============================================================================ ISCApad number 61 June 13th, 2003 ============================================================================ Dear ISCA past members, You were members of ISCA several years ago or up to very recently. This is issue is dedicated to you who are no longer or not yet registered on our member list. What has changed in ISCA in the last years? The most important change is the internationalization and since the General Assembly Budapest, the board has ben working hard to turn this decision into facts. Our current chairman is Prof. Sadaoki Furui (Japan) from the University of Tokyo while our vice chairwoman is Dr Julia Hirschberg (USA) from AT&T Research. The board is now quite international with members from the USA, Australia, Europe and Asia. Also the different orientations of speech research and technology are represented including linguistics and speech technology. Internationalization is also visible in our actions: several ISCA scientific and technical workshops have been organized in the USA, India and China. You are certainly aware that ISCA has negotiated a common organization of major conferences with ICSLP and substantial progesses have been made in that direction: you certainly noticed that Eurospeech and ICSLP conferences are both Interspeech conferences. The relations between ISCA and the ICSLP program committee are excellent (there are many common members in both associations) and ISCA supports the organizers of ICSLP conferences. As a consequence, service to the the speech community has never been so coherent. Your votes have also elected several women at the board and we are proud that researchers of both genders are represented at the management committee of our association. Students for all over the world may benefit ISCA grants to attend conferences and workshops mainly organized by ISCA but not only . At each conference, ISCA delivers an award to the best student paper and a social event is organized with the students to inform them about our services but also to hear from them the services they are expecting from ISCA. I recommend students and PhD students in speech science and technology to join ISCA: they will notice that for a low membership fee they will become part of our community and be informed of what happens in speech. Many students remember our party at ICSLP Denver in a microbrewery! Every month, ISCApad is sent to all members. It informs about publications, job openings, workshops and conferences. It is also a way to communicate with members since all important information about speech science and technology can be sent to the editor (at public@ISCA-speech.org) to be inserted in the next ISCApad. ISCA has also made a tremendous effort for archiving all past publications and members have access to this impressive data base. A CD ROM containing archives of the most recent workshops is sent to the members every year. Of course, members benefit special registration fees at ISCA/ICSLP conferences and workshops and a reduced subscription rate for Speech Communication. It is worth to point out that this association is managed by volunteers only but an assistant secretary/treasurer. To know more about ISCA, you are invited to browse our Website http://www.isca-speech.org. You will certainly understand why your career needs you to become member again. The board will be happy to meet you at Eurospeech 2003 in Geneva where a general assembly will allow you to be better informed on our current and future actions and to suggest your own recommendations for the development of ISCA. In the name of ISCA Board, Chris Wellekens ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 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). TABLE OF CONTENTS ================= *ISCA News *COurses, internships, data bases, softwares *Job openings *Journals and Books *Future ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshops (ITRW) *Future ISCA supported events *Future Speech Science and technology events ============================================================================= ISCA NEWS ========= -Paul Dalsgaard, our past treasurer celebrated his 40th anniversary of service to the university of Aalborg (DK) early June. This is the message of ISCA to Paul: "The board of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) would like to congratulate Paul Dalsgaard on the occasion of his fortieth anniversary of service to his university. We would also like to express our great appreciation for his service to ISCA and to the international speech community over the past years. We are especially grateful for his service on the ISCA board, for his excellent organization of Eurospeech 2001, and for the many workshops on speech topics that he has organized over the years. Thank you Paul!" -Your attention is drawn to the Call for proposals for the organization of Eurospeech 2007 that appears below nder the heading FUTURE INTERSPEECH CONFERENCES -New Membership Scheme in 2003. See in ISCAPad 57 or on ISCA Web.