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ISCApad Archive » 2018 » ISCApad #235 |
ISCApad #235 |
| Wednesday, January 10, 2018 by Chris Wellekens |
| 1 Editorial |
| 2 ISCA News |
| 2-1 | Message from our President John Hansen |
| 2-2 | Important administration message: ACTION required |
| 2-3 | Nominations for ISCA’s Distinguished Lecturers for the period 2018-19 |
| 2-4 | Opening of nominations for ISCA Fellows 2018 |
| 2-5 | SCOOT - Speech Communication On-line Training |
| 2-6 | Our distinguished lecturers 2017-2018 |
| 2-7 | Videos of Interspeech and ISCA supported conferences |
| 2-8 | ISCA Online Archive |
| 2-9 | Prix de thèse AFCP 2016 - 2017 |
| 3 Events |
| 3-1 ISCA Events |
| 3-1-1 | (2018-06-13) 9th Speech Prosody Conference, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, NEW DEADLINE |
| 3-1-2 | (2018-09-02) CfP Interspeech 2018, Hyderabad, India |
| 3-1-3 | (2019-09-15) Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria |
| 3-2 ISCA Supported Events |
| 3-2-1 | (2018-07-12) CfP SIGDIAL 2018 CONFERENCE, Melbourne, Australia |
| 3-2-2 | (2018-07-12) SIGDIAL 2018 Conference: Call for Special Sessions, Melbourne, Australia |
| 3-2-3 | ISCA-endorsed events. |
| 3-3 Other Events |
| 3-3-1 | (2017-05-08) 11th WORKSHOP ON BUILDING AND USING COMPARABLE CORPORA, Miyazaki, Japan |
| 3-3-2 | (2018) CfP IBREVAL? 2018 Evaluation of Human Language Technologies for Iberian Languages |
| 3-3-3 | (2018-00-00) Ateliers Sciences et voix, Grenoble, France |
| 3-3-4 | (2018-01-22) 4th INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA, BigDat 2018, Timisoara, Romania |
| 3-3-5 | (2018-01-24) Program WIC Midwintermeeting on Deep Learning, 24 January 2018 – v2, Eindhoven, The Netherlands |
| 3-3-6 | (2018-04-08) 12th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS, Ramat Gan, Israel |
| 3-3-7 | (2018-04-15) ICASSP 2018, Calgary, AB, Canada. Update:new date and new location |
| 3-3-8 | (2018-04-23) Congrès Français d'Acoustique , Le Havre, France |
| 3-3-9 | (2018-04-25) 2nd International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, Algiers, Algeria |
| 3-3-10 | (2018-04-26) Colloque international de Sciences du langage , Université d'Opole, Poland |
| 3-3-11 | (2018-05-07) LREC 2018 Workshops and Tutorials, Miyazaki (Japan) |
| 3-3-12 | (2018-05-07) LREC 2018, 11th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation - Phoenix Seagaia Resort, Miyazaki, Japan |
| 3-3-13 | (2018-05-07)CfP AREA - Annotation, Recognition and Evaluation of Actions, Miyazaki, Japan |
| 3-3-14 | (2018-05-10) CfP LREC 2018 Industry Track, Miyazaki, Japan |
| 3-3-15 | (2018-05-12) Multimodal Corpora 2018, LREC Workshop, Miyazaki, Japan |
| 3-3-16 | (2018-05-14) Cf Workshops and special sessions at IWSDS 2018, Singapore UPDATE (new schedule and location) |
| 3-3-17 | (2018-05-20) CfP 2018 The first Asian Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII Asia 2018), Beijing, China |
| 3-3-18 | (2018-06-04) JEP 2018, Aix en Provence, France (UPDATE Changement de dates) |
| 3-3-19 | (2018-06-08) Cf Ateliers JEP 2018, Aix-en-Provence,France |
| 3-3-20 | (2018-06-13) 9th Speech Prosody Conference, Poznan,Poland |
| 3-3-21 | (2018-06-13) Workshop AFFECT, COMPAGNON ARTIFICIEL, INTERACTION (WACAI 2018), Ile de Porquerolles, France (IMPORTANT UPDATE) |
| 3-3-22 | (2018-06-18) 6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages , Berlin, Germany |
| 3-3-23 | (2018-06-25) 2018 Jelinek Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Technology Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA |
| 3-3-24 | (2018-08-29) 6th international workshop on spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages (SLTU'18), Gurugram, India |
| 3-3-25 | (2018-09-03) 26th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2018) Rome, Italy |
| 3-3-26 | (2018-09-04) CfP CBMI 2017 - La Rochelle, France |
| 3-3-27 | (2018-09-04) EUSIPCO 2018, Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
| 3-3-28 | (2018-09-10) CLEF 2018, Avignon, France |
| 3-3-29 | (2018-09-11) 21st International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2018), Brno, Czech Republic |
| 3-3-30 | (2018-10-16) ICMI 2018, Boulder, Colorado,USA |
| 3-3-31 | (2018-10-28) CfP XV1th International Conference of Creole Studies, Mahé, Seychelles |
| 3-3-32 | (2018-11-29) CfP Workshop on the Processing of Prosody across Languages and Varieties (ProsLang),Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand |
| 3-3-33 | (2018-12-18) IEEE SLT2018 , Athens, Greece |
| 3-3-34 | (2018-??-??) FIRST JOINT CALL for Workshop Proposals: ACL/COLING/EMNLP/NAACL 2018 |
| 4 Academic and Industry Notes |
| 4-1 | New Masters in Machine Learning, Speech and Language Processing at Cambridge University, UK |
| 4-2 | Master Informatique en Apprentissage et Traitement Automatique de la Langue : ATAL. Universités du Maine et de Nantes France |
| 4-3 | Enquête AFCP: Ecole d'hiver 2018 sur l'analyse statistique des données phonétiques |
| 4-4 | Creation of Yajie Miao Memorial Student Travel Grants |
| 4-5 | Nominations for the prize Antonio Zampolli |
| 4-6 | Bids for ICMI 2019 and ICMI 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 |
| 5-1-8 | Jean Caelen, Anne Xuereb, 'Dialogue : altérité, interaction, énaction' |
| 5-1-9 | Bäckström, Tom (with Guillaume Fuchs, Sascha Disch, Christian Uhle and Jeremie Lecomte), 'Speech Coding with Code-Excited Linear Prediction', Springer |
| 5-1-10 | Shinji Watanabe, Marc Delcroix, Florian Metze, John R. Hershey (Eds), 'New Era for Robust Seech Recognition', Springer. |
| 5-2 Database |
| 5-2-1 | Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) update December 2017) |
| 5-2-2 | ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update (September 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 |
| 5-2-25 | The International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN) assigned to LRE Map 2016 Language Resources |
| 5-2-26 | Fearless Steps Corpus (University of Texas, Dallas) |
| 5-2-27 | SIWIS French Speech Synthesis Database |
| 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 ALL GO from IRISA-CNRS |
| 5-3-11 | Clickable map - Illustrations of the IPA |
| 5-3-12 | LIG-Aikuma running on mobile phones and tablets |
| 6 Jobs |
| 6-1 | (2017-08-03) AI-NLP Scientist at Sparted, France |
| 6-2 | (2017-08-10) 3 job offers at Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie, Paris, France (1phD and 2 postdocs) |
| 6-3 | (2017-08-16) 2 Post-Doc/Research positions in Audio Music Content Analysis at IRCAM, Paris, France |
| 6-4 | (2017-08-29) Several post-doctoral positions at IDIAP, Martigny, Switzerland |
| 6-5 | (2017-08-31)Trois offres d'emploi au Laboratoire de Phonétique de l'Université de Mons, Belgique |
| 6-6 | (2017-09-01) TheVoice project - PhD Offers at IRCAM, Paris, France |
| 6-7 | (2017-09-09) Positions at Reykjavik University's School of Science and Engineering, Iceland |
| 6-8 | (2017-09-09) PhD position in Computational Linguistics for Ambient Intelligence, University Grenoble Alpes, France |
| 6-9 | (2017-09-09) New PostDoc positions for our current international project Dig that Lick: Analyzing large-scale data for melodic patterns in jazz performances ( dig-that-lick.eecs.qmul.ac.uk ). |
| 6-10 | (2017-09-06) Research positions at Language and Voice Laboratory, Reykjavik, Iceland |
| 6-11 | (2017-09-08) 2 Post-Doc/Research positions in Audio Music Content Analysis at IRCAM Paris France |
| 6-12 | (2017-09-11) Research Scientist - Speech at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), Cambridge, MA, USA |
| 6-13 | (2017-09-14) Post-doctoral position in NLP at Loria, Nancy, France |
| 6-14 | (2017-09-28) Senior research engineer at Spitch AG, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 6-15 | (2017-10-03) Assistant professor in phonetics/laboratory phonology, University of Delaware, USA |
| 6-16 | (2017-10-05) Language Resources Project Manager - Junior (m/f), ELDA, Paris, France |
| 6-17 | (2017-10-14) Postdoc Amélioration des outils vocaux d'évaluation de la prononciation en apprentissage de langues, Loria, Nancy, France |
| 6-18 | (2018-10-14) Ingénieur Consolidation et adaptation des outils vocaux d'aide à l'apprentissage de langues, Loria, Nancy ,France |
| 6-19 | (2017-10-17) Call for Multiple PhD positions in Human-Machine Interaction funded by the ANIMATAS Innovative Training Network |
| 6-20 | (2018-10-25) PhD vacancy at Aalborg University, Denmark |
| 6-21 | (2017-10-27) Postdoc in ASR and Language Modeling, Aalto University, Finland |
| 6-22 | (2017-10-25) Speech scientist at ELSA, Lisbon, Portugal |
| 6-23 | (2017-10-25) Senior Speech scientist at ELSA |
| 6-24 | (2017-10-26) Two post-doctoral researchers at Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland |
| 6-25 | (2017-11-02) Postdoctoral research position: Acoustic cough detection and processing for healthcare, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. |
| 6-26 | (2017- 11-02) Postdoctoral research position: Extremely-low-resource radio browsing for humanitarian monitoring in rural Africa, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa |
| 6-27 | (2017-11-05) 15 PhD positions from mid-2018 |
| 6-28 | (2017-11-08) Visiting Assistant Professor in Computational Linguistics and Language Science, Rochester, NY, USA |
| 6-29 | (2017-11-10) Principal Speech Recognition Engineer, Speechmatics, Cambridge, UK |
| 6-30 | (2017-11-10) Principal Language Modelling Engineer, Speechmatics, Cambridge, UK |
| 6-31 | (2017-11-10) Principal Acoustic Modelling Engineer, Speechmatics, Cambridge,UK |
| 6-32 | (2017-11-10) Speech Recognition Intern, Speechmatics, Cambridge, UK |
| 6-33 | (2017-11-10) Speech Recognition Engineer, Speechmatics, Cambridge, UK |
| 6-34 | (2017-11-10) Senior Speech Recognition Engineer, Speechmatics, Cambridge,UK |
| 6-35 | (2017-11-12) Language Resources Project Manager - Junior (m/f), ELDA, Paris, France |
| 6-36 | (2017-11-15) PHD RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS ( ML/Dialogue/Language/Speech), University of Trento, Italy |
| 6-37 | (2017-11-20) Audio Signal Processing Maverick (Applied Research), AVA, Paris, France |
| 6-38 | (2017-11-20) Speaker Identification Maverick (Applied Research) , Ava, Paris, France |
| 6-39 | (2017-11-21) PhD position in Opinion Analysis in human-agent interactions, Telecom ParisTech, Paris France |
| 6-40 | (2017-11-20) ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN HUMAN-CENTERED COMPUTING, Virginia Tech, USA |
| 6-41 | (2017-11-20) Three Postdoctoral Researchers/Project Researchers (Speech processing and deep learning), University of East Finland, Finland |
| 6-42 | (2017-12-03) Machine Learning Engineer, Speech Recognition, Aja-la studios, Green Richmond UK |
| 6-43 | (2017-12-04) Machine Learning Engineer, Speech Synthesis , Aja-la studios,Green Richmond UK |
| 6-44 | (2017-12-03) Research Assistant/Associate in Speech Processing, at Cambridge University Engineering Department, Cambridge, UK. |
| 6-45 | (2017-12-05) One-year post-doctoral position in speech production, GIPSA, Grenoble, France |
| 6-46 | (2017-12-06) PhD Position in Social Signal Processing for Multi-Sensor Conversation Quality Modeling, Delft University, The Netherlands |
| 6-47 | (2017-12-08) PhD grant at IRISA, Rennes France |
| 6-48 | (2017-12-15) Internship 1 at LIA, Avignon, France |
| 6-49 | (2017-12-15) Internship 2 at LIA Avignon, France |
| 6-50 | (2017-12-13) Internship and PhD position at Telecom-ParisTech and LTCI lab, Paris, France |
| 6-51 | (2017-12-16) Position at INA, Bry/Marne, France |
| 6-52 | (2017-12-16) Post-doc position at Uniklinik RWTH Aachen (Germany) |
| 6-53 | PhD position in Conversational systems and Social robotics, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 6-54 | (2017-12-13) 2 funded PhD positions in interactive virtual characters and social robots at KTH, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 7 Journals |
| 7-1 | CfP Special Issue of Speech Communication on *REALISM IN ROBUST SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING* |
| 7-2 | CfP IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing: Special Issue on End-to-End Speech and Language Processing |
| 7-3 | Travaux Interdisciplinaires sur la Parole et le Langage, TIPA |
| 7-4 | CfP IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing/ Special Issue on End-to-End Speech and Language Processing |
| 7-5 | La langue des signes, c'est comme ça. Revue TIPA |
| 7-6 | Speech and Language Processing for Behavioral and Mental Health Research and Applications', Computer Speech and Language (CSL). |
| 7-7 | IEEE CIS Newsletter on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (open access). |
| 7-8 | Special issue on Biosignal-Based Spoken Communication in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, 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' |
| 8-12 | Andreas Windmann, 'Optimization-based modeling of suprasegmental speech timing' |
| 8-13 | Catharine Oertel Genannt Bierbach, 'Modeling Engagement in Multi-Party Conversations' |
| 8-14 | Emma Jokinen, 'Techniques for speech intelligibility enhancement in mobile telephony' |