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Editorial
Dear Members,
ISCA is a worldwide association and it is not always easy to figure out all consequences. I was ready to wish you excellent summer
holidays but an Australian colleague drew my attention on his wintertime! Anyway, inhabitants of the north part
of the world have currently started a holiday season.
I wish them an excellent resting period and I remind them not to extend their holidays later than the last week of August when
we will all meet at Interspeech 2007 in Antwerp, Belgium.
I also draw your attention to the increased number of job openings advertised in ISCApad and on our website. I contact
the labs and the companies
each month to check if the positions are filled or not and all offers published in this issue have been validated.
Do not hesitate to inform me on the recent books devoted to speech science or technology: it is a service offered to the
community to advertise books.
ISCA board will be partly renewed at the next General Assembly at Interspeech 2007 in Antwerp. Please read carefully
the information you received on the voting
procedure: please do participate if you want a strongly representative board.
My last recommendation is to read carefully the call for proposals for Interspeech 2011: be audacious and submit
attractive proposals.
Christian
Wellekens
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- ISCA
News
- SIG's
activities
- Courses,
internships
- Books,
databases, softwares
- Job
openings
- Journals
- Future
Interspeech Conferences
- Future
ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshops (ITRW)
- Forthcoming
Events supported (but not organized) by
ISCA
- Future
Speech Science and technology events
ISCA NEWS
Reminder : ISCA Board Election 2007
All current ISCA members should now have received information on how to vote for members of the new board.
If you have not received the election message, please contact the ISCA secretariat.
DEADLINE FOR VOTING : JULY 31, 2007, 18:00 UTC
The ISCA Secretariat
Organization of INTERSPEECH 2011 : CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Individuals or organizations interested in organizing:
INTERSPEECH
2011
should submit by 15 November 2007 a brief preliminary proposal,
including:
* The name and position of the proposed general chair and
other principal organizers.
* The proposed period in September/October
2011 when the conference would be held.
* The institution assuming
financial responsibility for the conference and any other cooperating
institutions.
* The city and conference center proposed (with
information on that center's capacity).
* The commercial conference
organizer (if any).
* Information on transportation and housing for
conference participants.
* Likely support from local bodies (e.g.
governmental).
* A preliminary budget.
Interspeech conferences may
be held in any country, although they generally should not occur in the
same continent in two consecutive years. The coming Interspeech events
will take place in Antwerp (Belgium, 2007), Brisbane (Australia, 2008),
Brighton (UK, 2009) and Makuhari (Japan, 2010).
Guidelines for the
preparation of the proposal are available on 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. They should also consider attending Interspeech 2007 in
Anwerp to discuss their bids, if 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
2008.
Prix de these AFCP
Association Francophone de la
Communication Parlee
Cloture definitive le 21 juin 2007
L'Association Francophone de la Communication Parlee (AFCP) decerne
chaque annee un prix scientifique pour une excellente these du domaine.
L'AFCP souhaite ainsi promouvoir toutes les facettes de la recherche en
communication parlee : des travaux fondamentaux aux travaux appliques, du
domaine des STIC, SHS ou SDV. L'objectif de ce prix est de dynamiser les
jeunes chercheurs, tout en faisant connaitre leurs travaux.
Le jury est
compose des chercheurs elus du CA de l'AFCP.
- R. Ridouane est laureat
du prix 2004 pour: "Suite de consonnes en berbere: phonetique et
phonologie",
- M. Dohen en 2005 pour: "Deixis prosodique
multisensorielle: production et perception audiovisuelle de la
focalisation contrastive en francais"
La remise officielle du prix se
fera lors de la rencontre francophone "Les Journees d'Etudes sur la
Parole" (JEP) 2008 (Avignon). Chaque recipiendaire se verra remettre la
somme de 500 euros, et sera invite a resumer ses travaux lors d'un
expose.
CALENDRIER
Peut candidater tout docteur ayant soutenu
sa these entre le 1er octobre 2005 et le 31 decembre 2006. On ne peut
candidater qu'a une seule edition.
Candidature avant le 21 juin 2007
(depot de la these & envoi postal).
Resultats : mi juillet
2007.
DOSSIER DE CANDIDATURE
serveur AFCP des theses qui regroupe la plupart des theses
francophones du domaine
2/ Postez un CD a:
Herve' Glotin Prix AFCP
UMR CNRS LSIS
Univ. Sud Toulon Var, BP20132
83957 La Garde Cedex 20
- France
contenant un seul fichier (votre nom.pdf) avec dans
l'ordre:
* resume de votre these (2 pages),
* liste de vos
publications,
* tous les rapports (jury et rapporteus) scannes de votre
soutenance de these,
* une lettre de recommandation scannee de votre
dir. de these pour ce prix,
* votre CV (avec coord. completes dont
Email).
SIG's activities
A list of Speech Interest
Groups can be found on our
web.
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COURSES, INTERNSHIPS
Master in Human Language Technologies and Interfaces at the
University of Trento
Website
organized by:
University of Trento and Fondazione Bruno Kessler Irst
Call for
applications, Academic Year 2007/08
Goal
Human language
technology gives people the possibility of using speech and/or natural
language to access a variety of automated services, such as airline
reservation systems or voicemail, to access and communicate information
across different languages, and to keep under control the increasing
amount of information available by automatically extracting useful content
and summarizing it. This master aims at providing skills in the basic
theories, techniques, and applications of this technology through courses
taught by internationally recognized researchers from the university,
research centers and supporting industry partners. Students enrolled in
the master will gain in depth knowledge from graduate courses and from
substantial practical projects carried out in research and industry
labs.
Courses:
Speech Processing, Machine Learning for NLP,
Human Language, Text Processing, Spoken Dialog Systems,Human Computer
Interaction, Language Resources, Multilingual Technology
Requisites
Master degree level ( min 4 years) in the area of
computer science, electrical engineering, computational linguistics and
cognitive science and other related disciplines. English language
(official language)
Student Grants
A limited number of
fellowships will be available.
Application Deadline
Non EU
Students: June, 15
EU Students: end of July
Info
E-mail
University of
Trento-Department of Information and Communication
Technologies Via
Sommarive, 14-38100 Povo (Trento), Italy
Studentships available for 2006/7 at the Department of
Computer Science
The University of Sheffield - UK
One-Year MSc
in HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
The Sheffield MSc in Human Language
Technology has been carefully tailored to meet the demand for graduates
with the highly-specialised multi-disciplinary skills that are required in
HLT, both as practitioners in the development of HLT applications and as
researchers into the advanced capabilities required for next-generation
HLT systems. The course provides a balanced programme of instruction
across a range of relevant disciplines including speech technology,
natural language processing and dialogue systems.
The programme is
taught in a research-led environment. This means that you will study the
most advanced theories and techniques in the field, and also have the
opportunity to use state- of-the-art software tools. You will also have
opportunities to engage in research-level activity through in-depth
exploration of chosen topics and through your dissertation.
Graduates
from this course are highly valued in industry, commerce and academia. The
programme is also an excellent introduction to the substantial research
opportunities for doctoral-level study in HLT.
A number of studentships
are available, on a competitive basis, to suitably qualified applicants.
These awards pay a stipend in addition to the course fees.
See further details
of the course
Information on
how to apply
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BOOKS, DATABASES, SOFTWARES
Databases
HIWIRE database
We would like to
draw your attention to the Interspeech 2007 special session "Novel
techniques for the NATO non-native Air Traffic Control and HIWIRE cockpit
databases"
http://www.interspeech2007.org/Technical/nato_atc.php
that
we are co-organizing. For this special session we make available (free of
charge) the cockpit database, along with training and testing HTK scripts.
Our goal is to investigate feature extraction, acoustic modelling and
adaptation algorithms for the problem of (hands-free) speech recognition
in the cockpit. A description of the task, database and ordering
information can be found at the website of the
project We hope that you will be able to participate to this special
session.
Alex Potamianos, TUC
Thibaut Ehrette, Thales
Research
Dominique Fohr, LORIA
Petros Maragos, NTUA
Marco
Matassoni, ITC-IRST
Jose Segura, UGR
- Language Resources Catalogue - Update
ELRA is happy to
announce that new Speech Related Resources are now available in its
catalogue. Moreover, we are pleased to announce that years 2005 and 2006
from the Text Corpus of "Le Monde" (ELRA-W0015) are now
available.
*ELRA-S0235 LC-STAR Hebrew (Israel) phonetic lexicon
*The LC-STAR Hebrew (Israel) phonetic lexicon comprises 109,580 words,
including a set of 62,431 common words, a set of 47,149 proper names
(including person names, family names, cities, streets, companies and
brand names) and a list of 8,677 special application words. The lexicon is
provided in XML format and includes phonetic transcriptions in SAMPA. More
information
*ELRA-S0236 LC-STAR English-Hebrew (Israel) Bilingual
Aligned Phrasal lexicon
*The LC-STAR English-Hebrew (Israel) Bilingual
Aligned Phrasal lexicon comprises 10,520 phrases from the tourist domain.
It is based on a list of short sentences obtained by translation from
US-English 10,449 phrasal corpus. The lexicon is provided in XML format.
More information
*ELRA-S0237 LC-STAR US English
phonetic lexicon
*The LC-STAR US English phonetic lexicon comprises
102,310 words, including a set of 51,119 common words, a set of 51,111
proper names (including person names, family names, cities, streets,
companies and brand names) and a list of 6,807 special application words.
The lexicon is provided in XML format and includes phonetic transcriptions
in SAMPA. More
information
*ELRA-W0015 Text corpus of "Le Monde"
*Corpus from
"Le Monde" newspaper. Years 1987 to 2002 are available in an ASCII text
format. Years 2003 to 2006 are available in .XML format. Each month
consists of some 10 MB of data (circa 120 MB per year). More
information
*ELRA-S0238 MIST Multi-lingual Interoperability in
Speech Technology database
*The MIST Multi-lingual Interoperability in
Speech Technology database comprises the recordings of 74 native Dutch
speakers (52 males, 22 females) who uttered 10 sentences in Dutch,
English, French and German, including 5 sentences per language identical
for all speakers and 5 sentences per language per speaker unique. Dutch
sentences are orthographically annotated. More
information
and also More
information
*ELRA-S0239 N4 (NATO Native and Non Native)
database
*The (NATO Native and Non Native) database comprises speech
data recorded in the naval transmission training centers of four countries
(Germany, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, and Canada) during naval
communication training sessions in 2000-2002. The material consists of
native and non-native speakers using NATO Naval English procedure between
ships, and reading from a text, "The North Wind and the Sun," in both
English and the speaker's native language. The audio material was recorded
on DAT and downsampled to 16kHz-16bit, and all the audio files have been
manually transcribed and annotated with speakers identities using the
tool, Transcriber.
More
information
and also More
information
*ELRA-W0047 Catalan Corpus of News Articles
*The
Catalan Corpus of News Articles comprises articles in Catalan from 1
January 1999 to 31 March 2007. These articles are grouped per trimester
without chronological order inside.
