Subject: ISCApad #38 Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 17:35:19 +0100 From: Isabel Trancoso To: isca_members@isca-speech.org ============================================================================ ISCApad number 38 July 6th, 2001 ============================================================================ Dear ISCA members, Welcome to ISCApad #38. Here's the table of contents of this issue: ISCA news: - Elections: Please have a look at the webpage: The contents of this webpage concern the election procedure to replace 7 members of the ISCA Board whose terms of office will end in September 2001. - Relationship with ASJ: The International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) and the Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ) have just agreed to offer membership discounts to members of each other's organizations in the following way: A member of ISCA or ASJ can apply for a 25% discount rate when he or she becomes a member of the other society. (In order for a member of ISCA to become a member of ASJ, he or she must reside outside of Japan.) To qualify for a discounted membership in ASJ, the membership fee must be paid by Master Card or Visa Card. Books: - "Robust Speech Recognition in Embedded Systems and PC Applications" Jean-Claude Junqua Kluwer Academic Publishers - "Digital Speech Processing, Synthesis, and Recognition, Second Edition" Sadaoki Furui Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, Basel News from SIGs: - InSTIL InSTIL 2001 - the POP-InSTIL Day (Portes Ouvertes a la Parole) 29 August 2001, Nijmegen, Holland satellite event of EUROCALL 2001. http://dbs.tay.ac.uk/instil/ - SIGDial 2nd SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue (sponsored by ISCA) Aalborg, Denmark, September 1-2 http://www.sigdial.org/sigdialworkshop01/ Future events: - Call for speech synthesis demonstrations at the 4th ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis Atholl Palace Hotel, Scotland, August 29th - Sept. 1st, 2001 http://www.ssw4.org/ - PUI'01 Workshop on Perceptive User Interfaces BoardWalk Inn, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, November 15-16, 2001 http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/PUI/PUIWorkshop - ASRU'01 2001 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop Madonna di Campiglio (Trento), Italy, December 9 - 13, 2001 http://asru01.itc.it Deadline for submitting papers: August 15th 2001 - LREC2002 3rd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain. Main conference: 29-31 May 2002 Workshops: 27-28 May and 1-2 June 2002 http://www.lrec-conf.org/ - Fourteenth European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI-2002 August 4-17, 2002, Trento, Italy CALL FOR COURSE and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS http://www.folli.uva.nl/Esslli/2002/submission.html Job offers: - Open positions at IDIAP ISCA Greetings, Isabel Trancoso ============================================================================= "Robust Speech Recognition in Embedded Systems and PC Applications" Jean-Claude Junqua Kluwer Academic Publishers ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION IN EMBEDDED SYSTEMS AND PC APPLICATIONS provides a link between the technology and the application worlds. As speech recognition technology is now good enough for a number of applications and the core technology is well established around hidden Markov models many of the differences between systems found in the field are related to implementation variants. We distinguish between embedded systems and PC-based applications. Embedded applications are usually cost sensitive and require very simple and optimized methods to be viable. ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION IN EMBEDDED SYSTEMS AND PC APPLICATIONS reviews the problems of robust speech recognition, summarizes the current state of the art of robust speech recognition while providing some perspectives, and goes over the complementary technologies that are necessary to build an application, such as dialog and user interface technologies. ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION IN EMBEDDED SYSTEMS AND PC APPLICATIONS is divided into five chapters. The first one reviews the main difficulties encountered in automatic speech recognition when the type of communication is unknown. The second chapterfocuses on environment-independent/adaptive speech recognition approaches and onthe mainstream methods applicable to noise robust speech recognition. The third chapter discusses several critical technologies that contribute to making an application usable. It also provides some design recommendations on how to design prompts, generate user feedback and develop speech user interfaces. The fourth chapter reviews several techniques that are particularly useful for embedded systems or to decrease computational complexity. It also presents some case studies for embedded applications and PC-based systems. Finally, the fifth chapter provides a future outlook for robust speech recognition, emphasizing the areas that the author sees as the most promising for the future. ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION IN EMBEDDED SYSTEMS AND PC APPLICATIONS serves as a valuable reference and although not intended as a formal University textbook, contains some material that can be used for a course at the graduate or undergraduate level. It is a good complement for the book entitled "Robustness in Automatic Speech Recognition: Fundamentals and Applications" co-authored by the same author. ============================================================================= "Digital Speech Processing, Synthesis, and Recognition, Second Edition" Sadaoki Furui Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, Basel About the second edition ... Reflecting the increasingly critical importance of speech for the ubiquitous technologies of digital speech processing, this thorough reference/text encompasses fundamental and advanced techniques, the latest applications, and technological breakthroughs in human- machine communications. Completely revised and updated and incorporating the latest advances, Digital Speech Processing, Synthesis, and Recognition, Second Edition contains newly added sections on the international standardization of robust and flexible speech coding techniques, especially CELP and its use in cellular phones ... waveform unit concatenation-based speech synthesis ... large-vocabulary continuous-speech recognition based on statistical pattern recognition paradigms such as hidden Markov models (HMMs) and stochastic language models ... increased robustness of speech recognition systems against speech variation, including speaker- independent and speaker-adaptive recogniton ... robust algorithms against noise and channel distortions ... and more. ============================================================================= InSTIL On the opening day of the EUROCALL 2001 Confence, just before the conference opens, InSTIL organises its fourth event (see details below). InSTIL 2001: The "POP InSTIL Day" Portes Ouvertes à la Parole A celebration of the Integration of Speech Technology in Language Learning in the 21st Century Date: Wednesday 29th August 2001 in Nijmegen, Holland (satellite event of EUROCALL 2001) Event: The popular InSTIL series continues with what is planned to be our first Hands-On Event and Exhibition with our usual fare of thematic presentations by major academic and industry players. This is yet another reason for attending the EUROCALL conference. Due to this late notice, the Early Bird registration for this event has been extended to June 15th 2001. In brief: Against the backdrop of the first "Illustrated History of Speech Technology in Language Learning", which, like the History of CALL will then be published on a web site, the day will have the following elements: 1. An Exhibition of Hardware, Software, Courseware, Publications and academic protoypes (we have up to 20 Exhibition Stands available), with the following very generous deal from the EUROCALL organisers. The Exhibition Fee will be reduced from 350 Euros to just 200 for InSTIL participants who are of course encouraged to exhibit also at the large EUROCALL 2001 Conference. 2. All Exhibitors will have two entries to the Thematic Talks and one set of InSTIL Publications (see later). This means that two academics could have a stand to just demonstrate prototypes if they wish. For "ordinary participants' rates, see bottom of this message. 3. The programme of thematic talks is shown below, we include our usually high standard of KeynoteSpeakers. 4. Participants will enjoy free gifts of relevant products or publications. There is also an important option to purchase with your fee the two books just released which relate to InSTIL 99 and InSTIL 2000. Fees for Participation: Standard With 2 Books Early Bird (15/6) 60 Euros 100 Euros Late Fee (after 15/6) 75 Euros 115 Euros InSTIL 2001 Programme Sponsored by Intellect Books and the leading magazine Speech Technology More sponsors will follow and every participant is guarantee a free gift worth at least 20 US dollars or Euros. Some gifts will exceed in value the participation fee including the highly-praised and well-known programme Winpitch, Auralog CDs, featured in the History of STiLL, etc... 9 am Formal Opening of "An Illustrated History of STiLL" by Professor Ron Cole from CSLR, University of Colarodo at Boulder, USA. Free Event. 