Dear ISCA Members,

Welcome to the August edition of ISCApad!  First of all, let me wish many of you a wonderful summer!

In the past months, ISCA members have contributed to the preparation of INTERSPEECH 2017, as authors, reviewers, organizers, volunteers and cheerleaders. Your contributions have made a difference to the conference!

As INTERSPEECH is only few days away, I trust that you are gearing up for the event. We would like to give you a heads up.

INTERSPEECH 2017 is special.  We will embrace a theme of 'Situated Interaction', that is not only because speech is a situated interaction, but also speech science and technology are well situated to interact with academia and industry in the conference. All 9 tutorials will be on Sunday (20 August). The Main Conference runs from Monday (21 August) to Thursday (24 August). Please be reminded that ISCA General Assembly is on Monday (21 August) and Conference Banquet is on Wednesday (23 August). The Board will announce ISCA Medalist 2017 and ISCA Fellow Class 2017 during the Opening Ceremony.

INTERSPEECH 2017 will be held at Stockholm University campus, which is situated on the northern part of The Royal National City Park, served by Stockholm?s metropolitan?s good public transportation network. More information on travel and local transportation can be found at the conference website.

 You can only experience the excitement of INTERSPEECH by joining the event. Plan your trip early!

 ISCA Board looks forward to welcoming you in Stockholm!

 Haizhou Li, President

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The Interspeech 2017's organization committee is very proud to announce that we already have a record number of 1845 conference participants, including 1650 regular registrations. The high number of participants raises some inevitable logistics issues that we are dealing with and here is some information on how we will handle the situation:

For the opening ceremony, there will be two overflow lecture halls for streaming of the ceremony from Aula Magna

The plenary sessions will be recorded and streamed to an additional lecture hall with two-way communication (participants in the overflow hall will be able to ask questions and will appear on the main screen, just as for those sitting in Aula Magna)

On Monday, August 21, Interspeech 2017 attendees are invited by Stockholm City to a reception at the City Hall. However, for security reasons, there is an absolute maximum of 1200 persons allowed in the building and therefore a parallel reception organized by Interspeech will be offered to the conference attendees in excess of the 1200 limit for the City Hall reception.

Because a detailed guest list must be provided to the City Hall before the reception, all participants who signed up for the welcome reception will receive an e-mail confirmation stating whether they are included in the City Hall's guest list or in the guest list for the parallel reception organized by Interspeech. Attendees who are included in the City Hall guest list but cannot attend the reception or would rather be in the parallel Interspeech reception are kindly requested to contact the Interspeech registration so that their place in the City Hall guest list can be given to other attendees.

The location for the parallel Interspeech reception is currently being negotiated and will be announced as soon as possible.

To extend the space and capacity for the Interspeech banquet, additional places for the dinner will be provided by the Ethnographic Museum, face-to-face with the Technology Museum.

Please note that due to the large number of registered participants, some of the conference materials may not be available to late registrants.

We look forward to welcome you in Stockholm!

Francisco Lacerda

General chair

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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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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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