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ISCApad Archive » 2015 » ISCApad #206 |
ISCApad #206 |
| Thursday, August 20, 2015 by Chris Wellekens |
| 1 Editorial |
| 2 ISCA News |
| 2-1 | A message from our President Tanja Schultz and our Vice-President Haizhou Li |
| 2-2 | A message from Sebastian Moeller, chairman of Interspeech 2015 |
| 2-3 | 8th Christian Benoît Award Winner |
| 2-4 | Videos of Interspeech conferences |
| 3 Events |
| 3-1 ISCA Events |
| 3-1-1 | (2015-09-06) Doctoral Consortium at Interspeech 2015 |
| 3-1-2 | (2015-09-06) INTERSPEECH 2015 Special Session on Synergies of Speech and Multimedia Technologies |
| 3-1-3 | (2015-09-06) Announcement of the Pleanary sessions at Interspeech 2015 |
| 3-1-4 | (2015-09-06) Call for Applications: Doctoral Consortium at Interspeech 2015 |
| 3-1-5 | (2016-09-08) INTERSPEECH 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA |
| 3-1-6 | INTERSPEECH 2015 Update 1 (December 2014) |
| 3-1-7 | INTERSPEECH 2015 Update 2 (January 2015) |
| 3-1-8 | INTERSPEECH 2015 Update 3 (February 2015) |
| 3-1-9 | INTERSPEECH 2015 Update 4 (March 2015) |
| 3-1-10 | INTERSPEECH 2015 Update 5 (April 2015) |
| 3-1-11 | INTERSPEECH 2015 Update 6 (May 2015) |
| 3-1-12 | INTERSPEECH 2015 Update 7 (June 2015) |
| 3-1-13 | INTERSPEECH 2015 Update 8 (July 2015) |
| 3-2 ISCA Supported Events |
| 3-2-1 | (2015-09-02) SIGDIAL 2015 CONFERENCE |
| 3-2-2 | (2015-09-06) Workshop on Rodmap for Conversational Interactive Technologies (Rockit), Dresden, Germany |
| 3-2-3 | (2015-11-09) CFP Conference on multimodal interaction (ICMI 2015), Seattle, USA |
| 3-2-4 | (2016-05-31) Speech Prosody 2016, Boston University, Boston,MA, USA |
| 3-2-5 | Forthcoming ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshops (ITRWs) & Sponsored Events |
| 3-3 Other Events |
| 3-3-1 | (2015-08-20) IVA 2015 Doctoral Consortium, Delft, The Netherlands |
| 3-3-2 | (2015-08-24) 4th International Workshop on Cyber Crime (IWCC 2015) (extended deadline) |
| 3-3-3 | (2015-08-24) LVA 2015 - 12th International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation,Liberec, Czech Republic (Extended deadline) |
| 3-3-4 | (2015-08-27) 25th Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA 2015),Université d'Aix-Marseille, France |
| 3-3-5 | (2015-08-31) EUSIPCO 2015, NICE, COTE D' AZUR, FRANCE |
| 3-3-6 | (2015-08-31) Joint Conference PEVOC & MAVEBA 2015, Firenze, Italia |
| 3-3-7 | (2015-08-31) Young Researchers Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems (YRRSDS), Prague, Czech Republic |
| 3-3-8 | (2015-09-01) MultiLing 2015:Multilingual Summarization of Multiple Documents, Online Fora and Call Centre Conversations, Prague, Czech Republic |
| 3-3-9 | (2015-09-02) GESPIN 2015 Gesture and Speech in Interaction, Nantes, France (registration open) |
| 3-3-10 | (2015-09-03) Satellite of SLaTE 2015: L1 Teaching, Learning and Technology, Leipzig, Germany |
| 3-3-11 | (2015-09-04) Workshop on Speech and Language Technology for Education (SLaTE 2015) |
| 3-3-12 | (2015-09-05) Workshop on the History of Speech Communication, Dresden, Germany |
| 3-3-13 | (2015-09-06 ) INTERSPEECH 2015 Special Session on Synergies of Speech and Multimedia Technologies |
| 3-3-14 | (2015-09-11) FAAVSP - The 1st Joint Conference on Facial Analysis, Animation and Audio-Visual Speech Processing, Vienna, Austria |
| 3-3-15 | (2015-09-11) Workshop on Bio-inspired Cyber Security & Networking (BCSN 2015), Ghent, Belgium |
| 3-3-16 | (2015-09-11) Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT), Dresden, Germany |
