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Sunday, December 13, 2015 by Chris Wellekens

3-2 ISCA Supported Events
3-2-1(2016-05-09) 5th Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages (SLTU'16), Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages (SLTU'16)5th
Workshop on Spoken Language
Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages (SLTU'16) will be held on 9-12 May 2016 in
Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

 
### Important dates ###
- Full paper submission: 25 January 2016
- Notification of acceptance: 07 March, 2016
- Submission of final papers: 21 March, 2016
- Early registration: 21 March, 2016
- Workshop dates: 9-12 May, 2016

The Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages
is the fifth in a series of even-year SLTU Workshops. Four previous Workshops were
organized: SLTU'14 in St. Petersburg (Russia), SLTU'12 in Cape Town (South Africa),
SLTU'10 in Penang (Malaysia), and SLTU'08 in Hanoi (Vietnam). SLTU?16 is held in
Yogyakarta (Indonesia), a centre of classical Javanese culture. There are more than
700 ethnic languages spoken in Indonesian archipelago, but 146 are endangered.
Therefore, SLTU?16 has special focus on under-resourced languages and endangered
languages, but other related topics are also encouraged.

SLTU?16 will continue the tradition of previous SLTUs that features a number of
distinguished keynote speaker, and this year, for the first time, SLTU will also offer
Kaldi Tutorial on Under-Resourced Language.

### Workshop Topics ###
Areas related to processing any under-resourced and
endangered  languages:
- Fast resources acquisition (text and speech corpora, parallel text, dictionary,
grammars, language model)
- Spoken language processing for language without dictionary or written forms
- Cross-lingual and multi-lingual spoken language processing including analysis
and synthesis
- Speech recognition and synthesis of low-resourced languages and dialects
- Machine translation and spoken dialogue systems
- Applications of spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages

### Paper submission ###
Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers up to 4 pages for
technical content (including figures, tables, etc) and possible references, plus
one additional (optional) page containing only references.

### Important dates ###
- Full paper submission: 25 January 2016
- Notification of acceptance: 07 March, 2016
- Submission of final papers: 21 March, 2016
- Early registration: 21 March, 2016
- Workshop dates: 9-12 May, 2016

### Organizing Committee Members ###
- Workshop Chair:
   Sakriani Sakti (NAIST, Japan)
- Workshop Co-chair:
   Pascal Nocera (LIA, France)
   Eric Castelli (MICA, Vietnam)
   Laurent Besacier (LIG, France)
- Local Co-chair:
   Mirna Adriani (UI, Indonesia)
   Ayu Purwarianti (ITB, Indonesia)

Web-site of the Workshop: http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2016

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3-2-2(2016-05-31) Speech Prosody 2016, Boston University, MA, USA
 
 
Speech Prosody 2016, the eighth international conference on speech prosody, will be hosted at Boston University, May 31 to June 3, 2016. We invite papers addressing any aspect of the science and technology of prosody. This year, we especially invite submissions concentrating on variation and differences both at the level of the community and that of the individual. Speech Prosody, the biennial meeting of the Speech Prosody Special Interest Group (SProSIG) <http://speechprosody2010.illinois.edu/sprosig.php> of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) <http://www.isca-speech.org/>, is the only recurring international conference focused on prosody as an organizing principle for the social, psychological, linguistic, and technological aspects of spoken language. Past conferences in Aix-en-Provence, Nara, Dresden, Campinas, Chicago, Shanghai and Dublin have each attracted 300-400 delegates, including experts in the fields of Linguistics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Speech and Hearing Science, Psychology, and related disciplines.

Keynote Speakers for Speech Prosody 2016, Boston:

Aoju Chen, Universiteit Utrecht
Laura Dilley, Michigan State University
Rupal Patel, Northeastern University
Patrick Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong

We are pleased to announce the special sessions of Speech Prosody 2016:

        ? Rising intonation in English and beyond  (Organizers: Meghan Armstrong, Page Piccinini, Amanda Ritchart)
        ? Sentence-final particles and intonation: Similarities, interactions, and historical relationships (Organizers: James Sneed German, K. K. Luke)
        ? Sources of Prosodic Variation across Recording Settings: Measures before measuring speech signals from inside and outside the lab (Organizers: Oliver Niebuhr, Petra Wagner)
        ? Speaker comfort and communication in noisy environments (Special Poster Session) (Organizers: Oliver Niebuhr, Simone Graetzer)

*Important Deadlines*

- Submission of Papers: November 15, 2015
- Notification of Acceptance (by email): January 15, 2016
- Early Registration Deadline: February 15, 2016
 - Author's Registration Deadline: March 1, 2016
 - Conference: May 31 - June 3, 2016

