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Tuesday, May 10, 2016 by Chris Wellekens

3-1 ISCA Events
3-1-1(2016-09) Interspeech 2016 Satellite events

SECNS 2016: The 1st Workshop on Speech Engineering and Computational Neuroscience of Speech

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/secns16/

Organizers: Edward F. Chang (University of California, San Francisco), Gopala Anumanchipalli (University of California, San Francisco)

Date: 8 September 2016

Location: San Francisco, CA

Several of the goals of speech scientists and neuroscientists working in speech are of mutual relevance and are increasingly converging into each other. The aim of this workshop is to promote exchange of ideas, methods, data and to foster collaborations between researchers working in these fields. This synergy between the neuroscience of speech and computer speech technologies is indispensable for creating the next generation rehabilitative technologies for a range of speech and language disorders and to bring computer based speech technologies closer to human performance in speech recognition, synthesis and understanding.

 

L1TLT 2016: The 2nd Workshop on Language Teaching, Learning and Technology

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/l1teachingandtechnology/

Organizers: Kay Berkling (Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University, Karlsruhe, Germany), Keelan Evanini (Educational Testing Service, USA), David Suendermann-Oeft (Educational Testing Service, USA)

Dates: 6-7 September 2016

Location: San Francisco, CA

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.

 

MLSLP 2016: The 3rd Workshop on Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing

Website: http://ttic.uchicago.edu/~klivescu/MLSLP2016/

Organizers: Karen Livescu (TTI-Chicago, USA), Mark Hasegawa-Johnson (University of Illinois, USA), Navdeep Jaitly (Google, USA), Joseph Keshet (Bar-Ilan University, Israel), Tara Sainath (Google, USA)

Date: 13 September 2016

Location: TBD

MLSLP is a workshop of SIGML, the ISCA SIG on machine learning in speech and language processing. Prior workshops were held in 2011 and 2012. Speech and language processing is continually mining new ideas from ML and ML, in turn, is devoting more interest to speech and language applications. This workshop aims to be a venue for identifying and incubating the next waves of research directions for interaction and collaboration. In general, the workshop will (1) discuss the emerging research ideas with potential for impact in speech/language and (2) bring together relevant researchers from ML and speech/language who may not regularly interact at conferences.

 

WOCCI 2016: The 5th Workshop on Child Computer Interaction

Website: http://www.wocci.org/2016/home.html

Organizers: Kay Berkling (Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University, Karlsruhe, Germany), Keelan Evanini (Educational Testing Service, USA), David Suendermann-Oeft (Educational Testing Service, USA)

Dates: 6-7 September 2016

Location: San Francisco, CA

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.

 

SLPAT 2016: The 7th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies

Website: http://www.slpat.org/slpat2016/

Organizers: Heidi Christensen (University of Sheffield, UK), François Portet (Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble), Thomas Quatieri (MIT Lincoln Labs, USA), Frank Rudzicz (University of Toronto, Canada), Keith Vertanen (Michigan Tech)

Date: 13 September 2016

Location: TBD

Assistive technologies (AT) allow individuals with disabilities to do things that would otherwise be difficult or impossible for them to do. Many examples of assistive technologies involve providing universal access, such as modifications to televisions or telephones to make them accessible to those with vision or hearing impairments. An important sub-discipline within the AT research community is Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), which is focused on communication technologies for those with impairments that interfere with some aspect of human communication, including spoken or written modalities. Speech and natural language processing (NLP) can be used in AT/AAC in a large variety of ways including, for example, improving the intelligibility of unintelligible speech, and providing communicative assistance for frail people or individuals with severe motor impairments. However, there has not been very much interaction in the intersection between researchers of AT/AAC and speech/NLP. This workshop will bring individuals from both of these research communities together with AAC users to share research findings, and to discuss present and future challenges and the potential for collaboration and progress. The workshop has historically had a strong focus on applications and user inclusion

 

SIGDIAL 2016: The 17th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue

Website: http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference17/

Organizers: Raquel Fernandez (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), Wolfgang Minker (Ulm University, Germany), Jason Williams (Microsoft, USA)

Dates: 13-15 September 2016

Location: Los Angeles, CA

The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in discourse and dialogue to both academic and industry researchers. Continuing with a series of successful sixteen previous meetings, this conference spans the research interest area of discourse and dialogue. The conference is sponsored by the SIGdial organization, which serves as the Special Interest Group in discourse and dialogue for both ACL and ISCA. SIGDIAL 2016 will be co-located with INTERSPEECH 2016 as a satellite event, and also with YRRSDS 2016, the Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems.

