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| ISCApad #266 | 
| Monday, August 10, 2020 by Chris Wellekens | 
| 1 Editorial | 
| 2 ISCA News | 
| 2-1 | Message from ISCA President Prof. John Hansen | 
| 2-2 | INTERSPEECH 2020 will be fully virtual | 
| 2-3 | ISCA social networks | 
| 2-4 | Code-of-Ethics for Authors | 
| 2-5 | Code-of-Conduct for Conference and Workshop Attendees | 
| 2-6 | ISCA Archive Analysis: a never ending story! | 
| 2-7 | Women in Speech Research | 
| 2-8 | SProSig new board officers | 
| 2-9 | Publications and Videos of Speech Prosody 2020 | 
| 2-10 | SProSIG announces Speech Prosody 2022 | 
| 2-11 | Message from the Student advisory committee (SAC) :INTERSPEECH 2020 Student Virtual Events | 
| 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 | (2022) Interspeech 2022, Incheon, South Korea | 
| 3-1-8 | (2023-08-20) Interspeech 2023, Dublin, Ireland | 
| 3-1-9 | Message from the Student Advisory Committee:Covid 19 and Interspeech 2020 Shanghai | 
| 3-2 ISCA Supported Events | 
| 3-2-1 | (2020-08-16) 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI), Sonderberg, Denmark (UPDATE) | 
| 3-2-2 | (2020-09-21) 11th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology (IWSDS2020), Madrid, Spain (UPDATED) | 
| 3-2-3 | (2020-09-21) CALL for Workshops and Special Sessions for IWSDS 2020, Madrid, Spain (UPDATED) | 
| 3-2-4 | (2020-09-21) CfW and SS: INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY (IWSDS) 2020, Madrid Spain (UPDATED) | 
| 3-2-5 | The International Conference 'Language Technologies for All (LT4All): a report. | 
| 3-3 Other Events | 
| 3-3-1 | (2020) LREC 2020, Marseille cancelled (COVID 19) | 
| 3-3-2 | (2020-08-13) Nordic prosody conference, Sonderborg,Denmark (UPDATED) | 
| 3-3-3 | (2020-08-24) The 28th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2020), Amsterdam , The Netherlands, UPDATED | 
| 3-3-4 | (2020-08-31) 1st Call for paper – RO-MAN 2020 Special Session in Dialogue Management Systems for Human-Robot Interaction , Naples, Italy | 
| 3-3-5 | (2020-09-07) CfP Text Mining and Applications (TEMA2020) , Lisboa, Portugal | 
| 3-3-6 | (2020-09-08 )TSD 2020 - PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL for WORKSHOPS, Brno, Czech Republic | 
| 3-3-7 | (2020-09-08) TSD 2020 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS, Brno, Czech Republic (UPDATED) | 
| 3-3-8 | (2020-09-13) CfP Workshop Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex), Barcelona, Spain | 
| 3-3-9 | (2020-09-13) FinTOC?2 shared task at COLING2020, Barcelona, Spain UPDATED | 
| 3-3-10 | (2020-09-15) ADReSS challenge, Shanghai, China (UPDATED) | 
| 3-3-11 | (2020-09-21)CfP MACHINE LEARNING FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING (MLSP 2020), Espoo ,Finland | 
| 3-3-12 | (2020-09-22) ImageCLEF 2020 ImageCLEF 2020 Thessaloniki, Greece | 
| 3-3-13 | (2020-10-06) SPECOM 2020, St Petersburg, Russia (UPDATED) | 
| 3-3-14 | (2020-10-12) 3rd International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports (MMSports'20), Seattle, USA | 
| 3-3-15 | (2020-10-12) ACM Multimedia 2020 Workshop on Multimodal Conversational AI | 
| 3-3-16 | (2020-10-12) Third International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports (MMSports'20) | 
| 3-3-17 | (2020-10-14) 8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING, Cardiff, United Kingdom | 
| 3-3-18 | (2020-10-25) ICMI 2020 Doctoral Consortium - 3rd Call for Contributions, Utrecht, The Netherlands | 
