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Tuesday, September 10, 2019 by Chris Wellekens |
3-2-1 | Dear SProSIG members,
As previously announced, the next speech prosody conference will be held from May 24 to 28, 2020 at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
http://sp2020.jpn.org
The deadline for proposals for workshops, tutorials, and special sessions is Sep 15. If you have any interest in organizing such an activity, please send your proposal to office@sp2020.jpn.org.
We appreciate if you can circulate this also to your domestic speech prosody mailing lists.
Best wishes,
SP2020 chair Nobuaki MINEMATSU @ UTokyo office@sp2020.jpn.org
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3-2-2 | (2019-09-11) CfSS SIGDIAL 2019, Stockholm, Sweden SIGDIAL 2019 11?13 September 2019, Stockholm, Sweden
Call for Special Sessions http://workshops.sigdial.org/conference20
Special Session Submission Deadline: January 28, 2019 Special Session Notification: February 18, 2019
The Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) organizers welcome the submission of special session proposals. A SIGDIAL special session is the length of a regular session at the conference, and may be organized as a poster session, a panel session, a poster session with panel discussion, or an oral presentation session. Special sessions may, at the discretion of the SIGDIAL organizers, be held as parallel sessions.
The papers submitted to special sessions are handled by the special session organizers, but for the submitted papers to be in the SIGDIAL proceedings, they have to undergo the same review process as regular papers. The reviewers for the special session papers will be taken from the SIGDIAL program committee itself, taking into account the suggestions of the session organizers, and the program chairs will make acceptance decisions. In other words, special session organizers decide what appears in the session, while the program chairs decide what appears in the proceedings and the rest of the conference program.
We welcome special session proposals on any topic of interest to the discourse and dialogue communities. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to Explainable AI, Evaluation, Annotation, and End?to?end systems.
Submissions: Those wishing to organize a special session should prepare a two-page proposal containing: a summary of the topic of the special session; a list of organizers and sponsors; a list of people who may submit and participate in the session; and a requested format (poster/panel/oral session).
These proposals should be sent to conference[at]sigdial.org by the special session proposal deadline. Special session proposals will be reviewed jointly by the general chair and program co?chairs.
Links: Those wishing to propose a special session may want to look at some of the sessions organized at recent SIGDIAL meetings. http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference19/sessions.htm http://articulab.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/sigdial2016/
SIGDIAL 2019 Organizing Committee
General Chair: Satoshi Nakamura, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Program Chairs: Milica Ga?i?, Cambridge University, UK Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Australia
Local Chair: Gabriel Skantze, KTH, Sweden
Sponsorship Chair: Mikio Nakano, Honda Research Institute Japan, Japan
Mentoring Chair: Alex Papangelis, Uber AI, USA
Publication Chair: Stefan Ultes, Daimler AG, Germany
Publicity Chair: Koichiro Yoshino, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
SIGdial President: Jason Williams, Apple, USA
SIGdial Vice President: Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, USA
SIGdial Secretary: Vikram Ramanarayanan, Educational Testing Service (ETS) Research, USA
SIGdial Treasurer: Ethan Selfridge, Interactions, USA
SIGdial President Emeritus: Amanda Stent, Bloomberg, USA
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3-2-3 | (2019-09-11) SIGDIAL 2019 – 20th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Stockholm, Sweden *************************************************************************** SIGDIAL 2019 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** SIGDIAL 2019 – 20th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue September 11-13, 2019 (just before Interspeech 2019) https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference20/ *************************************************************************** [ apologies for multiple postings ] ** Registration Site is now open ** ** Early Registration Deadline: July 27, 2019 ** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in discourse and dialogue to both academic and industry researchers. After a series of successful previous meetings, this jubilee edition continues to span 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 2019 will be temporally co-located with Interspeech as a satellite event. INVITED SPEAKERS Dan Bohus, Microsoft Research, USA Mirella Lapata, University of Edinburgh, UK Helen Meng, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China VENUE SIGDIAL 2019 will be held in beautiful Stockholm at the Student Union building (THS) at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). A map of the venue and travel information can be found at https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference20/attend.html REGISTRATION Registration for SIGDIAL 2019 is being graciously handled by KTH, and can be accessed at https://axacoair.se/go?IM75WFJn Registration fees are as follows: Early bird, until July 27, Full: 4,000 SEK, Student: 2,800 SEK Regular, until September 3, Full: 5,600 SEK, Student: 3,600 SEK ACCEPTED PAPERS The list of accepted papers is available at the conference website: https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference20/papers.html ADDITIONAL EVENTS In addition to regular papers and poster sessions, the program will also feature Special Session on Implications of Deep Learning for Dialog Modeling http://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/deep/ Invited demo from the host institution Panel discussion on The Future of Dialogue Research (details TBC) Best of Journal of Discourse and Dialogue (details TBC) IMPORTANT DATES Final Paper Deadline (mentored papers) July 23, 2019 Early Registration Deadline July 27, 2019 Final Paper Deadline (all other papers) July 28, 2019 Late Registration Deadline September 3, 2019 Conference September 11-13, 2019 WEBSITES Conference website: https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference20/index.html