(http://www.isca-speech.org) -ISCApad publishes now a list of accepted papers for publication in Speech Communication. These papers can be also viewed on the website of ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com) if your institution has subscribed to Speech Communication. -ISCA Grants are available for students attending meetings. Even if no information on the grants is advertised on the conference announcement,students may apply. For more information: http://www.isca-speech.org ============================================================================== COURSES, DATABASES, SOFTWARES ============================= -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 ============================================================================= JOB OPENINGS ============= * RESEARCH POSITION IN SPEECH PROCESSING AND DIALOGUE SYSTEMS AT UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE, SANTIAGO, CHILE A three-year position as a post-doc with particular emphasis on research and prototype development is available at the Speech Processing and Transmission Lab (LPTV - Laboratorio de Procesamiento y Transmisión de Voz, http://www.die.uchile.cl/LPTV/) at Dept. Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (http://ingenieria.uchile.cl/) Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile. The successful candidate will join LPTV team composed of one professor, 3 research associates and research students to carry out research and prototype development of speech technology (speech recognition, speech synthesis, speaker verification and speech analysis), Stochastic Weighted Viterbi algorithm and dialogue systems in the framework of academic and applied research projects in collaboration with local companies and international universities. Three Faculty members also collaborate with LPTV on current projects. The successful candidate should also have recently completed his/her Ph.D. and be the author/co-author of peer-review journal papers in order to apply for the post-doc grant funded by Fondecyt-Chile (http://www.fondecyt.cl/POSTDOCTORADOS.htm). Knowledge of Spanish is a plus, although it is not a requirement. Chile is probably the most stable country in Latin America and is certainly an interesting “head-quarter” to visit other countries in the region. The climate in Santiago is Mediterranean-like, cold (0-10 Cº) and rainy in the winter, and sunny (28-34 Cº) and dry in the summer. Santiago is one or two hours by car from sky resorts (winter) in the Andes and from the coast in the Pacific Ocean. For more information, please contact by phone or email: Prof. Néstor Becerra Yoma Electrical Engineering Department , University of Chile Av. Tupper 2007, Casilla 412-3 (Of. 509) Santiago-CHILE Tel:+56 2 678 4205 Fax:+56 2 695 3881 E-mail:nestor.becerra@die.uchile.cl http://www.die.uchile.cl/LPTV/ http://www.die.uchile.cl/Teleco_frames.html =========================================================================== JOURNALS and BOOKS =================== -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, then on Speech Communication and on Articles in press. The list of papers in press appear and a .pdf file for each paper is available. 1. Matching training and test data distributions for robust speech recognition, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 6 June 2003 Sirko Molau, Daniel Keysers and Hermann Ney 2. The intelligibility of consonants in noisy vowel–consonant–vowel sequences when the vowels are selectively enhanced, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 17 May 2003 Georg Meyer and Robert Morse 3. HMM-based channel error mitigation and its application to distributed speech recognition, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 17 May 2003 Antonio M. Peinado, Victoria Sánchez, José L. Pérez-Córdoba and Ángel de la Torre ============================================================================== FUTURE INTERSPEECH CONFERENCES ================================ -Eurospeech 2003, Geneva, Switzerland, Sept 1-4, 2003, http://www.eurospeech2003.org (see ISCApad55) -ICSLP-2004 , Jeju, KOREA, OCTOBER 5-9, 2004 -CALL FOR PROPOSALS for the Organization of Interspeech 2007: Eurospeech (see attached files) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 on VOICE QUALITY: FUNCTIONS, ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS University of Geneva, 27-29 August 2003 (week before EUROSPEECH03) Organizer: Christophe d'Alessandro LIMSI-CNRS Christophe.D'Alessandro@limsi.fr http://www.limsi.fr (see ISCApad58) -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 ISCApad52) - ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Audio