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ISCApad Archive » 2017 » ISCApad #230 |
ISCApad #230 |
| Thursday, August 10, 2017 by Chris Wellekens |
| 1 Editorial |
| 2 ISCA News |
| 2-1 | Message from Prof. Haizhou Li, ISCA president |
| 2-2 | Important message from Prof. Lacerda, chairman of Interspeech 2017 |
| 2-3 | Our distinguished lecturers 2017-2018 |
| 2-4 | Videos of Interspeech and ISCA supported conferences |
| 2-5 | Videos of INTERSPEECH 2016 |
| 2-6 | ISCA Online Archive |
| 3 Events |
| 3-1 ISCA Events |
| 3-1-1 | (2017-08-20) Important message from Prof. Lacerda, chairman of Interspeech 2017 |
| 3-1-2 | (2017-08-20) Interspeech 2017 update |
| 3-1-3 | (2017-08-20) Satellite Workshops and Events at Interspeech 2017 |
| 3-1-4 | (2017-08-25) 7th ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE),Stockholm, Sweden |
| 3-1-5 | (2018-09-02) Interspeech 2018, Hyderabad, India |
| 3-1-6 | (2019) Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria |
| 3-1-7 | Interspeech 2017 Update 2017-06-05 |
| 3-1-8 | Interspeech 2017 Stockholm ( update July) |
| 3-1-9 | Launch of the the on-line workshop application portal |
| 3-2 ISCA Supported Events |
| 3-2-1 | (2017-11-13)CfP WOCCI 2017, Glasgow, UK |
| 3-2-2 | ISCA Tutorial and Research workshops and supported events |
| 3-3 Other Events |
| 3-3-1 | (2017-08-14) Course: Machine Learning Applied to Bioinformatics and Speech Technology, Univ. Joensuu, Finland |
| 3-3-2 | (2017-08-15 )CfP SigDial 2017 Special Session: Natural Language Generation for Dialogue Systems, Saarbrüken, Germany |
| 3-3-3 | (2017-08-16) PACLING 2017, Yangon, Myanmar |
| 3-3-4 | (2017-08-20) CfP INTERSPEECH 2017 Special session on 'Incremental Processing and Responsive Behaviour' |
| 3-3-5 | (2017-08-25) 1st International Workshop on Grounding Language Understanding, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 3-3-6 | (2017-08-25) 1st International Workshop on Vocal Interactivity in-and-between Humans, Animals and Robots (VIHAR-2017), University of Skövde, Sweden |
| 3-3-7 | (2017-08-25) AVSP2017-The International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 3-3-8 | (2017-08-25) CfP First International Workshop on Grounding Language Understanding (GLU 2017), Stockholm, Sweden |
| 3-3-9 | (2017-08-27) CfP 20th International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2017), Praha (Prague), Czech Republic |
| 3-3-10 | (2017-08-28) CfP EUSIPCO 2017, KOS ISLAND, GREECE |
| 3-3-11 | (2017-08-28) Cf Proposals EUSIPCO 2017 Satellite Workshops -Deadline Extension |
| 3-3-12 | (2017-08-28) Cf Tutorials EUSIPCO 2017, Kos Island Greecel |
| 3-3-13 | (2017-08-28) EUSIPCO 2017 Announcement: CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS |
| 3-3-14 | (2017-08-31) 1st Speech and Swallowing in Parkinson’s Disease School , Aix-en-Provence,France |
| 3-3-15 | (2017-09-10) CLEF 2018, Avignon, France |
| 3-3-16 | (2017-09-12) Joint SPECOM 2017 and ICR 2017, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK |
| 3-3-17 | (2017-09-12) Germeval Task 2017 - Shared Task on Aspect-based Sentiment in Social Media Customer Feedback, Berlin, Germany |
| 3-3-18 | (2017-09-20) 11th Oxford Dsfluency Conference (ODC), Oxford, UK (Now program on line) |
| 3-3-19 | (2017-09-28) Workshop at BICLCE2017 (7th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English), Vigo, Spain |
| 3-3-20 | (2017-10-16) 11th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP-2017), Tianjin, China |
| 3-3-21 | (2017-10-23) 3rd International Workshop on Emotion and Sentiment in Social and Expressive Media (ESSEM 2017), San Antonio, TX, USA |
