News of the SIG on RUssian Speech Analysis

February 6, 2015

2nd Call for INTERSPEECH 2015

INTERSPEECH is the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. INTERSPEECH conferences emphasize interdisciplinary approaches addressing all aspects of speech science and technology, ranging from basic theories to applications.

INTERSPEECH 2015 in Dresden (Germany) will be organized around the theme Speech beyond Speech: Towards a Better Understanding of the Most Important Biosignal, which acknowledges the fact that speech is the most important biosignal humans can produce and perceive. It is evident that not all characteristics of speech are already fully understood. We therefore encourage contributions that analyze and model speech as a biosignal in a broad understanding, e.g. for extracting information about the speaker, for identifying processes leading to speech production, or for generating speech signals with specific bio-characteristics. Contributions to all other areas of speech science and technology are also welcome.

Important Dates

20 March 2015 Paper: submission deadline

20 March 2015 Tutorial: submission deadline

17 April 2015 Show and Tell: submission deadline

01 May 2015 Tutorial: notification of acceptance/rejection

01 June 2015 Paper: notification of acceptance/rejection

01 June 2015 Show and tell: notification of acceptance/rejection

10 June 2015 Paper: camera-ready

10 June 2015 Show and Tell: camera-ready

20 June 2015 Early registration deadline

6-10 Sep 2015 Conference in Dresden, Germany

Call for Papers

The Organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2015 is now inviting paper submissions. Please refer to our CfP page for more details. 20th March 2015 – Paper: submission deadline

Call for Tutorials

The Organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2015 is now inviting proposals for tutorials which will be held on September 6 (first day of conference) in the main venue Maritim International Congress Center (ICD) location. Please refer to here for more details. 20th March 2015 – Tutorial: submission deadline

Special Sessions

Special Sessions & Challenges will be organized for INTERSPEECH 2015, covering

interdisciplinary topics and/or important new emerging areas of interest related to the main conference topics. Please refer to http://interspeech2015.org/events/special-sessions.

List of tentatively accepted Special Sessions and Challenges:

Active Perception in Human and Machine Speech Communication

Biosignal-based Spoken Communication

Interspeech 2015 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge (ComParE):

Degree of Nativeness, Parkinson’s & Eating Condition

Automatic Speaker Verification Spoofing and Countermeasures

Zero Ressource Speech Technologies: Unsupervised Discovery of Linguistic Units

Robust Speech Processing using Observation Uncertainty and Uncertainty Propagation

Speech Science in End User Applications

Synergies of Speech and Multimedia Technologies

Speech and Language Processing of Children’s Speech

Advanced Crowdsourcing for Speech and Beyond

Call for Show and Tell

The Organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2015 is now inviting for contribution to Show and Tell special event. Please refer to our Show and Tell page for more details.

17th April 2015 – Full submission deadline, proposals should be submitted by email to is2015showntell[at]gmx.de.

Call for Satellite Workshops

The Organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2015 is still open for proposals for satellite workshops, which will be held in proximity to the main conference. Please refer to here for more details or manually navigate to http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/technicalcommittees/list/sl-tc/spl-nl/2014-05/2014-05-is2015

Proposals for satellite workshops should be submitted by email to Florian Metze.

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December 27, 2014

The Program of XVI-th Russian–Finnish phonetic seminar

16.01.2015

10:00 Martti Vainio, Phonetics research at University of Helsinki

10:30 Juraj Šimko, Optimisation based modeling of speech production

11:00 Vera Evdokimova, Karina Evgrafova, Pavel Skrelin, Detection of the spectral characteristics of the articulation system with the use of the voice source recording method

12:00 Andrey Barabanov, Precise phase estimation and speech signal modification

12:30 Anton Stepikhov, On ambiguous sentence boundary detection: Evidence from expert manual annotation of spontaneous speech.

13:00 Riikka Ullakonoja, "FOKUS - A new project on pronunciation learning and teaching".

15:00 Antti Suni, Continuous wavelet based analysis of speech prosody

15:30 Olga Glotova, Elena Sujundukova, Changes in informant speech throughout the EMA experiment

16:00 Daniil Kocharov, Nina Volskaya, Pavel Skrelin, F0 declination in Russian revisited

16:30 Tatiana Kachkovskaya, Preboundary lenghtening of sounds in Russian

17:00 Karina Evgrafova, The universal and language-specific means of expressing emotions

17:30 Discussion

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December 10, 2014

The Program of XVI-th Russian–Finnish phonetic seminar

16.01.2015

St. Petersburg State University Department of Phonetics is happy to announce the XVI-th Russian–Finnish phonetic workshop. The workshop will be held on January 16, 2015 at St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya Emb. 11, St. Petersburg.

