SLTC e-Newsletter: October, 2006

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Editor-in-Chief:
Mike Seltzer, MSR

Editors:
Brian Mak, HKUST
Gokhan Tur, SRI

Staff Reporters:
Satanjeev Banerjee, CMU
Svetlana Stenchikova, SUNY-Stonybrook

This Issue's Contributors:
Abeer Alwan, UCLA
Alan Black, CMU
Li Deng, MSR
Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, AT&T
Samuel L. Earp, Multisensor Science
John H. L. Hansen, UT-Dallas
Wooil Kim, UT-Dallas
Mari Maeda, DARPA

SLTC e-Newsletter

October, 2006

Welcome to the October 2006 issue of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Speech and Language Technical Committee (SLTC) e-Newsletter. As you can see, the newsletter has gone through a bit of a facelift, as we try to present you with a more visually appealing way to view the latest news in the speech and language research community.

We would like to welcome our two new Student Reporters to our newsletter staff, Satanjeev Banerjee, a PhD student from CMU, and Svetlana Stenchikova, a PhD student from SUNY-Stonybrook. We would also like to thank the external contributors to this issue, listed to the left.

Finally, we'd like to remind you that the early registration deadline for the first IEEE/ACL Spoken Language Technology Workshop (www.slt2006.org) is October 15.

As always, we welcome your contributions of news, events, publications, workshops, and career information to the newsletter. Please send all articles, ideas, and feedback to the SLTC e-Newsletter Editorial Board [speechnewseds <at> ieee <dot> org].

The SLTC e-Newsletter Editorial Board
Mike Seltzer, Brian Mak, and Gokhan Tur
[speechnewseds <at> ieee <dot> org]

Breaking News!

SLTC Elects New Chairperson and Members
By MICHAEL L. SELTZER
The SLTC elected 13 new members and a new chairperson to terms starting in 2007.

Tutorials in Speech & Language announced for ICASSP 2007
By GOKHAN TUR
The ICASSP organizing committee selected the tutorials and special sessions from the Speech and Language area to be given at ICASSP 2007.

ASRU 2007 Location Announced
By BRIAN MAK
The location for the next IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding to be held in 2007 was announced.

Young Researchers Discuss Dialog
By SVETLANA STENCHIKOVA
The second Young Researchers Roundtable brought together 40 researchers from around the globe.

ConQuest conquers Interspeech
By SATANJEEV BANERJEE
A spoken dialog system called ConQuest was deployed at Interspeech 2006, providing attendees access to information throughout the conference.

Interspeech 2006 Tackles Pittsburgh
By ALAN BLACK
ICSLP 2006 featured the latest research from around the world including a demo session from local Pittsburgh companies and universities.

TransTac Enters Phase II for Speech-to-Speech Translation
By MARI MAEDA & SAMUEL L. EARP
TransTac enters it's second phase focused on ease of use, reliability and ability to deploy in new languages.

SpeechFind Retrieves Documents for National Gallery of Spoken Word
By JOHN H. L. HANSEN & WOOIL KIM
SpeechFind is a spoken document retrieval system currently deployed at the National Gallery of Spoken Word.

SLT 2006 Catches DiSCoH Fever
By Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio
Since July, DiSCoH, an automated helpdesk for information about SLT-2006, has been fielding calls from all over the world.

UCLA and MSR Announce Formant Trajectory Corpus
By LI DENG & ABEER ALWAN
UCLA and MSR are releasing a database of manually labeled formant trajectories to the research community.


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