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ISCApad Archive » 2016 » ISCApad #218 |
ISCApad #218 |
| Wednesday, August 10, 2016 by Chris Wellekens |
| 1 Editorial |
| 2 ISCA News |
| 2-1 | Message from our President Haizhou Li |
| 2-2 | Videos of Interspeech conferences |
| 3 Events |
| 3-1 ISCA Events |
| 3-1-1 | (2016-09) INTERSPEECH 2016 SPECIAL SESSION: SHARING RESEARCH AND EDUCATION RESOURCES FOR UNDERSTANDING SPEECH PROCESSING |
| 3-1-2 | (2016-09) Interspeech 2016 Special session: Sub-Saharan African languages : from speech fundamentals to applications |
| 3-1-3 | (2016-09) The undergraduate and MS student day at Interspeech 2016. |
| 3-1-4 | (2016-09) Updates for Interspeech 2016 San Francisco |
| 3-1-5 | (2016-09-08) Important dates for Interspeech 2016 San Francisco |
| 3-1-6 | (2016-09-08) Interspeech 2016 San Francisco, CA, USA |
| 3-1-7 | (2016-09-08) Submission deadlines Interspeech 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA |
| 3-1-8 | (2017-08-20) Interspeech 2017, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 3-1-9 | Early registration and venue accomodations at Interspeech 2016. |
| 3-1-10 | Forthcoming ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshops (ITRWs) & Sponsored Events |
| 3-2 ISCA Supported Events |
| 3-2-1 | (2016-09-06) WOCCI and LTLT Joint Workshop, San Francisco, CA, USA |
| 3-2-2 | (2016-09-12) 19th International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2016), Brno, Czech Republic |
| 3-2-3 | (2016-09-12) TSD 2016 - CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS and DEMONSTRATIONS, Brno, Czech Republic |
| 3-2-4 | (2016-09-13) CfP SIGDIAL 2016 CONFERENCE, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| 3-2-5 | (2016-09-13) CfP Workshop on Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing (MLSLP), San Francisco, CA, USA |
| 3-2-6 | (2016-09-13) CHiME 2016, 4th International Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments, San Francisco USA |
| 3-2-7 | (2016-09-13) SIGDIAL 2016 CONFERENCE: CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| 3-2-8 | (2016-10-17) The 10th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), Tianjin, China |
| 3-2-9 | Forthcoming ISCA Supported Events |
| 3-3 Other Events |
| 3-3-1 | (2016-01-03) 3rd Conference on New Advances inAcoustics (NAA 2017) , Bangkok,Thailand |
| 3-3-2 | (2016-08-23) SPECOM 2016, Budapest, Hungary |
| 3-3-3 | (2016-08-29) EURASIP/IEEE 2016 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Budapest, Hungary |
| 3-3-4 | (2016-09-06) Aix Summer School on Prosody 2016, Aix-Marseille Université, France |
| 3-3-5 | (2016-09-12) 58th International Symposium ELMAR-2016 , Zagreb, Croatia |
| 3-3-6 | (2016-09-13) Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT 2016) |
| 3-3-7 | (2016-09-26) L'Ecole d'été thématique CNRS 'Sciences et Voix : expressions, usages et prises en charge de l'instrument vocal humain' , centre IGESA de l'ïle de Porquerolles, France. |
| 3-3-8 | (2016-09-29) Call for papers: 12th PAC conference, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence, France, Extended deadline |
| 3-3-9 | (2016-10-11) 4th International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing (SLSP 2016), Pilsen (Czech Republic), |
| 3-3-10 | (2016-10-16) Linguistic and Behavioral Interaction Analysis at the IEEE International Conference on Cognitive InfoCommunication, Wroclaw (PL), |
| 3-3-11 | (2016-10-21) MediaEval 2016 Multimedia Evaluation Benchmark, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 3-3-12 | (2016-10-26) CLARIN Annual Conference 2016, Aix-en-Provence, France |
| 3-3-13 | (2016-10-31) 2nd Workshop on Psycholinguistic Approaches to Speech Recognition in Adverse Conditions, Nijmegen, the Netherlands |
| 3-3-14 | (2016-10-31) XVème Colloque International des Etudes Créoles, Baie Mahault - Guadeloupe |
| 3-3-15 | (2016-11-12) CfP 18th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2016), Tokyo, Japan |
| 3-3-16 | (2016-11-23) ALBAYZIN 2016 SEARCH ON SPEECH EVALUATION, Lisbon, Portugal |
