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ISCApad Archive » 2016 » ISCApad #222 |
ISCApad #222 |
| Saturday, December 10, 2016 by Chris Wellekens |
| 1 Editorial |
| 2 ISCA News |
| 2-1 | Message of our President Haizhou Li |
| 2-2 | Election of members for the Board of ISCA |
| 2-3 | Open call for nominations of ISCA Distinguished lectures (Urgent) |
| 2-4 | Nominations for ISCA Fellows |
| 2-5 | Videos of Interspeech and ISCA supported conferences |
| 2-6 | Videos of INTERSPEECH 2016 |
| 2-7 | Call for Bids for INTERSPEECH 2020 |
| 2-8 | An ISCA Distinguished Lecturer: Valerie Hazan. |
| 2-9 | Two messages to SProSIG members |
| 3 Events |
| 3-1 ISCA Events |
| 3-1-1 | (2017-08-20) CfP INTERSPEECH 2017, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 3-1-2 | (2017-08-20) Interspeech 2017 update |
| 3-1-3 | (2017-08-25) 7th ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE),Stockholm, Sweden |
| 3-1-4 | (2018-09-02) Interspeech 2018, Hyderabad, India |
| 3-1-5 | Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria |
| 3-2 ISCA Supported Events |
| 3-2-1 | Forthcoming ISCA Supported Events |
| 3-3 Other Events |
| 3-3-1 | (2016-12-11) CfP 1st Workshop on 'Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity' (CL4LC), Osaka (Japan) |
| 3-3-2 | (2016-12-12) Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex-v), Osaka, Japan |
| 3-3-3 | (2016-12-13) 6th IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT), San Juan, Porto Rico |
| 3-3-4 | (2016-12-xx) CfP Dialog State Tracking Challenge 5 (DSTC5) |
| 3-3-5 | (2017-01-03) 3rd Conference on New Advances in Acoustics (NAA 2017), Bangkok, Thailand |
| 3-3-6 | (2017-01-09) Winter School: Speech Perception and Production; Learning and Memory, Chorin, Germany (extended deadline) |
| 3-3-7 | (2017-02-08) Doing Sociophonetic Research, Bozen-Bolzano Italy. |
| 3-3-8 | (2017-02-15) (Dis)Fluency2017: Fluency and disfluency across languages and language varieties, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique |
| 3-3-9 | (2017-02-21) CfP 10th International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing, Porto, Portugal (updated) |
| 3-3-10 | (2017-03-01) HSCMA Hands Free Communication and Microphone Arrays, San Francisco, CA, USA |
| 3-3-11 | (2017-03-05) 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2017), New Orleans, USA |
| 3-3-12 | (2017-03-06) 11th INTERN. CONF. ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS, Umea, Sweden |
| 3-3-13 | (2017-03-30) CfP Workshop (In)Coherence of Discourse 4, LORIA, Nancy, France |
| 3-3-14 | (2017-04-26) Workshop on Speech perception and production across the lifespan (SPPL 2017), London, UK |
| 3-3-15 | (2017-06-05) ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR 2017), Bucharest, Romania |
| 3-3-16 | (2017-06-12) CfP Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 2017, Cologne, Germany |
| 3-3-17 | (2017-06-19) Cfp 15th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI) , Firenze, Italy. |
| 3-3-18 | (2017-06-21) International Conference Subsidia: Tools and Resources for Speech Sciences, Málaga (Costa del Sol, Spain). |
| 3-3-19 | (2017-06-29) 7èmes Journées de Phonétique clinique, Paris, France |
| 3-3-20 | (2017-07-02) 2017 Jelinek Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Technology. |
| 3-3-21 | (2017-07-06) 9th Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue, at Bucharest, Romania. |
| 3-3-22 | (2017-08-25) The International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP 2017), Stockholm Sweden |
| 3-3-23 | (2017-08-27) CfP 20th International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2017), Praha (Prague), Czech Republic |
