ISCApad number 87

September 13th, 2005

Dear Members,
Interspeech 2005 was a great success and it is my pleasure to thank Isabel Trancoso and her very efficient team for this excellent contribution to the development of speech science and technology. The ISCA board membership and officers have changed. See below for details. Concerning ISCApad, a new section will be begun announcing new books on speech science and technology. Please send announcements to me. Papers in press at Speech Communication will be now announced with their internet address allowing direct access to members affiliated to www.sciencedirect.com Our list of members is updated monthly. However some of you are unreachable due to  firewalls filtering our messages: in case you missed some issues of ISCApad you may download them from our website.
Do not forget to send the information you want to display for members in time to be included in IscaPad (last week of each month).

Christian Wellekens

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  1. ISCA News
  2. Courses, internships
  3. Books, databases, softwares
  4. Job openings
  5. Journals
  6. Future Interspeech Conferences
  7. Future ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshops (ITRW)
  8. Forthcoming Events supported (but not organized) by ISCA
  9. Future Speech Science and technology events

ISCA NEWS

-OUR GENERAL ASSEMBLY in LISBON

At the general assembly at Interspeech (Lisbon), the board reported on its past actions and goals. The number of members of the board has been reduced to 11 in order to cut our working expenses.
We thank all members who have left the board: Gerrit Bloothooft, Georges Kokkinakis, Wolfgang Hess, Valerie Hazan, Rolf Carlson and Hynek Hermansky for their contributions to ISCA and welcome new members Isabel Trancoso (INESC, Portugal), David House (KTH, Sweden), Michael Picheny (IBM, USA), Jean-Francois Bonastre (LIA, France).
Sadaoki Furui stepped down from his president position but remains a board member until completion of his term;
Julia Hirschberg,our past Vice-President succeeds him as the new President of ISCA board.
Isabel Trancoso comes back to the board as a vice-president and the new international conference liaison,
David House accepted the responsibility of secretary,
Michael Wagner has been elected treasurer and is industrial liaison,
Michael Picheny takes charge of membership services,
Hiroya Fujisaki remains coordinator for scientific diversity,
Sadaoki Furui will coordinate ISCA workshops,
Chris Wellekens remains in charge of publications,
Jean-Francois Bonastre will coordinate activities of the new Student Advisory Committee (see below) and handle grants and awards,
Eva Hajicova remains as SIG liaison,
Lin-shan Lee remains as head of internationalization efforts.

Wolfgang Hess left the board but has agreed to continue as ISCA archivist.

Several members of the board met with student representatives (Murat Akbacak, Joseph Keshet, and Jachym Kolar) who, with others, answered our call in Jeju, to form a Student Advisory Committee (SAC) and its future activities: a student ISCA website is under construction now. All initiatives from student members are welcome and can be sent to Jean-Francois Bonastre. A student reception along the Tejo river offered the opportunity for students to discuss their future role inside ISCA and to meet board members and discuss their concerns.
ISCA also announced that it would like to elicit proposals for workshops to be help in areas which currently have less participation in ISCA events such as India, China, Africa, South America. . Workshop proposals should be sent to Sadaoki Furui .

The board also seeks increased participation from industry and held its first Industrial Round Table at the conference. Companies wishing to participate in future such events should contact Michael Wagner.

For more detailed informations, the minutes of the General Assembly will be posted on our webside soon .

-ORGANIZATION of INTERSPEECH 2009 -- EUROSPEECH
Call for proposals
Individuals or organisations interested in organizing INTERSPEECH 2009 -- EUROSPEECH should submit by 15 December 2005 a brief preliminary proposal, including:
* The name and position of the proposed general chair and other principal organizers.
* The proposed period in September/October 2009 when the conference would be held
*The institution assuming financial responsibility for the conference and any other sponsoring institutions
*The city and conference center proposed (with information on that center's capacity)
*Information on transportation and housing for conference participants
*Likely support from local bodies (e.g. governmental)
*The commercial conference organizer (if any)
*A preliminary budget
Guidelines for the preparation of the proposal are available at our website. Additional information can be provided by Isabel Trancoso . Those who plan to put in a bid are asked to inform ISCA of their intentions as soon as possible.
Proposals should be submitted by email to the above address. Candidates fulfilling basic requirements will be asked to submit a detailed proposal by 28 February 2006.
Isabel Trancoso
Vice President, ISCA
INESC
9 rua Alves Redol
1000-029 Lisbon, Portugal
phone: +351-21-3100268
FAX:+351-21-3145843
Webaddress

-ISCA GRANTS
are available for students and young scientists attending meetings. Even if no information on the grants is advertised on the conference announcement, they may apply.
For more information: http://www.isca-speech.org/grants

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COURSES, INTERNSHIPS

-1st INTERNATIONAL PhD SCHOOL IN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH TECHNOLOGIES 2005-2007.

