ISCA Distinguished Lecturers Program
Announcement for 2007

Purpose

ISCA has just started a new Distinguished Lecturers Program to send Distinguished Lecturers to travel to different parts of the world to give lectures to help promote research activities on speech science and technologies.

Distinguished Lecturers for 2007

2 Distinguished Lecturers have been selected for 2007:
(1)Professor Chin-Hui Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA (Appendix 1)
Proposed lecture topics:
l Principle of Automatic Speech Recognition
l Principle of Automatic Speech and Language Recognition
l Adaptive and Discriminative Modeling

(2)Professor Marc Swerts, Tilburg University, the Netherlands (Appendix 2)
Proposed lecture topics:
l Phonetic correlates of Dialogue and Discourse Structure
l Functions of Audiovisual Prosody
l Error Handling in Human-Human and Human-Machine Interactions
They committed to make time available for Lecture Tours.

Regions Covered by the Program

ISCA Board has identified the following regions as under-represented in ISCA programs and covered by this program: China, India, Eastern Europe, Latin America, South and West Asia, Africa.

Distinguished Lecturers Tours

Distinguished Lecturers Tours are arranged by ISCA upon invitation only. The local hosts should be responsible for making and funding the local arrangements including accommodation and meals, and ISCA will pay travel costs. A Distinguished Lecturer Tour is realizable when at least three lectures, preferably in at least two different cities in the regions defined above, can be arranged.

To Arrange a Distinguished Lecturer Tour

The local hosts wishing to arrange a Distinguished Lecturer Tour should contact Lin-shan Lee, the chair of the ISCA International Affairs Committee. It may be helpful but not necessary if the local hosts can contact the Distinguished Lecturers directly for detailed arrangements such as travel schedule and lecture topics. But the final decision will be made by the ISCA International Affairs Committee considering the travel funds available.

More Details

More details of this Program can be found at ISCA website (http://www.isca-speech.org/DistinguishedLec.html).