| 2-1 | Opening of nominations for the ISCA Medalist 2018
Opening of nominations for the ISCA Medalist 2018
Nominations open on 1st November 2017 for the ISCA Medalist 2018.
The ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement recognizes and honors an individual each year who has made extraordinary contributions to the field of speech communication science and technology. Any ISCA member, except ISCA Board members, can make a nomination. All nominations for ISCA Medal of the year should be submitted to ISCA Secretariat at secretariat@isca-speech.org by 1 January 2018. ISCA Board will select and announce the winner of the year on 1 March. The Medalist nomination form can be downloaded from http://bit.ly/2yZjRcj. Unsuccessful candidates of the previous year(s) must be re-nominated to qualify for candidacy.
More information can be found on the ISCA Honors webpage:
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| 2-2 | SCOOT - Speech Communication On-line Training
SCOOT - Speech Communication On-line Training
The ISCA board is planning to set up an on-line portal, SCOOT, on the ISCA web site to help and encourage students to enter the Speech Communication area. The goal is to provide students with an easy route to high-quality, up-to date learning resources which can be tailored to their individual needs.
The multidisciplinary nature of speech research raises problems for how students are introduced to our field. Students of various backgrounds may become interested in speech: while there are very few, if any, degree programmes centred on speech, speech modules are taught in a wide variety of curricula: in phonetics and linguistics, speech therapy, perceptual psychology, electrical engineering, computer science, communications and mathematics. Students come to these modules from different backgrounds and with different skills, requiring different training resources.
Many institutions do not have established speech research groups but nevertheless offer speech modules, and few speech groups are active across the entire axis from phonetics to speech technology. Consequently, many speech modules are not delivered as well as they might be, and teachers as well as students may need refreshing on new techniques (DNNs for example).
SCOOT will point students to material of all kinds: tutorials, lectures, videos, toolkits, interactive software, databases and so on. The only condition is that the material is freely available on the internet. SCOOT will be organised within a software platform which is designed to help students to learn,
At the moment we are collecting suggestions for items which should be available within SCOOT. You can make a suggestion using the google form on
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd-o6GOiADoJ4Xtik3AvFckonHBdTpcFnSHhpoDz0OhmdroMQ/viewform?usp=sf_link
and you can see the responses so far on
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/13uLM63MqITXOsAlUIa-rC6d6O50zGzEnRxTJbz0X8lE/edit#responses
We hope to launch SCOOT at Interspeech 2018.
Phil Green (p.green@sheffield.ac.uk) for the ISCA Board.
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| 2-3 | Our distinguished lecturers 2017-2018
ISCA Distinguished Lecturers for 2017-2018 are as follows.
For invitations, please take a look at http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/distinguished-lecturers and contact s-nakamura@is.naist.jp)
(1) Professor Jennifer S. Cole, Linguistics, Northwestern University, USA
- Individual differences and attentional effects on cue weighting for prosody perception
- Prosodic entrainment and its relation to dialogue conditions
- Memory for Prosody
(2) Professor Laurence Devillers, Artificial Intelligence and Human-Machine Interaction, University of Paris-Sorbonne IV, LIMSI-CNRS, France
- Towards social and affective relations with a robot : Joke and Empathy of a Robot/ECA
- Affective and social robotics: engagement and evaluation
- Affective and social Robotics aligned with Human Values : ethics by design
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| 2-4 | Videos of Interspeech and ISCA supported conferences
Video archives are available in
http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/archive/video-archive
where keynote speeches from IS 2010 can be seen. You will also find video archives
of many other conferences.
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| 2-5 | ISCA Online Archive
ISCA Online Archive is now accessible directly from ISCA Web main page.
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| 2-6 | ISCA-endorsed events.
The 2017 vintage was very fruitful with 19 events endorsed by ISCA
(incl. brand new events such as CHAT, VIHAR, DiSS, GLU, etc). Let's maintain this
diversity of research domains in 2018! Applications should be submitted to the ISCA
workshop portal (www.isca-speech.org/iscaproposals/workshop.php). Note that the
Organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2018 is now inviting proposals for satellite
workshops. Submission deadline: 8/12/2017.