Rovira i Virgili University
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
Tarragona, Spain
Website of the Group
Foundational courses (April-June 2006)
Foundations of Linguistics I: Morphology, Lexicon and Syntax -- M. Dolores Jiménez-López, Tarragona
Foundations of Linguistics II: Semantics, Pragmatics and Discourse -- Gemma Bel-Enguix, Tarragona
Formal Languages -- Carlos Martín-Vide, Tarragona
Declarative Programming Languages: Prolog, Lisp -- various researchers at the host institute
Procedural Programming Languages: C, Java, Perl, Matlab -- various researchers at the host institute
Main courses (July-December 2006)
POS Tagging, Chunking, and Shallow Parsing -- Yuji Matsumoto, Nara
Empirical Approaches to Word Sense Disambiguation, Semantic Role Labeling, Semantic Parsing, and Information Extraction -- Raymond Mooney, Austin TX
Ontology Engineering: From Cognitive Science to the Semantic Web -- M. Teresa Pazienza, Roma
Anaphora Resolution in Natural Language Processing -- Ruslan Mitkov, Wolverhampton
Language Processing for Human-Machine Dialogue Modelling -- Yorick Wilks, Sheffield
Spoken Dialogue Systems -- Diane Litman, Pittsburgh PA
Natural Language Processing Pragmatics: Probabilistic Methods and User Modeling Implications -- Ingrid Zukerman, Clayton
Machine Learning Approaches to Developing Language Processing Modules -- Walter Daelemans, Antwerpen
Multimodal Speech-Based Interfaces -- Elisabeth André, Augsburg
Information Extraction -- Guy Lapalme, Montréal QC
Search Methods in Natural Language Processing -- Helmut Horacek, Saarbrücken
Optional courses (from the 5th International PhD School in Formal Languages and Applications)
Tree Adjoining Grammars -- James Rogers, Richmond IN
Uni?cation Grammars -- Shuly Wintner, Haifa
Context-Free Grammar Parsing -- Giorgio Satta, Padua
Probabilistic Parsing -- Mark-Jan Nederhof, Groningen
Categorial Grammars -- Michael Moortgat, Utrecht
Weighted Finite-State Transducers -- Mehryar Mohri, New York NY
Finite State Technology for Linguistic Applications -- André Kempe, Xerox, Grenoble
Natural Language Processing with Symbolic Neural Networks -- Risto Miikkulainen, Austin TX
Students:
Candidate students for the programme are welcome from around the world. Most appropriate degrees include Computer Science and Linguistics, but other students (for instance, from Psychology, Logic, Engineering or Mathematics) can be accepted depending on the strengths of their undergraduate training. The ?rst two months of class are intended to homogenize the students’ varied background.
In order to check eligibility for the programme, the student must be certain that the highest university degree s/he got enables her/him to be enrolled in a doctoral programme in her/his home country.
Tuition Fees:
1,700 euros in total, approximately.
Dissertation:
After following the courses, the students enrolled in the programme will have to write and defend a research project and, later, a dissertation in English in their own area of interest, in order to get the so-called European PhD degree (which is a standard PhD degree with an additional mark of quality). All the professors in the programme will be allowed to supervise students’ work.
Funding:
During the teaching semesters, funding opportunities will be provided, among others, by the Spanish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (Becas MAEC), and by the European Commission (Alban scheme for Latin American citizens). Additionally, the host university will have a limited amount of economic resources itself for covering the tuition fees and full-board accommodation of a few students.
Immediately after the courses and during the writing of the PhD dissertation, some of the best students will be offered 4-year research fellowships, which will allow them to work in the framework of the host research group.
Pre-Registration Procedure:
In order to pre-register, one should post (not fax, not e-mail) to the programme chairman:
a xerocopy of the main page of the passport,
a xerocopy of the highest university education diploma,
a xerocopy of the academic record,
full CV,
letters of recommendation (optional),
any other document to prove background, interest and motivation (optional).
Schedule:
Announcement of the programme: September 12, 2005
Pre-registration deadline: November 30, 2005
Selection of students: December 7, 2005
Starting of the classes: April 18, 2006
Summer break (tentative): July 25, 2006
Re-starting of the classes (tentative): September 4, 2006
End of the classes (tentative): December 22, 2006
Defense of the research project (tentative): September 14, 2007
DEA examination (tentative): April 27, 2008
Questions and Further Information:
Please, contact the programme chairman, Carlos Martín-Vide
Postal Address:
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
Rovira i Virgili University
Pl. Imperial Tàrraco, 1
43005 Tarragona, Spain
Phone: +34-977-559543, +34-977-554391
Fax: +34-977-559597, +34-977-554391

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BOOKS, DATABASES, SOFTWARES

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JOB OPENINGS

We invite all laboratories and industrial companies which have job offers to send them to the ISCApad editor: they will appear in the newsletter and on our website for free. (also have a look at http://www.isca-speech.org/jobs as well as http://www.elsnet.org Jobs)

-PhD position at LORIA- Nancy France.

Focus of the work will be on the acoustic-to-articulatory inversion, i.e. the recovery of the temporal evolution of the vocal tract shape from the speech signal. Acoustic-to-articulatory inversion relies on an analysis by synthesis paradigm. The challenge of the PhD is to represent the articulatory to acoustic mapping, i.e. the synthesis stage, efficiently and to use standard spectral data instead of formants. A more precise description of the PhD subject is here
. Potential candidates should have a solid background in speech and signal processing, probabilistic and/or neural modelling. The candidate will be working on a research project funded by the European Union (FET STREP/6th FP), which deals with audiovisual-to-articulatory inversion and the acquisition of articulatory data. It will start in October 2005. To get a more precise idea about this PhD project our current research projects, you may visit our website.
Application
-send a detailed resume
-send a copy of your diploma
-send the names and email addresses of two referees to , Yves Laprie, LORIA, 615 rue du jardin botanique, 54600 Villers-lès-Nancy France

-Several open positions at the National Centre of Competence in Research on Affective Sciences (NCCR) (Geneva-Switserland) .

We invite applications for two research fellowships in a new National Centre of Competence in Research on Affective Sciences (NCCR) financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the University of Geneva
Project 1 Klaus Scherer/Guido Gendolla - Appraisal and Emotion Elicitation
We are conducting research on the role of motivational factors in emotion-antecedent appraisal using a variety of ANS response measures. We are looking for a person having recently terminated a doctorate involving psychophysiological research who might be interested in running such studies as part of a one- or two-year postdoctoral fellowship (a stipend of approx.. CHF 45'000 per year plus travel expenses) in the Leading House of the Center at the University of Geneva as well as develop their own research program. Alternatively, we could imagine a graduate student well-trained in psychophysiological methods to use this opportunity for a research internship or a year abroad, allowing participation in the Center's Graduate School (stipend approx. CHF 33'000 plus travel expenses).
Project 2 Klaus Scherer/Susanne Kaiser - Emotional Response Patterning
In the context of empirical research on the synchronisation of multimodal response patterning in emotion episodes, we offer a postdoctoral research position for a signal processing and modeling specialist. The applicant should have a strong background in the mathematical and statistical bases of biosignal processing and have some experience with modeling, including the use of Matlab including Simulink (or other simulation and modeling software). Salary level: Between CHF 50'000 to 60'000 a year depending on age and experience. The postdocs will participate in all activities of the interdisciplinary Center for Affective Sciences, which provides a stimulating and enriching academic experience as well as additional training in both emotion theory and a variety of pertinent methods. Potential candidates can find further information about the NCCR as well as an application form at the following website
Inquiries can be directed to our email address.

