============================================================================ ISCApad number 52 September 10th, 2002 ============================================================================ Dear ISCA members, The regular date of issue is the first week of each month. Do not forget to send the information you want to display for the members in time to be included (last week of each month). Next issue will appear in the first week of October. TABLE OF CONTENTS ================= *ISCA News *Job openings *Journals *Future ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshops (ITRW) *Future ISCA supported events *Future Speech Science and technology events ============================================================================= ISCA NEWS ========= -Information on on-going theses could be very useful for thesis supervizors, researchers as well as PhD students.A list of speech theses is available at http://HLTheses.elsnet.org - ISCApad publish now a list of accepted papers for publication in Speech Communication. These papers can be viewed on the website of ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com) if your institution has subscribed to Speech Communication. -This is a message from Jean Francois Bonastre, President of the Association Francaise pour la Communication Parlee: When someone becomes a member of AFCP : If he/she is not member of ISCA yet, he/she becomes member of both associations for 12 months, else, his/her membership to ISCA and AFCP extends to 12 months beyond the normal expiration of his/her membership ISCA. ============================================================================== JOB OPENINGS ============== MARCS Auditory Laboratories, UWS, Sydney, Australia Postdoctoral Research Fellowship BANKSTOWN CAMPUS Salary Range $48,244 - $51,711 pa Lecturer A (step 6-8) 3 Year Contract Ref. No. C2002/069 __________________________________________________________ MARCS Auditory Laboratories on the Bankstown Campus of UWS, invites applications from people with a doctorate in Psychology, Linguistics, Engineering, Computer Science, Signal Processing or related areas, and expertise in any of the following: speech science (ASR, TTS, etc), signal processing, music technology, music perception/production, mathematical modelling, hearing/hearing impairment, or any area related to auditory research. The successful applicant will be an independent thinker who contributes to various aspects of MARCS research activity - developing grant applications, working with industry partners, publishing and supervising PhD students. Position Enquiries: For further details and documentation about this position contact Gail Charlton email: g.charlton@uws.edu.au phone: (02) 9772 6677. Or contact Prof Denis Burnham Closing Date: 11th September 2002 HOW TO APPLY Application Packages: Please visit the UWS website for all documentation covering this position including Selection Criteria. Written applications should quote the reference number, address the selection criteria, include a resume with a business hours contact number and the names, addresses, fax, telephone numbers and email addresses of three (3) professional referees. Applications must be received by the nominated closing date to the following (note only applications received via email will be acknowledged). Email to: recruitment_ctown@uws.edu.au or mail to Human Resources Services, Campbelltown Campus, Building 3, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith South DC NSW 1797 =============================================================================== JOURNALS ============ _ Call for Papers International Journal of Speech Technology Special Issue on Chinese Spoken Language Technology (see attached files) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The NIMM (Natural Interaction and MultiModality) working group within the ISLE (International Standards for Language Engineering) project would like to inform you about the four following reports, which we hope may be of interest to you: Report 8.1: Survey of NIMM data resources including strategic report describing current and future user profiles, markets and user needs for NIMM resources. Report 9.1: Survey of annotation schemes and identification of best practice. Report 10.1: Survey of best practice and trends in metadata description. Report 11.1: Survey of existing tools, standards and user needs for annotation of natural interaction and multimodal data. Report 11.2: Requirements specification for a tool in support of annotation of natural interaction and multimodal data The reports can be found at http://isle.nis.sdu.dk under the "Reports". The reports are the result of one year of surveying whatever could be found within the area of multimodal resources, annotation schemes, metadata descriptions, tools, current and future market and user needs, user profiles and best practice. The reports are very extensive and are meant to be up-to-date, and we sincerely hope, that they may be helpful to you in some way. A web-based facility has been set up at the ISLE NIMM website (see above) under each of the