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| Friday, November 10, 2023 by Chris Wellekens |
3-1 ISCA Events
| 3-1-1 | (2024-07-02) 12th Speech Prosody Conference @Leiden, The Netherlands Dear Speech Prosody SIG Members,
Professor Barbosa and I are very pleased to announce that the 12th Speech Prosody Conference will take place in Leiden, the Netherlands, July 2-5, 2024, and will be organized by Professors Yiya Chen, Amalia Arvaniti, and Aoju Chen. (Of the 303 votes cast, 225 were for Leiden, 64 for Shanghai, and 14 indicated no preference.)
Also I'd like to remind everyone that nominations for SProSIG officers for 2022-2024 are being accepted still this week, using the form at http://sprosig.org/about.html, to Professor Keikichi Hirose. If you are considering nominating someone, including yourself, feel free to contact me or any current officer to discuss what's involved and what help is most needed.
Nigel Ward, SProSIG Chair Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso CCSB 3.0408, +1-915-747-6827 nigel@utep.edu https://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/
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| 3-1-2 | (2024-09-01) Cf Papers at Interspeech 2024, Greece Call for Papers Important Dates Interspeech is the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. Interspeech conferences emphasize interdisciplinary approaches addressing all aspects of speech science and technology, ranging from basic theories to advanced applications. Interspeech 2024 will feature oral and poster sessions, plenary talks by internationally renowned experts, tutorials, special sessions and challenges, show & tell, exhibits, and satellite events. The theme of Interspeech 2024 is Speech and Beyond. For decades, our focus has been on enhancing speech technologies across various dimensions: spontaneous speech, large vocabulary, different conditions, robustness in adverse acoustic environments, multiple languages, speaker verification, and language identification. This effort continues. As technology evolves, we are ready to embrace the next set of challenges and explore new application domains. The organizing committee of Interspeech 2024 is committed to the advancement of speech technology in the wider sense while seeking new challenges. A non-exhaustive list of topics that goes beyond the traditional Interspeech topics includes: speech and health, animal voice recognition and understanding, speech for memory and heritage, voice communication across ages, and human-machine interaction, including gaming, virtual and augmented reality, and robot audition. We hope you will join our vision on “Speech and Beyond”.
Paper Submission Interspeech 2024 seeks original and innovative papers covering all aspects of speech science and technology. The language of the conference is English, so papers must be written in English. The paper length is up to four pages in two columns with an additional page for references only. Submitted papers must conform to the format defined in the author’s kit provided on the conference website and may optionally be accompanied by multimedia files. Authors must declare that their contributions are original and that they have not submitted their papers elsewhere for publication. Papers must be submitted electronically and will be evaluated through rigorous peer review on the basis of novelty and originality, technical correctness, clarity of presentation, key strengths, and quality of references. The Technical Programme Committee will decide which papers to include in the conference programme using peer review as the primary criterion, with secondary criteria of addressing the conference theme, and diversity across the programme as a whole. BLUE SKY TRACK This year, we also encourage the authors to consider submitting to the new BLUE SKY track of highly innovative papers in fields or directions that have not yet been explored with strong theoretical or conceptual justification. Large-scale experimental evaluation will not be required for papers in this track. Incremental work will not be accepted. If you think your work satisfies these requirements, please consider submitting a paper to this challenging and competitive track. Please note that to achieve the objectives of this BLUE SKY track, we will ask the most experienced reviewers (mainly our ISCA Fellow members) to assess the proposals. Click here for further information regarding the procedure for submitting Papers.
VENUE Due to the current security situation in Israel and after consulting the ISCA board, the Interspeech 2024 organizing committee decided to move the conference venue to another country in the eastern Mediterranean - Greece. Details will follow.
To stay updated, we invite prospective participants to regularly visit the website www.interspeech2024.organd reach out to IS24 PCO, Ortra, at interspeech2024@ortra.com and/or ISCA conference coordinators at conferences@isca-speech.org.