-RESEARCH OPENINGS AT ICSI (Berkeley).

The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) invites applications for positions in speech processing. Interested parties with a range of experience (e.g., both recent PhDs and those with more extensive experience) are encouraged to apply.
The ICSI Speech Group (including its predecessor, the ICSI Realization Group) has been a source of novel approaches to speech processing since 1988. It is primarily known for its work in speech recognition, although it has housed major projects in speaker recognition, metadata extraction, and speech coding in the last few years.
Applications should include a cover letter, vita, and the names of at least 3 references (with both postal and email addresses). Applications should be sent by email and by postal mail to:
Professor N.Morgan
Director (Speech Research)
ICSI
1947 Center Street
Berkeley, CA 94704
ICSI is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Applications from women and minorities are especially encouraged. Hiring is contingent on eligibility to work in the United States.

- PhD Studentship on 'Communicative/Expressive Speech Synthesis' at University of Sheffield

Recent years have seen a substantial growth in the capabilities of Speech Technology systems, both in the research laboratory and in the commercial marketplace. However, despite this progress, contemporary speech technology is not able to fulfil the requirements demanded by many potential applications, and performance is still significantly short of the capabilities exhibited by human talkers and listeners, especially in interactive real-world environments.
This shortfall is especially noticeable in the 'text-to-speech' (TTS) systems that have been developed for automated spoken language output. Considerable advances have been made in naturalness and voice quality, yet state-of-the-art TTS systems still exhibit a rather limited range of speaking styles, a general lack of expressiveness and restricted communicative functionality.
The objective of this research is to investigate novel approaches to text-to-speech synthesis that have the potential to overcome these limitations, and which could contribute to the next-generation of speech-based systems, especially in application areas such as assistive technology.
Funding is available immediately for an eligible UK/EU student. Applicants should possess a computational background and should ideally have some knowledge/experience of speech processing.
Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Roger K. Moore
For further information, contact Prof. Roger Moore or see our website for how to apply.
The Speech and Hearing research group in Computer Science at the University of Sheffield has an international reputation in the multi-disciplinary field of speech and hearing research. With three chairs, four faculty, five research associates and around twelve research students, this is one of the strongest teams worldwide. A unique aspect of the group is the wide spectrum of research topics covered, from the psychophysics of hearing through to the engineering of state-of-the-art speech technology systems.

-IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland: two open positions for senior researchers .

IDIAP is currently seeking exceptional senior researchers with a proven record of high level research, as well as project management, in the areas of speech processing and computer vision.
Activities in speech processing currently cover speech recognition (using HMMs and hybrid HMM/ANN approaches), novel feature extraction and acoustic modeling techniques, decoders for large vocabulary speech recognition systems, sound source localizaion and tracking (microphone arrays), speaker turn detection, etc.
Activities in computer vision currently cover object recognition, motion analysis, text recognition, detection and recognition (for faces, gestures, etc), and video indexing.
Most of these research ativities take place in the framework of National long term research initiatives such as the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) on "Interactive Multimodal Information Management" (IM2 for more detail) or large European projects such as "Augmented Multi-party Interaction" (see AMI for more detail).
Succesfull candidates are expected to have several years experience in the above areas, with good and practical knowledge of C/C++ and related programming languages. While still being active in research, they also have experience in project management and supervision of researchers, including PhD students. Given the links between IDIAP and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), academic careers can also be envisionned for exceptional candidates.
Interested candidates should send a letter of motivation, along with their detailed CV and names of 3 references to our human resources dpt. More information can also be obtained by contacting Prof. Hervé Bourlard .

STANFORD UNIVERSITY : Postdoctoral Research Position in Speech Recognition

Postdoctoral Researcher in Speech Recognition
The Stanford NLP Group seeks to hire an outstanding postdoctoral researcher in speech recognition, emphasizing skills in machine learning and high-level knowledge-based approaches to language.
Particular topics of interest include the incorporation of spoken parse structures and discourse and prosodic information early in the speech recognition process, and the use of word-specific discriminative classifiers, particularly for highly confusable words such as function words and filled pauses. The emphasis is on the use of both complex linguistic representations and features, and machine learning techniques such as dynamic graphical models and discriminative models. An ideal candidate is a recent PhD in computer science, linguistics, or electrical engineering, who has hands-on experience with spoken language processing, good formal background in machine learning techniques, and exposure to higher-level natural language processing and linguistic structure. We're looking for someone with strong computational and mathematical skills, good organizational skills, and the ability to be part of and show leadership within a team.
The work will be part of a new grant-funded project 'Human-Like Speech Processing' run at Stanford by Dan Jurafsky and Christopher Manning, in collaboration with partners at the University of Washington and the University of Southern California. A postdoc would need to contribute to the goals of this project, and participate in project reviews and evaluations. The postdoc will join a leading interdisciplinary speech and language processing group with strengths in speech recognition, statistical natural language processing, dialogue understanding, and psycholinguistic models of language processing and development. for more information.
The position is available for 2 years, subject to satisfactory performance. To apply, please email a cover letter, emphasizing relevant background and project experience, a CV, a one-page statement of research interests, and arrange for 2 or 3 references to be sent to the address below (by post or email). Applications received by May 10 will receive full consideration, but the position will remain open until filled. Stanford University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer.
Address for Applications (email preferred):
Attn: Nikhila Pai
Linguistics Department
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2150, USA
Tel: 650-723-4284
Website

HLT-EMNLP 2005: Call for Student Volunteers

HLT-EMNLP 2005 is looking for student volunteers. In exchange for one full day's work, student volunteers receive free registration to the main conference. The work will be divided, probably into two half-day shifts, and the shifts will be scheduled to maximize volunteer access to the conference events. We may be able to provide other amenities, and aim to provide a good work environment.
Tasks will include assisting at the registration desk, stuffing delegate packs, and providing technical assistance for conference events. Wishes about attendance to specific conference events will be taken into account when possible in allocating tasks. Volunteers are needed from the morning of October 5th through October 10th, 2005. (But we do not require all volunteers to arrive by October 5th or stay until October 10th. However, if you can come to Vancouver for one day only we may not be able to assign you to a volunteer task.)
The Student Volunteer Program is open to full-time students only. There is no application form. Apply by sending email to the following address: Anoop Sarkar
**Important**: put "HLT-EMNLP-05 Student Volunteer Application" in the subject header of your message. In your application, include the dates you can be in Vancouver, whether you are presenting a paper or poster, what academic program you are enrolled in (which institution and whether UGrad/MSc/Phd), and what year of your program you are in. Include any other information that you think may be important.

