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ISCApad #223

Saturday, January 14, 2017 by Chris Wellekens

1    Editorial
2    ISCA News
  2-1    Message of our Vice President John Hansen
  2-2    Election of members for the Board of ISCA
  2-3    Nominations for ISCA Fellows
  2-4    Videos of Interspeech and ISCA supported conferences
  2-5    Videos of INTERSPEECH 2016
  2-6    Call for Bids for INTERSPEECH 2020
  2-7    An ISCA Distinguished Lecturer: Valerie Hazan.
  2-8    Two messages to SProSIG members
  2-9    ISCA Distinguished lecturers Nominations of candidates for 2017-2018
  2-10    ISCA Online Archive
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
    3-1-6    Satellite Workshops and Events at Interspeech 2017
  3-2    ISCA Supported Events
    3-2-1    Forthcoming ISCA Supported Events
  3-3    Other Events
    3-3-1    (2017-02-08) Doing Sociophonetic Research, Bozen-Bolzano Italy.
    3-3-2    (2017-02-15) (Dis)Fluency2017: Fluency and disfluency across languages and language varieties, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique
    3-3-3    (2017-02-21) CfP 10th International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing, Porto, Portugal (updated)
    3-3-4    (2017-03-01) HSCMA Hands Free Communication and Microphone Arrays, San Francisco, CA, USA
    3-3-5    (2017-03-05) 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2017), New Orleans, USA
    3-3-6    (2017-03-06) 11th INTERN. CONF. ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS, Umea, Sweden
    3-3-7    (2017-03-30) CfP Workshop (In)Coherence of Discourse 4, LORIA, Nancy, France (deadline extension)
    3-3-8    (2017-04-26) Workshop on Speech perception and production across the lifespan (SPPL 2017), London, UK
    3-3-9    (2017-04-27) Congrès : 'Bégaiements et disfluences : de la théorie à la clinique' ,Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique
    3-3-10    (2017-05-07) CHI 2017 Workshop on Designing Speech, Acoustic, and Multimodal Interactions (DSLI 2017), Denver, CO, USA
    3-3-11    (2017-06-05) ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR 2017), Bucharest, Romania
    3-3-12    (2017-06-12) CfP Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 2017, Cologne, Germany
    3-3-13    (2017-06-19) Cfp 15th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI) , Firenze, Italy.
    3-3-14    (2017-06-21) International Conference Subsidia: Tools and Resources for Speech Sciences, Málaga (Costa del Sol, Spain).
    3-3-15    (2017-06-29) 7èmes Journées de Phonétique clinique, Paris, France
    3-3-16    (2017-07-02) 2017 Jelinek Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Technology.
    3-3-17    (2017-07-05) REP 2017: 15th annual conference of the French Phonology Network, Grenoble, France
    3-3-18    (2017-07-06) 9th Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue, at Bucharest, Romania.
    3-3-19    (2017-07-07) Séminaire Traitement de l'Information Multimodale TIM2017, Paris
    3-3-20    (2017-07-17) INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING DeepLearn 2017, Bilbao, Spain
    3-3-21    (2017-08-25) The International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP 2017), Stockholm Sweden
    3-3-22    (2017-08-27) CfP 20th International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2017), Praha (Prague), Czech Republic
    3-3-23    (2017-08-28) CfP EUSIPCO 2017 KOS ISLAND, GREECE
    3-3-24    (2017-08-28) EUSIPCO 2017 Announcement: CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS
    3-3-25    (2017-08-28) EUSIPCO 2017, call for satellite workshops, Kos Island, Greece
    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    (2017-11-13) International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) , Glasgow, Scotland
    3-3-31    (2017-12-16)CfP IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Okinawa, Japan
    3-3-32    (2018-05-07) the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2018, Miyazaki (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    SProSIG Bids for Speech prosody 2018
  4-10    To ISCA Members interested in Code-Switching
  4-11    Participating to the Singing Synthesis Challenge
  4-12    New funding opportunity at iARPA
  4-13    msg from ELRA: CEF Automated Translation call for proposals (CEF-TC-2016-3)
  4-14    Theory of Musical Equalibration
  4-15    Bids for ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2018
  4-16    ACM ICMI CALL FOR BIDS 2018
  4-17    Prix de thèse AFCP 2016 - 2017
  4-18    ASVspoof 2017 CHALLENGE: Audio replay detection for automatic speaker verification anti-spoofing
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 (December 2017)
    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 (January 2017)
    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    (2016-08-01) Positions at the French 'Police Technique et Scientifique', Ecully (Lyon), France
  6-2    (2016-08-12) Offre de thèse à IRISA, Rennes, Bretagne, France
  6-3    (2016-08-19) Thesis opportunity in linguistics / phonetics at Spring, France
  6-4    (2016-08-20) Position in linguistic Code-Switching at Columbia University, NY, USA
  6-5    (2016-08-29) Research Scientist positions at Nokia Bell Labs, Cambridge, UK
  6-6    (2016-09-04) postdoctoral position on the Evaluation of an Adaptive Training Virtual Environment, Heudiasyc Lab CNRS
  6-7    (2016-10-03) Ph grant at the laboratoire de phonétique de l’Université de Mons, Belgium
  6-8    (2016-10-06) Two positions at DefinedCrowd Corporation at its RandD center in Lisbon, Portugal
  6-9    (2016-10-20) Two Master research internships at LIMSI - CNRS, Orsay, France
  6-10    (2015-10-23) Vacancy for a one-year post-doctoral researcher position at the Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  6-11    (2016-11-02) PhD stipends at The Centre for Acoustic Signal Processing Research, Aalborg University, Denmark
  6-12    (2016-11-09) Internship on Search Engine Development at ELDA in Paris (France),
  6-13    (2016-11-10) Offre de thèse LIMSI, Orsay, France
  6-14    (2016-11-19) Stage de master recherche dans le cadre du projet ANR Vocadom, Grenoble, France
  6-15    (2016-11-20) 3 subjets Master Recherche 2 in NLP at Loria Nancy for 2016-2017
  6-16    (2016-12-02) Tenure senior research position at INRIA Bordeaux France
  6-17    (2016-12-19) Postdoc at LIMSI, Orsay, France
  6-18    (2017-01-12) Internship INA Paris: Segmentation Parole/Musique de documents multimédias à l’aide de réseaux de neurones profonds
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*
  7-21    IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing: Special Issue on End-to-End 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'


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