| 3-3-24 | (2017-08-28) CfP EUSIPCO 2017 KOS ISLAND, GREECE |
| 3-3-25 | (2017-08-28) EUSIPCO 2017 Announcement: CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS |
| 3-3-26 | (2017-09-12) CfP 19th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM 2017), Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK |
| 3-3-27 | (2017-09-20) 11th Disfluency Conference, Oxford, UK |
| 3-3-28 | (2017-09-28) Workshop at BICLCE2017 (7th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English), Vigo, Spain |
| 3-3-29 | (2017-10-16) 11th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP-2017), Tianjin, China |
| 3-3-30 | (2017-12-16)CfP IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Okinawa, Japan |
| 4 Academic and Industry Notes |
| 4-1 | Carnegie Speech |
| 4-2 | Research in Interactive Virtual Experiences at USC CA USA |
| 4-3 | Announcing the Master of Science in Intelligent Information Systems |
| 4-4 | Master in linguistics (Aix-Marseille) France |
| 4-5 | NEW MASTER IN BRAIN AND COGNITION AT UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA, BARCELONA |
| 4-6 | Masters à la Sorbonne (Paris) |
| 4-7 | New Masters in Machine Learning, Speech and Language Processing at Cambridge University, UK |
| 4-8 | The International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN) |
| 4-9 | ELRA and LDC partner on a joint distribution of Language Resources |
| 4-10 | LREC 2016 Proceedings |
| 4-11 | SProSIG Bids for Speech prosody 2018 |
| 4-12 | Participation à un test d'audition; univ. de la Sarre, Allemagne |
| 4-13 | Requested nominations for two awards at ICMI |
| 4-14 | To ISCA Members interested in Code-Switching |
| 4-15 | Participating to the Singing Synthesis Challenge |
| 4-16 | New funding opportunity at iARPA |
| 4-17 | msg from ELRA: CEF Automated Translation call for proposals (CEF-TC-2016-3) |
| 4-18 | To Fellow SProSIG Members: please enter your vote |
| 4-19 | Theory of Musical Equalibration |
| 4-20 | Bids for ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2018 |
| 4-21 | ACM ICMI CALL FOR BIDS 2018 |
| 5 Resources |
| 5-1 Books |
| 5-1-1 | Björn Schuller, Anton Batliner , Computational Paralinguistics: Emotion, Affect and Personality in Speech and Language Processing, Wiley, ISBN: 978-1-119-97136-8, 344 pages, November 2013 |
| 5-1-2 | Li Deng and Dong Yu, Deep Learning: Methods and Applications, Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing |
| 5-1-3 | O.Niebuhr, R.Skarnitzl, 'Tackling the Complexity in Speech', Prague University Press |
| 5-1-4 | J.Li, L.Deng, R.Haeb-Umbach and Y.Gong, 'Robust Automatic Speech Recognition', Academic Press |
| 5-1-5 | Barbosa, P. A. and Madureira, S. Manual de Fonética Acústica Experimental. Aplicações a dados do português. 591 p. São Paulo: Cortez, 2015. [In Portuguese] |
| 5-1-6 | Damien Nouvel, Inalco, Maud Ehrmann, EPFL,Sophie Rosset, CNRS. Les entités nommées pour le traitement automatique des langues |
| 5-1-7 | R.Fuchs, 'Speech Rhythm in Varieties of English' , Springer |
| 5-1-8 | Pejman Mowlaee et al., 'Phase-Aware Signal Processing in Speech Communication: Theory and Practice', Wiley 2016 |
| 5-2 Database |
| 5-2-1 | ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update (November 2016) |
| 5-2-2 | LDC Newsletter (November 2016) |
| 5-2-3 | Appen ButlerHill |
| 5-2-4 | OFROM 1er corpus de français de Suisse romande |
| 5-2-5 | Real-world 16-channel noise recordings |
| 5-2-6 | Aide à la finalisation de corpus oraux ou multimodaux pour diffusion, valorisation et dépôt pérenne |
| 5-2-7 | Rhapsodie: un Treebank prosodique et syntaxique de français parlé |
| 5-2-8 | Annotation of “Hannah and her sisters” by Woody Allen. |
| 5-2-9 | French TTS |
| 5-2-10 | Google 's Language Model benchmark |