JOURNALS

-Papers accepted for FUTURE PUBLICATION in Speech Communication

Full text available on http://www.sciencedirect.com for Speech Communication subscribers and subscribing institutions. Click on Publications, then on Speech Communication and on Articles in press. The list of papers in press is displayed and a .pdf file for each paper is available.

Cheng-Lung Lee, Wen-Whei Chang and Yuan-Chuan Chiang, Spectral and prosodic transformations of hearing-impaired Mandarin speech, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 7 September 2005, . Webaddress.

Tong Zhang, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson and Stephen E. Levinson, Extraction of pragmatic and semantic salience from spontaneous spoken English, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 16 August 2005, . Webaddress.

Vlasios Doumpiotis and William Byrne, Lattice segmentation and minimum Bayes risk discriminative training for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 15 August 2005, . Webaddress.

Konstantin Markov, Jianwu Dang and Satoshi Nakamura, Integration of articulatory and spectrum features based on the hybrid HMM/BN modeling framework, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 15 August 2005, . Webaddress.

A. Facco, D. Falavigna, R. Gretter and M. Viganò, Design and evaluation of acoustic and language models for large scale telephone services, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 15 August 2005, . Webaddress.

Arnaud Martin and Laurent Mauuary, Robust speech/non-speech detection based on LDA-derived parameter and voicing parameter for speech recognition in noisy environments, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 15 August 2005, . Webaddress.

Hilda Hardy, Alan Biermann, R. Bryce Inouye, Ashley McKenzie, Tomek Strzalkowski, Cristian Ursu, Nick Webb and Min Wu, The Amitiés system: Data-driven techniques for automated dialogue, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 15 August 2005, . Webaddress.

Ye-Yi Wang and Alex Acero, Rapid development of spoken language understanding grammars, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 8 August 2005, . Webaddress.

Johan Boye, Joakim Gustafson and Mats Wirén, Robust spoken language understanding in a computer game, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 8 August 2005, . Webaddress.

Christian Raymond, Frédéric Béchet, Renato De Mori and Géraldine Damnati, On the use of finite state transducers for semantic interpretation, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 28 July 2005, . Webaddress.

Junfeng Li and Masato Akagi, A noise reduction system based on hybrid noise estimation technique and post-filtering in arbitrary noise environments, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 28 July 2005, . Webaddress.

Yassine Mami and Delphine Charlet, Speaker recognition by location in the space of reference speakers, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 28 July 2005, . Webaddress.

Murat Saraçlar and Brian Roark, Utterance classification with discriminative language modeling, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 25 July 2005, . Webaddress.

Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Katsuhito Sudoh and Mikio Nakano, Incorporating discourse features into confidence scoring of intention recognition results in spoken dialogue systems, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 25 July 2005, . Webaddress.

Patrick Haffner, Scaling large margin classifiers for spoken language understanding, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 22 July 2005, . Webaddress.

Ruiqiang Zhang and Genichiro Kikui, Integration of speech recognition and machine translation: Speech recognition word lattice translation, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 22 July 2005, . Webaddress.

Marie Roch, Gaussian-selection-based non-optimal search for speaker identification, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 18 July 2005, . Webaddress.

Qiang Huang and Stephen Cox, Task-independent call-routing, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 12 July 2005, . Webaddress.

Yulan He and Steve Young, Spoken language understanding using the Hidden Vector State Model, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 12 July 2005, . Webaddress.

Heungkyu Lee and Hanseok Ko, Competing models-based text-prompted speaker independent verification algorithm, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 5 July 2005, . Webaddress.

K.Y. Leung, M.W. Mak, M.H. Siu and S.Y. Kung, Adaptive articulatory feature-based conditional pronunciation modeling for speaker verification, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 29 June 2005, . Webaddress.

Chang Huai You, Soo Ngee Koh and Susanto Rahardja, Masking-based [beta]-order MMSE speech enhancement, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 29 June 2005, . Webaddress.

Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai, Minoru Tsuzaki and Kiyohiro Shikano, An evaluation of cost functions sensitively capturing local degradation of naturalness for segment selection in concatenative speech synthesis, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 29 June 2005, . Webaddress.

Sebastian Möller, Jan Krebber and Paula Smeele, Evaluating the speech output component of a smart-home system, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 14 June 2005, . Webaddress.

Giampiero Salvi, Dynamic behaviour of connectionist speech recognition with strong latency constraints, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 14 June 2005, . Webaddress.

Sarunas Paulikas and Dalius Navakauskas, Restoration of voiced speech signals preserving prosodic features, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 14 June 2005, . Webaddress.

Christopher Dromey, Shawn Nissen, Petrea Nohr and Samuel G. Fletcher, Measuring tongue movements during speech: Adaptation of a magnetic jaw-tracking system, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 14 June 2005, . Webaddress.

J.D. Trout, Lexical boosting of noise-band speech in open- and closed-set formats, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 31 May 2005, . Webaddress.

Jean-Luc Rouas, Jérôme Farinas, François Pellegrino and Régine André-Obrecht, Rhythmic unit extraction and modelling for automatic language identification, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 31 May 2005, . Webaddress.

Speech Communication News 46/2, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 31 May 2005, . Webaddress.

Valerie Hazan, Anke Sennema, Midori Iba and Andrew Faulkner, Effect of audiovisual perceptual training on the perception and production of consonants by Japanese learners of English, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 23 May 2005, . Webaddress.

Yi-Jian Wu, Hisashi Kawai, Jinfu Ni and Ren-Hua Wang, Discriminative training and explicit duration modeling for HMM-based automatic segmentation, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 23 May 2005, . Webaddress.

Israel Cohen, Speech enhancement using super-Gaussian speech models and noncausal a priori SNR estimation, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 17 May 2005, . Webaddress.

