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ISCApad Archive » 2024 » ISCApad #310 |
ISCApad #310 |
| Tuesday, April 09, 2024 by Chris Wellekens |
| 1 Editorial |
| 2 ISCA News |
| 2-1 | Message of Dr Odette Scharenborg, ISCA president |
| 2-2 | ELRA/ISCA Special Interest Group: Under-resourced Languages (SIGUL) |
| 2-3 | ISCA Language SIGS |
| 2-4 | ISCA Special Interest Group (SIG) 'Spoken Language Translation' |
| 2-5 | ISCA-PEDRAC: a new service of ISCA. |
| 2-6 | ISCA social networks |
| 2-7 | Women in Speech Research |
| 2-8 | ISCA Distinguished Lecturer for 2023-2024 |
| 3 Events |
| 3-1 ISCA Events |
| 3-1-1 | (2024-07-02) CfP 12th Speech Prosody 2024 Conference, Leiden, The Netherlands |
| 3-1-2 | (2024-09-01) Author kit for Interspeech 2024 Kos Island, Greece |
| 3-1-3 | (2024-09-01) Cf Satellite events at Interspeech 2024, Greece |
| 3-1-4 | (2024-09-01) Cf Show&Tell for Interspeech 2024, Kos Island, Greece |
| 3-1-5 | (2024-09-01) Cf Special Session at Interspeech 2024, Greece. |
| 3-1-6 | (2024-09-01) Cf Tutorials for Interspeech 2024, Kos Island, Greece |
| 3-1-7 | (2024-09-01) CfP Interspeech 2024, Kos Island, Greece |
| 3-1-8 | (2024-09-01) Interspeech 2024, Kos Island, Greece. |
| 3-1-9 | (2025-08-17) Interspeech 2025, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| 3-1-10 | (2026) Interspeech 2026, Australia |
| 3-1-11 | (2027) Interspeech 2027 Sao Polo, Brazil |
| 3-1-12 | ISCA INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL SEMINARS |
| 3-1-13 | Speech Prosody courses |
| 3-2 ISCA Supported Events |
| 3-2-1 | (2024-09-09)Twenty-seventh International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2024), Brno, Czech Republic |
| 3-2-2 | (2024-09-18) The 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), Kyoto, Japan |
| 3-2-3 | (2025) Call for Bids for 3rd International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI 2025) |
| 3-3 Other Events |
| 3-3-1 | (2024-04-14) Cf Tutorials, ICASSP 2024, Seoul, Korea |
| 3-3-2 | (2024-04-14) CfP ICASSP 2024, Seoul, Korea |
| 3-3-3 | (2024-04-14) CfP Industry Talk and Industry Colloquium Proposals @ICASSP 2024, Seoul, Korea |
| 3-3-4 | (2024-04-14) Grand Challenge @ICASSP 2024, Seoul, Korea |
| 3-3-5 | (2024-04-14) ICASSP 2024 Call for short courses, Seoul, Korea |
| 3-3-6 | (2024-04-14) ICASSP 2024 Satellite Workshops |
| 3-3-7 | (2024-04-14) Open Preview of ICASSP 2024 on IEEEXplore |
| 3-3-8 | (2024-04-14) Registration ICASSP 2024, Seoul, Korea |
| 3-3-9 | (2024-04-23) Journée thématique 2024 du GAP sur le thème 'Geste, Parole Synthèse', Paris, France |
| 3-3-10 | (2024-04-26) Journée d'étude sur la didactique de la phonétique en FLE , Université d'Aix Marseille, France |
| 3-3-11 | (2024-05-13) 13th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP2024), Autrans, France |
| 3-3-12 | (2024-05-13) Workshop “Speech production models and empirical evidence from typical and pathological speech” , Grenoble, France |
| 3-3-13 | (2024-05-20) The 3rd Annual Meeting of the ELRA-ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages (SIGUL2024), Torino, Italy |
| 3-3-14 | (2024-05-20) The 8th Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex-VIII), Torino, Italy |
| 3-3-15 | (2024-05-20)CfP LREC-COLING 2024 - The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, Torino, Italy |
| 3-3-16 | (2024-05-22) The Industry Day@LREC-COLING 2024 conference week, Turin, Italy. |
| 3-3-17 | (2024-05-25)1st CfP LEGAL 2024 Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies Workshop at LREC-COLING 2024, Turin, Italy |
| 3-3-18 | (2024-06-03) 27èmes Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs (RJC 2024), Paris, France |
| 3-3-19 | (2024-06-10) 3rd ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation (MAD’24), Phuket, Thailand, |
