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ISCApad Archive » 2017 » ISCApad #225 |
ISCApad #225 |
| Saturday, March 11, 2017 by Chris Wellekens |
| 1 Editorial |
| 2 ISCA News |
| 2-1 | A message from our President Prof. Haizhou Li |
| 2-2 | Election of members for the Board of ISCA |
| 2-3 | Videos of Interspeech and ISCA supported conferences |
| 2-4 | Videos of INTERSPEECH 2016 |
| 2-5 | ISCA Online Archive |
| 2-6 | A message from Satoshi Nakamura, responsible for DL selections. |
| 3 Events |
| 3-1 ISCA Events |
| 3-1-1 | (2017-03-14) Interspeech 2017 deadlines |
| 3-1-2 | (2017-08-20) Call for Paper INTERSPEECH 2017 Special session on Digital Revolution for Under-resourced Languages (DigRev-URL) |
| 3-1-3 | (2017-08-20) CfP INTERSPEECH 2017, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 3-1-4 | (2017-08-20) Interspeech 2017 update |
| 3-1-5 | (2017-08-20) Satellite Workshops and Events at Interspeech 2017 |
| 3-1-6 | (2017-08-25) 7th ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE),Stockholm, Sweden |
| 3-1-7 | (2018-09-02) Interspeech 2018, Hyderabad, India |
| 3-1-8 | (2019) Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria |
| 3-2 ISCA Supported Events |
| 3-2-1 | Forthcoming ISCA Supported Events |
| 3-3 Other Events |
| 3-3-1 | (2017-03-30) CfP Workshop (In)Coherence of Discourse 4, LORIA, Nancy, France (deadline extension) |
| 3-3-2 | (2017-04-03) 59th International Symposium ELMAR-2017, Zadar, Croatia. |
| 3-3-3 | (2017-04-26) Workshop on Speech perception and production across the lifespan (SPPL 2017), London, UK |
| 3-3-4 | (2017-04-27) Congrès : 'Bégaiements et disfluences : de la théorie à la clinique' ,Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique |
| 3-3-5 | (2017-05-07) CfP CHI 2017 Workshop on Designing Speech, Acoustic, and Multimodal Interactions (DSLI 2017), Denver, CO, USA |
| 3-3-6 | (2017-06-05) ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR 2017), Bucharest, Romania |
| 3-3-7 | (2017-06-12) CfP Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 2017, Cologne, Germany |
| 3-3-8 | (2017-06-19) CfP Content based multimedia indexing CBMI 2017, Firenze, Italy |
| 3-3-9 | (2017-06-21) International Conference Subsidia: Tools and Resources for Speech Sciences, Málaga (Costa del Sol, Spain). |
| 3-3-10 | (2017-06-29) JPC7 - 7èmes Journées de Phonétique clinique, Paris France |
| 3-3-11 | (2017-07-02) 2017 Jelinek Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Technology. |
| 3-3-12 | (2017-07-03) eNTERFACE '17, Porto, Portugal |
| 3-3-13 | (2017-07-05) REP 2017: 15th annual conference of the French Phonology Network, Grenoble, France |
| 3-3-14 | (2017-07-06) 9th Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue, at Bucharest, Romania. |
| 3-3-15 | (2017-07-07) Séminaire Traitement de l'Information Multimodale TIM2017, Paris |
| 3-3-16 | (2017-07-17) INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING DeepLearn 2017, Bilbao, Spain |
| 3-3-17 | (2017-08-15) CfP SIGDIAL 2017 CONFERENCE, Saarbrücken, Germany |
| 3-3-18 | (2017-08-20) CfP INTERSPEECH 2017 Special session on ?Incremental Processing and Responsive Behaviour? |
| 3-3-19 | (2017-08-25) The International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP 2017), Stockholm Sweden |
| 3-3-20 | (2017-08-27) CfP 20th International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2017), Praha (Prague), Czech Republic |
| 3-3-21 | (2017-08-28) CfP EUSIPCO 2017, KOS ISLAND, GREECE |
| 3-3-22 | (2017-08-28) Cf Tutorials EUSIPCO 2017, Kos Island Greecel |
| 3-3-23 | (2017-08-28) CfProposals EUSIPCO 2017 Satellite Workshops -Deadline Extension |
| 3-3-24 | (2017-08-28) EUSIPCO 2017 Announcement: CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS |
| 3-3-25 | (2017-08-28) EUSIPCO 2017, call for satellite workshops, Kos Island, Greece |
| 3-3-26 | (2017-09-12) CfP 19th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM 2017), Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK |
| 3-3-27 | (2017-09-20) 11th Oxford Dsfluency Conference (ODC), Oxford, UK |
| 3-3-28 | (2017-09-28) Workshop at BICLCE2017 (7th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English), Vigo, Spain |
| 3-3-29 | (2017-10-16) 11th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP-2017), Tianjin, China |
| 3-3-30 | (2017-10-23) CfP Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2017) , San Antonio, Texas, USA |
