Dear ISCA members,

Welcome to the June edition of ISCApad!

We are writing to give you an update. The Board had a meeting on 23 April 2015 in Brisbane during ICASSP. At the meeting, we concluded the selection process of ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievements 2015, ISCA Service Medal 2015, and ISCA Fellows 2015. The Board  also reviewed the progress of INTERSPEECH and workshops, among others.

In April 2015, ISCA completed the election of ISCA new board members for the term 2015-2019. Five members were elected to the ISCA Board from September 2015.  On 6 September 2015, the new Board will elect the new ISCA President. The election results will be announced in the General Assembly on 8 September 2015.

In May 2015, the Board concluded the selection of ISCA Distinguished Lecturers 2015-2016. The Board congratulates the newly appointed Distinguished Lecturers,  Prof. Helen Meng, The Chinese university of Hong Kong, and Prof. Shrikanth Narayanan, University of Southern California, and thanks them for contributing to the DL program to promote research
activities on speech science and technologies.

The TPC of INTERSPEECH 2015 ended a 3-day meeting on 20 May 2015 and announced the paper acceptance. Authors of accepted papers are reminded to upload the final versions by 10 June 2015. 

Get ready for INTERSPEECH 2015!
   
Tanja Schultz, ISCA President
Haizhou Li, ISCA Vice President

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Dear colleagues,

 The paper review process for Interspeech 2015 is completed. 

A total of 1458 submissions were assessed by 911 reviewers. Each submission received 

at least three reviews, and the Technical Program Committee thoroughly analyzed the scores 

and comments of the reviewers to determine the outcome for every paper. 

The final decisions were made at the TPC meeting in Berlin (May 19-20), where each 

scientific area was represented by at least one area chair. The overall acceptance rate 

is around 51%. Notifications of acceptance or rejection were sent to the authors on June 1, 

and the deadline for the camera-ready version is June 10. This is also the deadline for the 

registration by at least one author of the paper. One full registration can cover a maximum 

of four papers. 

The Interspeech 2015 conference will be held in Dresden on September 6-10, 2015. 

Please visit the conference homepage at http://interspeech2015.org/ for further details. 

If you are a student or young scientist (below age 34) who needs financial support, 

please consider applying for an ISCA grant. 

For more information: http://interspeech2015.org/conference/grants/ 

We hope to see you all at Interspeech in Dresden! 

Bernd Möbius and Elmar Nöth Interspeech 2015 TPC Chairs 

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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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The abstracts of Interspeech 2013 papers are now accessible on our Website at www.isca-speech.org/archive/interspeech_2013.

 The full text of papers can be reached by the members only on www.isca-speech.org/archive/archive_papers/interspeech_2013.

Wolfgang Hess, ISCA Archivist

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