Visual Speech Processing September 4-7, 2003, St Jorioz France. http://www.icp.inpg.fr/AVSP03/ - DiSS03 Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, Gotenburg University, September 2003 (to be convenient for participants to Eurospeech 2003 in Geneva). (see ISCApad52) - 2004: A Speaker Odyssey, http://www.odyssey04.org/ UPMadrid 31May/4June 2004 =========================================================================== FUTURE ISCA SUPPORTED EVENTS ============================ - 4th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue Sapporo, July 5 and 6, 2003 (immediately preceding the 41st annual meeting of the ACL) Workshop website: http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/sigdial2003/ Sigdial website: http://www.sigdial.org/ ACL website: http://www.ec-inc.co.jp/ACL2003/ (see ISCApad 56) - TSD 2003 International Conference on Text Speech and Dialogue, September 8 - 11, 2003 (right after Eurospeech 2003) Hotel Gomel, ½esk? Bud?jovice,Czech Republic http://www.kiv.zcu.cz/events/tsd2003/ Contact person: Ms. Helena Benesova University of West Bohemia in Pilsen Faculty of Applied Sciences Department of Computer Science Univerzitni 8 CZ - 306 14 PLZEN Czech Republic Tel: (+420 19) 7491 212, 27 62 50 Fax: (+420 19) 7491 213 (see ISCApad55) - 2003 International Workshop on SPEECH AND COMPUTER (SPECOM-2003) 27-29 October 2003, Moscow, Russia e-mail: specom2003@linguanet.ru, potapova@linguanet.ru (see ISCApad59) - MAVEBA 2003, 3rd International Workshop on Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications December 10-12, 2003, Firenze, Italy http://www.maveba.org (see ISCApad54) - Multimodal User Authentication, Santa Barbara, California, USA. December 11-12, 03 http://mmua.cs.ucsb.edu/ - Speech Prosody 2004, the second International Conference on Prosody Date: March 23 (Tuesday) to 26 (Friday), 2004 Venue: Nara New Convention Center, Nara, Japan Contact person: Keikichi HIROSE e-mail: pro-office@gavo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp Web: http://www.gavo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/sp2004/ (see ISCApad 56)) - The XXVth Journées d'Etude sur la Parole (JEP) Fes, Morocco, April 19-2é 2004. (in conjunction with TALN 2004 (Traitement automatique des langues naturelles). A call for papers including deadlines will soon circulate. contact: Noel Nguyen (mailto:jep-taln@lpl.univ-aix.fr) URL: http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/ electronic list: http://mailup.univ-mrs.fr/wws/info/jep-taln (see attached files) ============================================================================= FUTURE SPEECH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EVENTS =========================================== - PROPOR'2003 6th Workshop on Computacional Processing of the Portuguese Language - Written and Spoken Universidade do Algarve-FCHS, Faro, Portugal June 26-27, 2003 http://www.ualg.pt/propor - SPEECH DYNAMICS BY EAR, EYE, MOUTH AND MACHINE An Interdisciplinary Workshop Kyoto, Japan June 27, 2003 For further information: IEICE Workshop Secretariat Professor Takayuki Arai Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Sophia University arai@hoffman.cc.sophia.ac.jp Workshop Web Site: http://www.ieice.or.jp/iss/sp/jpn/sp-200306workshop.htm (see ISCApad57) -XVII International Congress of Linguists, 24-29 July 2003 Prague, Czeck Republic. http://www.cil17.org -Summer Workshop on Language Engineering, July 14-August 22,2003 The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore (see ISCApad52) -15th ICPhS 2003, Barcelona, 3-9 August 2003 http://shylock.uab.es/icphs/ Submission deadline: September 15,2002 (see ISCApad49) -2003 International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering Oct 26-29, 2003 Beijing China Submisson deadline June 30, 2003 http://www.cie-china.org/nlpke2003 http://www.caaai.org.cn - 3rd IJCAI Workshop on KNOWLEDGE AND REASONING IN PRACTICAL DIALOGUE SYSTEMS August 10, 2003 Acapulco, Mexico http://www.ida.liu.se/~nlplab/ijcai-ws-03/ (see ISCApad59) -Fifth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI-PUI'03) Vancouver, BC, Canada November 5-7th, 2003 Further information available at: http://icmi.cs.ucsb.edu Conference Chair: Sharon Oviatt (see ISCAPad57) - 6th NWCL International Conference PROSODY AND PRAGMATICS University of Central Lancashire (Preston) 14 - 16 November 2003 Organized by Anne Wichmann (University of Central Lancashire) & Diane Blakemore (University of Salford) (see ISCApad 60) http://www.nwcl.salford.ac.uk - Preliminary Announcement - ASRU 2003 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. November 30-December4, 2003 http://www.asru2003.org CO-chairs: Jeff Bilmes,, University of Washington Bill Byrne, , Johns Hopkins University -----------------------------------------------------------------------------