Jack Godfrey, 78, passed away at his home in Broussard, LA on Thursday August 27, 2020. Caring, generous, and honest, with an insatiable thirst for knowledge is an understated description of Jack Godfrey, as anyone who knew him will attest. He was born John Joseph Godfrey in Queens, NY on December 19, 1941. He attended Georgetown University where he earned his Ph.D. in Linguistics. He completed his post-doctorate work at Wright-Patterson Airforce Base in Dayton, OH where he met Nina, who would become his beloved wife of 44 years. Jack worked at the Center for Language and Speech Processing at The Johns Hopkins University, the US Dpt of Defense, U.of Pennsylvania, Texas Instruments, and U. of Texas.He did research in Psycholinguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition. He made significant contributions  from TI's 'Speak and Spell' to his leadership of the US Department of Defense's Human Language Technology Group at the National Security Agency.  He is survived by his wife, Nina Suru Godfrey of Broussard, La, his sons, Brian Godfrey of Pottsboro, TX, Eliot Godfrey of Broussard, LA; and Paul Godfrey and his wife, Stephanie, with granddaughters Eliza, Suru, and June Godfrey of Charlotte, NC. Jack was a man filled with energy, drive, and commitment to accomplishment, a true 'Man for Others.' He showed this every day of his private life, how he was involved in the community, and how he treated every person he met. He had a passion for travel, which brought him many memorable adventures with Nina around the world. He was an avid and accomplished fisherman who spent countless days on the water with his sons and closest friends, where he was truly happy. Speech Community misses  a highly appreciated researcher who inspired many scientists.

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We encourage all members tokeep contact with ISCA via our social nets. Also you will bde kept informed about all events on our website. 

This is particularly important in this time where due to the coronavirus, many modifications may be brought to the conference.

ISCA Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/iscaspeech/

ISCA Twitter : https://twitter.com/ISCAFOX

ISCA SAC Student Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/groups/98794207409/

 website : www.isca-speech.org

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Code-of-Conduct for Conference and Workshop Attendees

ISCA is committed to providing a pleasant conference experience
without harassment and discrimination for anyone, regardless of
gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, disability and physical
appearance.  We do not tolerate any verbal or non-verbal expressions
of harassment or discrimination.  Please note that it matters if a
person feels harassed or discriminated regardless of the original
intent of the expressions. In particular, sexual language and imagery
are not appropriate in any conference venue.  Conference participants
who engage in inappropriate behavior may be expelled from the
conference without a refund at the discretion of the conference
organizer. These persons may be included in a watchlist for future
ISCA-sponsored events.

If you are troubled by the behavior of another attendee at the
conference, or notice someone is in trouble, please speak immediately
to a member of conference staff or send a message to <ethics@isca-speech.org>.

Your concern will be heard in confidence and taken seriously to solve
the problem.

* Short version: (to be posted in a limited space)

ISCA is committed to a pleasant conference experience without
harassment and discrimination. Our code-of-conduct can be found at:
    http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/about-isca?id=278

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Code-of-Ethics for Authors

ISCA is committed to publishing high-quality journals and conference
proceedings.  To this end, all authors are requested to ensure they
adhere to ethical standards, specifically (but not limited to):

(1) the work does NOT include fabrication, falsification or any kind
of data breach.  Authors should keep their code and log data that
produced the results in the paper.  Authors are also encouraged to
open their code and dataset.

(2) the work does NOT include plagiarism or significant
self-plagiarism.  The work is NOT ALLOWED to be submitted to any other
conference, workshop or journal during the review process.  ISCA (and
conference organizers or journal editors) may use tools to detect
(self-)plagiarism and reject papers without review.

(3) the work does NOT use figures, photographs or any other kind of
content whose copyright is not owned by or granted to the authors,
except for proper quotations allowed by the copyright law.  ISCA (and
conference organizers or journal editors) may request authors to
provide evidence of permission to use the content for their work.

(4) the work does NOT include inappropriate content in terms of human
rights.  ISCA (and conference organizers or journal editors) may
request authors to provide evidence of approval from the host Ethics
Committee (Institutional Review Board or equivalent) that the work
meets their Institution's ethical requirements, and/or explicit
consent from the human subjects used in the work.

(5) all (co-)authors must be responsible and accountable for the work,
and consent to its submission.

If any concerns relating to this code are raised or reported, ISCA
(and conference organizers or journal editors) will convene their
Ethics Committee to investigate the matter and decide on appropriate
action including withdrawal of the paper and suspension of future
submissions by the authors.

ISCA also enforces the NO-show policy for conference papers.  Any
paper accepted into the technical program, but not presented on-site,
may be withdrawn from the official proceedings.  Please refer to
https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/conferences point 2) and 8).

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The papers are already publicly available, at https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/SpeechProsody_2020/ .  To also see the videos, you can register for the conference, for only 4000 Yen, at https://www.gavo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/sp2020_registration/vp/ .

I encourage you to contact the authors with questions, or just to let them know that you liked their work.  Since we won't be meeting physically this year, let's make the extra effort to stay connected as a community.

Many thanks to Professor Minematsu and the Organizing Committee for putting together an excellent set of papers and talks, in a time of adversity.

Nigel Ward, SProSIG Chair

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 ISCA is committed to supporting diversity in speech communication, and celebrating speech
communication as an exciting and diverse field of research and discovery. Moreover, ISCA
is committed to gender equality.

We are therefore delighted to announce that the database with names, affiliations,
positions, and research topics of women in speech science and speech technology,
originally started by Maxine Eskenazi, is now a wonderful, searchable website, created by
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson.

