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ISCApad Archive » 2019 » ISCApad #255 |
ISCApad #255 |
| Tuesday, September 10, 2019 by Chris Wellekens |
| 1 Editorial |
| 2 ISCA News |
| 2-1 | Message of President John H.L.Hansen |
| 2-2 | Letter to INTERSPEECH 2019 participants |
| 2-3 | Registration for ISCA SAC events at INTERSPEECH 2019 |
| 2-4 | Code-of-Ethics for Authors |
| 2-5 | Code-of-Conduct for Conference and Workshop Attendees |
| 2-6 | Videos of Interspeech and ISCA supported conferences |
| 2-7 | ISCA Archive Analysis: a never ending story! |
| 2-8 | Video of Interspeech 2018 keynotes |
| 2-9 | Women in Speech Research |
| 3 Events |
| 3-1 ISCA Events |
| 3-1-1 | (2019-09-11) CfSS SIGDIAL 2019, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 3-1-2 | (2019-09-14) 1st Call for the 5th Doctoral Consortium at Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria |
| 3-1-3 | (2019-09-15) Welcome to INTERSPEECH 2019 (updated) |
| 3-1-4 | (2019-09-15) INTERSPEECH 2019: Satellite Workshops (updated) |
| 3-1-5 | (2019-09-15) Student events at Interspeech 2019 in Graz. |
| 3-1-6 | (2019-09-19) 'Diversity within ISCA' Brown bag lunch at Interspeech |
| 3-1-7 | (2020-09-14) Interspeech 2020 Shanghai, China |
| 3-1-8 | (2021-08-30) Interspeech 2021, Brno, Czech Republic |
| 3-1-9 | (2022-xx-xx) Interspeech 2022, Dublin, Ireland |
| 3-2 ISCA Supported Events |
| 3-2-1 |
| 3-2-2 | (2019-09-11) CfSS SIGDIAL 2019, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 3-2-3 | (2019-09-11) SIGDIAL 2019 – 20th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 3-2-4 | (2019-09-13) HSCR19 - The 3rd International Workshop on the HISTORY OF SPEECH COMMUNICATION RESEARCH, Vienna, Austria |
| 3-2-5 | (2019-09-20) SSW10 - The 10th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop, Vienna, Austria |
| 3-2-6 | (2019-09-20) The 8th ISCA Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2019), Graz, Austria |
| 3-3 Other Events |
| 3-3-1 | (2019-09-12) The 3rd edition of the International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP 2019), Trento, Italy |
| 3-3-2 | (2019-09-14) Second International Workshop on Speech, Music and Mind, (SMM 2019): Detecting and Influencing Mental States with Audio, Wien, Austria |
| 3-3-3 | (2019-09-14) Young Female Researchers in Speech Workshop (YFRSW) , Graz, Austria |
| 3-3-4 | (2019-09-15) Zero Resource Speech Challenge 2019: TTS without T |
| 3-3-5 | (2019-09-15) ASVspoof 2019 CHALLENGE |
| 3-3-6 | (2019-09-15) The FEARLESS STEPS (FS-1) Challenge |
| 3-3-7 | (2019-09-15) The VOICES from a Distance Challenge 2019, Graz, Austria |
| 3-3-8 | (2019-09-20) CfP 1st Automatic Assessment of Parkinsonian Speech Workshop (AAPS2019) , Cambridge, MA, USA |
| 3-3-9 | (2019-09-20) Invitation to the MediaEval 2019 multimodal speaker detection challenge. |
| 3-3-10 | (2019-09-23) 61st International Symposium ELMAR-2019, Zadar, Croatia |
| 3-3-11 | (2019-09-27) IEEE MMSP 2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| 3-3-12 | (2019-09-30) CfP FinTOC shared task at the Second Financial Narrative Processing Workshop |
| 3-3-13 | (2019-09-30) The Second Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2019), Turku, Finland |
| 3-3-14 | (2019-10-10) The 10th Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue (SpeD 2019), Timisoara, Romania. |
| 3-3-15 | (2019-10-14) 7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING, Ljubljana,Slovenia |
| 3-3-16 | (2019-10-14) Call for posters: 7th International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing (SLSP 2019) , Ljubljana,Slovenia. |
