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ISCApad Archive » 2018 » ISCApad #238 |
ISCApad #238 |
| Friday, April 13, 2018 by Chris Wellekens |
| 1 Editorial |
| 2 ISCA News |
| 2-1 | Message from President Professor John Hansen |
| 2-2 | ISCA Distinguished lecturers for 2018-2019 |
| 2-3 | SCOOT - Speech Communication On-line Training |
| 2-4 | Videos of Interspeech and ISCA supported conferences |
| 3 Events |
| 3-1 ISCA Events |
| 3-1-1 | (2018-06-13) 9th Speech Prosody Conference, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, NEW DEADLINE |
| 3-1-2 | (2018-09-02) Call for Papers and Proposals for Show & Tell (Interspeech 2018) , Hyberabad, India |
| 3-1-3 | (2018-09-02) Cfp Interspeech 2018 Show and Tell, Hyderabad, Telangana, India (updated) |
| 3-1-4 | (2019-09-15) Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria |
| 3-1-5 | Satellite Events of INTERSPEECH 2018 |
| 3-2 ISCA Supported Events |
| 3-2-1 | (2018-07-12) SIGDIAL 2018 CONFERENCE, Melbourne, Australia (Important date change) |
| 3-2-2 | (2018-07-12) SIGDIAL 2018 Conference: Call for Special Sessions, Melbourne, Australia |
| 3-2-3 | (2018-09-07) 5th CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge, Hyderabad, India |
| 3-2-4 | (2018-09-07) CfP 5th International Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments, Hyderabad, India |
| 3-2-5 | (2018-09-08) Speech Processing in Challenging Environments (SPICE) IISc Bangalore, India. |
| 3-2-6 | (2018-09-08) Blizzard Challenge Workshop 2018, Microsoft, Hyderabad, India. |
| 3-3 Other Events |
| 3-3-1 | (2018-05-07) AREA - Annotation, Recognition and Evaluation of Actions , Miyazaki, Japan |
| 3-3-2 | (2018-05-07) LREC 2018 Workshops and Tutorials, Miyazaki (Japan) |
| 3-3-3 | (2018-05-07) LREC 2018, 11th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation - Phoenix Seagaia Resort, Miyazaki, Japan (UPDATE) |
| 3-3-4 | (2018-05-07)CfP AREA - Annotation, Recognition and Evaluation of Actions, Miyazaki, Japan |
| 3-3-5 | (2018-05-08) 11th WORKSHOP ON BUILDING AND USING COMPARABLE CORPORA, Miyazaki, Japan |
| 3-3-6 | (2018-05-10) CfP LREC 2018 Industry Track, Miyazaki, Japan |
| 3-3-7 | (2018-05-12) Multimodal Corpora 2018, LREC Workshop, Miyazaki, Japan |
| 3-3-8 | (2018-05-14) Cf Workshops and special sessions at IWSDS 2018, Singapore UPDATE (new schedule and location) |
| 3-3-9 | (2018-05-20) CfP 2018 The first Asian Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII Asia 2018), Beijing, China |
| 3-3-10 | (2018-06-04) JEP 2018, Aix en Provence, France (updated) |
| 3-3-11 | (2018-06-08) Atelier Satellite des JEP'18, Aix-en-Provence, France |
| 3-3-12 | (2018-06-13) 9th Speech Prosody Conference, Poznan,Poland |
| 3-3-13 | (2018-06-13) Workshop AFFECT, COMPAGNON ARTIFICIEL, INTERACTION (WACAI 2018), Ile de Porquerolles, France (IMPORTANT UPDATE) |
| 3-3-14 | (2018-06-18) 6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages , Berlin, Germany |
| 3-3-15 | (2018-06-25) 2018 Jelinek Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Technology Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA |
| 3-3-16 | (2018-07-06) CfP 14th Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces (eNTERFACE 2018), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium |
| 3-3-17 | (2018-07-09) École thématique Big Data & Speech, Roscoff, France |
| 3-3-18 | (2018-07-20) NEWS 2018: The Seventh Named Entities Workshop and Shared Task on Transliteration of Named Entities, Melbourne, Australia |
| 3-3-19 | (2018-07-23) 2nd INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING, Genova, Italy |
| 3-3-20 | (2018-08-29) 6th international workshop on spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages (SLTU'18), Gurugram, India |
| 3-3-21 | (2018-09-03) 26th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2018) Rome, Italy (UPDATE) |
| 3-3-22 | (2018-09-04) CBMI-Cf Special sessions, La Rochelle, France |