Hasan Palaz, Yücel Bicil, Alper Kanak and Mehmet Ug̃ur Dog̃an, New Turkish intelligibility test for assessing speech communication systems, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 13 May 2005, . Webaddress.

Greg Kochanski and Chilin Shih, Erratum to "Quantitative measurement of prosodic strength in Mandarin [Speech Communication 41 (2003">Webaddress. 625-645]", Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 11 May 2005, . Webaddress.

Andrej Zgank, Bogomir Horvat and Zdravko Kacic, Data-driven generation of phonetic broad classes, based on phoneme confusion matrix similarity, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 10 May 2005, . Webaddress.

Kathiresan Manickam, Christopher Moore, Terry Willard and Nicholas Slevin, Quantifying aberrant phonation using approximate entropy in electrolaryngography, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 29 April 2005, . Webaddress.

Christopher Dromey, Jose Silveira and Paul Sandor, Recognition of affective prosody by speakers of English as a first or foreign language, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 27 April 2005, . Webaddress.

Makiko Muto, Hiroaki Kato, Minoru Tsuzaki and Yoshinori Sagisaka, Effect of speaking rate on the acceptability of change in segment duration, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 21 April 2005, . Webaddress.

Erhard Rank and Gernot Kubin, An oscillator-plus-noise model for speech synthesis, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 21 April 2005, . Webaddress.

Chai Wutiwiwatchai and Sadaoki Furui, A multi-stage approach for Thai spoken language understanding, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 21 April 2005, . Webaddress.

Shuangyu Chang, Mirjam Wester and Steven Greenberg, An elitist approach to automatic articulatory-acoustic feature classification for phonetic characterization of spoken language, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 20 April 2005, . Webaddress.

Preeti Rao and Pushkar Patwardhan, Frequency warped modeling of vowel spectra: Dependence on vowel quality, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 19 April 2005, . Webaddress.

Donglai Zhu, Satoshi Nakamura, Kuldip K. Paliwal and Renhua Wang, Maximum likelihood sub-band adaptation for robust speech recognition, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 19 April 2005, . Webaddress.

Stephen So and Kuldip K. Paliwal, Multi-frame GMM-based block quantisation of line spectral frequencies, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 19 April 2005, . Webaddress.

Kevin M. Indrebo, Richard J. Povinelli and Michael T. Johnson, Sub-banded reconstructed phase spaces for speech recognition, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 24 February 2005, . Webaddress.

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FUTURE CONFERENCES

Publication policy: Hereunder, you will find very short announcements of future events. The full call for participation can be accessed on the conference websites
See also our Web pages (www.isca-speech.org) on conferences and workshops.

FUTURE INTERSPEECH CONFERENCES

-INTERSPEECH (ICSLP)-2006
17-21 September 2006, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Chair: Richard M.Stern, Carnegie Mellon University,USA http://www.interspeech2006.org

-INTERSPEECH (EUROSPEECH)-2007
August 27-31,2007,Antwerp, Belgium
Chair: Dirk van Compernolle, K.U.Leuven and Lou Boves, K.U.Nijmegen
Website

-INTERSPEECH (ICSLP)-2008
September 22-26, 2008, Brisbane, New South Wales, Australia
Chairman: Denis Burnham, MARCS, University of West Sydney.

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FUTURE ISCA TUTORIAL AND RESEARCH WORKSHOP (ITRW)

- First Call for Papers for ASIDE2005 - COST278 Final Workshop -Aalborg, Denmark

Applied Spoken Language Interaction in Distributed Environments
November 10th and 11th 2005 , Aalborg University, Denmark
Topics
· Wired and wireless distributed environments for spoken language interaction
· Experiences from deploying services and systems
· Distributed architectures
· Distributed Multi-modal interactive systems
· Personalisation and context-awareness
· Evaluation of interactive systems
· Research challenges in spoken language interaction
· Standard formalisms and architectures
In addition to regular technical sessions, the workshop will include invited plenary talks on topics of related general interest. The workshop will be divided into four sessions during the two days.
Website
email address .
Participation to the workshop will be restricted to around 90 people.
Important dates
EXTENDED Submission deadline: September 26, 2005
Notification of acceptance: October 5, 2005
Workshop: November 10th and 11th, 2005

- ISCA Workshop on Multilingual Speech and Language Processing (MULTILING 2006)

Organized by: Stellenbosch University Centre for Language and Speech Technology
in collaboration with ISCA
9-11 April 2006, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Keynote speaker: Tanja Schultz - Interactive Systems Laboratories, Carnegie Mellon University
Important dates:
EXTENDED Deadline for abstract submission: 12 September 2005
Notification of acceptance: 14 October 2005
Deadline of early registration & full paper submission: 10 February 2006
Workshop dates: 9-11 April 2006
Contact: Justus Roux or consult the workshop website

- ISCA 2nd Workshop on Multimodal User Authentication

A satellite conference of ICASSP 2006 in Toulouse France.
May 11-12,2006
Workshop website
Topics
Iris identification
Eye and face analysis
Speaker recognition/verification
Fingerprint recognition
Audio/Image indexing and retrieval
Joint audio/video processing
Gesture analysis
Signature recognition
Multimodal Fusion and Integration Techniques for Authentication
Intelligent interfaces for biometric systems and data bases and tools for system evaluation
Applications and implementations of multimodal user authentication systems
Privacy issues and standards
Important dates
Electronic submission of photo ready paper January 15, 2006
Notification of acceptance March 8 2006
Advance registration before March 15 2006
Final papers due March 15, 2006

-ITRW on Statistical and Pereceptual Audition (SAPA 2006)

A satellite workshop of ICSLP-Interspeech 2006
September 16, 2006, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Website
Topics
Generalized audio analysis
Speech analysis
Music analysis
Audio classification
Scene analysis
Signal separation
Speech recognition
Multi-channel analysis
Important dates
Submission of a 4-6 pages long paper deadline (double column) April 21 2006
Notification of acceptance June 9, 2006

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS SUPPORTED (but not organized) by ISCA