Scientific Areas and Topics Interspeech 2024 embraces a broad range of science and technology in speech, language and communication, including – but not limited to – the following topics:
CONTACTS For all questions related to scientific aspects: tpcchairs@interspeech2024.org For general questions: generalchairs@interspeech2024.org
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| 3-1-3 | (2024-09-01) Cf Satellite events at Interspeech 2024, Greece Call for Satellite Events The Organizing Committee will facilitate the organization of satellite workshops to stimulate discussion in research areas related to speech and language in conjunction with Interspeech 2024. If you are interested in organizing a satellite workshop or would like a planned event to be listed as an official satellite event, please contact the Satellite Workshop Chairs at satelliteevents@interspeech2024.org. Note that all satellite workshops need to obtain ISCA endorsement. Proposals for the satellite workshops should be submitted to the ISCA workshop portal. A guideline for the submission can be found on the ISCA website by clicking here. Satellite Event organizers who would like to offer co-registration as part of the Interspeech 2024 conference registration form should contact Satellite Workshop Chairs at satelliteevents@interspeech2024.org The theme of Interspeech 2024 is Speech and Beyond. Whilst it is not a requirement to address this theme, we encourage proposers to keep it in mind. Important Dates Once the ISCA endorsement has been granted. Requests for co-registration with Interspeech 2024, submitted to satelliteevents@interspeech2024.org: 1st February 2024. Confirmation as an Interspeech 2024 satellite event: 22nd February 2024. Should you have any queries regarding the suitability of a prospective event as an Interspeech 2024 satellite workshop, please do not hesitate to get in touch with the Satellite Workshop Chairs at satelliteevents@interspeech2024.org. Satellite Workshop Chairs: Vered Aharonson, ACLP – Afeka Center for Language Processing, Afeka, the Academic College of Engineering in Tel-Aviv Helen Meng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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| 3-1-4 | (2024-09-01) Cf Show&Tell at Interspeech 2024, Greece Call for Show&Tell for Interspeech 2024 Important Dates Submissions for Show&Tell are invited for Interspeech 2024https://interspeech2024.org/.
Interspeech is the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. An important addition to the regular and special sessions is the Show&Tell demonstrations, where participants are given the opportunity to present engaging and interactive demonstrations to conference attendees. Contributions must highlight scientific or technological innovations of a concept relevant to Interspeech and may relate to a regular paper. Demonstrations should be based on innovations and fundamental research in the areas of speech communication, speech production, perception, acquisition, or speech and language technologies. This year, Interspeech is theme,Speech and Beyond, which may include, but is not limited to the topics: speech and health, animal voice recognition and understanding, speech for memory and heritage, voice communication across ages, and human-machine interaction, including gaming, virtual and augmented reality, and robot audition. Proposals, as well as any questions, should be submitted to the Show&Tell Chairs: Eli Tzirkel (GM, Israel) and Ofer Schwartz (CEVA, Israel) at show-tell@interspeech2024.org. VENUE Due to the current security situation in Israel and after consulting the ISCA board, the Interspeech 2024 organizing committee decided to move the conference venue to another country in the eastern Mediterranean - Greece. Details will follow.
To stay updated, we invite prospective participants to regularly visit the website www.interspeech2024.organd reach out to IS24 PCO, Ortra, at interspeech2024@ortra.com and/or ISCA conference coordinators at conferences@isca-speech.org.
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| 3-1-5 | (2024-09-01) Cf Special Session at Interspeech 2024, Greece. Call for Special Sessions for Interspeech 2024 Important Dates Submissions for special sessions are invited for INTERSPEECH 2024https://interspeech2024.org/. Special Sessions should cover interdisciplinary topics and/or important new emerging areas of interest in speech communication. Submissions related to the special focus of the conference’s theme,Speech and Beyond, are particularly welcome. Proposals should describe why the topic is relevant to the conference regular topics, and if applicable, to to conference’s theme. Special Sessions may include Challenges. Each special session proposal must contain the following information:
Proposals will be evaluated by the organizing committee in consultation with the ISCA Technical Committee for relevance and significance to the conference. Papers for approved Special Sessions must be submitted according to the same schedule and procedure as used for regular papers. Papers will undergo the same review process by anonymous and independent reviewers. Special Session organizers will be involved in the reviewer assignment and in the final decisions. Note that the ISCA board has decided that challenges/special sessions can run for a maximum of three years in total. If this rule makes your proposal ineligible, we encourage you to organize your event as an Interspeech Satellite Workshop instead. Proposals as well as any questions should be submitted to the Special Session Chairs: Mathew Magimai Doss (Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland) and Elizabeth Shriberg (Ellipsis Health, USA) at specialsessions@interspeech2024.org. VENUE Due to the current security situation in Israel and after consulting the ISCA board, the Interspeech 2024 organizing committee decided to move the conference venue to another country in the eastern Mediterranean - Greece. Details will follow.
