Q1.5: Associations, Journals and Conferences

[Note: Also see the list provided in Shikano's WWW site on Speech and Acoustics: http://www.aist-nara.ac.jp/IS/Shikano-lab/database/internet-resource/e-www-site.html.]

Associations

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Publications: include IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio (from Jan 93), IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (now obsolete), IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. (More information on the WWW: http://www.ieee.org/sp/index.html).
Speech-Related Conferences: ICASSP - Intl. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. IEEE also runs speech technology related workshops and many other conferences. (Does anyone have a list?)
Contact: IEEE Service Center
445 Hoes Lane, PO Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855, USA
Phone: 1-800-678-IEEE or (201) 981-0060
WWW: IEEE: http://www.ieee.org/
IEEE Signal Processing Society http://www.ieee.org/sp/index.html

The Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

Publications: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA)
Conferences: ASA holds four meetings a year. Information is available on the WWW: http://asa.aip.org/meetings.html.
Contact: ASA Office Manager,
500 Sunnyside Blvd, Woodbury, NY 11797-2999, USA
Ph: (516) 576-2360, FAX (516) 576-2377
Email: asa@aip.org
WWW: http://asa.aip.org/

European Speech Communication Association (ESCA)

Publications: Speech Communications
Conferences: EUROSPEECH is held every two years. E'97 will take place in Patras, Greece, in September 1997. ESCA organises regular speech-related workshops: see their WWW pages for details.
Contact: Secretariat ESCA
ICP, Universite Stendhal,
BP 25X, F38400 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
Ph: (+33).76.82.43.36 Fax (+33).76.82.43.35
Email: esca@icp.grenet.fr
WWW: http://ophale.icp.grenet.fr/esca/esca.html

Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

Publications: Computational Linguistics
SIGPHON: Special Interest Group for Computational Phonology. The home page is provided by the Centre for Cognitive Science at the University of Edinburgh. A special issue on Computational Phonology appeared in Vol 20, Num 3 of Computational Linguistics and included an Introduction to Computational Phonology by Steven Bird
Conferences: COLING is held bi-annually. ACL also organises a range of workshops. See the WWW pages for details.
Contact: P.O. Box 6090
Somerset, NJ 08875, USA
Ph: (908) 873 3893
Email: acl@bellcore.com
WWW: http://www.cs.columbia.edu:80/~acl/

American Voice Input/Output Society (AVIOS)

Description: AVIOS is a not-for-profit organization, dedicated to disseminating information about applications using speech technology. It aims "to bridge the gap between emerging voice technology and its application, by providing an interactive forum for the technologists, students, system developers, business managers, and users actively involved in or with an interest in the field of voice processing."
Publications: International Journal of Speech Technology (with Kluwer Academic Publishers)
The Journal of the American Voice Input/Output Society was published from 1984 to 1994.
Conferences: The International Voice Input/Output Applications Conference is held annually (since 1982): Sept 10-12, San Jose, CA.
Contact: 4010 Moorpark Avenue, Suite 105M, San Jose, CA 95117, USA
Ph: +1-408-248-1353, Fax: +1-408-248-0251
Email: avios@pilot.net
WWW: http://www.avios.com/

European Language Resources Association

Description: The European Language Resources Association was established in Luxembourg in February, 1995, with the goal of creating an organization to promote the creation, verification, and distribution of language resources in Europe. A non-profit organization, ELRA aims to serve as a central focal point for information related to language resources in Europe, It will help users and developers of European language resources, as well as government agencies and other interested parties, exploit language resources for a wide variety of uses. It will also oversee the distribution of language resources via CD-ROM and other means and promote standards for such resources.
More info: see the ELRA Home page for membership information, lists of resources etc.
Contact: K. Choukri, Executive Director ELRA
87, Avenue d'Italie, 75013 Paris, FRANCE
Ph: +33 1 45 86 53 00, Fax: +33 1 45 86 44 88
Email: elra@calvanet.calvacom.fr
WWW: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html