| 3-3-19 | (2020-10-25) 7th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON BIG DATA (BigDat 2020 Autumn), Beersheba, Israel | 
| 3-3-20 | (2020-10-25) ICMI 2020: Second Call for Late-Breaking Results, Utrecht, The Netherlands (COVID) | 
| 3-3-21 | (2020-10-25) ICMI 2020: Third Call for Demonstrations and Exhibits, Utrecht, The Netherlands (COVID19) | 
| 3-3-22 | (2020-10-25?) The 2nd Insights on Group & Team Dynamics workshop at ICMI | 
| 3-3-23 | (2020-10-?) The VoicePrivacy2020 Challenge Evaluation Plan | 
| 3-3-24 | (2020-11-02) TIM 2020 : Séminaire Traitement de l'Information Multimodale, Paris, France | 
| 3-3-25 | (2020-11-18) Two challenges at IberSPEECH2020, Valldolid, Spain | 
| 3-3-26 | (2020-11-26) 56th LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM (on line and free) | 
| 3-3-27 | (2020-12-06) CfP 12th IEEE Intl Workshop on Information Forensics and Security @online | 
| 3-3-28 | (2020-12-14) The 12th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), Providence, RI, USA | 
| 3-3-29 | (2020-12-15) Eighth International Conference on Big Data Analytics, Ashoka University, Sonepat (Delhi, NCR), India | 
| 3-3-30 | (2021-01-04) Bioacoustics Winter School, University of Lyon/Saint-Etienne, France | 
| 3-3-31 | (2021-01-06) 12th Oxford Dysfluency Conference (ODC), Oxford, UK (UPDATED) | 
| 3-3-32 | (2021-01-11) 4th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING, Milan, Italy | 
| 3-3-33 | (2021-01-17) Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS) ,Autrans ( Grenoble Area), France | 
| 3-3-34 | (2021-01-18) EUSIPCO2020 Announcement , Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 
| 3-3-35 | (2021-01-19) CfP 2021 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Shenzhen, China | 
| 3-3-36 | (2021-01-?) ROBOTDIAL-2020 @Kyoto or Yokohama, Japan | 
| 3-3-37 | (2021-05-01) 14th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS (LATA 2020 &2021), Milan, Italy | 
| 3-3-38 | (2021-06-28) CONTENT-BASED MULTIMEDIA INDEXING, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France | 
| 3-3-39 | (2021-?-?) Call for Participation: The Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC9) | 
| 3-3-40 | CfP ICASSP 2021 | 
| 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 | FIAT/IFTA Media Study Grants | 
| 4-7 | (2nd call) FEARLESS STEPS Challenge Phase-2 for ISCA INTERSPEECH-2020 | 
| 4-8 | Speech research and COVID 19 at the Indian Institute or Science, Bangalore | 
| 4-9 | Recorded ICASSP 2020 on-demand | 
| 4-10 | IEEE/ACM TASLP Special issue on Eight Dialog System Technology Challenge | 
| 4-11 | Call for contributions to a thesis at University of Toulouse. | 
| 4-12 | Tests on the spatial resolution of human voice directivity, TU Berlin, Germany | 
| 4-13 | MediaEval 2020 Registration Now Open | 
| 4-14 | Delphi consensus survey - Developing reading passages for the assessment of speech and voice | 
| 5 Resources | 
| 5-1 Books | 
| 5-1-1 | Shinji Watanabe, Marc Delcroix, Florian Metze, John R. Hershey (Eds), 'New Era for Robust Seech Recognition', Springer. | 
| 5-1-2 | Fabrice Marsac, Rudolph Sock, CONSÉCUTIVITÉ ET SIMULTANÉITÉ en Linguistique, Langues et Parole, L'Harmattan,France | 
| 5-1-3 | Emmanuel Vincent (Editor), Tuomas Virtanen (Editor), Sharon Gannot (Editor), 'Audio Source Separation and Speech Enhancement', Wiley | 
| 5-1-4 | Jen-Tzung Chien, 'Source Separation and Machine Learning', Academic Press | 