The information on the program will be announced later.

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1 November, 2014

Seventeenth International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM 2015)

Venue: Athens, Greece, September 20-24, 2015

WWW: http://specom.nw.ru

Ten years later the SPECOM conference returns to Greece. Recently SPECOM venue is significantly varied: Patras, Greece, 2005; St.Petersburg, Russia, 2006; Moscow, Russia, 2007; St.Petersburg, Russia, 2009; Kazan, Russia, 2011; Plzen, Czech Republic, 2013; Novi Sad, Serbia, 2014. The last conferences were organized in parallel with TSD'2013 and DOGS'2014 and had a great success and benefits of joining the various research teams.

SPECOM Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as a book in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, COMPENDEX. SPECOM Proceedings are included in the list of forthcoming proceedings for September 2015.

The conference is organized by University of Patras (Patras, Greece), in cooperation with Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU, Moscow, Russia) and St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Science (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia).

TOPICS

The SPECOM conference is devoted to issues of human-machine interaction, particullly:

Applications for human-computer interaction

Audio-visual speech processing

Automatic language identification

Computational linguistics

Corpus linguistics and linguistic processing

Embedded speech and audio processing

Forensic speech investigations and security systems

Human-robot interaction

Low-delay speech coding and speech coding

Multichannel signal processing

Multimedia processing

Multimodal analysis and synthesis

Multimodal interaction

Natural language processing

Signal processing and feature extraction

Speaker identification and diarization

Speaker verification systems

Speech-to-speech translation

Speech analytics and audio mining

Speech and language resources

Speech dereverberation

Speech driving systems in robotics

Speech enhancement

Speech perception and speech disorders

Speech quality assessment

Speech recognition and understanding

Speech translation automatic systems

Spoken dialogue systems

Spoken language processing

Text-to-speech and speech-to-text systems

Virtual and augmented reality

FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions.

Details about the social events will be available on the web page.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision on the presentation format will be based upon the recommendation of three independent reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission form accessible from the conference web site.

Papers submitted to SPECOM 2015 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the SPECOM review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.

As the reviewing is blind, the paper should not include authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations, such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to the requirements above are determined to be rejected without review.

The paper format for the review has to be the PDF file with all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance, speakers will receive further information on submitting their camera-ready and electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the final paper format see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

IMPORTANT DATES

April 15, 2015 ............ Submission of full papers

June 01, 2015 ............ Notification of acceptance

June 15, 2015 ............ Final papers (camera ready) and registration

September 20-24, 2015 ........ Conference date

The contributions to the conference will be published in proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the conference.

CONTACTS

All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:

SPECOM Secretariat

E-mail: specom@iias.spb.su

Phone/Fax: +7 812 328 7081

Fax: +7 812 328 4450 — Please, designate the faxed material with capitals 'SPECOM' on top.

SPECOM 2015 conference web site: www.specom.nw.ru

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1 November, 2013

Sixteenth International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM 2014)

Venue: Novi Sad, Serbia, 5-9 October 2014

WWW: http://specom.nw.ru

The SPECOM conferences are long time being organised by SPIIRAS (St.Petersburg) and MSLU (Moscow). Recently SPECOM venue is significantly varied: Patras, Greece, 2005; Kazan, Russia, 2011; Plzen, Czech Republic, 2013.

The last conference was organized in parallel with TSD'2013 (The 16th International Conference of Text, Speech and Dialogue) and had a great success and benefits of joining the various research teams. Continue this tradition SPECOM'2014 and DOGS'2014 will be organized jointly. The both conferences are devoted to issues of human-machine interaction and their topics harmonically add each other.

Since 2013 due to extending contribution of University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic the SPECOM proceedings are published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, or COMPENDEX.

SPECOM this year is organized in parallel with DOGS (The Tenth Conference on Digital Speech and Image Processing, website - http://www.dogs.ftn.uns.ac.rs) in the same time at the same place. Participants will be able to attend both conferences.

The conference is organized by the Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad (UNS, Novi Sad, Serbia), in cooperation with Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU, Moscow, Russia) and St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Science (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia).

