ASRU 2011
            Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop
                               Big Island, Hawaii
                              December 11-15, 2011
                            http://www.asru2011.org/

The deadline for submitting papers is 1 July 2011. The website will not accept any submissions after July 1st 11:59PM Hawaiian time. Please be sure to submit your papers by:

** Workshop overview and topics **
The twelfth IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) will be held on December 11-15, 2011. The ASRU workshop meets every two years and has a tradition of bringing together researchers from academia and industry in an intimate and collegial setting to discuss problems of common interest in automatic speech recognition and understanding.

Submission of papers in all areas of human language technology is encouraged, with emphasis placed on:
- Automatic speech recognition and understanding
- Human speech recognition and understanding
- Speech-to-text systems
- Spoken dialog systems
- Multilingual language processing
- Robustness in ASR
- Spoken document retrieval
- Speech-to-speech translation
- Text-to-speech systems
- Spontaneous speech processing
- Speech summarization
- New applications of ASR

** Schedule **
Paper submission deadline: 1 July 2011
Paper acceptance/rejection: 20 August 2011
Early registration deadline: 15 October 2011
Workshop: 11-15 December 2011

** Technical Program **
The workshop program will consist of oral and poster presentations, including invited overview lectures covering major areas of the field.  In addition, there will be four keynote addresses by well-known experts on such related topics as machine learning and pattern classification.

** Submission Procedure **
Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, 4-6 page papers, including figures and references, to the ASRU 2011 website (http://www.asru2011.org). All papers will be handled and reviewed electronically. The website will provide you with further details.  Please note that the submission dates for papers are strict deadlines.

** Registration and information **
Please note that the number of attendees will be limited and priority will be given to paper presenters. Registration will be handled via the ASRU 2011 website, http://www.asru2011.org/, where more information on the workshop will be available. 

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The Listening Talker: an interdisciplinary workshop on natural and
synthetic modification of speech in response to listening conditions

Edinburgh, 2-3 May 2012

http://listening-talker.org/workshop

When talkers speak, they also listen. Talkers routinely adapt to their
interlocutors and environment, maintaining intelligibility and
dialogue fluidity in a way that promotes efficient exchange of
information. In contrast, current speech output technology is largely
deaf, incapable of adapting to the listener's context, inefficient in
use and lacking the naturalness that comes from rapid appreciation of
the speaker-listener environment.  A key scientific challenge is to
better understand how 'talker-listeners' respond to context and to
apply these findings to the modification of natural (live/recorded)
and generated (synthetic) speech. The ISCA-supported Listening Talker
(LISTA) workshop brings together linguists, psychologists,
neuroscientists, engineers and others working on human and machine
speech perception and production, to explore new approaches to
context-sensitive speech generation.

The workshop will be single-track, with invited talks and contributed
oral and poster presentations. An open call for a special issue of
Computer Speech and Language on the theme of the listening talker will
follow the workshop.

Contributions are invited on any aspect of the listening talker,
including but not limited to:

- theories and models of human communication involving the listening talker
- human speech production modifications induced by noise
- speech production changes with manipulated feedback
- algorithms/vocoders for speech modification
- transformations from casual to clear speech
- characterisation of the listening context
- intelligibility and quality metrics for modified speech
- application to natural dialogues, PA, teleconferencing

Invited speakers

 Torsten Dau  (Danish Technical University)
 Valerie Hazan  (University College, London)
 Richard Heusdens  (Technical University Delft)
 Hideki Kawahara  (Wakayama University)
 Roger Moore  (University of Sheffield)
 Martin Pickering  (University of Edinburgh)
 Peter Vary  (Aachen University)
 Junichi Yamagishi  (University of Edinburgh)

Important dates

 30th January 2012: Submission of 4-page papers
 27th February 2012: Notification of acceptance/rejection

Co-chairs

 Martin Cooke  (University of the Basque Country)
 Simon King  (University of Edinburgh)
 Bastiaan Kleijn  (Victoria University of Wellington)
 Yannis Stylianou  (University of Crete)

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The Third International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2012)

Nanjing, China, May 27-29, 2012

www.TAL2012.org

The Third International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2012) will be held in Nanjing, China during May 27-29, 2012. This will be a long-awaited event following TAL 2004 (Beijing, China) and TAL 2006 (La Rochelle, France). As a satellite meeting of Speech Prosody 2012 (to be held in Shanghai, China during May 22-25, 2012), TAL 2012 will be organized by Nanjing Normal University under the joint supports of the International Speech Communication Association (especially by SProSIG and SIG-CSLP), the International Phonetic Association, the Phonetic Association of China, the Chinese Information Processing Society of China, the Acoustical Society of China, and the Chinese Dialect Society.