The website can be found at http://isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/diversity?id=264

The website can be used for, amongst others:
- Workshop and conference organisers to search for keynote and invited speakers,
panelists, and co-organisers
- Nominations for distinguished lecturers
- Norminations for awards, medals, fellowships, and prizes
- Prospective new faculty by faculty search committees

If you identify yourself as female and want to be added to this list, please follow the
instructions on the WomenNspeech website.

We hope this website will be useful to many!

Julia Hirschberg
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
Odette Scharenborg

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Dear colleagues and friends,
Dear members of SProSIG!

The pandemic has certainly kept you rather busy in the last few months, just like us here in Denmark. It definitely has messed up our academic calendar quite a bit - not only the teaching calendar, but also that of the conferences and events. My team and I should have hosted two conferences at the University of Southern Denmark in 2020, the 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) and the 13th Nordic Prosody (NP) Conference. We were really looking forward to welcoming you here, and the first papers had already been submitted - but as we all know, things turned out differently. The Nordic Prosody has now been postponed to summer 2022 in consultation with the NP community. However, and I am very happy to be able to say that the TAI WILL take place this year, more precisely from 6.-9. December 2021! Of course, a TAI conference during the Danish summer would have been nice. But, believe me, the winter in Scandinavia, and especially in the culturally rich German-Danish border area, has its charms too. Candlelight, hot drinks of all kinds, hot and sweet cakes as well as an ice rink, sweet Danish Christmas beer, an original German Christmas Market event and a night hike are waiting for you in December (if you can take part physically, see below).

This email is intended as a save-the-date announcement and to inform you that the TAI website is now available with new dates.
https://my.eventbuizz.com/event/1st-international-conference-on-tone-and-intonation--tai--2021/detail/programs

We are very pleased that all special sessions and keynotes from 2020 could be retained. Many thanks to the speakers and organizers! We will clarify all other (more technical) things in the next days and weeks and update the website accordingly.

The new deadline for submitting abstracts for TAI is July 4th, 2020. We kindly ask those of you, who already had submitted an abstract last year, to submit it again (if it is still relevant). The easychair portal will open up again in May. Encouraged by the positive feedback, we also stick to our concept of selecting contributions for TAI 'only' on the basis of abstracts. The full 5-page proceedings papers (formatted according to the ISCA template) are to be submitted AFTER the TAI conference (on February 27, 2022). In this way, everyone has the opportunity to incorporate the feedback that s/he received during the TAI into the preparation or revision of the final full papers. As is common practice also for Speech Prosody, the TAI proceedings will become part of the ISCA archive.

Finally, I would also like to point out with great pleasure that there will be an attractive satellite event of TAI, i.e. the 2nd International Conference on the Foundations of Speech (SEFOS II). It will take place right before TAI, i.e. from December 2-4, and at the same venue as the TAI. The theme of SEFOS II is 'Articulation and Prosody: Between Interface and Integration'. Keynote speakers will be Cécile Fougeron (CNRS-Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Paris, France) and Peter Birkholz (TU Dresden, Germany). Furthermore, we are pleased that we can offer you widely visible and widely indexed open-access proceedings for your SEFOS II papers. Papers will have about journal-paper length (10-15 pages, approx. 7000 words). We will publish them in cooperation with Sciendo / deGruyter. The full-paper submission deadline will be August 1st, 2021. A paper template will follow soon. All further information can be found on the SEFOS II website: https://my.eventbuizz.com/event/2--international-seminar-on-the-foundation-of-speech-8992/detail

*** In general, note that we are currently planning both TAI and SEFOS II as hybrid events. Physical participation is therefore not a prerequisite for submitting a paper to TAI and/or SEFOS II, and there will be reduced registration fees for the virtual participants! Nevertheless, of course we hope that many of you will come to visit us this winter in Sonderborg/DK! ***

We wish you all a good start into spring!
Oliver Niebuhr
(on behalf of the organizing teams of TAI and SEFOS)

Oliver Niebuhr
Associate Professor of Communication & Innovation
Founder of AllGoodSpeakers ApS
Head of the CIE Acoustics Lab
CIE - Centre for Industrial ElectronicsDear Speech Prosody SIG Members,

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For ISCA Fellows,

Now's the time of year that seminar programmes get fixed up.. please direct the attention of whoever organises your seminars to the ISCA INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL SEMINARS scheme (introduction below). There is now a good choice of speakers:  see

https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/distinguished-lecturers/online-seminars

 Phil Green

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ISCA INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL SEMINARS

A seminar programme is an important part of the life of a research lab, especially for its research students, but it's difficult for scientists to travel to give talks at the moment. However,  presentations may be given on line and, paradoxically, it may thus be possible for labs to engage international speakers who they wouldn't normally be able to afford.

ISCA is setting up a pool of speakers prepared to give on-line talks. In this way we can enhance the experience of students working in our field, often in difficult conditions. All we need is a title, a short abstract, a 1 paragraph biopic and contact details. Speakers may pre-record their talks if they wish, but they don't have to. It is up to the host lab to contact speakers and make the arrangements. Talks can be state-of-the-art, or tutorials.

We already have the distinguished lecturer programme as a starting point, and the DLs have been asked to consider lecturing remotely, with interaction.

If you are interested in joining this scheme as a speaker, please reply to this mail, with the brief details above.

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Professor Phil Green
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Computer Science
University of Sheffield
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Applications are open for the Eleventh Christian Benoît Award

The Christian Benoît Award is given biannually to a promising young scientist in the domain of SPEECH COMMUNICATION to further their career in the field. The focus of the award's research topic may emphasise basic science or applied research projects. The award is valued at 7,500 Euros and conferred by the International Speech Communication Association and the Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée.

Application Deadline is May 14, 2021 !!   

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