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| Wednesday, January 13, 2016 by Chris Wellekens |
3-2 ISCA Supported Events
| 3-2-1 | (2016-05-09) 5th Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages (SLTU'16), Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages (SLTU'16)5th ### Important dates ###
Web-site of the Workshop: http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2016
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| 3-2-2 | (2016-05-31) Speech Prosody 2016, Boston University, MA, USASpeech Prosody 2016, the eighth international conference on speech prosody, will be hosted at Boston University, May 31 to June 3, 2016. We invite papers addressing any aspect of the science and technology of prosody. This year, we especially invite submissions concentrating on variation and differences both at the level of the community and that of the individual. Speech Prosody, the biennial meeting of the Speech Prosody Special Interest Group (SProSIG) <http://speechprosody2010.illinois.edu/sprosig.php> of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) <http://www.isca-speech.org/>, is the only recurring international conference focused on prosody as an organizing principle for the social, psychological, linguistic, and technological aspects of spoken language. Past conferences in Aix-en-Provence, Nara, Dresden, Campinas, Chicago, Shanghai and Dublin have each attracted 300-400 delegates, including experts in the fields of Linguistics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Speech and Hearing Science, Psychology, and related disciplines.
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| 3-2-3 | (2016-06-21) ODYSSEY 2016: THE SPEAKER AND LANGUAGE RECOGNITION WORKSHOP Bilbao, Spain, ODYSSEY 2016 THE SPEAKER AND LANGUAGE RECOGNITION WORKSHOP
June 21-24, 2016, Bilbao, Spain
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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
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TOPICS
The general themes of the workshop include speaker and language
recognition and characterization. The specific topics include,
but are not limited to, the following:
o Speaker and language recognition, verification, identification
o Speaker and language characterization
o Features for speaker and language recognition
o Speaker and language clustering
o Multispeaker segmentation, detection, and diarization
o Language, dialect, and accent recognition
o Robustness in channels and environment
o System calibration and fusion
o Speaker recognition with speech recognition
o Multimodal speaker recognition
o Speaker recognition in multimedia content
o Confidence estimation for speaker and language recognition
o Corpora and tools for system development and evaluation
o Low-resource (lightly supervised) speaker and language recognition
o Speaker synthesis and transformation
o Human and human-assisted recognition of speaker and language
o Spoofing and tampering attacks: analysis and countermeasures
o Forensic and investigative speaker recognition
o Systems and applications
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WORKSHOP FORMAT AND PAPER SUBMISSION
As in previous editions, Odyssey 2016 will consist of plenary
oral and poster sessions, with special sessions on topics of interest,
Show & Tell (demo) sessions and panel discussions with industry partners.
Regular papers (including those for special sessions) and Show & Tell papers
must be uploaded in PDF format to the Odyssey 2016 Submission System:
Guidelines for paper preparation and Word/LaTeX templates are available
on the website:
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REGULAR PAPERS
Regular papers (including those for special sessions) must be at most
8 pages long and are expected to include scientific or methodological
novelty, which must be stated clearly in the Introduction, along with
a review of the relevant prior work. Each paper will be reviewed by at least
three members of the scientific committee. Accepted papers will appear
in electronic proceedings, and will be accessible through the ISCA Archive.
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SHOW & TELL PAPERS
For the Show & Tell (demo) sessions, authors must submit short papers
(at most, 4 pages long) describing a system or prototype, a target
application, a product, a demonstrator or any combination of them.
These contributions do not have to present scientific or methodological
novelty; therefore, they will not undergo full peer review and will not be
included in the proceedings (though will be available for download on the
website). One or more poster sessions will be allocated for Show & Tell
submissions, with auxiliary equipment (tables, plugs, etc.) available
if requested. The organizing committee may select the most interesting
submissions for oral presentation.
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INDUSTRY AND FORENSICS TRACK
To foster a closer collaboration across industry and academia,
an industry track was introduced in Odyssey 2014. The initiative is
continued in Odyssey 2016 under the name 'Industry and Forensics track',
in order to include forensic and investigative speaker recognition,
an application which involves diverse areas of expertise. Companies,
R&D labs, government agencies and other interested parties (e.g. forensic
experts and labs) are called to participate in the following sessions:
- Forensic and investigative speaker recognition
- Commercial applications of speaker and language recognition
These sessions are expected to be highly interactive, with a series
of pitch talks (3-5 minutes long each), followed by a panel discussion
open to the audience, addressing practical issues or unsolved problems
'out-in-the-wild' that deserve attention.
To participate, just send an email to info@odyssey.org with ?Industry
and Forensics track' as Subject, providing details of your company profile
(in particular, your involvement with or your need for speaker and language
recognition technology), your interests (forensics, commercial or other)
and contact info.
