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| Tuesday, November 12, 2013 by Chris Wellekens |
3-1 ISCA Events
| 3-1-1 | (2014-09-14) CfP INTERSPEECH 2014 Singapore Interspeech 2014 Singapore September 14-18, 2014
INTERSPEECH is the world's largest and most comprehensive conference on issues surrounding the science and technology of spoken language processing, both in humans and in machines. The theme of INTERSPEECH 2014 is 'Celebrating the Diversity of Spoken Languages'. INTERSPEECH 2014 emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach covering all aspects of speech science and technology spanning basic theories to applications. In addition to regular oral and poster sessions, the conference will also feature plenary talks by internationally renowned experts, tutorials, special sessions, show & tell sessions, and exhibits. A number of satellite events will take place immediately before and after the conference. Please follow the details of these and other news at the INTERSPEECH website www.interspeech2014.org. We invite you to submit original papers in any related area, including but not limited to: 1: Speech Perception and Production 2: Prosody, Phonetics, Phonology, and Para-/Non- Linguistic Information 3: Analysis of Speech and Audio Signals 4: Speech Coding and Enhancement 5: Speaker and Language Identification 6: Speech Synthesis and Spoken Language Generation 7: Speech Recognition - Signal Processing, Acoustic Modeling, Robustness, and Adaptation 8: Speech Recognition - Architecture, Search & Linguistic Components 9: LVCSR and Its Applications, Technologies and Systems for New Applications 10: Spoken Language Processing - Dialogue, Summarization, Understanding 11: Spoken Language Processing -Translation, Info Retrieval 12: Spoken Language Evaluation, Standardization and Resources A detailed description of these areas is accessible at:
http://www.interspeech2014.org/public.php?page=conference_areas.html
Paper Submission Papers for the INTERSPEECH 2014 proceedings should be up to 4 pages of text, plus one page (maximum) for references only. Paper submissions must conform to the format defined in the paper preparation guidelines and provided in the Authors’ kit, on the INTERSPEECH 2014 website, along with the Call for Papers. Optionally, authors may submit additional files, such as multimedia files, which will be included in the official conference proceedings USB drive. Authors must declare that their contributions are original and are not being submitted for publication elsewhere (e.g. another conference, workshop, or journal). Papers must be submitted via the online paper submission system, which will be opened in February 2014. The conference will be conducted in English. Information on the paper submission procedure is available at: http://www.interspeech2014.org/public.php?page=submission_procedure.html There will be NO extension to the full paper submission deadline.
We look forward to welcoming you to INTERSPEECH 2014 in Singapore!
Helen Meng and Bin Ma Technical Program Chairs
Contact
Email: tpc@interspeech2014.org organizers.interspeech2014@isca-speech.org— For general enquiries
Conference website: www.interspeech2014.org
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| 3-1-2 | (2014-09-14) INTERSPEECH 2014 Singapore
It is a great pleasure to announce that the 15th edition of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH) will be held in Singapore during September 14-18, 2014. INTERSPEECH 2014 will bring together the community to celebrate the diversity of spoken languages in the vibrant city state of Singapore. INTERSPEECH 2014 is proudly organized by the Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society (COLIPS), the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), and the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA).
Ten steps to Singapore
You want to know more about Singapore?
During the next ten months, the organization committee will introduce you to Singaporean culture through a series of brief newsletters featuring topics related to spoken languages in Singapore. Please stay tuned!
Workshops
Submission deadline: December 1, 2013
Satellite workshops related to speech and language research will be hosted in Singapore as well as in Phuket Island, Thailand (1 hr 20 min flight from Singapore) and in Penang, Malaysia (1 hr flight from Singapore).
Proposals must be submitted by email to workshops@interspeech2014.org before December 1, 2013. Notification of acceptance and ISCA approval/sponsorship will be announced by January 31, 2014.
Sponsorship and Exhibition
The objective of INTERSPEECH 2014 is to foster scientific exchanges in all aspects of Speech Communication sciences with a special focus on the diversity of spoken languages. We are pleased to invite you to take part in this major event as a sponsor. For more information, view the Sponsorship
Conference venue
INTERSPEECH 2014 main conference will be held in the MAX Atria @ Singapore Expo.
Organizers
Lists of the organizing, advisory and technical program committees are available on line (here).