| 3-3-17 | (2019-10-14) Cf Demos and exhibits, 21st ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2019), located in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China |
| 3-3-18 | (2019-10-14) CfC ICMI 2019 Doctoral Consortium, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China |
| 3-3-19 | (2019-10-14) CfW The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2019), Suzhou, Jiangsu, China |
| 3-3-20 | (2019-10-14) The 21th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2019) , Suzhou, China (deadline extended) |
| 3-3-21 | (2019-10-14) The 7th International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing (SLSP 2019), Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| 3-3-22 | (2019-10-21) Second International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports, Nice, France (updated) |
| 3-3-23 | (2019-10-24) Journée du préGDR TALN, Gerenble, France |
| 3-3-24 | (2019-10-24)CfP Conference on *Rational Approaches in Language Science (RAILS)*, Saarbruecken, Germany |
| 3-3-25 | (2019-11-07) 'Ratics, CNRS-Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris, France (updated) |
| 3-3-26 | (2019-11-22) Natural Language, Dialog and Speech (NDS) Symposium, The New York Academy of Sciences in NYC, USA |
| 3-3-27 | (2019-11-28) SCIENTIFIC MEETING OF THE “COMPUTATIONAL, FORMAL & FIELD LINGUISTICS” RESEARCH GROUP, Orléans, France |
| 3-3-28 | (2019-12-01) CfP 1st International Seminar on the Foundations of Speech (SEFOS): Breathing, Pausing, and the Voice., Univ. Southern Denmark, Sönderborg, Denmark |
| 3-3-29 | (2019-12-09) 8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF NATURAL COMPUTING, Kingston, Canada |
| 3-3-30 | (2019-12-09) CfP 6th International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Natural Computing (TPNC 2019) , Kingston, Canada |
| 3-3-31 | (2019-12-14) ASRU conference , Sentosa, Singapore |
| 3-3-32 | (2019-X-X) Dialog System Technology Challenge 7 (DSTC7) |
| 3-3-33 | (2020-01-13) 6th INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA, Ancona, Italy |
| 3-3-34 | (2020-03-02) 14th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS (LATA 2020), Milan, Italy. |
| 3-3-35 | (2020-04-22) ESANN 2020: European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning, Bruges,Belgium |
| 3-3-36 | (2020-05-11) LREC 2020, 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation -Marseille, France |
| 3-3-37 | (2020-05-13) REPROLANG (part of LREC Conference), Marseille , France |
| 3-3-38 | (2020-05-18) CfWand SS: INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY (IWSDS) 2020, Madrid Spain |
| 3-3-39 | (2020-05-24) The 10th Speech Prosody Conference, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan |
| 3-3-40 | (2020-05-??) ICASSP 2020, Barcelona, Spain |
| 3-3-41 | (2020-08-09) AILA 2020 CONGRESS: EVALUATING MULTIMODAL DOCUMENTS, Groningen, The Netherlands |
| 3-3-42 | (2020-10-06) SPECOM 2020, St Petersburg, Russia |
| 4 Academic and Industry Notes |
| 4-1 | Master Informatique en Apprentissage et Traitement Automatique de la Langue : ATAL. Universités du Maine et de Nantes France |
| 4-2 | Virtual Coaches |
| 4-3 | IEEE CIS Newsletter on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (open access). |
| 4-4 | new Masters program in Natural Language Processing and Data Science - Computer Science, Speech, Language, and Knowledge Representation at University of Lorraine, Nancy, France |
| 4-5 | New board of ELRA |
| 4-6 | M.Sc. Program in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Data Science, Université de Lorraine, Nancy (France) |
| 4-7 | Call for proposals SLT 2020 |
| 4-8 | General chair and local arrangements chair of SIGDIAL 2020. |
