14 Dec 2018
The Workshop on Accommodation in Speech Communication organized by Elisa Pellegrino and Volker Dellwo for the University Research Priority Program Language and Space at the University of Zurich was a unique opportunity to discuss and exchange ideas among the accommodation community. We heard inspiring invited talks by Rivka Levitan (Brooklyn College CUNY), Jennifer Pardo (Montclair State University), and Antje Schweitzer (Stuttgart University).
Our talk was part of the session on accommodation in human-machine interactions together with contributions by Rivka Levitan, Štefan Beňuš as well as Petra Jaecks and Karoline Malchus.
Book of abstracts
08 Sep 2018
We are looking back on fruitful discussions about our upcoming Wizard-of-Oz experiment at a beautifully organized P&P conference (Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum) held on September 6 and 7, 2018 at the University of Vienna, Austria. The conference included a field trip to the Acoustics Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences demonstrating the diverse work going on in Vienna.
Book of abstracts
05 Sep 2018
Today the Students Meet Experts event organized by ISCA’s Student Advisory Committee (ISCA-SAC) took place at Interspeech 2018 in Hyderabad. Questions by an audience of young researchers, mainly doctoral students, were competently answered by this year’s panel of experts from academia and industry:
- Abeer Alwan (University of California, Los Angeles)
- Sharmistha Gray (Nuance Research)
- Dilek Hakkani-Tür (Google Research)
- John H. L. Hansen (The University of Texas at Dallas)
- Haizhou Li (National University of Singapore)
- Satoshi Nakamura (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
- Shrikanth Narayanan (University of Southern California)
- Vikram Ramanarayanan (ETS Research)
- Odette Scharenborg (Delft University of Technology)
03 Sep 2018
Today the Open Doors event organized by ISCA’s Student Advisory Committee (ISCA-SAC) took place at Interspeech 2018 in Hyderabad. The Open Doors event aims to bring industrial research and academia together. Two groups of young researchers visited Genesys and Microsoft India Development Center to learn and discuss about products and related technology.
01 Sep 2018
Today the 4th Doctoral Consortium organized by ISCA’s Student Advisory Committee (ISCA-SAC) took place at the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIIT-H). This year, 18 doctoral candidates had the opportunity to present and discuss their research with the following panel of experts from academia and industry:
- Mathew Magimai Doss (IDIAP Research Institute)
- Isabel Trancoso (INESC ID Lisbon)
- Vikramjit Mitra (SRI International)
- Bhuvana Ramabhadran (Google Inc., NY)
- Richard Stern (CMU, Pittsburgh)
- Prasanta Kumar Ghosh (IISc, Bangalore)
- Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula (IISc, Bangalore)
- Mariapaola D'Imperio (Aix-Marseille University)
- Haizhou Li (National University of Singapore)
- Guruprasad Sheshadri (Audience Communications Systems India Pvt. Ltd.)