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3-1-2(2016-09) INTERSPEECH 2016 SPECIAL SESSION: SHARING RESEARCH AND EDUCATION RESOURCES FOR UNDERSTANDING SPEECH PROCESSING

INTERSPEECH 2016 SPECIAL SESSION: SHARING RESEARCH AND EDUCATION RESOURCES FOR UNDERSTANDING SPEECH PROCESSING

Organizers: Eric Fosler-Lussier, The Ohio State University; Rebecca Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato;  Florian Metze, Carnegie Mellon University
Contact email: speech-kitchen@lists.andrew.cmu.edu
 
Speech processing systems have become increasingly complex and difficult to share across sites. Significant time is spent reimplementing published methods; even when software is shared, the lack of common environments between sites means that reproducing results can require significant effort. Open software repositories, virtual machines, and tools for automatically building container environments in the cloud are beginning to facilitate cross-site collaboration.
 
We seek contributions from creators of resources (such as software, VMs, web services, frameworks, datasets, etc.) describing their experience in production and usage of these resources in recognition, synthesis, or other speech/language processing technologies. In addition, we welcome essay contributions addressing the use of resources in both research and education settings. Featured virtual machines will be shared with session attendees in order to foster community discussion and encourage use after the session.

Please note that there is a split submission deadline - for resource providers, the standard Interspeech submission deadline applies (March 23), but for the essay contributions, we ask for submissions by March 1.  See the link below for more details.
 
More details: http://speechkitchen.org/interspeech-2016-special-session/

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3-1-3(2016-09) Interspeech 2016 Special session: Sub-Saharan African languages : from speech fundamentals to applications

 

Interspeech 2016 Special Session

 

 

 

Sub-Saharan African languages : from speech fundamentals to applications

 

 

 

Organizers

 

 

 

Martine Adda-Decker (madda@limsi.fr) ? CNRS ? LPP and LIMSI, France.

 

Laurent Besacier (laurent.besacier@imag.fr) - Univ. Grenoble-Alpes, France - LIG laboratory.

 

Marelie Davel (marelie.davel@nwu.ac.za) ? North-West University, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa.

 

Larry Hyman (hyman@berkeley.edu) - Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley.

 

Martin Jansche (mjansche@google.com) ? Google, London, UK.

 

Francois Pellegrino (francois.pellegrino@univ-lyon2.fr) ? CNRS ? DDL Lyon, France.

 

Olivier Rosec (olivier.rosec@voxygen.fr) ? Voxygen SAS,- Pleumeur-Bodou, France.

 

Sebastian Stüker (sebastian.stueker@kit.edu) - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany.

 

Martha Tachbelie Yifiru (martha.yifiru@aau.edu.et) ? School of Information Science, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.

 

 

 

Call for papers

 

 

 

This special session aims at gathering researchers in speech technology and researchers in linguistics (working in language documentation and fundamentals of speech science). Such a partnership is particularly important for Sub-Saharan African languages which tend to remain under-resourced, under-documented and often also un-written.

 

Prospective authors are invited to submit original papers in the following areas:

 

  • ASR and TTS for Sub-Saharan African languages and dialects

  • Cross-lingual and multi-lingual acoustic and lexical modeling

  • Applications of spoken language technologies for the African continent

  • Phonetic and linguistic studies in Sub-Saharan African languages

  • Zero resource speech technologies: unsupervised discovery of linguistic units

  • Language documentation for endangered languages of Africa

  • Machine-assisted annotation of speech and laboratory phonology

  • Resource / Corpora production in African languages

 

 

 

Submission deadline

 

Same as regular Interspeech 2016 papers: 23d March, 2016

 

 

 

Special session web site

 

For more details on this special session: http://alffa.imag.fr/interspeech-2016-special-session-proposal/

 

 

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3-1-4(2016-09) The undergraduate and MS student day at Interspeech 2016.

please encourage any of  your students who have done research as undergrads or MS students (or consider it yourselves if you qualify :-)) to apply to attend this one-day event at Interspeech 2016 in San Francisco this september 8.  this event is supported by the National Science Foundation with additional support for international students from some kind research labs.  here is the website with information on how to apply:
https://sites.google.com/site/yfrsw2016/home
thanks!
julia

--
Julia Hirschberg
Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor and
Chair of Computer Science
Columbia University

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3-1-5(2016-09) Updates for Interspeech 2016 San Francisco

The calls for paper, show & tell, and tutorial submissions are OPEN! 