| 4-9 | CfProposals: 2021 IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP) |
| 4-10 | Nominations to ICMI (International Conference on Multimodal Interactio) (ICMI) awards |
| 5 Resources |
| 5-1 Books |
| 5-1-1 | Bäckström, Tom (with Guillaume Fuchs, Sascha Disch, Christian Uhle and Jeremie Lecomte), 'Speech Coding with Code-Excited Linear Prediction', Springer |
| 5-1-2 | Shinji Watanabe, Marc Delcroix, Florian Metze, John R. Hershey (Eds), 'New Era for Robust Seech Recognition', Springer. |
| 5-1-3 | Fabrice Marsac, Rudolph Sock, CONSÉCUTIVITÉ ET SIMULTANÉITÉ en Linguistique, Langues et Parole, L'Harmattan,France |
| 5-1-4 | Emmanuel Vincent (Editor), Tuomas Virtanen (Editor), Sharon Gannot (Editor), 'Audio Source Separation and Speech Enhancement', Wiley |
| 5-1-5 | Jen-Tzung Chien, 'Source Separation and Machine Learning', Academic Press |
| 5-1-6 | Ingo Feldhausen, « Methods in prosody: A Romance language perspective », Language Science Press (open access) |
| 5-1-7 | Nigel Ward, 'Prosodic Patterns in English Conversation', Cambridge University Press, 2019 |
| 5-1-8 | J.H.Esling, Scott R.Moisik, Allison Benner, Lise Crevier-Buchman, 'Voice Quality: the Laryngeal Articulator Model', Cambridge University Press |
| 5-1-9 | Albert di Cristo,' Les langues naturelles'. HAL archive ouverte |
| 5-2 Database |
| 5-2-1 | Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) update (August 2019) |
| 5-2-2 | ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update (July 2019) |
| 5-2-3 | Speechocean – update (August 2019) |
| 5-2-4 | Google 's Language Model benchmark |
| 5-2-5 | Forensic database of voice recordings of 500+ Australian English speakers |
| 5-2-6 | Audio and Electroglottographic speech recordings |
| 5-2-7 | EEG-face tracking- audio 24 GB data set Kara One, Toronto, Canada |
| 5-2-8 | TORGO data base free for academic use. |
| 5-2-9 | Datatang |
| 5-2-10 | Fearless Steps Corpus (University of Texas, Dallas) |
| 5-2-11 | SIWIS French Speech Synthesis Database |
| 5-2-12 | JLCorpus - Emotional Speech corpus with primary and secondary emotions |
| 5-2-13 | OPENGLOT –An open environment for the evaluation of glottal inverse filtering |
| 5-2-14 | Corpus Rhapsodie |
| 5-2-15 | The My Science Tutor Children?s Conversational Speech Corpus (MyST Corpus) , Boulder Learning Inc. |
| 5-2-16 | HARVARD speech corpus - native British English speaker |
| 5-3 Software |
| 5-3-1 | Release of the version 2 of FASST (Flexible Audio Source Separation Toolbox). |
| 5-3-2 | Cantor Digitalis, an open-source real-time singing synthesizer controlled by hand gestures. |
| 5-3-3 | MultiVec: a Multilingual and MultiLevel Representation Learning Toolkit for NLP |
| 5-3-4 | An android application for speech data collection LIG_AIKUMA |
| 5-3-5 | Web services via ALL GO from IRISA-CNRS |
| 5-3-6 | Clickable map - Illustrations of the IPA |
| 5-3-7 | LIG-Aikuma running on mobile phones and tablets |
| 5-3-8 | Python Library |
| 6 Jobs |
| 6-1 | (2019-03-03) Postdoc at CRIM, Montreal, Canada |
| 6-2 | (2019-03-03) Professor (W2) Speech Technology and Hearing Devices at University of Oldenburg, Germany |
| 6-3 | (2019-03-04) PhD positions at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
| 6-4 | (2019-03-07) Two PhD positions in the area of Information Extraction, Data Mining and Machine Learning at Saarland University |
| 6-5 | (2019-03-23) Chargé de recherches à l'IRCAM, Paris, France |
| 6-6 | (2019-03-30) Lectureship @ Sheffield, UK |
| 6-7 | (2019-04-01) Project manager in NLP |
| 6-8 | (2019-04-02) Post-doc at IRISA, Rennes, France |
