Goals of the SIG on RUssian Speech Analysis

The ISCA Special Interest Group on Russian Speech Analysis (SIGRU) has the overall aim of promoting research and development in the scientific, technical, professional and didactic fields of speech and language technology for Russian speech analysis, particularly formal methods of analysis. SIGRU will pursue its own purposes in particular: * promote and organize conferences, schools and workshops; * announce publications (papers, theses and dissertations) on topics related to Russian speech analysis and/or by authors that are members of this SIG; * promote industry / university collaboration; * promote interdisciplinary scientific communication of researchers dealing with speech analysis; * promoting scientific and technical exchange of information and relationships of collaboration between the associates; * promoting electronic discussion through the Internet (Web site, discussion list, etc). * maintaining a database of active researchers. * providing a channel of communication between Russian speech researchers and those active in speech and language technology in general.