More
information
and also More
information
*ELRA-L0075 Bulgarian Linguistic Database
*This
database contains 81,647 entries in Bulgarian with a linguistic
environment tool (for WINDOWS XP). The data may be used for morphological
analysis and synthesis, syntactic agreement checking, phonetic stress
determining.
More
information
and also More
information
For more information on the catalogue, please contact
Valérie Mapelli
Our on-line
catalogue has moved to the following
address. Please update your bookmarks.
Books
Speech enhancement-Theory and Practice
Author: Philipos C.
Loizou, University of Texas, Dallas, USA
Publisher: CRC
Press
Year:2007
Speech and Language Engineering
Editor: Martin
Rajman
Publisher: EPFL Press, distributed by CRC Press
Year:
2007
Human Communication Disorders/ Speech therapy
This
interesting series can be listed on Wiley
website
Incurses em torno do ritmo da fala
Author: Plinio A. Barbosa
Publisher:
Pontes Editores (city: Campinas)
Year: 2006 (released
11/24/2006)
(In Portuguese, abstract attached.) Website
Speech Quality of VoIP: Assessment and Prediction
Author:
Alexander Raake
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, UK-Chichester,
September 2006
Website
Self-Organization in the Evolution of Speech, Studies in the
Evolution of Language
Author: Pierre-Yves
Oudeyer
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Website
Speech Recognition Over Digital Channels
Authors: Antonio M.
Peinado and Jose C. Segura
Publisher: Wiley, July 2006
Website
Multilingual Speech Processing
Editors: Tanja Schultz and
Katrin Kirchhoff ,
Elsevier Academic Press, April 2006
Website
Reconnaissance automatique de la parole: Du signal a
l'interpretation
Authors: Jean-Paul Haton
Christophe
Cerisara
Dominique Fohr
Yves Laprie
Kamel Smaili
392 Pages
Publisher: Dunod
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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.html
as well as http://www.elsnet.org/
Jobs)
Chef de Projet technique TAL / Text Mining - basé dans le Nord Pas de Calais
Société :
Vous intégrez la division digitalisation du leader Européen du traitement de l’information
(1200 collaborateurs en France, Europe, Asie et aux USA), internationalement reconnu pour ses expertises et ses
savoir-faire au service du client. Ses clients sont principalement les institutions (centres de recherche,
grandes bibliothèques, offices des brevets,...) et les grands acteurs internationaux de l’édition.
L'activité Content Mining s'adresse notamment à une clientèle appartenant aux secteurs de l'industrie pharmaceutique
et de la bioinformatique.
Offre :
En coordination avec le service commercial et la production, vous êtes responsable de la bonne réalisation des projets, et de la mise en oeuvre des solutions les mieux adaptées aux besoins des clients, et aux contraintes économiques des projets.
Pour cela, vous vous investissez dans une parfaite connaissance des moyens et solutions de l'entreprise et de leurs applications.
Vos missions s'articulent autour de trois activités:
1/ Consultant Avant Vente (25% du poste)
- Accompagner l'équipe commerciale auprès des clients et prospects, dans un objectif d'information, de compréhension,
d'identification des besoins, et leur apporter une réponse technique complète;
- Définir la ou les solutions adaptées pour couvrir l'ensemble des besoins en adéquation avec les moyens techniques
à disposition; le cas échéant, reformuler la demande du client en fonction des savoir-faire de l'entreprise;
- En coordination avec le commercial, présenter la proposition technique et financière au client, s'accorder sur
la solution retenue;
- Savoir repérer auprès des clients les besoins non satisfaits ou futurs;
- Assurer une fonction de veille tant commerciale que technologique.
2/ Gestion de Projet Technique (75% du poste):
- Apporter les solutions techniques et financières aux besoins des clients avec la collaboration des
services techniques de l'entreprise (production, R&D, Méthodes,...);
- Assurer la mise en œuvre de la solution en s'appuyant sur l'ensemble des acteurs de l'entreprise,
avec pour objectif la satisfaction client.
3/ Administratif:
- Établir des comptes-rendus d'activité sur l'ensemble des projets pris en charge;
- Assurer l'interface entre les services commerciaux, de production, et le client.
Profil :
- Formation supérieure (Bac+4/5) en informatique.
- Vous avez acquis une expérience de 3 à 5 ans en tant que Chef de Projet technique, dans les domaines suivants:
Text Mining, Reconnaissance des formes, Traitement du Langage, Linguistique, TAL.
Une connaissance du domaine de la GED ou du Knowledge Management serait un plus.
- Autonome en Anglais dans un contexte professionnel (oral et écrit).
Comment candidater?
Entrez votre profil sur le site Web du cabinet de
recrutement e-Match consulting en mentionnant la reference 73
Contact
Olivier Grootenboer
+33.6.88.39.37.39
cabinet de Recrutement & Chasse e-Match
consulting
PostDoc in Spoken Language and Dialog Research (LUNA project) at AMI2 Lab
LUNA Project: The LUNA (SPOKEN LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING IN MULTILINGUAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS)
project is funded by the European Commission FP6 program. The project addresses the problem
of real-time understanding of spontaneous speech in the context of advanced conversational
systems for problem-solving tasks and/or cooperative work interfaces. The LUNA consortium and
more information on the project can be found at the website.
Job description: The postdoc will be investigating machine learning techniques
for adaptive spoken dialog prototyping. S/he will be responsible to design
adaptive algorithms for language understanding and dialog modelling. S/he will
work with the AMI2 team and lead the spoken dialog prototyping for such adaptive system.
Requirements: The ideal candidate we are looking for has a Ph.D. in
Computer Science, two-year postdoc experience and background in
human-machine dialog research for spoken and/or multimodal conversational
systems. He/She will have strong programming skills and be team-work oriented.
AMI2 Lab: The Adaptive Multimodal Information and Interface
( AMI2 )Lab at University of Trento pursues excellence
research in next-generation interfaces for human-machine and human-human
communication. The AMI2 lab has a state-of-the-art speech and language
technology infrastructure and collaborations with premiere international
research centers and industry research labs.
How to apply: The University of Trento is an equal opportunity
employer. Interested applicants should submit their CV along with
their statement of research interest and three reference letters.
The starting date for the position is as early as September 1st 2007.
The duration of the contract will be 24 months, salary will depend on
experience and qualifications. Please send your application to:
Prof. Ing. Giuseppe Riccardi
Director of AMI2 Lab
About University of Trento and Information and Communication
Technology Department: The University of Trento is constantly
ranked as premiere Italian graduate university institution. The DIT Department has a strong focus on
Interdisciplinarity with professors from different faculties of the
University (Physical Science, Electrical Engineering, Economics,
Social Science, Cognitive Science, Computer Science) with
international background. English is the official language.
Expert Linguistique, basé à Nancy, FRANCE
travaillant
typiquement dans un laboratoire dédié TAL.
Profil recherché
- Formation d'origine: Ingénieur ou DEA/DESS informatique /
Intelligence Artificielle de formation
- 5 à 10 ans d'expérience min
- Salaire jusqu'à 45/48K€ en fonction du profil
- Fibre ou
expérience en R&D
- Compétences reconnues en Text Mining
(étiquetage morpho syntaxique, Reconnaissance de forme, Analyse
sémantique, Traduction automatique, Apprentissage naturel et
Linguitique)
- Profil humain: MANAGER, leader d'équipe.
Comment
candidater:
Entrez votre profil sur le site Web du cabinet de
recrutement e-Match consulting
Contact
Olivier Grootenboer
+33.6.88.39.37.39
cabinet de Recrutement & Chasse e-Match
consulting
Speech Software Engineer, CereProc, Edinburgh, UK
Fixed Term for 1 year to be reviewed after 9 months Salary 25,000
BP to 30,000 BP per annum dependent upon experience
CereProc is a
Scottish company, based in Edinburgh, the home of advanced speech
synthesis research, with a sales office in London. The CereProc team have
extensive experience across the entire speech technology domain.
We are
looking for a talented and skilled individual to undertake research on a
SMART Feasibility Study awarded by the Scottish Executive to CereProc to
investigate articulatory approaches to text to speech (TTS) and automatic
speech recognition (ASR) associated with the needs of an ease-of-use audio
wav file creation system for use commercially.
The ideal candidate will
have a degree in Electronic Engineering or related discipline, a PhD in
Speech Technology or a related topic, an understanding of the principles
of digital signal processing with regard to ASR and TTS, an ability to
write computer programs (e.g., in C/C++/Python), and will be
self-motivated with strong organisational skills.
It would also be
desirable for the candidate to have experience of working with a
University spin out company, native level Japanese, familiarity with
hidden Markov models, state-space methods or stochastic processes and
experience in graphical user interface design.
Salary range 25,000BP to
30,000 BP dependent on experience including pension contributions, 37.5
Hour Week with a degree of flexibility, and up to 20 days annual leave
plus statutory holidays per annum.
To apply for this position please email your CV (including 2
referees) and current salary details.
Senior Speech Engineer in UK
Presented by http://www.voxid.co.uk/
This
description is NOT exhaustive and we would welcome applications from any
speech developers who feel they can add value to this company. Please
forward your CV with salary expectations as we may have an alternative
position for you.
Job Role:
To develop and deliver products,
meeting customer needs and expectations.
To undertake areas of research
and development on speech recognition technology within the
constraints/direction of the Client Business development
plan.
Duties and Responsibilities:
*To assist in the ongoing
development of speech technologies for commercial deployment.
*To
further improve existing client products
*Organise and manage own work
to meet goal and objectives
*Use personal judgement and initiative to
develop effective and constructive solutions to challenges and obstacles
*Provide technical support to customers of the company on projects and
activities when required.
*Document and maintain such records as
required by the company operating procedures.
*Maintain an
understanding of Speech recognition technology in general and the client
products and technology specifically
*Communicate and present to
customers and others, information about the client product range and its
technology.
*Providing technical expertise to other members of the team
and staff at the client
*R&D in various aspects of automatic speech
recognition and related speech technologies (e.g. speech data mining,
Keyword/phrase spotting, multilingual speech recognition,
LVCSR).
*Adhere to local and externally relevant health and safety laws
and policies and bring any matters to the attention of local management
without delay
*Take responsibility for self-development and continuing
personal development
Person specification
Good degree
in a relevant subject
Further degree in the Speech Recognition field or
2 years experience
Experience in a product based environment
Special Skills:
Product orientated
Experienced
C++
Ability to work in an interdisciplinary team (Speech Scientists and
software engineers)
Special Aptitudes:
Ability to put theory
in to practice to apply knowledge to develop products
Can work and
communicate effectively with colleagues outside their own area of
expertise.
Quick to develop new skills where required
Analytical,
with good problem solving ability.