SIGdial organization website: https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference20/index.html Interspeech 2019 website: https://www.interspeech2019.org/ Young Researchers Roundtable 2019 website: https://sites.google.com/site/yrrsds2019/home Semdial 2019 website: https://semdial2019.github.io ORGANIZING COMMITTEE For any questions, please contact the members of the organizing committee at conference@sigdial.org: General Chair: Satoshi Nakamura, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Program Chairs: Milica Gasic, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Australia Local Chair: Gabriel Skantze, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Sponsorship Chair: Mikio Nakano, Honda Research Institute Japan, Japan Mentoring Chair: Alexandros Papangelis, Uber AI, USA Publication Chair: Stefan Ultes, Daimler AG, Germany Publicity Chair: Koichiro Yoshino, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan The members of the executive board are SIGdial President: Jason Williams, Apple, USA SIGdial Vice President: Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, USA SIGdial Secretary: Vikram Ramanarayanan, Educational Testing Service (ETS) Research, USA SIGdial Treasurer: Ethan Selfridge, Interactions, USA
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3-2-4 | (2019-09-13) HSCR19 - The 3rd International Workshop on the HISTORY OF SPEECH COMMUNICATION RESEARCH, Vienna, Austria HSCR19 - The 3rd International Workshop on the HISTORY OF SPEECH COMMUNICATION RESEARCH 13-14 September, 2019 in Vienna, Austria <https://hscr19.kfs.oeaw.ac.at>
CALL FOR PAPERS The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers that are interested in historical aspects of all areas of speech communication research (SCR) with a focus on the interdisciplinary nature of the different fields of research. A special interest of the 2019 workshop is on the relation between science and technology that can be exemplified through the history of SCR ? including methods from the 20th century that are no longer the state-of-the-art but of historical relevance. Interesting questions in this respect are: How can knowledge transfers between science and technology be exemplified by the history of SCR? What is the relation between SCR and artistic practices? How was speech communication research influenced by the medical sciences? Like the past HSCR workshops that were held in 2015 in Dresden and 2017 in Helsinki this workshop is a satellite event of the INTERSPEECH conference which will be held in Graz, Austria <https://www.interspeech2019.org/>, a meeting that advertises with the Austro-Hungarian speech communication pioneer Wolfgang von Kempelen. Invited speaker is Peter Donhauser from the Institute for Media Archeology in Vienna.
Important Dates: Full paper submission: May 24, 2019 Notification of acceptance: July 1, 2019 Camera-ready paper submission: July 19, 2019 Workshop: September 13-14, 2019
The proceedings will be published in the book series 'Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation' at TUDpress (Technical University Dresden). Workshop organisation: Michael Pucher, Acoustics Research Institute, Vienna, Austria Juergen Trouvain, Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany Carina Lozo, Acoustics Research Institute, Vienna, Austria
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3-2-5 | (2019-09-20) SSW10 - The 10th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop, Vienna, Austria Call for Papers
SSW10 - The 10th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop
20-22 September 2019
Vienna, Austria
The 10th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop will be held in Vienna, Austria, 20-22 September 2019. The workshop is a satellite event of the INTERSPEECH 2019 conference in Graz, Austria.
Confirmed invited speakers
Aäron van den Oord (Google DeepMind, UK)
Claire Gardent (CNRS, France)
Workshop topics
Papers in all areas of speech synthesis technology are encouraged to be submitted, including but not limited to:
Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion for synthesis
Text processing for speech synthesis (text normalization, syntactic and semantic analysis)
Segmental-level and/or concatenative synthesis
Signal processing/statistical model for synthesis
Speech synthesis paradigms and methods; articulatory synthesis, parametric synthesis etc.
Prosody modeling and generation
Expression, emotion and personality generation
Voice conversion and modification, morphing
Concept-to-speech conversion speech synthesis in dialog systems
Avatars and talking faces
Cross-lingual and multilingual aspects for synthesis
Applications of synthesis technologies to communication disorders
TTS for embedded devices and computational issues
Tools and data for speech synthesis
Quality assessment/evaluation metrics in synthesis
Singing synthesis
Synthesis of non-human vocalisations
End-to-end text-to-speech synthesis
Direct speech waveform modelling and generation
Speech synthesis using non-ideal data (?found?, user-contributed, etc.)
Natural language generation for speech synthesis
Special topic: Synthesis of non-standard language varieties (sociolects, dialects, second language varieties)
Call for Demos
We are planning to have a demo session to showcase new developments in speech synthesis. If you have some demonstrations of your work that does not really fit in a regular oral or poster presentation, please let us know.
The workshop program will consist of a single track with invited talks, oral and poster presentations. Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, 4-6 page papers, including figures and references. Papers can be submitted via the website http://ssw10.oeaw.ac.at.
Important dates:
Deadline for paper submission: May 10th, 2019
Final deadline for paper submission: May 17th, 2019
Notification of acceptance: July 1st, 2019
Camera-ready final versions: July 19th, 2019
Workshop: 20-22 September 2019
Blizzard Challenge Workshop 2019: 23. September
We are looking forward to seeing you in Vienna.
Sincerely,
The SSW organising committee (Michael Pucher, Junichi Yamagishi, Sebastian Le Maguer, Christian Kaseß, Friedrich Neubarth)
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3-2-6 | (2019-09-20) The 8th ISCA Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2019), Graz, Austria Event: The 8th ISCA Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2019) Location: Graz, Austria Dates: September 20 - 21, 2019 Website: https://sites.google.com/view/slate2019
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