Opening Remarks

8:30 AM – Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM – Welcome, Frederick Jelinek, CLSP/JHU, Chair WS’08
9:10 AM – Welcome by Andrew Douglas, Vice Dean of Faculty, Whiting School of Engineering
9:15 AM – Remarks from Workshop Sponsors
9:25 AM – Preworkshop Activities, Sanjeev Khudanpur (JHU)

Summary of Goals and Objectives for Teams

9:40 AM – Vocal Aging Explained by Vocal Tract Modeling
10:10 AM – Discussion and Questions
10:20 AM – Robust Speaker Recognition Over Varying Channels
10:50 AM – Discussion and Questions
11:00 AM – Break
11:10 AM – Multilingual Spoken Term Detection: Finding and Testing New Pronunciations
11:40 AM – Discussion and Questions
11:50 AM – Adjourn and proceed to Shaffer 100 for an Introduction to the WS08 Laboratory

Administrative and Technical Workshop Information

12:00 AM – Administrative Information and WS05 Staff Introductions, Monique Folk (CLSP/JHU)
12:15 AM – Computing Infrastructure and System Staff Introduction, Justin Martin (CLSP/JHU)
12:45 PM – Lunch (on your own)
01:30 PM – Team Meetings