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ISCApad Archive » 2020 » ISCApad #270 |
ISCApad #270 |
| Friday, December 11, 2020 by Chris Wellekens |
| 1 Editorial |
| 2 ISCA News |
| 2-1 | Message from our president Professor John Hansen |
| 2-2 | Nominations for ISCA Advisory Council |
| 2-3 | ISCA social networks |
| 2-4 | Code-of-Conduct for Conference and Workshop Attendees |
| 2-5 | Code-of-Ethics for Authors |
| 2-6 | ISCA Archive Analysis: a never ending story! |
| 2-7 | Publications and Videos of Speech Prosody 2020 |
| 2-8 | Women in Speech Research |
| 2-9 | Proposals for Speech Prosody events |
| 2-10 | Nominations for ISCA Medals (closing January 5) and Fellowship (closing February 10). |
| 2-11 | ISCA fellowship |
| 2-12 | International virtual seminars: call for speakers |
| 2-13 | Prix de thèse AFCP |
| 2-14 | Nominations for ISCA distinguished lecturers. |
| 3 Events |
| 3-1 ISCA Events |
| 3-1-1 | (2021-08-30) Interspeech 2021, Brno, Czech Republic |
| 3-1-2 | (2022) Interspeech 2022, Incheon, South Korea |
| 3-1-3 | (2023-08-20) Interspeech 2023, Dublin, Ireland |
| 3-2 ISCA Supported Events |
| 3-2-1 | (2022-05-23) Speech Prosody 2022, Lisbon, Portugal |
| 3-2-2 | The International Conference 'Language Technologies for All (LT4All): a report. |
| 3-3 Other Events |
| 3-3-1 | (2020-12-14) The 12th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), Providence, RI, USA |
| 3-3-2 | (2020-12-15) Eighth International Conference on Big Data Analytics, Ashoka University, Sonepat (Delhi, NCR), India |
| 3-3-3 | (2021-01-04) Bioacoustics Winter School, University of Lyon/Saint-Etienne, France |
| 3-3-4 | (2021-01-06) 12th Oxford Dysfluency Conference (ODC), Oxford, UK (UPDATED) |
| 3-3-5 | (2021-01-11) 4th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING (DeepLearn 2021 Winter), Milan, Italy |
| 3-3-6 | (2021-01-17) Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS), Autrans (Grenoble Area), France |
| 3-3-7 | (2021-01-18) EUSIPCO2020 Announcement , Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 3-3-8 | (2021-01-19) CfP 2021 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Shenzhen, China |
| 3-3-9 | (2021-01-?) ROBOTDIAL-2020 @Kyoto or Yokohama, Japan |
| 3-3-10 | (2021-02-04) 1e Journée commune AFIA-THL / ATALA - 'la santé et le langage », Virtuel |
| 3-3-11 | (2021-03-01) 14th-15th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS, Milan, Italy |
| 3-3-12 | (2021-03-22) IEEE 4th International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR 2021), Tokyo, Japan |
| 3-3-13 | (2021-04-18) 7th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON BIG DATA BigDat 2021 Spring, Beersheba, Israel |
| 3-3-14 | (2021-05-25) CfP ACM MMSys 2021 Research Track, Istambul, Turkey |
| 3-3-15 | (2021-05-25) CfP ACM NOSSDAV 2021, Istambul, Turkey |
| 3-3-16 | (2021-05-27) Les Journées de Phonétique Clinique (JPC), Toulouse France |
| 3-3-17 | (2021-05-31) CfP 23rd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa), Reykjavik, Iceland |
| 3-3-18 | (2021-06-05) IEEE Data Science and Learning Workshop (DSLW2021), Toronto, Canada |
| 3-3-19 | (2021-06-06) CfP ICASSP 2021, Toronto, Canada |
| 3-3-20 | (2021-06-28) CONTENT-BASED MULTIMEDIA INDEXING, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France |
| 3-3-21 | (2021-07-26) 4th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain |
| 3-3-22 | (2021-08-23) The European Signal Processing Conference, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland |
| 3-3-23 | (2021-08-25) CfP The 10th Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS) workshop , Paris, France |
