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ISCApad Archive » 2024 » ISCApad #318 |
ISCApad #318 |
| Wednesday, December 11, 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 SIG SLATE 'Speech and Language Technologies in Education' |
| 2-6 | ISCA-PEDRAC: a new service of ISCA. |
| 2-7 | ISCA social networks |
| 2-8 | Women in Speech Research |
| 2-9 | ISCA Distinguished Lecturer for 2023-2024 |
| 2-10 | SProSIG News |
| 2-11 | [Speech Prosody SIG] asking the SprSIG community to support free and fair open access |
| 2-12 | Elected SProSig officers for 2024-2026 |
| 2-13 | SProSIG Events |
| 3 Events |
| 3-1 ISCA Events |
| 3-1-1 | (2025-08-17) Interspeech 2025, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| 3-1-2 | (2026) Interspeech 2026, Sydney, Australia |
| 3-1-3 | (2026) Speech Prosody 2026 in Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| 3-1-4 | (2027) Interspeech 2027, São Paulo, 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 | (2025-02-24) Language technologies for All (LT4All 2.0), UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France |
| 3-3 Other Events |
| 3-3-1 | (2024-12-13) TTS for low resource languages, dialects and accents, LIUM, LeMans, France |
| 3-3-2 | (2024-12-18) Speech Prosody Lecture Series (on line) |
| 3-3-3 | (2025-03-03) VOICE AND SPEECH SCIENCE IN THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (on line) |
| 3-3-4 | (2025-03-25) Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS) 2025, Aussois (French Alps), France |
| 3-3-5 | (2025-04-06) Call for ICASSP 2025 Grand Challenge, Hyberabad, India |
| 3-3-6 | (2025-04-06) CfP ICASSP 2025, Hyderabad, India |
| 3-3-7 | (2025-04-06) CfShort courses/ ICASSP2025, Hyderabad, India |
| 3-3-8 | (2025-04-06) CfW ICASSP 2025, Hyderabad, India |
| 3-3-9 | (2025-04-06) Deadlines for ICASSP 2025, Hyderabad, India |
| 3-3-10 | (2025-04-06)Cf Tutorials, IEEE ISCASSP 2025, Hyderabad, India |
| 3-3-11 | (2025-04-22) Call for Science: 2025 Voice AI Symposium, Tampa, FL, USA |
| 3-3-12 | (2025-04-27) CfP Congrès Français d’Acoustique, Sorbonne Université, Paris |
| 3-3-13 | (2025-05-16) CfP 3rd International Conference on Tone and Intonation - TAI 2025, Herrsching, Germany |
| 3-3-14 | (2025-06-09?) Cf research proposals: 2025 Jelinek Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies (JSALT), Brno, Czech Republic |
| 3-3-15 | (2025-06-10) 10èmes Journées de Phonétique Clinique, Sète, France |
| 3-3-16 | (2025-06-18) PAC 2025 - Spoken English Varieties - Perception and Representations, Aix-en-Provence,France (extended deadline) |
| 3-3-17 | (2025-06-23) CfP Forum Acusticum Euronoise 2025, Malaga, Spain |
| 3-3-18 | (2025-06-25) CfP : Prosody in Languages of the Middle East , Palma de Mallorca, Spain |
| 3-3-19 | (2025-07-20) CfP 61st IEEE Professional Communication Conference (ProComm), University of Southern Denmark, Sonderborg, Denmark |
| 3-3-20 | (2025-09-06) Labs @CLEF2025, Madrid, Spain |
| 3-3-21 | (2025-09-08) EUSIPCO 2025, Palermo, Italy |
| 3-3-22 | (2025-11-06) The First VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge, ICASSP 2025, Hyderabad, India |
| 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 | (2025) Call for Bids for 3rd International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI 2025) |
| 4-7 | Call for membership: ManyLanguages |
| 4-8 | The Speech Prosody Conference program 2024 |
| 4-9 | CfProposals for the organization of the 2029 ICASSP |
| 4-10 | Cf Task proposals at CHiME-9 Challenge |
| 4-11 | CfProposals of Conferences and Workshops sponsored by Signal Processing Society (SPS) |
| 4-12 | Bids for Interspeech 2028 |
| 4-13 | Appel à candidatures pour l'organisation des Journées d'Études sur la Parole (JEP) en 2026. |
| 4-14 | Call for bids for ICASSP 2029 |
| 4-15 | Prix de these AFCP |
| 5 Resources |
| 5-1 Books |
| 5-1-1 | Weiss B., Trouvain J., Barkat-Defradas M., Ohala J.J., 'Voice Attractiveness', Springer 2021 |
| 5-1-2 | Proceedings Speech Prosody 2022 |
| 5-1-3 | Diana Sidtis, Foundations of Familiar Language, Wiley |
| 5-1-4 | Cf Contribution to a book on interactions in the production, acoustics, and perception of speech and music, DeGruyter Mouton Publishers. |
| 5-1-5 | 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 (November 2024) |
| 5-2-2 | ELRA - ALLIES Corpus for the evaluation of Broadcast News |