| 3-3-20 | (2024-06-10) ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, Dusit Thani Laguna Phuket, Phuket Island, Thailand, |
| 3-3-21 | (2024-06-17) 'Madrid UPM Machine Learning and Advanced Statistics' summer school@Boadilla del Monte (Madrid), Spain |
| 3-3-22 | (2024-06-20) Colloque international Nouvelles perspectives d'analyse musicale de la voix,Université Lumière Lyon2 France, |
| 3-3-23 | (2024-07-01) CfAbstracts Workshop 'Prosodic features of language learners' fluency', Leiden, The Netherlands |
| 3-3-24 | (2024-07-06) Speech Prosody Workshop -CROSSIN: Intonation at the Crossroads, Leiden, The Netherlands |
| 3-3-25 | (2024-07-08) 35ème Journées d’Études sur la Parole, Toulouse, France |
| 3-3-26 | (2024-07-08) Appel à ateliers JEPTALN 2024, Toulouse, France |
| 3-3-27 | (2024-07-08) Atelier Parole Spontanée lors des JEP-TALN 2024 |
| 3-3-28 | (2024-07-16) CfP 7th Laughter and Other Non-Verbal Vocalisations Workshop - Belfast, UK |
| 3-3-29 | (2024-07-22) 13th International Conference on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics, Erlangen, Germany |
| 3-3-30 | (2024-07-29) 'Conversational Grounding in the Age of Large Language Models,' @ TheEuropean Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI) 2024, Leuven, Belgium |
| 3-3-31 | (2024-08-07) The 7th IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR 2024) , San Jose, CA, USA |
| 3-3-32 | (2024-09-06) 4th SPSC Symposium with 3rd Voice Privacy Challenge Workshop ( Satellite event Interspeech) |
| 3-3-33 | (2024-09-06) VoicePrivacy 2024 Challenge, Kos Island, Greece |
| 3-3-34 | (2024-09-09) Cf Labs Proposals @CLEF 2024, Grenoble, France |
| 3-3-35 | (2024-09-09) The CLEF Cross Language Image Retrieval Track, Grenoble, France |
| 3-3-36 | (2024-09-18) CfP Special Session on 'Interactive Video Retrieval for Beginners (IVR4B)' @ CBMI 2024, Reykjavik, Iceland. |
| 3-3-37 | (2024-09-18) CfP Special Session on 'Multimedia Indexing for eXtended Reality' at CBMI 2024, Reykjavik, Iceland |
| 3-3-38 | (2024-09-18) CfP Special Session on 'Multimodal Insights for Disaster Risk Management and Applications, (MIDRA)' at CBMI 2024, Reykjavik, Iceland |
| 3-3-39 | (2024-09-18) Special Session on 'Explainability in Multimedia Analysis' (ExMA)@ CBMI 2024, Reykjavik, Iceland |
| 3-3-40 | (2024-09-18) Special Session on' Content based Indexing for audio and music: from analysis to synthesis' @ CBMI 2024 , Reykjavik, Iceland. |
| 3-3-41 | (2024-09-18)The 21st International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing — CBMI 2024, Reykjavik, Iceland |
| 3-3-42 | (2024-09-20) 6th Int. Wkshop on the History of Speech Communication Research, Budapest, Hungary |
| 3-3-43 | (2024-09-25) Second international multimodal communication symposium (MMSYM 2024), Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, |
| 3-3-44 | (2024-11-04)) Cf Wkshps, Special sessions and Grand Challenge @ICMI, Costa Rica |
| 3-3-45 | (2024-11-05) The 26th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2024), San Jose, Costa Rica |
| 3-3-46 | (2024-11-06) The 2nd International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM2024), Dubai, UAE |
| 3-3-47 | (2024-11-25) 26th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2024), Belgrade, Serbia |
| 3-3-48 | (2024-xx-xx) Fearless Steps APOLLO Workshop. |
| 4 Academic and Industry Notes |
| 4-1 | New Master curriculum integrating advanced study and research covering all areas of language science,Univ. of Paris, France |
| 4-2 | Cambridge's Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence MPhil |
| 4-3 | Serveur Discord pour jeunes chercheurs. |
| 4-4 | Le projet European Language Equality |
