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| ISCApad #272 | 
| Wednesday, February 10, 2021 by Chris Wellekens | 
| 1 Editorial | 
| 2 ISCA News | 
| 2-1 | Message from our president Professor John Hansen | 
| 2-2 | Obituary Jack Godfrey | 
| 2-3 | ISCA social networks | 
| 2-4 | Code-of-Conduct for Conference and Workshop Attendees | 
| 2-5 | Code-of-Ethics for Authors | 
| 2-6 | Publications and Videos of Speech Prosody 2020 | 
| 2-7 | Women in Speech Research | 
| 2-8 | Proposals for Speech Prosody events | 
| 2-9 | International virtual seminars: call for speakers | 
| 2-10 | Election of members for the Board of ISCA (4-year term: 2021-2025): Call for Nomimations | 
| 2-11 | Applications are open for the Eleventh Christian Benoît Award | 
| 3 Events | 
| 3-1 ISCA Events | 
| 3-1-1 | (2021-08-30) Interspeech 2021, Brno, Czechia | 
| 3-1-2 | (2022-09-18) Interspeech 2022, Incheon, South Korea | 
| 3-1-3 | (2023-08-20) Interspeech 2023, Dublin, Ireland | 
| 3-1-4 | (2024) Interspeech 2024, Jerusalem, Israel. | 
| 3-1-5 | ISCA INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL SEMINARS | 
| 3-1-6 | Speech Prosody courses | 
| 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 | (2021-02-23) Prosody talks (in English) at the annual meeting of the DGfS(Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft) | 
| 3-3-2 | (2021-03-01) 14th-15th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS, Milan, Italy | 
| 3-3-3 | (2021-03-22) IEEE 4th International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR 2021), Tokyo, Japan | 
| 3-3-4 | (2021-04-14) CfP CORIA 2021 | 
| 3-3-5 | (2021-04-18) 7th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON BIG DATA BigDat 2021 Spring, Beersheba, Israel | 
| 3-3-6 | (2021-05-09) 2nd Workshop on Momentary Emotion Elicitation & Capture (virtual) | 
| 3-3-7 | (2021-05-21)CfP JPC 2021 Toulouse France | 
| 3-3-8 | (2021-05-25) CfP ACM NOSSDAV 2021, Istambul, Turkey | 
| 3-3-9 | (2021-05-27) JPC 2021 - Toulouse, France | 
| 3-3-10 | (2021-05-31) CfP 23rd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa), Reykjavik, Iceland | 
| 3-3-11 | (2021-06-05) IEEE Data Science and Learning Workshop (DSLW2021), Toronto, Canada | 
| 3-3-12 | (2021-06-06) CfP ICASSP 2021, Toronto, Canada | 
| 3-3-13 | (2021-06-23) Workshop 'From speech technology to big data phonetics and phonology: a win-win paradigm' @ PaPE 2021, Barcelona, Spain | 
| 3-3-14 | (2021-06-28) CfP CONTENT-BASED MULTIMEDIA INDEXING, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France | 
| 3-3-15 | (2021-07-12) ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval 2021, Taipei,Taiwan | 
| 3-3-16 | (2021-07-12) CfProposals ICMR2021 Special sessions , Taipei, Taiwan | 
| 3-3-17 | (2021-07-26) 4th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain | 
| 3-3-18 | (2021-07-29) SIGDIAL 2021 CONFERENCE, Singapore | 
| 3-3-19 | (2021-08-23) The European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Dublin, Ireland | 
| 3-3-20 | (2021-08-25) CfP The 10th Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS) workshop , Paris, France | 
| 3-3-21 | (2021-08-30) Interspeech 2021 Special Session on the Multilingual and code-switching ASR challenges for low resource Indian languages, Brno, Czechia. | 
| 3-3-22 | (2021-08-30) The Fearless Steps Challenge(FSC) @ Interspeech 2021 | 
| 3-3-23 | (2021-08-31) DiCOVA Interspeech challenge 2021 | 
| 3-3-24 | (2021-09-06) 24th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2021), Olomouc, Czech Republic | 
| 3-3-25 | (2021-09-27) 23rd International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2021), St Petersburg, Russia | 
