INTERSPEECH 2013 Conference with special focus on "Speech in Life Sciences and Human Societies" 25-29 August 2013, Lyon (France)
------------------ --- FLASH NEWS --- ------------------ Call for *Show & Tell* opened until April 19th, 2013 (midnight GMT): http://www.interspeech2013.org/content/special-events *Registration* to the conference will start by mid April, on: http://www.interspeech2013.org/content/registration List of *conference areas*: http://www.interspeech2013.org/content/conference-areas Six *tutorials* programmed on Sunday 25th. See below and: http://www.interspeech2013.org/content/tutorials ----------------------- --- IMPORTANT DATES --- ----------------------- Call for Papers: now closed Notification of acceptance: May 24, 2013 Camera-ready papers: May 29, 2013 ----------------------------------- --- MESSAGE FROM THE ORGANIZERS --- ----------------------------------- The submission process for regular papers is closed and the review process is now underway. We thank authors for all the hard work they have put in preparing their submissions. This year, a record has been reached with 1450 regular paper proposals. These submissions are now being processed by the scientific committee with the help of a large panel of reviewers from around the world, who we thank for their involvement in making Interspeech'13 a huge success. Please note that *the call for Show & Tell will remain open until April 19th.* Do not hesitate to submit ! Registration will start by mid-April. Early registration fees for full-delegate ISCA members are set to 520 Euros, including the conference banquet. Students will benefit from a reduced rate of 50% (i.e. 260 Euros). In order to keep overall costs low, an accomodation package will be proposed to students, in the range of 250 Euros for 5 nights + breakfast. Grants will also be available, to further reduce financial burden. Stay tuned for more info on the conference website. Bien amicalement, The Organizing Committee -------------------------------- --- CALL FOR SHOW & TELL --- --- AND OTHER SPECIAL EVENTS --- -------------------------------- *Show and Tell* Show & Tell is a special event organized during the Interspeech 2013 conference, where participants are given the opportunity to demonstrate their most recent progress, developments or innovation tracks, and interact with the conference attendees. Submission deadline is April 19, 2013. Any demonstration of concepts, algorithms, tools, resources, etc... falling within the general scope of the conference are welcome. However, in accordance with the conference special focus, we particularly encourage proposals fitting into the following four main topics: - Brain and Human Language - Speech in Life Sciences and Human Societies - Human-Robot and Human-Machine Spoken Interaction - The Paralinguistic Challenges To participate to the Show & Tell, submit a 2-page proposal (in pdf format) describing the concept from the technical point-of-view, its innovative side and the format under which you intend to present it. Authors are allowed to include links to web pages in the pdf proposal. Proposals should be submitted to the following e-mail address: [email protected] More details on http://www.interspeech2013.org/content/special-events A Google Show & Tell Prize of 500 Euros will be awarded to the most innovative participation. *Panel Session* We are pleased to announce an Industry Panel Session at Interspeech 2013. Linking Research to Industry: The practitioner's view on "Competitive Manufacturing for Innovative Products and Services based on speech technologies" in Robotics, Video games, Serious games, Therapeutic applications. Objectives: The aim of this panel session is to give Interspeech participants from industry an opportunity to share their views on the recent advances in spoken language research, the remaining challenges, and the diversity of applications and to foster the exchange between academia and industrial practice. ----------------- --- TUTORIALS --- ----------------- We are happy to announce 6 high-level tutorials in conjunction with Interspeech 2013. In accordance with the special focus of the conference, the programme of tutorials intends to provide a good balance between computer sciences and human sciences related topics. Interspeech 2013 also introduces a mix between tutorials on advanced topics (recent advances in ...) and tutorials providing the necessary basis on a particular subject (crash course), mix that we hope will be found attractive by the participants. *List of tutorials* : Spectrogram reading in French and English: language-dependent and independant acoustic cues to phonological features, coarticulation and influence of prosodic position Jacqueline Vaissière, CNRS, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France Recent Advances in Incremental Spoken Language Processing Timo Baumann, Universität Hamburg, Germany David Schlangen, Universität Bielefeld,Germany Forensic Automatic Speaker Recognition: Theory, Implementation and Practice Andrzej Drygajlo, Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland Identification and modification of consonant perceptual cues in natural speech Andrea Trevino Carolina, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, USA Jont Allen, affiliation University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, USA Feipeng Li, Johns Hopkins University, USA Recent Advances on Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition Jen-Tzung Chien, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Georges Saon, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA What speech researchers should know about video technology? Koichi Shinoda, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Florian Metze, Carnegie Mellon University, USA More info soon on: http://www.interspeech2013.org/content/tutorials --------------------- --- MISCELLANEOUS --- --------------------- The following prizes will be awarded at Interspeech 2013 : - ISCA Best Paper Award - Google's Best Show & Tell Prize - 7th Christian Benoit Award More information on: http://www.interspeech2013.org/content/prizes-and-awards Keynote talks: http://www.interspeech2013.org/content/keynote-speakers Information on satellite workshops: http://www.interspeech2013.org/content/satellite-workshops Become a sponsor or an exhibitor at the conference: http://www.interspeech2013.org/content/become-partner-interspeech-2013 ---------------- --- CONTACTS --- ---------------- Conference Chairs: [email protected] Technical Programme Chairs: [email protected] _______________________________________________ Moses-support mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support