The theme of TAL 2012 is ‘Tonal aspects across tone and non-tone languages.’ Following the heritage of the past two symposia, TAL 2012 will continue to focus on tone languages, covering studies of tones from phonetic, phonological, psychological, technological, and pathological points of view; but will also welcome studies on tonal aspects of non-tone languages and singing. In particular, this symposium emphasizes the relationship between phonology and phonetics of tones, the relationship between production and perception of tones, the modeling of tones, and the practical utilization of tonal information in spoken language processing. We will make it a great opportunity for linguists, phoneticians, psychologists, language educators, speech pathologists, and speech engineers from all over the world to get together to share and deepen our understanding of tones.

Nanjing, which literally means ‘South Capital,’ has a prominent status in China’s long history and glorious culture. It had been the capital of China during ten dynasties including early Ming Dynasty and the Republic of China. With its beautiful nature and a variety of traditional architectures and historical sights, Nanjing is one of China’s most attractive cities. The transportation to Nanjing is very convenient. There are direct international flights between Nanjing and some cities in Europe, USA and Asian countries. Also, it takes only about 80-90 minutes to travel by train between Nanjing and Shanghai, where the airline connections to almost all main cities in the world are available.

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers (up to 6 pages and written in English) on original research related to tonal aspects of languages, including but not limited to:

- Phonology and phonetics of tones

- Typology of tones and tone languages

- Tone production and perception

- Tone language acquisition and learning

- Evolution of tones and tone change

- Tone, accent, and intonation

- Tonal variation in continuous speech

- Modeling of tonal aspects of languages

- Speech processing for tone languages

- Tonal processing in speech recognition and synthesis

- Psychological and neural mechanisms of tones

- Pathology and therapy for tonal aspects of languages

- Speech corpus and annotation for tones

- Cross-linguistic study of tone languages and non-tone languages

- Tonal information in forensic phonetics

- Tone in singing and traditional operas

We are also calling for exhibits and financial supports. Donations from corporate, academic, government, and individual sponsors would be greatly appreciated. Your support brings you various benefits as stated in our website.

Important Dates

Special session proposal:            December 20, 2011

Submission of full papers:          February 15, 2012

Notification of acceptance:         March 15, 2012

Camera-ready paper due:           March 25, 2012

Early registration deadline:         March 31, 2012

General Chair: Wentao Gu (Professor, Nanjing Normal University, China)

Contact Email:            TAL2012nj@gmail.com

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Dans le cadre de sa politique d’ouverture internationale, et en
    continuité de l’action lancée lors des JEPs 2004 au Maroc,
    2006 à Dinard, 2008 à Avignon et 2010 à Mons, l’AFCP invite des
    étudiants ou jeunes chercheurs de la communauté
    « Communication Parlée » rattachés à des laboratoires situés hors de
    France, à participer à la conférence JEP 2012
    qui aura lieu conjointement avec TALN
    à Grenoble, France, les 4-8 juin 2012 :http://www.jeptaln2012.org/

    Cette aide correspond au financement par l'AFCP, des frais de
    transport, d’hébergement et d’inscription pour quelques
    (4 à 5) jeunes chercheurs venus de l’étranger ayant fait acte de
    candidature selon les modalités suivantes.

    Modalités de candidature :
    ======================

    Tout(e) candidat(e) devra constituer un dossier  (voir fiche jointe
     ou sur le site web AFCP http://www.afcp-parole.org/
)
    comportant :
    • un CV succinct
        - présentant les activités scientifiques du candidat ainsi que
    sa formation universitaire,
        - exposant ses motivations et mettant en valeur les retombées
    attendues d’une participation aux JEP 2012 (1 à 2 pages),
    • une estimation des frais de transport.

    Pour les étudiant(e)s, le dossier devra être accompagné d’une lettre
    de recommandation du directeur de recherche.

    Calendrier :
    ==========
    • Envoi du dossier par courrier électronique à Isabelle Ferrané et
    Loïc Barrault (isabelle.ferrane@irit.fr,loic.barrault@lium.univ-lemans.fr)
    avant le vendredi 17 février 2012
    • Décisions d’acceptation rendues pour le vendredi 2 mars 2012
    • 29ièmes Journées d’Etudes sur la Parole du 4 au 8 juin 2012.

    Remarques :
    ===========
    - La soumission et l’acceptation d’une contribution scientifique aux
    JEPs n’est pas un critère de sélection pour cette invitation
    - Priorité sera donnée aux candidat(e)s venant de pays peu
    représentés aux JEP
    - Pour votre estimation de frais de transport, vous pouvez consulter
    la page du site des JEP 2012 consacrée aux informations pratiques :
    aéroports et liaisons ferroviaires (http://www.jeptaln2012.org/?page_id=77)
    - Un hébergement proche du lieu de la conférence sera proposé aux
    jeunes chercheurs invités.
    - Attention aux délais nécessaires pour l'obtention des visas.

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