-SPECOM 2005
10th International Conference on Speech and Computer

October 17-19 2005,
University of Patras, Patras, Greece

Topics
Topics of interest for paper submission include but are not limited to:
a.. Speech production and perception
b.. Speech analysis and processing
c.. Natural language processing
d.. Speech coding and transmission
e.. Speech recognition and understanding
f.. Speech synthesis
g.. Spoken dialog systems
h.. Speaker recognition
i.. Multi-modal processing
j.. Speech and language resources
k.. Applied systems for Human-Computer Interaction

Submission of papers
Four page papers in english will be accepted only by electronic submission through e-mail in ASCII format

Important dates
Submission of full paper: June 27, 2005
Notification of acceptance: July 18, 2005
Early registration: July 29, 2005
Late registration: September 10, 2005

General Chair
George Kokkinakis, WCL, University of Patras, Greece
For further information:Website or e-mail to our secretary

-International Workshop on SPOKEN LANGUAGE TRANSLATION 2005

October 24-25, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA
Website
organized by the Speech Translation Advanced Research (C-STAR)
Evaluation campaign and technical papers (see details on website)
Important Dates for the evaluation campaign
Registration: May 17, 2005
Training Corpus Release: May 20, 2005
Test Corpus Release: Aug 16, 2005
Result Submission Due: Aug 18, 2005
Camera-ready Paper: Sep 25, 2005
Workshop: Oct 24-25, 2005
Important Dates for technical papers:
Submission of Draft (8 pages): Jul 12, 2005
Notification of Acceptance: Aug 9, 2005
Camera-ready Paper: Sep 25, 2005
Workshop: Oct 24-25, 2005
Contact:
Chiori Hori, Ph.D.,
InterACT, Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
TEL/FAX: +1-412-268-9177, E-mail

BIOMETRICS on the INTERNET

Third COST 275 WORKSHOP , Hatfield, UK
October 27-28 ,2005 Website

-4th International Workshop on
Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications
MAVEBA 2005

Firenze, 29-31 October 2005
Extended deadline for paper submission: May 20,2005
Claudia Manfredi
http://maveba.det.unifi.it

- SPEECH PROSODY 2006 - ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference on Speech Prosody
May 2-5 2006
International Congress Center, Dresden, Germany
For further information, visit our website
Topics
We invite contributions in any of the following areas and also appreciate suggestions for Special Sessions:
* Prosody and the Brain
* Prosody and Speech Production
* Analysis, Formulation and Modeling of Prosody
* Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics and Prosody
* Cross-linguistic Studies of Prosody
* Prosodic Variability
* Prosody of Dialogues and Spontaneous Speech
* Prosody and Affect
* Prosody and Speech Perception
* Prosody in Speech Synthesis
* Prosody in Speech Recognition and Understanding
* Prosody in Language Learning
* Auditory-Visual Production and Perception of Prosody
* Pathology of Prosody and Aids for the Impaired
* Annotation and Speech Corpus Creation
* Others
Organizing Committee:
Ruediger Hoffmann - Chair
Hansjoerg Mixdorff - Program Chair
Oliver Jokisch - Technical Chair
Important Dates:
Proposals for special sessions: November 11, 2005
Full 4-page paper submission: December 9, 2005
Advanced registration deadline: February 28, 2006
Conference: May 2-5, 2006
Post-conference day: May 6, 2006

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FUTURE SPEECH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EVENTS

- ISPA 2005

4th Int'l Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis
Zagreb, Croatia, September 15-17, 2005
Conference website

Topics of interest
A. Image and Video Processing
B. Image and Video Analysis
C. Image Formation and Reproduction
D. Signal Processing
E. Signal Analysis
F. Applications

Important dates
Electronic submission of full paper: February 1, 2005
Notification of acceptance/rejection: April 15, 2005
Submission of camera-ready papers and registration: May 15, 2005

- Fourth International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis September 15-17, 2005, Zagreb, Croatia
Special Session: Signal and Image Processing for Biometrics

Topics
Authors are particulary invited to:
-present the latest advances in conventional signal- and image- based biometric modalities. A non exclusive list of topics related to this point can be:
*Assesment procedures for biometrics
*Voice biometrics
*Image biometrics
*Fusion of modalities
*Applications
*Implementation issues
-propose prospective and exploratory works related to new modalities or "hot topics" in the domain like
* New sensors (IR- or 3D- cameras, microphone arrays...)
*Robustness to impostors (protocols, liveness tests...)
Screening and Telesurveillance applications in smart spaces
Author Instructions and Deadlines
Authors should submit a six page manuscript in double-column format, A4 page size, including authors' names, affiliations, and an abstract. Submissions formating style should adhere to the ISPA author instructions. Papers should be submitted online using the ISPA electronic submission form.
The deadline for submissions is May 1st, 2005.
Special Session Organizer and Chair
For further information prospective authors should contact special session organizers and chairs:
Dr Besacier Laurent, CLIPS/IMAG Laboratory, University J. Fourier, Grenoble, France.
Dr Bonastre Jean-Francois, LIA, University of Avignon, France
Dr Fredouille Corinne, LIA, University of Avignon, France
ISPA home page

-HLT / EMNLP-05

Human Language Technology Conference/Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Vancouver, B.C., Canada, Oct. 6-8, 2005
Website
Students see above under Jobs a call for volunteers!
Important Dates:
Submission deadline: June 3, 2005
Notification of acceptance: July 29, 2005
Submission of camera-ready papers: August 12, 2005

-The 2nd International Joint Conference on NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (IJCNLP-05)

October 11-13, 2005, Jeju Island, Korea
organized by the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing .
Topics
- the lexicon, phonology and morphology
- word segmentation
- part-of-speech tagging
- syntax and parsing
- semantics and pragmatics
- discourse and dialogue processing
- machine translation and multilingual processing
- question answering
- information extraction and text mining
- text summarisation
- natural language generation
- natural language applications, tools and resources
- linguistic, psychological and mathematical models of language

In addition to the above, we are particularly keen to include within the scope of the conference work in speech technology and information retrieval.