High level of attention to
detail
Experience of multi-threaded and computational intensive
algorithms
Disposition:
Team Player but also able to work
independently
Self - starter
Motivated & Enthusiastic
Results
orientated
Location: UK
Salary : Dependent On
experience
We are a specialist UK recruitment company seeking speech
recognition developers to join one of our many UK speech companies. This
description is NOT exhaustive and we would welcome applications from any
speech developers who feel they can add value to this company. Please
forward your CV with salary expectations as we may have an alternative
position for you
R&D Engineer
Presented by http://www.voxid.co.uk/
Job
Description
As a member of a small team of research and development
engineers you will work both independently and in teams developing
algorithms and models for large vocabulary speech recognition. Good C and
Linux shell scripting skills are essential, as is experience of either
digital signal processing or statistical modelling. The ability to
administer a network of Linux PCs is highly desirable, as are
language/linguistic skills. Knowledge of Python and Perl would be
advantageous.
In addition to the technical skills mentioned above, the
successful candidate will have a proactive personality, excellent oral and
written communication skills, and a desire to learn all aspects of speech
recognition.
Key Skills
1st/2.1 degree in numerate
subject.
2+ years of C and Linux shell programming.
Excellent
communication skills.
Experience of digital signal processing or
statistical modelling (this could be an undergraduate/masters
project).
Additional Skills Linux system administration.
Experience
with HTK.
Python and/or Perl programming.
Language/linguistic
knowledge.
Salary : Commensurate with experience + discretionary
share option scheme.
R&D Language Modeller in UK
An excellent
opportunity presented by http://www.voxid.co.uk/,we are looking
for a self-motivated speech engineer, who enjoys working in the dynamic
and flexible environment of a successful
company.
Requirements
*3+ years relevant industrial /
commercial experience or very relevant academic experience
In-depth
knowledge about probabilistic language modelling, including estimation
methods, smoothing, pruning, efficient representation, interpolation,
trigger-based models
*Experience in development and/or deployment of a
speech recognition engines, with emphasis on efficient training techniques
and large vocabulary systems
*Understanding of the technology and
techniques used in ASR engines
*A good degree in an appropriate
subject, PhD preferred
*Good software engineering skills, knowledge of
scripting languages (e.g. shell scripting, Perl) and experience working
under both Linux and Windows
Desirable
*Experience working
with HTK, Sphinx and/or Julius
*Experience with probabilistic lattice
parsing
*Have worked on a live application or service that includes
speech recognition
Salary : 40K BP
Any speech candidates who
believe they can add value to our global clients , we would be happy to
represent you.
Several openings at NuanceNuance is the leading provider
of speech and imaging solutions for businesses and consumers around the
world. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience
Nuance by calling directory assistance, requesting account information,
dictating patient records, telling a navigation system their destination,
or digitally reproducing documents that can be shared and searched. With
more than 2000 employees worldwide, we are committed to make the user
experience more enjoyable by transforming the way people interact with
information and how they create, share and use documents. Making each of
those experiences productive and compelling is what Nuance is about.
Senior Engineer
As part of the team, the candidate will be creating speech technologies for embedded applications varying from simple command and control up to natural
speech dialogue on mobile and automotive platforms.
The candidate will join an experienced international team with expertise in creating, optimizing and testing portable ASR software for embedded devices.
The position can be located at our Aachen office (Germany), the Nuance International Headquarters in Merelbeke, near Ghent (Belgium), or our Tel-Aviv office (Israel).
Responsibilities
· Design, implementation, evaluation, optimization and testing of new ASR algorithms and tools;
· Involvement in the creation of applications, demonstrators and evaluators of the developed technology;
· Occasionally provide support directly to customers and to our Embedded Professional Services Team.
Required Skills
· Background in ASR technologies
· Knowledge of C, C++, Pearl or Python, Matlab and Mobile / Automotive
· Familiarity with Embedded Programming Techniques
· Excellent English communication skills, written and spoken.
· Positive "can-do" attitude, well organized
· Customer Service attitude, excellent presentation and communication skills
· Ability to manage projects and to deal with critical situations.
Ideal Skills
· 2-3 years work experience in relevant area
Education
· MS or BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related Technical Degree
Interested?
Please send your CV to Deanna Roe .
We are looking forward to receiving your application!
RESEARCH ENGINEER LVCSR
As part of the team, the
candidate will be creating speech technologies for embedded applications
varying from simple command and control up to natural speech dialogue on
mobile and automotive platforms.
The candidate will join an experienced
international team with expertise in creating, optimizing and testing
portable ASR software for embedded devices. The position can be located at
our Aachen office (Germany), the Nuance International Headquarters in
Merelbeke, near Ghent (Belgium), or our Tel-Aviv office
(Israel).
Responsibilities
· Design, implementation,
evaluation, optimization and testing of new algorithms and tools, with a
focus on search, grammar processing, dictation and/or natural language
understanding.
· Occasional involvement in the creation of
demonstrators and evaluators of the developed technology.
·
Occasionally provide support directly to customers and to our Embedded
Professional Services Team
Required
Skills
· Background
in ASR research is required: preferably with ASR search techniques, CFG
parsing, FSM processing, dictation or natural language understanding
technology.
· Knowledge of C, C++, Pearl or Python, Matlab
· Excellent English
communication skills, written and
spoken.
· Positive
"can-do" attitude, well
organized
· Customer
Service attitude, excellent presentation and communication
skills
· Ability to deal
with critical situations.
Ideal
Skills
· 2-3
years work experience in relevant area or Ph.D. in speech processing
Education
·
MS or BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related Technical
Degree
Please send your CV in English to : Deanna Roe
SOFTWARE
ENGINEER
Key Responsibilities
In this role, you will be
responsible for porting Nuance state-of-the-art speech recognition and
text to speech products to different embedded platforms typically found in
the automotive, mobile or game station markets. As development engineer in
the Professional Services team, you will be in close contact with the
research lab developing the technologies, and will be contributing to
speech enabling mobile phones (dialing by voice, SMS reading), automotive
hands-free car-kits (dialing by voice, acoustical echo canceller),
automotive and mobile navigation systems (route guidance or traffic
information through TTS), game stations, or similar kind of devices where
speech is bringing clear added value. As experienced engineer, you will
rapidly be working together with our customers’ integration teams to help
them including our technologies into successful products in an efficient
way, and managing from A to Z complete projects and customer interaction.
While most of the job will take place in our offices in Merelbeke, a few
short trips inside or outside Europe might be possible. Your
Profile
- Requirements:
o Bachelors or Graduate University
degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science
or equivalent.
o Professional experience in the Embedded market
o
Fluent in English, both written and spoken
o Strong customer
communication skills
o Strong Ansi C programming skills
o Ability to
travel for short trips
o Strong team player, capable to work
independently or/and to manage other engineers when needed
o Self
learner, with sense of initiative, and perseverance to deliver high
quality work
- Nice to have
o Experience with embedded hardware
platforms, operating systems, and software development
o Knowledgeable
about audio streaming technologies, real-time protocols, codecs, signal
processing
o Knowledgeable about WinCe, Linux
o
Multi-lingual
Please send your CV in English to : Deanna Roe
JUNIOR MOBILE
APPLICATION DEVELOPER
Located in Aachen (Germany)
As a Mobile
application developer you will be part of a team creating ground-breaking
software for mobile devices (smartphones or personal navigation devices,).
You will design, implement and maintain applications that make uses of
Nuance’s state-of-the-art speech recognition and speech synthesis
technologies to deliver new experience to Nuance customers: hands-free
dialing and control of the phone, selection of songs on a media player by
voice, voice entry of destination in a navigation device or dictation of
SMS. You will follow up with latest industry developments for mobile
platform and work with new mobile devices before they hit the market. You
will work in a multi-cultural international team located in Belgium,
Germany, Israel and the USA.
Qualifications:
· Bachelor or
Master Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical
Engineering of equivalent.
· Strong C/C++ programming skills
·
Hands-on experience with object-oriented design & object-oriented
programming
· Good software/system troubleshooting skills
·
Familiarity with one of the following development platforms: Symbian,
Windows Mobile, BREW, J2ME.
· Fluent in English, both written in
spoken.
· Ability to work in a multinational team
· Self- &
quick learner
· Ability to work under time pressure and take
initiative
Strong candidates will also have the following;
·
Understanding of speech recognition software.
· Knowledge of Java.
· Practical experience with Nokia’s S60 development platform.
·
Familiarity with cross-platform software design principles
· Exposure
to Agile software development methodologies
· Knowledge of other
European or Asian languages
Please send your CV in English to Deanna Roe
If you have any
questions, please contact her on +44 7717506622
TEMPORARY FULL-TIME
LANGUAGE SPECIALIST
Nuance Communications, Inc., a world-wide
leader in speech technology, is seeking full-time temporary language
specialist to develop our newest TTS technology into various
languages.
Positions are available for the following languages:
·
Finnish
· Dutch ( The Netherlands)
· Australian English
·
Mandarin (People’s Republic of China)
· Mandarin (Taiwan)
·
Cantonese
· Japanese
· Korean
· Danish
· Norwegian
·
Egyptian Arabic
· Greek
· Hindi
· Portuguese (Iberian)
·
Indian English
· Russian
· Swedish
· Turkish
· Spanish
(Catalan)
Responsibilities:
· Helping in development of the
linguistic processing components
· Design of text corpora for recording
and testing
· Processing speech data
· Creating and tuning the TTS
voice
· Testing and productization of the TTS voice
.
Requirements:
· Native or near native speaker of one of them
above-mentioned languagesbr> · Speak English fluently (working
language)
· Have some experience working in speech/NLP/linguistics
either in academia or in industry
· Have some computational ability –
no programming is required, but you should be comfortable working with MS
Windows
· If you know some AWK or Perl, it would be an advantage
·
Willing to work in Merelbeke (near Ghent in Belgium) for the duration of
the contract
Offer:
-A 3-5 months contract
-Training in
all aspects of the job, and you will be working with a talented and
committed team
-An exciting job with an innovative and performing
international company
-The opportunity to work in an enthusiastic,
supportive team
-Competitive remuneration package
-Relocation,
travel and accommodation assistance
Please send your CV in English to
Deanna Roe
ALGORITHMS
DEVELOPER
We are seeking a brilliant algorithms developer for
research and implementation of core technology for speech recognition and
synthesis on cellular handsets.
Responsibilities:
-Research and implementation of technology
that is required for different applications of mobile devices, such as
voice enabled dialing, application launching etc.
-Develop modeling
methods and algorithms for enhanced quality and robustness considering
limited computational resources
-Specific models and algorithms for
different languages
-Define and implement schemes and tools that are
required for turning technologies into products – such as creating
specific models for project and tuning parameters
-Deliver models and
algorithms to the product group – guide and support the absorption of new
technologies.
-Development of methodology and tools for research and
model creation
-M.Sc. in computer-science, software engineering,
physics, or mathematics, B.Sc. with distinction will also be
considered.
