By BRIAN MAK
Four speech and language researchers were honored with awards at ICASSP 2008. Read about their accomplishments here.
ICASSP 2009
Explores New Features
By
LIN-SHAN LEE
The organizers of ICASSP 2009 are considering two
new features at next year's conference in Taipei. We
describe how Overview Talk Sessions and Thematic
Symposia will enhance the ICASSP experience.
NIST Conducts
Language Recognition Evaluation
By SATANJEEV BANERJEE
In the fall of 2007, the
National Institute of Standards and Technology ran
the 4th Language Recognition Evaluation to evaluate
the current state of the art in automatically
detecting the language being spoken in a short audio
snippet.
New Handbook of Speech
Processing Published
By
M. MOHAN SONDHI
A new
Handbook of Speech Processing has been recently
published by Springer. It targets graduate students, professors and
active researchers, as well as
engineers in industry who need to understand or implement
some specific algorithms.