| 3-3-17 | (2015-09-12) Errors by Humans and Machines in multimedia, multimodal and multilingual data processing – ERRARE 2015, Sinaia (Romania), UPDATED |
| 3-3-18 | (2015-09-14) Eighteenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2015), Pilzen, Czech Republic |
| 3-3-19 | (2015-09-17) EMNLP 2015, Lisbon, Portugal |
| 3-3-20 | (2015-09-17) 16th Science of Aphasia (SoA) Conference, University of Aveiro, Portugal |
| 3-3-21 | (2015-09-20) 17th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2015), Athens, Greece |
| 3-3-22 | (2015-09-21) International Workshop on Affective Social Multimedia Computing (ASMMC2015), Xi-an, China |
| 3-3-23 | (2015-09-22) e-Infrastructures & RDA for data intensive science pre-RDA plenary workshops, Paris France |
| 3-3-24 | (2015-09-28) 57th International Symposium ELMAR-2015 , Zadar, Croatia |
| 3-3-25 | (2015-10-15) Young Researchers in Sciences of Language, Laboratory Praxiling, University of Montpellier, France |
| 3-3-26 | (2015-10-18) 2015 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA15), New Paltz, NY, USA |
| 3-3-27 | (2015-10-28) 18th Oriental COCOSDA/CASLRE Conference, Shanghai, China. |
| 3-3-28 | (2015-10-30) ACM Multimedia 2015 Workshop *Speech, Language and Audio in Multimedia* Brisbane, Australia (date is modified) |
| 3-3-29 | (2015-11-09) ICMI Doctoral Consortium 17th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction Seattle, USA, |
| 3-3-30 | (2015-11-13) ICMI 2015 - SECOND CALL For WORKSHOP PROPOSALS |
| 3-3-31 | (2015-11-13)1st CFP International Workshop on Advancements in Social Signal Processing for Multimodal Interaction,Seattle, WA, USA |
| 3-3-32 | (2015-11-24) 3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING, Budapest, Hungary |
| 3-3-33 | (2015-11-27) CfP International conference 'ATYLANG - Atypical Language : what are we really talking about ?' at Université Paris Ouest Nanterre France |
| 3-3-34 | (2015-12-03) CfP 12th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation |
| 3-3-35 | (2015-12-13) 3rd CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge at ASRU 2015 |
| 3-3-36 | (2015-12-13) ASRU 2015 : IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Scottsdale, AZ, USA |
| 3-3-37 | (2015-12-13) Call for demonstrations at ASRU 2015 |
| 3-3-38 | (2015-12-13) Calls for Challenge Task Proposals ASRU 2015, Scottsdale, Az, USA (updated) |
| 3-3-39 | (2015-xx-xx) Dialog State Tracking Challenge 4 |
| 3-3-40 | (2016-01-09) CfA Speech Processing in Realistic Environments - SPIRE, Groningen, The Netherlands |
| 3-3-41 | (2016-03-14)) 10th ICVPB in Viña del Mar, Chile |
| 3-3-42 | (2016-05-02) 4th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2016), San Juan, Puerto Rico, |
| 3-3-43 | (2016-05-23) LREC 2016 - 10th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Portoro, Slovenia |
| 3-3-44 | (2016-06-21) ODYSSEY 2016: THE SPEAKER AND LANGUAGE RECOGNITION WORKSHOP, Bilbao, Spain |
| 3-3-45 | (2016-07-04) 5ème Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française, Tours, France |
| 3-3-46 | (2016-07-04) Conference JEP 2016 | TALN 2016 | RÉCITAL 2016, Paris France |
| 3-3-47 | (2016-07-13) LabPhon 15: Speech Dynamics and Phonological Representation,Cornell University, Ithaca, NY USA |
| 4 Academic and Industry Notes |
| 4-1 | Carnegie Speech |
| 4-2 | Research in Interactive Virtual Experiences at USC CA USA |
| 4-3 | Announcing the Master of Science in Intelligent Information Systems |
| 4-4 | Master in linguistics (Aix-Marseille) France |
| 4-5 | NEW MASTER IN BRAIN AND COGNITION AT UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA, BARCELONA |