| 3-3-17 | (2016-12-10) Symposium on the role of predictability in shaping human language sound patterns, Sydney, Australia |
| 3-3-18 | (2016-12-11) CfP 1st Workshop on 'Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity' (CL4LC), Osaka (Japan) |
| 3-3-19 | (2016-12-12) Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex-v), Osaka, Japan |
| 3-3-20 | (2016-12-13) 6th IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT), San Juan, Porto Rico |
| 3-3-21 | (2016-12-xx) CfP Dialog State Tracking Challenge 5 (DSTC5) |
| 3-3-22 | (2017-02-15) (Dis)Fluency2017: Fluency and disfluency across languages and language varieties, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique |
| 3-3-23 | (2017-03-01) HSCMA Hands Free Communication and Microphone Arrays, San Francisco, CA, USA |
| 3-3-24 | (2017-03-05) 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2017), New Orleans, USA |
| 3-3-25 | (2017-04-26) Workshop on Speech perception and production across the lifespan (SPPL 2017), London, UK |
| 3-3-26 | (2017-06-21) International Conference Subsidia: Tools and Resources for Speech Sciences, Málaga (Costa del Sol, Spain). |
| 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 | The International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN) |
| 4-9 | ELRA and LDC partner on a joint distribution of Language Resources |
| 4-10 | LREC 2016 Proceedings |
| 4-11 | SProSIG Bids for Speech prosody 2018 |
| 4-12 | Participation à un test d'audition; univ. de la Sarre, Allemagne |
| 4-13 | Requested nominations for two awards at ICMI |
| 4-14 | To Fellow SProSIG members: vote for the venue of Speech Prosody 2018. |
| 4-15 | To ISCA Members interested in Code-Switching |
| 5 Resources |
| 5-1 Books |
| 5-1-1 | Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, 'Aux sources de la parole: auto-organisation et évolution', Odile Jacob |
| 5-1-2 | 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 |
| 5-1-3 | Li Deng and Dong Yu, Deep Learning: Methods and Applications, Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing |
| 5-1-4 | O.Niebuhr, R.Skarnitzl, 'Tackling the Complexity in Speech', Prague University Press |
| 5-1-5 | J.Li, L.Deng, R.Haeb-Umbach and Y.Gong, 'Robust Automatic Speech Recognition', Academic Press |
| 5-1-6 | Barbosa, P. A. and Madureira, S. Manual de Fonética Acústica Experimental. Aplicações a dados do português. 591 p. São Paulo: Cortez, 2015. [In Portuguese] |
| 5-1-7 | Damien Nouvel, Inalco, Maud Ehrmann, EPFL,Sophie Rosset, CNRS. Les entités nommées pour le traitement automatique des langues |
| 5-1-8 | R.Fuchs, 'Speech Rhythm in Varieties of English' , Springer |
| 5-2 Database |
| 5-2-1 | ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update (July 2016) |
| 5-2-2 | LDC Newsletter (July 2016) |
| 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 (May 2016) |
| 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 | Base de données LIBRE et GRATUITE pour la reconnaissance du locuteur |
| 5-2-18 | ISLRN adopted by Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission |
| 5-2-19 | Forensic database of voice recordings of 500+ Australian English speakers |
| 5-2-20 | Audio and Electroglottographic speech recordings |
| 5-2-21 | Press release: Opening of the ELRA License Wizard |
| 5-2-22 | EEG-face tracking- audio 24 GB data set Kara One, Toronto, Canada |
| 5-2-23 | TORGO data base free for academic use. |
| 5-2-24 | Datatang |
| 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. |
| 5-3-7 | MultiVec: a Multilingual and MultiLevel Representation Learning Toolkit for NLP |
| 5-3-8 | An android application for speech data collection LIG_AIKUMA |
| 6 Jobs |
| 6-1 | (2016-02-06) 2 post-doc positions at the Italian Institute of Technology. |
| 6-2 | (2016-02-27) Maître de Conférences en informatique au LIA , Avignon France |
| 6-3 | (2016-02-27) 3 Teaching and Research positions at Lium, Université du Maine, France |
| 6-4 | (2016-03-01) Professeur , Grenoble, France |
| 6-5 | (2016-03-15) Thèse ministérielle à l'IRISA intitulée 'Transformation de registres par extraction de motifs langagiers' |