Besides voice biometrics providers and companies that develop and exploit
speaker/language recognition solutions, we encourage companies who are
IN NEED for speaker or language recognition technology.
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SPECIAL SESSION
Speaker Recognition in Multimedia Content (SS-SRMC)
Speaker information is instrumental in better exploiting spoken multimedia
content, as evidenced by recent work on large-scale speaker indexing and
linking, or on speaker naming in broadcast archives.
The special session 'Speaker recognition in multimedia content?, organized
in collaboration with the ISCA SIG on Speech and Language in Multimedia
(SIG-SLIM, http://slim-sig.irisa.fr/), pursues two main goals:
(1) to share recent advances in the field and to identify synergies between
the various multimedia applications where speaker recognition, indexing
and segmentation is considered; and
(2) to raise awareness on speaker-related research in multimedia so as
to strengthen the link between the multimedia and the speaker recognition
communities.
The session targets researchers working on any topic related to
speaker characterization for multimedia content processing, including
(but not limited to) speaker segmentation, speaker indexing, speaker
clustering, speaker naming or discovery, or speaking face detection.
Multimodal (e.g. speech + face recognition) approaches are particularly
welcome. We expect submissions presenting original research results,
ongoing research and development projects, tools and resources that
are being made available, or benchmarking initiatives.
Chairs of SS-SRMC at Odyssey 2016:
Hervé BredinCNRS/LIMSI, France
Claude BarrasLIMSI, France
Guillaume GravierCNRS/IRISA, France
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AWARDS
Odyssey 2016 will feature two awards:
- A best paper award
- A best student paper award
All regular papers (including special session papers) are candidates
for the awards. The awards are given based on the review reports AND
the presentation at the conference. For the best student paper award,
the first author must be a student (meaning that she/he does not yet
hold a PhD degree) at the time of paper submission.
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STEERING COMMITTEE
Luis J. Rodríguez-Fuentes, chair University of the Basque Country, Spain
Eduardo Lleida, co-chair University of Zaragoza, Spain
Jean-François Bonastre University of Avignon, France
Niko Brümmer Agnitio, South Africa
Luká? Burget Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Joseph Campbell MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA
Jan 'Honza? ?ernocký Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Tomi Kinnunen University of Eastern Finland, Finland
Haizhou Li Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Alvin Martin NIST, USA
Douglas Reynolds MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA
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VENUE AND TRAVEL
Odyssey 2016 will be hosted by two Spanish groups:
* GTTS (http://gtts.ehu.es), from the Faculty of Science and Technology
of the University of the Basque Country; and
* ViVoLab (http://vivolab.unizar.es/), from the School of Engineering and
Architecture of the University of Zaragoza.
The workshop will be held in Bilbao, a medium-size city in the north
of Spain, with about 350,000 inhabitants. The venue, Bizkaia Aretoa,
is located in the heart of the city. The building, designed by the Portuguese
architect Alvaro Siza, hosts all kind of social, cultural, academic and scientific
events, most of them organized by the University of the Basque Country.
Bilbao is the commercial and administrative head of a large area of about
one million people living by the Ibaizabal-Nervion estuary. After centuries
of trading and iron industry, in the last decades Bilbao has become a service
town, supported by a huge investment in infrastructure and urban renewal,
that started with the construction of an underground network (Metro Bilbao)
in 1995 and the opening of the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum in 1997.
The Bilbao airport can be easily reached from many European airports,
including international hubs such as Amsterdam, Brussels, Frankfurt,
Istanbul, London, Madrid or Paris, which provide worldwide connectivity.
The city is connected to the European road network by the AP-8 toll
motorway, to the north of Spain by the A-8 (free) motorway and
to the rest of Spain by the AP-68 toll motorway.
Located in a hilly countryside, Bilbao offers many outdoor activities.
Hiking is very popular as well as rock climbing in the nearby mountains.
Mount Artxanda, easily accessible from the town centre by a funicular
railway, features a recreational area at the summit, with restaurants,
a sports complex and a balcony with panoramic views. In the south,
the natural wonders of Mount Pagasarri receive hundreds of hikers
every weekend.
A few minutes away by public transport, the Bizkaia Bridge, declared
World Heritage in 2006, connects Portugalete and Las Arenas at the left
and right banks of the estuary. In the coast, old fishing villages like Plentzia,
Mundaka or Lekeitio have become touristic spots due to the nearby beaches,
where watersports, especially surfing, are practiced. Just an hour away by car,
the beautiful city of San Sebastian, as well as the vineyards and wineries
of La Rioja, are worth a visit.