      
To learn about submission procedures, please visit the paper,show & tell, and tutorialswebpages.
 
 
IMPORTANT DATES


 
Monday, 1 February 2016:  Papershow & tell, and tutorial submissions open
Wednesday, 23 March 2016: Paper submission closes
Wednesday, 30 March 2016: Final PDF upload of paper submissions and tutorial and show & tell submission closes
Friday, 6 May 2016: Tutorial notification of acceptance
Friday, 10 June 2016: Papers, special sessions, and show & tell notifications of acceptance
Friday, 24 June 2016: Camera-ready papers, special sessions, and show & tell due
 
 
 
 

VENUE ACCOMMODATIONS

 
 

 

Hyatt Regency San Francisco

5 Embarcadero Center | San Francisco | California | 94111

Interspeech?s Group Rate: $239 Single/double occupancy per night including complimentary wireless internet. The quoted room rate does not include taxes.
 
 
 
 
 
SPECIAL SESSIONS ANNOUNCED!
Click here for more info.

Intelligibility under the microscope


Interspeech 2016 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge (ComParE): Deception & Sincerity


Clinical and neuroscience-inspired vocal biomarkers of neurological and psychiatric disorders


The RedDots Challenge: Towards Characterizing Speakers from Short Utterances


The Speakers in the Wild (SITW) Speaker Recognition Challenge


Speech, audio, and language processing techniques applied to bird and animal vocalizations


Singing Synthesis Challenge: Fill-In the Gap


Voice Conversion Challenge 2016


Sub-Saharan African languages: from speech fundamentals to applications


Realism in robust speech processing


Sharing Research and Education Resources for Understanding Speech Processing


Speech and Language Technologies for Human-Machine Conversation-based Language Education


Open Data for Under-Resourced Languages


Auditory-visual expressive speech and gesture in humans and machines

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3-1-6(2016-09-08) Important dates for Interspeech 2016 San Francisco

REMINDER! Upcoming Important Dates

 
 
Join us for INTERSPEECH 2016 being held 8 - 12 September 2016 in San Francisco, California! Be sure to save the date for this opportunity to network with over 1,000 of your colleagues in the beautiful City by the Bay. The conference is now accepting applications for satellites!
 

CALL FOR SATELLITE WORKSHOPS

The call for satellite workshop submissions is now open! Click here for more information on the satellite workshop submission process and guidelines. The deadline to submit is Friday, 11 December 2015.
 

CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS

INTERSPEECH 2016 will open the call for special sessions Monday, 2 November 2015. Click here for more information on the special session submission process and guidelines. The deadline to submit is Tuesday, 1 December 2015.
 
 
Excited about San Francisco? We are too! The Hyatt Regency hotel will serve as the conference venue and is conveniently located near the Embarcadero, which is close to public transportation, diverse restaurants, and some of San Francisco?s most famous attractions. Click here to learn more about what the city has to offer.
 
INTERSPEECH@ConferenceSolutionsInc.com
www.INTERSPEECH2016.org
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3-1-7(2016-09-08) Interspeech 2016 San Francisco, CA, USA
 
 
 
 
The 17th Annual INTERSPEECH Conference will be held from 8-12 September 2016 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco in San Francisco, California.
The conference theme is: Understanding Speech Processing in Humans and Machines.

CALL FOR SATELLITE WORKSHOPS
Applications for satellite workshops are now being accepted. For more information, click here
Submission will close on Friday, 11 December 2015.
 