| 3-3-23 | (2018-09-04) CfP International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI) 2018 - La Rochelle, France |
| 3-3-24 | (2018-09-04) EUSIPCO 2018, Rome, Italy |
| 3-3-25 | (2018-09-07) 5th International Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments (CHiME2018), Hyderabad, India |
| 3-3-26 | (2018-09-09) 2018 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS), Poznan, Poland |
| 3-3-27 | (2018-09-10) CLEF 2018 Conference and Labs on the Evaluation Forum, Avignon, France (Updated) |
| 3-3-28 | (2018-09-11) 21st International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2018), Brno, Czech Republic |
| 3-3-29 | (2018-09-17) DISRUPTIVE RESEARCH IN ANTI-SPOOFING FOR AUTOMATIC SPEAKER VERIFICATION at MLSP 2018, Aalborg, Denmark |
| 3-3-30 | (2018-09-17) IEEE International Workshop on MACHINE LEARNING FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING, Aalborg, Denmark |
| 3-3-31 | (2018-09-18) 20th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM), Leipzig, Germany (updated) |
| 3-3-32 | (2018-10-11) The 4th Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP4) conference, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA |
| 3-3-33 | (2018-10-16 )International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), Boulder, Colorado, USA |
| 3-3-34 | (2018-10-16) 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING ( SLSP 2018) , Mons, Belgium |
| 3-3-35 | (2018-10-16) 4th International Workshop on Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction, Boulder, Colorado, USA |
| 3-3-36 | (2018-10-28) CfP XV1th International Conference of Creole Studies, Mahé, Seychelles |
| 3-3-37 | (2018-11-05)11 th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, Tilburg, The Netherlands |
| 3-3-38 | (2018-11-08) Workshop on Prosody and Meaning: Information Structure and Beyond, Aix-en-Provence, France |
| 3-3-39 | (2018-11-26) The 11th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2018), Taipei, Taiwan |
| 3-3-40 | (2018-11-29) CfP Workshop on the Processing of Prosody across Languages and Varieties (ProsLang),Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (updated) |
| 3-3-41 | (2018-12-18) IEEE SLT2018 , Athens, Greece |
| 3-3-42 | (2018-??-??) FIRST JOINT CALL for Workshop Proposals: ACL/COLING/EMNLP/NAACL 2018 |
| 3-3-43 | (2019-08-04) International Conference on Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia |
| 4 Academic and Industry Notes |
| 4-1 | New Masters in Machine Learning, Speech and Language Processing at Cambridge University, UK |
| 4-2 | Master Informatique en Apprentissage et Traitement Automatique de la Langue : ATAL. Universités du Maine et de Nantes France |
| 4-3 | Creation of Yajie Miao Memorial Student Travel Grants |
| 4-4 | Bids for ICMI 2019 and ICMI 2020 |
| 4-5 | Air Traffic Control Speech Recognition Challenge |
| 4-6 | Bids for ICASSP 2023 |
| 4-7 | CfProposals for ASRU 2019 |
| 4-8 | ELRA and LDC partner on a joint distribution of Language Resources |
| 4-9 | 2018 MICROSOFT AI RESIDENCY PROGRAM |
| 4-10 | Virtual Coaches |
| 4-11 | IEEE CIS Newsletter on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (open access). |
| 4-12 | APPEL à CANDIDATURE : organisation conjointe JEP-TALN 2020 |
| 4-13 | Challenge ASR in English Air Traffic Control |
| 5 Resources |
| 5-1 Books |
| 5-1-1 | J.Li, L.Deng, R.Haeb-Umbach and Y.Gong, 'Robust Automatic Speech Recognition', Academic Press |
| 5-1-2 | Barbosa, P. A. and Madureira, S. Manual de Fonética Acústica Experimental. Aplicações a dados do português. 591 p. São Paulo: Cortez, 2015. [In Portuguese] |
| 5-1-3 | Damien Nouvel, Inalco, Maud Ehrmann, EPFL,Sophie Rosset, CNRS. Les entités nommées pour le traitement automatique des langues |
| 5-1-4 | R.Fuchs, 'Speech Rhythm in Varieties of English' , Springer |
