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ISCApad Archive » 2020 » ISCApad #263 |
ISCApad #263 |
| Friday, May 15, 2020 by Chris Wellekens |
| 1 Editorial |
| 2 ISCA News |
| 2-1 | Obituary Professor John Laver |
| 2-2 | INTERSPEECH 2020 dates in Shanghai are moved! |
| 2-3 | Message from the Interspeech 2020 Organizing Committee |
| 2-4 | Deadline extension for bids Interspeech 2023 |
| 2-5 | ISCA social networks |
| 2-6 | Code-of-Ethics for Authors |
| 2-7 | Code-of-Conduct for Conference and Workshop Attendees |
| 2-8 | ISCA Archive Analysis: a never ending story! |
| 2-9 | Women in Speech Research |
| 2-10 | Proclamation du Prix de thèse AFCP 2019 |
| 2-11 | Bourses JEP AFCP |
| 2-12 | Election of SProSig new board officers |
| 3 Events |
| 3-1 ISCA Events |
| 3-1-1 | (2020-10-25) Cf Tutorials Interspeech 2020, Shanghai, China (UPDATE) |
| 3-1-2 | (2020-10-26) Cf Show and Tell, Interspeech 2020, Shanghai, China (UPDATED) |
| 3-1-3 | (2020-10-26) CfSS and challenges Interspeech 2020, Shanghai, China |
| 3-1-4 | (2020-10-26) First Voice Privacy Challenge at Interspeech 2020 UPDATED |
| 3-1-5 | (2020-10-26) Interspeech 2020 Shanghai, China (UPDATED) |
| 3-1-6 | (2021-08-30) Interspeech 2021, Brno, Czech Republic |
| 3-1-7 | Interspeech 2022, Incheon, South Korea |
| 3-2 ISCA Supported Events |
| 3-2-1 | (2020-05-24) SProSIG conference, Tokyo, Japan (UPDATE) |
| 3-2-2 | (2020-05-24) The 10th Speech Prosody Conference, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (UPDATE) |
| 3-2-3 | (2020-07-01) CfP SIGDIAL 2020 CONFERENCE, Boise, Idaho,USA (UPDATED) |
| 3-2-4 | (2020-07-01) CfSS SIGDIAL 2020, Boise, Idaho, USA |
| 3-2-5 | (2020-08-16) 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI), Sonderbedrg, Denmark (UPDATE) |
| 3-2-6 | (2020-09-21) 11th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology (IWSDS2020), Madrid, Spain (UPDATED) |
| 3-2-7 | (2020-09-21) CALL for Workshops and Special Sessions for IWSDS 2020, Madrid, Spain (UPDATED) |
| 3-2-8 | (2020-09-21) CfW and SS: INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY (IWSDS) 2020, Madrid Spain (UPDATED) |
| 3-2-9 | The International Conference 'Language Technologies for All (LT4All): a report. |
| 3-3 Other Events |
| 3-3-1 | (2020-05-13) REPROLANG (part of LREC Conference), Marseille , France |
| 3-3-2 | (2020-05-16) CfP LREC Workshop on Cross-Language Search and Summarization of Text and Speech, Marseille, France |
| 3-3-3 | (2020-05-16) ONION: peOple in laNguage, visIOn and the miNd, Marseilles, France |
| 3-3-4 | (2020-06-01) The 12th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), Providence, RI, USA (UPDATED) |
| 3-3-5 | (2020-06-08) *Appel Démos JEP-TALN'20 (JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2020)*, Nancy France |
| 3-3-6 | (2020-06-08) *Appel JEP-TALN?20 (JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2020)* Session Doctorants, Nancy France |
| 3-3-7 | (2020-06-08) *Appel Tutoriels JEP-TALN'20 (JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2020)*, Nancy France |
| 3-3-8 | (2020-06-08) Appel à ateliers Conférence JEP 2020 | TALN 2020 | RECITAL 2020, Nancy, France |
| 3-3-9 | (2020-06-08) Appel à contributions JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2020, Nancy France (UPDATED) |
| 3-3-10 | (2020-06-15) CfP Workshop on Laughter and Non-Verbal Vocalisations, Bielefeld, Germany (UPDATED) |
| 3-3-11 | (2020-06-22) Second ETeRNAL (Ethics and Natural Language Processing) workshop, Nancy, France (UPDATED) |
| 3-3-12 | (2020-06-25)Journée de travail du GT2 Intermodalité, multimodalité du GDR TAL - Marseille, France |
| 3-3-13 | (2020-06-29) ACM Multimedia 2020 Call for Multimedia Grand Challenge Proposals |
| 3-3-14 | (2020-06-29) L?école d?été en Traitement automatique des langues (ETAL), Lannion, France (UPDATED) |
| 3-3-15 | (2020-07-06) 3rd conference on Second Language Acquisition (RéAL2), Toulouse, France |
| 3-3-16 | (2020-07-09) ACL 2020 Second Grand-Challenge and Workshop on Multimodal Language (Challenge-HML) , Seattle, WA, USA (UPDATED) |