| 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 | (2024-05-03) Post-doc à l' INA, Paris, France |
| 6-2 | (2024-05-05) 3 offres de doctorat à l'INRIA, France |
| 6-3 | (2024-05-14) Professorship (W3) in Language Technology, Saarland University, Germany |
| 6-4 | (2024-05-30) PhD candidate in speech sciences, University of Mons, Belgium |
| 6-5 | (2024-05-30) Fully funded PhD positions,Universirty of Bordeaux (LaBRI), France |
| 6-6 | (2024-05-28) Enseignant Université de Strasbourg, France |
| 6-7 | (2024-05-31) Poste contractuel d’enseignant-chercheur, Avignon Université / Laboratoire Informatique d’Avignon (LIA), France |
| 6-8 | (2024-06- 03) Offre de these, GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble, France |
| 6-9 | (2024-06-06) One year postdoc Naver Labs Europe |
| 6-10 | (2024-06-07) Deux postes d'ingenieur à l'INRIA Nancy, France |
| 6-11 | (2024-06-05 )PhD student @ KTH, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 6-12 | (2024-06-20) Research Fellow in Multimodal Neural Architecture, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland |
| 6-13 | (2024-06-22) PhD student, LIG, CNRS, Grenoble, France |
| 6-14 | (2024-06-21) Ingénieur-e de recherche, TALEP, Laboratoire d'Informatique et Systèmes - LIS, Marseille, France |
| 6-15 | (2024-06-27) 3 postes enseignants-chercheurs, ENSSAT, Lannion, France |
| 6-16 | (2024-06-29) Junior professor in Spoken Language Technologies, KU Leuven, Belgium |
| 6-17 | (2024-07-04) Two job opportunities @ University of Palemo, Italy |
| 6-18 | (2024-07-19) Research and Teaching Associate – PreDoc Position –Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), Austria |
| 6-19 | (2024-07-25) Chaire de Professeur Junior, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations (Inalco), Paris, France |
| 6-20 | (2024-07-31) Lecturer, UC SanDiego, CA, USA |
| 6-21 | (2024-08-13) PhD position, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 6-22 | (2024-09-15) Ingénieur ou post-doc en synthèse de parole, IRISA, Bretagne, France |
| 6-23 | (2024-10-03) Researcher positions in Speech and Natural Language Processing (Junior & Senior Positions) @ Vicomtech, San Sebastian/Bilbao, Spain |
| 6-24 | (2024-10-04) Two internships at Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Université du Mans (LIUM), France |
| 6-25 | (2024-10-12) Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, USA |
| 6-26 | (2024-10-16) Assistant Professor Positions, University of Texas at El Paso, TX, USA |
| 6-27 | (2024-10-22) Stage à l'Université du Mans, France |
| 6-28 | (2024-10-23) Stage à l'Université du Mans (2), France |
| 6-29 | (2024-11-05) Ingénieur·e de recherche en intelligence artificielle pour la pédagogie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, France |
| 6-30 | (2024-11-06) Proposition de stage, BEA, Le Bourget, Ile-de-France, France |
| 6-31 | (2024-11-06) PhD and postdoc vacancy in multimodal search, The University of Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| 6-32 | (2024-11-11) Deux thèses financées à l'INRIA, France. |
| 6-33 | (2024-11-10) Stage de 6 mois, Transcription et Alignement de la Parole Théâtrale par Analyse Prosodique, Universite de Grenoble-Alpes, France |
| 6-34 | (2024-11-11) Stage sur l'annotation semi-automatique de conversations dans des documents audiovisuels, @ LISN, Orsay, France) |
| 6-35 | (2024-11-13) Stage 6 mois, Université d'Avignon, France |
| 6-36 | (2024-11-15) Two fully funded PhD positions, INRIA, France |
| 6-37 | (2024-12-06) Deux offres de stage au sein du service de la recherche de l'Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA), Paris, France |
| 6-38 | (2024-12-10) 12 positions for doctoral researchers: PSST! - Privacy for Smart Speech Technology |
| 7 Journals |
| 7-1 | Call for papers on Prosody in a New journal: Journal of Connected Speech |
| 7-2 | Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces (JMUI) |
| 7-3 | Cf Contribution to a book on interactions in the production, acoustics, and perception of speech and music, DeGruyter Mouton Publishers. |
| 7-4 | TISMIR Special Collection on Multi-Modal Music Information Retrieval |
| 7-5 | ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology: Special Issue on Transformers |
| 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' |