ISCA-SAC Events 2020

Will you participate in Interspeech 2020? Please consider joining the events hosted by ISCA’s student advisory committee (ISCA-SAC). This year we are organizing the 7th Students Meet Experts event, the 6th Doctoral Consortium (abstract submission deadline: August 1st), and the 2nd Mentoring event. The events will take place online around the time of Interspeech 2020 (October 25-29).

For more information about the events, check out the Interspeech homepage.
For more information about ISCA-SAC, visit our homepage.

Foto ISCA-SAC Board: Iona Gessinger, Jasper Ooster, Berrak Sisman, Gabriel Mittag
(1st Mentoring Event at Interspeech 2019 in Graz)

We are looking forward to your participation!

Respi Workshop (February 18-19, 2020)

This two-day workshop on the Measurement of Speech Respiration and Speech Preparation Phases was organized by the project group Pause-internal Phonetic Particles at Saarland University in Saarbrücken. The workshop featured invited talks by Susanne Fuchs (ZAS Berlin): The involvement of respiration in local and global aspects of speech, Marcin Włodarczak (Stockholm University): Interactional functions of breathing, and Adrian Simpson (University of Jena): Where does the air pressure come from? The production of ejectives in German and Georgian, practical sessions by Jörg Dreyer (ZAS Berlin), Marcin Włodarczak (Stockholm University), and Raphael Werner (Saarland University), as well as further exciting presentations from labs across Europe. The practical insights and lively discussions made this workshop an invaluable learning experience. Many thanks to Jürgen Trouvain, Bernd Möbius and Raphael Werner for organizing this event!

P&P 15 (September 25-27, 2019)

The 15th edition of Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum took place at the Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf. The conference continues to grow, which is why we had the first P&P with two parallel tracks this year. Invited talks were given by Caroline Féry (Goethe University Frankfurt): The role of phonology in evolution of language and Vsevolod Kapatsinski (University of Oregon): Mechanisms of phonological learning. Many thanks to the Düsseldorf team for the wonderfully organized conference!

Interspeech (September 15-19, 2019)

This year’s Interspeech was jointly organized by the speech communities of Graz/Austria and Maribor/Slovenia under the motto Crossroads of Speech and Language. We presented our work in the sessions on Sociophonetics and Adaptation and Accommodation in Conversation. Thanks to the organizers for a great week at Messecongress Graz!

Proceedings of Interspeech 2019

For videos of keynote and survey talks, please visit the YouTube channel of Interspeech 2019.

I would like to highlight the following presentation of the piece Voices and Piano – Hanna Schygulla by Peter Ablinger which which was interpreted during the opening session by Alexandra Radoulova (piano) and Winfried Ritsch (live electronics):

ISCA-SAC: 5th Doctoral Consortium (September 14, 2019)

The 5th ISCA-SAC Doctoral Consortium was held at Graz Technical University on September 14, 2019. A group of 14 highly motivated PhD students from research institutes in India, Germany, Sweden, Singapore, France, South Korea and the USA presented their work in two parallel tracks to a panel of researchers from academia and industry:

  • Kate Knill (University of Cambridge)
  • Anouschka Foltz (University of Graz)
  • João Freitas (DefinedCrowd)
  • Ngoc Thang Vu (University of Stuttgart)
  • Hema Murthy (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)
  • Simon King (University of Edinburgh)
  • Sebastian Möller (TU Berlin and DFKI Berlin)
  • Dayana Ribas (University of Zaragoza)
  • Kyu Han (ASAPP Inc.)

The panel provided their expertise with respect to consolidating the findings presented to them into one final product: the PhD thesis. We thank the experts on the panel very much for taking the time and sharing their insight!

We further would like to express our gratitude to Jamilla Balint and Katharina Pollack from Graz Technical University for their tremendous help in the local organization of the event!

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