Subject: ISCApad #30 Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 14:36:11 GMT From: Isabel Trancoso To: isca_members@isca-speech.org CC: imt@weenie.inesc.pt Dear ISCA members, Dur to some email problems the last issue of ISCApad which I had originally sent out on November 8th was not distributed. My apologies for that. Isabel Trancoso ============================================================================ ISCApad number 30 November 8th, 2000 ============================================================================ Dear ISCA members, Welcome to ISCApad #30. Here's the table of contents for this month's bulletin: ISCA news: - During the last Board meeting in Paris, Sadaoki Furui has been elected as the new Vice-President. Michael Wagner has taken on the role of Industry Liasion (industry@isca-speech.org). - Participation reports from ISCA granted participants available on the ISCA webpage for grants: Rania Voskaki, Iasson Thilikos, Hélène Ledouble & Olivier Kraif (COMLEX'2000, Patras, Greece, September 2000). Happening this month: - ICASSP 2001 http://www.icassp2001.org Deadline for submission of papers: Nov. 10, 2000 Future events (see summaries below): - ITRW on Adaptation methods in Automatic Speech Recognition Sophia Antipolis, Alpes Maritimes, France, August 29-30, 2001 http://www.eurecom.fr/ITRW - DiSS-01 ITRW on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, August 29-31, 2001 http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/DISS-01/ - SST 2000 8th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology Canberra, Australia, 4-7 December 2000 http://www.cs.adfa.edu.au/sst2000 See also: - NSIP 2001 IEEE-EURASIP Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing Baltimore, Maryland USA, June 3-6, 2001 http://www.ece.udel.edu/nsip - ICME 2001 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Waseda University, Tokyo, 22 - 25 August, 2001 http://www.giti.waseda.ac.jp/ICME2001/ Journals: (see below) - Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing on "Speech Technologies for Mobile and Portable Devices" Job offers (see below): - Positions at the speech and multimedia communication (SMC) group at the Center for PersonKommunikation (CPK), Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark ISCA Greetings, Isabel Trancoso ============================================================================= ITRW on Adaptation methods in Automatic Speech Recognition Papers are called for an ISCA workshop on Adaptation methods in Automatic Speech Recognition on August 29-30, 2001 at Sophia Antipolis, Alpes Maritimes, France. It will possible to combine attendance at this workshop and Eurospeech 2001 held on Sept 3-7,2001 in Aalborg (Denmark). Covered topics are: Noise and Channel Compensation Speaker adaptation Pronunciation and lexicon adaptation Database/environment adaptation Language model adaptation. Papers are due by February 15, 2001. Details aand registration form are available on the website http://www.eurecom.fr/ITRW or by mailing to Professor Chris Wellekens (welleken@eurecom.fr) or Dr Jean Claude Junqua (jcj@research.panasonic.com). ============================================================================= ITRW on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS-01) Following the success of the ICPhS Satellite Meeting "Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech" in Berkeley in 1999, we are pleased to announce the sequel, DiSS-01, an ISCA workshop, to be held in Edinburgh, Scotland from August 29-31 2001. Disfluencies -- stalls, hesitations and self-repairs -- in normal spontaneous speech present challenges for researchers in many different fields, ranging from speech production and perception in psychology, to conversational analysis, to automatic speech recognition in speech technology. With the availability of large corpora of spontaneous speech, recent years have seen an increase in interest in the phenomena within all these fields. This workshop will allow an opportunity for researchers from diverse backgrounds to present their research findings, to discuss common interests, to identify future directions and to establish new research collaborations. Register interest via email to: disfl@ling.ed.ac.uk More information on: http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/DISS-01/ ============================================================================= CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 8th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology SST-2000 Canberra, Australia, 4-7 December 2000 http://www.cs.adfa.edu.au/sst2000 SST-2000 is only a few weeks away! Full details on the programme, the keynote speakers and the registration procedure are now available from the SST-2000 website! The conference covers fundamental spoken language research in the areas of linguistics, phonetics, language acquisition etc.; together with technologically motivated research such as speech and speaker recognition, speech synthesis and speech understanding systems, plus the broad use of these technologies. SST-2000 is proud to present Professor Mary Beckman of the Ohio State University (USA) and Professor Sadaoki Furui of Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan) as keynote speakers representing both the technological and scientific domains of speech research. 