SPEECH SYSTEM FOR KONKANI (GOAN) LANGUAGE, Sangam P. Borkar [ Paper / Slides (TBD) ]
14:45-15:45 Focused discussion: optional/missing diacritics, space is a bad word delimiter, lack of vowel modifier in traditional orthography
15:45-16:00 Using SSML for Indian Languages Text to Speech Synthesis, Vibhu Agarwal [ Paper / Slides ]
16:00-16:30 BREAK
16:30-16:45 SSML Extensions for Indian Languages, Samuel Thomas [ Paper / Slides ]
16:45-18:00 Focused discussion: broader language/dialect/script support, loan words
19:00 DINNER
8:30-8:45 Indic extensions Accent marks and Concrete text, R. K. Joshi [ Paper / Slides ]
8:45-9:00 Internationalizing W3C's Speech Synthesis Markuup Language Workshop III, Raxit Sheth [ Slides ]
9:00-10:00 Focused discussion: support for mixed-language text
10:00-10:30 BREAK
10:30-10:45 IT-3 Transliteration, M Nageshwara Rao [ Slides ]
10:45-11:30 Focused discussion: Transliteration
11:30-12:30 Focused discussion: non-IPA and syllable-based pronunciation alphabets
12:30-14:00 LUNCH
14:00-14:15 Pronunciation of Nouns in Text to Speech systems, Lavanya Prahallad [ Paper / Slides ]
14:15-15:00 Discussion: Pronunciation of proper names, alternate say-as types
15:00-16:00 Discussion: Review discussion list (other issues raised during the workshop)
16:00-16:30 BREAK
16:30-17:30 Finish writing problem statements
17:30-18:00 W3C participation recap by Kazuyuki Ashimura
The Logistics, the Presentation guideline and the Call for Participation are available.
Dan Burnett and
Kazuyuki Ashimura, Workshop
Co-chairs
Max Froumentin, Voice Activity
Lead
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