10.00 hrs Opening of Thematic Talks by Ton Koet, one of the founding members of CAPITAL, then InSTIL. Ton will naturally welcome the audience in Dutch and English. He will then introduce the first speaker: Prof. Jared Bernstein from Ordinate (attached also to Stanford University) will introduce his work in the area of Speech Recognition and Language Testing (see http://www.ordinate.com/) 10.30 hrs Julia Kommissarchick from BetterAccent.com will present the company's remarkable product for teaching English Pronunciation with visualisation, etc... See http://www.betteraccent.com/ Break 11.00 hrs Prof. Garry Moholt from West Chester University will also present innovative research in the use of visualisation tools such as the industry standard Kay Elemetrics hardware. 11.30 am Pierre-Yves Toche and Philippe Delcloque from the University of Abertay Dundee will show what use could be made of Speech-Enabled Virtual Reality in Language Learning. They will explain the design of the prototype "Zoé va au Zoo, Odyssée Spatiale de l'An 01", part of the umbrella THRILLING project. 14.00 hrs Helmer Strik and Catia Cucchiarini from the University of Nijmegen, the local host university, whose department has an international reputation in Speech Science & Engineering, will present a paper on Automatic Assessment and Fluency. 14.30 hrs Prof. Keith Ross from Institut Eurocom and Wimba will discuss "Teaching Languages with Asynchronous Voice over the Internet", see http://www.wimba.com/ 15.00 hrs Prof. Ron Cole from the Centre for Speech Language Research in Colorado will close the meeting with an update on the award winning CSLU Toolkit. Ron, on behalf of the CSLU team, which comprises the creators of BALDI, Profs. Michael Cohen and Dominic Massaro from the University of Santa Cruz, will also receive the first InSTIL Prize for "Outstanding Lifetime Contribution to the Integration of Speech Technology in Language Learning". This will happen during the opening ceremony for the History of STiLL. InSTIL is once again grateful to EUROCALL 2000 Keynote Speaker, Ron Cole for honouring us with his presence on European soil. Ron has also promised to donate a CSLU Toolkit new product CD-ROM for each participant in InSTIL 2001. You are therefore all likely to receive more than one free gift. CAPITAL 98 had 20 participants, InSTIL 99 40, InSTIL 2000 80, this year, we don't expect that many but we hope to see some of you and previous participants will notice that our presentations are once again different from our previous efforts. This year, you also get a chance to buy our first books which are also available separately. Should you have any queries about any aspect, please contact Philippe on P.DELCLOQUE@MAIL1.TAY.AC.UK ============================================================================ Call for speech synthesis demonstrations at the 4th ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis Atholl Palace Hotel, Perthshire, Scotland August 29th - September 1st, 2001 http://www.ssw4.org/ In its 4th workshop on research aspects of current speech synthesis technology we will have a session specifically devoted to demonstrations of existing research and commercial systems and applications using speech synthesis technology. Although no formal evaluation sessions will be carried out we would like all participating systems to render a randomly chosen set of utterances before the conference so that close comparisons will be possible by attendees of the conference. Also we encourage stand-alone and web based demonstrations at the workshop (for which we will provide central access machine(s)). At this point we ask for submissions for systems that wish to be demonstrated. Demonstrators should provide an machine (probably a laptop) that they can use to demonstrate their system at the conference itself. In addition to the demonstrations we invite short written descriptions of each system (2-6 pages, in the style of other papers at the conference), which will be included in the conference proceedings. If you wish your system/voice/application to be included in the demonstrations please send an "intention to demonstrate message" to Alan W Black (awb@cs.cmu.edu) giving the following information system name: contact person: language(s): organization: basic description of system/application: Please also subscribe to the ssw4-demos mailing list described at http://www.speechinfo.org/ssw4-demos/index.html where further announcements will be made. Written descriptions of systems should be submitted by July 15th, and a final list of accepted demonstrations will be notified by August 1st (due to space limitations etc we may not be able to accept all submissions). The common sample utterances to be rendered will by made available during the first week in August. Alan W Black, Carnegie Mellon University and Cepstral, LLC and Paul Taylor, Rhetorical Systems and University of Edinburgh ========================================================================= Announcement and Call for Participation Workshop on Perceptive User Interfaces (PUI'01) November 15-16, 2001 BoardWalk Inn, Lake Buena Vista, Florida http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/PUI/PUIWorkshop Reminder - paper submission deadline July 