| 3-1-1 | (2018-06-13) 9th Speech Prosody Conference, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, NEW DEADLINE
The new deadline for manuscript submission to Speech Prosody 2018 is January 8, 2018.
The 9th Speech Prosody Conference will be held from 13 to 16 June 2018 at Collegium Iuridicum Novum, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland.
The conference theme will be 'Challenges and new prospects on prosody: research and technology', but we invite papers addressing any aspect of the science and technology of prosody.
Speech Prosody, the biennial meeting of the Speech Prosody Special Interest Group (SProSIG) of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), is the only recurring international conference focused on prosody as an organizing principle for the social, psychological, linguistic, clinical phonetics and technological aspects of spoken language. Past conferences have been attended by 300-400 researchers including experts representing a range of disciplines including linguistics, acoustics, speech technology, cognitive science, neuroscience, speech therapy, audiology and hearing science, language teaching, computer science, electrical engineering and forensic science.
Important Deadlines
15 September 2017 Submission of workshops & special session proposals (by e-mail)
01 October 2017 Online paper submission opens
15 October 2017 Announcement of special sessions
08 January 2018 Full paper submission deadline
12 February 2018 Notification of paper acceptance
15 March 2018 Early bird registration deadline
15 March 2018 Deadline to upload revised accepted papers and abst
SCIENTIFIC AREA TOPICS
Phonology and phonetics of prosody
Rhythm and timing
Tone and intonation
Cognitive processing and modelling of prosody
Interaction between segmental and suprasegmental features
Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics
Prosody in language and music
Acquisition of first, second and third language prosody
Prosody in Computer Language Learning systems
Speaking style and personality
Speaking style and communication settings
Prosody in speech recognition and understanding
Prosody in speaker characterization and recognition
Identification & description of prosody for multilingual dialogue systems
Measurements of prosodic parameters
Prosody in Audiology and Phoniatrics
Forensic voice and language investigation
Prosody of sign language
PAPER FORMAT and SUBMISSION
Papers for the Speech Prosody 2018 proceedings should be up to 4 pages of text, plus one page (maximum) for references only. Any paper with text on the 5th page other than references will be rejected. The papers must be submitted via the Easy Chair submission site.
SP9 conference website: http://sp9.home.amu.edu.pl/
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| 3-1-2 | (2018-09-02) Tutorials Interspeech 2018
Interspeech 2018
September 2-6, 2018
Hyderabad International Convention Centre (HICC)
Hyderabad, India
http://interspeech2018.org/
Tutorials at Interspeech 2018
We are happy to announce that the tutorials have been finalized. The Tutorials Committee has worked hard to put together an exciting set of tutorials on cutting-edge topics. The tutorials will be held at HICC on September 2, 2018 (both forenoon and afternoon sessions). The list of tutorials is given below.
- Deep Learning Based Speech Separation by DeLiang Wang, The Ohio State University
- End-To-End Models for Automatic Speech Recognition by Rohit Prabhavalkar, Google Inc., USA and Tara Sainath, Google Inc., USA
- Spoofing Attacks in Automatic Speaker Verification: Analysis and Countermeasures by Haizhou Li (National University of Singapore, Singapore), Hemant A. Patil (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, India), Nicholas Evans (EURECOM, France)
- Spoken Dialog Technology for Education Domain Applications by Vikram Ramanarayanan, Keelan Evanini, David Suendermann-Oeft (Educational Testing Service R&D, San Francisco, USA)
- Information Theory of Deep Learning: What do the Layers of Deep Neural Networks Represent? by Naftali Tishby, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Articulatory Representations: Measurement, Estimation, and Application to State-of-the-Art Automatic Speech Recognition by Carol Espy-Wilson (University of Maryland, USA), Mark Tiede (Haskins Lab, USA), Hosung Nam (Korea University, Seoul), Vikramjit Mitra (Apple Inc., USA), Ganesh Sivaraman (Pindrop, Atlanta, USA)
- Generating Adversarial Examples for Speech and Speaker Recognition and Other Systems by Bhiksha Raj (Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA) and Joseph Keshet (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
- Multimodal Speech and Audio Processing in Audio-Visual Human-Robot Interaction by Petros Maragos (School of E.C.E., National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece), Athanasia Zlatintsi (Athena Research Center, Robot Perception and Interaction Unit, Greece)
For more details, visit http://interspeech2018.org/tutorial/
We look forward to your participation in the tutorials.