| 3-3-17 | (2020-07-11) CfP FinSBD-2, the 2nd shared task on Sentence Boundary Detection in PDF Noisy Text in the Financial Domain, Yokohama, Japan |
| 3-3-18 | (2020-07-11) ROBOTDIAL Workshop 2020, Yokohama, Japan (UPDATED) |
| 3-3-19 | (2020-07-15)CfP SIG:Prosodic and phonetic features of speaking styles, Aix en Provence, France (UPDATED) |
| 3-3-20 | (2020-07-20) International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM), Bangalore, India (UPDATED) |
| 3-3-21 | (2020-07-27) 4th INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING, Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico (UPDATED) |
| 3-3-22 | (2020-08-09) AILA 2020 CONGRESS: EVALUATING MULTIMODAL DOCUMENTS, Groningen, The Netherlands |
| 3-3-23 | (2020-08-13) Nordic prosody conference, Sonderborg,Denmark (UPDATED) |
| 3-3-24 | (2020-08-24) The 28th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2020), Amsterdam , The Netherlands, UPDATED |
| 3-3-25 | (2020-08=31) 1st Call for paper – RO-MAN 2020 Special Session in Dialogue Management Systems for Human-Robot Interaction , Naples, Italy |
| 3-3-26 | (2020-09-07) CfP Text Mining and Applications (TEMA2020) , Lisboa, Portugal |
| 3-3-27 | (2020-09-08 )TSD 2020 - PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL for WORKSHOPS, Brno, Czech Republic |
| 3-3-28 | (2020-09-08) TSD 2020 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS, Brno, Czech Republic (UPDATED) |
| 3-3-29 | (2020-09-13) CfP Workshop Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex), Barcelona, Spain |
| 3-3-30 | (2020-09-13) FinTOC?2 shared task at COLING2020, Barcelona, Spain UPDATED |
| 3-3-31 | (2020-09-15) ADReSS challenge, Shanghai, China (UPDATED) |
| 3-3-32 | (2020-09-21)CfP MACHINE LEARNING FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING (MLSP 2020), Espoo ,Finland |
| 3-3-33 | (2020-09-22) ImageCLEF 2020 ImageCLEF 2020 Thessaloniki, Greece |
| 3-3-34 | (2020-10-06) SPECOM 2020, St Petersburg, Russia (UPDATED) |
| 3-3-35 | (2020-10-12) 3rd International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports (MMSports'20), Seattle, USA |
| 3-3-36 | (2020-10-12) ACM Multimedia, Seattle, WA, USA |
| 3-3-37 | (2020-10-14) 8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING, Cardiff, United Kingdom |
| 3-3-38 | (2020-10-25) ICMI 2020 Doctoral Consortium - 1st Call for Contributions |
| 3-3-39 | (2020-10-25) 7th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON BIG DATA, Beersheba, Israel |
| 3-3-40 | (2020-10-25) CfW International Conference on Multimodal Interaction ( ICMI 2020), Utrecht, The Netherlands (UPDATED) |
| 3-3-41 | (2020-10-25) ICMI 2020: Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges, Utrecht, Thde Netherlands |
| 3-3-42 | (2020-10-25) ICMI 2020: First Call for Demonstrations and Exhibits, Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| 3-3-43 | (2020-10-?) The VoicePrivacy2020 Challenge Evaluation Plan |
| 3-3-44 | (2020-11-18) Two challenges at IberSPEECH2020, Valldolid, Spain |
| 3-3-45 | (2021-01-06) 12th Oxford Dysfluency Conference (ODC), Oxford, UK (UPDATED) |
| 3-3-46 | (2021-01-17) Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS) , Grenoble, France |
| 3-3-47 | (2021-01-18) EUSIPCO2020 Announcement , Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 3-3-48 | (2021-?-?) Call for Participation: The Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC9) |
| 3-3-49 | Recorded ICASSP 23020 on-demand |
| 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 | M.Sc. Program in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Data Science, Université de Lorraine, Nancy (France) |
| 4-6 | General chair and local arrangements chair of SIGDIAL 2020. |
| 4-7 | CfProposals: 2021 IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP) |
| 4-8 | Call for bids eNTERFACE workshop 2020 |
| 4-9 | FIAT/IFTA Media Study Grants |
| 4-10 | FEARLESS STEPS Challenge Phase-2 for ISCA INTERSPEECH-2020 |
| 4-11 | (2nd call) FEARLESS STEPS Challenge Phase-2 for ISCA INTERSPEECH-2020 |
| 4-12 | Speech research and COVID 19 at the Indian Institute or Science, Bangalore |
| 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 |