reports 8.1, 9.1 and 11.1, which enables any interested colleague to upload information about a NIMM data resource, annotation scheme and/or coding tools, which has not been included already. We hope that our colleagues in the emerging NIMM community will use the facility to help each other by sharing their information with others and contribute to maintaining an up-to-date and valuable pool of NIMM information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Papers accepted for future publication in Speech Communication. Full text available on http://www.sciencedirect.com for Speech Communication subscribers and subscribing institutions. Click on Publications and then on Speech Communication. The list of Papers in press appear and a .pdf file for each paper is available. No update in August; we just replicate the list published in ISCApad 51. 1. A segmental speech coder based on a concatenative TTS, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 6 August 2002 Ki-Seung Lee and Richard V. Cox 2. Corrigendum to "Editorial" [Speech Communication 37 (2002) (1¯2)], In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 6 August 2002 David S. Pallett and Lori Lamel 3. Progress in transcription of Broadcast News using Byblos, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 6 August 2002 Long Nguyen, Spyros Matsoukas, Jason Davenport, Francis Kubala, Richard Schwartz and John Makhoul 4. Estimation of the signal-to-noise ratio with amplitude modulation spectrograms, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 5 August 2002 J?rgen Tchorz and Birger Kollmeier 5. Thematic indexing of spoken documents by using self-organizing maps, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 5 August 2002 Mikko Kurimo 6. Telephone speech quality prediction: Towards network planning and monitoring models for modern network scenarios, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 5 August 2002 Sebastian M÷ller and Alexander Raake 7. Robust speaker verification with state duration modeling, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 5 August 2002 Nestor Becerra Yoma and Tarciano Facco Pegoraro 8. Cross-language use of acoustic information for automatic speech recognition, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 5 August 2002 C. Nieuwoudt and E. C. Botha 9. Dynamic programming method for temporal registration of three-dimensional tongue surface motion from multiple utterances, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 5 August 2002 Changsheng Yang and Maureen Stone 10. Testing the correlation of word error rate and perplexity, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 2 August 2002 Dietrich Klakow and Jochen Peters 11. A segmental-feature HMM for continuous speech recognition based on a parametric trajectory model, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 2 August 2002 Young-Sun Yun and Yung-Hwan Oh 12. User evaluation of the M kiosk, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 2 August 2002 L. Lamel, S. Bennacef, J. L. Gauvain, H. Dartigues and J. N. Temem 13. Systematic errors in the formant analysis of steady-state vowels, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 2 August 2002 Gautam K. Vallabha and Betty Tuller 14. Intelligibility evaluation of GSM coder for Mandarin speech using CDRT, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 2 August 2002 Ian McLoughlin, Zhongqiang Ding and Eng Chong Tan 15. Speech act modeling in a spoken dialog system using a fuzzy fragment-class Markov model, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 2 August 2002 Chung-Hsien Wu, Gwo-Lang Yan and Chien-Liang Lin ============================================================================== FUTURE ISCA TUTORIAL AND RESEARCH WORKHOPS (ITRW) ================================================== Publication policy: Hereunder, you will find very short announcements of future events. The full call for participation appears in attached files ext#.doc or ext#.pdf only once and later referred to a previous issue of ISCApad. See also our Web pages (http://www.isca-speech.org) on conferences and workshops. - ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation for Spoken Language Technology September 14-15, 2002 Aspen Lodge, Estes Park, Colorado, USA http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/pmla2002/ (see ISCApad47) - ITRW on Advanced ASR for Telecom Applications Palais des Papes, Avignon, France, 27-29 November 2002 NEW WEBSITE: http://lands.let.kun.nl/SMADA (Click on Events and Activities) (see ISCApad40) - MMSP-02 (IEEE Signal Processing Society / ISCA) 2002 International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, December 9-11, 2002 http://mmsp02.njit.edu (see ISCApad40) -ITRW on Multilingual Spoken Document Retrieval Macau, prior to ICASSP 2003 in Hong Kong. April 4-5, 2003 (see ISCApad49) http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/MSDR -ISCA and IEEE Workshop on Spontaneous Speech Processing and Recognition, Tokyo, April 14th-16th ,2003 (after ICASSP 2003 in Hong Kong). http://www.crl.go.jp/pub/orc-speech/sspr03.html (see ISCApad49) -ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Error Handling in Spoken Dialogue Systems, August 28-31, 2003 Location: Hotel Roc et Neige http://www.cm.be/images/intersoc/Chateau/chateaug.htm Chateau-d'Oex-Vaud, Switzerland http://www.skiswitzerland.com/chateau/chateau.htm Workshop website: http://www.speech.kth.se/error/ (see attached files) - First ITRW on AUDITORY QUALITY OF SYSTEMS Akademie Mont-Cenis, Germany, 23-25 April 2003 Deadline: October 15,2002: submission of a 800-word abstract Contact person: Ute Jekosch Institute of Communication Acoustics Ruhr-University Bochum D-44780 Bochum, Germany Email: jekosch@ika.