| 3-3-22 | (2017-10-23) 5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING (SLSP 2017), Le Mans, France (updated) |
| 3-3-23 | (2017-10-23) CfP Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2017) , San Antonio, Texas, USA |
| 3-3-24 | (2017-11-13) CfP Colloque « Corpus oraux, corpus écrits : pratiques croisées », Montpellier France |
| 3-3-25 | (2017-11-13) International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) , Glasgow, Scotland |
| 3-3-26 | (2017-11-16) Workshop on L2 Phonetics & Phonology of L1 Romance Learners (L2PHROL). Turin, Italy |
| 3-3-27 | (2017-11-23) Journée scientifique:Développement de l'articulation : du développement typique à la dyspraxie verbale, Grenoble, France |
| 3-3-28 | (2017-12-01) The 8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2017), Taipei, Taiwan |
| 3-3-29 | (2017-12-05) International Conference On Natural Language Processing and Speech Processing , Casablanca, Morocco |
| 3-3-30 | (2017-12-08) Dialog System Technology Challenge 6 (DSTC6) at NIPS; Call for Track Proposals |
| 3-3-31 | (2017-12-11) 9th International Conference on Intelligent Human-Computer Interaction, Evry, France |
| 3-3-32 | (2017-12-13) MAVEBA 2017, Firenze, Italy |
| 3-3-33 | (2017-12-14) International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), Tokyo, Japan |
| 3-3-34 | (2017-12-16)CfP IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Okinawa, Japan |
| 3-3-35 | (2018-04-18) Cf Workshops and special sessions at IWSDS 2018, Singapore |
| 3-3-36 | (2018-04-18) International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems Technology (IWSDS 2018), Singapore |
| 3-3-37 | (2018-04-22) ICASSP 2018, Seoul, Korea |
| 3-3-38 | (2018-05-07) LREC 2018, 11th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation - Phoenix Seagaia Resort, Miyazaki, Japan |
| 4 Academic and Industry Notes |
| 4-1 | Announcing the Master of Science in Intelligent Information Systems |
| 4-2 | Master in linguistics (Aix-Marseille) France |
| 4-3 | NEW MASTER IN BRAIN AND COGNITION AT UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA, BARCELONA |
| 4-4 | Masters à la Sorbonne (Paris) |
| 4-5 | New Masters in Machine Learning, Speech and Language Processing at Cambridge University, UK |
| 4-6 | SProSIG Bids for Speech prosody 2018 |
| 4-7 | New funding opportunity at iARPA |
| 4-8 | Bids for ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2018 |
| 4-9 | ACM ICMI CALL FOR BIDS 2018 |
| 4-10 | ASVspoof 2017 CHALLENGE: Audio replay detection for automatic speaker verification anti-spoofing |
| 4-11 | Communication from ELRA |
| 4-12 | Master Informatique en Apprentissage et Traitement Automatique de la Langue : ATAL. Universités du Maine et de Nantes France |
| 4-13 | News from ELRA (February 2017) |
| 4-14 | Enquête AFCP: Ecole d'hiver 2018 sur l'analyse statistique des données phonétiques |
| 4-15 | Creation of Yajie Miao Memorial Student Travel Grants |
| 4-16 | Bid for the 10th International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, ICMR 2020 |
| 5 Resources |
| 5-1 Books |
| 5-1-1 | Li Deng and Dong Yu, Deep Learning: Methods and Applications, Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing |
| 5-1-2 | O.Niebuhr, R.Skarnitzl, 'Tackling the Complexity in Speech', Prague University Press |
| 5-1-3 | J.Li, L.Deng, R.Haeb-Umbach and Y.Gong, 'Robust Automatic Speech Recognition', Academic Press |
| 5-1-4 | Barbosa, P. A. and Madureira, S. Manual de Fonética Acústica Experimental. Aplicações a dados do português. 591 p. São Paulo: Cortez, 2015. [In Portuguese] |
