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ISCApad Archive » 2015 » ISCApad #210 |
ISCApad #210 |
| Sunday, December 13, 2015 by Chris Wellekens |
| 1 Editorial |
| 2 ISCA News |
| 2-1 | A message from our President Haizhou Li |
| 2-2 | Nominees for ISCA fellowship |
| 2-3 | Grants for students |
| 2-4 | Satellites of Interspeech 2016 |
| 2-5 | Videos of Interspeech conferences |
| 2-6 | Prix de thèse AFCP |
| 3 Events |
| 3-1 ISCA Events |
| 3-1-1 | (2016-09-08) Important dates for Interspeech 2016 San Francisco |
| 3-1-2 | (2016-09-08) Interspeech 2016 San Francisco, CA, USA |
| 3-1-3 | (2017-08-20) Interspeech 2017, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 3-1-4 | Interspeech 2016 deadlines |
| 3-2 ISCA Supported Events |
| 3-2-1 | (2016-05-09) 5th Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages (SLTU'16), Yogyakarta, Indonesia. |
| 3-2-2 | (2016-05-31) Speech Prosody 2016, Boston University, MA, USA |
| 3-2-3 | (2016-06-21) ODYSSEY 2016: THE SPEAKER AND LANGUAGE RECOGNITION WORKSHOP Bilbao, Spain, |
| 3-2-4 | Forthcoming ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshops (ITRWs) & Sponsored Events |
| 3-3 Other Events |
| 3-3-1 | (2016-01-08) Call for Task Proposals; MediaEval 2016 Multimedia Evaluation Benchmark |
| 3-3-2 | (2016-01-09) Speech Processing in Realistic Environments - SPIRE, Groningen, the Netherlands |
| 3-3-3 | (2016-01-15) Call for Grand Challenges International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2016) |
| 3-3-4 | (2016-03-02) XXXe édition des Journées de linguistique, Université Laval, Canada |
| 3-3-5 | (2016-03-02) Journées de linguistique, Univ. Laval, Canada |
| 3-3-6 | (2016-03-14) 10th ICVPB in Viña del Mar, Chile |
| 3-3-7 | (2016-03-14) 10th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS, Prague, Czech Republic |
| 3-3-8 | (2016-03-20) 41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing |
| 3-3-9 | (2016-03-20) Call for Show and Tell Demonstrations at ICASSP 2016, Shangai, China |
| 3-3-10 | (2016-04-11) sessions voix/parole Congrès de la Société française d'acoustique, Le Mans, France |
| 3-3-11 | (2016-04-21) La Perception en langue et en discours (2e éd.) Université d’Opole (Poland) |
| 3-3-12 | (2016-05-02) 4th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2016), San Juan, Puerto Rico, |
| 3-3-13 | (2016-05-07) CfP Designing Speech and Multimodal Interactions for Mobile, Wearable, & Pervasive Applications ,CHI 2016 Workshop, San Jose, CA |
| 3-3-14 | (2016-05-23) LREC 2016 - 10th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, PORTORO, SLOVENIA |
| 3-3-15 | (2016-06-09) 19th Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs (RJC 2016), Paris France |
| 3-3-16 | (2016-06-15) CfP 14th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI), Bucharest, Romania |
| 3-3-17 | (2016-07-04) 5ème Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française, Tours, France |
| 3-3-18 | (2016-07-04) Conférence JEP 2016 | TALN 2016 | RÉCITAL 2016, Paris (F) |
| 3-3-19 | (2016-07-04) Conférence JEP 2016 | TALN 2016 | RÉCITAL 2016, Paris France |
| 3-3-20 | (2016-07-11) Lexicom 2016 (Vienna, Austria) |
| 3-3-21 | (2016-07-13) LabPhon15: Speech Dynamics and Phonological Representation, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY USA |
| 3-3-22 | (2016-07-18) Call for projects eNTERFACE'16 Workshop, University of Twente, DesignLab, Enschede, the Netherlands |
| 3-3-23 | (2016-09-12) Nineteenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2016), Brno, Czech Republic |
| 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 | New Masters in Machine Learning, Speech and Language Processing at Cambridge University, UK |
| 4-8 | Planned workshop: Vocal Interactivity in-and-between Humans, Animals & Robots (VIHAR) |
| 4-9 | The International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN) |
| 4-10 | ELRA and LDC partner on a joint distribution of Language Resources |
| 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 |
| 5-1-9 | Barbosa, P. A. and Madureira, S. Manual de Fonética Acústica Experimental. Aplicações a dados do português. 591 p. São Paulo: Cortez, 2015. [In Portuguese] |
