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.
Craig S. Greenberg, Désiré Bansé, John M. Howard, Alvin F. Martin, George R. Doddington, Audrey Tong, Daniel Garcia-Romero, Jaime Hernández-Cordero, Lisa P Mason, Alan McCree, Douglas A Reynolds, Elliot Singer
SLTC Newsletter, November 2015
SLTC Newsletter, August 2015
The Member Election Subcommittee of the SLTC is seeking nominations for new SLTC Members. Nominations should be submitted by filling out the web form at https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/icsi/ieee_form.
ICASSP2016 will be held in Shanghai, Mar. 20-25, 2016. May we bring to your attention that the ICASSP2016 Tutorial, Special Session and Show&Tell proposals are now open for submission (www.icassp2016.org). Submission deadline for regular papers will be September 25, 2015.
The ICASSP 2016 Technical Co-Chairs: P. C. Ching and Dominic Ho
P. C. Ching is with the Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Dominic Ho is with Univ. of Missouri, USA.
Following on the tremendous success of SLT 2014, the SPS-SLTC invites proposals to host the 2016 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT-2016). Past SLT workshops have fostered a collegiate atmosphere through a thoughtful selection of venues, thus offering a unique opportunity for researchers to interact and learn.
The proposal should include the information outlined below.
Part 1: The historic acoustic-phonetic collection
Information Technology at the TU Dresden goes back to Heinrich Barkhausen (1881–1956), the “father of the electron valve“, who taught from 1911 to 1953. Speech research in a narrower sense started with the development of a vocoder in the 1950s. Walter Tscheschner (1927–2004) performed his extensive investigations on the speech signal using components of the vocoder. In 1969, a scientific unit for Communication and Measurement was founded in Dresden.