| 6-9 | (2019-04-11) Senior Speech Processing Engineer (M/F) , Parrot Faurecia Automotive Paris, France |
| 6-10 | (2019-04-11) Project Manager Intellectual Property and Language Data , ELDA, Paris, France |
| 6-11 | (2019-04-13) Post-doc/PhD position Pattern mining for Neural Networks debugging: application to speech recognition, LORIA , Nancy, France |
| 6-13 | (2019-04-15) PhD grant, Sigmedia, Trinity College, Dublin |
| 6-14 | (2019-04-20) Two PhD Positions in Computational Linguistics or Phonetics or Speech Science, Saarland University, Germany |
| 6-15 | (2019-04-21) Technical Engineer/Scientist (Project Manager) position, ELDA, Paris |
| 6-16 | (2019-04-30) Ingénieur Développeur Domotique/Traitement multimédia temps-réel, LIG, Grenoble, France |
| 6-17 | (2019-05-17) 2 PhDs in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland |
| 6-18 | (2019-05-17) Post-doc/PhD position Pattern mining for Neural Networks debugging: application to speech recognition, INRIA,Rennes, France |
| 6-19 | (2019-05-18)Tenure track assistant professor at Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto, Canada |
| 6-20 | (2019-05-19) PhD position at LPNC, Grenoble, France |
| 6-21 | (2019-05-20) Doctorant en robotique cognitive, Université de Grenoble, France |
| 6-22 | (2019-05-28) Researcher position, Fixed term contract of 12 months, IRCAM, Paris |
| 6-23 | (2019-05-30) Funded position PhD at Avignon University, France |
| 6-24 | (2019-06-01) PhD position in NLP at LORIA, Nancy, France |
| 6-25 | (2019-06-07) PhD grant at ISIR and STMS, Paris, France |
| 6-26 | (2019-06-14) PhD position: Privacy preserving and personalized transformations for speech recognition, INRIA Nancy and Univ.Le Mans, France |
| 6-27 | (2019-06-16) PhD position: Hybrid Bayesian and deep neural modeling for weakly supervised learning of sensory-motor speech representations, University of Grenoble-Alpes, France |
| 6-28 | (2019-06-16) PhD thesis proposal Incremental sequence-to-sequence mapping for speech generation using deep neural networks, GIPSALab, Grenoble, France |
| 6-29 | (2019-06-20) Post-doc position, CNRS and Unv.Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, France |
| 6-30 | (2019-06-21) Ingénieur d'études, LIG, Univ.de Grenoble-Alpes, France |
| 6-31 | (2019-06-21) Post doc at LIUM, Univ. du Mans, Le Mans, France |
| 6-32 | (2019-06-22) Responsable de IA H/F. Manager de l’équipe R&D, Zaion, Paris, France |
| 6-33 | (2019-06-23) 3 open roles at Speechmatics, Cambridge, UK |
| 6-34 | (2019-07-11) 3year Early Stage Researcher PhD positions |
| 6-35 | (2019-07-17) Chief Technical Officer (CTO) at ELDA |
| 6-36 | (2019-07-19) Two Post-doctoral positions at Le Mans University , France |
| 6-37 | (2019-07-20) Three-year Early Stage Researcher PhD positions, IRIT, Toulouse, France |
| 6-38 | (2019-07-23) PhD position at LORIA-INRIA, Nancy, France |
| 6-39 | (2019-07-29) PhD position, Vrij Universiteit Berussels, Belgkium |
| 6-40 | (2019-07-29) Visiting postdoc at Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium |
| 6-41 | (2019-08-02) Research engineer of Post-doc, at Eurecom, Inria, LIA, France |
| 6-42 | (2019-08-02) Ph.D. position in Softbank robotics and Telecom-Paris, France |
| 6-43 | (2019-08-03) Speech scientist at ETS Research |
| 6-44 | (2019-08-12) Several positions in Forensic Speech Science or Forensic Data Science: Aston University, Birmingham, UK |
| 6-45 | (2019-08-14) Postdoc at KTH, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 6-46 | (2019-08-17) Fully funded PhD position at IDIAP, Martigny, Valais, Switzerland. |
| 6-47 | (2019-08-18) PhD positions at IRIT, Toulouse, France |
