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ISCApad #155 |
| Saturday, May 14, 2011 by Chris Wellekens |
2 ISCA News
| 2-1 | 6th Christian Benoit Award
Sixth Christian Benoît Award
June 6, 2011. The Award will be delivered at the Interspeech 2011 Conference in Florence (Italy.) (http://www.interspeech2011.org/
The first award was delivered to http://people.csail.mit.edu/tonebone/research/mary101/results/results.html http:/oscci.psy.ox.ac.uk/People%20folder/johanna%20barry/v2/index.htm http://www.speech.kth.se/multimodal/ARTUR http://benoit.susannefuchs.org/ For further information, please contact Pascal Perrier. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * 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. ** The Christian Benoît Association is a nonprofit organization, whose purpose is to facilitate the development of research projects in the field of speech communication. Established in honor of Christian Benoît, French CNRS researcher in the field of speech communication who died on the 26th of April, 1998, at the age of 41, the Award places special emphasis on multimedia representations of ongoing research.
Deadline April 25th, 2011 The Christian Benoît Award is delivered periodically by the Association Christian Benoit (**). It is given to promising young scientists in the domain of Speech Communication. 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, and (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(*). From now, the Award will more specifically focus on SPEECH and FACE-TO-FACE COMMUNICATION. It can concern basic or applied research projects. For the sixth award, the commitments of the elected scientist are: -- to attend the Interspeech2011 Conference in Florence -- 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, -- a detailed curriculum vitae -- a description of the proposed short-term research project. 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 should be sent to Pascal Perrier: Pascal.Perrier@gipsa-lab.grenoble-inp.fr before Monday April 25th, 2011 . Electronic submissions are mandatory. The successful candidate will be notified by
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| 2-2 | Julia Hirschberg receives the IEEE 2011 Jim Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing award Julia Hirschberg, our past president, is being honored by IEEE with the 2011 IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award. IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional association. The award, sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society, recognizes Hirschberg for pioneering contributions to speech synthesis and prosody research. The award will be presented on 24 May 2011 at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing in Prague, Czech Republic. Julia has been a pioneer and leading innovator in building viable computational models of human prosody for use in speech synthesis.In addition to her research for improving prosody in speech synthesis, she recently worked on the detection of emotional aspects in speech with applications in automated call centers where a computer can recognize if callers are angry and pass them to a human operator. Julia is one of the architects of the Tone and Break Indices (ToBI) system for the labeling of human prosodic contours that is used in text-to-speech systems and is widely used in prosody research. Initially used for intonational description of standard American English, ToBI has been extended to model other languages. After her graduation in electrical engineering and a doctorate in computer science at the University of Philadelphia, Julia began working in James Flanagan’s laboratory at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, N.J., and created the Human-Computer Interface Research Department at Bell Labs, which moved subsequently to AT&T Labs. She is currently a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University, New York, N.Y. Congratulations Julia!
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