| 4-6 | Masters à la Sorbonne (Paris) |
| 4-7 | The International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN) |
| 4-8 | New Masters in Machine Learning, Speech and Language Processing at Cambridge University, UK |
| 4-9 | MediaEval 2015 Multimedia Benchmark |
| 4-10 | AASP TC Challenges |
| 4-11 | Campagne d'évaluation MULTILING |
| 4-12 | Questionnaire sur une éthique pour la communauté de parole |
| 4-13 | Invitation to host the 8th International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval |
| 5 Resources |
| 5-1 Books |
| 5-1-1 | Tuomas Virtanen, Rita Singh, Bhiksha Raj (editors),Techniques for Noise Robustness in Automatic Speech Recognition,Wiley |
| 5-1-2 | Niebuhr, Olivier, Understanding Prosody:The Role of Context, Function and Communication |
| 5-1-3 | Albert Di Cristo: « La Prosodie de la Parole : Une Introduction », Editions de Boeck-Solal (296 p) |
| 5-1-4 | Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, 'Aux sources de la parole: auto-organisation et évolution', Odile Jacob |
| 5-1-5 | Björn Schuller, Anton Batliner , Computational Paralinguistics: Emotion, Affect and Personality in Speech and Language Processing, Wiley, ISBN: 978-1-119-97136-8, 344 pages, November 2013 |
| 5-1-6 | Li Deng and Dong Yu, Deep Learning: Methods and Applications, Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing |
| 5-1-7 | O.Niebuhr, R.Skarnitzl, 'Tackling the Complexity in Speech', Prague University Press |
| 5-1-8 | J.Li, L.Deng, R.Haeb-Umbach and Y.Gong, 'Robust Automatic Speech Recognition', Academic Press |
| 5-2 Database |
| 5-2-1 | ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update (2015-05) dedicated to the Nepali people. |
| 5-2-2 | LDC Newsletter (July 2015) |
| 5-2-3 | Appen ButlerHill |
| 5-2-4 | OFROM 1er corpus de français de Suisse romande |
| 5-2-5 | Real-world 16-channel noise recordings |
| 5-2-6 | Aide à la finalisation de corpus oraux ou multimodaux pour diffusion, valorisation et dépôt pérenne |
| 5-2-7 | Rhapsodie: un Treebank prosodique et syntaxique de français parlé |
| 5-2-8 | Annotation of “Hannah and her sisters” by Woody Allen. |
| 5-2-9 | French TTS |
| 5-2-10 | Google 's Language Model benchmark |
| 5-2-11 | International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN) (ELRA Press release) |
| 5-2-12 | ISLRN new portal |
| 5-2-13 | Speechocean – update (August 2015) |
| 5-2-14 | kidLUCID: London UCL Children’s Clear Speech in Interaction Database |
| 5-2-15 | Robust speech datasets and ASR software tools |
| 5-2-16 | International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN) implemented by ELRA and LDC |
| 5-2-17 | ELRA News |
| 5-2-18 | ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update (May 2015) |
| 5-2-19 | Base de données LIBRE et GRATUITE pour la reconnaissance du locuteur |
| 5-2-20 | ISLRN adopted by Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission |
| 5-2-21 | Forensic database of voice recordings of 500+ Australian English speakers |
| 5-2-22 | Audio and Electroglottographic speech recordings |
| 5-2-23 | Press release: Opening of the ELRA License Wizard |
| 5-2-24 | EEG-face tracking- audio 24 GB data set Kara One, Toronto, Canada |
| 5-3 Software |
| 5-3-1 | ROCme!: a free tool for audio corpora recording and management |
| 5-3-2 | VocalTractLab 2.0 : A tool for articulatory speech synthesis |
| 5-3-3 | Bob signal-processing and machine learning toolbox (v.1.2..0) |
| 5-3-4 | COVAREP: A Cooperative Voice Analysis Repository for Speech Technologies |
