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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 Transmisin 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 C) and rainy in the winter, and sunny (28-34 C) 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. Nstor 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 vowelconsonantvowel 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 Snchez, Jos L. Prez-Crdoba and ngel 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, esk? 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 Journes d'Etude sur la Parole (JEP)
Fes, Morocco, April 19-2 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