| 6-48 | (2018-08-25) Post-doc position at INRIA Rennes, France |
| 6-49 | (2019-08-28) Speech technologist/linguist at Cobaltspeech. |
| 6-50 | (2019-09-04)PhD thesis proposal, GIPSA Lab Grenoble France |
| 6-51 | (2019-09-04) Postdoc proposal, GIPSA Lab Grenoble, France |
| 6-52 | (2019-09-24) VOXCRIM 2019, Ecully France |
| 6-53 | 52019-09-05) Post doctoral position at IDIAP, Martigny, Switzerland |
| 6-54 | (2019-09-09) Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow, University of Tampere, Finland |
| 6-55 | (2019-09-09) Doctoral Researcher; UNiversity of Tampere, Finland |
| 6-56 | (2019-09-09) Postdoc position at IRIT, Toulouse, France |
| 7 Journals |
| 7-1 | Special issue of JSTSP on Far-Field Speech Processing in the Era of Deep Learning Speech enhancement, Separation and Recognition |
| 7-2 | Topical Issue on Intelligent Methods for Textual Information Retrieval |
| 7-3 | Journal on data semantics, special issue: big data semantics |
| 7-4 | IEEE JSTSP Special Issue on Automatic Assessment of Health Disorders Based on Voice, Speech and Language Processing |
| 7-5 | IEEE JSTSP Special Issue on Compact Deep Neural Networks with Industrial Applications (updated) |
| 7-6 | ACM Transactions on Internet Technology-Special Section on Computational Modeling and Understanding of Emotions in Conflictual Social Interactions |
| 7-7 | Computer, Speech and Language: Special Issue on Speech & Dementia |
| 7-8 | TIPA- Special issue 'How the Body Contributes to Discourse and Meaning? |
| 7-9 | special issue of Language and Speech |
| 7-10 | IT-Information Technology, Special Issue: Affective Computing, Deep Learning & Health |
| 7-11 | CfP. Special issue Speech Communication: Pluricentric Languages in Speech Technology |
| 7-12 | CfP: Special issue of Computer, Speech and Language on Advances in Automatic Speaker Verification Anti-spoofing |
| 7-13 | CfP : Journal of Phonetics: Special Issue on Vocal Accommodation in Speech Communication |
| 7-14 | JSTSP special issue on Deeep Learning for Multi-modal Ingtelligence across Speech, Language, Vision, and Heterogeneous Signals |
| 7-15 | CfP IEEE SPM Special issue: Non-Convex Optimization for Signal Processing and Machine Learning |
| 7-16 | Call for submission:TAL journal |
| 7-17 | IEEE STSP Special issue: Deep Learning for Multi-modal Intelligence across Speech, Language, Vision, and Heterogeneous Signals (extended deadline) |
| 8 Recent Theses |
| 8-1 | George P. Kafentzis, 'Adaptive sinusoidal models for speech with applications in speech modifications and audio analysis' |
| 8-2 | Xingyu, Na, ' Personalization of HMM-based Speech Synthesis'. |
| 8-3 | Tuomo Raitio, 'Voice source modelling techniques for statistical parametric speech synthesis' |
| 8-4 | Bart Penning de Vries, 'Computerised Speaking Practice: The Role of Automatic Corrective Feedback in Learning L2 Grammar´ |
| 8-5 | Prasanna Kumar Muthukumar, 'Towards Integrated Acoustic Models for Speech Synthesis' |
| 8-6 | Stephen Bodnar,'Affective L2 learning experiences and ideal L2 selves in spoken CALL practice' |
| 8-7 | Andreas Windmann, 'Optimization-based modeling of suprasegmental speech timing' |
| 8-8 | Catharine Oertel Genannt Bierbach, 'Modeling Engagement in Multi-Party Conversations' |
| 8-9 | Hardik B. Sailor,'Auditory Representation Learning' |
| 8-10 | Philipp Aichinger, 'Diplophonic Voice - Definitions, models, and detection' |
| 8-11 | Yun Wang, 'Polyphonic Sound Event Detection with Weak Labeling' |
| 8-12 | Omid Ghahabi, 'Deep Learning for i-Vector Speaker and Language Recognition' |
| 8-13 | Neeraj Kumar Sharma, 'Information-rich Sampling of Time-varying Signals' |