Dear ISCA Members,

THANKS!

Yes, 'Thanks' is not the common way to start this President Message. However... A few months ago, I explained the importance of the ISCA board elections for our association. First, having enough candidates increases the legitimity of the elected members. Second, I want to recall what I said previously, being a candidate this year is evidence of your interest in the association, evidence of one's desire to serve ISCA, as board member this year or in the future or using other ways.

And... This year we have 28 candidates!!! Really, sincerely, I want to thank them. Now, I am coming back to all the ISCA members. We have to thank the candidates by recognizing their interest in the association, to recognize what they are giving to us in terms of long term investments for ISCA, in terms of certainty about the future of ISCA. And the best way, the only way to do that is to have a huge participation, from you all, in the elections!  I am counting on you to vote!

Interspeech 2013 is approaching, with a deadline for the normal paper submission fixed at March 18! Remember that ISCA policy is to have no additional delay concerning the submission deadline... We will have prestigious Keynote speakers, with the participation of the ISCA 2013 Medalist (remember that the board selected Hynek Hermansky), Anne-Lise Giraud, Maureen Clerc and Benjamin Munson.

This year, Interspeech 2013 is also the time to announce the winner of the Christian Benoit Association Award (delivered by the Christian Benoit Association). Please look  at the call for participation in this ISCApad. The deadline for submission of applications is April 29.

With my best regards,
JF Bonastre

ISCA President

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Seventh Christian Benoît Award

Deadline April 29th, 2013

The Christian Benoît Award is delivered periodically by the Association Christian Benoit (**). It is given to promising young scientists in the domain of SPEECH and FACE-TO-FACE COMMUNICATION. It can concern basic or applied research projects.

The Award provides the elected scientist with financial support for the development of a short-term research project that

(1) illustrates concretely the achievements of her/his research work

(2) could help promoting this work in the scientific community and to Grant Agencies

(3) gives an overall view of the state of the art in the research domain.

The proposed research project can have the form of a demonstrator, a technical product or of a pedagogical multi-media product (Movie, Web-site, interactive software…).

The Award is valued at 7,500 Euros(*).

The commitments of the elected scientist are:

--  to attend the Interspeech2013 Conference in Lyon, France

--  to deliver the final product of the project within 2 years

-- to present her/his results in a workshop such as, among others, AVSP, ISSP, or SpeechProsody.

In the application, the candidate should provide

-- a statement of research interests,

-- a detailed curriculum vitae

-- a description of the proposed short-term research project. The description should include a presentation of the scientific and/or pedagogical objectives and of the methodological aspects, a link with the former research work of the applicant, as well as a detailed description of the provisional budget.

Applications will be evaluated by an international committee including experts in the field of Speech and Face-to-Face communications and representatives of the Institutions supporting the award.

Applications should be sent to

Pascal Perrier: Pascal.Perrier@gipsa-lab.grenoble-inp.fr

before Monday April 29^th, 2013

. Electronic submissions are mandatory.

The successful candidate will be notified by June 10^, 2013. The Award will be delivered at the Interspeech 2013 Conference in Lyon (France) (http://www.interspeech2013.org/

For further information, please contact Pascal Perrier.

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* 3,500 Euros will be given immediately; the remaining 4,000 Euros will be available at reception of the multi-media project by the Christian Benoit Association. Travel and registration costs necessary to attend the Interspeech 2011 Conference will have to be paid on this grant.

** For details about the Association Christian Benoît and the past awardees of the Christian Benoît Award see http://www.gipsa-lab.fr/acb/

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 Dear members of ISCA,

All voters in the upcoming election for the ISCA Board must be active members in 2013.

 Please note that a 'yearly renewal' at ISCA does not actually give a 12-month term. 

To simplify administration, the ISCA Board decided in 2002 to have all memberships 

end either on June 30 or Dec. 31, which means that any given renewal lasts a variable 

duration (8-14 months) depending on when the renewal occurs; see:

 http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/membership/251 

All those who paid their fees via registration at Interspeech-2012 are active ISCA 

members till June 30, 2013. However, those who paid a yearly renewal early in 2012

 must renew for 2013 to render their account active. We invite you to verify your status:

 http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/iscamember/list 

With your member number XXXX, you can retrieve a forgotten password:

 http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/iscamember/forget 

We hope you will be participating in this year's election, which is expected to start 

next week and end on April 30th. All ISCA members will get an invitation email to vote.

 Best regards, 

Douglas O'Shaughnessy ISCA Secretary 

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ISCA Fellow nominations for 2013 should be sent to:fellows_nomination@isca-speech.org byFebruary 10.Those who plan to nominate are strongly advised to write brief information on candidates (candidate's name and affiliation) to the above address before January 10 with your name and contacting e-mail address. Re-send your e-mail when you do not receive an acknowledgement in a week.

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Video archives are available in 

http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/archive/video-archive 

where keynote speeches from IS 2007, 2010 and 2011 can be seen. Very soon we will have 

the material for IS 2012 as well.

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