Publicity Committee, Interspeech 2018
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| 3-1-3 | (2018-09-02) Call for Papers and Proposals for Show & Tell (Interspeech 2018) , Hyberabad, India
Call for Papers and Proposals for Show & Tell
Interspeech is the world's largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. It will be held in India for the first time. Interspeech conferences emphasize interdisciplinary approaches addressing all aspects of speech science and technology, ranging from basic theories to advanced applications. Contributions to all areas of speech science and technology are welcome. In addition to regular oral and poster sessions, Interspeech 2018 will feature plenary talks by internationally renowned experts, tutorials, special sessions, show & tell sessions, and exhibits. The tutorials will be held at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre. A number of satellite events will also take place around Interspeech 2018.
Original papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following areas:
1. Speech Perception, Production and Acquisition
2. Phonetics, Phonology, and Prosody
3. Analysis of Paralinguistics in Speech and Language
4. Speaker and Language Identification
5. Analysis of Speech and Audio Signals
6. Speech Coding and Enhancement
7. Speech Synthesis and Spoken Language Generation
8. Speech Recognition – Signal Processing, Acoustic Modeling, Robustness, and Adaptation
9. Speech Recognition – Architecture, Search, and Linguistic Components
10. Speech Recognition – Technologies and Systems for New Applications
11. Spoken Dialog Systems and Analysis of Conversation
12. Spoken Language Processing – Translation, Information Retrieval, Summarization, Resources, and Evaluation
A complete list of the scientific area topics including special sessions is available at http://interspeech2018.org/areas-and-topics/
Paper Submission
Papers intended for Interspeech 2018 should be up to 4 pages of text. An optional fifth page could be used for references only. Paper submissions must conform to the format defined in the paper preparation guidelines and as detailed in the author's kit on the conference web page. Please be aware that Interspeech 2018 will use new templates and submissions will be accepted only in the new format. Submissions may also be accompanied by additional files such as multimedia files, to be included on the proceedings' USB drive. Authors must declare that their contributions are original and have not been submitted elsewhere for publication. Papers must be submitted via the online paper submission system. The working language of the conference is English, and papers must be written in English.
Important Dates
Submission portal opens: February 15, 2018
Abstract submission deadline: March 16, 2018
Final paper submission deadline: March 23, 2018
Acceptance/rejection notification: June 3, 2018
Camera-ready paper due: June 17, 2018
Show and Tell proposals due: March 30, 2018
Registration opens: June 10, 2018
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| 3-1-4 | (2018-09-02) Cfp Interspeech 2018 Show and Tell, Hyderabad, Telangana, India (updated)
Dear colleague:
Interspeech 2018 will be held in India during September 2-6, 2018, at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre, Hyderabad, India. We invite you to submit your research papers as well as Show & Tell proposals. The call is attached below. For more details, please visit: http://www.interspeech2018.org.
We look forward to your active participation inInterspeech 2018.
Sincerely,
Team Interspeech 2018
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Interspeech 2018
September 2-6, 2018, Hyderabad International Convention Centre
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
http://www.interspeech2018.org
Interspeech 2018: Show & Tell demonstrations
Submission deadline: April 13, 2018
Acceptance notifications sent: June 1, 2018
Camera-ready paper due: June 17, 2018
Interspeech is the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. Show & Tell is a special event organized during the conference. Participants are given the opportunity to demonstrate their most recent progress or developments, and interact with the conference attendees in an informal way, such as a demo, mock-up, or any adapted format of their own choice. These contributions must highlight the innovative side of the concept and may relate to a regular paper.
Each accepted proposal paper will be allocated two pages in the conference proceedings. Show & Tell demonstrations will be presented in a dedicated time slot; each presentation space will include one poster board, one table, as well as wireless internet connection and a power outlet. Demonstrations should be based on innovations and fundamental research in areas of speech production, perception, communication, or speech and language technology and systems. Authors are encouraged to submit proposals related to the theme of the main conference: Speech Research for Emerging Markets in Multilingual Societies. Submissions will be peer-reviewed. Reviewers will judge the originality, significance, quality, and clarity of the proposed demonstration. At least one author of each accepted submission must register for and attend the conference, and demonstrate the system during the Show & Tell sessions.