| 5-1-5 | Damien Nouvel, Inalco, Maud Ehrmann, EPFL,Sophie Rosset, CNRS. Les entités nommées pour le traitement automatique des langues |
| 5-1-6 | R.Fuchs, 'Speech Rhythm in Varieties of English' , Springer |
| 5-1-7 | 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 (June 2017) |
| 5-2-2 | Appen ButlerHill |
| 5-2-3 | OFROM 1er corpus de français de Suisse romande |
| 5-2-4 | Real-world 16-channel noise recordings |
| 5-2-5 | Aide à la finalisation de corpus oraux ou multimodaux pour diffusion, valorisation et dépôt pérenne |
| 5-2-6 | Rhapsodie: un Treebank prosodique et syntaxique de français parlé |
| 5-2-7 | Annotation of “Hannah and her sisters” by Woody Allen. |
| 5-2-8 | French TTS |
| 5-2-9 | Google 's Language Model benchmark |
| 5-2-10 | International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN) (ELRA Press release) |
| 5-2-11 | ISLRN new portal |
| 5-2-12 | Speechocean – update (January 2017) |
| 5-2-13 | kidLUCID: London UCL Children’s Clear Speech in Interaction Database |
| 5-2-14 | Robust speech datasets and ASR software tools |
| 5-2-15 | International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN) implemented by ELRA and LDC |
| 5-2-16 | Base de données LIBRE et GRATUITE pour la reconnaissance du locuteur |
| 5-2-17 | Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) update (July 2017) |
| 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 |
| 5-2-25 | The International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN) assigned to LRE Map 2016 Language Resources |
| 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 |
| 5-3-9 | (2017-09-20) 11th Oxford Dysfluency Conference , Oxford, UK |
| 5-3-10 | Web services via A| | GO from IRISA-CNRS |
| 5-3-11 | Clickable map - Illustrations of the IPA |
| 6 Jobs |
| 6-1 | (2017-03-14) PhD and postdocs positions at INRIA/Nancy France |
| 6-2 | (2017-03-18) Fully-funded PhD Positions in Automatic Emotion Recognition at SUNY, Albany, NY, USA |
| 6-3 | (2017-03-20) Ph D position at IRISA Rennes, France |
| 6-4 | (2017-03-25) Offre de thèse en Systèmes d'interaction vocale , LIA, Avignon France |
| 6-5 | (2017-03-28) Research Scientist, Spoken and Multimodal Dialog Systems, ETS, S.Francisco, CA, USA |
| 6-6 | (2017-04-10) 3 Funded PhD Research Studentships at CSTR, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
| 6-7 | (2017-04-20) Postdoc for project LaDyCa, Sorbonne, Paris |
| 6-8 | (2017-04-22) Poste d'ATER à Paris Sorbonne, France |
| 6-9 | (2017-04-23) Associate research scientist-Speech at ETS, Princeton, New Jersey, USA |
| 6-10 | (2017-05-02) PhD at IRISA, Rennes, France |
| 6-11 | (2017-05-05) Post-doctoral positions in Multimodal Behavior Analysis: Speech, Vision and Healthcare, CMU, Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
| 6-12 | (2017-05-10) CDI Ingénieur docteur en informatique ou sciences du langage, LNE, Trappes, France |
| 6-13 | (2017-05-10) Open Rank Research Scientist, Spoken and Multimodal Dialog Systems, ETS, San Francisco, CA, USA |
| 6-14 | (2017-05-10) Research Scientist, Disney Research, Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
| 6-15 | (2017-05-23) Lead Speech Recognition Engineer, Cambridge, UK |
| 6-16 | (2017-05-23) Software Development Engineer, Cambridge, UK |
| 6-17 | (2017-05-29) PhD & Post-Doc Research positions in Speech Signal Processing and Electronic Design, Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico |
| 6-18 | (2017-06-01) Appel à chercheurs 2017-2018 à l'INA Paris France |
| 6-19 | (2017-06-023) Vacataires à la police technique et scientifique, Ecully (Lyon), France |
| 6-20 | (2017-06-06) Post-doctoral Research Associate in Advanced Deep Neural network Architectures for ASR , Univ. of Crete, Greece |
