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ISCApad #274 |
Sunday, April 11, 2021 by Chris Wellekens |
2-1 | Message from our President Professor John H.L.Hansen
Apr. 7, 2021
Dear ISCA members:
Welcome to the next installment of the ISCApad for April 2021. In this monthly message to all our members, I will highlight recent activities for ISCA, Interspeech events, upcoming opportunities to contribute/serve/participate in ISCA, and the announcement of ISCA Fellows for 2021, and ISCA Medal for Service.
The world still addresses COVID19 Pandemic, but multiple vaccines continue to make an impact and we continue to hope that the days ahead will be better. Please believe in the science and do all you can to get your vaccine shot as well as encourage others to get vaccinated.
INTERSPEECH-2021 (Hybrid Virtual/In-Person): [http://www.interspeech2021.org/] Brno, Czech Republic (Aug. 30 – Sept. 3, 2021)
Paper Submissions: thanks to the many authors who have submitted their latest work to INTERSPEECH-2021. The paper submission deadline (initial upload: March 26, Final submission: April 2) for final submission has now passed and 2064 papers have been submitted for consideration for INTERSPEECH-2021. This level of submissions confirms the communities continued efforts in the field of speech communication. The following shows upcoming deadlines:
More details are included in this issue of the ISCApad.
2021 ISCA FELLOWS Announced: Over the past few months, the ISCA Fellows Selection Committee has worked to seek out nominations and endorsements for this year’s ISCA Fellows selection. The ISCA Fellows Selection Committee maintains a rigorous process of collecting and evaluating all nominations (more details are found on the ISCA webpage at: https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/honors/fellows). After extensive evaluations and reviews, the following eight distinguished researchers will be elevated to the status of ISCA FELLOW for 2021. Their citations as well as affiliations are highlighted below. Please join me in congratulating these well deserving colleagues for their research contributions to the field of speech communications! All will be recognized at ISCA INTERSPEECH-2021 this fall.
2021 ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement: I again note here and congratulate the recipient of the 2021 ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany): “for pioneering and seminal contributions to data-driven methods for automatic speech recognition and machine translation.”! This is the highest ISCA award for science achievement, and certainly well deserved for the remarkable contributions Prof. Ney has made to the field of speech communications, and in particular to automatic speech recognition/machine translation.
ISCA Special Service Medal: This year, the ISCA Board has also spent time to review the impact of a individuals for our society. While ISCA was born out of the combined collaborative efforts of two previous societies, ESCA – European Speech Communication Association, and PC-ICSLP: The Permanent Council of the Inter. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing, ISCA is now a worldwide organization dedicated to the advancement of research, education, training, and understanding of all forms of speech communications for all people. Since our inception in 2000, the ISCA Special Service Medal has been awarded a total of eight times, with four recipients last year, in recognizing many in the field for their commitment to service for our society. The ISCA Board has reviewed the service, leadership and educational contributions made by a our ISCA members, and this year we recognize Prof. Martin Cooke as the 2021 ISCA Service Medal award recipient. Please join me in congratulating Prof. Cooke, who will be recognized at the INTERSPEECH-2021 conference.
Prof. Martin Cooke: “For sustained service to ISCA and the Speech Communication community for Publications and Community Support.”
ISCA STUDENT SAC (Student Activity Committee): Get connected with the student membership of ISCA!
Finally, I would like to highlight a new point of engagement for our ISCA Student members! The ISCA Student SAC (Student Activity Committee) has created a PodCast to help offer opportunities to hear fellow students, get insights on career planning, or hear some new innovative ideas from our community membership. The first episode of Speech Pitch, ISCA-SAC’s new podcast is located at this link: [click here]. The ISCA Community is always committed to supporting student career development and engagement. Please share and let us know your feedback! (A special thanks to the ISCA SAC for this wonderful edition – even if I am not sure if I want fingers as long as legs, or legs as long as fingers?!?)
We hope all of you are staying safe, and continue to work/collaborate and contribute to both the science and technology advancements in Speech Communication. We look forward to seeing you all virtually or in person at ISCA INTERSPEECH-2021 this year in Brno, Czech Republic.
As always, we welcome feedback and input from the ISCA community – if you have suggestions for our society or want to be involved, please let us know!
Until next month, stay safe and stay connected to our community!
John H.L. Hansen (ISCA President)
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2-2 | ISCA Board Election 1st-25th April 2021
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2-3 | Election of members for the Board of ISCA (4-year term: 2021-2025) Election of members for the Board of ISCA (4-year term: 2021-2025)
The ISCA Board currently has 14 members from 9 countries (see full list below). Members are elected to the Board for a period of four years and no member may serve on the Board for more than two consecutive terms. The following Board members will have served for two terms of 4 years in August so will be retiring: Gérard BAILLY, Mark HASAGEWA-JOHNSON, Kate KNILL. Phil GREEN, Tatsuya KAWAHARA, Hema MURTHY, Bhuvana RAMABHADRAN, Odette SCHARENBORG will be ending their first term. Thus we have openings for 8 members for the 2021-2025 term. In accordance with the ISCA by-laws, elections to the Board will take place in April-May 2021. We invite nominations from the ISCA membership. Each nomination requires the support of three members of the Association and agreement from the candidate (e.g., by email). The ISCA statutes specify a maximum of three Board members from any one country. Each ISCA member will be asked to cast a anonymous ballot in the election, via a survey website. Members elected to the Board will be expected to have one of the areas of responsibility listed below, to commit time to furthering the work of ISCA in their area, to attend the two-day Board meetings that take place at each annual INTERSPEECH conference and to participate in additional virtual meetings during the year (teleconferences). All candidates should be aware of these obligations and commit themselves to fulfilling them before agreeing to be nominated. The Board will accept nominations either from proposers or self-nominations, as long as indication of support is provided. Please send your nomination(s) to the ISCA Secretariat secretariat@isca-speech.org BEFORE March 1st, 2021 (Monday) with the following information: Full Name and Title: Please do not hesitate to contact us if you require further information about the nomination process or about duties of ISCA Board members. Areas: Current Board: John HANSEN (ISCA President)
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2-4 | ISCA social networks 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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2-5 | Code-of-Conduct for Conference and Workshop Attendees Code-of-Conduct for Conference and Workshop Attendees
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2-6 | Code-of-Ethics for Authors Code-of-Ethics for Authors
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2-7 | Women in Speech Research
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2-8 | Publications and Videos of Speech Prosody 2020 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/ .
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2-9 | Proposals for Speech Prosody events Dear colleagues and friends,
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2-10 | International virtual seminars: call for speakers 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 ****************************************************************************************** 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. 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.
-- ************************ Professor Phil Green SpandH Computer Science University of Sheffield ************************
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2-11 | Applications are open for the Eleventh Christian BenoĆ®t AwardApplications are open for the Eleventh Christian Benoît AwardThe 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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