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Phone: +49 234 322 2495 Fax: +49 234 321 4165 Web: http://www.ika.ruhr-uni-bochum.de -DiSS03 Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, Gotenburg University, September 2003 (to be convenient for participants to Eurospeech 2003 in Geneva). (see attached files) =========================================================================== FUTURE ISCA SUPPORTED EVENTS ============================ - ICSLP 2002: SATELLITE WORKSHOPS: * ICVPB: Workshop on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics. Theme: physiology research on the larynx and voice Dates: Sept. 13-16, 2002 * IEEE 2002 WORKSHOP ON SPEECH SYNTHESIS (see ISCApad 45) 11-13 September 2002, Santa Monica, CA Dedicated to the memory of Michael Macon Sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society http://www.research.att.com/conf/ttsworkshop/ for more information, please see: http://www.icslp2002.org/information/satellite_workshops.html -7th ICSLP 2002 (International Conference on Spoken Language Processing) September 16 - 20, 2002 Adams Mark Hotel and Conference Center Denver, Colorado http://www.icslp2002.org (see ISCApad43) -At ICSLP 2002, Special session on "NOISE ROBUST RECOGNITION - Robust Algorithms and a Comparison of their Performance on the "Aurora 2 & 3" Databases" ICSLP Special Session: day TBD in 17-20 Sept 2002 http://www.icslp2002.org/papers/index.html (see ISCApad 45) -International Symposium on Past, Present and Future of the Speech Transmission Index honouring the work of Herman Steeneken and Tammo Houtgast 24 and 25 October 2002, Soesterberg, The Netherlands http://wwww.sti-symposium.org (see ISCApad46) - COST275 Workshop on " The Advent of Biometrics on the Internet" Rome, Italy, 7-8 November 2002 http://www.fub.it/cost275/rome2002/ Responsible: Aladdin Ariyaeeinia, Herts University, UK (see ISCApad49) -Eurospeech 2003, Geneva, Switzerland, Sept 1-4, 2003, http://www.eurospeech2003.org ============================================================================= FUTURE SPEECH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EVENTS =========================================== -Fifth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2002) Brno, Czech Republic, 9-12 September 2002 (see ISCApad47 and 50) Call for demonstrations and participation! http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2002/ -3rd Biennial ICVPB: International Conference on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics (in conjunction with the 7th ICSLP) Denver, USA, 14-16 September 2002 http://www.nwu.edu/csd/ICVPB/ (see ISCApad43) -LangTech 2002 , technologies of spoken and written language. Hotel Schweizerhof, Berlin, Sept 26-27,2002 (see ISCApad47) -BITS : Speech Synthesis Corpus Workshop Muenchen October 8-9, 2002 Contact person:Dr Florian Schiel Scheil@phonetik.uni-muenchen.de (see attached files) -4th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI), 14-16 October 2002 Pittsburg USA. http://www.is.cs.cmu.edu/icmi/ -UKROBRAZ-2002 - FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT The Sixth All-Ukrainian International Conference on Signal/Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (UKROBRAZ-2002) The Conference will be held from the 8 to 12 of October 2002 in NAS Cybernetics Centre (40 Academician Hlushkov Ave, Kyjiv 03680, Ukraine) Deadline 1st August 2002 (see ISCApad46) - WECOL 2002 Western Conference on Linguistics UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, VANCOUVER November 1-3, 2002 Abstract deadline: Friday, May 3, 2002 (see ISCApad48) http://www.linguistics.ubc.ca/wecol2002.htm -8th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION Center for applied linguistics Santiago de Cuba January 20-24, 2003 Dr. Eloina Miyares Bermudez E-mail: leonel@lingapli.ciges.inf.cu (see ISCApad46) -HLT-NAACL 2003 (Human Language Technology/North American Association for Computational Linguistics) http://www.hlt-naacl03.org May 27-June 1, 2003 Edmonton, Canada (see attached files) -XVII International Congress of Linguists, 24-29 July 2003 Prague, Czeck Republic. http://www.cil17.org -15th ICPhS 2003, Barcelona, 3-9 August 2003 http://shylock.uab.es/icphs/ Submission deadline: September 15,2002 (see ISCApad49) -Summer Workshop on Language Engineering, July 14-August 22,2003 The Johns Hopkins University Deadline for proposals: October 15, 2002 (see attached files) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------