Speech and Language Technical Committee (SLTC) Election Results

Andreas Stolcke, Doug Reynolds, Larry Heck, Steve Renals, and Takehiro Moriya

SLTC Newsletter, November 2015

The Member Election Subcommittee of the SLTC is announcing the results of the elections for members filling the 2016-2018 term.

The winner of the Vice Chair election is Michiel Bacchiani.

Please join us in congratulating 9 new members, as well as 7 re-elected members (using alphabetic order in each category):

As Michiel Bacchiani was elected Vice-Chair, the slot vacated by him was used by the next runner-up from all the categories.

Congratulations to all our newly elected members! We look forward to working with all of you. Welcome aboard!

The Member Election Subcommittee of the SLTC: Andreas Stolcke, Doug Reynolds, Larry Heck, Steve Renals, and Takehiro Moriya.

• Dialogue Systems: Satoshi Nakamura
• Natural Language Processing: Jerome R. Bellegarda
• Speaker Recognition: Najim Dehak, Jason Pelecanos, Pedro A. Torres-Carrasquillo
• Speech Analysis: Björn Schuller
• Speech Coding: Tim Fingscheidt
• Speech Enhancement: Tomohiro Nakatani, Steven J. Rennie
• Speech Production and Perception: Emily Mower Provost
• Speech Recognition (Acoustic Modeling): Michiel Bacchiani, Thomas Hain, Mike Seltzer, Dong Yu
• Speech Recognition (Other): Nancy F. Chen, Murat Saraclar
• Speech Synthesis: Junichi Yamagishi