Your vote is important! On 15 August, the election of Regional Directors-at-Large for Regions 1-6 and 8 (the term is 1 January 2019 through 31 December 2020) and Members-at-Large (term 1 January 2019 through 31 December 2021) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Board of Governors (BoG) will be open.
The 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2018) was held on April 15-20, 2018 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
This year's Interspeech conference took place in Hyderabad. This was the first time for India to host Interspeech and the organizers have done a remarkable job to ensure that it will be remembered as a truly special event. Immediately upon arrival to Rajiv Gandhi airport participants were greeted by volunteers, who promptly escorted delegates to numerous available taxi that took them to many hotels conveniently located in the Hitec area of Hyderabad, where Interspeech was hosted.
The IEEE SPS Speech and Language Technical Committee (STLC) has 53 elected members to help manage the ICASSP review process and run various aspects of SLTC business; the committee convenes at every ICASSP meeting to discuss SLTC business items and new initiatives. The meeting at ICASSP 2018 was full of information for members.
The Member Election Subcommittee of the Speech and Language Technical Committee (SLTC) is seeking nominations for new members for a 3-year term (2019-2021). Nominations should be submitted by filling out the web form at https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/icsi/ieee_form. The nomination deadline is October 20, 2018.