| 5-2-11 | International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN) (ELRA Press release) |
| 5-2-12 | ISLRN new portal |
| 5-2-13 | Speechocean – update (May 2016) |
| 5-2-14 | kidLUCID: London UCL Children’s Clear Speech in Interaction Database |
| 5-2-15 | Robust speech datasets and ASR software tools |
| 5-2-16 | International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN) implemented by ELRA and LDC |
| 5-2-17 | Base de données LIBRE et GRATUITE pour la reconnaissance du locuteur |
| 5-2-18 | ISLRN adopted by Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission |
| 5-2-19 | Forensic database of voice recordings of 500+ Australian English speakers |
| 5-2-20 | Audio and Electroglottographic speech recordings |
| 5-2-21 | Press release: Opening of the ELRA License Wizard |
| 5-2-22 | EEG-face tracking- audio 24 GB data set Kara One, Toronto, Canada |
| 5-2-23 | TORGO data base free for academic use. |
| 5-2-24 | Datatang |
| 5-3 Software |
| 5-3-1 | ROCme!: a free tool for audio corpora recording and management |
| 5-3-2 | VocalTractLab 2.0 : A tool for articulatory speech synthesis |
| 5-3-3 | Bob signal-processing and machine learning toolbox (v.1.2..0) |
| 5-3-4 | COVAREP: A Cooperative Voice Analysis Repository for Speech Technologies |
| 5-3-5 | Release of the version 2 of FASST (Flexible Audio Source Separation Toolbox). |
| 5-3-6 | Cantor Digitalis, an open-source real-time singing synthesizer controlled by hand gestures. |
| 5-3-7 | MultiVec: a Multilingual and MultiLevel Representation Learning Toolkit for NLP |
| 5-3-8 | An android application for speech data collection LIG_AIKUMA |
| 6 Jobs |
| 6-1 | (2016-07-07) 1 PhD position in bio-inspired ASR, 1 PhD position in brain-signal based ASR at the Italian Institute of Technology |
| 6-2 | (2016-07-13) Permanent research position in machine learning for natural language processing, Orange Labs, Lannion, France |
| 6-3 | (2016-07-15) ASR Research Scientist (Chinese) Oben Pasadena, California |
| 6-4 | (2016-07-20) PhD position at IDIAP, Martigny, Switzerland. |
| 6-5 | (2016-07-21) Speech Analytics Engineer , SRI, Menlo Park, CA, USA |
| 6-6 | (2016-07-28) Announcing 14 PhD positions on a new Marie Curie European Training Network, ENRICH |
| 6-7 | (2016-08-01) Positions at the French 'Police Technique et Scientifique', Ecully (Lyon), France |
| 6-8 | (2016-08-12) Offre de thèse à IRISA, Rennes, Bretagne, France |
| 6-9 | (2016-08-19) Thesis opportunity in linguistics / phonetics at Spring, France |
| 6-10 | (2016-08-20) Position in linguistic Code-Switching at Columbia University, NY, USA |
| 6-11 | (2016-08-29) Research Scientist positions at Nokia Bell Labs, Cambridge, UK |
| 6-12 | (2016-09-04) postdoctoral position on the Evaluation of an Adaptive Training Virtual Environment, Heudiasyc Lab CNRS |
| 6-13 | (2016-10-03) Ph grant at the laboratoire de phonétique de l’Université de Mons, Belgium |
| 6-14 | (2016-10-06) Two positions at DefinedCrowd Corporation at its RandD center in Lisbon, Portugal |
| 6-15 | (2016-10-20) Two Master research internships at LIMSI - CNRS, Orsay, France |
| 6-16 | (2015-10-23) Vacancy for a one-year post-doctoral researcher position at the Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands |
| 6-17 | (2016-11-02) PhD stipends at The Centre for Acoustic Signal Processing Research, Aalborg University, Denmark |
| 6-18 | (2016-11-09) Internship on Search Engine Development at ELDA in Paris (France), |
| 6-19 | (2016-11-10) Offre de thèse LIMSI, Orsay, France |
| 6-20 | (2016-11-19) Stage de master recherche dans le cadre du projet ANR Vocadom, Grenoble, France |