| 5-3-5 | Release of the version 2 of FASST (Flexible Audio Source Separation Toolbox). |
| 5-3-6 | Cantor Digitalis, an open-source real-time singing synthesizer controlled by hand gestures. |
| 6 Jobs |
| 6-1 | (2015-03-02) Language Resources Project Manager - Junior at ELDA-ELRA |
| 6-2 | (2015-03-03) Poste de maitre de conférence, ENNSAT, Lannion, France |
| 6-3 | (2015-03-04) Deux postes de Maître de Conférences en informatique, Avignon, France |
| 6-4 | (2015-03-10) Post doc grant at INESC, Lisbon, INESC, Portugal |
| 6-5 | (2015-03-12) Stage (Internship) at ELDA: Développement d'un outil générique d'annotation des ressources linguistiques |
| 6-6 | (2015-03-13) Postdocs in Robust Speaker Verification, Aalborg University, Denmark |
| 6-7 | (2015-03-26) Chargé(e) de recherche en séparation de signaux de parole appliquée à la robotique, IRCAM, Paris |
| 6-8 | (2015-03-29) Post-doc in Experimental Psycholinguistics, University of Geneva, Switzerland |
| 6-9 | (2015-03-28) Speech R&D Engineer, ValidSoft Limited - London, United Kingdom |
| 6-10 | (2015-03-29) Post-doctoral Position (24 months) University of Michigan |
| 6-11 | (2015-04-01) Post-Doctoral Researcher/Early Stage Researcher (PhD Student), University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu Campus |
| 6-12 | (2015-04-01) Senior Researcher, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu Campus |
| 6-13 | (2015-04-02) PhD grant on 'Efforts and coordination of speech gestures' at GIPSA, Grenoble, France |
| 6-14 | (2015-04-08) Junior Computational Linguist at RecordSure London UK |
| 6-15 | (2015-04-13) These de doctorat à Nancy, France |
| 6-16 | (2015-04-14) Thèse de doctorat à IRISA Lannion Bretagne France |
| 6-17 | (2015-04-16) Assistant Professor in Socially Aware ICT at KTH, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 6-18 | (2015-04-21) Postdoc position at Aix-Marseille University (France) |
| 6-19 | (2015-04-22) PhD position offer at LIA Univ. d'Avignon, France |
| 6-20 | (2015-04-27) TWO POST-DOCTORAL POSITIONS FOR THE PROJECT IFCASL (LORIA, NANCY, FRANCE) |
| 6-21 | (2015-04-29) PhD Position, IRISA lab, University of Rennes 1 at Lannion, Côtes d’Armor, France |
| 6-22 | (2015-04-30) Post-doc position at LORIA (Nancy, France) |
| 6-23 | (2015-05-02) Post-doctoral Position in Speech Signal Processing at Reykjavik University, Iceland |
| 6-24 | (2015-05-03) 4 Ph Positions at Queen Mary, University of London, UK/ Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy |
| 6-25 | (2015-05-04) Speech Technology Researcher at Toshiba Research Europe Ltd, Cambridge UK |
| 6-26 | (2015-05-05) PhD position at the Sigmedia Group, Trinity College, Dublin |
| 6-27 | (2015-05-06) Assistant professor position at KTH Stockholm, Sweden |
| 6-28 | (2015-05-06) 3 Ph.D. and 2 Post-doc positions at Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico. |
| 6-29 | (2015-05-09) ingénieur R&D spécialiste des technologies à l'équipe LINKMEDIA de l'IRISA, Rennes, Bretagne, France |
| 6-30 | (2015-05-12) 3 postes d'ATER au département d?Informatique, Mathématiques et de Linguistique appliquées, Univ Paris 1 (Sorbonne), France |
| 6-31 | (2015-06-01) PhD Research Fellow at Gipsa, Grenoble, France |
| 6-32 | (2015-06-01) Post-doc , Orange Labs, Lannion, Brittany, France |
| 6-33 | (2015-06-01) Post-doc position at LORIA (Nancy, France) |
| 6-34 | (2015-06-01) 2 postdocs en sciences du language/linguistique/psychologie à CNRS, Aix Marseille, France |
| 6-35 | (2015-06-01) Master’s, PhD, and Postdoc Openings at the MuSAE Lab in Montreal, Canada |