Your profile:
- Completed the following
courses with grade above 85: At least one C/C++ course with final project,
Probability theory and statistics, Algorithms
- Excellent research and
implementation skills are required with at least 1 year of proven
experience in the following areas: Developing C/C++ code, Development,
implementation and analysis of algorithms and mathematical models
-
Knowledge of Perl, Python, Windows/Linux scripts, SQL
- Experience in
the following areas is highly desirable: Speech– processing, Machine
learning, Statistical modeling; Neural networks, Bioinformatics.
-
Knowledge in one or more of the following an advantage:Digital signal
processing, Image processing, Computational linguistics
- Advanced
written and spoken English
Locations: Israel, Tel aviv /
Germany, Aachen / Belgium, Merelbeke
Please send your CV in English to
Deanna Roe
The experience
speaks for itself
POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS WITHIN THE SOUND TECHNOLOGY GROUP,
LINKOPING , SWEDEN
Two positions for postdoctoral associates are
available within the Sound Technology Group Sound Technology Group , Digital Media Division at the Department of Science and Technology
(ITN), Linkoping Universityat
Campus Norrkoping, Sweden.
Our research is focused on physical and
perceptual models of sound sources, sound source separation and adapted
signal representations.
Candidates must have a strong background in
research and a completed Ph.D.
Programming skills (e.g. Matlab, C/C++
or Java) are very desirable, as well as expertise in conducting
acoustic/auditory experiments.
We are especially interested in
candidates with research background in the following areas:
. Auditory
Scene Analysis
Classification of Sound Sources
. Sound
Processing
. Spatial Audio and Hearing
. Time-Frequency and Wavelet
Representations
. Acoustics (theoretical and experimental)
but those
with related research interests are also welcome to apply.
Preferred
starting date is September 2007.
Inquiries and CVs must be addressed
to
Prof. G.
Evangelista
Digital Media Division
Department of Science and
Technology (ITN)
Linkoping Institute of Technology (LiTH) at Campus
Norrkoping
Room: K5724 (K=E5kenhus, Bredgatan 33)
SE-60174
Norrkoping, Sweden
Phone: +46 11 36 31 01
Fax: +46 11 36 32 70
Cambridge University Engineering Department- Machine
Intelligence Laboratory - Speech Group
Research Associate in
Spoken Dialogue Systems
Applications are invited for a Research
Associate position in the Machine Intelligence Laboratory to join a group
lead by Professor Steve Young working in the area of Spoken Dialogue
Systems. The technical focus is on the use of reinforcement learning
within man-machine interfaces to enable automatic learning of dialogue
behaviour and on-line adaptation. The work will involve statistical
modelling, algorithm design, system development and user evaluation. The
successful candidate will have a good first degree and preferably a higher
degree in a relevant area. Good programming skills in C/C++ are essential.
The appointment will be for two years initially, starting as soon as
possible. Salary is in the range 324,402 BP to 331,840 BP p.a. Further
details and an application form can be found at our website. Informal
enquiries should be addressed by email to Professor Young. Applicants should
email their completed application form together with their CV and a
covering letter describing their research experiences, interests and goals
to Rachel Fogg Rachel Fogg.
The University is committed to equality of
opportunity.
Opening on Speech recognition at Telefonica, Barcelona
(Spain)
The speech Technology Group at Telefonica Investigacion y
Desarrollo (TID) is looking for a highly qualified candidate for an
engineering position on speech recognition and related
technologies.
The selected person will become a part of a
multidisciplinary team of young highly motivated people in an objective
driven, friendly atmosphere located in a central area of Barcelona
(Spain).
Minimum requirements ar:
Degree in Computer Science
/Electrical Engineering/Computational Linguistics or similar with 2+ years
of experience (Ph.D. preferred) on speech technology.
Good knowledge of
speech recognition and speech synthesis.
Proven programming expertise
in C++ and Java
Good level of English (required) and some knowledge of
Spanish (preferred)
High motivation and teamwork spirit
Salary
depending on the experience and value of the applicant
Starting date as
soon as possible
The speech technology group is a well established
group within TID with more than 15 years of experience in research and
development of technology for internal use of Telefonica group as well as
outside organizations. It is also a very active partner in many National
and European projects. TID is the research and development company inside
the Telefonica group, currently one of the biggest Telecom companies. It
is the biggest private research center in Spain in number of employees and
available resources.
Please send your resume and contact information
to
Sonia Tejero
Tlf: +34 93 365
3024
Sound to Sense: 18 Fellowships in speech research
Sound to Sense (S2S) is a Marie Curie Research Training Network
involving collaborative speech research amongst 13 universities in 10
countries. 18 Training Fellowships are available, of which 12 are
predoctoral and 6 postdoctoral (or equivalent experience). Most but not
all are planned to start in September or October 2007.
A research
training network’s primary aim is to support and train young researchers
in professional and inter-disciplinary scientific skills that will equip
them for careers in research. S2S’s scientific focus is on
cross-disciplinary methods for modelling speech recognition by humans and
machines. Distinctive aspects of our approach include emphasis on
richly-informed phonetic models that emphasize communicative function of
utterances, multilingual databases, multiple time domain analyses, hybrid
episodic-abstract computational models, and applications and testing in
adverse listening conditions and foreign language learning.
Eleven
projects are planned. Each can be flexibly tailored to match the Fellows’
backgrounds, research interests, and professional development needs, and
will fall into one of four broad themes.
1: Multilinguistic and
comparative research on Fine Phonetic Detail (4 projects)
2: Imperfect
knowledge/imperfect signal (2 projects)
3: Beyond short units of speech
(2 projects)
4: Exemplars and abstraction (3 projects)
The
institutions and senior scientists involved with S2S are as follows:
*
University of Cambridge, UK (S. Hawkins (Coordinator), M. Ford, M. Miozzo,
D. Norris. B. Post)
* Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium (D. Van
Compernolle, H. Van Hamme, K. Demuynck)
* Charles University, Prague,
Czech Republic (Z. Palková, T. Dub?da, J. Volín)
* University of
Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France (N. Nguyen, M. d’Imperio, C.
Meunier)
* University Federico II, Naples, Italy (F. Cutugno, A.
Corazza)
* Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (L. ten Bosch,
H. Baayen, M. Ernestus, C. Gussenhoven, H. Strik)
* Norwegian
University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway (W. van
Dommelen, M. Johnsen, J. Koreman, T. Svendsen)
* Technical University
of Cluj-Napoca, Romania (M. Giurgiu)
* University of the Basque
Country, Vitoria, Spain (M-L. Garcia Lecumberri, J. Cenoz)
* University
of Geneva, Switzerland (U. Frauenfelder)
* University of Bristol, UK
(S. Mattys, J. Bowers)
* University of Sheffield, UK (M. Cooke, J.
Barker, G. Brown, S. Howard, R. Moore, B. Wells)
* University of York,
UK. (R. Ogden, G. Gaskell, J. Local)
Successful applicants will
normally have a degree in psychology, computer science, engineering,
linguistics, phonetics, or related disciplines, and want to acquire
expertise in one or more of the others.
Positions are open until
filled, although applications before 1 May 2007 are recommended for
starting in October 2007.
Further details are available from the web
about:
+ the
research network (92kB) and how to apply, + the research
projects(328 kB).
Research scientist- Speech Technology- Princeton, NJ,
USA
Company Profile: Headquartered in Princeton, NJ, ETS
(Educational Testing Service)is the world's premier educational
measurement institution and a leader in educational research. As an
innovator in developing achievement and occupational tests for clients in
business, education, and government, we are determined to advance
educational excellence for the communities we serve.
Job
Description: ETS Research & Development has a Research Scientist
opening in the Automated Scoring and Natural Language Processing Group.
This group conducts research focusing on the development of new
capabilities in automated scoring and NLP-based analysis and evaluation
systems, which are used to improve assessments, learning tools and test
development practices for diverse groups of users that include K-12
students, college students, English Language Learners and lifelong
learners. The Research Scientist position involves applying scientific,
technical and software engineering skills to designing and conducting
research studies and developing capabilities in support of educational
products and services. The job is a full-time job.
Required
qualifications
· A Ph.D. in Natural Language Processing,
Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, or Electrical Engineering
with a focus on speech technology, particularly speech recognition.
Knowledge of linguistics is a plus.
· Evidence of at least three years
of independent substantive research experience and/or experience in
developing and deploying speech technology capabilities, preferably in
educational environments.
· Demonstrable contributions to new and/or
modified theories of speech processing and their implementation in
automated systems.
· Practical expertise with speech recognition
systems and fluency in at least one major programming language (e.g.,
Java, Perl, C/C++, Python).
· Three years of independent substantive
research experience and/or experience in developing and deploying speech
technology capabilities, preferably in educational environments.
How to apply
Please send copy of your resume, along with
cover letter stating salary requirements and job #2965, to e-mail
ETS offers competitive
salaries, outstanding benefits, a stimulating work environment, and
attractive growth potential. ETS is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative
Action Employer.
Web site
Software Engineer Position at Be Vocal, Mountain View,
CA,USA
We are currently looking for a Software Engineer with
previous exposure to Speech, to work in our Speech and Natural Language
Technology group. This group’s mission is to be the center of excellence
for speech and natural language technologies within BeVocal.
Responsibilities include assisting in the development of internal tools
and processes for building Natural Language based speech applications as
well as on ongoing infrastructure/product improvements. The successful
candidate must be able to take direction from senior members of the team
and will also be given the opportunity to make original contributions to
new and existing technologies during the application development process.
As such, you must be highly motivated and have the ability to work well
independently in addition to working as a team.
Responsibilities
* Develop and maintain speech
recognition/NLP tools and supporting infrastructure
* Develop and
enhance component speech grammars
* Work on innovative solutions to
improve overall Speech/NL performance across BeVocal’s
deployments.
Requirements
* BS in Computer Science,
Electrical Engineering or Linguistics, an MS is a preferred.
* 2-5
years of software development experience in Perl, Java, C/C++. A
willingness and ability to pick up additional software languages as needed
is essential.
* Exposure or experience with speech recognition/pattern
recognition either from an academic environment or directly related work
experience.
* Experience working as part of a world-class speech and
language group is highly desirable.
* Experience building natural
language applications is preferred.
* Experience building LVCSR speech
recognition systems is a plus.
For immediate consideration, please send
your resume by email and include
"Software Engineer, Speech" in the subject line of your email. Principals
only please (no 3rd parties or agencies). Contact for details
BeVocal's policy
is to comply with all applicable laws and to provide equal employment
opportunity for all applicants and employees without regard to
non-job-related factors such as race, color, religion, sex, national
origin, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, marital status or
sexual orientation. This policy applies to all areas of employment,
including recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, compensation,
benefits, transfer, and social and recreational programs.
Positions at Saybot in Shanghai,China
About the
company
Saybot is a leading speech technology platform provider for
people interested in learning and improving their spoken English. Through
Saybot’s innovative speech-based platform, English teachers, publishers,
and schools can create and sell spoken English curricula to 180 million
English learners in China. By focusing on spoken English learning and
speech technology innovations, Saybot and its partners, such as the
biggest English textbook publisher in China, are making English learning
more efficient, effective, and fun.