*Contact*    www. speechprosody2016.org
speechprosody2016@gmail.com

*Review Areas*

1.    Phonology and phonetics of prosody
2.    Signal processing
3.    Rhythm and timing
4.    Prosody in computational linguistics
5.    Acquisition of first language prosody
6.    Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics
7.    Prosody in language and music
8.    Prosody in Tone Languages
9.    Prosody in language contact and second language acquisition
10.  Prosody of under-resourced languages  and dialects
11.  Audiovisual prosody modeling and analysis
12.  Communicative situation and speaking style
13.  Prosodic aspects of speech and language pathology
14.  Psycholinguistic, cognitive, neural correlates of prosody
15.  Meta-linguistic and para-linguistic communication
16.  Voice quality, phonation, and vocal dynamics
17.  Prosody of sign language
18.  Prosody in automatic speech synthesis, recognition and understanding
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3-2-3(2016-06-21) ODYSSEY 2016: THE SPEAKER AND LANGUAGE RECOGNITION WORKSHOP Bilbao, Spain,

         ODYSSEY 2016

         THE SPEAKER AND LANGUAGE RECOGNITION WORKSHOP
                              June 21-24, 2016, Bilbao, Spain
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                   SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
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                                  http://www.odyssey2016.org


IMPORTANT DATES

Regular paper submissions             January 24, 2016
Show & Tell / Industry & Forensics   February 15, 2016
Notifications                           March 15, 2016
Final papers                             April 1, 2016

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TOPICS

The general themes of the workshop include speaker and language
recognition and characterization. The specific topics include,
but are not limited to, the following:

o Speaker and language recognition, verification, identification
o Speaker and language characterization
o Features for speaker and language recognition
o Speaker and language clustering
o Multispeaker segmentation, detection, and diarization
o Language, dialect, and accent recognition
o Robustness in channels and environment
o System calibration and fusion
o Speaker recognition with speech recognition
o Multimodal speaker recognition
o Speaker recognition in multimedia content
o Confidence estimation for speaker and language recognition
o Corpora and tools for system development and evaluation
o Low-resource (lightly supervised) speaker and language recognition
o Speaker synthesis and transformation
o Human and human-assisted recognition of speaker and language
o Spoofing and tampering attacks: analysis and countermeasures
o Forensic and investigative speaker recognition
o Systems and applications

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WORKSHOP FORMAT AND PAPER SUBMISSION

As in previous editions, Odyssey 2016 will consist of plenary
oral and poster sessions, with special sessions on topics of interest,
Show & Tell (demo) sessions and panel discussions with industry partners.

Regular papers (including those for special sessions) and Show & Tell papers
must be uploaded in PDF format to the Odyssey 2016 Submission System:


Guidelines for paper preparation and Word/LaTeX templates are available
on the website:


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REGULAR PAPERS

Regular papers (including those for special sessions) must be at most
8 pages long and are expected to include scientific or methodological
novelty, which must be stated clearly in the Introduction, along with
a review of the relevant prior work. Each paper will be reviewed by at least
three members of the scientific committee. Accepted papers will appear
in electronic proceedings, and will be accessible through the ISCA Archive.

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SHOW & TELL PAPERS

For the Show & Tell (demo) sessions, authors must submit short papers
(at most, 4 pages long) describing system or prototype, a target
application, a product, a demonstrator or any combination of them.
These contributions do not have to present scientific or methodological
novelty; therefore, they will not undergo full peer review and will not be
included in the proceedings (though will be available for download on the
website). One or more poster sessions will be allocated for Show & Tell
submissions, with auxiliary equipment (tables, plugs, etc.) available
if requested. The organizing committee may select the most interesting
submissions for oral presentation.

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INDUSTRY AND FORENSICS TRACK

To foster a closer collaboration across industry and academia,
an industry track was introduced in Odyssey 2014. The initiative is
continued in Odyssey 2016 under the name 'Industry and Forensics track',
in order to include forensic and investigative speaker recognition,
an application which involves diverse areas of expertise. Companies,
R&D labs, government agencies and other interested parties (e.g. forensic
experts and labs) are called to participate in the following sessions:

- Forensic and investigative speaker recognition
- Commercial applications of speaker and language recognition

These sessions are expected to be highly interactive, with a series
of pitch talks (3-5 minutes long each), followed by a panel discussion
open to the audience, addressing practical issues or unsolved problems
'out-in-the-wild' that deserve attention.

To participate, just send an email to info@odyssey.org with ?Industry
and Forensics track' as Subject, providing details of your company profile
(in particular, your involvement with or your need for speaker and language
recognition technology), your interests (forensics, commercial or other)
and contact info.

Besides voice biometrics providers and companies that develop and exploit
speaker/language recognition solutions, we encourage companies who are
IN NEED for speaker or language recognition technology.