6th ! The conference is in cooperation with ACM. The proceeding will be archived in ACM digital library. Dr. Melody Moore from GSU has agreed to give a keynote speech on her work using the neurotrophic electrode that enables "locked-in" patients to control the cursor using thought, http://www.neuralsignals.com. Human-computer interaction has not fundamentally changed for nearly two decades: most users are still limited to interacting with computers via keyboards and pointing devices. However an increasing number of researchers are developing technologies to add perceptive capabilities to the human-computer interface. Such perceptive user interfaces will transform the nature of human computer interaction. The 2001 Workshop on Perceptive User Interfaces (PUI'01) will be held at Disney's BoardWalk Inn in Orlando Florida, immediately following the ACM UIST'01 conference also held in the BoardWalk Inn. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers from academia and industry with common interests in making human-computer interaction more natural and compelling by integrating perceptive capabilities into the user interface. The intimate size, focus on discussion, and comfortable surroundings will make this workshop an excellent opportunity to exchange ideas, share research results and learn about issues and technologies driving the next generation of user interfaces. The two-day workshop will be structured to facilitate a high degree of interaction. There will be oral and poster presentations of current research, invited talks, focused discussion or break-out sessions, panel discussions, and open discussion time. The format is intended to emphasize the interdisciplinary nature of perceptive user interfaces, and to expose the participants to the main issues and challenges in each of the related research areas. Topics of interest include multimodal interfaces, interactions with attentive/intelligent environments, vision-based interfaces, speech and conversational interfaces, haptics, interactions with virtual/augmented/mixed reality, learning and user modeling, cognitive studies related to perceptive interfaces, sensor fusion, and systems issues associated with perceptive user interfaces. There are three categories of submissions, due by July 6, 2001: (1) FULL PAPER describing original research in areas related to perceptive user interfaces. Accepted papers will be presented orally at the workshop. (2) RESEARCH NOTE describing ongoing research and/or demonstrations. Accepted research notes will be presented at a poster/demo session. (3) PANEL PROPOSAL describing a panel, break-out session intending to promote and provoke relevant discussion. See the workshop's web site for more detailed submission instructions. For more details and updated information concerning the workshop, submissions, registration, and the Orlando area, visit the web site: http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/PUI/PUIWorkshop. Workshop Chair Myron Flickner, IBM Research Program Committee chairs Sharon Oviatt, Oregon Graduate Institute Trevor Darrell, MIT AI Lab Sponsorship Chair Gary Bradski, Intel Website Chair Matthew Turk, UC Santa Barbara Program Committee Gregory Abowd, Georgia. Tech Elisabeth Andre, DFKI Phil Cohen, Oregon Graduate Institute Joelle Coutaz, CLIPS-IMAG Jim Crowley, INRIA Irfan Essa, Georgia. Tech Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Inst. of Technology Jim Glass, MIT Jim Hollan, UCSD Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research Rob Jacob, Tufts Univ./MIT Media Lab Susan J. Lederman, Queens Univ. Karon Maclean, UBC Kenji Mase, ATR Dominic Massaro, UCSC George McConkie, Univ. of Illinois Tom Moran, IBM Research Javier Movellan, UCSD Chalapahy Neti, IBM Research Vladimir Pavlovic, Compaq CRL Tienu Tan, CAS Institute of Automation Terry Winograd, Stanford Univ. Jie Yang, CMU Shumin Zhai, IBM Research ============================================================================= 2001 IEEE AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION AND UNDERSTANDING WORKSHOP ASRU'01 December 9 - 13, 2001 Madonna di Campiglio (Trento), Italy "http://asru01.itc.it" SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT The workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society, will be held in December 9-13, 2001, in Madonna di Campiglio, Italy. >From July 15th, the WEB site will allow the submission of papers, the registration to the workshop, and the reservation of hotel rooms and transportation services. Attendance will be limited (about 180 participants) with priority given to those who will submit written technical contributions and to companies and universities who will contribute to the exhibition event on Tuesday 11th. We strongly encourage early registration and room reservation in order to ensure an accomodation at the hotel where the workshop will be hosted. The workshop will focus on recent