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ISCApad #281 |
Monday, November 08, 2021 by Chris Wellekens |
2-1 | Message from ISCA president Prof. Sebastian Möller
Dear ISCA members and friends,
The new ISCA board has taken up its duties. As usual, changes come with obstacles, but also with a good power for innovation.
On the low side, you might have noted that we have again been object of scamming attacks. This time, the attacker apparently has had a very wide reach, and asked for money transfer to support ISCA logistics. While we are still in the process of identifying the source, and to make the ISCA website and IT infrastructure more secure, there will be no 100% security against such attacks. We thus have to rely on the intuition of our members. In particular, beware of begging messages which appear to come from your boss, or someone in authority, in our case the ISCA president. In no way, ISCA would approach you to transfer money in whatever way (except in the process of your membership renewal).
On the positive side, there have been some activities related to our Special Interest Groups (SIGs). There is an initiative to start a new regional SIG related to Africa, and Mahadeva Prasanna has scheduled a preparation workshop for December. We received comments on the low visibility of SIGs and their activities; as a first measure, we proposed that all SIGs should start to prepare introductory notes ? just like this one ? for the upcoming ISCApads. Thus, next month, you will hopefully see the first of this series of notes at this place. We would like to encourage such introductory notes also for other activities related to ISCA: If you are member of one of the related groups, please feel free to write up some useful information to attract new members and activities, and send them to Chris Wellekens.
In the next months, ISCA will have to work on three important topics:
We would be happy to receive your opinion and suggestions on all of these topics.
Finally, Meg Zellers and Jianhua Tao would like to remind you that we still seek bids for Interspeech 2025. Details on the bidding process can be found on the ISCA web site, and the bidding deadline is December 15.
Have a good read of ISCA pad, as usual excellently compiled by Chris Wellekens.
Odette Scharenborg (ISCA vice president) Sebastian Möller (ISCA president)
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2-2 | Call for Bids for Interspeech 2025 We would like to emphasize this as we actively seek bids for Interspeech 2025. Details on the bidding process can be found on the ISCA web site. The most important part of a bid is an enthusiastic and diverse team from our research community, willing to invest effort into the organization of such a conference over a period of 3-4 years. Having experience with organizing smaller-scale events (such as ITRWs or other ISCA-endorsed workshops) is a plus, as well as some visibility within our community. However, as part of the process, the ISCA board ? and in particular the conference coordinators ? are eager to offer support and feedback for the preparation of a successful bid. In fact, many bids which were not successful on their first submission are continuously improved in order to produce the best possible conference in the end.
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2-3 | ISCA-PEDRAC: a new service of ISCA. ISCA-PECRAC (Postdoc & Early Career Researcher Advisory Committee) is pleased to invite postdoc & early career researchers to participate in the 1st Early Career Researcher Annual Gathering @ Interspeech 2021 (online this year).
The Early Career Researcher Annual Gathering aims to provide an opportunity for postdoc & early career researchers to meet and communicate at INTERSPEECH. In the framework of ISCA-PECRAC, we would like:
1st Early Career Researcher Annual Gathering @ Interspeech 2021 Time : August 30 at 18:00 - Brno time (preliminary slot) Location : Online Program :
Contacts: Yaru Wu (yaru.wu@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr) Berrak Sisman (berrak_sisman@sutd.edu.sg)
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2-4 | Call for DL nominations for 2022-2023 Nominations for ISCA distinguished lecturers.
A template form for nomination is available from ISCA Web ## Please link to the nomination Please note that the nominator must ensure the candidate is willing to serve if elected. Also, nominations from previous years will be only considered if updated. Finally, self-nominations are permitted, but must include a letter of support from an ISCA Fellow or Board Member.
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2-5 | ISCA Distinguished Lecturer for 2021-2022 ISCA Distinguished Lecturer for 2021-2022
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2-6 | 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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2-7 | Women in Speech Research
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2-8 | Code-of-Conduct for Conference and Workshop Attendees Code-of-Conduct for Conference and Workshop Attendees
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2-9 | Code-of-Ethics for Authors (updated) Code of Ethics for Authors
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2-10 | Reminder ISCA International virtual seminars REMINDER: ISCA INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL SEMINARS Now's the time of year to start organising your seminar programme for the coming academic year. Don't forget that ISCA has recruited 17 leading researchers in Speech Communication prepared to give seminars on line. For instance, Gustav Henter of KTH Stockholm comments: As the person responsible for seminars at the Division of Speech, Music and Hearing (TMH) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, in Stockholm, Sweden, I would like to thank you for the excellent initiative to set up ISCA international virtual seminars during the pandemic. Thus far our division has made use of this scheme on three occasions: The idea to invite distinguished speakers virtually has been widely appreciated by the department. It is likely that we may schedule further virtual seminar from your pool for our autumn semester seminars as well. For details, follow the entry Online Seminars in the left menu on the ISCA home page, https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb
-- ************************ Professor Phil Green SpandH Computer Science University of Sheffield ************************
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2-11 | IEEE SPS ME-UYR (Mentoring Experiences for Underrepresented Young Researchers)
Friends, The IEEE SPS ME-UYR (Mentoring Experiences for Underrepresented Young Researchers) steering committee is proposing a new mentoring program for young IEEE SPS researchers and would like to invite you to join as potential student mentors. The program has been started this year to address a critical diversity issue in IEEE as well as other spoken language processing and signal processing organizations: the low percentage of women and underrepresented minorities. The number of female researchers in spoken language processing and signal processing within the IEEE community is about 10%. The numbers for other underrepresented minorities in other technical areas within signal processing are similar or even worse. To address this imbalance, this new program will connect young researchers from underrepresented groups with established researchers in signal processing to support a student research project coordinated with the mentor which is of significant interest to both. Each project will last for 9 months. The young researchers will also be supported with travel funds to attend one conference or workshop after the project. An event in conjunction with the annual ICASSP conference will also be supported for the students to bring students and mentors together to share their experiences. In this message, the ME-UYR committee is first recruiting potential mentors interested in increasing diversity within IEEE SPS and identifying their areas of research interest. We will send out a call to potential student participants asking them to sign up for an online 'students meet mentors' event which we will also invite you to. This online event will be designed to match students with mentors in their field. Once you have accepted one of the students as your mentee the two of you will write a one-page proposal together describing a research plan of interest to you both and submit it to our evaluation committee for review (the deadline is December 1, 2021). This event will be held on October 28 at 11am Eastern Time. Please send an email to sp-me-uyr@listserv.ieee.org to register for the event. Once mentors and students have been connected, the 9-month research mentoring projects will begin. We expect the first ME-UYR program to support about 12 projects in IEEE-SPS. A more detailed description of the program can be found here: https://signalprocessingsociety.org/community-involvement/me-uyr-mentoring-experiences-underrepresented-young-researchers-program . As a highly respected researcher in IEEE SPS organizations, we would very much like you to participate with us in this program. The lasting benefits to young diversity students themselves as well as to IEEE itself and the signal processing societies are extremely significant, so we would really appreciate your acceptance! Please respond by October 20 if you can join. Sincerely yours, IEEE SPS ME-UYR Committee Irene Amerini Oliver Cossairt Mark Hasegawa-Johnson Julia Hirschberg Ina Kodrasi Arvind Rao Tirza Routtenberg Odette Scharenborg
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2-12 | 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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