| 6-21 | (2017-06-06) Post-doctoral Research Associate in Data Augmentation in the context of Deep Neural network ASR, Univ.of Crete, Greece |
| 6-22 | (2017-06-18) 2 (W/M) researcher positions at IRCAM, Paris, France |
| 6-23 | (2017-06-18) Proposition de thèse CIFRE en Informatique, traitement automatique du langage naturel |
| 6-24 | (2017-06-19) PhD position in Computational Linguistics for Ambient Intelligence, Grenoble, France |
| 6-25 | (2017-06-20) Full-time post-Doctoral researcher position at LORIA Nancy, France |
| 6-26 | (2017-06-20) Thèse CIFRE at Orange Labs, Lannion, France |
| 6-27 | (2017-06-25) Two positions are available for internships at FBK, Trento, Italy |
| 6-28 | (2017-06-26) Language Resources Project Manager -Junior position at ELDA Paris France |
| 6-29 | (2017-06-27) Thèse de doctorat en traitement de la parole Parkinsonienne à INRIA Bordeaux, France |
| 6-30 | (2017-07-12) Open PhD and postdoc positions at LIMSI - CNRS, Orsay, France |
| 6-31 | (2017-07-25) Post-doc à Paris et Saclay , France |
| 6-32 | (2017-07-26) DSP engineer positions, Proactivaudio, Vienna, Austria |
| 6-33 | (2017-07-28) R&D Engineer/Scientist at VOCAPIA Research, Orsay, France |
| 6-34 | (2017-07-31) Postdoctoral researcher in Cryptography, Intelligent Voice Ltd, London City, UK |
| 6-35 | (2017-08-03) AI-NLP Scientist at Sparted, France |
| 7 Journals |
| 7-1 | CfP Neurocomputing: Special Issue on Machine Learning for Non-Gaussian Data Processing |
| 7-2 | CFP: Machine Translation Journal/Special Issue on Spoken Language Translation( updated) |
| 7-3 | CfP IEEE JSTSP Special Issue on Spoofing and Countermeasures for Automatic Speaker Verification (extended deadline) |
| 7-4 | Special Issue on Biosignal-based Spoken Communication in the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing |
| 7-5 | CSL special issue 'Recent advances in speaker and language recognition and characterization' |
| 7-6 | IEEE CIS Newsletter on Cognitive and Developmental Systems |
| 7-7 | CfP *MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS* Special Issue on 'Content Based Multimedia Indexing' |
| 7-8 | Special issue CSL on Recent advances in speaker and language recognition and characterization |
| 7-9 | Spêcial issue of Advances in Multimedia on EMERGING CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS FOR MULTIMEDIA SECURITY |
| 7-10 | 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) |
| 7-11 | Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments (JAISE) - Thematic Issue on: Human-centred AmI: Cognitive Approaches, Reasoning and Learning (HCogRL) |
| 7-12 | CfP Special Issue of Hindawi's Advances in Multimedia: EMERGING CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS FOR MULTIMEDIA SECURITY |
| 7-13 | CfP Special Issue of Speech Communication on *REALISM IN ROBUST SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING* |
| 7-14 | CfP IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing: Special Issue on End-to-End Speech and Language Processing |
| 7-15 | Travaux Interdisciplinaires sur la Parole et le Langage, TIPA |
| 7-16 | CfP IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing/ Special Issue on End-to-End Speech and Language Processing |
| 7-17 | La langue des signes, c'est comme ça. Revue TIPA |
| 7-18 | Speech and Language Processing for Behavioral and Mental Health Research and Applications', Computer Speech and Language (CSL). |
| 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' |
| 8-12 | Andreas Windmann, 'Optimization-based modeling of suprasegmental speech timing' |