The company was originally backed
up by technology visionaries (Nicholas Negroponte and Leonard Kleinrock)
and well funded by first tier VCs in Asia.
Positions: Speech
Scientists.
Since 2005, we have been building software which features
state-of-the-art speech technologies and innovative interactive lessons to
help users practice speaking English. We are currently looking for
talented speech scientists to help strengthen our R&D team and to
develop our next-generation products. Successful candidates would have
proven excellence and good work ethics in academic or industry context and
demonstrated creativity in building speech systems with revolutionary
designs. We seek motivated and enthusiastic colleagues, at both senior and
junior level.
This position is based in Shanghai,
China
Requirements:
* MS/PhD degree in speech technology (or
related).
* Expertise in at least one of the following areas and basic
knowledge of the others:
o acoustic model training and adaptation,
o
natural language understanding and dialogue systems,
o prosody
analysis,
o recognition on embedded platforms.
* Excellent
programming skills in both object-oriented languages (C++, C# or Java) and
scripting (Perl or Python).
* Excellent communication skills in written
and oral English.
Contact: Sylvain Chevalier
2 Positions in Research and Development in "Audio description
and indexing" at IRCAM-Paris
PRESENTATION OF THE SAMPLE
ORCHESTRATOR PROJECT:
The goal of the Sample Orchestrator project
is to develop and test new applications for managing and manipulating
sound samples based on audio content. On the one hand the commercial
availability of large databases of sound samples available on various
supports (CD, DVD, online), are currently limited in their applications
(synthesizers by sampling). On the other hand, recent scientific and
technological development in audio indexing and database management allow
the development of new musical functions: database management based on
audio content, audio processing driven by audio content, development of
orchestration tools.
TASKS:
Two positions are available from
April 15th 2007 within the "Equipe Analyse/Synthese" of Ircam for (each) a
12 months total duration (possibility of extending the contracts). The
main tasks to be done for the research and development positions are:
-
Research and development of new audio features and algorithms for the
description of instrumental, percussive and FX sounds.
- Research and
development of new audio features and algorithms for the morphological
description of sounds
- Research and development of new audio features
and algorithms for sounds containing "loops"
- Research and
development of algorithms for automatic audio indexing
- Research and
development of algorithms for fast search by similarity in large databases
- Participation in the definition of the specification
-
Participation in user evaluation and feedback
- Integration into the
final application
RESEARCH POSITION:
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE
AND COMPETENCE:
- High skills in Audio indexing and signal processing
- High skills in Matlab programming
- High productivity,
methodical work, excellent programming style.
- Good knowledge of
UNIX, Mac and Windows environments
SALARY:
According to background
and experience.
DEVELOPMENT POSITION:
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE
AND COMPETENCE:
- Skills in Audio indexing and signal processing
-
High skills in C/C++ programming
- High productivity, methodical work,
excellent programming style.
- Good knowledge of UNIX, Mac and Windows
environments
SALARY:
According to background and experience.
EEC WORKING PAPERS:
In order to start immediately, the
candidate should preferably have EEC citizenship or already own valid EEC
working papers.
AVAILIBILITY:
The positions are available
in the "Analysis/Synthesis" team in the R&D department from April 15th
2007 for (each) a duration of 12 months (possibility of extending the
contracts).
TO APPLY:
Please send your resume with
qualifications and informations addressing the above issues, preferably by
email Xavier Rodet,
Analyse/Synthese team manager).
or by fax at: (33 1) 44 78 15 40,
care of Xavier.Rodet
or by surface mail to: Xavier Rodet, IRCAM, 1
Place Stravinsky, 75004 Paris.
IRCAM:
IRCAM is a leading
non-profit organization dedicated to musical production, R&D and
education in acoustics and music, located in the center of Paris (France),
next to the Pompidou Center. It hosts composers, researchers and students
from many countries cooperating in contemporary music production,
scientific and applied research. The main topics addressed in its R&D
department are acoustics, psychoacoustics, audio synthesis and processing,
computer aided composition, user interfaces, real time systems. Detailed
activities of IRCAM and its groups are presented on our WWW server.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT POSITION IN "AUDIO CONTENT ACCESS" at
IRCAM (Paris)
PRESENTATION OF THE MUSICDISCOVER PROJECT
:
The goal of the MusicDiscover project is to give access to the
contents of musical audios recordings (as it is the case, for example, for
texts), i.e. to a structured description, as complete as possible, of the
recordings: melody, genre/style, rate/rhythm, instrumentation, musical
structure, harmony, etc. The principal objective is thus to develop and
evaluate means directed towards the contents, which include techniques and
tools for analysis, indexing, representation and search for information.
These means will make it possible to build and use such a structured
description. This project of the ACI "Masses of Data" is carried out in
collaboration between Ircam (Paris), Get-Telecom (Paris) and the LIRIS
(Lyon) since October 2004. The principal lines of research are :
-
Rhythmic analysis and detection of ruptures
- Recognition of musical
instruments and indexing
- Source Separation
- Structured
Description
- Research of music by similarity
- Recognition of
musical titles
- Classification of musical titles in genre and
emotion.
The available position relates to the construction and the use
of the Structured Description in collaboration with the other lines of
research.
DEVELOPMENTS TASKS:
A position is available from
December 1st 2006 within the "Equipe Analyse/Synthese" of Ircam for a 9
months total duration. The contents of work are as follows:
-
Participation in the design of a Structured Description
- Software
development for construction and use of Structured Descriptions
-
Participation in the definition and development of the graphic interface
- Participation in the evaluations
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND
COMPETENCE:
- Experience of research in Audio Indexing and signal
processing
- Experience in Flash, C and C++ and Matlab programming.
- High productivity, methodical work, excellent programming
style.
- Good knowledge of UNIX and Windows
environments.
AVAILABILITY :
- The position is available in
the "Analysis/Synthesis" team in the R&D department from November 1st
2006 for a duration of 9 months.
EEC WORKING PAPERS :
- In
order to start immediately, the candidate should preferably have EEC
citizenship or already own valid EEC working
papers.
SALARY:
- According to background and
experience.
TO APPLY:
- Please send your resume with
qualifications and informations adressing the above issues, preferably by
email to Xavier Rodet,
Analyse/Synthese team manager.
or by fax at: (33 1) 44 78 15 40, care
of Xavier.Rodet
or by surface mail to: Xavier Rodet, IRCAM, 1 Place
Stravinsky, 75004 Paris.
Introducing IRCAM
IRCAM is a leading
non-profit organization dedicated to musical production, R&D and
education in acoustics and music, located in the center of Paris (France),
next to the Pompidou Center. It hosts composers, researchers and students
from many countries cooperating in contemporary music production,
scientific and applied research. The main topics addressed in its R&D
departement are acoustics, psychoacoustics, audio synthesis and
processing, computer aided composition, user interfaces, real time
systems. Detailed activities of IRCAM and its groups are presented on our
WWW server
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JOURNALS
Papers accepted for FUTURE PUBLICATION in Speech
Communication
Full text available on http://www.sciencedirect.com/ for
Speech Communication subscribers and subscribing institutions. Free access
for all to the titles and abstracts of all volumes and even by clicking on
Articles
in press and then Selected papers.
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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 (http://www.isca-speech.org/) on
conferences and workshops.
FUTURE INTERSPEECH CONFERENCES
INTERSPEECH 2007-EUROSPEECHAugust 27-31,2007,Antwerp,
Belgium
Chair: Dirk van Compernolle, K.U.Leuven and Lou Boves,
K.U.Nijmegen
On-line Registration, Housing and Practical Information is
now available at the conference
website
ISCA, together with the Interspeech 2007 organizing
committee, would like to invite you to participate in the upcoming
conference.
Interspeech 2007 is organized by the Belgian and Dutch
speech communities. It is the 10th biennial Eurospeech conference and the
8th in the annual series of Interspeech events organized by the
International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), after Beijing,
Aalborg, Denver, Geneva, Jeju, Lisbon and Pittsburgh.
The conference
will be held August 27-31 in Antwerp, Belgium.
The main conference
(August 28-31) will take place in the Flanders Congress and Concert
Centre(FCCC) and the adjacent Astrid Park Plaza Hotel. The FCCC is one of
the historic conference centres of Europe; it connects to the Antwerp zoo
and is located right in the city centre. Antwerp is a lively midsize town
with a well preserved medieval center, keeping conference centre and most
hotels and social event venues within comfortable walking distance.
Antwerp was the home town of the famous painter Rubens and is today well
known as an international centre of diamonds. It also hosts one of the
largest harbors in the world.
The Technical Program will include in
parallel 3 oral, 3 poster and 1 special session, totaling 745 papers,
selected from 1268 submitted full papers. For the first time in
INTERSPEECH history, a standard of 3 reviews per paper was used to
evaluate the submissions.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
- Tuesday 28th:
ISCA Medalist: Victor Zue (MIT) "On Organic Interfaces"
- Wednesday
29th: Sophie Scott (Univ. College London) "How the Brain Decodes Speech -
Some Perspectives from Functional Imaging"
- Thursday 30th: Alex Waibel
(CMU and Univ. of Karlsruhe) "Computer-Supported Human-Human Multilingual
Communication"
- Friday 31th: TBA
TUTORIALS:
Tutorials for
Interspeech 2007 are organized by internationally recognized experts in
their fields and will be held on Monday, August 27 on premises of the city
centre campus of the University of Antwerp.
Morning
tutorials:
- Voice Quality in Vocal Communication presenter:
Christophe d'Alessandro
- The Modulation Spectrum and Its Application
to Speech Science and Technology presenters: Les Atlas, Steven Greenberg
and Hynek Hermansky
- Spoken Language Processing by Mind and Machine
presenters: Roger K. Moore and Anne Cutler
- Processing
Morphologically-Rich Languages presenters: Katrin Kirchhoff and Ruhi
Sarikaya
Afternoon tutorials:
- Voice Transformation,
presenter: Yannis Stylianou
- A Mathematical Theory of Speech Signals
- Beyond the Linear Model presenters: Gernot Kubin and Erhard Rank
-
Talking to Computers: from Speech Sounds to Human Computer Interaction
presenters: Giuseppe Riccardi and Sebastian Varges
- Machine Learning
for Text and Speech Processing, presenters: Antal van den Bosch and Walter
Daelemans
REGISTRATION:
The online registration for the
conference is now open. Authors of accepted papers should make sure that
at least one of its authors has registered by the early registration
deadline of June 22, 2007. Papers without any author registration will be
removed from the final program.
ACCOMMODATION: A large number of
rooms has been reserved in several hotels of which most are within a 5-10'
walking distance from the conference centre. An online hotel reservation
form is available on the conference website.
TRAVEL:
Antwerp
is easily reached from the international airports of Brussels and
Amsterdam.
For up to date information on
the technical and social program and for practical arrangements please
visit the conference
website.
If you can't find an essential piece of information there,
please send an email .
We
hope to welcome you in Antwerp in August !
