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ISCApad Archive » 2024 » ISCApad #315 |
ISCApad #315 |
| Friday, September 13, 2024 by Chris Wellekens |
| 1 Editorial |
| 2 ISCA News |
| 2-1 | Message of Dr Odette Scharenborg, President of ISCA |
| 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 |
| 2-9 | SProSIG News |
| 2-10 | [Speech Prosody SIG] asking the SprSIG community to support free and fair open access |
| 2-11 | Elected SProSig officers for 2024-2026 |
| 3 Events |
| 3-1 ISCA Events |
| 3-1-1 | (2025-08-17) Interspeech 2025, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| 3-1-2 | (2026) Interspeech 2026, Australia |
| 3-1-3 | (2026) Speech Prosody 2026 in Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| 3-1-4 | (2027) Interspeech 2027 Sao Polo, Brazil |
| 3-1-5 | Invitation to review bids for Speech Prosody 2026 |
| 3-1-6 | ISCA INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL SEMINARS |
| 3-1-7 | Speech Prosody courses |
| 3-2 ISCA Supported Events |
| 3-2-1 | (2024-09-18) 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), Kyoto, Japan |
| 3-2-2 | (2025) Call for Bids for 3rd International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI 2025) |
| 3-3 Other Events |
| 3-3-1 | (2024-09-18) CfDemonstrations for the 21st International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI) , Reykjavík, Iceland |
| 3-3-2 | (2024-09-18) CfP Special Session on 'Multimedia Indexing for eXtended Reality' at CBMI 2024, Reykjavik, Iceland |
| 3-3-3 | (2024-09-18) CfP Special Session on 'Multimodal Insights for Disaster Risk Management and Applications, (MIDRA)' at CBMI 2024, Reykjavik, Iceland |
| 3-3-4 | (2024-09-18) Special Session on 'Explainability in Multimedia Analysis' (ExMA)@ CBMI 2024, Reykjavik, Iceland |
| 3-3-5 | (2024-09-18) Special Session on' Content based Indexing for audio and music: from analysis to synthesis' @ CBMI 2024 , Reykjavik, Iceland. |
| 3-3-6 | (2024-09-18)The 21st International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing — CBMI 2024, Reykjavik, Iceland |
| 3-3-7 | (2024-09-20) 6th Int. Wkshop on the History of Speech Communication Research, Budapest, Hungary |
| 3-3-8 | (2024-09-25) MultiModal Communication Symposium, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. |
| 3-3-9 | (2024-10-17) Colloque des Jeunes Chercheurs de Praxiling (UMR 5267), Montpellier, France |
| 3-3-10 | (2024-10-28) CfP 7th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports (MMSports'24) @ ACM Multimedia, Melbourne, Australia |
| 3-3-11 | (2024-11-04) Cf Wkshps, Special sessions and Grand Challenge @ICMI, Costa Rica |
| 3-3-12 | (2024-11-05) The 26th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2024), San Jose, Costa Rica |
| 3-3-13 | (2024-11-11) IberSPEECH'2024 ALBAYZÍN, Aveiro, Portugal |
| 3-3-14 | (2024-11-21) CfP 2nd Automatic Assessment of Parkinsonian Speech Workshop ( AAPS’24) @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA |
| 3-3-15 | (2024-11-25) Last call for Papers, 26th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2024), Belgrade, Serbia |
| 3-3-16 | (2024-11-26) The 2nd International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM2024), Dubai, UAE |
| 3-3-17 | (2025-02-24) Language technologies for All (LT4All 2.0), UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France |
| 3-3-18 | (2025-03-25) Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS) 2025, Aussois (French Alps), France |
| 3-3-19 | (2025-04-06) Call for ICASSP 2025 Grand Challenge, Hyberabad, India |
| 3-3-20 | (2025-04-06) CfP ICASSP 2025, Hyderabad, India |
| 3-3-21 | (2025-04-06) CfShort courses/ ICASSP2025, Hyderabad, India |
| 3-3-22 | (2025-04-06) CfW ICASSP 2025, Hyderabad, India |
| 3-3-23 | (2025-04-06) Deadlines for ICASSP 2025, Hyderabad, India |
| 3-3-24 | (2025-04-06)Cf Tutorials, IEEE ISCASSP 2025, Hyderabad, India |
| 3-3-25 | (2025-05-16) CfP 3rd International Conference on Tone and Intonation - TAI 2025, Herrsching, Germany |
| 3-3-26 | (2025-06-18) PAC 2025 (phonologie de l’anglais contemporain) - Spoken English Varieties - Perception and Representations, Aix-en-Provence, France |
| 3-3-27 | (2025-07-20) CfP 61st IEEE Professional Communication Conference (ProComm), University of Southern Denmark, Sonderborg, Denmark |
