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| Thursday, August 04, 2011 by Chris Wellekens |
2 ISCA News
| 2-1 | Message of our president about Interspeech 2011Dear ISCA member, INTERSPEECH 2011 has received a record number of 1435 submissions. I only hope that the number of participants also breaks another record, so that we can gather in the wonderful city of Florence the largest spoken language community ever, to enjoy the excellent technical and social program that the organizing team has prepared for us. I'm looking forward to meeting you all in Florence! Isabel Trancoso
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| 2-2 | ISCA new video archive service ISCA announces that it starts a new service, Video Archive, that provides video streaming (video and slides) for lectures and presentations in related seminars and conferences, which can be found at the Archive section of ISCA Web. The content is hosted in University of Crete, Greece, as a temporary solution. For posting of Video Archive, please contact .
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| 2-3 | Election at the boardDear ISCA members, The election for five ISCA Board members is now complete. The results are as follows: 496 ballots were received during the voting period (30 April – 30 May) with the following five candidates elected as ISCA Board members for a period of four years from 1 September (members are listed alphabetically): ALAN W BLACK (USA) HELEN MENG (HONG KONG) BERND MÖBIUS (GERMANY) SATOSHI NAKAMURA (JAPAN) TANJA SCHULTZ (GERMANY) On behalf of the ISCA Board, I would like to thank all of you who took part in the election. We are seeing an increased participation in the Board election which is very encouraging. Participation has increased from 169 ballots in 2007 to 338 in 2009 to 496 today. I would also like to encourage you to attend the ISCA General Assembly which will take place in Florence in conjunction with INTERSPEECH 2011 (http://www.interspeech2011.org). The General Assembly is open to all members of ISCA and provides an excellent opportunity for you to actively participate in the meeting and propose suggestions to help make our association even better. Looking forward to seeing you in Florence. Best regards, David House
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| 2-4 | Meeting of senior and student researchers organized by our student branch ISCA Student Advisory Committee is happy to announce that this year, thanks to the generous support of the Interspeech 2011 Organizing Committee and ISCA Board, we are organizing a special event for students that gives you the possibility to get in touch with prominent researchers in your area and have a discussion on your interest and research work with people whose work is well-known, established and inspiring to all of us! This event will be accompanied with Italian delicacies as well.
This event is a great opportunity and an informal setting to meet your peer researchers and experts in your field. We are very happy with the list of researchers that will be attending the event, who include Prof. Abeer Alwan, UCLA Prof. Gerard Bailly, GIPSA Prof. Peter Birkholz, RWTH Aachen Prof. Alan Black, CMU Prof. Nick Campbell, TCD, Dublin Prof. Hynek Hermansky, John Hopkins Prof. Julia Hirchberg, Columbia, NY Prof. Tokuda Keiichi, NIT, Nagoya Prof. Helen Meng, Hong Kong Prof. John Ohala, Berkeley Prof. Elizabeth Shriberg, Microsoft Prof. Steve Young, Cambridge and more. The Interspeech 2011 Student Roundtable Lunch Discussion will take place on the second day of Interspeech, Monday, August 29th, from 12:00 to 13:30, on the first floor of the 'Pala Affari' building. The number of tables and places is limited so hurry and sign up as soon as possible. To do so please go to our webpage - http://isca-students.org/?q=ISLunch After the registration, students will be grouped in teams of 10 depending on their research interest, and accompanied by an Italian host researcher and an international researcher. A light lunch buffet will be provided. We look forward to welcoming you to Florence in August, 2011! ----- -- Maria Eskevich PhD-student L2.08 School of Computing Dublin City University Dublin 9, Ireland http://nclt.computing.dcu.ie/~meskevich/ http://ie.linkedin.com/pub/maria-eskevich/17/520/741 tel (Ireland): +353 87 14 23 101 tel (Russia): + 7 921 915 52 54 e-mail: maria.eskevich@gmail.com, maria.eskevich@computing.dcu.ie, maria.eskevich2@mail.dcu.ie, maria.eskevich@yandex.ru
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| 2-5 | ELRA becomes a Bronze sponsor of Inteerspeech 2011 Paris, France, August 1st, 2011
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