TOPICS

Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to):

Applications for human-computer interaction

Audio-visual speech processing

Automatic language identification

Corpus linguistics and linguistic processing

Forensic speech investigations and security systems

Multichannel signal processing

Multimedia processing

Multimodal analysis and synthesis

Signal processing and feature extraction

Speaker identification and diarization

Speaker verification systems

Speech and language resources

Speech driving systems in robotics

Speech enhancement

Speech perception and speech disorders

Speech recognition and understanding

Speech translation automatic systems

Spoken dialogue systems

Spoken language processing

Text-to-speech and Speech-to-text systems

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision on the presentation format will be based upon the recommendation of three independent reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission form accessible from the conference web site.

Papers submitted to SPECOM 2014 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the SPECOM review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.

As the reviewing is blind, the paper should not include authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations, such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to the requirements above are determined to be rejected without review.

The paper format for the review has to be the PDF file with all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance, speakers will receive further information on submitting their camera-ready and electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the final paper format see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

IMPORTANT DATES

May 18, 2014 - Submission of full papers

June 15, 2014 - Notification of acceptance

June 30, 2014 - Final papers (camera ready) and registration

October 5-9, 2014 - Conference date

The contributions to the conference will be published in proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the conference.

CONTACTS

All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:

SPECOM Secretariat

E-mail: specom@iias.spb.su

Phone/Fax: +7 812 328 7081

Fax: +7 812 328 4450 — Please, designate the faxed material with capitals 'SPECOM' on top.

SPECOM 2014 conference web site: www.specom.nw.ru

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 XLI International Conference of Philology

Dear collegues,

St. Petersburg State University Faculty of Philology is happy to announce the XLI International Conference of Philology. The Conference will be held on March 26-31, 2012 at the Faculty of Philology, Universitetskaya Emb. 11, St. Petersburg.

 

Among others, the Conference will include sessions on

“Phonetics”;

“Formal Analysis of Russian Speech”.

 

Please, fill in and submit your abstract via e-mail the application form: http://phil.spbu.ru/news/events/zayavka_konf.doc (for citizens of Russia and CIS)
http://phil.spbu.ru/news/events/registr_conf.doc (for citizens of other countries).
Email: march.philol.conference@gmail.com

Readings in Phonetics in Memory of Our Teachers.

 

The annual open meeting of the Department of Phonetics and Methods of Foreign Language Teaching in memory of L. V. Scherba, L. R. Zinder and L. V. Bondarko will take place at 4 p.m., December 22, 2010 in Room 25, Faculty of Philology, St. Petersburg State University

Agenda

1. I. Nesterenko. “Prosodic phrasing in French and Russian Spontaneous Speech: Phonetics and Perception”.

2. D. Kocharov, P. Skrelin. “Automatic Processing and Interpretation of Melodic Contours”.

 

You are welcome to take part in the department meeting!

XXXVIII International Conference of Philology

December 20, 2010

St. Petersburg State University Faculty of Philology is happy to announce the XXXVIII International Conference of Philology. The Conference will be held on March 14-18, 2011 at the Faculty of Philology, Universitetskaya Emb. 11, St. Petersburg.

Among others, the Conference will include sessions on

“Phonetics”;

“Formal Analysis of Russian Speech”.

Information on paper submission deadline, paper guidelines and conference fees will be announced later.

SpeCom 2011

November 15, 2010

In 2011, Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University will be organizing the 14^th International Conference “Speech and Computer” to be held on September 27-30, 2011.

The aim of the Conference is to discuss a wide range of top priority issues and recent achievements in the field of development of automated human-machine interface systems based on natural language processing and new information technologies.

Information on paper submission deadline, paper guidelines and conference fees will be announced later.

Russian-Finnish Cooperation

November 1, 2010

In the fall of 2010, a cooperation with the Department of Phonetics of Helsinki University was started to study contrastive characteristics of Finnish and Russian articulation using AG-500 articulograph. The study will cover the articulation of Finnish and Russian vowels and consonants produced by male and female speakers.

Russian-Finnish Phonetics Seminar

October 20, 2010

On October 13 – 15, 2010 Russian-Finnish Phonetics Seminar was held.  Phoneticians from St. Petersburg, and Helsinki met to present and discuss research on intonation, as well as EMA and MRI investigations of speech production and perception.