Call for Mentors for One-to-one Mentoring at Interspeech 2022

An initiative of the ISCA Mentoring Committee and ISCA-SAC

 

The ISCA Mentoring Committee and ISCA-SAC are happy to announce that one-to-one mentoring sessions are to return to Interspeech this year. The ISCA Mentoring Committee, in collaboration with ISCA-SAC, are inviting registrations from senior and mid-career speech researchers to act as mentors for students and early career researchers.

One-to-one mentoring was piloted in Brno last year with great success and this year in Incheon, there will be another great opportunity to connect with researchers from various backgrounds and experience levels, and engage in meaningful conversations. 

Once registered, we will introduce you to your mentee during Interspeech (online or in-person) and let you arrange the best time/place for your conversation. This is intended to be a one-time session of approximately 40 minutes, although it is up to you and the participant whether you need more or less time for your discussion. Sessions can be conducted online or face-to-face, so delegates attending in-person and virtually can take part.

If you feel that you would be able to give meaningful advice and answer questions from participants, we warmly invite you to register as a mentor via our registration form.

Please also share this call in your networks if you know someone who would make a good mentor.

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We look forward to meeting you at Interspeech 2022!

 

Warm regards,

The ISCA Mentoring Committee & ISCA-SAC



8th Doctoral Consortium @ Interspeech 2022

 

Date: September 17th, 2022
Location: Incheon, South Korea
Panel of Experts: TBA

ISCA’s Student Advisory Committee is pleased to announce its 8th Doctoral Consortium at INTERSPEECH 2022. The event gives doctoral students the opportunity to get feedback on their ongoing dissertation project from a panel of experts. 

The Consortium is an event for doctoral students at any stage of their dissertation. Each participant will have 30 minutes to present and discuss their work-in-progress. Discussions are led by the panel of experts and focus on helping each participant refine their research plan and identify the next steps in their project. All doctoral students in speech-related fields are invited to submit a two-page abstract outlining their dissertation project by 15 June 2022. 

The 8th Doctoral Consortium at INTERSPEECH 2022 is planned as an in-person event. We reserve the option to revert back to a virtual format. 

Guidelines for Abstract Submission

Content

Abstracts should describe the dissertation project as a whole: what you have done so far, what you plan to do, and what challenges you see. The abstract may incorporate in-progress and published work, but should address the following points:

  • Research question and motivation
  • Key challenges (methodological and/or theoretical)
  • Discussion of results (or expected results and their implications)
  • Plans for the future and thesis roadmap
  • Main contributions of your research

Abstracts from previous years can be found here: http://www.isca-students.org/sacweb/index.php/resources

Format

  • 2 pages with 1 additional page for references (if needed)
  • Use the INTERSPEECH 2022 template provided here
  • The doctoral student must be the sole author 


Submission 

Presentation guidelines:
If your abstract is accepted, you will need to present it at the event. You will have 15 minutes to present your work, and 15 minutes of discussion with the panel of experts.

Important dates:

  • 15 May 2022 – Submission portal opens
  • 15 June 2022 22 June (extended) – Submission deadline
  • 1 July 2022 – Notification of acceptance/rejection
  • 15 July 2022 – Camera-ready abstract due
  • 17 September 2022 – 8th Doctoral Consortium

Contact:
Francisco Teixeira: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

Hello, goodbye - 2022

[February, 2022]

It is a new year and a new season for ISCA’s Student Advisory Committee (SAC). As we do every year, we would like to thank our outgoing members, welcome our incoming members and introduce this year’s SAC board. 

We say goodbye to Yaru Wu (LIMSI-CNRS & LPP-CNRS, France), Gabriel Mittag (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany), Ravi Shankar Prasad (Idiap, Switzerland), Nils Westhausen (University of Oldenburg, Germany) and Lei Xi (LPP, CNRS - Sorbonne Nouvelle, France). Thank you very much for your work with SAC!

We welcome our new volunteers Anna Leschanowsky (University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany), Guanyu Huang (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom), Heather Weston (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany), Hira Dhamyal (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Sonal Joshi (Johns Hopkins University, USA) and Wenjie Peng (Beijing Language and Culture University, China). We look forward to working with all of you!

We would also like to thank the active volunteers that are staying with SAC from last year, Mariana Julião (INESC-ID & IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal), Tina Raissi (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) and Sebastião Quintas (IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier, France).

On the SAC board, Catarina Botelho (INEC-ID & IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal) takes over the role of SAC's general coordinator, from Jasper Ooster (University of Oldenburg, Germany), who remains an advisor to the board. Francisco Teixeira (INESC-ID & IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal) moves to a new role as an event coordinator, while Thomas Rolland (INESC-ID & IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal) succeeds Catarina Botelho's role in her role as an event coordinator. Finally, Omnia Ibrahim (Saarland University, Germany) succeeds Francisco Teixeira as media coordinator.

