Dear ISCA members:

Welcome to the next installment of the ISCApad for July 2019!  This edition has a number of updates from the community including upcoming meetings, job openings, theses, and announcements.

Interspeech-2019: [http://www.interspeech2019.org/] will take place September 15-19, 2019, in Graz, AUSTRIA, with the theme being: Crossroads of Speech and Language.The Technical Program has been finalized and all paper reviews and decisions made – with more than 5000 reviews completed, we express our sincere thanks to the +1300 reviewers who participated in ensuring the highest quality technical program for this Interspeech-2019.

INTERSPEECH-2019 Events/Highlights:

I would also like to point out some additional items taking place at Interspeech-2019…

• INTERSPEECH-2019 Registration: the early registration for Interspeech-2019 deadline is July 15, so please be aware of this, especially if you are covering papers in the program!

• SPONSORSHIP & Exhibition Opportunities: there is still time and opportunities for sponsorship of Interspeech-2019. Since ISCA is a non-profit organization, we strive to provide support for our community in a cost-effective way. Many of the sponsorship opportunities directly help students and young researchers who may not have an opportunity to attend, receive a travel fellowship – and see the latest breakthroughs in science and technology for speech communications. Please if your organization has the resources, I encourage you to consider even a modest sponsorship!

• Tutorial Program with 8 highly respected individuals/teams covering a range of topics – consider one or more of these when you register.

• Survey Talks: this Interspeech, mini survey talks will be given that are integrated into the technical program. These are expected to encourage our ISCA members to expand their “comfort” space and go to areas outside of your main specialization!

• Satellite Events (link): there are eight satellite events/workshops which are taking place in conjunction with INTERSPEECH-2019 – so explore these in addition to our main event.

• SAC – Student Advisory Committee: a number of events are being organized by ISCA SAC to support student development including a mentoring program, Doctorial consortium, and a Young-Women-in-Speech event. We encourage all students and young researchers attending to participate in these events!

Again, this is the first time Interspeech will be held in Austria, and it promises to be a great opportunity to experience speech and language processing in a country where one of the first major published works on speech by Wolfgang von Kempelen originated on the speaking machine.

Supporting Diversity in Speech Communication:

ISCA has launched a new area on the ISCA website to support diversity in speech communication. This is intended to offer opportunities for organizers of workshops and conferences to help expand diversity representation in terms of geographic, gender, and topic/specialization. Please visit the ISCA website to learn more! https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/

ISCA Commitment to our Membership:

ISCA is committed to promoting a safe, supportive, and professional experience for all peoples to work and contribute to advancing the field of speech communications. To this end, the ISCA Board is currently developing and expanding several documents to articulate our support:

(1) Code-of-Ethics for Authors (e.g., addressing data issues, (self-)plagiarism, copyright, human right issues), as well as .

(2) Code-of-Conduct for Conference Attendees (e.g., addressing harassment and discrimination based on on gender, race, religion, etc.)

If you have any suggestions, please contact us.

As always, we welcome feedback and input from the ISCA community – if you have suggestions for our society or want to be involved, please let us know!

We look forward to your participation in ISCA and Interspeech-2019!

John H.L. Hansen, ISCA President

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At the start of this new year 2019, we invite you to update your contact and
professional information on the ISCA Membership Portal:

   http://www.isca-speech.org/iscamember/member.php

 

If you are one of the people who have multiple START IDs with different emails, please let us know your preferred username and we will see about cleaning this up.

 We are also updating the reviewer base in anticipation of Interspeech 2019.
 Please think to nominate yourself or your colleagues to serve as reviewers.

 The recommended required experience is for the nominee to have obtained their
 PhD and be first author of at least one journal article or several conference
 papers. If the nominee stopped their studies with a Masters, they should have
 at least 5-7 years of experience and be the first author of at least one or
 two journal articles and several conference papers.

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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 article 'Rediscovering 25 Years of Discoveries in Spoken Language Processing: A Preliminary ISCA Archive Analysis', published at Interspeech 2013 on the occasion of the ESCA/ISCA Silver Jubilee, has been extended to the production and analysis of the NLP4NLP corpus containing close to 65,000 articles published in major conferences and journals in speech and language processing over 50 years (1965-2015) on various aspects (publication, collaboration, citation, innovation, plagiarism,...). The results of those analyses have recently been assembled in a series of two papers published in a special issue on 'Mining Scientific Papers: NLP-enhanced Bibliometrics' of the 'Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics' journal :

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frma.2018.00036/full

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frma.2018.00037/full

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All ICASSP-2019 papers are now downloadable from IEEExplore for everyone (not just Explore members), but only for a 30-day period, ending mid-May.

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video of Interspeech 2018 keynotes is  uploaded on ISCA website

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 ISCA is committed to supporting diversity in speech communication, and celebrating speech
communication as an exciting and diverse field of research and discovery. Moreover, ISCA
is committed to gender equality.

We are therefore delighted to announce that the database with names, affiliations,
positions, and research topics of women in speech science and speech technology,
originally started by Maxine Eskenazi, is now a wonderful, searchable website, created by
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson.

The website can be found at http://isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/diversity?id=264

The website can be used for, amongst others:
- Workshop and conference organisers to search for keynote and invited speakers,
panelists, and co-organisers
- Nominations for distinguished lecturers
- Norminations for awards, medals, fellowships, and prizes
- Prospective new faculty by faculty search committees

If you identify yourself as female and want to be added to this list, please follow the
instructions on the WomenNspeech website.

We hope this website will be useful to many!

Julia Hirschberg
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
Odette Scharenborg

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The Christian Benoit Award has been granted  to Sankar Mukherjee for his research project  on Neuro-behavioral Aware Conversational Agent.

Congratulations!

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