Dirk Van Compernolle,
General Chair
Lou Boves, General Chair
Jean-Pierre Martens,
Technical Program Chair
Helmer Strik, Technical Program Chair
INTERSPEECH 2008-ICSLP September 22-26, 2008, Brisbane,
Queensland, Australia
Conference Website
Chairman: Denis Burnham, MARCS, University of West Sydney.
INTERSPEECH 2009-EUROSPEECH Brighton, UK,
Conference Website
Chairman:
Prof. Roger Moore,
University of Sheffield.
INTERSPEECH 2010-ICSLPChiba, Japan
Conference Website
ISCA is pleased to
announce that INTERSPEECH 2010 will take place in Makuhari-Messe, Chiba,
Japan, September 26-30, 2010. The event will be chaired by Keikichi Hirose
(Univ. Tokyo), and will have as a theme "Towards Spoken Language
Processing for All - Regardless of Age, Health Conditions, Native
Languages, Environment, etc."
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FUTURE ISCA TUTORIAL AND RESEARCH WORKSHOP (ITRW)
6th ISCA Speech Synthesis Research Workshop (SSW-6)
University of Bonn (Germany), August 22-24, 2007
A satellite
of INTERSPEECH 2007 (Antwerp)in collaboration with SynSIG and IfK
(University of Bonn)
Organized shortly after the 16th International
Congress on Phonetic Sciences (Saarbrücken, Germany, August 6-10, 2007).
Like its predecessors in Autrans (France) 1990, New Paltz (NY, USA) 1994,
Jenolan (Australia) 1998, Pitlochry (UK) 2001, and Pittsburgh (PA, USA)
2004, SSW-6 will cover all aspects of speech synthesis and adjacent
fields, such as:
TOPICS (updated list)
* Text processing for
speech synthesis
* Prosody Generation for speech synthesis
*
Speech modeling for speech synthesis applications
* Signal processing
for speech synthesis
* Concatenative speech synthesis (diphones,
polyphones, unit selection)
* Articulatory synthesis
* Statistical
parametric speech synthesis
* Voice
transformation/conversion/adaptation for speech synthesis
* Expressive
speech synthesis
* Multilingual and/or multimodal speech synthesis
* Text-to-speech and content-to-speech
* Singing speech synthesis
* Systems and applications involving speech synthesis
* Techniques
for assessing synthetic speech quality
* Language resources for speech
synthesis
* Aids for the handicapped involving speech synthesis.
Deadlines (updated)
* Full-paper submission (up to 6 pages)
- May 14, 2007 (EXTENDED DEADLINE!)
* Notification of acceptance - June
25, 2007
* Deadline for paper modification - July 15, 2007
Please
send your papers, preferably as PDF files, as an e-mail attachment. Further
information can soon be obtained from the website of the
workshop,
Contact
Prof.
Wolfgang Hess
8th Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGdial), Antwerp,
Belgium
Antwerp, September 2-3, 2007
Held immediately
following Interspeech 2007
Continuing with a series of successful
workshops in Sydney, Lisbon, Boston, Sapporo, Philadelphia, Aalborg, and
Hong Kong, this workshop spans the ACL and ISCA SIGdial interest area of
discourse and dialogue. This series provides a regular forum for the
presentation of research in this area to both the larger SIGdial community
as well as researchers outside this community. The workshop is organized
by SIGdial, which is sponsored jointly by ACL and ISCA.
Topics of
Interest
We welcome formal, corpus-based, implementation
or
analytical work on discourse and dialogue including but not
restricted to the following three themes:
1. Discourse Processing and
Dialogue Systems
Discourse semantic and pragmatic issues in NLP
applications such as text summarization, question answering, information
retrieval including topics like:
· Discourse structure, temporal
structure, information structure
· Discourse markers, cues and
particles and their use
. (Co-)Reference and anaphora resolution,
metonymy and bridging resolution
· Subjectivity, opinions and semantic
orientation
Spoken, multi-modal, and text/web based dialogue systems
including topics such as:
· Dialogue management models;
· Speech
and gesture, text and graphics integration;
· Strategies for
preventing, detecting or handling miscommunication (repair and correction
types, clarification and under-specificity, grounding and feedback
strategies);
· Utilizing prosodic information for understanding and
for disambiguation;
2. Corpora, Tools and Methodology
Corpus-based
work on discourse and spoken, text-based and multi-modal dialogue
including its support, in particular:
· Annotation tools and coding
schemes;
· Data resources for discourse and dialogue studies;
·
Corpus-based techniques and analysis (including machine learning);
·
Evaluation of systems and components, including methodology, metrics and
case studies;
The pragmatics
and/or semantics of discourse and dialogue (i.e. beyond a single sentence)
including the following issues:
· The semantics/pragmatics of dialogue
acts (including those which are less studied in the semantics/pragmatics
framework);
· Models of discourse/dialogue structure and their
relation to referential and relational structure;
· Prosody in
discourse and dialogue;
· Models of presupposition and accommodation;
operational models of conversational implicature.
Submissions
The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers for
full plenary presentation as well as short papers and demonstrations.
Short papers and demo descriptions will be featured in short plenary
presentations, followed by posters and demonstrations.
· Long papers
must be no longer than 8 pages, including title, examples, references,
etc. In addition to this, two additional pages are allowed as an appendix
which may include extended example discourses or dialogues, algorithms,
graphical representations, etc.
· Short papers and demo descriptions
should aim to be 4 pages or less (including title, examples, references,
etc.). Please use the official ACL style files. Submission/Reviewing will
be managed by the START system. Link to follow. Papers that have been or
will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this
information (see submission format). SIGdial 07 cannot accept for
publication or presentation work that will be (or has been) published
elsewhere. Authors are encouraged to make illustrative materials
available, on the web or otherwise. For example, excerpts of recorded
conversations, recordings of human-computer dialogues, interfaces to
working systems, etc.
Important Dates (subject to change)
Submission May 2, 2007
Notification June 13, 2007
Final
submissions July 6, 2007
Workshop September 2-3, 2007
Websites
Workshop website:To be announced
Submission website:To be
announced
Sigdial website
Interspeech 2007 website
Email
Program Committee
(confirmed)
Harry Bunt, Tilburg University, Netherlands
(co-chair)
Tim Paek, Microsoft Research, USA (co-chair)
Simon
Keizer, Tilburg University, Netherlands (local chair)
Wolfgang Minker,
University of Ulm, Germany
David Traum, USC/ICT, USA
SLaTE Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in
Education
ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop
The Summit Inn,
Farmington, Pennsylvania USA October 1-3, 2007.
Website
Speech and natural language
processing technologies have evolved from being emerging new technologies
to being reliable techniques that can be used in real applications. One
worthwhile application is Computer-Assisted Language Learning. This is not
only helpful to the end user, the language learner, but also to the
researcher who can learn more about the technology from observing its use
in a real setting. This workshop will include presentations of both
research projects and real applications in the domain of speech and
language technology in education.
IMPORTANT DATES
Full paper
deadline: May 1, 2007.
Notification of acceptance: July 1,
2007.
Early registration deadline: August 1, 2007.
Preliminary
programme available: September 1, 2007.
Workshop will take place:
October 1-3, 2007.
LOCATION
The workshop will be held in the
beautiful Laurel Highlands. In early October the vegetation in the
Highlands puts on a beautiful show of colors and the weather is still not
too chilly. The event will take place at the Summit Inn, situated on one
of the Laurel Ridges. It is close to the Laurel Caverns where amateur
spelunkers can visit the underground caverns. The first night event will
be a hayride and dinner at a local winery and the banquet will take place
at Frank Lloyd Wright’s wonderful Fallingwater.
TOPICS
The
workshop will cover all topics which come under the purlieu of speech and
language technology for education. In accordance with the spirit of the
ITRWs, the upcoming workshop will focus on research and results, give
information on tools and welcome prototype demons
trations of potential
future applications. The workshop will focus on research issues,
applications, development tools and collaboration. It will be concerned
with all topics which fit under the purview of speech and language
technology for education. Papers will discuss theories, applications,
evaluation, limitations, persistent difficulties, general research tools
and techniques. Papers that critically evaluate approaches or processing
strategies will be especially welcome, as will prototype demonstrations of
real-world applications.
The scope of acceptable topic interests
includes but is not limited to:
- Use of speech recognition for CALL
- Use of natural language processing for CALL
- Use of spoken
language dialogue for CALL
- Applications using speech and/or natural
language processing for CALL
- CALL tutoring systems
- Assessment
of CALL tutors
ORGANIZATION-CONTACT
The workshop is being
organized by the new ISCA Special Interest Group, SLaTE. The general chair
is Dr. Maxine Eskenazi from Carnegie Mellon
University .
PROGRAMME
As per the spirit of ITRWs, the
format of the workshop will consist of a non-overlapping mixture of oral,
poster and demo sessions. Internationally recognized experts from
pertinent areas will deliver several keynote lectures on topics of
particular interest. All poster sessions will be opened by an oral summary
by the session chair. A number of poster sessions will be succeeded by a
discussion session focussing on the subject of the session. The aim of
this structure is to ensure a lively and valuable workshop for all
involved. Furthermore, the organizers would like to encourage researchers
and industrialists to bring along their applications, as well as prototype
demonstrations and design tools where appropriate. The official language
of the workshop is English. This is to help guarantee the highest degree
of international accessibility to the workshop. At the opening of the
workshop hardcopies and CD-ROM of the abstracts and proceedings will be
available.
CALL FOR PAPERS
We seek outstanding technical
articles in the vein discussed above. For those who intend to submit
papers, the deadline is May 1, 2007. Following preliminary review by the
committee, notification will be sent regarding acceptance/rejection.
Interested authors should send full 4 page camera-ready
papers.
REGISTRATION FEE
The fee for the workshop, including
a booklet of Abstracts, the Proceedings on CD-ROM is:
- $325 for ISCA
members and
- $225 for ISCA student members with valid
identification
Registrations after August 1, 2007 cannot be guaranteed.
ADDITIONAL REGISTRATION INFORMATION
All meals except
breakfast for the two and a half days as well as the two special events
are included in this price. Hotel accommodations are $119 per night , and
breakfast is about $10. Upon request we will furnish bus transport from
the Greater Pittsburgh Airport and from Pittsburgh to Farmington at a cost
of about $30. ISCA membership is 55 Euros. You must be a member of ISCA to
attend this workshop.
ITRW Odyssey 2008
The Speaker and Language
Recognition Workshop
21-25 January 2008, Stellenbosch, South
Africa
Topics
* Speaker recognition(identification,
verification, segmentation, clustering)
* Text dependent and
independent speaker recognition
* Multispeaker training and
detection
* Speaker characterization and adaptation
* Features for
speaker recognition
* Robustness in channels
* Robust classification
and fusion
* Speaker recognition corporaand evaluation
* Use of
extended training data
* Speaker recognition with speaker
recognition
* Forensics, multimodality and multimedia speaker
recogntion
* Speaker and language confidence estimation
* Language,
dialect and accent recognition
* Speaker synthesis and
transformation
* Biometrics
* Human recognition
* Commercial
applications
Paper submission
Proaspective authors are
invited to submit papers written in English via the Odyssey website. The style
guide, templates,and submission form can be downloaded from the Odyssey
website. Two members of the scientific committee will review each paper.
