As every year, this past November saw the election of new members to the Speech and Language Technical Committee to take the places of those whose 3-year terms are coming to an end. SLTC membership is grouped by subject area, and in this year’s election (for the 2017-2019 term) we had 17 openings in 8 areas. Current members are eligible to run for a consecutive term once.
This welcome message marks the start of the new year and comes at the tail end of a several months long busy period of the SLTC. First of all, there is the yearly election cycle, carefully administered by our election sub-committee. Please join me in thanking 12 member who retired their position at the end of 2016: Tomoki Toda, Gernot Kubin, Maurizio Omologo, Nicholas Evans, Larry Heck, Peder Olsen, Frank Seide, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Deep Sen, Svetlana Stoyanchev, Jasha Droppo and George Saon. And please join me in welcoming the class of 2019.
Tara N. Sainath
SLTC Newsletter, November 2015
Introduction
The 16h Interspeech Conference was recently hosted in Dresden, Germany from September 6th-10th, 2015. In this article, we highlight upward and downward trends in the speech community.
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.