Contents

1 . Message from the board

 Dear members,

 

The board
 

 

 

 

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2 . Editorial

 Dear Members, 

 You will find hereunder the May issue of ISCApad. Some of you complain about the size of the last issues. Our aim is to provide the most exhaustive information. I fully agree that this information is available on the web but in ISCApad it is gathered in a single place. We are still working to create a more compact version pointing towards information available on our web. We remain convinced that pushed information is more read. Thanks to all of you who devote some minutes to send their opinion about ISCApad: positive and negative comments are both encouraging. I am just disappointed by indifference.Chris Wellekens

Institut Eurecom

Sophia Antipolis France

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3 . ISCA News

3-1 . ISCA Scientific Achievement Medalist 2008

ISCA Scientific Achievement Medal for 2008  It is with great pleasure that I announce the ISCA Medalist for 2008 - Hiroya Fujisaki. Prof. Fujisaki has contributed to the speech research community in so many aspects, in speech analysis, synthesis and prosody, that it will be a very hard task for me to summarize his long list of achievements. He is also the founder of the ICSLP series of conferences which, being now fully integrated as one of ISCA's yearly conferences, will have its 10th anniversary this year.


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3-2 . ISCA Fellows

ISCA Fellows, Call for Nominations

In 2007, ISCA will begin its Fellow Program to recognize and honor  outstanding members who have made significant contributions to the field  of speech science and technology.  To qualify for this  distinction, a candidate must have been an ISCA member for five years or  more with a minimum of ten years experience in the field.  Nominations  may be made by any ISCA member (see Nomination Form).  The nomination  must be accompanied by references from three current ISCA Fellows (or, during the first three years of the program, by ISCA Board members). A Fellow may be recognized by his/her outstanding technical contributions and/or continued significant service to ISCA.  The candidate's technical contribution should be summarized in the nomination in terms of publications, patents, projects, prototypes and their impact in the community.

Fellows will be selected by a Fellow Selection Committee of nine members who each serve three-year terms.  In the first year of the program, the Committee will be formed by ISCA Board members.  Over the next three years, one third of the members of the Selection Committee will be replaced by ISCA Fellows until the Committee consists entirely of ISCA Fellows.  Members of the Committee will be chosen by the ISCA Board.
 
The committee will hold a virtual meeting during June to evaluate the current years nominations.
 
Nominations should be submitted on the form provided at http://www.isca-speech.org/fellows.html.  Nominations should be submitted before May 23rd 2008.

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4 . SIG's activities

  • A list of Speech Interest Groups can be found on our web.