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ISCApad #183 |
| Wednesday, September 11, 2013 by Chris Wellekens |
2 ISCA News
| 2-1 | President's message
Dear ISCA Members, Dear Colleagues,
It is a great honor for me to have been elected as the new president of ISCA and I feel very privileged to take on this role at a time when ISCA developed into a prosperous, lively, and active association. Thanks to the continuous joint efforts of the scientific event organizers, the group of volunteers, the past ISCA presidents, the International Advisory Committee, the SAC, and the ISCA board members, our association has steadily grown over the last years in terms of the number of ISCA members, the number of Interspeech participants, the ISCA income, as well as the amount of grants, scope and number of workshops, SIGs, DLs, and various other activities.
My personal thanks go to the former president, Jean-Francois Bonastre, and to his predecessor Isabel Trancoso, who both shepherded and prepared me over the past years for this role. Furthermore, I truly appreciate that Jean-Francois Bonastre agreed to continue as an ex-officio member to ensure a smooth transition.Thank you very much!
On behalf of the ISCA board, special and sincere thanks are extended to the leaving board members, Jean-Francois Bonastre, David House, Michael Picheny, Yannis Stylianou, and Isabel Trancoso, for your superb work, dedication and contributions during your service as ISCA-board members. David, Michael, Jean-Francois, and Isabel served for two consecutive terms, an 8-year commitment to the association. Thank you very much! With great pleasure, I welcome the new ISCA-board members, Gérard Bailly, Martin Cooke, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Hynek Hermansky and Kate Knill, who started their first term this September.
Last but not least, I would like to greatly acknowledge the dedicated efforts of all the members and supporters of the Organizing team of Interspeech 2013 in Lyon. A hearty thank you to the six-handed general chair Frédéric Bimbot with his co-chairs François Pellegrino and Cécile Fougeron as representatives of the team, for all your energy and spirit, your heart and blood which you donated to make Interspeech 2013 a huge success, congratulations – also, you personally convinced me of the French style :-)
I am very excited to take over as ISCA president in such interesting and dynamic times. Speech and Language Technologies have finally arrived in peoples’ daily life, which bears both, great opportunities and big challenges. In order to keep pace with the rapid developments in our field and to position ISCA well, I believe we should see innovative ways to engage its members to actively participate in the various tasks that lie ahead of us. Also, I would like to encourage all ISCA members to identify needs for new services and to help us improve existing ISCA services in order to further increase the value and benefits of being a member of the International Speech Communication Association.
Sincerely,
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| 2-2 | Call for Bids for Interspeech 2017Dear ISCA members:
Those who have plans to organize INTERSPEECH 2017 are encouraged to
submit their proposals to: conferences@isca-speech.org before
November 1, 2013. A proposal must be submitted by the interested institution,
usually by the person who will act as chairman of the conference, including the
basic proposed data such as:
** Name and position of the proposed General Chair and Vice Chair or Chairpersons ** Proposed period in September/October when the conference would be held
* The institution assuming financial responsibility for the conference ** The city and conference center proposed (with information on that center's capacity)
* Information on transportation and housing for conference participants
* Commercial conference organizer (if any) to be employed
* Likely support from local bodies (e.g. governmental)
* Preliminary budget and fees (not exceeding a prescribed limit)
* Other information supporting the application
If you need more time to prepare all the information above, let us know
'basic information' indicated by '**' temporarily.
Do not hesitate to ask us, if you have any questions.
A standard bid and budget template can be downloaded
from http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/conferences.
Keikichi Hirose Nick Campbell (Conferences, ISCA Board)
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| 2-3 | Videos of Interspeech conferencesVideo 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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| 2-4 | CALL FOR CANDIDATES AFCP THESIS PRIZE 2013 CALL FOR CANDIDATES
The thesis can be written in English provided it comes from a French speaking laboratory.
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