Call for Nominations

                 IEEE Signal Processing Society
   Speech and Language Technical Committee (SLTC) Member Positions

The Member Election Subcommittee of the IEEE SLTC is seeking nominations for new SLTC Members.  Nominations should be submitted to the Chair of the Member Election Subcommittee at geoffrey.chan@queensu.ca, with cc to ney@informatik.rwth-aachen.de and larry.heck@microsoft.com.  Please provide the name, contact information and biography with the nomination.  The nomination deadline is set as 15 September 2011.  New member candidates can be self-nominated or nominated by current SLTC members.  Members will serve a term of two or three years, with the term to be assigned by the SLTC Chair after the election.

Past SLTC members are eligible to be nominated for a second term.  Current SLTC members may also be nominated for a second consecutive term, but would then not be eligible to vote in this new member election.  Additional terms are allowed after leaving the SLTC, but at least a 3-year gap in service is required.

New members must be willing to review papers that are submitted to the Society's conferences within the area of the SLTC, review papers for workshops owned or co-owned by the SLTC, serve in the subcommittees established by the SLTC, and perform other duties as assigned.  SLTC members will be elected by the members of the SLTC itself based on the needs of the SLTC. The election results will be finalized by 15 November 2011.

Please use the nomination form outlined below and submit a completed nomination form no more than one page in length:

- Name of nominee:

- Short Biography (not more than 150 words):

- Affiliation:

- Address and phone number, email:

- Link to web page (optional):

- IEEE SPS membership (yes/no):

- IEEE volunteer work and leadership activities:

- Other professional volunteer work:

- Previous SLTC/AE memberships (list periods of service):

- Confirmation that the member will serve if elected:

- Area of suggested expertise of the nominee (choose ONE from among the following):

1. Speech recognition

2. Speech production

3. Natural language processing

4. Dialogue systems

5. Speaker recognition

6. Speech synthesis

7. Speech analysis

8. Speech enhancement

9. Speech perception

10. Speech coding

The rights and duties of an SLTC member are described here:

http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/technical-committees/list/sl-tc/

The following are nominee requirements:

* The candidate may not be a current AE of TASLP.

* The candidate must be a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.

* The candidate should be willing to serve if elected. This means active participation including prompt paper reviews for 4 ICASSPs (2012-2015), active participation in accomplishing SLTC sub-committee duties, and best efforts to attend meetings and responding appropriately to action items.

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