To stay updated, we invite prospective participants to regularly visit the website www.interspeech2024.organd reach out to IS24 PCO, Ortra, at interspeech2024@ortra.com and/or ISCA conference coordinators at conferences@isca-speech.org.
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| 3-1-6 | (2024-09-01) Cf Tutorials at Interspeech 2024, Greece. Call for Tutorials for Interspeech 2024 Important Dates Submissions for tutorials are invited for Interspeech 2024https://interspeech2024.org/. The tutorial Day of Interspeech 2024 (on September 1st) is an opportunity for experts in a speech domain to deliver rich learning experiences to attendees in areas that include longstanding research challenges, current topics of research and emerging areas. The potential audience for tutorials includes a broad spectrum of Interspeech attendees ranging from experienced researchers with an established track record in speech science and technology, to early-stage researchers and researchers interested in learning about a new domain. In order to offer a high quality and diverse set of tutorials at Interspeech 2024, we invite proposals that address introductory and advanced topics in a tutorial style. Proposals that target early-stage researchers, as well as those aimed at experienced researchers who might want to delve deeper into a new speech-related area are welcome. Tutorials will be 3 hours in duration, and can introduce an emerging or currently active area of speech-related research, or present an overview of an established area of research, rather than focus on the presenter’s individual research area. The theme of Interspeech 2024 is Speech and Beyond. Whilst it is not a requirement to address this theme in a Tutorial, we encourage proposers to keep it in mind and to explore ways it might resonate in their Tutorial. We also encourage proposals that address the pillars of responsible AI (fairness, explainability, sustainability, security, …). Date and Venue of the Tutorial September 1st, 2024 – 8 tutorials (4 parallel tutorial sessions in the morning and afternoon) • Venue – TBA (but all in-person) Proposals should follow the proposed format:
Submission Procedure: Proposals for the Interspeech 2024 tutorials must be no more than 4 pages long and must conform to the format stated above (please, ensure that the headings listed above are identified clearly). Proposals should be submitted by email to tutorials@interspeech2024.org By submitting a proposal, the presenter(s) understand the ISCA policy of strongly encouraging video recording of the tutorial for education purposes if the proposal is accepted. Access to recording materials will be given through the ISCA Video Archives. Questions? Please contact our Tutorial Chairs (Isabel Trancoso INESC-ID / IST University of Lisbon, Portugal and Pedro A. Torres-Carrasquillo MIT LIncoln Lab, USA) at tutorials@interspeech2024.org VENUE Due to the current security situation in Israel and after consulting the ISCA board, the Interspeech 2024 organizing committee decided to move the conference venue to another country in the eastern Mediterranean - Greece. Details will follow.
To stay updated, we invite prospective participants to regularly visit the website www.interspeech2024.organd reach out to IS24 PCO, Ortra, at interspeech2024@ortra.com and/or ISCA conference coordinators at conferences@isca-speech.org.
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| 3-1-7 | (2024-09-01) Interspeech 2024, moved to Greece. INTERSPEECH 2024 Venue Due to the current security situation in Israel and after consulting the ISCA board, the Interspeech 2024 organizing committee decided to move the conference venue to another country in the eastern Mediterranean - Greece. Details will follow. We hope that one of the upcoming editions of Interspeech will take place in Jerusalem. To stay updated, we invite prospective participants to regularly visit the website www.interspeech2024.org and reach out to IS24 PCO, Ortra, at interspeech2024@ortra.com and/or ISCA conference coordinators at conferences@isca-speech.org.