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| 2-7 | Opening of nominations for ISCA Fellows 2018
Opening of nominations for ISCA Fellows 2018
The ISCA Fellows Program recognizes and honors outstanding members who have made significant contributions to the science and technology of speech communication. To qualify for this distinction, a candidate must have been an ISCA member for five years or more with a minimum of ten years experience in the field. Nominations may be made by any ISCA member. A nomination should be supported by 4 references from ISCA Fellows or ISCA Board members. Current ISCA Board members are not eligible for nomination. The Fellows nomination form can be downloaded from http://bit.ly/2lwjfFr and the reference form from http://bit.ly/2iMJUNo. Nominations should be sent to fellows_nomination@isca-speech.org by February 10 2018. Those who plan to make a nomination are strongly advised to send a brief email to fellows_nomination@isca-speech.org. giving their candidate's name and affiliation before January 10.
More information can be found on the ISCA Honors webpages: http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/honors
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| 2-8 | Prix de thèse AFCP 2016 - 2017
APPEL A CANDIDATS
Prix de thèse AFCP 2016 - 2017
Depuis 2004, l'Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée (AFCP) décerne tous les
deux ans un prix scientifique pour une excellente thèse francophone du domaine (ou
anglophone issue d?un laboratoire francophone), afin de promouvoir les recherches en
communication parlée, fondamentales ou appliquées, en STIC, SHS ou SDV. Ce prix permet de
soutenir et diffuser les travaux de jeunes chercheurs du domaine.
Le prix est décerné par un jury composé des chercheurs élus du CA de l?AFCP. Il sera
officiellement remis lors des prochaines Journées d?Etudes sur la Parole, en 2018.
Le lauréat se verra remettre la somme de 500 euros et sera invité à présenter ses travaux
à la communauté de la communication parlée lors des JEPs 2018 (inscription offerte à la
conférence). Il se verra également offrir l?opportunité de publier sa thèse sous la
forme d?un livre dans la collection « Parole » (éditions CIPA).
*** ATTENTION : changement de périodicité du Prix de Thèse AFCP ***
Depuis l?édition précédente, le prix de thèse est attribué tous les deux ans. Le prix de
thèse 2016-2017 sera attribué à une thèse soutenue entre le 1er janvier 2016 et le 31
décembre 2017, soit sur une période de 2 ans. Mais, dans un souci de comparaison
équitable des dossiers, l?AFCP conserve le principe d?un appel à candidature par an. Le
présent appel vaut pour les thèses soutenues entre le 1er janvier 2017 et le 31 décembre
2017.
CALENDRIER
Date limite de dépôt du dossier : 31 janvier 2018
Décision du jury AFCP : avril-mai 2018
Remise officielle du prix : JEPs 2018
CONDITIONS DE CANDIDATURE A CET APPEL
Peut candidater au présent appel : tout docteur dont la thèse, préparée dans un
laboratoire francophone, et rédigée en français ou en anglais, a été soutenue entre le
1er janvier et le 31 décembre 2017. Toute candidature est limitée à une seule édition du
prix. Seuls les dossiers complets de candidature seront examinés.
CANDIDATURE
Pour candidater, il suffit de :
(1) Envoyer un e-mail déclarant votre intention de candidater, avec vos nom, prénom,
titre de la thèse, directeur de thèse, et date de la soutenance à:
camille.guinaudeau@limsi.fr. Vous recevrez un accusé de réception.
(2) Déposer votre manuscrit de thèse en PDF sur le serveur du site web de l?AFCP :
http://www.afcp-parole.org/spip.php?page=depot_these
(3) Envoyer votre dossier complet via un courrier électronique à l?adresse
camille.guinaudeau@limsi.fr. La pièce jointe sera constituée d?un fichier unique (nommé
VOTRENOM.pdf), contenant dans l?ordre : (i) le résumé de la thèse (2 pages) ; (ii) la
liste des publications ; (iii) les rapports scannés du jury et des rapporteurs de
soutenance de thèse ; (iv) une lettre de recommandation scannée du directeur de thèse ;
(v) un CV (avec coordonnées complètes dont e-mail).
_____________Date de dépôt du dossier : 31 janvier 2018____________
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