IS2011 Student Event Report : TTS - articulatory synthesis

On this day, a small group of students met at the lunch room of the Interspeech
Conference to an event which had not existed before in this form: We had the
opportunity
to have lunch together with several experienced researchers from different
fields.

On our table, Peter Birkholz was the main host, and I believe him to have been
an inspiration
to all of us, showing what you can achieve. Our group consisted of students from
many different
fields, which yielded a very broad discussion on all kinds of topic related
to speech and signal processing.

My impression is that we all learnt something - not only from Peter, but also
from each other.
It's so important to have different backgrounds, joined in the common goal to
bring forward
science! My personal opinion, at the very end, is that this goal was achieved -
it certainly was
for me, since my own work in Silent Speech Interfaces and speech-related
Biosignal Processing
covers a wide range of topics all by itself.

Report written by Michael Wand