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.)

27 Jul 2018
Happy to have joined the summer school on Forensic Linguistics held for the first time
on July 22-26, 2018 at the University of Cologne, Germany and organized by the Student Council for Linguistics and Phonetics of the latter. The short course focused on authorship profiling and attribution, discourse analysis, as well as language and meaning. It was led by Isabel Picornell (QED Limited), Ria Perkins (Hapax Consulting Ltd & Aston University), and Nicci MacLeod (Aston University).