Submission information
The proceedings of the conference will be published as a volume in the Springer-Verlag LNCS/LNAI series, and all submissions should therefore be formatted in accordance with the Springer guidelines . Submissions should be at most 12 pages in length in the Springer format, and should be made electronically via the IJCNLP05 home page.
Deadlines
Paper submission deadline: Friday 15th April 2005
Notification of acceptance: Monday 23rd May 2005
Camera ready papers due: Monday 13th June 2005
IJCNLP-05 Conference: Tuesday-Thursday 11th-13th October 2005

-Int'l Conf. on SMART OBJECTS & AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE

sOc-EUSAI-2005
October 12-14, 2005, Grenoble - France
Conference website

The Smart Objects and Ambient Intelligence conference will explore tools and techniques for augmenting environments with smart, networked, interacting objects.

Important dates:
Submission of papers for review : May 1st 2005
Notification of acceptance : July 1st 2005
Camera-ready papers : September 1st 2005
Advanced registration : September 15th 2005
Main topic areas:
Devices : hand-held, wearable, mobile and ambient artefacts combining sensing, actuation, communication and computation.
Embedded technologies : technologies for embedding sensing, actuation, communication, and computation in artefacts.
Distributed software and systems : network and software technologies and infrastructures to support federations of devices and services, from micro-scale to global-scale.
Context Awareness : technologies and methods for endowing objects and environments with awareness of location, time, environmental conditions, human activity and social situation.
Natural Interaction : technologies and methods for enriching communication through expanded human interaction with physical objects and environments.
Security and privacy : user identification & authentication technologies, biometrics, device-centric and network-centric security.
Ergonomics and design : usability, device and interface ergonomics, usage-based assessment and design of smart objects and ambient environments.

-Conference on TURBULANCES
13-15 OCTOBER 2005
ZENTRUM FÜR ALLGEMEINE SPRACHWISSENSCHAFT, BERLIN
Conference website
Topics
- articulation, aerodynamics, acoustics, and perception of turbulent sounds
- speaker normalization and quantification in articulatory and acoustic description of turbulent sounds
- signal processing specific to turbulent sounds
- the role of phonetics for explaining phonological patterns and processes
- articulatory and/or perceptual basis for postulating phonological features
- the adequacy of (new) phonological theories for application of phonetic facts
Invited speakers:
Seiji Adachi (ATR, Kyoto, Japan)
Hyunsoon Kim (Hongik University, Korea)
Jaye Padgett (University of Santa Cruz, USA)
Christine Shadle (Haskins Labs, New Haven, USA)
Submissions :
General session and poster presentations. Presentations will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes discussion.
The abstract should be anonymous, maximally two pages long. The author’s name and affiliation should be indicated in the email. Format pdf files sent by e-mail
Important dates
Submission of abstracts:1 July.
Notification of acceptance for program 31 July.

-2005 IEEE Workshop on Applications of
SIGNAL PROCESSING to AUDIO and ACOUSTICS

Mohonk Mountain House
New Paltz, New York
October 16-19, 2005
www.LNT.de/~WASPAA05/
Infos
Topics of interest
Acoustic Scenes
- Scene Analysis: Source Localization, Source Separation, Room Acoustics
- Signal Enhancement: Echo Cancellation, Dereverberation, Noise Reduction, Restoration
- Multichannel Signal Processing for Audio Acquisition and Reproduction
- Virtual Acoustics via Loudspeakers or Headphones
Audio Coding
- Waveform Coding and Parameter Coding
- Spatial Audio Coding
- Internet Audio
- Musical Signal Analysis: Segmentation, Classification, Transcription
- Digital Rights
- Mobile Devices
Hearing and Perception
- Auditory Perception, Spatial Hearing, Quality Assessment
- Hearing Aids
Music
- Signal Analysis and Synthesis Tools
- Creation of Musical Sounds: Waveforms, Instrument Models, Singing
Important dates
Submission of four-page paper: April 15, 2005
Notification of acceptance: June 27, 2005
Early registration until: September 1, 2005

IEEE International Workshop on Human Computer Interaction 2005

(in conjunction with ICCV'2005)
Website
October 21, 2005, Beijing, China.
TOPICS(not restricted to this list)
* Affective HCI, emotion, motivational aspects
* Multimedia data modeling and visualization
* Multimodal event detection and recognition
* Human motion and gesture recognition
* HCI issues in image/video retrieval
* Learning aspects in HCI
* Input and interactions techniques
* Perceptual user interfaces
* Wearable and pervasive technologies in HCI
IMPORTANT DATES
July 4, 2005: Submission of full paper
August 2, 2005: Notification of acceptance
August 15, 2005: Camera-ready full paper
PAPER SUBMISSION
The authors should email full papers (no longer than 10 pages in the Springer LNCS style in English), to lim@liacs.nl with the following information:
(1) Title of paper & short abstract summarizing the main contribution
(2) Names and contact info of all authors, also specifying the contact author..
(3) The paper in postscript or PDF format.
All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee. The intention is to have the proceedings published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).

-7th IEEE International Conference on MULTIMEDIA SIGNAL PROCESSING (MMSP 05)

Oct 30- Nov 2, 2005 in Shanghai, China. Conference website
Topics
- Multimedia Processing
- Multimedia Databases
- Human-Machine Interface
- Multimedia Assurance
- Multimedia Networking
- Multimedia Systems: Design, Implementation and Applications
- Human Perception
- Standards
Important deadlines
Notification of acceptance by: July 8, 2005
Camera-ready paper submission by: August 8, 2005

-IEEE ASRU 2005

Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop
Cancun, Mexico
November 27 - December 1, 2005
http://www.asru2005.org
Papers in all areas of human language technology are encouraged to be submitted, with emphasis placed on automatic speech recognition and understanding technology, speech to text systems, spoken dialog systems, multilingual language processing, robustness in ASR, spoken document retrieval, and speech-to-speech translation.
Paper submission:
Submit full-length, 4-6 page papers, including figures and references, to www.asru2005.org
Special sessions:
Special session proposals should be submitted by June 15 ,2005, to asru05-tc@lists.csail.mit.edu and must include a topical title, rationale, session outline, contact information, and a description of how the session will be organized.
Tentative dates:
May 1, 2005 Workshop registration opens
July 1, 2005 Camera-ready paper submission deadline
August 15, 2005 Paper Acceptance / Rejection notices mailed
Sept. 15, 2005 Revised Papers Due and Author Registration Deadline
Oct. 1, 2005 Hotel Reservation and Workshop Registration
Nov. 27 - Dec.1, 2005 Workshop