| 3-3-31 | (2017-11-13) International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) , Glasgow, Scotland |
| 3-3-32 | (2017-12-08) Dialog System Technology Challenge 6 (DSTC6) at NIPS; Call for Track Proposals |
| 3-3-33 | (2017-12-16)CfP IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Okinawa, Japan |
| 3-3-34 | (2018-05-07) LREC 2018, 11th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation - Phoenix Seagaia Resort, Miyazaki, Japan |
| 4 Academic and Industry Notes |
| 4-1 | Announcing the Master of Science in Intelligent Information Systems |
| 4-2 | Master in linguistics (Aix-Marseille) France |
| 4-3 | NEW MASTER IN BRAIN AND COGNITION AT UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA, BARCELONA |
| 4-4 | Masters à la Sorbonne (Paris) |
| 4-5 | New Masters in Machine Learning, Speech and Language Processing at Cambridge University, UK |
| 4-6 | SProSIG Bids for Speech prosody 2018 |
| 4-7 | New funding opportunity at iARPA |
| 4-8 | Bids for ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2018 |
| 4-9 | ACM ICMI CALL FOR BIDS 2018 |
| 4-10 | ASVspoof 2017 CHALLENGE: Audio replay detection for automatic speaker verification anti-spoofing |
| 4-11 | Communication from ELRA |
| 4-12 | Master Informatique en Apprentissage et Traitement Automatique de la Langue : ATAL. Universités du Maine et de Nantes France |
| 5 Resources |
| 5-1 Books |
| 5-1-1 | Li Deng and Dong Yu, Deep Learning: Methods and Applications, Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing |
| 5-1-2 | O.Niebuhr, R.Skarnitzl, 'Tackling the Complexity in Speech', Prague University Press |
| 5-1-3 | J.Li, L.Deng, R.Haeb-Umbach and Y.Gong, 'Robust Automatic Speech Recognition', Academic Press |
| 5-1-4 | Barbosa, P. A. and Madureira, S. Manual de Fonética Acústica Experimental. Aplicações a dados do português. 591 p. São Paulo: Cortez, 2015. [In Portuguese] |
| 5-1-5 | Damien Nouvel, Inalco, Maud Ehrmann, EPFL,Sophie Rosset, CNRS. Les entités nommées pour le traitement automatique des langues |
| 5-1-6 | R.Fuchs, 'Speech Rhythm in Varieties of English' , Springer |
| 5-1-7 | Pejman Mowlaee et al., 'Phase-Aware Signal Processing in Speech Communication: Theory and Practice', Wiley 2016 |
| 5-2 Database |
| 5-2-1 | ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update (November 2016) |
| 5-2-2 | Appen ButlerHill |
| 5-2-3 | OFROM 1er corpus de français de Suisse romande |
| 5-2-4 | Real-world 16-channel noise recordings |
| 5-2-5 | Aide à la finalisation de corpus oraux ou multimodaux pour diffusion, valorisation et dépôt pérenne |
| 5-2-6 | Rhapsodie: un Treebank prosodique et syntaxique de français parlé |
| 5-2-7 | Annotation of “Hannah and her sisters” by Woody Allen. |
| 5-2-8 | French TTS |
| 5-2-9 | Google 's Language Model benchmark |
| 5-2-10 | International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN) (ELRA Press release) |
| 5-2-11 | ISLRN new portal |
| 5-2-12 | Speechocean – update (January 2017) |
| 5-2-13 | kidLUCID: London UCL Children’s Clear Speech in Interaction Database |
| 5-2-14 | Robust speech datasets and ASR software tools |
| 5-2-15 | International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN) implemented by ELRA and LDC |
| 5-2-16 | Base de données LIBRE et GRATUITE pour la reconnaissance du locuteur |
| 5-2-17 | ISLRN adopted by Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission |
| 5-2-18 | Forensic database of voice recordings of 500+ Australian English speakers |
| 5-2-19 | Audio and Electroglottographic speech recordings |
| 5-2-20 | Press release: Opening of the ELRA License Wizard |
| 5-2-21 | EEG-face tracking- audio 24 GB data set Kara One, Toronto, Canada |
| 5-2-22 | TORGO data base free for academic use. |
| 5-2-23 | Datatang |
| 5-2-24 | Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) update (February 2017) |
| 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 |
| 5-3-9 | (2017-09-20) 11th Oxford Dysfluency Conference , Oxford, UK |
| 5-3-10 | Web services via A| | GO from IRISA-CNRS |
| 6 Jobs |
| 6-1 | (2016-10-03) Ph grant at the laboratoire de phonétique de l’Université de Mons, Belgium |
| 6-2 | (2016-10-06) Two positions at DefinedCrowd Corporation at its RandD center in Lisbon, Portugal |
| 6-3 | (2016-10-20) Two Master research internships at LIMSI - CNRS, Orsay, France |
| 6-4 | (2015-10-23) Vacancy for a one-year post-doctoral researcher position at the Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands |
| 6-5 | (2016-11-02) PhD stipends at The Centre for Acoustic Signal Processing Research, Aalborg University, Denmark |
| 6-6 | (2016-11-09) Internship on Search Engine Development at ELDA in Paris (France), |
| 6-7 | (2016-11-10) Offre de thèse LIMSI, Orsay, France |
| 6-8 | (2016-11-19) Stage de master recherche dans le cadre du projet ANR Vocadom, Grenoble, France |
| 6-9 | (2016-11-20) 3 subjets Master Recherche 2 in NLP at Loria Nancy for 2016-2017 |
| 6-10 | (2016-12-02) Tenure senior research position at INRIA Bordeaux France |
| 6-11 | (2016-12-19) Postdoc at LIMSI, Orsay, France |
| 6-12 | (2017-01-12) Internship INA Paris: Segmentation Parole/Musique de documents multimédias à l’aide de réseaux de neurones profonds |
| 6-13 | (2017-01-15) Postdoctoral Positions in Linguistics/Sciences du Langage, LPL, CNRS, Aix-Marseille, France |
| 6-14 | (2017-01-20) Postdoc in Mental Health, Affective Computing and Machine Learning at CMU, Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
| 6-15 | (2017-01-21) Internship at INRIA Bordeaux, France |
| 6-16 | (2017-01-22) Stage de 6 mois au LIA Avignon, France |
| 6-17 | (2017-01-27) Two R and D engineers at INRIA Nancy France |
| 6-18 | (2017-02-01) Maitre de conférences, Ecole centrale Marseille France |
| 6-19 | (2017-02-13) CDD POST-DOCTORANT 18 mois *Analyse multimodale de contenus audiovisuels* |
| 6-20 | (2017-02-20) Several possitions of Research Engineers at Audio Analytic Labs, Cambridge, UK |
| 6-21 | (2017-02-21) Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Washington, WA, USA |
| 6-22 | (2017-02-21) Several positions at Fluent.ai in Montreal, Canada |
| 6-23 | (2017-02-22) Language modeling scientist at Siri team at Apple |
| 6-24 | (2017-05-06) CHI 2017 Workshop on Designing Speech, Acoustic, and Multimodal Interactions, Denver, CO, USA |
| 6-25 | (2017-06-19) CfP CBMI 2017, 15th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing , Firenze, Italy |
| 6-26 | (2017-02-28) Postdoctoral Researcher (Speech/Audio Processing), University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu Campus, Finland |
| 6-27 | (2017-02-28) MCF en informatique pour les Sciences Humaines, Sorbonne, Paris, France |
| 7 Journals |
| 7-1 | CfP Neurocomputing: Special Issue on Machine Learning for Non-Gaussian Data Processing |
| 7-2 | CFP: Machine Translation Journal/Special Issue on Spoken Language Translation( updated) |
| 7-3 | CfP IEEE JSTSP Special Issue on Spoofing and Countermeasures for Automatic Speaker Verification (extended deadline) |
| 7-4 | Special Issue on Biosignal-based Spoken Communication in the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing |
| 7-5 | CSL special issue 'Recent advances in speaker and language recognition and characterization' |
| 7-6 | IEEE CIS Newsletter on Cognitive and Developmental Systems |
| 7-7 | CfP *MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS* Special Issue on 'Content Based Multimedia Indexing' |
| 7-8 | Special issue CSL on Recent advances in speaker and language recognition and characterization |
| 7-9 | Spêcial issue of Advances in Multimedia on EMERGING CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS FOR MULTIMEDIA SECURITY |
| 7-10 | Cfp Speech Communication Virtual Special Issue: Multi-laboratory evaluation of forensic voice comparison systems under conditions reflecting those of a real forensiccase (forensic_eval_01) |
| 7-11 | Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments (JAISE) - Thematic Issue on: Human-centred AmI: Cognitive Approaches, Reasoning and Learning (HCogRL) |
| 7-12 | CfP Special Issue of Hindawi's Advances in Multimedia: EMERGING CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS FOR MULTIMEDIA SECURITY |
| 7-13 | CfP Special Issue of Speech Communication on *REALISM IN ROBUST SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING* |
| 7-14 | CfP IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing: Special Issue on End-to-End Speech and Language Processing |
| 7-15 | Travaux Interdisciplinaires sur la Parole et le Langage, TIPA |
| 7-16 | CfP IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing/ Special Issue on End-to-End Speech and Language Processing |
| 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' |
| 8-11 | Stephen Bodnar,'Affective L2 learning experiences and ideal L2 selves in spoken CALL practice' |
| 8-12 | Andreas Windmann, 'Optimization-based modeling of suprasegmental speech timing' |