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ISCApad #312 |
| Friday, June 07, 2024 by Chris Wellekens |
2 ISCA News
| 2-1 | Message of Dr Odette Scharenborg, ISCA president
Dear ISCA members,
Technical Program Committee Meeting in Paris On 23 and 24 May the technical program committee meeting (TPC meeting) was held in Paris, France. The Interspeech 2024 TPC and lead area chairs (ACs) from the various areas met for two days to discuss paper decisions and sessions amongst others. The decisions for acceptance or rejection will likely have already been send out when you are reading this President’s message.
I sincerely want to thank
I am sure Interspeech 2024 will again be an amazing conference!
Information about accommodations at Interspeech 2024, Kos The organising committee of Interspeech 2024 has been able to arrange for special rates for conference participants. A variety of hotels differing in price are available for Interspeech 2024. Participants can book their accommodation while registering to the conference. All these hotels are located within the Island of Kos in close proximity to the conference venue.
The following hotels have been secured for the conference: https://interspeech2024.org/accommodation-hotels/
Please note that public transportation is not so frequent and hotels in the city center are a lengthy walk away from the conference center. Traffic can also be a problem with the tourist crowd in September. However, Kos has many safe cycle paths, and bicycles can be rented at many locations. So, if you want to book your accommodation further away from the conference center, cycling is a great option!
It is recommended that accommodation is booked early for the meeting in order to secure your required housing arrangements. It is possible to share a room.
More information will be announced through the Interspeech 2024 website https://interspeech2024.org/.
Student activities at Speech Prosody and Interspeech ISCA-SAC will again be organising several great events for graduate (PhD) students at Interspeech and, for the first time, at Speech Prosody, Leiden, the Netherlands. These include the Doctoral Consortium, Mentoring, and Students meet Experts. Please check out their website http://www.isca-students.org/sacweb/ and sign up!
In conjunction with Interspeech 2024, the Young Female Researcher in Speech Science and Technology Workshop (YFRSW) will be organised for the 8th time! YFRSW is targeted at undergraduate (BA/BSc, MA/MSc) students. More information can be found at https://sites.google.com/view/yfrsw-2024.
See you all in Kos Island, Greece.
Odette Scharenborg ISCA President
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| 2-2 | ELRA/ISCA Special Interest Group: Under-resourced Languages (SIGUL) ELRA/ISCA Special Interest Group: Under-resourced Languages (SIGUL) Created in April 2017, SIGUL is a joint Special Interest Group of the European Language Resources Association (ELRA) and of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). This year, SIGUL enters the fifth year and now has more than 300 members. The SIGUL Board is elected every two years, and last year SIGUL had a new Board officer: Chair and ISCA liaison representative: Sakriani Sakti (JAIST, Japan) Co-chair and ELRA liaison representative: Claudia Soria (CNR-ILC, Italy) Secretary: Maite Melero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)
SIGUL has organized various events, including the Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages (SLTU) Workshop Series, which has been organized since 2008, and Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages (CCURL), which has been organized as LREC Workshop since 2014. From this year, the tradition of CCURL-SLTU will be united into one SIGUL Workshop and planned to be held as a Satellite Workshop of LREC or INTERSPEECH. The 1st Annual Meeting of the ELRA/ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-Resourced Languages (SIGUL 2022) will be held as Satellite Workshop of LREC 2022, Marseille (FR), 24-25 June 2022. The SIGUL venue will provide a forum for the presentation of cutting-edge research in NLP/SLP for under-resourced languages to both academic and industry researchers, and also offer a venue where researchers in different disciplines and from varied backgrounds can fruitfully explore new areas of intellectual and practical development while honoring their common interest of sustaining less-resourced languages. Topics include but are not limited to:
We also invite position papers on methodological, ethical, or institutional issues. Important Dates:
More details can be found on the workshop web page: https://sigul-2022.ilc.cnr.it/
SIGUL Board Sakriani Sakti Claudia Soria Maite Melero
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| 2-3 | ISCA Language SIGS ISCA supports speech communication research activities in various languages. The individual languages have equal interest, but they may involve have different technical or scientific problems. For example, some languages are tonal, while others are not; Some languages have only one writing system, while others have several. In the ISCA community, we have 6 language Special Interest Groups (SIGs) for Chinese, French, Italian, Iberian, Indian, and Russian. Each SIG is organised by researchers who speak the language of interest as L1 and others who have a technical or scientific interest in the language. Each SIG sponsors domestic and international research activities, and representative members of the SIGs attend a Lang SIG meeting every year during the INTERSPEECH conference. In this meeting, recent activities of each SIG are reported, and new ideas are exchanged. We also review what ISCA can do for the SIGs and what the SIGs can do for ISCA. Each SIG has its own web page, and you can visit the pages here. Prof. Nobuaki MINEMATSU The University of Tokyo Japan