'Tutorial Day' on Monday, 4 December, is a special day prior to the main conference in which various topics are presented by experts in their field. It is aimed at both 'newer' researchers to our field (e.g. post-grad students) but also seasoned researchers interested in knowing more about an area of speech research which they are not active in. So don't miss out on this excellent opportunity and register for both SST-2000 and Tutorial Day at http://www.cs.adfa.edu.au/sst2000 ! Make SST-2000 your conference! We look forward to seeing you in Canberra! Enquiries? Contact the organisers by email (sst2000@cs.adfa.edu.au)! ============================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS Speech Technologies for Mobile and Portable Devices A Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing In the fifty-four years since the inauguration of ENIAC, computer systems have shrunk by a factor of 1,000,000 in power consumption, 100,000,000 in size, and 300,000,000 in weight. Yet in this continuing reduction of computer technology to digital dust, one important dimension remains constant: the size of the human fingertip. Our cellular phones, pagers and PDAs may spread information and the power to analyze it everywhere, but the traditional mouse-and-keyboard mode of human-computer interaction cannot make the leap to handheld devices. Computer speech technology will fill the breach. What could be simpler than pressing a button on a PDA, and posing the question "Am I free for lunch on Thursday?" In sufficiently restricted domains, it is already possible to interact with computers by talking to them. The keyboard and mouse are just so, well, Twentieth Century. Proposed Content We seek outstanding technical articles on speech and language technology---recognition, synthesis and understanding---as implemented on or in service of portable and mobile devices. By these we mean cellular phones, personal digital assistants, automobiles, wearable computers, and other non-desktop devices. Specific topics for coverage include - algorithms for speech recognition and synthesis in adverse acoustic environments - engineering and economics of power-, weight- and size-constrained speech systems - hardware assistance for speech and language technologies - characteristics of successful applications - standards for speech coding for remote recognition - case studies in engineering complete products However, this list is not intended to be exhaustive, and any high quality technical discussion of an appropriate subject will be entertained for publication. How to Submit The submission deadline is May 1, 2001, with notification by June 30, 2001, for publication in March 2002. Interested authors should send five (5) copies of a hardcopy manuscript, or a Postscript file as an email attachment, to either of: Dr. Harry Printz Prof. Isabel Trancoso IBM Watson Research Center INESC PO Box 218 R. Alves Redol, 9 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 1000 Lisbon USA PORTUGAL printz@us.ibm.com Isabel.Trancoso@inesc.pt ============================================================================= RESEARCH AND TEACHING POSITIONS IN SPEECH AND DIALOGUE PROCESSING Five positions are open at the speech and multimedia communication (SMC) group at the Center for PersonKommunikation (CPK), Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark. SMC conducts research and teaching within the areas focussed on multimedia Human-computer interaction processing with emphasis on speech recognition, speech synthesis, spoken dialogue systems and multi-modal human-computer interaction in real-world applications. Presently there are 60 staff members at CPK out of which approx. 25% are researchers and PhD-students with a non-Danish background. SMC is looking for candidates who have strong interest in the SMC research activities, and each candidate is expected to have a higher degree (Master or PhD) with excellent results from universities or technical universities in the broad disciplines described in the job activity profiles below. 2-3 years of relevant research experience is expected. Potential applicants having a relevant Masters background in one of the SMC research areas will be offered the possibility of enrolment in a PhD programme. Activity 1: Speech Recognition The candidates will contribute to the work within the speech recognition group on general algorithms for acoustic modelling and noise tolerant ASR. Two positions are open immediately. Activity 2: Spoken and multi-modal Dialogue Systems One candidate will contribute to design, integration and evaluation of spoken dialogues into the (wireless) telephone network. One candidate for a two-year assistant lecturer position is wanted. The focus is on teaching and research activities in the area of multi-modal human-computer interaction, especially involving spoken communication. The positions are open immediately. Activity 3: Speech Synthesis The candidate will join CPK's activities within speech synthesis, which are aimed at research and development for the next generation of speech synthesisers. The position is open immediately. For more details see http://cpk.auc.dk/employment/ The actual salary depends on the seniority of each candidate and is calculated by the university on the basis of the employment agreement according to Danish Law. A non-Danish senior applicant, who can evidence her/his research by sufficient qualifications judged by the 'evaluating committee' of the applicants, may obtain a 25% tax reduction for a maximum of a seven years working period in Denmark. Further information may be obtained from Professor Paul Dalsgaard, Center for PersonKommunikation, Niels Jernes Vej 12, DK-9220 Aalborg, Denmark. Phone: +45 96 35 86 42 (direct) or E-mail: pd@cpk.auc.dk. The CPK home page is www.cpk.auc.dk. Please send your application including your detailed CV, your professional background and a statement of your objectives and interest in the work of the SMC group to Aalborg University Det Teknisk-Naturvidenskabelige Fakultet Fredrik Bajers Vej 7F Postboks 159 DK 9100 Aalborg Denmark ============================================================================ All additional information at the ISCA web-site: http://www.isca-speech.org The ISCA secretariat can be contacted at: info@isca-speech.org Requests concerning membership, Speech Communication and ordering Proceedings should be forwarded to the Secretariat. 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