Since a new board has been elected, its next meeting will appoint a new president. We heartly thank Jean François Bonastre who efficiently served during a  4-year term and is currently quite busy with the organization of Interspeech 2013 in Lyon. Jean François wrote his last president message in our previous issue.

Chris Wellekens

ISCApad editor

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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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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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CALL FOR CANDIDATES
AFCP THESIS PRIZE 2013

Since 2004, the French-speaking Association for Speech Communication (AFCP - http://www.afcp-parole.org/) awards
an annual scientific prize for an excellent thesis to promote research in spoken communication, basic or applied, in the fields of Computer Science, Humanities, Social Sciences and Life Sciences (see http://www.afcp-parole.org/spip.php?rubrique172 for past laureates). This award supports and disseminates the work of young researchers.
The prize is awarded by a jury composed of researchers from the elected board of AFCP (http://www.afcp-parole.org/spip.php?article1718). It will be officially presented at the JEP conference, in June 2014.
The winner will receive the sum of 500 euros and will be invited to present his/her work to the community of spoken communication. Moreover his/her thesis will be published as a book in the collection 'Parole' (Speech) (published by CIPA).

 The thesis can be written in English provided it comes from a French speaking laboratory.
CALENDAR
Deadline of submission: 30 April 2013
AFCP jury's decision: 30 September 2013 Award ceremony: JEP 2014
CONDITIONS
Any doctor whose thesis is written in French or English (in case of another language, please contact AFCP by sending an e-mail to david.langlois@loria.fr) in a French-speaking laboratory and was defended between 1 January 2012 and 31 December 2012 may apply. All application is limited to a single edition of the award. Only complete applications will be considered.
APPLICATION
To apply, you must:
(1) Send an e-mail stating your intention to apply with your name, title of the thesis, the name of the supervisor, and the date of defense to: david.langlois@loria.fr. You will receive an acknowledgment.
(2) Upload your thesis manuscript in PDF on the AFCP website server: http://www.afcp-parole.org/spip.php?page=depot_these
(3) Send your complete file on CD containing a single file (named YOURNAME.pdf), and in order: (i) summary of thesis (2 pages), (ii) a list of publications, (ii) scan of thesis reports (manuscript and defence) (iv) a
scan of a letter by your supervisor (v) a CV (with full contact details including email).
At the following address: David Langlois - Bureau C132 - LORIA - Campus Scientifique - BP 239 - 54506 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy Cedex FRANCE
DATE OF SUBMISSION *************** April 30, 2013 *****************

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The international scientific Committee of the '7th Christian Benoît Award' has completed the evaluation of the applications and has taken a decision. The Winner is

His project aims at developing a system architecture and a demonstrator using the novel, recently developed Furhat robot head. The Furhat robot head integrates facial animation and visual speech synthesis. The goal is to provide a platform for research on situated and multiparty audio-visual interaction.
On behalf of the Association Christian Benoît and of the scientific committee; we would like to congratulate Samer and to thank all the applicants for their works. Many of the applications are of very high quality. We hope that their authors will find other financial supports to achieve their research projects.

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