Follow us
Facebook: ISCA
Twitter: @Interspeech2014 follow hash tags: #is2014 or #interspeech2014
LinkedIn Interspeech
Contact
Conference website: www.interspeech2014.org
organizers.interspeech2014@isca-speech.org— For general enquiries
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| 3-1-3 | (2015) INTERSPEECH 2015 Dresden RFA Interspeech 2015
September 6-10, 2015, Dresden, Germany
SPECIAL TOPIC Speech Beyond Speech: Towards a Better Understanding of the Most Important Biosignal
MOTIVATION Speech is the most important biosignal humans can produce and perceive. It is the most common means of human-human communication, and therefore research and development in speech and language are not only paramount for understanding humans, but also to facilitate human-machine interaction. Still, not all characteristics of speech are fully understood, and even fewer are used for developing successful speech and language processing applications. Speech can exploit its full potential only if we consider the characteristics which are beyond the traditional (and still important) linguistic content. These characteristics include other biosignals that are directly accessible to human perception, such as muscle and brain activity, as well as articulatory gestures.
INTERSPEECH 2015 will therefore be organized around the topic “Speech beyond Speech: Towards a Better Understanding of the Most Important Biosignal”. Our conviction is that spoken language processing can make a substantial leap if it caters for the full information which is available in the speech signal. By opening our prestigious conference to researchers in other biosignal communities, we expect that substantial advances can be made discussing ideas and approaches across discipline and community boundaries.
ORGANIZERS The following preliminary list of principal organizers plan INTERSPEECH 2015:
LOCATION The event will be staged in the recently built Maritim International Congress Center (ICD) in Dresden, Germany. As the capital of Saxony, an up-and-coming region located in the former eastern part of Germany, Dresden combines glorious and painful history with a strong dedication to future and technology. It is located in the heart of Europe, easily reached via two airports, and will offer a great deal of history and culture to INTERSPEECH 2015 delegates. Guests are well catered for in a variety of hotels of different standards and price ranges, making INTERSPEECH 2015 an exciting as well as an affordable event.
CONTACT Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Möller, Quality and Usability Lab, Telekom Innovation Laboratories, TU Berlin Sekr. TEL-18, Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7, D-10587 Berlin, Germany Web: www.interspeech2015.org
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| 3-1-4 | (2016) INTERSPEECH 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA Interspeech 2016 will take place from September 8-12 2016 in San Francisco, CA, USA General Chair is Nelson Morgan.
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| 3-1-5 | CfP Speech Technology for the Interspeech App Call for Proposals Speech Technology for the Interspeech App During the past Interspeech conference in Lyon, a mobile application (app) was provided for accessing the conference program, designing personal schedules, inspecting abstracts, full papers and the list of authors, navigating through the conference center, or recommending papers to colleagues. This app was designed by students and researchers of the Quality and Usability Lab, TU Berlin, and will be made available to ISCA and to future conference and workshop organizers free-of-charge. It will also be used for the upcoming Interspeech 2014 in Singapore, and is available under both iOS and Android. In its current state, the app is limited to mostly touch-based input and graphical output. However, we would like to develop the app into a useful tool for the spoken language community at large, which should include speech input and output capabilities, and potentially full spoken-language and multimodal interaction. The app could also be used for collecting speech data under realistic environmental conditions, for distributing multimedia examples or surveys during the conference, or for other research purposes. In addition, the data which is being collected with the app (mostly interaction usage patterns) could be analyzed further. The Quality and Usability Lab of TU Berlin would like to invite interested parties to contribute to this development. Contributions could be made by providing ready-built modules (e.g. ASR, TTS, or alike) for integration into the app, by proposing new functionalities which would be of interest to a significant part of the community, and preferably by offering workforce for such future developments. If you are interested in contributing to this, please send an email with your proposals to interspeechapp@qu.tu-berlin.de by October 31, 2013. In case that a sufficient number of interested parties can be found, we plan to submit a proposal for a special session around speech technology in mobile applications for the upcoming Interspeech in Singapore. More information on the current version of the app can be found in: Schleicher, R., Westermann, T., Li, J., Lawitschka, M., Mateev, B., Reichmuth, R., Möller, S. (2013). Design of a Mobile App for Interspeech Conferences: Towards an Open Tool for the Spoken Language Community, in: Proc. 14th Ann. Conf. of the Int. Speech Comm. Assoc. (Interspeech 2013), Aug. 25-29, Lyon.
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| 3-1-6 | INTERSPEECH 2014 Newsletter Come celebrate the diversity of spoken languages in Singapore! Here starts your journey to INTERSPEECH 2014 in Singapore, paved with a series of 10 newsletters. From the 14th to the 18th September, 2014, our aim, as organizers will be to make you discover the linguistic and cultural specificities that make Singapore the perfect environment to celebrate the diversity of spoken languages.