| 6-36 | (2015-06-02) PhD Research Fellow at GIPSA Grenoble, France |
| 6-37 | (2015-06-03) Fully funded PhD position, LIA, Avignon, France |
| 6-38 | (2015-06-11) Ingenieur d'études a l'université d'Aix-Marseille, France |
| 6-39 | (2015-06-12) PhD positions at IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy |
| 6-40 | (2015-06-16) One-year post-doc position open at Clemson University, SC, USA |
| 6-41 | (2015-06-16) Postdoc / Spontaneous speech recognition and understanding at IMAG (Grenoble-F) |
| 6-42 | (2015-06-17) Poste d'ingénieur d'étude CNRS, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris France |
| 6-43 | (2015-07-01) A 3 year fully-funded PhD studentship at University of Sheffield, UK |
| 6-44 | (2015-07-20) Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore |
| 6-45 | (2015-07-21) PhD position at Telecom ParisTech, France |
| 6-46 | (2015-08-04) PhD offer at IRISA, Lannion, France |
| 6-47 | (2015-08-04) Post doctoral position at IRISA, Lannion, France |
| 6-48 | (2015-08-15) Internship opportunity at Orange Labs |
| 6-49 | (2015-08-18) 1 year engineer position at INRIA Bordeaux |
| 7 Journals |
| 7-1 | Journal of Natural Language Engineering - Special Issue on “Machine Translation Using Comparable Corpora” |
| 7-2 | IEEE/ZACM Trans. ASLP: special issue on continuous space and related methods in natural language processing |
| 7-3 | Special issue Speech Communication on Advances in Sparse Modeling and Low-rank Modeling for Speech Processing |
| 7-4 | [Special Issue] Deep Learning for Speech and Language Processing Applications, EURASIP |
| 7-5 | SPECIAL ISSUE ON DIALOGUE STATE TRACKING (Extended deadline) |
| 7-6 | Special issue of Eurasip Journal in Adv.Signal Proc. 'Silencing the Echoes' - Processing of Reverberant Speech |
| 7-7 | Speech Communication Special issue on Advances in Sparse Modeling and Low-rank Modeling for Speech Processing |
| 7-8 | Special issue of Speech Communication on 'Phase-Aware Signal Processing |
| 7-9 | Special issue TAL: COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS AND COGNITIVE SCIENCES |
| 7-10 | Advances in Applied Acoustics |
| 7-11 | JAIR Special Track on Cross-language Algorithms and Applications (UPDATE) |
| 7-12 | CfP Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage TIPA 2015 |
| 7-13 | EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing |
| 7-14 | CfP Tipa. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage |
| 8 Recent Theses |
| 8-1 | Sofia Strömbergsson, 'The /k/s, the /t/s, and the in-betweens. Novel approaches to examining the perceptual consequences of misarticulated speech´ |
| 8-2 | Mohamad Hasan, Bahari, 'Automatic Speaker Characterization Automatic Identification of Gender, Age, Language and Accent from Speech Signals |
| 8-3 | Bing Jiang, 'Using Deep Neural Network for Spoken Language identification' |
| 8-4 | Jan-Niklas Antons, 'Neural Correlates of Quality Perception for Complex Speech Signals' |
| 8-5 | Sung Min Ban, 'Feature and Model Domain Blind Dereverberation for Distant-Talking Speech Recognition' |
| 8-6 | José David Lopes, 'Lexical Entrainment in Spoken Dialog Systems' |
| 8-7 | George P. Kafentzis, 'Adaptive sinusoidal models for speech with applications in speech modifications and audio analysis' |
| 8-8 | Xingyu, Na, ' Personalization of HMM-based Speech Synthesis'. |
| 8-9 | Tuomo Raitio, 'Voice source modelling techniques for statistical parametric speech synthesis' |
| 8-10 | Bart Penning de Vries, 'Computerised Speaking Practice: The Role of Automatic Corrective Feedback in Learning L2 Grammar´ |