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SPECIAL SESSION
Speaker Recognition in Multimedia Content (SS-SRMC)

Speaker information is instrumental in better exploiting spoken multimedia
content, as evidenced by recent work on large-scale speaker indexing and
linking, or on speaker naming in broadcast archives.

The special session 'Speaker recognition in multimedia content?, organized
in collaboration with the ISCA SIG on Speech and Language in Multimedia
(SIG-SLIM, http://slim-sig.irisa.fr/), pursues two main goals:

(1) to share recent advances in the field and to identify synergies between
the various multimedia applications where speaker recognition, indexing
and segmentation is considered; and

(2) to raise awareness on speaker-related research in multimedia so as
to strengthen the link between the multimedia and the speaker recognition
communities.

The session targets researchers working on any topic related to
speaker characterization for multimedia content processing, including
(but not limited to) speaker segmentation, speaker indexing, speaker
clustering, speaker naming or discovery, or speaking face detection.
Multimodal (e.g. speech + face recognition) approaches are particularly
welcome. We expect submissions presenting original research results,
ongoing research and development projects, tools and resources that
are being made available, or benchmarking initiatives.

Chairs of SS-SRMC at Odyssey 2016:

Hervé BredinCNRS/LIMSI, France
Claude BarrasLIMSI, France
Guillaume GravierCNRS/IRISA, France

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AWARDS

Odyssey 2016 will feature two awards:

- A best paper award
- A best student paper award

All regular papers (including special session papers) are candidates
for the awards. The awards are given based on the review reports AND
the presentation at the conference. For the best student paper award,
the first author must be a student (meaning that she/he does not yet
hold a PhD degree) at the time of paper submission.

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STEERING COMMITTEE

Luis J. Rodríguez-Fuentes, chair  University of the Basque Country, Spain
Eduardo Lleida, co-chair          University of Zaragoza, Spain
Jean-François Bonastre            University of Avignon, France
Niko Brümmer                      Agnitio, South Africa
Luká? Burget                      Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Joseph Campbell                   MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA
Jan 'Honza? ?ernocký              Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Tomi Kinnunen                     University of Eastern Finland, Finland
Haizhou Li                        Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Alvin Martin                      NIST, USA
Douglas Reynolds                  MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA

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VENUE AND TRAVEL

Odyssey 2016 will be hosted by two Spanish groups:

* GTTS (http://gtts.ehu.es), from the Faculty of Science and Technology
of the University of the Basque Country; and

* ViVoLab (http://vivolab.unizar.es/), from the School of Engineering and
Architecture of the University of Zaragoza.

The workshop will be held in Bilbao, a medium-size city in the north
of Spain, with about 350,000 inhabitants. The venue, Bizkaia Aretoa,
is located in the heart of the city. The building, designed by the Portuguese
architect Alvaro Siza, hosts all kind of social, cultural, academic and scientific
events, most of them organized by the University of the Basque Country.

Bilbao is the commercial and administrative head of a large area of about
one million people living by the Ibaizabal-Nervion estuary. After centuries
of trading and iron industry, in the last decades Bilbao has become a service
town, supported by a huge investment in infrastructure and urban renewal,
that started with the construction of an underground network (Metro Bilbao)
in 1995 and the opening of the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum in 1997.

The Bilbao airport can be easily reached from many European airports,
including international hubs such as Amsterdam, Brussels, Frankfurt,
Istanbul, London, Madrid or Paris, which provide worldwide connectivity.
The city is connected to the European road network by the AP-8 toll
motorway, to the north of Spain by the A-8 (free) motorway and
to the rest of Spain by the AP-68 toll motorway.

Located in a hilly countryside, Bilbao offers many outdoor activities.
Hiking is very popular as well as rock climbing in the nearby mountains.
Mount Artxanda, easily accessible from the town centre by a funicular
railway, features a recreational area at the summit, with restaurants,
a sports complex and a balcony with panoramic views. In the south,
the natural wonders of Mount Pagasarri receive hundreds of hikers
every weekend.

A few minutes away by public transport, the Bizkaia Bridge, declared
World Heritage in 2006, connects Portugalete and Las Arenas at the left
and right banks of the estuary. In the coast, old fishing villages like Plentzia,
Mundaka or Lekeitio have become touristic spots due to the nearby beaches,
where watersports, especially surfing, are practiced. Just an hour away by car,
the beautiful city of San Sebastian, as well as the vineyards and wineries
of La Rioja, are worth a visit.

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For more details:

Website (under construction): http://www.odyssey2016.org

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Odyssey 2016 is supported by:

- ISCA SIG-SpLC
- University of the Basque Country
- University of Zaragoza
- Spanish Thematic Network on Speech Technology
- AGNITIO VOICE ID

 

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