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| 2-4 | ISCA Special Interest Group (SIG) 'Spoken Language Translation'
ISCA SIG “Spoken Language Translation” Aims. The SIG SLT covers all aspects of spoken language translation — simultaneous translation and interpretation, speech dubbing, speech-to-text translation, speech-to-speech translation, cross-lingual communication including paralinguistic, emotional or multimodal information, and related areas SIG SLT will (a) provide members of ISCA with a special interest in spoken language translation and its related areas with a means of exchanging news of recent research developments and other matters of interest in spoken language translation; (b) organize challenges and evaluation campaigns; (c) sponsor and organize the International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), meetings, satellites, and tutorial workshops in spoken language translation, operating within the framework of ISCA's by-laws for SIGs; and (d) make available open-source code and data resources, best practices and tools, and evaluation metrics relevant to spoken language translation.
Motivation. Recent interest in speech translation and simultaneous translation by machine has been growing explosively, due to continued performance advances and a growing international need for simultaneous translation and interpretation, speech dubbing, speech-to-text translation, speech-to-speech translation, cross-lingual communication including paralinguistic, emotional or multimodal information, and related areas. The under-covered elements in the current research are, for instance, incremental simultaneous speech-to-speech translation, paralinguistic translation, speaking style translation across languages. The proposed SIG will be organized by the members who are interested in spoken language translation/interpretation from various related areas such as ASR, TTS, and MT. SIG SLT emerged from over two decades of organizing the International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) and its predecessor C-Star, scaling operations in response to significant growth in the field. The organizers of IWSLT and partners believe it is now time to join with ISCA by creating an ISCA SIG. IWSLT has a 15-year track record of profitability; it runs the premier benchmarking campaign on spoken language translation annually accompanied by an international scientific conference to present and discuss results.
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| 2-5 | ISCA-PEDRAC: a new service of ISCA. ISCA-PECRAC (Postdoc & Early Career Researcher Advisory Committee) 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:
Contacts: Yaru Wu (yaru.wu@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr) Berrak Sisman (berrak_sisman@sutd.edu.sg)
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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 ISCA is committed to supporting diversity in speech communication, and celebrating speech
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| 2-8 | ISCA Distinguished Lecturer for 2023-2024 We are pleased to announce the Distinguished Lecturer for 2023-2024:
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| 2-9 | Nominations for the next SProSIG officers Dear Fellow Members of SProSIG,
The constitution of the Speech Prosody SIG calls for election of officers once every two years. Accordingly, acting on behalf of the Permanent Advisory Council (PAC) of SProSIG, I welcome nominations for officers for the 2024 - 2026 term. The PAC has approved the following schedule and procedure:
June 6 - July 26: Nominations for SProSIG officers may be sent to me, Past President of SProSIG, at hirose@gavo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp (also cc to hirokeikichi@yahoo.co.jp to prevent mail delivering errors). Please use the nomination form at http://sprosig.org/assets/nomination-form.doc . Nominations must be submitted by a SProSIG member (self-nominations are accepted), and must include a 50-200 words statement of qualifications and vision. The person being nominated must be a SProSIG member, and must agree to hold the position if elected.
July 26 – July 30: The current officers were first elected in 2018 and re-elected in 2020 and 2022. They are eligible to be re-elected, and since they have all expressed the willingness to serve another term, if there are no other nominations, the Permanent Advisory Committee will approve the current officers to serve a fourth term. The current officers are Plinio Barbosa, Aoju Chen, Hongwei Ding, Martine Grice, and Nigel Ward (Chair). Otherwise,
July 30- August 20. The Permanent Advisory Committee will post the candidates' statements at sprosig.org and an election will be held. The new officers will then be announced, and decide among themselves their roles.
August 27. The role of the new officers will be decided after election.
Sincerely, Keikichi Hirose Past President of SProSIG
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