Work in progress

Every year, upon request of a proposing group, AISV organizes a summer school or a training school/course addressing several aspects dealing with the voice.

AISV summer school and training coordinators are prof. Claudia CROCCO and prof. Giovanni ABETE.

For further details on the schools organized so far by AISV, please visit the sections under this menu.

I docenti di questa edizione della scuola estiva sono (in ordine alfabetico):

	Paul Boersma Phonetic Sciences, University of Amsterdam Spuistraat 210, room 303 - 1012VT Amsterdam, The Netherlands http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/paul/
Paul Boersma is Professor of Phonetic Sciences at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on the development of a computational multi-level model of phonological and phonetic production and comprehension, including their acquisition and evolution across the generations.
	Francesco Cutugno LUSI-Lab at Department of Physics - Language Understanding and Speech Inter/Action/Faces University "Federico II", Naples, Italy http://people.na.infn.it/~cutugno
Francesco Cutugno is assistant professor  at the University 'Federico  II' of Naples. He gives classes in Natural Language Processing and in XML native databases theory. His main research interests concern with Speech technologies and Information Retrieval in Spoken Language Corpora. In the last decade he directed (in cooperation with other researchers) the operations of collection and management of two among the largest speech corpora ever collected for Italian, CLIPS (1) and Speecon (2). He published several papers on Speech Corpora data modelling and querying. Recently, in collaboration with other authors, he developed SpLaSH (3) a software for searching and querying in speech databases containing both time aligned and text aligned linguistic annotations. (1) http://www.clips.unina.it (2) http://www.speechdat.org/speecon/index.html (3) http://s2snaples.fisica.unina.it/splash
	Sarah Hawkins Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge 11 West Road - Cambridge CB3 9DP http://www.mus.cam.ac.uk/~sh110/
Sarah Hawkins is Director of Research in Speech and Music Science in the Centre for Music and Science, University of Cambridge. She has broad interests in how humans communicate using sound-based systems. Her particular specialism is in the acoustics and perception of speech. Her early research was on timing and rhythm in children's speech, at the Universities of Cambridge (UK) and North Carolina (USA). Subsequently, at MIT, Haskins Labs, and then Cambridge again, she explored subtle differences in acoustic-phonetic patterns that systematically reflect distinctions in linguistic structure, and of how listeners use these subtle cues to understand natural and synthetic speech (Roles and representations of systematic fine phonetic detail in speech understanding, *Journal of Phonetics*, 31, (2003) 373-405, and 32 (2004) 141). She held a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship http://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/ (2003-2006), *The development of a phonetically-rich model of speech understanding*, which extended the neuropsychological and computational directions of her work on multi-modal representation of speech and meaning in memory (Phonological features, auditory objects, and illusions, *Journal of Phonetics*, 38, (2010), 60-89). She coordinated Sound to Sense (S2S) http://www.sound2sense.eu/, an EC Marie Curie Research Training Network 2007-11. She is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America http://asa.aip.org/ and has a number of national and international collaborations and service positions.
	Mietta Lennes Department of Modern Languages, University of Helsinki, Finland http://www.helsinki.fi/~lennes
Mietta Lennes has more than ten years of experience in phonetic research, and phonetic methodology is one of her specialties. She has worked in several research projects where she has been responsible for the collection, annotation and analysis of large speech corpora. She has also taught in a number of Finnish and international courses in phonetic methods. Mietta is known for her collection of Praat scripts that are freely available on the web.
	Sven Mattys School of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol 12A Priory Road - Bristol BS8 1TU, UK http://psychology.psy.bris.ac.uk/people/svenmattys.htm
Sven Mattys is a Professor of Psychology of Language in the School of Experimental Psychology at the University of Bristol, UK. He obtained his PhD in Psychology from the State University of New York, Stony Brook, in 1997, and did post-doctoral research at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, at and the House Ear Institute, Los Angeles. His research focuses on the perceptual and cognitive mechanisms underlying speech recognition by humans.
	Vincenzo Galatà IRAT & ISTC --- CNR - National Research Council Via Martiri della Libertà, 2 - 35137 Padova, IT
Vincenzo Galatà is currently Research Associate at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC), National Research Council (CNR). His present research interests are focused on the collection and acoustic analysis of non-words speech samples of Italian infants and foreign preschool learners of Italian as L2, in order to assess their ability to produce and decode the L2 phonetic/phonological consonantal system. In 2010 he received his PhD in “Psychology of Programming and Artificial Intelligence” with a dissertation concerning the production and perception of vocal emotions in a European cross-linguistic study.
	Michele Gubian Centre for Language and Speech Technology Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands http://lands.let.ru.nl/FDA
Michele Gubian (Master's in Telecommunication Engineering in 2004, PhD in machine learning in 2008) has join the Marie Curie Research Training Network Sound2Sense as a post-doctoral fellow since 2008. His main task is to develop tools for data-driven phonetic research. He proposed the use of Functional Data Analysis (FDA) to tackle problems in prosody and phonetics where F0 or intensity contours have to be analysed. His contribution consists in adapting FDA to the specific needs of speech analysis as well as to make FDA accessible for scientists with limited mathematical skills and expertise.
	Antonio Origlia LUISI-Lab Dept. of Physics, University of Naples "Federico II", Italy
Antonio Origlia obtained his master degree in Computer Science in 2009 and he currently is a PhD student at the Dept. of Physics in the University of Naples "Federico II". His main interest is prosodic analysis aimed at the recognition of emotional traits in the human voice. Applications of this kind of information in a developmental robotics framework are also part of his interest area. He will provide support to the teachers during PRAAT and Matlab practice sessions.