| 6-21 | (2016-11-20) 3 subjets Master Recherche 2 in NLP at Loria Nancy for 2016-2017 |
| 6-22 | (2016-12-02) Tenure senior research position at INRIA Bordeaux France |
| 7 Journals |
| 7-1 | Special Issue CSL on Language and Interaction Technologies for Children |
| 7-2 | Computer Speech and Language Journal, Special Issue on Spoken Language Understanding and Interaction |
| 7-3 | Call for papers - Journal TIPA no 32, 2016 |
| 7-4 | Special Issue of Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering : Signal Processing Platforms and Algorithms for Real-life Communications and Listening to Digital Audio |
| 7-5 | CfP TAL Special issue: Natural Language Processing and Ethics |
| 7-6 | CfP Neurocomputing: Special Issue on Machine Learning for Non-Gaussian Data Processing |
| 7-7 | IEEE Trans. on Affective Computing, Special Issue on Laughter Computing: towards machines able to deal with laughter |
| 7-8 | revue Études Créoles-Nouvelle série |
| 7-9 | CFP: Machine Translation Journal/Special Issue on Spoken Language Translation( updated) |
| 7-10 | CfP IEEE JSTSP Special Issue on Spoofing and Countermeasures for Automatic Speaker Verification (extended deadline) |
| 7-11 | Special Issue on Biosignal-based Spoken Communication in the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing |
| 7-12 | CSL special issue 'Recent advances in speaker and language recognition and characterization' |
| 7-13 | IEEE CIS Newsletter on Cognitive and Developmental Systems |
| 7-14 | CfP *MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS* Special Issue on 'Content Based Multimedia Indexing' |
| 7-15 | Special issue CSL on Recent advances in speaker and language recognition and characterization |
| 7-16 | Spêcial issue of Advances in Multimedia on EMERGING CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS FOR MULTIMEDIA SECURITY |
| 7-17 | Cfp Speech Communication Virtual Special Issue: Multi-laboratory evaluation of forensic voice comparison systems under conditions reflecting those of a real forensiccase (forensic_eval_01) |
| 7-18 | Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments (JAISE) - Thematic Issue on: Human-centred AmI: Cognitive Approaches, Reasoning and Learning (HCogRL) |
| 7-19 | CfP Special Issue of Hindawi's Advances in Multimedia: EMERGING CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS FOR MULTIMEDIA SECURITY |
| 7-20 | CfP Special Issue of Speech Communication on *REALISM IN ROBUST SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING* |
| 8 Recent Theses |
| 8-1 | Sofia Strömbergsson, 'The /k/s, the /t/s, and the in-betweens. Novel approaches to examining the perceptual consequences of misarticulated speech´ |
| 8-2 | Mohamad Hasan, Bahari, 'Automatic Speaker Characterization Automatic Identification of Gender, Age, Language and Accent from Speech Signals |
| 8-3 | Bing Jiang, 'Using Deep Neural Network for Spoken Language identification' |
| 8-4 | Jan-Niklas Antons, 'Neural Correlates of Quality Perception for Complex Speech Signals' |
| 8-5 | José David Lopes, 'Lexical Entrainment in Spoken Dialog Systems' |
| 8-6 | George P. Kafentzis, 'Adaptive sinusoidal models for speech with applications in speech modifications and audio analysis' |
| 8-7 | Xingyu, Na, ' Personalization of HMM-based Speech Synthesis'. |
| 8-8 | Tuomo Raitio, 'Voice source modelling techniques for statistical parametric speech synthesis' |
| 8-9 | Bart Penning de Vries, 'Computerised Speaking Practice: The Role of Automatic Corrective Feedback in Learning L2 Grammar´ |
| 8-10 | Prasanna Kumar Muthukumar, 'Towards Integrated Acoustic Models for Speech Synthesis' |
| 8-11 | Stephen Bodnar,'Affective L2 learning experiences and ideal L2 selves in spoken CALL practice' |