advances and new paradigms and systems for automatic speech recognition and understanding. Topics to be covered in a submitted paper include, but are not limited to: - Wireless ASR, Distributed Speech Recognition and Hands-Free Interaction - ASR Robustness: Feature Extraction, Acoustic Modeling and Adaptation - Broadcast News, Digital Archives and Audio-Video Information Retrieval - Large Vocabulary: Language Modeling and Speech Understanding - Multilinguality and Speech-to-Speech Translation - Dialogue systems: Voice Agents, Applications and Field Trials Prospective authors are invited to electronically submit a full, camera-ready 4 page paper. The paper style is that adopted at ICASSP 2001: submission instructions can be found in the web site of the workshop. Papers accepted for presentation will be compiled in a compact disk and distributed at the workshop. IMPORTANT DATES: Electronic submission of photo-ready papers August 15, 2001 Super early registration, before September 1 Notification of acceptance October 1 Advance registration, before October 15 (no on-site registration) WORKSHOP COMMITTEE: Co-Chairs: Alex Acero (alexac@microsoft.com) Microsoft Research Maurizio Omologo (omologo@itc.it) ITC-irst Local Arrangements: Gianni Lazzari (lazzari@itc.it) ITC-irst Technical Program: Roberto Pieraccini (roberto.pieraccini@speechworks.com) SpeechWorks Alex Potamianos (potam@research.bell-labs.com) Bell Labs - Lucent Technologies Giuseppe Riccardi (dsp3@research.att.com) AT&T Shannon Labs Publicity: Jean-Luc Gauvain (gauvain@limsi.fr) LIMSI-CNRS Sponsorship: Isabel Trancoso (Isabel.Trancoso@inesc.pt) INESC Far East Liaison: Sadaoki Furui (furui@cs.titech.ac.jp) Tokyo Institute of Technology In cooperation with ISCA (the International Speech Communication Association), the workshop will allocate a limited number of student grants to qualified applicants. The conditions and procedure for grant application can be found at "http://www.isca-speech.org/grants.html". For more information, please send email to "asru01@itc.it" or visit the workshop web site at "http://asru01.itc.it". ============================================================================= LREC2002 First Announcement and Call for Papers THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION Las Palmas, Canary Islands - Spain Main conference: 29-30-31 MAY 2002 Workshops: 27-28 MAY and 1-2 JUNE 2002 With support of TELEFONICA Foundation (of Spain) and support sought from the Commission of the EU and other institutions. The Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation is organised by ELRA in cooperation with other Associations and Consortia, including ACL, AFNLPA, ALLC, CLASS, COCOSDA, ORIENTAL COCOSDA, EAFT, EAGLES/ISLE, ELSNET, ENABLER, EURALEX, FRANCIL, ISCA, LDC, ONTOWEB, PAROLE, etc., and with major national and international organisations, including the Commission of the EU Information Society DG, DARPA, NSF, and the Japanese Project for International Co-ordination of East-Asian Spoken Language Resources and Evaluation. Co-operation with other organisations is currently being sought. PROGRAM The Scientific Program will include invited talks, presentations of oral papers, poster sessions, referenced demonstrations and panels. A special workshop will be organised on National Projects in LR and evaluation. FORMAT FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION Submitted abstracts of papers for oral and posters presentations should consist of about 800 words. Demonstrations of LR and related tools will be reviewed as well. Please send an outline of about 400 words. If a demo is connected to a paper, please attach the outline to the paper abstract. A limited number of panels and workshops is foreseen. Proposals are welcome and will be reviewed. For panels please send a brief description, including an outline of the intended structure (topic, organiser, panel moderator , tentative list of panelists). For workshops, see below. All submissions should include a separate title page, providing the following information: type of proposal (paper for oral presentation, paper for poster presentation, demo, paper plus demo, panel); the title to be printed in the programme of the Conference; names and affiliations of the authors or proposers; the full address of the first author (or a contact person), including phone, fax, email, URL; the required facilities for presentation (overhead projector, data display; other hardware, platforms, communications); and 5 keywords. Exhibits: An exhibit area will also be made available at LREC2002. This is open to companies and projects wishing to promote, present and demonstrate their language resources and evaluation products and prototypes to a wide range of experts and representatives from all over the world who will be participating at the conference. Please note that the exhibits of LR are different from system demonstrations. The