| 3-3-26 | (2021-10-18) Call for ICMI 2021 Long and Short Papers | 
| 3-3-27 | (2021-10-18) Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges @ ICMI2021, Montreal, Canada | 
| 3-3-28 | (2021-10-18) Cf Workshops International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2021), Montreal, Canada | 
| 3-3-29 | (2021-10-20) ACM Multimedia, Chengdu, China | 
| 3-3-30 | (2021-11-17) PerceptiO Perception of the living , U.of Strasbourg France | 
| 3-3-31 | (2021-12-06) 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) 2021 | 
| 3-3-32 | (2021-?-?) Call for Participation: The Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC9) | 
| 3-3-33 | (2022-06-16) LREC 2020, Marseille cancelled (COVID 19) | 
| 3-3-34 | (2023) 13th International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, Europe? | 
| 3-3-35 | New IARPA and NIST challenge:OpenASR | 
| 3-3-36 | 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 | 
| 4-11 | New Master curriculum integrating advanced study and research covering all areas of language science,Univ. of Paris, France | 
| 4-12 | Bids for ICMR 2023 | 
| 4-13 | ACMMM 2021: Call for Grand Challenge Proposals | 
| 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 (January 2021) | 
| 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 | SIWIS French Speech Synthesis Database | 
| 5-2-11 | JLCorpus - Emotional Speech corpus with primary and secondary emotions | 
| 5-2-12 | OPENGLOT –An open environment for the evaluation of glottal inverse filtering | 
| 5-2-13 | Corpus Rhapsodie | 
| 5-2-14 | The My Science Tutor Children?s Conversational Speech Corpus (MyST Corpus) , Boulder Learning Inc. | 
| 5-2-15 | HARVARD speech corpus - native British English speaker | 
| 5-2-16 | Magic Data Technology Kid Voice TTS Corpus in Mandarin Chinese (November 2019) | 
| 5-2-17 | FlauBERT: a French LM | 
| 5-2-18 | ELRA-S0408 SpeechTera Pronunciation Dictionary | 
| 5-2-19 | Ressources of ELRC Network | 
| 5-2-20 | Sharing Language Ressourses via ELRA | 
| 5-2-21 | ELRA announces that MEDIA data are now available for free for academic research | 
| 5-2-22 | ELRA/ELDA Communication : LT4all | 
| 5-2-23 | Search and Find ELRA LRs on Google Dataset Search and ELG LT Platform | 
| 5-2-24 | Sharing language resources (ELRA) | 
| 5-2-25 | The UCLA Variability Speaker Database | 
| 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 | (2020-09-10) Experts in recognition and synthesis at Reykjavík University's Language and Voice Lab, Iceland | 
| 6-2 | (2020-09-17) Proposition de contrat doctoral, Sorbonne University (Jussieu), Paris, France | 
| 6-3 | (2020-09-24) Offre de thèse: Modèles profonds pour la reconnaissance et l'analyse de la parole spontanée,Grenoble, France | 
| 6-4 | (2020-10-05) Research Assistant/Associate in Spoken Language Processing, Cambridge University, UK | 
| 6-5 | (2020-10-05) 2 POsitions at Radbout University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands | 
| 6-6 | (2020-10-08) Job offer: 1-year postdoc position at LSP (ENS Paris), France | 
| 6-7 | (2020-10-20) PhD grant at INRIA Nancy, France | 
| 6-8 | (2020-10-21) Fully funded PhD position at >IDIAP, Martigny, Switzerland | 
| 6-9 | (2020-10-23) PhD grant at Université Grenoble-Alpes, France. | 
| 6-10 | (2020-10-26) Post doctoral position at the Beckman Institute for Advance Science and Technology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Chanpaign, USA | 
| 6-11 | (2020-10-28) TWO positions in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland | 