| 5-1-5 | Pejman Mowlaee et al., 'Phase-Aware Signal Processing in Speech Communication: Theory and Practice', Wiley 2016 |
| 5-1-6 | Jean Caelen, Anne Xuereb, 'Dialogue : altérité, interaction, énaction' |
| 5-1-7 | Bäckström, Tom (with Guillaume Fuchs, Sascha Disch, Christian Uhle and Jeremie Lecomte), 'Speech Coding with Code-Excited Linear Prediction', Springer |
| 5-1-8 | Shinji Watanabe, Marc Delcroix, Florian Metze, John R. Hershey (Eds), 'New Era for Robust Seech Recognition', Springer. |
| 5-1-9 | Fabrice Marsac, Rudolph Sock, CONSÉCUTIVITÉ ET SIMULTANÉITÉ en Linguistique, Langues et Parole, L'Harmattan,France |
| 5-2 Database |
| 5-2-1 | Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) update (April 2018) |
| 5-2-2 | ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update (February 2018) |
| 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 | 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 | The International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN) assigned to LRE Map 2016 Language Resources |
| 5-2-25 | Fearless Steps Corpus (University of Texas, Dallas) |
| 5-2-26 | SIWIS French Speech Synthesis Database |
| 5-2-27 | The new ELRA Catalogue of Language Resources (February 2018) |
| 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 | Web services via ALL GO from IRISA-CNRS |
| 5-3-10 | Clickable map - Illustrations of the IPA |
| 5-3-11 | LIG-Aikuma running on mobile phones and tablets |
| 6 Jobs |
| 6-1 | (2017-12-03) Machine Learning Engineer, Speech Recognition, Aja-la studios, Green Richmond UK |
| 6-2 | (2017-12-04) Machine Learning Engineer, Speech Synthesis , Aja-la studios,Green Richmond UK |
| 6-3 | (2017-12-03) Research Assistant/Associate in Speech Processing, at Cambridge University Engineering Department, Cambridge, UK. |
| 6-4 | (2017-12-05) One-year post-doctoral position in speech production, GIPSA, Grenoble, France |
| 6-5 | (2017-12-06) PhD Position in Social Signal Processing for Multi-Sensor Conversation Quality Modeling, Delft University, The Netherlands |
| 6-6 | (2017-12-08) PhD grant at IRISA, Rennes France |
| 6-7 | (2017-12-15) Internship 1 at LIA, Avignon, France |
| 6-8 | (2017-12-15) Internship 2 at LIA Avignon, France |
| 6-9 | (2017-12-13) Internship and PhD position at Telecom-ParisTech and LTCI lab, Paris, France |
| 6-10 | (2017-12-16) Position at INA, Bry/Marne, France |
| 6-11 | (2017-12-16) Post-doc position at Uniklinik RWTH Aachen (Germany) |
| 6-12 | (2017-12-13) PhD position in Conversational systems and Social robotics, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 6-13 | (2017-12-13) 2 funded PhD positions in interactive virtual characters and social robots at KTH, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 6-14 | (2018-01-09) Two postdoc positions at IDIAP, Martigny, Switzerland |
| 6-15 | (2018-01-10) Postdocs at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia |
| 6-16 | (2018-01-11) Postdoc position at IDIAP, Martigny, Switzerland |
| 6-17 | (2018-01-18) (SENIOR) SPEECH SCIENTIST at Voicebox, München, Germany |
| 6-18 | (2018-01-18) 3 permanent(indefinite tenure) faculty positions at Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France |
| 6-19 | (2018-01-20) Machine learning Software Engineer, Adobe Research - Speech Recognition, San Jose, CA,USA |
| 6-20 | (2018-01-25) 2018 PHD RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS at University of Trento , Italy |
| 6-21 | (2018-01-25) PhD student in Robot-assisted Language Learning at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 6-22 | (2018-01-26) Poste MCF à l'ENSIMAG, Grenoble, France |
| 6-23 | (2018-01-27) Post-doctoral researcher at Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland |
| 6-24 | (2018-01-27) Post Doctoral Position (12 months) at INRIA Nancy, France |
| 6-25 | (2018-01-27) PhD grant Natural language processing: adding new words to a speech recognition system using Deep Neural Networks, INRIA/LORIA, Nancy, France |