exhibits will run in parallel with the Conference for 3 days and the exhibit hall will be located near the general conference rooms. For more information, please contact the ELDA office at: choukri@elda.fr IMPORTANT DATES · Submission of proposals for oral and poster papers, referenced demos, panels and workshops: 20 NOVEMBER 2001 · Notification of acceptance of workshop and panel proposals: 10 DECEMBER 2001 · Notification of acceptance of oral papers, posters, referenced demos: 2 FEBRUARY 2002 · Final versions for the Proceedings: 2 APRIL 2002 · Conference: 29-30-31 MAY 2002 · Pre Conference Workshops: 27-28 MAY 2002 · Post Conference Workshops: 1-2 JUNE 2002 Conference Proceedings will include both oral and poster papers. WORKSHOPS Pre-Conference Workshops will be organised on the 27th and 28th of May 2002,and post-Conference Workshops on the 1st and 2nd of June 2002. Proposals for workshops should be sent to: Antonio Zampolli - LREC chairman Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR Area della Ricerca di Pisa, Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa - ITALY The detailed announcement will be available at the following addresses: http://www.lrec-conf.org/ For general information about ELRA, please contact: Khalid CHOUKRI 55-57 Rue Brillat-Savarin 75013 Paris FRANCE Tel. +33 1 43 13 33 33 - Fax. +33 1 43 13 33 30 E-mail: choukri@elda.fr Web site: http://www.elda.fr or http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA/ ============================================================================= SEVERAL OPEN POSITIONS IN SPEECH, COMPUTER VISION, MACHINE LEARNING, AND MULTIMODAL INTERFACES The IDIAP Institute (http://www.idiap.ch) is a not-for-profit research institute affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL) and the University of Geneva. Located in Martigny (Valais, CH), IDIAP is partly funded by the Swiss Federal Government, the State of Valais, and the City of Martigny, and is involved in numerous national and international (European) projects. Particularly active in the fields of speech and speaker recognition, computer vision, and machine learning, where IDIAP is targeting at the highest level of research. The institute currently numbers around 35-40 scientists, including permanent senior scientists, postdocs, and PhD students. Recently, IDIAP (in close collaboration with the EPFL Signal Processing Laboratory of Prof. Murat Kunt, http://ltswww.epfl.ch) has been awarded a major (10 years) research grant as the "Leading House" of a large National Centre of Competence in Research on "Interactive Multimodal Information Management". In view of the resulting (present and future) growth of the Institute, IDIAP currently welcomes applications of talented candidates at all levels with expertise or strong interest in the fields of speech processing, computer vision, machine learning, and multimodal interaction. The open positions include: management and senior positions (including one scientific deputy director and one speech processing group leader), project leaders, postdocs, and PhD students. Two EPFL tenure track positions at the Assistant Professor level (with most of the research responsibilities located at IDIAP) are also available. Preference will be given to candidates with experience in one or several of the following areas: signal processing, statistical pattern recognition (typically applied to speech and scene analysis), neural networks, hidden Markov models, speech and speaker recognition, computer vision, human/computer interaction (dialog). Senior and postdoc candidates should also have a proven record of high quality research and publications. All applicants should be experienced in C/C++ programming and familiar with the Unix environment; they should also be able to speak and write in English (and be willing to learn French). LOCATION: IDIAP is located in the town of Martigny (http://www.martigny.ch) in Valais, a scenic region in the South of Switzerland, surrounded by the highest mountains of Europe, and offering exciting recreational activities (including hiking, climbing and skiing), as well as varied cultural activities. It is also within close proximity to Montreux, Lausanne (EPFL) and Lake Geneva, and centrally located for travel to other parts of Europe. PROSPECTIVE CANDIDATES should send their detailed CV, together with a letter of motivation and 3 reference letters, to: IDIAP Att: Secretariat/jobs P.O. Box 592, Simplon, 4 CH-1920 Martigny Switzerland Email: jobs@idiap.ch Phone: +41-27-721.77.11 Fax: +41-27-721.77.12 ============================================================================= 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. For message distribution at ISCA list contact: public@isca-speech.org Short messages will be forwarded on a monthly scheme basis to all ISCA members. ============================================================================