12/11/2008 09:00 - 10:40 Oral Session 1: Acoustic Modelling Chairman: Daniel Erro Aula Magna  10:40 - 11:00 Coffee break Hall del Aula Magna  11:00 - 12:00 Invited Conference 1 Chairman: Juan María Garrido Almiñana Voice Conversion: State of the art and Perspectives by Yannis Stylianou (University of Crete, Grece) Aula Magna  12:00 - 13:30 Poster Session 1 Chairman: Iñaki Alegria Hall del edificio A  13:30 - 15:00 Lunch   15:00 - 16:10 Albayzin 08 Evaluation: Special Session   16:10 - 16:40 Albayzin 08 Evaluation: Results Aula Magna  16:40 - 17:00 Coffee break Hall del Aula Magna  17:00 - 18:15 RTTH Meeting Aula Magna  19:00 - 20:30 VJTH Reception Edificio Banco de España    13/11/2008 09:00 - 10:40 Oral Session 2: Speech Synthesis Chairman: David Escudero Mancebo Aula Magna  10:40 - 11:00 Coffee break Hall del Aula Magna  11:00 - 12:00 Invited Conference 2 Chairwoman: Asunción Moreno Bilbao Embodied conversational agents in verbal and non-verbal communication by David House (KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) Aula Magna  12:00 - 13:30 Poster Session 2 Chairman: Doroteo Torre Toledano Hall del edificio A  13:30 - 15:00 Lunch   15:00 - 16:00 Invited Conference 3 Chairman: José Manuel Pardo Aplicaciones de las tecnologías del habla en sistemas CALL y CAPT by Néstor Becerra Yoma (Universidad de Chile) Aula Magna  16:00 - 16:20 Coffee break Hall del Aula Magna  16:20 - 18:00 Projects/demo Session Chairwoman: Daniela Braga Aula Magna  18:30 - 20:00 Touristic visit: Guggenheim Museum   21:00 - 00:00 VJTH Dinner   14/11/2008 09:00 - 10:40 Oral session 3: Speech Recognition Chairwoman: Carmen García Mateo Aula Magna  10:40 - 11:00 Coffee break Hall del Aula Magna  11:00 - 12:00 Invited Conference 4 Chairman: Eduardo Lleida Solano Third Generation Conversational Interfaces by Giuseppe Riccardi (University of Trento, Italy) Aula Magna  12:00 - 13:30 Oral Session 4: Automatic Translation Chairwoman: María Inés Torres Barañano Aula Magna