Welcome to the IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee Newsletter!
Attentive readers will notice that it has been longer than usual since the last edition of the newsletter. I apologize and am totally responsible for the mistake. In penance, we have an extra large edition this time.
Following on the success of the bi-annual SLT workshop over the past decade, the IEEE Speech and Language Technical Committee invites proposals to host the 2020 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT 2020).
The 32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems took place at the convention center of Montreal, Canada, from Dec. 3 to Dec. 8, 2018. This year, the acronym of the conference changed from NIPS to NeurIPS.
ScopeThe Signal Processing Theory and Methods (SPTM) Technical Committee (TC) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (IEEE-SPS) promotes activities within the technical areas of DSP and statistical signal processing theory and methods. The scope of SPTM has a broad span ranging from digital filtering and adaptive signal processing to statistical signal analysis, estimation and detection. Please see the SPTM TC EDICS link for specific areas of interest.
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.