Call for Paper
Important Dates
Paper Submission Portal Open: 17 January 2024 Paper Submission Deadline: 2 March 2024 Paper Update Deadline: 9 March 2024 Paper Acceptance Notification: 6 June 2024
Interspeech is the world's largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. Interspeech conferences emphasize interdisciplinary approaches addressing all aspects of speech science and technology, ranging from basic theories to advanced applications. Interspeech 2024 will feature oral and poster sessions, plenary talks by internationally renowned experts, tutorials, special sessions and challenges, show & tell, exhibits, and satellite events. The theme of Interspeech 2024 is Speech and Beyond. For decades, our focus has been on enhancing speech technologies across various dimensions: spontaneous speech, large vocabulary, different conditions, robustness in adverse acoustic environments, multiple languages, speaker verification, and language identification. This effort continues. As technology evolves, we are ready to embrace the next set of challenges and explore new application domains. The organizing committee of Interspeech 2024 is committed to the advancement of speech technology in the wider sense while seeking new challenges. A non-exhaustive list of topics that goes beyond the traditional Interspeech topics includes: speech and health, animal voice recognition and understanding, speech for memory and heritage, voice communication across ages, and human-machine interaction, including gaming, virtual and augmented reality, and robot audition. We hope you will join our vision on 'Speech and Beyond'.
Paper Submission
Interspeech 2024 seeks original and innovative papers covering all aspects of speech science and technology. The language of the conference is English, so papers must be written in English. The paper length is up to four pages in two columns with an additional page for references only. Submitted papers must conform to the format defined in the author's kit provided on the conference website and may optionally be accompanied by multimedia files. Authors must declare that their contributions are original and that they have not submitted their papers elsewhere for publication. Papers must be submitted electronically and will be evaluated through rigorous peer review on the basis of novelty and originality, technical correctness, clarity of presentation, key strengths, and quality of references. The Technical Programme Committee will decide which papers to include in the conference programme using peer review as the primary criterion, with secondary criteria of addressing the conference theme, and diversity across the programme as a whole.
Blue Sky Track
This year, we also encourage the authors to consider submitting to the new BLUE SKY track of highly innovative papers in fields or directions that have not yet been explored with strong theoretical or conceptual justification. Large-scale experimental evaluation will not be required for papers in this track. Incremental work will not be accepted. If you think your work satisfies these requirements, please consider submitting a paper to this challenging and competitive track. Please note that to achieve the objectives of this BLUE SKY track, we will ask the most experienced reviewers (mainly our ISCA Fellow members) to assess the proposals.
Scientific Areas and Topics
Interspeech 2024 embraces a broad range of science and technology in speech, language and communication, including - but not limited to - the following topics:
CONTACTS
For all questions related to scientific aspects: tpcchairs@interspeech2024.org
For general questions: generalchairs@interspeech2024.org
Call for Tutorials
Important Dates
Proposals of tutorials due: 15 February 2024 Notification of pre-selection: 31 March 2024 Final list of tutorials: 15 May 2024
Submissions for tutorials are invited for Interspeech 2024 https://interspeech2024.org/. The tutorial Day of Interspeech 2024 (on September 1st) is an opportunity for experts in a speech domain to deliver rich learning experiences to attendees in areas that include longstanding research challenges, current topics of research and emerging areas. The potential audience for tutorials includes a broad spectrum of Interspeech attendees ranging from experienced researchers with an established track record in speech science and technology, to early-stage researchers and researchers interested in learning about a new domain. In order to offer a high quality and diverse set of tutorials at Interspeech 2024, we invite proposals that address introductory and advanced topics in a tutorial style. Proposals that target early-stage researchers, as well as those aimed at experienced researchers who might want to delve deeper into a new speech-related area are welcome. Tutorials will be 3 hours in duration, and can introduce an emerging or currently active area of speech-related research, or present an overview of an established area of research, rather than focus on the presenter's individual research area. The theme of Interspeech 2024 is Speech and Beyond. Whilst it is not a requirement to address this theme in a Tutorial, we encourage proposers to keep it in mind and to explore ways it might resonate in their Tutorial. We also encourage proposals that address the pillars of responsible AI (fairness, explainability, sustainability, security, ...). Date and Venue of the Tutorial
Proposals should follow the proposed format:
Submission Procedure:
Proposals for the Interspeech 2024 tutorials must be no more than 4 pages long and must conform to the format stated above (please, ensure that the headings listed above are identified clearly).
Proposals should be submitted by email to tutorials@interspeech2024.org
By submitting a proposal, the presenter(s) understand the ISCA policy of strongly encouraging video recording of the tutorial for education purposes if the proposal is accepted. Access to recording materials will be given through the ISCA Video Archives.