We would like to highlight that SAC members will continue their work on SAC's SpeechPitch podcast, which will have four episodes very soon! We hope this podcast can help bring students and the overall speech community closer together, which we think is especially important in pandemic times, where we lack presential conferences and other social interactions.

 

7th Doctoral Consortium @ Interspeech 2021 - Extended Abstracts now online!

The Student Advisory Committee of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA-SAC) held its 7th Doctoral Consortium on Sunday, August 29th, 2021. This event gave doctoral candidates the opportunity to present and discuss their research with a panel of experts. The discussion included feedback on the evolution and progress of the students, in order to help them identify a road-map towards refining their thesis.


The panel of experts included: 

  • Prof. Alberto Abad
  • Prof. Junichi Yamagishi
  • Dr. Leibny Paola Garcia
  • Dr. Mirco Ravanelli
  • Prof. Visar Berisha

 

The extended abstract for each of the presentations can be found below:

Speaker Extended Abstract
Amber Afshan Towards understanding speaker perception and its applications to automatic speaker recognition
Amir Ivry Hands-free Speech Communication Using Deep Neural Networks
Debadatta Dash Neural Speech Decoding with Magnetoencephalography
Heather Weston Speech–breathing interactions under physical load
Yuka Naito The effects of musical experience and training on the perceptual learning of Japanese pitch accent

 

7th Doctoral Consortium @ Interspeech 2021

Date: Sunday, August 29th, 2021, 4pm to 6pm CEST (Brno time)
Location: Online
Panel of Experts: 

  • Prof. Alberto Abad
  • Prof. Junichi Yamagishi
  • Dr. Leibny Paola Garcia
  • Dr. Mirco Ravanelli
  • Prof. Visar Berisha

The Student Advisory Committee of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA-SAC) is pleased to announce its 7th Doctoral Consortium. This event gives doctoral candidates the opportunity to present and discuss their research with a panel of experts. The discussion includes feedback on the evolution and progress of the students, in order to help them identify a road-map towards refining their thesis. All doctoral students from speech-related disciplines are invited to apply! Participants will be selected based on their submitted abstracts.

Similar to last year’s edition, this year, the Doctoral Consortium will be held online just before the beginning of Interspeech 2021.


Guidelines for Abstract Submission

Content

Applicants should submit a two-page extended abstract, briefing the research pursued towards their thesis. It may incorporate published and in-progress work. The abstract must highlight the following points:

  • Research motivation;
  • Key issues that have been identified and/or addressed;
  • Discussion of results;
  • Plans for the future and thesis road-map;
  • Major contributions of your research.

Format

  • Abstracts should have a maximum of two pages including all text, figures and tables, plus an additional page for references.
  • Abstracts should follow the Interspeech 2021 template provided in the author's kit.
  • Abstracts must have the applicant as the sole author. Acknowledgements towards supervisors, supporting agencies, and contributors to the work, can be made in a dedicated section of the extended Abstract.

Submission

  • Submit your abstract in PDF format through Sessionize. Please note that:
    1. In the platform, Session Name corresponds to the title of your Extended Abstract, and Session Description corresponds to a short description of your abstract.
    2. In the speaker information-related fields, feel free to ignore the speaker photo box.
  • Accepted submissions will be published on www.isca-students.org. A submission inherently indicates consent for ISCA-SAC to publish the abstract.

Important dates

  • June 7th, 2021 - Submission portal opens
  • June 30th, 2021 - Abstract submission deadline
  • July 15th, 2021 - Acceptance/rejection notification
  • July 30th, 2021 - Camera-ready abstract due
  • August 29th, 2021 - 7th Doctoral Consortium

Contacts
Francisco Teixeira (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

8th Students meet Experts @ Interspeech 2021


Date: Thursday, September 2nd, 2021, 4pm to 6pm CEST (Brno time)
Location: Online
Panel of experts: 

  • Helen Meng, Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Matthias Paulik, Apple
  • Nikko Ström, Amazon
  • Rupal Patel, VocaliD and Khoury College of Computer Sciences
  • Vered Silber-Varod, Open University of Israel

After successful editions in Lyon (2013), Singapore (2014), San Francisco (2016), Stockholm (2017), Hyderabad (2018), Graz (2019), and virtually in Shanghai (2020) we are excited to announce that the Students Meet Experts event is now coming to Interspeech 2021 in Brno. We will have a panel discussion with experts from academia and industry. Depending on the format of this year's conference the event will be either virtually or in a hybrid format.

You are welcome to submit questions. A selection of the submitted questions will be answered from the panel of experts. Please keep in mind that the experts and the audience are coming from different fields, so field specific and technical questions are less likely to be presented to the panel. To submit your questions and/or register for this event, we ask you to fill in this Application Form.

All students participating in Interspeech 2021 are invited to register!

Contact: Jasper Ooster (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)