Tuesday, September 20     9:00-10:15 Registration 10:15-10:30 Welcome 10:30-11:15 Invited Talk: Alpha-Stable Distributions: Theory & Applications Panos Tsakalidis 11:15-12:00 Invited Talk: Multiple Description Coding  for Speech Signals Yannis Agiomyrgiannakis 12:00-12:15 Coffee Break 12:15-13:00 Method for exact performance of forward and Inverse Wavelet Transform in Real Time Pavel Rajmic 13:00-15:00 Lunch 15:00-15:45 Enhancement of speech from noisy background, using single-channel method of spectogram mapping Zdenek Smekal 15:45-16:30 The Information Transmitted by the Verbal and Non Verbal Communication Modes on the Emotional States: Some perceptual Data Anna Esposito 16:30-17:00    Coffee Break 17:00-17:45 Video Conference: The set of logic context-based features for the classification of segmentation instants of speech signal Arimantas Raskinis   A packed version of the WNSP05 program and the paper abstracts can be found in this file.     Wednesday, September 21     9:30-10:15 Invited Talk: Voice Transformation. Thanassis Mouchtaris 10:15-11:00 Making Speech Synthesis Sound More Human: Introducing Variation Eric Keller 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break 11:30-12:15 Cepstral Liftering Techniques for Voice Quality Assessment Peter Murphy 12:15-13:00 Zeros of the z-transform (ZZT) representation and chirp group delay processing for the analysis of source and filter characteristics of speech signals Thierry Dutoit 13:00-15:00 Lunch 15:00-15:45 A Review of Advanced Methods for Glottal Inverse Filtering Peter Murphy 15:45-16:30 Detection of Audible Discontinuities in Speech Synthesis: An Overview Yannis Pantazis 16:30-16:45 Coffee Break 16:45-17:30 Support VectorMachines in Speech Recognition Dario Martin Iglesias 17:30-18:15 Towards Automatic Speech Recognition in Adverse Environments Nassos Katsamanis   A packed version of the WNSP05 program and the paper abstracts can be found in this file.      Thursday, September 22     9:30-10:15 Wave-shaping models of cyclic signals Jean Schoentgen 10:15-11:00 From black boxes to gray boxes: A look behind the curtain of nonlinear speech models Gernot Kubin 11:00-11:30    Coffee Break 11:30-11:45 Transfer to the archaeological site of the Palace of Knossos 11:45-13:15 Tour of the Palace of Knossos 13:15-13:30 Transfer to the traditional village of Archanes 13:30-16:30 Lunch at the traditional cretan tavern "LYCASTOS" 16:30-16:45 Transfer to Boutari Winery 16:45-18:00 Tour of the Boutari Winery 18:00-19:30 Back to Heraklion 21:00-23:30 Concert: Chamber music for violin and piano (Heraklion 2005, Summer Art Festival, Kazantzakis Open Theater)   A packed version of the WNSP05 program and the paper abstracts can be found in this file.     Friday, September 23     9:30-10:15 Invited Talk: Analysis of clusters of correlated activity in fMRI data by Hopfield Neural Networks. Marotesa Voultsidou 10:15-11:00 Non Linear Predictive Models: Overview and possibilities in speaker recognition. Marcos Faundez Zanuy 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break 11:30-12:15 Voice disguise and automatic detection. Guido Aversano 12:15-13:00 Audio-visual forgery in identity verification. Gerard Chollet 13:00-15:00 Lunch 15:00-15:45 Automatic Speaker Verification: state of the art and current issues. Dijana Petrovska 15:45-16:15 A New Approach for Speech Feature Extraction Based on Genetic Algorithms. Christophe Charbuillet 16:15-17:00 Coffee Break 17:00-18:00 Meeting COST277 18:00-18:30 New COST actions   A packed version of the WNSP05 program and the paper abstracts can be found in this file.