Dear ISCA members,

Welcome to the June edition of ISCApad! I am writing to give you an update from ISCA Board.

In May 2017, ISCA completed the election of ISCA new board members for the term 2017-2021. The following eight members were elected to the ISCA Board. Congratulations!

Gérard BAILLY
Phil GREEN
Mark Allan HASEGAWA-JOHNSON
Tatsuya KAWAHARA
Katherine Mary KNILL
Hema A. MURTHY
Bhuvana RAMABHADRAN
Odette SCHARENBORG

On 20 August 2017, the Board will elect the new ISCA President. The election results will be announced in the General Assembly during INTERSPEECH.

The TPC of INTERSPEECH 2017 ended a 2-day meeting on 12 May 2017 in Stockholm and announced the paper acceptance. 

Get ready for INTERSPEECH 2017!

Haizhou Li, ISCA President

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Video archives are available in 

http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/archive/video-archive 

where keynote speeches from IS 2010 can be seen. You will also find video archives 

of many other conferences.

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The videos for the plenary talks at IS2016 are now accessible via https://www.superlectures.com/interspeech2016/ where all the videos of previous conferences are also available.

In case of problems, they can also be watched on our the website of the conference http://www.interspeech2016.org/

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ISCA Online Archive is now accessible directly from ISCA Web main page.

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Eighth Christian Benoît Award

supported by the International Speech Communication Association,

the Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée and GIPSA-lab

Extended deadline June 18, 2017

The Christian Benoît Award is delivered periodically by the Association Christian Benoit (**). It is

given to promising young scientists in the domain of SPEECH and FACE-TO-FACE

COMMUNICATION. It can concern basic or applied research projects.

The Award provides the elected scientist with financial support for the development of a short-term

research project that

(1) illustrates concretely the achievements of her/his research work

(2) could help promoting this work in the scientific community and to Grant Agencies

(3) gives an overall view of the state of the art in the research domain.

The proposed research project can have the form of a demonstrator, a technical product or of a

pedagogical multi-media product (Movie, Web-site, interactive software…).

The Award is valued at 7,500 Euros(*).

The commitments of the elected scientist are:

-- to attend the Interspeech2017 Conference in Stockholm, Sweden

-- to deliver the final product of the project within 2 years

-- to present her/his results in a workshop such as, among others, AVSP, ISSP, or

SpeechProsody.

In the application, the candidate should provide

--a statement of research interests (2 pages max),

--a detailed curriculum vitae including the list of a selection of the most relevant publications

for the project.

--a description of the proposed short-term research project (15 pages max) . The

description should include a presentation of the scientific and/or pedagogical objectives and

of the methodological aspects, a link with the former research work of the applicant, as well

as a detailed description of the provisional budget.

Applications will be evaluated by an international committee including experts in the field of Speech

and Face-to-Face communications and representatives of the Institutions supporting the award.

Applications should be sent to

Pascal.Perrier@gipsa-lab.fr

before Monday May 29, 2017

. Electronic submissions are mandatory.

The successful candidate will be notified by June 19, 2017. The Award will be delivered at the

Interspeech 2017 Conference in Stockholm (Sweden) (www.interspeech2017.org)

For further information, please contact Pascal Perrier.

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* 3,500 Euros will be given immediately; the remaining 4,000 Euros will be available at reception of the

multi-media project by the Christian Benoit Association. Travel and registration costs necessary to

attend the Interspeech 2017 Conference will have to be paid on this grant.

** For details about the Association Christian Benoît and the past awardees of the Christian Benoît

Award see http://www.gipsa-lab.fr/acb/

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ISCA Distinguished Lecturers for 2017-2018 are as follows.

For invitations, please take a look at http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/distinguished-lecturers and contact s-nakamura@is.naist.jp)

(1)   Professor Jennifer S. Cole, Linguistics, Northwestern University, USA

1. Individual differences and attentional effects on cue weighting for prosody perception
2. Prosodic entrainment and its relation to dialogue conditions
3. Memory for Prosody

(2)    Professor Laurence Devillers, Artificial Intelligence and Human-Machine Interaction, University of Paris-Sorbonne IV, LIMSI-CNRS, France

1. Towards social and affective relations with a robot : Joke and Empathy of a Robot/ECA
2. Affective and social robotics: engagement and evaluation
3. Affective and social Robotics aligned with Human Values : ethics by design

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