Welcome to Singapore Located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, only 137km north of the equator, our archipelago (64 islands) is sandwiched between Malaysia and Indonesia. As a visitor departing for the “city-state” of Singapore, you'll probably get stunned by the greenery when arriving in Singapore: the “City in a Garden”. Indeed, our tiny island-nation hosts one of the two largest urban primary rainforest in the world and more than ten thousand plant species (compared to 1,500 in UK for example). No wonder that even languages are blooming in this environment!
In 1819, when Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founded what will become the busiest port in the world, the island had around 1,000 inhabitants. A majority of them were Orang Laut (sea gypsies) and some 30 Chinese. Almost two hundred years later, Singapore's population reaches 3.4 million inhabitants including Chinese, Malays, Indians and a variety of other ethnicities, not counting the 2.5 million of foreigners. Rich of this cultural melting-pot, our small island is home for 24 indigenous languages out of which 23 are spoken languages (Leimgruber, 2013). Therefore, Singapore, which is the 190th country by the size, becomes 37th when it comes to language diversity1. Add to this 8 immigrant languages and you will get an idea of what you will hear in Singapore.
Cultural and linguistic diversity In Singapore's constitution, “Malay, Mandarin, Tamil and English” are the “four official languages”. Malay is also defined as the “National language” to acknowledge Malay as “indigenous people of Singapore”. In practice, Malay, Mandarin and Tamil are treated equally as they each correspond to one of the main ethnic group present in the country. English, however, has a special place in the Singaporean society. It is the only official language that is ethnically neutral and, in the Singaporean context, “cultureless” (Alsagoff, 2007). Inherited from the colonial history, English, presents the benefit of not disadvantaging any cultural group and has become lingua franca across the island. No doubt that you will also appreciate the diversity of Singapore through the colorful Singlish (Singapore English) which mixes English, Malay, Hokkien, Teochew, Cantonese and Tamil. The diversity of languages spoken in Singapore is not limited to the four official languages. Each of the three major ethnic group counts a number of spoken languages. Chinese Singaporeans, whose origins are predominantly from the south of China, speak Hokkien, Teochew, Cantonese, Hakka, Hainanese, Foochow, Henghua, Shanghainese or Hockchia. Malay Singaporeans speak Malay, Javanese or Boyanese while Indian languages in Singapore include Hindi, Panjabi, Gujarati, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu or Kannada.
Language and culture going together, you will have a lot to see and try while visiting Singapore. A stay in the Lion City is a unique opportunity to catch a glimpse of South-East Asia and you can count on the organizing committee to give you the best of Singapore during INTERSPEECH 2014!
Alsagoff, L. (2007). Singlish: Negotiating culture, capital and identity. In Language, Capital, Culture: Critical studies of language and education in Singapore (pp. 25-46). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers. Leimgruber, J. R. (2013). The management of multilingualism in a city-state: Language policy in Singapore. In I. G. Peter Siemund, Multilingualism and Language Contact in Urban Areas: Acquisition development, teaching, communication (pp. 229-258). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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| 3-1-7 | INTERSPEECH 2014 Singapore- call for tutorials Call for INTERSPEECH 2014 Tutorials Submission Deadline: January 3, 2014
Notification of acceptance: February 7, 2014
INTERSPEECH 2014 will host a number of high calibre tutorials covering interdisciplinary topics and/or emerging areas of interest. While the conference theme is “Celebrating the Diversity of Spoken Languages”, we also welcome applications for tutorials that either introduce a new area of interest to the speech research community or provide a condensed overview of an active area of speech related research. Each tutorial will be of three or six hour duration and is expected to provide a complete coverage of the proposed topic rather than focus on individual research. Visit the Tutorial Page of the conference website for a tutorial proposal template and the latest update: www.interspeech2014.org All proposals should be submitted to the Tutorial Chair, Professor Eliathamby Ambikairajah, at Email: ambi@ee.unsw.edu.au. Eliathamby Ambikairajah, INTERSPEECH 2014 Tutorial Chair Tutorial Proposal Template 1. Tutorial Title: 2. Duration [3 hours – 1 session, 6 hours – 2 sessions]: 3. Presenter(s) [Name and Affiliation]: 4. Description of the proposal [1-2 page description plus a few relevant references and any webpages/material that will be useful for reviewing the proposal]: 5. Novelty of the proposed tutorial [brief outline]: 6. Description of Presentation format [organisation of the presentation across one or more presenters, video conferencing, etc.]: 7. Special equipment that may be required for the tutorial: 8. Contact Information [email, Telephone]: 9. Biography of Presenter(s): 10. Key Publications of Presenter(s) on the tutorial topic: 11. Target Audience [e.g new researchers to the field, research students, etc.]: 12. Handouts [Will any handouts be provided to the tutorial participants]: 13. Other requirements/Comments:
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