- LREC 2006 - 5th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation

Magazzini del Cotone Conference Center, GENOA - ITALY
Deadlines for proposals of panes, workshops, tutorials and for paper submissions are October 14!!
MAIN CONFERENCE: 24-25-26 MAY 2006
WORKSHOPS and TUTORIALS: 22-23 and 27-28 MAY 2006
Conference web site
The fifth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2006, is organised by ELRA in cooperation with a wide range of international associations and organisations.
CONFERENCE TOPICS
Issues in the design, construction and use of Language Resources (LRs)
Issues in Human Language Technologies (HLT) evaluation
Special Highlights
LREC targets the integration of different types of LRs (spoken, written, and other modalities), and of the respective communities. To this end, LREC encourages submissions covering issues which are common to different types of LRs and language technologies, such as dialogue strategy, written and spoken translation, domain-specific data, multimodal communication or multimedia document processing, and will organise, in addition to the usual tracks, common sessions encompassing the different areas of LRs.
The 2006 Conference emphasises in particular the importance of promoting:
- synergies and integration between (multilingual) LRs and Semantic Web technologies,
- new paradigms for sharing and integrating LRs and LT coming from different sources,
- communication with neighbouring fields for applications in e-government and administration,
- common evaluation campaigns for the objective evaluation of the performances of different systems,
- systems and products (also industrial ones) based on large-size and high quality LRs.
LREC therefore encourages submissions of papers, panels, workshops, tutorials on the use of LRs in these areas.
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
Submitted abstracts of papers for oral and poster or demo presentations should consist of about 1000 words.
A limited number of panels, workshops and tutorials is foreseen: proposals will be reviewed by the Programme Committee.
For panels, please send a brief description, including an outline of the intended structure (topic, organiser, panel moderator, tentative list of panelists).
For workshops and tutorials, see the dedicated section below.
Only electronic submissions will be considered. Further details about submission will be circulated in the 2nd Call for Papers to be issued at the end of July and posted on the LREC web site (www.lrec-conf.org).
IMPORTANT DATES
* Submission of proposals for panels, workshops and tutorials: 14 October 2005
* Submission of proposals for oral and poster papers, referenced demos: 14 October 2005
* Notification of acceptance of panels, workshops and tutorials proposals: 7 November 2005
* Notification of acceptance of oral papers, posters, referenced demos: 16 January 2006
* Final versions for the proceedings: 20 February 2006
* Conference: 24-26 May 2006
* Pre-conference workshops and tutorials: 22 and 23 May 2006
* Post-conference workshops and tutorials: 27 and 28 May 2006
WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS
Pre-conference workshops and tutorials will be organised on 22 and 23 May 2006, and post-conference workshops and tutorials on 27 and 28 May 2006. A workshop/tutorial can be either half day or full day. Proposals for workshops and tutorials should be no longer than three pages, and include:
* A brief technical description of the specific technical issues that the workshop/tutorial will address.
* The reasons why the workshop/tutorial is of interest this time.
* The names, postal addresses, phone and fax numbers and email addresses of the workshop/tutorial organising committee, which should consist of at least three people knowledgeable in the field, coming from different institutions.
* The name of the member of the workshop/tutorial organising committee designated as the contact person.
* A time schedule of the workshop/tutorial and a preliminary programme.
* A summary of the intended workshop/tutorial call for participation.
* A list of audio-visual or technical requirements and any special room requirements.
CONSORTIA AND PROJECT MEETINGS
Consortia or projects wishing to take this opportunity for organising meetings should contact the ELDA office .
Email
Web Elra
Web Elda

-XXVIèmes Journées d'Étude sur la Parole

12-16 juin 2006
Bretagne
Website
OBJECTIFS
Themes
Les principaux thèmes retenus pour la conférence sont:
1 Production de parole
2 Acoustique de la parole
3 Perception de parole
4 Phonétique et phonologie
5 Prosodie
6 Reconnaissance et compréhension de la parole
7 Reconnaissance de la langue et du locuteur
8 Modèles de langage
9 Synthèse de la parole
10 Analyse, codage et compression de la parole
11 Applications à composantes orales (dialogue, indexation...)
12 Évaluation, corpus et ressources
13 Psycholinguistique
14 Acquisition de la parole et du langage
15 Apprentissage d'une langue seconde
16 Pathologies de la parole
17 Autres ...
DATES À RETENIR
Date limite de soumission des propositions 1 mars 2006
Notification aux auteurs de l'acceptation ou du refus 3 avril 2006
Soumission des articles finaux 1 mai 2006
Date du congrès 12-16 juin 2006
CONTACTS
Pour les questions scientifiques, contactez Pascal Perrier, Président de l'AFCP.
Pour des renseignements pratiques, jep2006@irisa.fr.

- 9th Western Pacific Acoustics Conference(WESPAC IX 2006)

June 26-28, 2006
Seoul, Korea
Program Highlights of WESPAC IX 2006
(by Session Topics)
* Human Related Topics- Aeroacoustics
* Product Oriented Topics
* Speech Communication
* Analysis: Through Software and Hardware
* Underwater Acoustics
* Physics: Fundamentals and Applications
* Other Hot Topics in Acoustics
WESPAC IX 2006 Secretariat
SungKyunKwan University, Acoustics Research Laboratory
300 Chunchun-dong, Jangan-ku, Suwon 440-746, Republic of Korea
Tel: +82-31-290-5957 Fax: +82-31-290-7055
E-mail
Website

- MMSP 2006 International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing

October 3-6th, 2006
Fairmont Empress Hotel
Victoria,BC, Canada
Website.
Topics
Multimedia processing: all modalities
Multimedia data bases
Multimedia security
Multimedia networking
Multimedia Systems Design, Implementation and Applications
Human Machine Interfaces and Interaction using multimodalities
Human Perception
Standards
Important dates
Special sessions (see website) March 6, 2006
Papers April 8th,2006
Notification of acceptance June 8th, 2006
Camera ready paper July 8th, 2006

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