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foNETiks A network newsletter for the International Phonetic Association and for the Phonetic Sciences May 2002 *********************************************** Editors: Linda Shockey, University of Reading, UK <[log in to unmask]> Gerry Docherty, University of Newcastle, UK <[log in to unmask]> Paul Foulkes, University of York, UK <[log in to unmask]> Lisa Lim, National University of Singapore <[log in to unmask]> E-mail address: [log in to unmask] The foNETiks archive can be found on the WWW at: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/fonetiks.html Visit the IPA web page at: http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipa.html ************************************** ANNOUNCEMENTS [new ones marked ##] [date of first appearance follows] ************************************** 13-17 May 2002. IEEE International Conference on Audio,Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP2002). Orlando, FL, USA. http://www.icassp2002.com/ (04/02) 23 - 25 May 2002. Tenth Manchester Phonology Meeting. Manchester, UK. http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/acadepts/humarts/english/10mfm.htm (04/02) 27 May - 2 June 2002. Lrec2002. Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Main Conference: 29-30-31 May 2002; Workshops: 27-28 May and 1-2 June 2002 (see next entry). Las Palmas, Spain. http://www.lrec-conf.org/ (04/02) 1 June 2002. LREC 2002 Workshop on Portability Issues in Human Language Technologies. Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain. http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2002/ (03/02) 3 - 7 June 2002. 143rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. http://asa.aip.org/meetings.html; <[log in to unmask]> (12/00) 6 - 8 June 2002. 4th International Phonology Meeting of the GDR 1954. Grenoble, France. <[log in to unmask]> (03/02) 20 - 22 June 2002. Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology (TENNET XIII). Montreal, Canada. http://www.uqam.ca/tennet; [log in to unmask] (12/01) 23 June - 6 July 2002. NATO International Scientific Exchange Programme: Dynamics of Speech Production and Perception. Il Ciocco, Italy. http://www.ebire.org/earlab/asi2002.html (11/01) 24 June - 24 July 2002. Summer 2002. Spoken Language: Synthesis and Intonation. Ohio State University. http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/events/SU2002 (04/02) 27 - 28 June 2002. Conference on English Phonology. Toulouse, France. http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/acadepts/humarts/english/toulouse.htm (12/01) 27 - 30 June 2002. LabPhon 8. Eighth Conference on Laboratory Phonology: Varieties of Phonological Competence. New Haven, CT, USA. http://www.ling.yale.edu/labphon8; [log in to unmask] (12/01) 11 July 2002. Workshop on Morphological and Phonological Learning, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Info at http://morph.ldc.upenn.edu/maxwell/MorphologyLearning.html/ [note new date: 03/02] (02/02) 2 - 6 September 2002. Linguistics and Phonetics 2002 (LP2002). Meikai University, Urayasu, Japan. <[log in to unmask]> (12/01) 6 - 7 September 2002. Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonology, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota. <[log in to unmask]> (01/02) 7-20 September 2002. ICSLP'2002 - 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing. Denver, USA.http://www.icslp2002.org/ (04/02) 11-13 September 2002. IEEE 2002 Workshop on Speech Synthesis. A satellite event of ICSLP 2002 (see entry above). Santa Monica, CA, USA. http://www.research.att.com/conf/ttsworkshop/ (04/02) 14-15 September 2002. ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation for Spoken Language Technology. Aspen Lodge, Estes Park, Colorado, USA. http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/pmla2002 (04/02) 14 - 16 September 2002. The 3rd Biennial ICVPB: International Conference on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics. Denver, USA. [Held in conjunction with the 7th ICSLP, also in Denver -- see next entry] http://www.nwu.edu/csd/ICVPB/ (12/01) 17 - 20 September 2002. ICSLP-2002: 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing. Denver, USA. http://cslr.colorado.edu/icslp2002/ (08/01) 1 - 3 November, 2002. 9th International Phonology Meeting, Vienna. [log in to unmask] http://www.univie.ac.at.linguistics/conferences/phon02/ (02/02) 8 - 10 November, 2002. Symposium on Chinese Linguistics (Tone), Institute of Linguistics, Taiwan. <[log in to unmask]> (02/02) 2 - 6 December 2002. Joint Meeting: 144th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 3rd Iberoamerican Acoustics and 9th Mexican Congress on Acoustics. Cancun, Mexico.http://asa.aip.org/cancun.html (12/00) 21 - 24 January 2003. 8th International Symposium on Social Communication. Centro de Linguistica Aplicada, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. <[log in to unmask]> (03/02) 3 - 9 August 2003. ICPhS 2003: 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Barcelona, Spain. http://shylock.uab.es/icphs/ (08/01) ##11 – 15 August, 2003. Fourth World Congress on Fluency Disorders, Montreal, Canada. http://www/ifacongress2003.com (05/02) September 2003. 4th UK Language Variation and Change Conference. University of Sheffield, UK. (04/02) 1 - 4 September 2003. EUROSPEECH'2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology. Geneva, Switzerland. http://www.isca-speech.org/conferences.html (actual website under construction) (08/01) *************************** CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS *************************** The International Fluency Association / Call for Papers, Fourth World Congress on Fluency Disorders, Montreal, Canada August 11-15, 2003 In keeping with previous International Fluency Association World Congresses on Fluency Disorders the aim of the Fourth Congress is to bring together clinicians, researchers, people who stutter, and other interested parties to discuss theoretical, empirical, clinical, and cultural approaches to fluency disorders. The program will consist of sessions devoted to special themes, mini-seminars, research sessions, clinical sessions, short