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Editor-in-Chief:
Mike Seltzer, MSR

Editors:
Brian Mak, HKUST
Gokhan Tur, SRI

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

This Issue's Contributors:
Kay Berkling, PUPR
Mazin Gilbert, AT&T
Yi Hu, UT-Dallas
Philip Loizou, UT-Dallas
Roberto Pieraccini, SpeechCycle

 


SLTC e-Newsletter

January, 2007

HAPPY NEW YEAR!  

Welcome to the January 2007 issue of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Speech and Language Technical Committee (SLTC) e-Newsletter.

The beginning of the new year marks a period of transition for the SLTC. The end of 2006 marked the end of the term of  SLTC Chairperson Mazin Gilbert. Mazin fostered a tremendous amount of positive change to the SLTC during his term, and we wish to express our sincere thanks to him for all of his hard work and dedication. We also had five committee members whose terms concluded at the end of 2006. We thank Michiel Bacchiani, Alan Black, Bill Byrne, Tatsuya Kawahara, and Jean-Pierre Martens for their service on the SLTC. As announced in the previous newsletter, we are very happy to welcome Roberto Pieraccini as the new Chairperson and 13 new members to the SLTC.

This issue of the newsletter features a wide range of articles, including messages from past and current SLTC Chairs, Mazin and Roberto, news of the latest happenings in the speech and language communities, and an interesting look at life on the other side of the digital divide.  We would like to welcome our newest Student Reporter to the newsletter staff, Antonio Roque, a PhD student from USC. Finally, a big thank you to the external contributors to this issue, listed to the left.

 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]

A Farewell Message from the Outgoing SLTC Chair
By MAZIN GILBERT
I am fortunate to have been part of the SLTC since 1993. It has been a wonderful experience, I learned a lot, and I am very proud in what we have accomplished as a team.

Welcome from the New SLTC Chair
By ROBERTO PIERACCINI
Being elected to serve as the Chair of the SLTC is both a great privilege and a challenge.

SLT 2006 Brings Speech and Language Together 
By GOKHAN TUR
The first workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT), co-sponsored by IEEE and ACL was held in Aruba in December.

GALE Looks to 2007 Following 2006 Evaluation
By ANTONIO ROQUE
Following the 2006 Go/No-Go evaluation, the performance bar has been raised for 2007.

NIST Evaluates Spoken Term Detection
By SATANJEEV BANERJEE
To promote research in finding words and phrases in speech,  NIST recently conducted the first evaluation in Spoken Term Detection.

Panel at ICASSP 2007 to discuss speech, language and video
By MAZIN GILBERT
A new panel at ICASSP will discuss the challenges and opportunities resulting from the integration of speech, language, and video with the internet.

Review Process Completed for ICASSP 2007
By BRIAN MAK
This year, 669 papers were reviewed in the areas of speech and language processing. The final acceptance rate was lower than in previous years.

Life on the Other Side of the Digital Divide
By KAY BERKLING
To overcome the digital divide is not an easy task but we as a community can and should do our part - awareness is an important first step.

NOIZEUS: New Noisy Speech Corpus Released
By PHILIP LOIZOU & YI HU
NOIZEUS is a noisy speech corpus designed facilitate comparison of speech enhancement algorithms among research groups.

Dialog System Development Using Olympus/RavenClaw
By SVETLANA STENCHIKOVA
A look inside Olympus/ RavenClaw, a freely available software framework for developing dialog systems.


 
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