Questions? Please contact our Tutorial Chairs (Isabel Trancoso INESC-ID / IST University of Lisbon, Portugal and Pedro A. Torres-Carrasquillo MIT LIncoln Lab, USA) at tutorials@interspeech2024.org
Call for Special Sessions
Important Dates
Proposals of special sessions due: 5 January 2024 Notification of pre-selection: 19 January 2024 Final list of special sessions: 6 June 2024 Submissions for special sessions are invited for INTERSPEECH 2024 https://interspeech2024.org/. Special Sessions should cover interdisciplinary topics and/or important new emerging areas of interest in speech communication. Submissions related to the special focus of the conference's theme, Speech and Beyond, are particularly welcome. Proposals should describe why the topic is relevant to the conference regular topics, and if applicable, to to conference's theme. Special Sessions may include Challenges. Each special session proposal must contain the following information:
Proposals will be evaluated by the organizing committee in consultation with the ISCA Technical Committee for relevance and significance to the conference. Papers for approved Special Sessions must be submitted according to the same schedule and procedure as used for regular papers. Papers will undergo the same review process by anonymous and independent reviewers. Special Session organizers will be involved in the reviewer assignment and in the final decisions. Note that the ISCA board has decided that challenges/special sessions can run for a maximum of three years in total. If this rule makes your proposal ineligible, we encourage you to organize your event as an Interspeech Satellite Workshop instead. Proposals as well as any questions should be submitted to the Special Session Chairs: Mathew Magimai Doss (Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland) and Elizabeth Shriberg (Ellipsis Health, USA) at specialsessions@interspeech2024.org.
Call for Show & Tell Important Dates Submissions for Show & Tell are invited for Interspeech 2024 https://interspeech2024.org/. Interspeech is the world's largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. An important addition to the regular and special sessions is the Show&Tell demonstrations, where participants are given the opportunity to present engaging and interactive demonstrations to conference attendees. Contributions must highlight scientific or technological innovations of a concept relevant to Interspeech and may relate to a regular paper. Demonstrations should be based on innovations and fundamental research in the areas of speech communication, speech production, perception, acquisition, or speech and language technologies. This year, Interspeech is theme, Speech and Beyond, which may include, but is not limited to the topics: speech and health, animal voice recognition and understanding, speech for memory and heritage, voice communication across ages, and human-machine interaction, including gaming, virtual and augmented reality, and robot audition. Proposals, as well as any questions, should be submitted to the Show&Tell Chairs: Eli Tzirkel (GM, Israel) and Ofer Schwartz (CEVA, Israel) at show-tell@interspeech2024.org.
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| 3-1-8 | (2025-08-17) Interspeech 2025, Rotterdam, The Netherlands INTERSPEECH 2025
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| 3-1-9 | (2026) Interspeech 2026, Australia The Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association is honoured to have been selected to host INTERSPEECH 2026. Our theme of Diversity & Equity ? Speaking Together strongly reflects Sydney and our broader region. Sydney is Oceania?s largest city and is also its most linguistically diverse: more than 300 different languages are spoken and 40% of Sydneysiders speak a language other than English at home. Consistent with the goals of ISCA ?to promote, in an international world-wide context, activities and exchanges in all fields related to speech communication science and technology?, INTERSPEECH Sydney will highlight the diversity of research in our field with a firm focus on equity and inclusivity. Recognizing the importance of multi-dimensional approaches to speech, INTERSPEECH 2026 will foster greater interdisciplinarity to better inform current and future work on speech science and technology. We look forward to welcoming all to Sydney!
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| 3-1-10 | ISCA INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL SEMINARS 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 ISCA INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL SEMINARSA 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 is thus possible for labs to engage international speakers who they wouldn't normally be able to afford.
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. If you make use of this scheme and arrange a seminar, please send brief details (lab, speaker, date) to education@isca-speech.org If you wish to join the scheme as a speaker, we need is a title, a short abstract, a 1 paragraph biopic and contact details. Please send them to education@isca-speech.org PS. The online seminar scheme is now up and running, with 7 speakers so far:
Jean-Luc Schwartz, Roger Moore, Martin Cooke, Sakriani Sakti, Thomas Hueber, John Hansen and Karen Livescu.
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| 3-1-11 | Speech Prosody courses Dear Speech Prosody SIG Members,
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