 
 
 
 
PROGRAM 

18 Sep 2015:     Satellite Workshop Submission Opens
2 Nov 2015:       Special Session Submission Opens

1 Dec 2015:       Special Session Submission Closes
11 Dec 2015:     Satellite Workshop Submission Closes
15 Jan 2016:      Satellite Workshop Disposition Notifications Sent

1 Feb 2016:        Paper, Show & Tell and Tutorial Submissions Open
23 Mar 2016:      Paper Submission Deadline
30 Mar 2016:      Deadline for Final Paper PDF Upload. Tutorial
and

                           Show & Tell Submission Closes    
6 May 2016:       Tutorials Disposition Notifications Sent
10 Jun 2016:      Papers, Special Sessions, and Show & Tell
Disposition

                           Notifications Sent

24 Jun 2016:      Camera-Ready Papers, Special Sessions, and Show & Tell Due

 

REGISTRATION AND HOTEL

1 Apr 2016:        Registration Opens

24 Jun 2016:      Early Registration Deadline
17 Aug 2016:     Hotel and Regular Registration Deadline
31 Aug 2016:     Online Registration Closes

 
 
 
INTERSPEECH@ConferenceSolutionsInc.com
www.INTERSPEECH2016.org

 

INTERSPEECH 2016 will be organized around the topic: Understanding Speech Processing in Humans and Machines. The event will be held in the Hyatt Regency San Francisco hotel in the beautiful San Francisco, California. INTERSPEECH 2016 emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach covering all aspects of speech science and technology spanning basic theories to applications. In addition to regular oral and poster sessions, the conference will also feature plenary talks by internationally renowned experts, tutorials, special sessions, show & tell sessions, and exhibits. A number of satellite events will take place immediately before and after the conference.

                                                                          
 

Organizers

Conference Chair:

Nelson Morgan

Technical Chairs:

Panayiotis (Panos) Georgiou
Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan

Conference Secretariat:

Conference Solutions

- See more at: http://www.interspeech2016.org/#sthash.IeMcUBi3.dpuf

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3-1-8(2016-09-08) Submission deadlines Interspeech 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA

The call for Paper, Show & Tell, and Tutorial submission deadlines are fast approaching!

 

To learn about the submission procedures,
please visit the Paper, Show & Tell, and Tutorials webpages.

 
IMPORTANT DATES


 
Wednesday, 23 March 2016: Paper submission closes
Wednesday, 30 March 2016: Final PDF upload of Paper submissions, Tutorial and Show & Tell submission closes
Friday, 6 May 2016: Tutorial notifications
Friday, 10 June 2016: Papers, Special Sessions, and Show & Tell notifications
Friday, 24 June 2016: Camera-ready Papers, Special Sessions, and Show & Tell due
 
 
 
 
ACCEPTED SATELLITES
 
- The 1st Workshop on Speech Engineering and Computational Neuroscience of Speech (SECNS)
- The 2nd Workshop on Language Teaching, Learning and Technology (L1TLT)
- The 3rd Workshop on Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing (MLSLP)
- The 5th Workshop on Child Computer Interaction (WOCCI)
- The 7th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT)
- The 17th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)

Click here for a detailed list including descriptions of the accepted satellites.
 

VENUE ACCOMMODATIONS - Reserve now, rooms are limited!

 
 
 
Hyatt Regency San Francisco

Interspeech?s Group Rate: $239 Single/double occupancy per night including complimentary wireless internet. The quoted room rate does not include taxes.
 
 
 
 
BOOK NOW!
 
SPECIAL SESSIONS 
Click here for more info.
 
Intelligibility under the microscope
 
Interspeech 2016 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge (ComParE): Deception & Sincerity
 
Clinical and neuroscience-inspired vocal biomarkers of neurological and psychiatric disorders
 
The RedDots Challenge: Towards Characterizing Speakers from Short Utterances
 
The Speakers in the Wild (SITW) Speaker Recognition Challenge
 
Speech, audio, and language processing techniques applied to bird and animal vocalizations
 
Singing Synthesis Challenge: Fill-In the Gap
 
Voice Conversion Challenge 2016
 
Sub-Saharan African languages: from speech fundamentals to applications
 
Realism in robust speech processing
 
Sharing Research and Education Resources for Understanding Speech Processing
 
Speech and Language Technologies for Human-Machine Conversation-based Language Education
 
Open Data for Under-Resourced Languages
 
Auditory-visual expressive speech and gesture in humans and machines
 
 
INTERSPEECH@ConferenceSolutionsInc.com
www.INTERSPEECH2016.org
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3-1-9(2017-08-20) Interspeech 2017, Stockholm, Sweden

INTERSPEECH 2017
Stockholm, Sweden, August 20-24, 2017
Chair : Francisco Lacerda
18th INTERSPEECH event

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