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Editor-in-Chief:
Mike Seltzer, MSR

Editors:
Stephen Cox, Univ. of East Anglia
Brian Mak, HKUST


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

Contributors:
Murat Akbacak, SRI
Kay Berkling, Polytechnic Univ. of Puerto Rico
Tiago H. Falk, Queen's University
Tomoki Toda, Nara Institute of Science and Technology


SLTC e-Newsletter

Summer, 2007

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

We hope you are all enjoying a nice summer. This issue brings you the latest news in the speech and language research communities, including reports from several large scale research programs such as TC-STAR and HUMAINE, news and information about recent and ongoing workshops and conferences, and a look back at one of the landmark pieces of hardware in the history of speech recognition. In addition, Prof. Kay Berkling of Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico is asking for your input on a survey on speech and language technology and education. 

We would like to say a big thank you to our external contributors to this issue: Murat Akbacak, Kay Berkling, and Tiago Falk, and Tomoki Toda.

 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, Stephen Cox, and Brian Mak
[speechnewseds <at> ieee <dot> org]

Student Papers Honored at ICASSP 2007
By TOMOKI TODA
Nine student papers in the area of speech and spoken language processing were finalists for the ICASSP 2007 Best Student Paper Awards, including one third place winner.

HUMAINE Gets Emotional
By ANTONIO ROQUE
The HUMAINE network of excellence created to promote interdisciplinary research into computational systems that work with emotion, recently held its final plenary session as part of the final year of its four-year existence.

Students Impact Speech Community Through ISCA Student Section
By TIAGO H. FALK & MURAT AKBACAK
The ISCA Student Section was established by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) in June 2004 in order to expand its services to all student members in a student-driven effort.

Summer Workshops at Johns Hopkins University
By BRIAN MAK
The Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP) of Johns Hopkins University continues to hold its annual Summer Workshop on Human Language Technology. This year, there are two workshops in the area of speech and language processing.

TC-STAR Sees Improvement in Speech-to-Speech Translation 
By STEPHEN COX
TC-STAR, a European project for Speech-to-Speech Translation, just finished its three year run. We take a look at the progress made during this project and the challenges for the future.

Need Your Input! A Survey on Education and Speech Technology
By KAY BERKLING
I am asking for your input about educational material that uses speech and language technology, and in particular, information about such material intended for children whose first language is not the primary language of the country in which they live.

Researchers Discuss Multimodal Interaction at MLMI 2007
By SATANJEEV BANERJEE
The 4th Workshop on Multimodal Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms (MLMI) was recently held. The focus of the MLMI is the application of machine learning to multimodal interaction between humans, and between humans and computers.

A Piece of ASR History: The Marconi SR-128
By STEPHEN COX
Twenty five years ago, one of the first commercial speech recognizers was introduced. We take a look back at its development and its deployment with the manager of the project. 


 
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