foNETiks
a Network Newsletter
for the International Phonetic Association
and for the Phonetic Sciences
January 2000
Editors:
Linda Shockey, University of Reading, U.K.
Gerry Docherty, Newcastle University, U.K.
Paul Foulkes, Leeds University, U.K.
Lisa Lim, National University of Singapore
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THE EDITORS WISH ALL READERS
THE VERY BEST FOR 2000!
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
(new ones marked **)
(date of first appearance follows)
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7 - 8 January 2000. 2000 Conference on Pidgin and Creole Languages.
Chicago. [log in to unmask] (08/99)
14 January 2000. Institute of Acoustics (IoA) Speech Group One-Day
Meeting on Speech Production and Automatic Speech Recognition.
School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, The University of
Birmingham. [log in to unmask];
http://www.eee.bham.ac.uk/russellm/meetings/ioa_meeting.htm
(12/99)
1 - 3 March 2000. The Word in Phonology. German Society of Linguistics,
Marburg, Germany. [log in to unmask] (06/99)
2 - 24 March 2000. Declarative Analysis of the Syllable, University of
Nantes. [log in to unmask] (09/99)
11 March 2000. Informal Workshop on Declarative Phonology. Universite
de Nantes, France. [log in to unmask] (12/99)
3 - 6 April 2000. The Evolution of Language. Ecole Nationale Superieure
des Telecommunications, Paris, France. [log in to unmask];
http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang/ (08/99)
12 - 14 April 2000. RIAO2000 (Recherche d'Informations Assistee par
Ordinateur = Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval)
International Conference: Content-Based Multimedia Information
Access. Paris, France. [log in to unmask];
http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO (08/99)
28 - 30 April 2000. First North American Phonology Conference (NAPhC).
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. [log in to unmask];
[log in to unmask];
http://modlang-hale.concordia.ca/naphc.html (12/99)
29-30 April 2000. CLAW 2000: 3rd International Workshop on Controlled
Language Applications. Seattle, Washington. (Pre-conference
Workshop in conjunction with the joint meeting of the ANLP/NACLA
conferences (see entry below).
http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/claw2000 (12/99)
29 April - 3 May 2000. Language Technology Joint Conference: 6th
Applied Natural Language Processing (ANLP) Conference and the 1st
Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (NAACL). Seattle, Washington.
[log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask];
www.aclweb.org (12/99)
1 - 4 May 2000. 5th Speech Production Seminar: Models and Data. Kloster
Seeon, Bavaria, Germany. Email: [log in to unmask];
http://www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/~sps5 (08/99)
10 - 12 May 2000. SNLP 2000: The Fourth Symposium on Natural Language
Processing 2000. Chiangmai, Thailand.
www.nectec.or.th//sll//snlp2000; www.cpe.eng.kmutt.ac.th/~snlp
(12/99)
** 11 - 12 May 2000. VOICE OPERATED TELECOM SERVICES:
DO THEY HAVE A BRIGHT FUTURE? Gent, Belgium
http://www.elis.rug.ac.be/cost249/workshop (1/00)
29 - 31 May 2000. Spoken Word Access Processes (SWAP). Jonkerbosch
Conference Centre. Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
http://www.mpi.nl/world/swap (08/99)
31 May - 2 June 2000. LREC2000: The 2nd International Conference on
Language Resources and Evaluation. Athens, Greece.
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/lrec2000.html (08/99)
12 - 16 June 2000. First International Natural Language Generation
Conference (INLG'2000). Mitzpe Ramon, Israel.
http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~nlg2000/main.html (12/99)
15 - 17 June 2000. TENNET (Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology)
meeting, Montreal, Canada. http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/tennet
[log in to unmask] (09/99).
27 - 30 June 2000. EIS'2000: Second International ICSC Symposium on
Engineering of Intelligent Systems. University of Paisley,
Scotland, U.K. http://www.icsc.ab.ca/eis2000.htm (12/99)
29 June - 1 July 2000. LabPhon7. Max Planck Institute/University of
Nijmegen, The Netherlands. [log in to unmask];
http://www.let.kun.nl/labphon7/ (02/99)
29 June - 1 July 2000. ICLaVE 1 (Barcelona 2000): First International
Conference on Language Variation in Europe. Universitat Pompeu
Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. e-mail: [log in to unmask]
(08/99)
3 - 5 July 2000. Third Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation.
Bellagio, Italy. [log in to unmask];
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/units/ilash/Meetings/bellagio2000/
(12/99)
10 July - 18 August 2000. Summer workshop on Language Technology. Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/ws2000/proposal.html (12/99)
23 - 27 July 2000. TISLR7: 7th Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign
Language Research. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
http://www.leidenuniv.nl/hil/sign-lang/tislr7/ (12/99)
16 - 19 August 2000. VIIIth meeting of the International Clinical
Phonetics and Linguistics Asociation. John MacIntyre Centre,
Edinburgh, Scotland. http://sls.qmced.ac.uk/ICPLA2000/index.htm
(07/99)
5 - 7 September 2000. ISCA Workshop on Speech and Emotion.