| 5-1-11 | W.F.Katz, P.F.Assman, 'The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics', Routledge. |
| 5-2 Database |
| 5-2-1 | Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) update (April 2020) |
| 5-2-2 | ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update (December 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 |
| 5-2-17 | Magic Data Technology Kid Voice TTS Corpus in Mandarin Chinese (November 2019) |
| 5-2-18 | FlauBERT: a French LM |
| 5-2-19 | ELRA-S0408 Speechtera Pronunciation Dictionary |
| 5-2-20 | Ressources of ELRC Network |
| 5-2-21 | Language Resources distribution agreement between ELRA and SpeechOcean |
| 5-3 Software |
| 5-3-1 | Cantor Digitalis, an open-source real-time singing synthesizer controlled by hand gestures. |
| 5-3-2 | MultiVec: a Multilingual and MultiLevel Representation Learning Toolkit for NLP |
| 5-3-3 | An android application for speech data collection LIG_AIKUMA |
| 5-3-4 | Web services via ALL GO from IRISA-CNRS |
| 5-3-5 | Clickable map - Illustrations of the IPA |
| 5-3-6 | LIG-Aikuma running on mobile phones and tablets |
| 5-3-7 | Python Library |
| 6 Jobs |
| 6-1 | (2019-11-03) Ingénieur de recherche, IRIT, Toulouse France |
| 6-2 | (2019-11-05) Annotateur/Transcripteur H/F at ZAION, Paris, France |
| 6-3 | (2019-11-05) Data Scientist /Machine Learning appliqué à l'Audio H/F, at Zaion, Paris, France |
| 6-4 | (2019-11-25) Offre de stage, INRIA Bordeaux, France |
| 6-5 | (2019-11-15) 13 PhD studentships at UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT), University of Sheffield, UK |
| 6-6 | (2019-11-21) Bourses en études françaises (MA et PhD) à l'université Western, Canada |
| 6-7 | (2019-11-22) Master R2 Internship, Loria-Inria, Nancy, France |
| 6-8 | (2019-11-25) Annotateur/Transcripteur, ZAION, Paris, France |
| 6-9 | (2019-12-02) 2 postes d'enseignant-chercheur, Université Paris-Saclay, France |
| 6-10 | (2019-12-03) Ph studentships, University of Glasgow, UK |
| 6-11 | (2019-12-03) Poste de chercheur au LIMSI, Orsay, Paris, France |
| 6-12 | (2019-12-06) Stage de fin d’études d’Ingénieur ou de Master 2, INA, Bry-sur-Marne, France |
| 6-13 | (2019-12-07) Stage à l'IRCAM, Paris, France |
| 6-14 | (2019-12-07) Assistant-e ingénieur-e en production, LPL, Aix en Provence, France |
| 6-15 | (2019-12-07) 1 year post-doc/engineer position at LIA, Avignon France |
| 6-16 | (2019-12-05) Postdoctoral Fellowship,University of Connecticut Health,Farmington, CT, USA |
| 6-17 | (2019-12-08) PhD sudentship, Utrecht University, The Netherlands |
| 6-18 | (2019-12-09) Postdoc , IRISA, Rennes, France |
| 6-19 | (2019-12-15) PhD grant at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK |
| 6-20 | (2019-12-19) Postdoc at Bielefeld University, Germany |
| 6-21 | (2019-12-22) Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Toulouse Jean Jaures, France |
| 6-22 | (2019-12-24) Postdoc proposal, Grenoble, France |
| 6-23 | (2020-01-09) 12-month Postdoctoral research position at GIPSA Lab, Grenoble, France |
| 6-24 | (2020-01-10) Pre-Doc RESEARCH CONTRACT (for 3 months, extendable to one year), University odf the Basque Country, Leioa (Bizkaia), Spain |
| 6-25 | (2020-01-14) Post-doctoral fellow, at Yamagishi-lab, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan. |
| 6-26 | (2020-01-15) Responsable IA, H/F, ZAION, Levallois, France |
| 6-27 | (2020-01-16) 12-month Postdoctoral research position, GIPSA Lab, Grenoble,France |
| 6-28 | (2020-01-17) 30-month postdoctoral researcher IRISA Rennes, France |
| 6-29 | (2020-01-18) Ingénieur CDD , IRIT, Toulouse, France |
| 6-30 | (2020-01-19) Research engineer, Vocalid, Belmont, MA, USA |
| 6-31 | (2020-01-20) Senior and junior researchers, LumenAI, France |
| 6-32 | (2020-01-21) Ingénieur 6 mois, GIPSA Lab, Grenoble, France |
| 6-33 | (2020-02-09) Fully-funded PhD position at GIPSA-lab , Grenoble, France |
| 6-34 | (2020-02-16) The Federal Criminal Office, Wiesbaden, Germany |
| 6-35 | (2020-02-20) Recrutement de doctorant·e·s - projet comm4CHILD , Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgique |
| 6-36 | (2020-02-22) Fully funded PhD position in Explainable deep learning methods , Uppsala University, Sweden |
| 6-37 | (2020-02-29) Web developer at ELDA, Paris, France |
| 6-38 | (2020-03-03) 15 early-stage researcher positions available within the COBRA Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network, Berlin, Germany |
| 6-39 | (2020-03-07) Postdoc researcher in deepNN, University of Glasgow, UK (UPDATED) |
| 6-40 | (2020-03-10) Fully-funded PhD position at GIPSA-lab, Grenoble, France |
| 6-41 | (2020-03-15) Postdoc, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy |
| 6-42 | (2020-03-25) Faculté des lettres de Sorbonne Université propose au concours plusieurs postes d'ATER |
| 6-43 | (2020-04-02) Fully funded PhD position, Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland |
| 6-44 | (2020-04-15) Professor (W3) on AI for Language Technologies, Germany |
| 6-45 | (2020-04-24) PROFESSORSHIP (junior/senior) @ KU Leuven, Belgium |
| 6-46 | (2020-04-22) 3 research associate positions at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK |
| 6-47 | (2020-04-20) Fully-funded PhD studentships in Speech and Language Technologies at the University of Sheffield,UK |
| 6-48 | (2020-04-28) Fully-funded PhD in speech synthesis - University of Grenoble-Alps - France |
| 6-49 | (2020-04-30) Professur für Informatik (m/w/d), Karlsruhe, Germany |
| 6-50 | (2020-04-25) PhD at Univ. Avignon, France |
| 6-51 | (2020-04-28) 1 year post-doc/engineer position at LIA, Avignon France |
| 6-52 | (2020-05-10)Researcher at GIPSA-Lab Grenoble, France |
| 6-53 | (2020)-05-11) Tenure-track researcher at CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 6-54 | (2020-05-12) Fully-funded 4-year PhD studentships for research in Speech and Language Technologies (SLT) and their Applications , UKRI Centre for doctoral training, Sheffield, UK |
| 7 Journals |
| 7-1 | IEEE JSTSP Special Issue on Compact Deep Neural Networks with Industrial Applications (updated) |
| 7-2 | ACM Transactions on Internet Technology-Special Section on Computational Modeling and Understanding of Emotions in Conflictual Social Interactions |
| 7-3 | Computer, Speech and Language: Special Issue on Speech & Dementia |
| 7-4 | TIPA- Special issue 'How the Body Contributes to Discourse and Meaning? |
| 7-5 | special issue of Language and Speech |
| 7-6 | IT-Information Technology, Special Issue: Affective Computing, Deep Learning & Health |
| 7-7 | CfP. Special issue Speech Communication: Pluricentric Languages in Speech Technology |
| 7-8 | CfP: Special issue of Computer, Speech and Language on Advances in Automatic Speaker Verification Anti-spoofing |
| 7-9 | CfP : Journal of Phonetics: Special Issue on Vocal Accommodation in Speech Communication |
| 7-10 | JSTSP special issue on Deeep Learning for Multi-modal Ingtelligence across Speech, Language, Vision, and Heterogeneous Signals |
| 7-11 | CfP IEEE SPM Special issue: Non-Convex Optimization for Signal Processing and Machine Learning |
| 7-12 | Call for submission:TAL journal |
| 7-13 | IEEE STSP Special issue: Deep Learning for Multi-modal Intelligence across Speech, Language, Vision, and Heterogeneous Signals (extended deadline) |
| 7-14 | Special issue of the TAL journal on 'NLP and health' |
| 7-15 | CfP IEEE JSTSP Special Issue on Tensor Decomposition for Signal Processing and Machine Learning |
| 7-16 | Special issue of the TAL journal on 'NLP and health' |
| 7-17 | Neural Networks: Special issue on Advances in Deep Learning Based Speech Processing |
| 7-18 | Special issue of the TAL journal on 'NLP and health' |
| 7-19 | IEEE JSTSP Special issue on Reconstruction of Audio from Incomplete or Highly Degraded Observations |
| 7-20 | CFP: Special Issue of JMUI on 'Behavior and Usability Analysis for Multimodal User Interfaces' i |
| 7-21 | Call for special issues in Computer, Speech and Language. |
| 7-22 | NEURAL NETWORKS: Special issue on Advances in Deep Learning Based Speech Processing |
| 7-23 | Dossier thématique 'Panorama français de la recherche en technologies du langage humain' |
| 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' |