| 5-1-5 | Ingo Feldhausen, « Methods in prosody: A Romance language perspective », Language Science Press (open access) | 
| 5-1-6 | Nigel Ward, 'Prosodic Patterns in English Conversation', Cambridge University Press, 2019 | 
| 5-1-7 | J.H.Esling, Scott R.Moisik, Allison Benner, Lise Crevier-Buchman, 'Voice Quality: the Laryngeal Articulator Model', Cambridge University Press | 
| 5-1-8 | Albert di Cristo,' Les langues naturelles'. HAL archive ouverte | 
| 5-1-10 | W.F.Katz, P.F.Assman, 'The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics', Routledge. | 
| 5-1-11 | Proceedings of SLTU-CCURL2020 | 
| 5-2 Database | 
| 5-2-1 | Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) update (July 2020) | 
| 5-2-2 | ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update (May 2020) | 
| 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 | 
| 5-2-22 | Sharing Language Ressourses via ELRA | 
| 5-2-23 | ELRA announces that MEDIA data are now available for free for academic research | 
| 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 | (2020-02-09) Fully-funded PhD position at GIPSA-lab , Grenoble, France | 
| 6-2 | (2020-02-16) The Federal Criminal Office, Wiesbaden, Germany | 
| 6-3 | (2020-02-20) Recrutement de doctorant·e·s - projet comm4CHILD , Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgique | 
| 6-4 | (2020-02-22) Fully funded PhD position in Explainable deep learning methods , Uppsala University, Sweden | 
| 6-5 | (2020-02-29) Web developer at ELDA, Paris, France | 
| 6-6 | (2020-03-03) 15 early-stage researcher positions available within the COBRA Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network, Berlin, Germany | 
| 6-7 | (2020-03-07) Postdoc researcher in deepNN, University of Glasgow, UK (UPDATED) | 
| 6-8 | (2020-03-10) Fully-funded PhD position at GIPSA-lab, Grenoble, France | 
| 6-9 | (2020-03-15) Postdoc, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy | 
| 6-10 | (2020-03-25) Faculté des lettres de Sorbonne Université propose au concours plusieurs postes d'ATER | 
| 6-11 | (2020-04-02) Fully funded PhD position, Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland | 
| 6-12 | (2020-04-15) Professor (W3) on AI for Language Technologies, Germany | 
| 6-13 | (2020-04-24) PROFESSORSHIP (junior/senior) @ KU Leuven, Belgium | 
| 6-14 | (2020-04-22) 3 research associate positions at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK | 
| 6-15 | (2020-04-20) Fully-funded PhD studentships in Speech and Language Technologies at the University of Sheffield,UK | 
| 6-16 | (2020-04-28) Fully-funded PhD in speech synthesis - University of Grenoble-Alps - France | 
| 6-17 | (2020-04-30) Professur für Informatik (m/w/d), Karlsruhe, Germany | 
| 6-18 | (2020-04-25) PhD at Univ. Avignon, France | 
| 6-19 | (2020-04-28) 1 year post-doc/engineer position at LIA, Avignon France | 
| 6-20 | (2020-05-10)Researcher at GIPSA-Lab Grenoble, France | 
| 6-21 | (2020-05-11) Tenure-track researcher at CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 
| 6-22 | (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 | 
| 6-23 | (2020-05-20) University assistant position, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria | 
| 6-24 | (2020-05-26) Fully funded PhD position in data-driven socially assistive robotics,Uppsala University, Sweden | 
| 6-25 | (2020-06-01) Poste de doctorant financé à l'Université de Grenoble Alpes, France | 