| 3-3-28 | (2025-09-06) Labs @CLEF2025, Madrid, Spain |
| 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 | Call for membership: ManyLanguages |
| 4-7 | 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. |
| 5-1-7 | Zhaoyuan Su and Yunan Chen, Energy-Based Models with Applications to Speech and Language Processing, Foundations and Trends® in Signal Processing |
| 5-2 Database |
| 5-2-1 | Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) update (August 2024) |
| 5-2-2 | ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update (July 2024) |
| 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 | Search and Find ELRA LRs on Google Dataset Search and ELG LT Platform |
| 5-2-21 | Sharing language resources (ELRA) |
| 5-2-22 | The UCLA Variability Speaker Database |
| 5-2-23 | Free databases in Catalan, Spanish and Arabic (ELRA and UPC Spain) |
| 5-2-24 | USC 75-Speaker Speech MRI Database. Multispeaker speech production articulatory datasets of vocal tract MRI video |
| 5-2-25 | Annoted tweet corpus , ELDA and INSA Rouen |
| 5-2-26 | Biomedical language model DrBERT |
| 5-2-27 | A respiratory sounds and symptoms dataset: Coswara |
| 5-2-28 | ELDA releases air-traffic control data from ATCO2 Project |
| 5-2-29 | 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 | (2024-03-19) Research position In Speech Synthesis Massive generation of TTS for Deepfake detection @IRISA, Lannion, France |
| 6-2 | (2024-03-10) PhD position @ CEREMA, Strasbourg, France |
| 6-3 | (2024-03-21) PhD position @ LIUM, University Le Mans, France |
| 6-4 | (2024-03-23) Post-doc @LIUM, University of Le Mans, France |
| 6-5 | (2024-03-22) Collaborateurs pour annotation de corpus textuels @ELDA, Paris, France |
| 6-6 | (2024-03-27) Two funded PhD positions @Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland |
| 6-7 | (2024-03-31) Theses et stages @INRIA Defense et Sécurité |
| 6-8 | (2024-04-02) Proposition de these @ INRIA Nancy France |
| 6-9 | (2024-04-03) Two post-docs@Afeka Center of Language Processing (ACLP), Tel-Aviv, Israel |
| 6-10 | (2024-04-15) PhD , Université d'Aix-Marseille, France |
| 6-11 | (2024-04-30) PhD offer at IMT-Atlantique, Brest, France |
| 6-12 | (2024-05-03) Post-doc à l' INA, Paris, France |
| 6-13 | (2024-05-05) 3 offres de doctorat à l'INRIA, France |
| 6-14 | (2024-05-14) Professorship (W3) in Language Technology, Saarland University, Germany |
| 6-15 | (2024-05-30) PhD candidate in speech sciences, University of Mons, Belgium |
| 6-16 | (2024-05-30) Fully funded PhD positions,Universirty of Bordeaux (LaBRI), France |
| 6-17 | (2024-05-28) Enseignant Université de Strasbourg, France |
| 6-18 | (2024-05-31) Poste contractuel d’enseignant-chercheur, Avignon Université / Laboratoire Informatique d’Avignon (LIA), France |
| 6-19 | (2024-06- 03) Offre de these, GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble, France |
| 6-20 | (2024-06-06) One year postdoc Naver Labs Europe |
| 6-21 | (2024-06-07) Deux postes d'ingenieur à l'INRIA Nancy, France |
| 6-22 | (2024-06-05 )PhD student @ KTH, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 6-23 | (2024-06-20) Research Fellow in Multimodal Neural Architecture, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland |
| 6-24 | (2024-06-22) PhD student, LIG, CNRS, Grenoble, France |
| 6-25 | (2024-06-21) Ingénieur-e de recherche, TALEP, Laboratoire d'Informatique et Systèmes - LIS, Marseille, France |
| 6-26 | (2024-06-27) 3 postes enseignants-chercheurs, ENSSAT, Lannion, France |
| 6-27 | (2024-06-29) Junior professor in Spoken Language Technologies, KU Leuven, Belgium |
| 6-28 | (2024-07-04) Two job opportunities @ University of Palemo, Italy |
| 6-29 | (2024-07-19) Research and Teaching Associate – PreDoc Position –Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), Austria |
| 6-30 | (2024-07-25) Chaire de Professeur Junior, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations (Inalco), Paris, France |
| 6-31 | (2024-07-31) Lecturer, UC SanDiego, CA, USA |
| 6-32 | (2024-08-13) PhD position, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 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. |
| 7-5 | TISMIR Special Collection on Multi-Modal Music Information Retrieval |
| 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' |