Each accepted paper must have at least one registered author. The
Proceedings will be published on CD
Schedule
Draft paper due
July 15, 2007
Notification of acceptance September 15,2007
Final
paper due October 30, 2007
Preliminary program November 30,
2007
Workshop January 21-25, 2008
Futher informations: venue,
registation...
On the workshop website
Chairs
Niko
Brummer, Spescom Data Voice, South Africa
Johan du Preez.Stellenbosch
University,South Africa
ISCA TR Workshop on Experimental Linguistics
2008
August 2008, Athens, Greece
Website
Prof. Antonis Botinis
ITRW on Evidence-based Voice and Speech Rehabilitation in Head
& Neck Oncology
May 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
Cancer in the head and neck area and its treatment can have
debilitating effects on communication. Currently available treatment
options such as radiotherapy, surgery, chemo-radiation, or a combination
of these can often be curative. However, each of these options affects
parts of the vocal tract and/or voice to a more or lesser degree. When the
vocal tract or voice no longer functions optimally, this affects
communication. For example, radiotherapy can result in poor voice quality,
limiting the speaker’s vocal performance (fatigue from speaking, avoidance
of certain communicative situations, etc.). Surgical removal of the larynx
necessitates an alternative voicing source, which generally results in a
poor voice quality, but further affects intelligibility and the prosodic
structure of speech. Similarly, a commando procedure (resection involving
portions of the mandible / floor of the mouth / mobile tongue) can have a
negative effect on speech intelligibility. This 2 day tutorial and
research workshop will focus on evidence-based rehabilitation of voice and
speech in head and neck oncology. There will be 4 half day sessions, 3 of
which will deal with issues concerning total laryngectomy. One session
will be devoted to research on rehabilitation of other head and neck
cancer sites. The chairpersons of each session will prepare a work
document on the specific topic at hand (together with the two keynote
lecturers assigned), which will be discussed in a subsequent round table
session. After this there will be a 30’ poster session, allowing 9-10
short presentations. Each presentation consists of maximally 4 slides, and
is meant to highlight the poster’s key points. Posters will be visited in
the subsequent poster visit session. The final work document will refer to
all research presently available, discuss its (clinical) relevance, and
will attempt to provide directions for future research. The combined work
document, keynote lectures and poster abstracts/papers will be published
under the auspices of ISCA.
Organizers
prof. dr. Frans JM
Hilgers
prof. dr. Louis CW Pols,
dr. Maya van
Rossum.
Sponsoring institutions:
Institute of Phonetic
Sciences - Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication,
The
Netherlands Cancer Institute – Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital
Dates
and submission details as well as a website address will be announced
in a later issue.
Audio Visual Speech Processing Workshop (AVSP
2008)
Tentative location:Queensland coast near Brisbane (most
likely South Stradbroke Island)
Tentative date: 27-29 September 2008
(immediately after Interspeech 2008)
Following in the footsteps of
previous AVSP workshops / conferences, AVSP workshop (ISCA Research and
Tutorial Workshop) will be hold concomitantly to Interspeech2008,
Brisbane, Australia, 22-26 September 2008. The aim of AVSP2008 is to bring
together researchers and practitioners in areas related to auditory-visual
speech processing. These include human and machine AVSP, linguistics,
psychology, and computer science. One of the aims of the AVSP workshops is
to foster collaborations across disciplines, as AVSP research is
inherently multi-disciplinary. The workshop will include a number of
tutorials / keynote addresses by internationally renowned researchers in
the area of AVSP.
Organizers
Roland Goecke, Simon Lucey,
Patrick Lucey
Australian National University,RSISE, Bldg. 115,
Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
Robust ASR Workshop
Santiago,
Chile
October-November 2008
Dr. Nestor Yoma
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FORTHCOMING EVENTS SUPPORTED (but not organized) by ISCA
AVSP 2007
International Conference on Auditory-Visual
Speech Processing 2007,
August 31 - September 3, 2007
Kasteel
Groenendael, Hilvarenbeek, The Netherlands
The next International
Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP 2007) will be
organised by different members of Tilburg University (The Netherlands). It
will take place in Kasteel Groenendael in Hilvarenbeek (The Netherlands)
from August 31, 2007 till September 3, 2007, immediately following
Interspeech 2007 in Antwerp (Belgium). Hilvarenbeek is located at close
distance from Antwerp, so that attendance at AVSP 2007 can easily be
combined with participation in Interspeech 2007.
Auditory-visual speech
production and perception by human and machine is an interdisciplinary and
cross-linguistic field which has attracted speech scientists, cognitive
psychologists, phoneticians, computational engineers, and researchers in
language learning studies. Since the inaugural workshop in Bonas in 1995,
Auditory-Visual Speech Processing workshops have been organised on a
regular basis (see an overview at the avisa website). In line with
previous meetings, this conference will consist of a mixture of regular
presentations (both posters and oral), and lectures by invited speakers.
All presentations will be plenary.
We are happy to announce that the
following experts have agreed to give a keynote lecture at our conference:
Sotaro
Kita (Birmingham)
Asif
Ghazanfar (Princeton)
More details about the conference can be
found on the website
Further information
The 12th International Conference on Speech
and Computer
October 15-18, 2007
Organized by Moscow State
Linguistic University
General Chair:
Prof. Irina Khaleeva (Moscow
State Linguistic University)
Chair:
Prof. Rodmonga Potapova (Moscow
State Linguistic University)
SPECOM'07 is the twelfth conference in the
annual series of SPECOM events. It is organized by Moscow State Linguistic
University and will be held in Moscow, Russia, under the sponsorship of
Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), Ministry of Education and
Science of Russian Federation, the International Speech Communication
Association (ISCA) and others. SPECOM'07 will cover various aspects of
speech science and technology. The program of the conference will include
keynote lectures by internationally renowned scientists, parallel oral and
poster sessions and an exhibition. The sci-tech exhibition that will be
held during the conference will be open to companies and research
institutions. The official language of the Conference will be
English.
Important Dates (Extended)
Paper submission opening
February 1, 2007
Full paper deadline (EXTENDED) June 20, 2007
Paper
acceptance notification: July 1, 2007
Conference October 15-18,
2007
Topics
o Speech signal coding and decoding;
multi-channel transmitted speech intelligibility; speech information
security
o Speech production and perception modeling
o Automatic
processing of multilingual, multimodal and multimedia information
o
Linguistic, para- and extralinguistic communicative strategies
o
Development and testing of automatic voice and speech systems for speaker
verification; speaker psychoemotional state and native language
identification
o Automatic speech recognition and understanding
systems
o Language and speech information processing systems for
robotechnics
o Automated translation systems
o New information
technologies for spoken language acquisition, development and learning
o Text-to-speech conversion systems
o Spoken and written natural
language corpora linguistics
o Multifunctional expert and information
retrieval systems
o Future of multi-purpose and anti-terrorist speech
technologies
PAPER SUBMISSION
The deadline for full paper
submission (4-6 pages) is April 25, 2007. Papers are to be sent by e-mail
to specom2007@mail.ru. All manuscripts must be in English. Please note
that the size of a single letter must not exceed 10 Megabytes (that is,
the total size of all the attached files should not be greater than 7
Megabytes to leave room for recoding operations performed by the e-mail
software). In case the paper files are larger than 7 Megabytes, it is
recommended to pack them into a split WinRar or WinZip archive and send
part by part in a series of letter.
All the papers will be reviewed by
an international scientific committee. Each author will be notified by
e-mail of the acceptance or rejection of her/his paper by May 30, 2007.
Minor updates of accepted papers will be allowed during May 30 - June 15,
2007.
EVALUATION CRITERIA
Submission of a paper or poster is
more likely to be accepted if it is original, innovative, and contributes
to the practice of worldwide scientific communication. Quality of work,
clarity and completeness of the submitted materials will be
considered.
REGISTRATION
Registration will be available at
the Conference on arrival. Early registration deadline: July 10, 2007. The
registration fees are planned to be approximately as follows:
Regular
500 EUR
Students/PG Students 200 EUR
NIS (New Independent States),
Regular 300 EUR
NIS, Students/PG Students 100 EUR
Russia, Regular
150 EUR
Russia, Students/PG Students (no Proceedings) Free Extra Copy
of Proceedings (hard copy) 20 EUR
Extra Proceedings CD/DVD 10
EUR
Information regarding accommodation costs will be available later.
All the registration and accommodation payments will be accepted in cash
during the registration procedure on arrival.
PAPER PREPARATION
GUIDELINES
In the following you will find guidelines for preparing
your full paper to SPECOM'07 electronically.
· To achieve the best
viewing experience both for the Proceedings and the CD (or DVD), we
strongly encourage you to use Times Roman font. This is needed in order to
give the Proceedings a uniform look. Please use the attached printable
version of this newsletter as a model.
· Authors are requested to
submit PDF files of their manuscripts, generated from the original
Microsoft Word sources. PDF files can be generated with commercially
available tools or with free software such as PDFCreator.
· Paper
Title - The paper title must be in boldface. All non-function words must
be capitalized, and all other words in the title must be lower case. The
paper title is centered.
· Authors' Names - The authors' names
(italicized) and affiliations (not italicized) appear centered below the
paper title.
· Abstract - Each paper must contain an abstract that
appears at the beginning of the paper.
· Major Headings - Major
headings are in boldface.
· Sub Headings - Sub headings appear like
major headings, except that they are in italics and not bold face.
·
References - Number and list all references at the end of the paper. The
references are numbered in order of appearance in the document. When
referring to them in the text, type the corresponding reference number in
square brackets as shown at the end of this sentence [1].
·
Illustrations - Illustrations must appear within the designated margins,
and must be positioned within the paper margins. Caption and number every
illustration. All half-tone or color illustrations must be clear when
printed in black and white. Line drawings must be made in black ink on
white paper.
· Do NOT include headers and footers. The page numbers,
session numbers and conference identification will be inserted
automatically in a post processing step, at the time of printing the
Proceedings.
· Apart from the paper in PDF format, authors can upload
multimedia files to illustrate their submission. Multimedia files can be
used to include materials such as sound files or movies. The proceedings
CD (DVD) will NOT contain readers or players, so only widely accepted file
formats should be used, such as MPEG, Windows WAVE PCM (.wav) or Windows
Media Video (.wmv), using only standard codecs to maximize compatibility.
Authors must ensure that they have sufficient author rights to the
material that they submit for publication. Archives (RAR, ZIP or ARJ
format) are allowed. The archives will be unpacked on the CD (DVD), so
that authors can refer to the file name of the multimedia illustration
from within their paper. The submitted files will be accessible from the
abstract card on the CD (DVD) and via a bookmark in the manuscript. We
advise to use SHORT but meaningful file names. The total unzipped size of
the multimedia files should be reasonable. It is recommended that they do
not exceed 32 Megabytes.