| 3-3-24 | (2021-09-06) The 24th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, (TSD2021), Olomouc, Czech Republic |
| 3-3-25 | (2021-?-?) Call for Participation: The Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC9) |
| 3-3-26 | (2022-06-16) LREC 2020, Marseille cancelled (COVID 19) |
| 3-3-27 | (2023) 13th International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, Europe? |
| 3-3-28 | New IARPA and NIST challenge:OpenASR |
| 3-3-29 | Prosody Seminar series |
| 4 Academic and Industry Notes |
| 4-1 | M.Sc. Program in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Data Science, Université de Lorraine, Nancy (France) |
| 4-2 | FIAT/IFTA Media Study Grants |
| 4-3 | Speech research and COVID 19 at the Indian Institute or Science, Bangalore |
| 4-4 | Recorded ICASSP 2020 on-demand |
| 4-5 | IEEE/ACM TASLP Special issue on Eight Dialog System Technology Challenge |
| 4-6 | Call for contributions to a thesis at University of Toulouse. |
| 4-7 | Tests on the spatial resolution of human voice directivity, TU Berlin, Germany |
| 4-8 | MediaEval 2020 Registration Now Open |
| 4-9 | Delphi consensus survey - Developing reading passages for the assessment of speech and voice (update) |
| 4-10 | ACM ICMI CALL FOR BIDS 2023 |
| 5 Resources |
| 5-1 Books |
| 5-1-1 | Emmanuel Vincent (Editor), Tuomas Virtanen (Editor), Sharon Gannot (Editor), 'Audio Source Separation and Speech Enhancement', Wiley |
| 5-1-2 | Jen-Tzung Chien, 'Source Separation and Machine Learning', Academic Press |
| 5-1-3 | Ingo Feldhausen, « Methods in prosody: A Romance language perspective », Language Science Press (open access) |
| 5-1-4 | Nigel Ward, 'Prosodic Patterns in English Conversation', Cambridge University Press, 2019 |
| 5-1-5 | J.H.Esling, Scott R.Moisik, Allison Benner, Lise Crevier-Buchman, 'Voice Quality: the Laryngeal Articulator Model', Cambridge University Press |
| 5-1-6 | Albert di Cristo,' Les langues naturelles'. HAL archive ouverte |
| 5-1-8 | W.F.Katz, P.F.Assman, 'The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics', Routledge. |
| 5-1-9 | Proceedings of SLTU-CCURL2020 |
| 5-1-10 | B.Weiss, J.Trouvain, M. Barkat-Defradas, J.J.Ohala, ' Voice Attractiveness', Springer |
| 5-2 Database |
| 5-2-1 | Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) update (November 2020) |
| 5-2-2 | ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update (November 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 | (2020-06-10) 2 post-docs positions at UTDallas, Texas, USA |
| 6-2 | (2020-06-13) Tenure track researcher at CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 6-3 | (2020-06-18) Assistant/Postdoc level a TUWien, Austria |
| 6-4 | (2020-06-20) Two fully-funded PhD studentships in automatic speech recognition - University of Sheffield |
| 6-5 | (2020-06-22) PhD grant, Université de Toulouse, France |
| 6-6 | (2020-06-30) PhD at Université Grenoble Alpes, France |
| 6-7 | (2020-07-09) Speech Research Scientist at ETS R&D |
| 6-8 | (2020-07-16) Early Stage Researcher / PhD student in an EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action (H2020-MSCA-ITN), Romania |
| 6-9 | (2020-07-20) Technical project manager, INRIA, Nancy, France |
| 6-10 | (2020-09-10) Experts in recognition and synthesis at Reykjavík University's Language and Voice Lab, Iceland |
| 6-11 | (2020-09-17) Proposition de contrat doctoral, Sorbonne University (Jussieu), Paris, France |
| 6-12 | (2020-09-24) Offre de thèse: Modèles profonds pour la reconnaissance et l'analyse de la parole spontanée,Grenoble, France |