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For more details:
Website (under construction): http://www.odyssey2016.org
Email: info@odyssey2016.org
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Odyssey 2016 is supported by:
- ISCA SIG-SpLC
- University of the Basque Country
- University of Zaragoza
- Spanish Thematic Network on Speech Technology
- AGNITIO VOICE ID
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| 3-2-4 | (2016-09-06) 2nd Workshop on Language Teaching, Learning and Technology, San Francisco, CA, USA
1ST Call For Papers LTLT 2nd Workshop on Language Teaching, Learning and Technology September 6./7. 2016
The 2nd Workshop on Language Teaching, Learning and Technology is going to take place in San Francisco on September 6 and 7. June 12, 2016: paper submission deadline June 26, 2016: notification of paper acceptance July 10, 2016: camera-ready paper submission deadline September 6/7, 2016 workshop
The LTLT workshop intends to join researchers across countries on the topic of language teaching/learning. Papers submitted here do not have to employ any technology yet. We are looking for contributions from users that may not be aware of all the possibilities that the technologies have to offer to solve educational research problems. What these papers bring to the table are problem statements and data collections that the speech and text processing community may in turn not be aware of. Thus we are looking for symbioses between the two disciplines in research about learning/teaching language. It is important for both areas to get to know each other's research questions and potential application for technologies. This goal will be achieved through collocation with workshops that are associated with Interspeech (focusing on technology for automatic processing and synthesis of speech and text) that allows you to meet people with similar interests, share your work and forge new interactions across disciplines. In doing so, we are looking for a broad range of contributions from didactics, psychology and pedagogy from researchers interested in bridging the current gap to automation. Demonstrations as well as samples of data collections and annotations are welcome. This workshop is endorsed by ISCA and organized by the Special Interest Group for Children (SIG-CHILD) group that has regular WOCCI workshops. Topics of Interest include but are not limited to:
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| 3-2-5 | (2016-09-06) 5th Workshop on Child Computer Interaction, San Francisco, CA, USA 1st Call For Papers WOCCI 2016 5th Workshop on Child Computer Interaction September 6./7. 2016 The 2nd Workshop on Language Teaching, Learning and Technology is going to take place in San Francisco on September 6 and 7. June 12, 2016: paper submission deadline June 26, 2016: notification of paper acceptance July 10, 2016: camera-ready paper submission deadline September 6/7, 2015 workshop The 5th Workshop on Child Computer Interaction (WOCCI 2016) will be held in San Francisco on 6-7th of September, 2016. The Workshop is a satellite event of the 17th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2016), which will take place in the same city September 8-12, 2016. WOCCI 2016 will be held at the offices of Educational Testing Services (ETS). This workshop aims to join researchers and practitioners from universities and industry working in all aspects of child-machine interaction including computer, robotics and multi-modal interfaces. Children are special both at the acoustic/linguistic level as well as the interaction level. The Workshop provides a unique opportunity for bringing together different research communities from cognitive science, robotics, speech processing, linguistics as well as applied areas such as medical and educational technologies. Various state-of-the-art components can be presented here as key components for the next generation of child-centered computer interaction. Technological advances are increasingly necessary in a world where education and health pose growing challenges to the core wellbeing of our societies. Noticeable examples are remedial treatments for children with or without disabilities and capabilities for providing individualized attention. The Workshop will serve as a venue for presenting recent advancements in core technologies as well as experimental systems and prototypes. Papers are solicited on any technical areas relevant to the workshop. The technical scope of the workshop includes, but it is not limited to: Speech Interfaces: acoustic and linguistic analysis of children's speech, discourse analysis of spoken language in child machine interaction, age-dependent characteristics of spoken language, automatic speech recognition for children and spoken dialogue systems Multi-modality and Robotics: multi-modal child machine interaction, multi-modal input and output interfaces, including robotic interfaces, intrusive, non-intrusive devices for environmental data processing, pen or gesture/visual interfaces User Modelling: user modelling and adaptation, usability studies accounting for age preferences in child machine interaction Cognitive Models: internal learning models, personality types, user-centred and participatory design Application Areas: training systems, educational software, gaming interfaces, medical conditions and diagnostic tools The technical committee will select papers for oral/poster presentation.
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| 3-2-6 | (2016-09-13) SIGDIAL 2016 CONFERENCE: CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS, Los Angeles, CA, USA SIGDIAL 2016 CONFERENCE: CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference17/
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| 3-2-7 | Forthcoming ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshops (ITRWs) & Sponsored EventsForthcoming ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshops (ITRWs) & Sponsored Events
Forthcoming ISCA Supported Events
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