| 6-6 | (2016-04-03) Post Doctoral Position in Machine Learning at Univ. Lille, France |
| 6-7 | (2016-04-11) Research Associate Position at York University, Toronto, Canada |
| 6-8 | (2016-04-20) PhD position at Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland |
| 6-9 | (2016-04-21) RESEARCH SCIENTIST, EMR.AI Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA |
| 6-10 | (2016-04-28) 3-year postdoctoral research position in speech processing, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland |
| 6-11 | (2016-05-02) Postdoctoral Position in Linguistics (Prosodic Phrasing and Discourse Comprehension), Université catholique de Louvain, Belgique |
| 6-12 | (2016-05-10) PhD positions at Inria, France |
| 6-13 | (2016-05-12) PhD Position at LORIA, Nancy, France |
| 6-14 | (2016-05-14) Senior Speech Analytics Engineer at SRI |
| 6-15 | (2016-05-14) Research Associate Position at York University, Toronto, Canada |
| 6-16 | (2016-05-14) Speech Technologist @ Voice Tech Startup!, Belmont, MA, USA |
| 6-17 | (2016-05-18) Researcher at laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-Marseille University, France |
| 6-18 | (2016-05-25) PhD Positions in Signal Processing for Speech Communication, Graz University, Austria |
| 6-19 | (2016-06-01) Ph.D. grant at IRISA, Rennes |
| 6-20 | (2016-06-12) Ingénieur de recherche, LPL, Aix-en-Provence, France |
| 6-21 | (2016-06-18) Postdoc à l'IRISA, Rennes, France |
| 6-22 | (2016-06-20) Ingénieur d'études, Université de Grenoble, France |
| 6-23 | (2016-06-18) 4 PhD grants at KTH Stockholm, Sweden |
| 6-24 | (2016-06-20) Research Group Leader in Intelligent Human-Robot Cooperation, University of Stuttgart, Germany |
| 6-25 | (2016-06-21) PhD grant at IRIT, Toulouse, France |
| 6-26 | (2016-07-07) 1 PhD position in bio-inspired ASR, 1 PhD position in brain-signal based ASR at the Italian Institute of Technology |
| 6-27 | (2016-07-13) Permanent research position in machine learning for natural language processing, Orange Labs, Lannion, France |
| 6-28 | (2016-07-15) ASR Research Scientist (Chinese) Oben Pasadena, California |
| 6-29 | (2016-07-20) PhD position at IDIAP, Martigny, Switzerland. |
| 6-30 | (2016-07-21) Speech Analytics Engineer , SRI, Menlo Park, CA, USA |
| 6-31 | (2016-07-28) Announcing 14 PhD positions on a new Marie Curie European Training Network, ENRICH |
| 6-32 | (2016-08-01) Positions at the French 'Police Technique et Scientifique', Ecully (Lyon), France |
| 7 Journals |
| 7-1 | IEEE Transactions on Multi-Scale Computing Systems: Special Issue on Design and Applications of Neuromorphic Computing System |
| 7-2 | Special Issue CSL on Language and Interaction Technologies for Children |
| 7-3 | Computer Speech and Language Journal, Special Issue on Spoken Language Understanding and Interaction |
| 7-4 | Numero spécial de TAL: l'éthique dans le TALP |
| 7-5 | Call for papers - Journal TIPA no 32, 2016 |
| 7-6 | Special Issue of Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering : Signal Processing Platforms and Algorithms for Real-life Communications and Listening to Digital Audio |
| 7-7 | CfP TAL Special issue: Natural Language Processing and Ethics |
| 7-8 | CfP Neurocomputing: Special Issue on Machine Learning for Non-Gaussian Data Processing |
| 7-9 | IEEE Trans. on Affective Computing, Special Issue on Laughter Computing: towards machines able to deal with laughter |
| 7-10 | revue Études Créoles-Nouvelle série |
| 7-11 | CFP: Machine Translation Journal/Special Issue on Spoken Language Translation( updated) |
| 7-12 | CfP IEEE JSTSP Special Issue on Spoofing and Countermeasures for Automatic Speaker Verification (extended deadline) |
| 7-13 | Special Issue on Biosignal-based Spoken Communication in the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing |
| 7-14 | CSL special issue 'Recent advances in speaker and language recognition and characterization' |
| 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´ |
| 8-10 | Prasanna Kumar Muthukumar, 'Towards Integrated Acoustic Models for Speech Synthesis' |