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.

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I have received the following 7 nominations.

Nigel Ward

Plinio Barbosa

Martine Grice

Aoju Chen

Xiaoming Jiang

Jürgen Trouvain

Katalin Mády

Voting requests will follow after we set up the voting page.

If I miss anyone else, let me know.

Sincerely,

Keikichi Hirose

Past President of SProSIG