| 4-5 | Distribution Agreement between ELDA and Lexicala for Multilingual Lexical Data Dissemination |
| 4-6 | Cf bids for the 2025 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2025) |
| 4-7 | Invitation to the DISPLACE challenge: DIarization of SPeaker and LAnguage in Conversational Environments |
| 4-8 | Applications to the Adam Kilgarriff Prize. |
| 4-9 | Call for membership: ManyLanguages |
| 4-10 | Symposium in honor of Lise Crevier-Buchman, @ Foch Hospital, Suresnes, France |
| 4-11 | Bids for ASRU 2025 |
| 4-12 | Bids for Speech Prosody 2026 |
| 4-13 | The Speech Prosody Conference program 2024 |
| 5 Resources |
| 5-1 Books |
| 5-1-1 | Proceedings of SLTU-CCURL2020 |
| 5-1-2 | J.Blauert, J. Braasch, 'The Technology of Binaural Understanding', Springer and ASA-Press |
| 5-1-3 | Weiss B., Trouvain J., Barkat-Defradas M., Ohala J.J., 'Voice Attractiveness', Springer 2021 |
| 5-1-4 | Proceedings Speech Prosody 2022 |
| 5-1-5 | Diana Sidtis, Foundations of Familiar Language, Wiley |
| 5-1-6 | Cf Contribution to a book on interactions in the production, acoustics, and perception of speech and music, DeGruyter Mouton Publishers. |
| 5-2 Database |
| 5-2-1 | Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) update (March 2024) |
| 5-2-2 | ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update (November and December2023) |
| 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 | ELRA announces that MEDIA data are now available for free for academic research |
| 5-2-21 | ELRA/ELDA Communication : LT4all |
| 5-2-22 | Search and Find ELRA LRs on Google Dataset Search and ELG LT Platform |
| 5-2-23 | Sharing language resources (ELRA) |
| 5-2-24 | The UCLA Variability Speaker Database |
| 5-2-25 | Free databases in Catalan, Spanish and Arabic (ELRA and UPC Spain) |
| 5-2-26 | USC 75-Speaker Speech MRI Database. Multispeaker speech production articulatory datasets of vocal tract MRI video |
| 5-2-27 | Annoted tweet corpus , ELDA and INSA Rouen |
| 5-2-28 | LR Agreement between ELRA and Datatang |
| 5-2-29 | Biomedical language model DrBERT |
| 5-2-30 | A respiratory sounds and symptoms dataset: Coswara |
| 5-2-31 | ELDA releases air-traffic control data from ATCO2 Project |
| 5-2-32 | AVID (Aalto Vocal Intensity Database): An open speech/electroglottography repository for machine learning -based studies on vocal intensity |
| 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 |
| 5-3-8 | Evaluation des troubles moteurs de la parole MONPAGE version 2.0.s |
| 5-3-9 | VocalTractLab3D: articulatory synthesis software. |
| 6 Jobs |
| 6-1 | (2023-10-02) PhD position at IMT Atlantique, Brest, France |
| 6-2 | (2023-10-04) Transcripteurs de langue tchèque @ELDA, Paris, France |
| 6-3 | (2023-10-04) Transcripteurs de langue estonienne@ELDA, Paris, France |
| 6-4 | (2023-10-05) Professor at Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany |
| 6-5 | (2023-10-14) Internship @ Orange, Lannion, France |
| 6-6 | (2023-10-16) Ingenieur d'études, DDL, Université de Lyon, France |
| 6-7 | (2023-10-16) Fully funded PhD positions @ University of Colorado Boulder, CO,USA |
| 6-8 | (2023-10-18) Post doc researcher @ University of Glasgow, UK |
| 6-9 | (2023-10-15) Fully funded PhD positions at CUBES, University of Memphis, TN, USA |
| 6-10 | (2023-10-23) Post Doc position: Natural Language Processing, Saarland University, Germany |
| 6-11 | (2023-11-15) Master 2 Internship, LPC Marseille, France |
| 6-12 | (2023-11-23) Post-doctoral research position - L3i - La Rochelle France |
| 6-13 | (2023-11-25) M2 Master Internship, Nancy, France |
| 6-14 | (2023-11-26) Stage Université du Mans, Le Mans, France |
| 6-15 | (2023-11-27) Internship @ Telecom Paris, Paris, France |
| 6-16 | (2023-11-30) Internship Université du Mans, Le Mans, France |