Northern Ireland (venue tba).
http://www.qub.ac.uk/en/isca/index.htm (11/99)
13-16 September 2000. The Third International Workshop on Text, Speech
and Dialogue (TSD 2000). Brno, Czech Republic. [log in to unmask];
http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2000/ (12/99)
** 2 - 5 October 2000. Prosody 2000: speech recognition and
synthesis workshop. Krakow, Poland.
http://ptfon.wmid.amu.edu.pl (1/00)
9 - 12 November 2000. Meeting of the Language and Social Interaction
Division of the National Communication Association. Seattle, WA.
[log in to unmask];
http://www.natcom.org/convention/2000/call2000.html (12/99)
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CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS & MEETINGS
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Prosody 2000: speech recognition and synthesis
Workshop
Krakow, Poland
2-5 October, 2000
CALL FOR PAPERS & APPLICATION DEMONSTRATIONS
Organized by:
Polish Phonetic Association
Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Sprachwissenschaft (Sektion
Computerlinguistik)
In collaboration with:
The International Speech Communication Association - ISCA
Acoustical Committee of the Polish Academy of the Sciences
Web site: http://ptfon.wmid.amu.edu.pl
The scope of the workshop will range from the traditional
processing of suprasegmentals to the rapidly growing field of
multimodal applications in which prosody plays a role. The
conference is of interest to several scientific communities,
including Human Language Technologies, Linguistics, Phonetics,
Phoniatrics and Musicology. Prosody 2000 will be a forum for
cross-discipline initiatives and innovative applications,
presentation of scientific progress in the field, demonstrations of
prototypes based on this research and of the innovative multimodal
products now appearing on the market. The Call for Papers is
addressed to researchers engaged in either academic or industrial
research. In order to support the multi-disciplinary goal of the
conference, the international organising committee includes
representatives of the different scientific communities. Details of
the submission and registration procedures as well as general
workshop information can be found on the above web site.
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FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
On May 11-12, 2000, a workshop entitled
VOICE OPERATED TELECOM SERVICES: DO THEY HAVE A
BRIGHT FUTURE?
is organized in Gent (Belgium). The workshop is initiated by COST
action COST249, and is intended to be THE event of the year 2000
where speech technology providers, telecom service providers,
telecom operators and academic speech scientists meet to
discuss the important issues related to the deployment of voice
operated telecom services.
The workshop is sponsored by
- L&H: Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
- The Flemish Ministry of Science
and supported by
- COST249: Continuous speech recognition over the telephone.
- ISCA: the International Speech Communication Association
- ELIS: the Electronics & Information Dept. of the University Gent
Keynote addresses will be given by the following renowned
scientists
- Roger Moore (DERA, UK)
- Sadaoki Furui (Titech, Japan)
- Denis Johnston (BT, UK)
- Fred Lundin (Telia, Sweden)
- Petri Haavisto (Nokia, Finland)
- Volker Steinbiss (Philips, Germany)
- Christian Dugast (Nuance, France)
- Hugh Cameron (L&H, Canada)
Everybody in the domain of speech recognition and understanding
is invited to consult the detailed information on aims and
objectives, call for paper, registration fee, hotel accommodations,
etc. on the web page of the workshop. The www-address is:
http://www.elis.rug.ac.be/cost249/workshop
We are looking forward to your contribution, and we hope to
welcome you at the workshop.
On behalf of the organizing committee,
Jean-Pierre MARTENS
(chairman of COST249)
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POSITIONS VACANT & RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
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RESEARCH POSITION IN SPEECH SYNTHESIS
Centre for Speech Technology Research
University of Edinburgh
The Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) is looking to
appoint a researcher to work in unit selection for speech synthesis.
The researcher will join an established team of speech synthesis
researchers and be expected to build on current work at CSTR and
also to develop new ideas and techniques.
This post is focused on fundamental research in generating
waveforms from linguistic specifications, based on the unit
selection paradigm. The ideal candidate will have previous
experience in one or more of the areas of concatenative synthesis,
signal processing and prosody generation and in addition will have
solid programming skills.
The job offers excellent career development opportunities as CSTR
has a first class record in disseminating its work, both as open
source software and in journal and conference publications. CSTR
offers an attractive work environment with first class facilities in
terms of databases, computing network, and software. CSTR's
speech synthesis work is centred around the development of the
Festival system, and new team members will be expected
to help in the development of the system and the fundamental
research that it supports. without PhDs are also strongly
encouraged as there are opportunities to study for a PhD within the
scope of the planned research.
Ideally, the post would start in January 2000, but flexibility is
possible in the case of strong candidates.