courses and poster sessions. Request For Presentation Submissions for presentations related to all aspects of fluency disorders are welcome. Submissions on the efficacy and the effectiveness of intervention, best practice, and multi-cultural and multi-lingual issues will be of particular interest. Delivery and Deadlines Deadline for arrival of postal paper submissions August 23, 2002 Deadline for electronic submissions September 10, 2002 For information and request for presentation forms visit http://www/ifacongress2003.com *************************** JOBS / POSITIONS VACANT *************************** Postdoctoral and Postgraduate Research Opportunities: Ireland Development of a novel acoustic analysis technique for routine, non- invasive clinical evaluation of pathological voice A postdoctoral research opportunity in voice analysis has recently become available in the Dept. of Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Limerick (UL), Ireland and a postgraduate position is available in School of Clinical Speech and Language Studies, Trinity College (TCD), Dublin 2, Ireland. The project is set to begin in Sept./Oct. 2002. The successful candidate for the postdoctoral position will typically have a first degree in a numerate discipline with 3/4 years postgraduate experience in a related field. Candidates interested in postgraduate level positions are also encouraged to apply for the University of Limerick position. Candidates for the latter position (TCD) will typically have a Speech and Lang. Therapy background and will initially enrol for an M.Sc. degree. The project consists of Year I (Common) Speech Production Theory/Voice Pathology Literature/Inverse Filtering Fundamentals Matlab/Realtime DSP (UL) Record/document normal/pathological voice data (TCD) Year II (UL) Develop new inverse filtering strategies/Derive and validate high quality glottal waveform Year II (TCD) Implement and validate new voice measurement system (simultaneous EGG, acoustic, inverse filtering and stoboscopy data) (In conj. with UL) The research is funded by an Enterprise Ireland Strategic Research grant (=8028k p.a. postdoc and =8016k postgrad., incl. full fees paid). Further details are available from: Dr. Peter Murphy <[log in to unmask]> Dr. Pauline Sloane <[log in to unmask]> Dr. Jacqueline Walker <[log in to unmask]> Informal enquiries are welcome. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Specialist in speech signal processing within the field of speaker recognition and forensic audio. Duties focus on research and development projects as well as on expert witness reports in speaker recognition and tape analysis - qualifications or expertise required: a. MSc, MA etc. in electrical engineering, computer science, computational linguistics/phonetics, or related; b. knowledge/experience in digital signal processing, pattern recognition, technical acoustics (microphones, recorders etc.), computer technology; c. knowledge/experience in automatic speaker- or speech recognition; d. very good competence in German, good competence in English; e. unimpaired hearing. - location of job: Bundeskriminalamt, Department of Speaker Identification and Tape Analysis, Wiesbaden, Germany - closing date for applications: May 31, 2002 - contact information: Dr. Stefan Gfroerer, Department of Speaker Identification and Tape Analysis (KT 54), Bundeskriminalamt, 65173 Wiesbaden, Germany. E-Mail: [log in to unmask] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Senior or Staff Scientists in Linguistics for TTS Work on a large international project hosted at Vox Generation Ltd. Vox is building a scientific team of 18 individuals to focus on full mixed-initiative conversational dialogue systems. In this role, you will research and innovate new techniques in Unified Hierarchical Language Modelling for training conversational dialogue systems. This project is partnered with SpeechWorks International on the development of new language modelling techniques. You should have a Ph.D. or pending Ph.D. in acoustic phonetics. Desirable, training and acoustic mark-up for creating TTS vocabularies. A Portuguese and Swedish synthesizer is being built. Proficiency in either of these languages required. You should understand how to interpret a spectrogram. Contact: David Horowitz Chief Scientist [log in to unmask] http://www.voxgeneration.com Deadline 1,June, 2002 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Principal or Senior Scientist in Digital Signal Processing for Text-to-speech Synthesis Work on a large international project hosted at Vox Generation Ltd. Vox is building a scientific team of 18 individuals to focus on full mixed-initiative conversational dialogue systems. In this role, you will research and innovate new techniques in Unified Hierarchical Language Modelling for training conversational dialogue systems. This project is partnered with SpeechWorks International on the development of new language modelling techniques. We are developing a large-vocabulary TTS. We will implement a patent pending technique for training and unit-selection. We will base the TTS on an open-source standard, but productise it. We have built an automatic prosody markup parsing scheme, reducing the need for hand annotated corpora for prosody. You will extend this technique for intelligent selection of speech segments using the ToBI technique. Unique to the R&D effort, is to apply formant synthesis and acoustic tube modelling techniques to interpret and join units. We have demonstrated human quality limited domain voices. You should have a Ph.D. in Digital Signal Processing, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics or Physics. Industry experience is sought, but you do not have had to work on TTS. Radar signal processing, for example, is fine. You should be analytical and have demonstrated high proficiency in mathematics. A-levels in quantitative sciences should be perfect scores or near perfect scores. Contact David Horowitz, Chief Scientist Vox Generation Ltd http://www.voxgeneration.com [log in to unmask] Deadline 1,June, 2002 ******************** Material for the June 2002 issue of foNETiks should reach us by 29 May 2002.