· Although no copyright forms are required,
the authors must agree that their contribution, when accepted, will be
archived by the Organizing Committee.
· Authors must proofread their
manuscripts before submission and they must proofread the exact files
which they submit.
POSTERS AND PRESENTATIONS
Only electronic
presentations are accepted. PowerPoint presentations can be supplied on
CD, DVD, FD or USB Flash drives. Designated poster space will be wooden or
felt boards. The space allotted to one speaker will measure 100 cm (width)
x 122 cm (height). Posters will be attached to the boards using pushpins.
Pins will be provided. Thanks for following all of these instructions
carefully! If you have any questions or comments concerning the
submission, please don't hesitate to contact the conference organizers.
Please address all technical issues or questions regarding paper
submission or presentation to our technical assistant Nikolay Bobrov.
CFP IEEE ASRU 2007
Automatic Speech Recognition and
Understanding Workshop
The Westin Miyako Kyoto, Japan
December 9
-13, 2007
Conference
website
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 16, 2007
The tenth biannual
IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU)
cooperated by ISCA will be held during December 9-13, 2007. The ASRU
workshops have a tradition of bringing together researchers from academia
and industry in an intimate and collegial setting to discuss problems of
common interest in automatic speech recognition and
understanding.
WORKSHOP TOPICS
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
- speech-to-speech translation
- spontaneous speech
processing
- speech summarization,
- new applications of
ASR.
SUBMISSIONS FOR THE TECHNICAL PROGRAM
The workshop
program will consist of invited lectures, oral and poster presentations,
and panel discussions. Prospective authors are invited to submit
full-length, 4-6 page papers, including figures and references, to the ASRU 2007 website. All papers will be
handled and reviewed electronically. The website will provide you with
further details. There is also a demonstration session, which has become
another highlight of the ASRU workshop. Demonstration proposals will be
handled separately. Please note that the submission dates for papers are
strict deadlines.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline
July 16, 2007
Paper acceptance/rejection notification September 3,
2007
Demonstration proposal deadline September 24, 2007
Workshop
advance registration deadline October 15, 2007
Workshop December 9-13,
2007
REGISTRATION AND INFORMATION
Registration will be
handled via the ASRU 2007 website .
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chairs:
Sadaoki Furui (Tokyo
Inst. Tech.)
Tatsuya Kawahara (Kyoto Univ.)
Technical
Chairs:
Jean-Claude Junqua (Panasonic)
Helen Meng (Chinese Univ.
Hong Kong)
Satoshi Nakamura (ATR)
Publication Chair:
Timothy
Hazen, MIT, USA
Publicity Chair:
Tomoko Matsui, ISM,
Japan
Demonstration Chair:
Kazuya Takeda, Nagoya U, Japan
CfP-3rd International Conference on Large-scale Knowledge
Resources (LKR 2008)
3-5 March, 2008, Tokyo Institute of
Technology, Tokyo Japan
Website
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Application of Large-scale",Tokyo Institute of
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knowledge, namely how to build, organize, maintain and utilize knowledge
are the central issues in a wide variety of fields. The 21st Century COE
program, "Framework for Systematization and Application of Large-scale
Knowledge Resources (COE-LKR)" conducted by Tokyo Institute of Technology
is one of the attempts to challenge these important issues. Inspired by
this project, LKR2008 aims at bringing together diverse contribution in
cognitive science, computer science, education and linguistics to explore
design, construction, extension, maintenance, validation, and application
of knowledge.
Topics of Interest to the conference
includes:
Infrastructure for Large-scale Knowledge
Grid
computing
Network computing
Software tools and development
environments
Database and archiving systems
Mobile and ubiquitous
computing
Systematization for Large-scale Knowledge
Language
resources
Multi-modal resources
Classification, Clustering
Formal
systems
Knowledge representation and ontology
Semantic
Web
Cognitive systems
Collaborative knowledge
Applications and
Evaluation of Large-scale Knowledge
Archives for science and
art
Educational media
Information access
Document
analysis
Multi-modal human interface
Web applications
Organizing
committee General conference chair: Furui, Sadaoki (Tokyo Institute of
Technology)
Program co-chairs: Ortega, Antonio (University of Southern
California)
Tokunaga, Takenobu (Tokyo Institute of
Technology)
Publication chair: Yonezaki, Naoki (Tokyo Institute of
Technology)
Publicity chair: Yokota, Haruo (Tokyo Institute of
Technology)
Local organizing chair: Shinoda, Koichi (Tokyo Institute of
Technology)
Submission
Since we are aiming at an
interdisciplinary conference covering wide range of topics concerning
large-scale knowledge resources, authors are requested to add general
introductory description in the beginning of the paper so that readers of
other research area can understand the importance of the work. Note that
one of the reviewers of each paper is assigned from other topic area to
see if this requirement is fulfilled.
There are two categories of paper
presentation: oral and poster. The category of the paper should be stated
at submission. Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research
papers, in English, up to 12 pages for oral presentation and 4 pages for
poster presentation, strictly following the LNCS/LNAI format guidelines
available at the Springer LNCS Web page. .
Details of the submission procedure will be announced later
on.
Reviewing
The reviewing of the papers will be blind and
managed by an international Conference Program Committee consisting of
Area Chairs and associated Program Committee Members. Final decisions on
the technical program will be made by a meeting of the Program Co-Chairs
and Area Chairs. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three
program committee members, and one of the reviewers is assigned from a
different topic area.
Publication
The conference proceedings
will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence (LNAI), which will be available at the
conference.
Important dates
Paper submission deadline: 30
August, 2007
Notification of acceptance: 10 October, 2007
Camera
ready papers due: 10 November, 2007
e-mail
correspondence
Call for Papers (Preliminary version) Speech Prosody
2008
Campinas, Brazil, May 6-9, 2008
Speech Prosody 2008 will
be the fourth conference of a series of international events of the
Special Interest Groups on Speech Prosody (ISCA), starting by the one held
in Aix-en Provence, France, in 2002. The conferences in Nara, Japan
(2004), and in Dresden, Germany (2006) followed the proposal of biennial
meetings, and now is the time of changing place and hemisphere by trying
the challenge of offering a non-stereotypical view of Brazil. It is a
great pleasure for our labs to host the fourth International Conference on
Speech Prosody in Campinas, Brazil, the second major city of the State of
São Paulo. It is worth highlighting that prosody covers a
multidisciplinary area of research involving scientists from very
different backgrounds and traditions, including linguistics and phonetics,
conversation analysis, semantics and pragmatics, sociolinguistics,
acoustics, speech synthesis and recognition, cognitive psychology,
neuroscience, speech therapy, language teaching, and related fields.
Information: sp2008_info@iel.unicamp.br. Web site: http://sp2008.org. We
invite all participants to contribute with papers presenting original
research from all areas of speech prosody, especially, but nor limited to
the following.
Scientific Topics
Prosody and the
Brain
Long-Term Voice Quality
Intonation and Rhythm Analysis and
Modelling
Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics and Prosody
Cross-linguistic
Studies of Prosody
Prosodic variability
Prosody in
Discourse
Dialogues and Spontaneous Speech
Prosody of Expressive
Speech
Perception of Prosody
Prosody in Speech Synthesis
Prosody
in Speech Recognition and Understanding
Prosody in Language Learning
and Acquisition
Pathology of Prosody and Aids for the
Impaired
Prosody Annotation in Speech Corpora
Others (please,
specify)
Organising institutions
Speech Prosody Studies
Group, IEL/Unicamp | Lab. de Fonética, FALE/UFMG | LIACC, LAEL,
PUC-SP
Important Dates
Call for Papers: May 15, 2007
Full
Paper Submission: Sept. 30, 2007
Notif. of Acceptance: Nov. 30,
2007
Early Registration: Dec. 20, 2007
Conference: May 6-9, 2008
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FUTURE SPEECH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EVENTS
ICPhS 2007 Satellite Workshop on
Speaker Age
Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany
August
4, 2007
Website
Submission
Deadline: April 15, 2007
SCOPE:
This workshop is dedicated to
current research on speaker age, a speaker-specific quality which is
always present in speech. Although researchers have investigated several
of aspects of speaker age, numerous questions remain, including (1) the
accuracy by which human listeners and automatic recognizers are able to
judge child and adult speaker age from speech samples of different types
and lengths, (2) the acoustic and perceptual features (and combination of
features) which contain the most important age-related information, and
(3) the optimal methods for extracting age-related features and
integrating speaker age into speech technology and forensic applications.
The purpose of the workshop is to bring together participants from
divergent backgrounds (e.g. forensics, phonetics, speech therapy and
speech technology) to share their expertise and results. Further
information can be found on the workshop website.
TOPICS:
The
topics cover, among others, the following issues:
- methods and tools
to identify acoustic correlates of speaker age
- systems which
automatically recognize (or estimate) speaker age
- studies on the
human perception of speaker age
- projects on the synthesis of speaker
age
SUBMISSION:
If you are interested in contributing to the
workshop, please send an extended abstract to both of the organizers Christian Mueller and Susanne Schotz by April 15,
2007. Contributions on work in progress are specifically encouraged. The
abstract does not have to be formatted. Feel free to send .doc, .pdf, .txt
or .tex files.
Interdisciplinary Workshop on "The Phonetics of
Laughter
5 August 2007
Saarbrücken, Germany
Website
Aim
of the workshop
Research investigating the production, acoustics
and perception of laughter is very rare. This is striking because laughter
occurs as an everyday and highly communicative phonetic activity in
spontaneous discourse. This workshop aims to bring researchers together
from various disciplines to present their data, methods, findings,
research questions, and ideas on the phonetics of laughter (and
smiling).
The workshop will be held as a satellite event of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic
Sciences in Saarbrücken, Germany.
Papers
We invite
submission of short papers of approximately 1500 words length. Oral
presentations will be 15 minutes plus 5 minutes discussion time.
Additionally, there will be a poster session. All accepted papers will be
available as on-line proceedings on the web, there will be no printed
proceedings. We plan to publish selected
Submissions
All
submissions will be reviewed anonymously by two reviewers. Please send
submissions by e-mail to laughter@coli.uni-sb.de specifying "short paper"
in the subject line and providing
1. for each author: name, title,
affiliation in the body of the mail
2. Title of paper
3. Preference
of presentation mode (oral or poster)
4. Short paper as plain
text
In addition you can submit audio files (as wav), graphical files
(as jpg) and video clips (as mpg). All files together should not exceed 1
Mb.
Important dates
Submission deadline for short papers:
March 16, 2007
Notification of acceptance: May 16, 2007
Early
registration deadline: June 16, 2007
Workshop dates: August 5,
2007
Plenary lecture
Wallace Chafe (University of California,
Santa Barbara)
Organisation Committee
Nick Campbell (ATR,
Kyoto)
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