| 6-17 | (2023-12-02) Senior Data Scientist at the University of Chicago, IL, USA |
| 6-18 | (2023-12-05) Post-doc et ingénieur d'étude dans le dans le cadre de l’ANR-JCJC RESSAC, LPNC, Grenoble, France |
| 6-19 | (2023-12-05) Postdoctoral Scholar, Penn State University, PA, USA |
| 6-20 | (2023-12-07) Post-doc @ Université du Mans, Le Mans, France |
| 6-21 | (2023-12-07) Stages (M1, M2, PFE ingénieur) @ IRIT, Toulouse, France |
| 6-22 | (2023-12-07) Stage INA, Bry-sur-Marne, France |
| 6-23 | (2023-12-11) Postdoctoral researcher, Aalto University, Finland |
| 6-24 | (2023-12-15) PhD candidate in speech sciences, Université de Mons, Belgium |
| 6-25 | (2023-12-18) Senior Project Manager @ELDA, Paris, France |
| 6-26 | (2023-12-23) Ph position @ Saarland University, Germany |
| 6-27 | (2024-01-06) PhD Research Assistant @ DFKI Berlin, Germany |
| 6-28 | (2024-01-07) PhD position @ Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique (LaBRI), Talence, France |
| 6-29 | (2024-01-11) PhD student @ LPL, Aix-Marseille University, France |
| 6-30 | (2024-01-15) Full-time (100%) Research Assistant / Ph.D. Student position, Bielefeld University, Germany |
| 6-31 | (2024-01-20) Internship in ANR Project Revitalise, Telecom-Paris, France |
| 6-32 | (2024-01-20) Professeur d'informatique, GETALP, Université de Grenoble,France |
| 6-33 | (2024-01-24) Enquêteur/Enquêtrice spécialisé(e) en analyse audio avec une compétence en traitement automatique de la parole et de l’audio (H/F), BEA, Paris, France |
| 6-34 | (2024-01-21) Maitre de conference à IRIT,Université de Toulouse 3, Paul Sabatier, France |
| 6-35 | (2024-02-01) Several academic positions @ LORIA, Nancy, France |
| 6-36 | (2024-02-02) Four-year funded PhD studentships at the University of Edinburgh, UK |
| 6-37 | (2024-02-05) 4 postes de doctorat, INRIA, Paris |
| 6-38 | (2024-02-10) Maitre de conférences IA, (LIUM) Université du Mans, France |
| 6-39 | (2024-02-15) 2 Postdoctoral Researchers in Multimodal Interaction @Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. |
| 6-40 | (2024-02-21) Academic positions at Avignon University, Avignon, France |
| 6-41 | (2024-02-25) Professeur en informatique (parole, IA) Université de Grenoble, France |
| 6-42 | (2024-03-10) PhD position @ CEREMA, Strasbourg, France |
| 6-43 | (2024-03-19) Research position In Speech Synthesis Massive generation of TTS for Deepfake detection @IRISA, Lannion, France |
| 6-44 | (2024-03-21) PhD position @ LIUM, University Le Mans, France |
| 6-45 | (2024-03-23) Post-doc @LIUM, University of Le Mans, France |
| 6-46 | (2024-03-22) Collaborateurs pour annotation de corpus textuels @ELDA, Paris, France |
| 6-47 | (2024-03-27) Two funded PhD positions @Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland |
| 6-48 | (2024-03-31) Theses et stages @INRIA Defense et Sécurité |
| 6-49 | (2024-04-02) Proposition de these @ INRIA Nancy France |
| 6-50 | (2024-04-03) Two post-docs@Afeka Center of Language Processing (ACLP), Tel-Aviv, Israel |
| 7 Journals |
| 7-1 | Special issue: Embodied Conversational Systems for Human-Robot Interaction in Dialogue & Discourse journal. |
| 7-2 | Call for papers on Prosody in a New journal: Journal of Connected Speech |
| 7-3 | Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces (JMUI) |
| 7-4 | Cf Contribution to a book on interactions in the production, acoustics, and perception of speech and music, DeGruyter Mouton Publishers. |
| 8 Recent Theses |
| 8-1 | Omid Ghahabi, 'Deep Learning for i-Vector Speaker and Language Recognition' |
| 8-2 | Neeraj Kumar Sharma, 'Information-rich Sampling of Time-varying Signals' |
| 8-3 | Daniel Michelsanti, 'Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement Based on Deep Learning' |