SGPW = small group practice work

event = visit to Paestum and social dinner

Venue

The school will take place at the Hotel L’Approdo, S. Marco di Castellabate in the Campanian area named Cilento, a few km from Paestum.

Students will stay in double or triple rooms, the use of rooms as single will be possible but charged apart (+75€). WiFi Internet will be available in the lounge and in the school areas, but not in the rooms.

Arrival

Students will arrive in Naples on Sunday the 25th. A bus transfer will pick up students at the International Airport (at 17:00) and at the Central Railway Station of Naples (at 17:30) and bring them to the school venue.

Departure

Notice that no bus will be provided for the way back at the end of the school: we will arrange car transfers from S. Marco to Agropoli, the closest train station. The train timetable can be checked here: http://www.fsitaliane.it/homepage_en.html

The trip from Agropoli to Naples Central Railway Station takes from 70 to 90 min according to the class of the chosen train. A bus goes from the Central Railway Station to the Airport, and it takes about 15 min. More detail available here: http://www.anm.it/Upload/RES/PDF/ORARI/corso%20Novara%20piazza%20Garibaldi.pdf

Meals

During the summer school, lunches and dinner will consist mainly of fish. Please inform the organizers if you have alimentary needs we should be aware of. Sunday dinner and Friday luch are included.

Electricity & Plugs

Electricity in Italy is 230 Volts, alternating at 50 cycles per second. If you travel to Italy with a device that does not accept 230 Volts at 50 Hertz, you will need a voltage converter.

Italy uses a type L plug (see following pictures).

Tips

The school takes place in a sea location: do not forget swimsuit and related accessories. Dressing will be informal in any occasion.

Before leaving make sure you have read and done what follows!

1. indicate us a mobilephone number we can use to contact you on the meeting day should the need arise (Sunday the 25th, 17:00 at the Airport, 17:30 at the central railway station).
2. write down and take with you the mobilephone numbers we sent you in one of our last emails: contacts us if you have problems or if you expect you are going to arrive late at the given pick up point;
3. concerning clinics: please do not forget to send your requirements and speech samples (including annotations if available). We could try to use them to prepare exercises;
4. bring your own laptop and your own headphones;
5. check the suggested readings and indicated prerequisites, upload the school materials on your laptop and install the software required for the lessons (see "school materials");
6. do not forget to bring a power adapter if different from Italian standards (see description in "venue and logistics");
7. there will be very limited printing possibilities, so please arrange most of what you need to be printed in advance;
8. we decided to eliminate the usual poster session in which students present their researches, however if you want to introduce yourself to the lecturers and to other colleagues, please prepare an handout and take it printed in about 20 copies with you, there will be many occasions to distribute and discuss it;
9. in order to prepare a proper certificate of attendance, please let us know what information is required from your doctoral school to recognize the didactic activities. Some institutions require the specific list of lessons and number of offered hours of training, other schools convert our activities into credits only if a final exam is held. We can arrange things to fit with your requirements, but we have to organize ourself in time;
10. during the summer school, lunch and dinner will consist mainly of fish: please inform us if you have alimentary needs we should be aware of;
11. do not forget swimsuit and related accessories.