For further details, contact Paul Taylor, email
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The following position have been announced in the past month by
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
(A) Project Manager Development Vietnamese Language & Speech
Technology
(B) Language Specialist Bahassa Speech and Language
Technology
(C) Project Manager Development Urdu Language & Speech
Technology
(D) Language Specialist Belarussian Speech and Language
Technology
(E) Language Specialist Czech Speech and Language Technology
(F) Project Manager Development Turkish Language & Speech
Technology
(G) Project Manager Development Thai Language & Speech
Technology
(H) Language Specialist Farsi Speech and Language Technology
(I) Language Specialist Swedish Speech and Language Technology
(J) Language Specialist Greek Speech and Language Technology
(K) Project Manager Development Tamil Language & Speech
Technology
(L) Project Manager Taiwanese Development Speech and
Language Technology
Further information can be obtained from:
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
Personnel Department
Mailto:[log in to unmask]
attn. Mr. Pierre Eggermont
Flanders Language Valley 50
B-8900 Ieper
BELGIUM Fax: int+ 32 (0)57.20.84.89
http://www.lhsl.com
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____________ASR Language Specialist_____________
Aculab is a leading provider of components and systems for the
Computer Telephony industry. With branches throughout the
World, Aculab's R&D is based in Milton Keynes, UK. Both Aculab
and Milton Keynes are rapidly expanding, providing an exciting and
challenging environment.
Our products include the Prosody(TM) speech processing platform,
running World-class multi-channel speech recognition and
synthesis algorithms.
This post's primary function is to enhance Aculab's isolated and
connected-word speech recognition capability, mostly by developing
phonetic and whole-word models for additional languages. The work
will also involve development of test harnesses and technology
demonstrators.
The successful applicant should be aware of key issues in speech
recognition, phonetics and statistics, but their main area of
expertise will be in C or C++ programming. Organisational skills
are also required, as the post will include the specification and
procurement of speech databases to fill the needs of a number of
concurrent projects.
The post may be suitable for a recent graduate, provided they can
demonstrate the required skills, but further relevant experience
and/or education would be a definite advantage.
http://www.aculab.com/
mailto:[log in to unmask]
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University of Edinburgh
Lecturer (or Reader) in Speech Technology
The Centre for Speech Technology Research in the Department of
Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Edinburgh, is
seeking to hire someone at lecturer or, exceptionally, at reader
level, who has a proven interest and expertise in some area of
Speech Technology. The area of specialisation is open but likely to
cover one of: prosody, dialogue, speech recognition, speech
synthesis.
The successful applicant will be an integral member of the Centre
for Speech Technology Research and of the Department of
Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. S/he will have a proven
research record, preferably a demonstrated ability to attract
research grants, and be able to contribute to the teaching of
speech technology and related subjects at postgraduate
and undergraduate levels within the context of a general linguistics
department. The successful candidate will be interested in
developing interdisciplinary links within the new department and
with other units in the university.
The appointment will be made on the Lecturer B scale (£23,521 -
£30,065 pa) or, exceptionally, at the lower end of the Reader scale
(£31,563 pa).
Further particulars including; details of the application
procedure should be obtained from the Personnel Department
Personnel Office,
1 Roxburgh Street,
Edinburgh
EH8 9TB
Scotland
Telephone 0131 650 2511 (24 hour answering
service)
Please quote reference 776937NS.
Closing date for receipt of applications is February 4th 2000.
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University of Ulster
READER IN LINGUISTICS
Subject to final approval, the University of Ulster will shortly be
seeking to appoint a senior level position in Linguistics in the
School of Psychology and Communication at the Jordanstown
Campus. The post will be at Reader level (equivalent to a research-
oriented Associate Professor in the USA), with an expected
starting date of September/October 2000, or
possibly earlier. We welcome expressions of interest at this time
from scholars with publications of international standing and
preferably experience in obtaining grants. Those working in any
area of linguistics are welcome to contact us, and especially those
with an interest in theoretical linguistics. You would be joining a
research-active team, consisting of two professors, a senior
lecturer, and two lecturers, plus part-time staff and graduate
teaching assistants. Current expertise of staff includes: theoretical
syntax, phonetics and phonology, semantics and
pragmatics, sociolinguistics, child language, clinical linguistics and
minority language issues. The salary for a Reader is Stg£31,563-
£35,670 (plus discretionary points to Stg£38,561) per annum. For
further details, please contact either Professor Martin J. Ball
([log in to unmask]), or Dr Alison Henry ([log in to unmask]).
The University web site is http://www.ulst.ac.uk/
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GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
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TAL SPECIAL ISSUE ON TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS
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JOURNAL TAL - CALL FOR PAPER.
A special issue (volume 42:1 to appear in 2001, with audio CD) of
the French journal "Traitement Automatique des Langues" (TAL)
will be devoted to "Text-to-Speech Synthesis". The call for paper
(english) can be found at:
http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/tal/appel-synt.en.html
The call for paper (French) can be found at:
http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/tal/appel-synt.html
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Material for the February 2000 issue of foNETiks should reach the
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