| 6-13 | (2020-10-05) Research Assistant/Associate in Spoken Language Processing, Cambridge University, UK |
| 6-14 | (2020-10-05) 2 POsitions at Radbout University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands |
| 6-15 | (2020-10-08) Job offer: 1-year postdoc position at LSP (ENS Paris), France |
| 6-16 | (2020-10-20) PhD grant at INRIA Nancy, France |
| 6-17 | (2020-10-21) Fully funded PhD position at >IDIAP, Martigny, Switzerland |
| 6-18 | (2020-10-23) PhD grant at Université Grenoble-Alpes, France. |
| 6-19 | (2020-10-26) Post doctoral position at the Beckman Institute for Advance Science and Technology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Chanpaign, USA |
| 6-20 | (2020-10-28) TWO positions in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland |
| 6-21 | (2020-10-30) 3 Tenure Track Professors (W2) at Saarland University, Germany |
| 6-22 | (2020-10-30) 2 Research Assistant/Associate Posts at Cambridge University, Great Britain |
| 6-23 | (2020-11-02) Fully-funded PhD studentships at the University of Sheffield, Great Britain |
| 6-24 | (2020-11-14) Master2 Internship, LORIA-INRIA, Nancy, France |
| 6-25 | (2020-11-15) PhD at LORIA-INRIA, Nancy, France |
| 6-26 | (2020-11-17) 2 year full-time postdoctoral researcher ar the University of Bordeaux, France |
| 6-27 | (2020-11-19) Ingenieur de recherches (CDD) -Laboratoire ALAIA, Toulouse |
| 6-28 | (2020-11-26) Full Professor at Dublin City University, Ireland |
| 6-29 | (2020-11-28) Master2 Internship, INA, Bry sur Marne, France |
| 6-30 | (2020-12-01) Funded PhD Position at University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
| 6-31 | (2020-12-03) 6 months internship at GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble, France |
| 6-32 | (2020-12-04) 6 mois de post-doctorat, IRIT, Toulouse, France |
| 6-33 | (2020-12-05) 5/6 months Internship, LIS-Lab, Université Aix-Marseille, France |
| 6-34 | (2020-12-06) chercheur mi-temps, Université de Mons, Belgique |
| 6-35 | (2020-12-07) Internships at IRIT, Toulouse, France |
| 7 Journals |
| 7-1 | CfP IEEE JSTSP Special Issue on Tensor Decomposition for Signal Processing and Machine Learning |
| 7-2 | IEEE JSTSP Special issue on Reconstruction of Audio from Incomplete or Highly Degraded Observations |
| 7-3 | CFP: Special Issue of JMUI on 'Behavior and Usability Analysis for Multimodal User Interfaces' i |
| 7-4 | Special issue on Voice Privacy, Computer, Speech and Language |
| 7-5 | Special issue of Neural Networks on Advances in Deep Learning Based Speech Processing (Updated) |
| 7-6 | Special issue on ' Machine Learning Applied to Music/Audio Signal Processing' in MDPI Electronics |
| 7-7 | Computer Speech and Language Special issue on State-of-the-art Handcrafted Feature Extraction for Speech and Voice Analysis |
| 7-8 | CfP: IEEE/ACM TASLP Special Issue on the Eighth Dialog System Technology Challenge |
| 7-9 | TAL Journal, Special issue on Natural Language Processing |
| 7-10 | Special issue at Frontiers in Psychology:Effective and Attractive Communication Signals in Social, Cultural, and Business Contexts |
| 7-11 | CfP IEEE/ACMTASLP Special Issue on Eighth Dialog System Technology Challenge |
| 7-12 | Call for Papers: Data, Replicability and Reproducibility in Linguistics in Revista da Abralin |
| 7-13 | Computer, Speech and Language, special issue on Voice Privacy |
| 7-14 | CfP Computer, Speech and Language, Special Issue on Separation, 'Recognition, and Diarization of Conversational Speech' |
| 7-15 | Special issue of Brain Sciences: 'Motor Speech Disorders and Prosody' |
| 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' |