| 5-1-10 | Damien Nouvel, Inalco, Maud Ehrmann, EPFL,Sophie Rosset, CNRS. Les entités nommées pour le traitement automatique des langues |
| 5-2 Database |
| 5-2-1 | ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update (2015-05) dedicated to the Nepali people. |
| 5-2-2 | LDC Newsletter (November 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 (December 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 - Language Resources Catalogue - Update (May 2015) |
| 5-2-18 | Base de données LIBRE et GRATUITE pour la reconnaissance du locuteur |
| 5-2-19 | ISLRN adopted by Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission |
| 5-2-20 | Forensic database of voice recordings of 500+ Australian English speakers |
| 5-2-21 | Audio and Electroglottographic speech recordings |
| 5-2-22 | Press release: Opening of the ELRA License Wizard |
| 5-2-23 | 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 | (2015-07-01) A 3 year fully-funded PhD studentship at University of Sheffield, UK |
| 6-2 | (2015-07-20) Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore |
| 6-3 | (2015-07-21) PhD position at Telecom ParisTech, France |
| 6-4 | (2015-08-04) PhD offer at IRISA, Lannion, France |
| 6-5 | (2015-08-04) Post doctoral position at IRISA, Lannion, France |
| 6-6 | (2015-08-15) Internship opportunity at Orange Labs |
| 6-7 | (2015-08-18) 1 year engineer position at INRIA Bordeaux |
| 6-8 | (2015-08-18) 1 year engineer position at INRIA Bordeaux |
| 6-9 | (2015-08-25) Postdoc / Spontaneous speech recognition and understanding, IMAG, Grenoble, France |
| 6-10 | (2015-08-25) Mother-tongue Pashto at Vocapia. |
| 6-11 | (2015-08-25) Mother-tongue Somali at Vocapia |
| 6-12 | (2015-10-06) POST-DOC OPENING IN STATISTICAL NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AT LIMSI-CNRS, FRANCE |
| 6-13 | (2015-10-16) CDD à l’Institut français de l’Éducation (IFÉ - ENS de Lyon) |
| 6-14 | (2015-12-02) Master2 position at Multispeech Team, LORIA (Nancy, France) |
| 6-15 | (2015-10-22) Scientific collaborator for the multimodal project ADNVIDEO, Marseille, France |
| 6-16 | (2015-11-05) Ingénieur pour le projet LINKMEDIA de l'IRISA, Rennes, France |
| 6-17 | (2015-11-13) Ph.D. at Limsi, Orsay, France |
| 6-18 | (2015-11-15) 1 (W/M) researcher positions at IRCAM, Paris France |
| 6-19 | (2015-11-13) Intership at Loria, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France |
| 6-20 | (2015-11-15) 2 sujets de stage pour 2016 au LIA, Avignon portant sur les interactions vocales |
| 6-21 | (2015-11-18) PhD and Postdoctoral Opportunities in Multilingual Speech Recognition at Idiap, Martigny, Switzerland |
| 6-22 | (2015-11-20) Ingénieur de recherche au LPL, Aix-en-Provence, France |
| 6-23 | (2015-11-20) Postdoctoral position in speech intelligibility at IRIT Toulouse, France |
| 6-24 | (2015-12-02) Master2 position at Multispeech Team, LORIA (Nancy, France) |
| 6-25 | (2015-12-03) ,PostDoc position in the field of automatic speaker recognition (ASR) at Idiap, Martigny, Switzerland |
| 6-26 | (2015-12-12) Ph.D. Position in Speech Recognition at Saarland University, Germany |
| 6-27 | (2015-12-12) PostDoc Position in Speech Recognition at Saarland University, Germany |
| 7 Journals |
| 7-1 | Advances in Applied Acoustics |
| 7-2 | JAIR Special Track on Cross-language Algorithms and Applications (UPDATE) |
| 7-3 | Tipa. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage |
| 7-4 | IEEE Transactions on Multi-Scale Computing Systems: Special Issue on Design and Applications of Neuromorphic Computing System |
| 7-5 | Special Issue CSL on Language and Interaction Technologies for Children |
| 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 | José David Lopes, 'Lexical Entrainment in Spoken Dialog Systems' |
| 8-6 | George P. Kafentzis, 'Adaptive sinusoidal models for speech with applications in speech modifications and audio analysis' |
| 8-7 | Xingyu, Na, ' Personalization of HMM-based Speech Synthesis'. |
| 8-8 | Tuomo Raitio, 'Voice source modelling techniques for statistical parametric speech synthesis' |
| 8-9 | Bart Penning de Vries, 'Computerised Speaking Practice: The Role of Automatic Corrective Feedback in Learning L2 Grammar´ |