| 6-12 | (2020-10-30) 3 Tenure Track Professors (W2) at Saarland University, Germany | 
| 6-13 | (2020-10-30) 2 Research Assistant/Associate Posts at Cambridge University, Great Britain | 
| 6-14 | (2020-11-02) Fully-funded PhD studentships at the University of Sheffield, Great Britain | 
| 6-15 | (2020-11-14) Master2 Internship, LORIA-INRIA, Nancy, France | 
| 6-16 | (2020-11-15) PhD at LORIA-INRIA, Nancy, France | 
| 6-17 | (2020-11-17) 2 year full-time postdoctoral researcher ar the University of Bordeaux, France | 
| 6-18 | (2020-11-19) Ingenieur de recherches (CDD) -Laboratoire ALAIA, Toulouse | 
| 6-19 | (2020-11-26) Full Professor at Dublin City University, Ireland | 
| 6-20 | (2020-11-28) Master2 Internship, INA, Bry sur Marne, France | 
| 6-21 | (2020-12-01) Funded PhD Position at University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK | 
| 6-22 | (2020-12-03) 6 months internship at GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble, France | 
| 6-23 | (2020-12-04) 6 mois de post-doctorat, IRIT, Toulouse, France | 
| 6-24 | (2020-12-05) 5/6 months Internship, LIS-Lab, Université Aix-Marseille, France | 
| 6-25 | (2020-12-06) chercheur mi-temps, Université de Mons, Belgique | 
| 6-26 | (2020-12-07) Internships at IRIT, Toulouse, France | 
| 6-27 | (2020-11-20) 6 month-Internship, Ludo-Vic SAS, Paris France | 
| 6-28 | (2020-12-16) Master 2 / PFE internship at GIPSA-lab (Grenoble) | 
| 6-29 | (2020-12-18) Ingenieur de recherche (CDD), Lab. ALAIA, France | 
| 6-30 | (2021-01-03) Postdoc researcher, Seikei University, Japan | 
| 6-31 | (2021-01-04) Open positions at IDIAP, Martigny, Suisse | 
| 6-32 | (2021-01-04) research scientist in spoken language processing at Naver Labs Europe, Grenoble, France | 
| 6-33 | (2021-01-07) Speech-NLP Master 2 Internship Year 2020-2021 at LISN (ex LIMSI), University Paris-Saclay, France | 
| 6-34 | (2021-01-13) PhD position at CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 
| 6-35 | (2021-01-19) Associate professor, Telecom Paris, France | 
| 7 Journals | 
| 7-1 | CfP IEEE JSTSP Special Issue on Tensor Decomposition for Signal Processing and Machine Learning | 
| 7-2 | Special issue on Voice Privacy, Computer, Speech and Language | 
| 7-3 | Special issue of Neural Networks on Advances in Deep Learning Based Speech Processing (Updated) | 
| 7-4 | Special issue on ' Machine Learning Applied to Music/Audio Signal Processing' in MDPI Electronics | 
| 7-5 | Computer Speech and Language Special issue on State-of-the-art Handcrafted Feature Extraction for Speech and Voice Analysis | 
| 7-6 | CfP: IEEE/ACM TASLP Special Issue on the Eighth Dialog System Technology Challenge | 
| 7-7 | TAL Journal, Special issue on Natural Language Processing | 
| 7-8 | Special issue at Frontiers in Psychology:Effective and Attractive Communication Signals in Social, Cultural, and Business Contexts | 
| 7-9 | CfP IEEE/ACMTASLP Special Issue on Eighth Dialog System Technology Challenge | 
| 7-10 | Call for Papers: Data, Replicability and Reproducibility in Linguistics in Revista da Abralin | 
| 7-11 | Computer, Speech and Language, special issue on Voice Privacy | 
| 7-12 | CfP Computer, Speech and Language, Special Issue on Separation, 'Recognition, and Diarization of Conversational Speech' | 
| 7-13 | Special issue of Brain Sciences: 'Motor Speech Disorders and Prosody' | 
| 7-14 | CfP IEEE JSTSP Special Issue on Deep Learning for High Dimensional Sensing | 
| 7-15 | CfP IEEE Trans. on Multimedia (TMM) Special issue on Learning from Noisy Multimedia Data | 
| 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' |