| 6-26 | (2018/02/01) Junior Linguist (French), Paris, France |
| 6-27 | (2018-02-16) Postdoctoral Research Scientist: Computational Linguistics, Rochester, NY, USA |
| 6-28 | (2018-02-18) Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) at University of Kent, UK |
| 6-29 | (2018-02-19)Ph D at Loria/Inria and Telecom Paris Rech |
| 6-30 | (2018-02-19) Post-Doctoral Researcher at Paderborn University, Germany |
| 6-31 | (2018-02-20) 1 (W/M) researcher positions at IRCAM, Paris, France |
| 6-32 | (2018-02-22) Postdoctoral Researcher at Saarland University, Germany |
| 6-33 | (2018-03-02) POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW POSITION, CNRS and INSERM, Lyon, France |
| 6-34 | (2018-03-03) Maitre de conférences, ENSIMAG, Grenoble,France |
| 6-35 | (2018-03-03) Research Linguist at ObEN, Los Angeles,CA, USA |
| 6-36 | (2018-03-03) Speech Research Scientist (ASR) at ObEN, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| 6-37 | (2018-03-03) Speech Research Scientist (Prosody Modeling) at ObEN, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| 6-38 | (2018-03-03) Speech Research Scientist (Singing Voice Synthesis) at ObEN, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| 6-39 | (2018-03-03) Speech Research Scientist (Speech Synthesis) at ObEN, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| 6-40 | (2018-03-03) Speech Research Scientist (TTS) at ObEN, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| 6-41 | (2018-03-06) Post Doc position at University of Saarland, Germany |
| 6-42 | (2018-03-14) PhD Position in Experimental Mechanics of Materials/Structures (vocal-fold 3D structure), Gipsa Lab, Grenoble |
| 6-43 | (2018-03-15) Internship at ELDA, Paris, France |
| 6-44 | (2018-03-19) Faculty position (Associate professor) at Telecom ParisTech, Paris |
| 6-45 | (2018-03-24) PhD-student in a research project investigating strategies for human?robot-interaction, Bielefeld, Germany |
| 6-46 | (2018-03-26) PhD grant in Machine learning, Lannion, France |
| 6-47 | (2018-03-15) PhD grant at LJK and LIG, Grenoble, France |
| 6-48 | (2018-03-16) Research Linguist at ObEN, Inc, Pasadena, California, USA |
| 6-49 | (2018-03-16) SPEECH RESEARCH SCIENTIST (ASR) at ObEN, Inc, Pasadena, California,USA |
| 6-50 | (2018-03-16) SPEECH RESEARCH SCIENTIST (Prosody Modeling)at ObEN Inc.,Pasadena, California, USA |
| 6-51 | (2018-03-16) SPEECH RESEARCH SCIENTIST (Singing Voice Synthesis) at ObEN Inc., Pasadena, California, USA |
| 6-52 | (2018-03-16) SPEECH RESEARCH SCIENTIST (Speech Synthesis) at ObEN Inc., Pasadena, California, USA |
| 6-53 | (2018-03-16) SPEECH RESEARCH SCIENTIST (TTS) at ObEN Inc., Pasadena, California, USA |
| 6-54 | (2018-03-17) 2 PhD grants and 2 postdoc positions (2-year), at Aix-Marseille/Avignon , France |
| 6-55 | (2018-03-22) Research scientist at the University of Trento, Italy |
| 6-56 | (2018-04-09) Postes d'ATER en Traitement automatique des langues et de la Parole, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France |
| 6-57 | (2018-04-11) A three-year doctoral position at the University Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France |
| 7 Journals |
| 7-1 | La langue des signes, c'est comme ça. Revue TIPA |
| 7-2 | Speech and Language Processing for Behavioral and Mental Health Research and Applications', Computer Speech and Language (CSL). |
| 7-3 | Special issue on Biosignal-Based Spoken Communication in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing |
| 7-4 | Special issue on Multimodal Interaction in Automotive Applications , Springer Journal on Multimodal Interaction |
| 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' |
| 8-13 | Catharine Oertel Genannt Bierbach, 'Modeling Engagement in Multi-Party Conversations' |
| 8-14 | Emma Jokinen, 'Techniques for speech intelligibility enhancement in mobile telephony' |