| 6-26 | (2020-06-10) 2 post-docs positions at UTDallas, Texas, USA | 
| 6-27 | (2020-06-13) Tenure track researcher at CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 
| 6-28 | (2020-06-18) Assistant/Postdoc level a TUWien, Austria | 
| 6-29 | (2020-06-20) Two fully-funded PhD studentships in automatic speech recognition - University of Sheffield | 
| 6-30 | (2020-06-22) PhD grant, Université de Toulouse, France | 
| 6-31 | (2020-06-30) PhD at Université Grenoble Alpes, France | 
| 6-32 | (2020-07-09) Speech Research Scientist at ETS R&D | 
| 6-33 | (2020-07-16) Early Stage Researcher / PhD student in an EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action (H2020-MSCA-ITN), Romania | 
| 6-34 | (2020-07-20) Technical project manager, INRIA, Nancy, France | 
| 7 Journals | 
| 7-1 | special issue of Language and Speech on sociolinguistic prosodic variation | 
| 7-2 | CfP. Special issue Speech Communication: Pluricentric Languages in Speech Technology | 
| 7-3 | CfP IEEE SPM Special issue: Non-Convex Optimization for Signal Processing and Machine Learning | 
| 7-4 | IEEE STSP Special issue: Deep Learning for Multi-modal Intelligence across Speech, Language, Vision, and Heterogeneous Signals (extended deadline) | 
| 7-5 | CfP IEEE JSTSP Special Issue on Tensor Decomposition for Signal Processing and Machine Learning | 
| 7-6 | Special issue of the TAL journal on 'NLP and health' | 
| 7-7 | IEEE JSTSP Special issue on Reconstruction of Audio from Incomplete or Highly Degraded Observations | 
| 7-8 | CFP: Special Issue of JMUI on 'Behavior and Usability Analysis for Multimodal User Interfaces' i | 
| 7-9 | Special issue on Voice Privacy, Computer, Speech and Language | 
| 7-10 | Special issue of Neural Networks on Advances in Deep Learning Based Speech Processing (Updated) | 
| 7-11 | Special issue on ' Machine Learning Applied to Music/Audio Signal Processing' in MDPI Electronics | 
| 7-12 | Computer Speech and Language Special issue on State-of-the-art Handcrafted Feature Extraction for Speech and Voice Analysis | 
| 7-13 | CfP: IEEE/ACM TASLP Special Issue on the Eighth Dialog System Technology Challenge | 
| 7-14 | TAL Journal, Special issue on Natural Language Processing | 
| 7-15 | Special issue at Frontiers in Psychology:Effective and Attractive Communication Signals in Social, Cultural, and Business Contexts | 
| 7-16 | CfP IEEE/ACMTASLP Special Issue on Eighth Dialog System Technology Challenge | 
| 7-17 | CfP: Data, Replicability and Reproducibility in Linguistics | 
| 8 Recent Theses | 
| 8-1 | Bart Penning de Vries, 'Computerised Speaking Practice: The Role of Automatic Corrective Feedback in Learning L2 Grammar´ | 
| 8-2 | Prasanna Kumar Muthukumar, 'Towards Integrated Acoustic Models for Speech Synthesis' | 
| 8-3 | Stephen Bodnar,'Affective L2 learning experiences and ideal L2 selves in spoken CALL practice' | 
| 8-4 | Andreas Windmann, 'Optimization-based modeling of suprasegmental speech timing' | 
| 8-5 | Catharine Oertel Genannt Bierbach, 'Modeling Engagement in Multi-Party Conversations' | 
| 8-6 | Hardik B. Sailor,'Auditory Representation Learning' | 
| 8-7 | Philipp Aichinger, 'Diplophonic Voice - Definitions, models, and detection' | 
| 8-8 | Yun Wang, 'Polyphonic Sound Event Detection with Weak Labeling' | 
| 8-9 | Omid Ghahabi, 'Deep Learning for i-Vector Speaker and Language Recognition' | 
| 8-10 | Neeraj Kumar Sharma, 'Information-rich Sampling of Time-varying Signals' |