First International Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research (HSCR 2015), Dresden, Germany, September 4-5, 2015
This workshop serves as the main event of the ISCA Special Interest Group on "The History of Speech Communication Sciences" that is also backed by the International Phonetic Association (IPA). The workshop will be a unique exchange forum for researchers with work on all kind of historical aspects of the research fields represented at the Interspeech conferences and the Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Topics may include work on pioneering (and possibly forgotten or ignored) important publications, the description of historical audio and video recordings, collections of historical instruments as well as the usage of speech technology in spoken document retrieval.
HSCR 2015 is a satellite event of the Interspeech 2015, Dresden, September 6-10, Dresden, Germany.
Organizers: Rüdiger Hoffmann (TU Dresden) and Jürgen Trouvain (Saarland University)
Important dates:
Abstract submission deadline: April 30, 2015 (maximum one page)
Notification of acceptance: May 16, 2015
Full paper submission deadline: July 11, 2015 (camera-ready paper)
Workshop: September 4 (evening) and September 5 (full day), 2015
Preliminary Program Structure and Locations
Day one: Friday, September 4, 2015
Location: Barkhausen Building at the main campus of TU Dresden
Program:
- Invited opening lecture by John Ohala, University of California, Berkeley: "A brief history of Experimental Phonetics in the 18th and 19th century"
- Official re-opening of the reconstructed Historical Acoustic-Phonetic Collection (HAPS)
- Visit of the collection and welcome reception
Day two: Saturday, September 5, 2015
Location: Technical Collections of the City of Dresden, Ernemann Building
Program:
- Presentation of the regular papers (morning session)
- Visit of the Technical Collections of the City of Dresden
- Presentation of the regular papers (afternoon session)
- Social evening in the tower restaurant of the historic Ernemann Building
Find more information on < http://www.ias.et.tu-dresden.de/ias/systemtheorie-und-sprachtechnologie/hscr-2015/>.
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