Paper Submission And Preparation Guidelines
Show& Tell papers should be up to 2 pages (including references). The formatshould conform to that defined in the paper preparation guidelines and asdetailed in the INTERSPEECH 2018 Author’s Kit
Submityour papers to Show & Tell using the START V2 system at https://www.softconf.com/i/IS18-ShowAndTell/
Interspeech 2018
September 2-6, 2018, Hyderabad International Convention Centre
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
http://www.interspeech2018.org
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| 3-1-5 | (2018-10-22) 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports, Seoul, Korea
First International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports @ ACM Multimedia, October 22-26, 2018, Seoul, Korea
We'd like to invite you to submit your paper proposals for the 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports to be held in Seoul, Korea together with ACM Multimedia 2018. The ambition of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to share ideas on current multimedia/multimodal content analysis research in sports. We welcome multimodal-based research contributions as well as best-practice contributions focusing on the following (and similar, but not limited
to) topics:
– annotation and indexing
– athlete and object tracking
– activity recognition, classification and evaluation
– event detection and indexing
– performance assessment
– injury analysis and prevention
– data driven analysis in sports
– graphical augmentation and visualization in sports
– automated training assistance
– camera pose and motion tracking
– brave new ideas / extraordinary multimodal solutions
Please refer to the workshop website for further information:
http://www.multimedia-computing.de/mmsports/
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Due: July 8, 2018
Acceptance Notification: August 5, 2018
Camera Ready Submission: August 12, 2018
Workshop Date: TBA; either Oct 22 or Oct 26, 2018
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| 3-1-6 | (2019-09-15) Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria
Interspeech 2019 will be held in Graz, Austria.
https://www.tugraz.at/events/interspeech-2019/home/
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| 3-1-7 | Interspeech 2018 New Website; Satellite Events and Workshops
Interspeech 2018
September 2-6, 2018
Hyderabad, India
http://interspeech2018.org/
Interspeech 2018 New Website; Satellite Events and Workshops
Dear colleague:
We would like to draw your attention to the satellite events and workshops that will take place around Interspeech 2018. Kindly check the following website for details: http://interspeech2018.org/program-satellite-events-and-workshops.html
We invite you to submit papers, participate in these events and make them a grand success.
We also invite you to check out the new avatar of Interspeech 2018 webpages: http://interspeech2018.org/index.html
We would like to draw your attention to the following new items:
- Plenary speakers: http://interspeech2018.org/program-plenary-speakers.html
- General information: http://interspeech2018.org/general-information.html
- Travel grants: http://interspeech2018.org/author-travel-grants.html
- Registration: http://interspeech2018.org/registration.html
- Accepted papers: http://interspeech2018.org/accepted-papers.html
Looking forward to seeing you in Hyderabad,
Publicity Committee
Interspeech 2018
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| 3-1-8 | Satellite Events of INTERSPEECH 2018
Satellite Events of INTERSPEECH 2018
1) Summer school on Speech Production, DA-IICT Gandhinagar, 9-11 Sept. 2018
URL: https://sites.google.com/site/s4p2018daiict/home
B) Satellite Workshops of INTERSPEECH 2018
1) Workshop on Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing (MLSLP), Google, Hyderabad, India. Sept. 07, 2018.
URL: https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~pjyothi/MLSLP2018/index.html
2) 6th international workshop on spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages (SLTU'18), New Delhi, India on 29-31 August 2018.
URL: http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2018/
3) The 5th International Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments (CHiME 2018), Microsoft Hyderabad campus, Sept. 07, 2018.
http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/chime_workshop/
4) Speech, Music and Mind 2018 (SMM18): Detecting and Influencing Mental States with Audio, Sept. 01, IIIT Hyderabad.
http://smmw.iiit.ac.in/
5) Workshop on Speech Processing for Voice, Speech and Hearing Disorders, AIISH, Mysore, India, Sept. 08-09, 2018.
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