ASSTA: Australian Speech Science and Technology Association

Conference: SST, the Australian conference on Speech Science and Technology, is held bi-annually. SST-96 will be held in Adelaide.
WWW: Home Page: http://cslab.anu.edu.au/~bruce/assta/
List of members: http://ciips.ee.uwa.edu.au/~roberto/assta-users/

SALT: UK Speech and Language Technology Club

WWW home page: http://salt.essex.ac.uk/salt/

Linguistic Associations

A comprehensive list of linguistic associations and linguistic WWW links is available at http://engserve.tamu.edu/files/linguistics/linguist/associations.html

Industry Publications

ASR News

Description: Monthly newsletter covering developments in the speech recognition and speech synthesis marketplace.
Note: Voice Information Associates also publish "Automatic Speech Recognition: A study of the world-wide market" (revised 1995) and "Text-to-Speech Technology Markets: 1995-2000" (revised 1995)
Contact: Voice Information Associates, Inc.
14 Glen Road South, P.O. Box 625, Lexington, MA 02173, USA
Ph: +1-617-861-6680, Fax: +1-617-863-8790
Email: asrnews@tiac.net
WWW: http://www.tiac.net/users/asrnews/

Voice News

Description: Monthly newsletter reporting on voice mail, voice response, speech recognition, speech synthesis, digital voice record/playback and related technologies, markets and company activities. Review copy available on request.
Contact: Stoneridge Technical Services
P.O. Box 1891, Rockville, MD, 20849, USA
Ph: +1-301-424-0114, Fax: +1-301-424-8971
Email: info@stoneridgetech.com
WWW: http://www.stoneridgetech.com/

Speech Recognition Update

Description: Monthly news and analysis of speech recognition markets, applications and technology.
A free sample copy is available by contacting TMA Associates.
Also: TMA Associates also publishes market studies, including The Advanced Speech Technology Market: Recognition, Synthesis and Compression (1996) and Voice ID (1996).
Contact: TMA Associates
6021 Wish Avenue, Encino, CA 91316, USA
Ph: +1-818-708-0962, Fax: +1-818-345-2980
Email: 72162.3172@compuserve.com
http://www.tmaa.com/

Voice Technology and Services News

Description: Follows integrated PC LAN messaging (voice, fax, mail, video) and speech technology. It follows the merging computer and telephone technologies, provides insights into business and marketing opportunities and offers executive timely information on industry trend analysis.
Contact: Phillips Business Information
1201 Seven Locks Rd., Potomac, Maryland, 20854, USA
Ph: 1-800-777-5006 OR +1-301-340-1520
Subscription FAX: +1-301-309-3847
Editorial FAX: +1-424-4297

Telleconnect

Contact: +1-212-691-8215

Computer Telephony

Contact: +1-212-691-8215

Voice Processing Magazine

Contact: 1-800-854-3112

Speech Technology

Description: No longer published

Technical and Research Publications

Computer Speech and Language

Price: $US170 (Institutions), $US75 (Individuals), 4 issues per year.
Publisher: Academic Press Limited
24-28 Oval Road, London NW1, England
WWW: http://www.apnet.com/

Speech Communication

Contact: ESCA (see above)
Publisher: Elsevier Science B.V.
P.O. Box 521, 1000 AM Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
WWW: http://www.elsevier.com/

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing,

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine,

IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing: OBSOLETE

Contact: IEEE (see above)

Free Speech Journal

Description: A Web Journal dedicated to the state of the art in human language technology. Past volumes, editorial and submission information, and so on are
Contact: Editor-In-Chief: Ron Cole: cole@cse.ogi.edu
WWW: http://www.cse.ogi.edu/CSLU/fsj/html/masthead.html

Linguistics Abstracts Online

Description: online access to all abstracts published in Linguistics Abstracts since 1985, plus all current material as it becomes available. Over 250 publications are indexed. Free trial available.
http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/labs/

Computational Linguistics

Contact: Published by Computational Linguistics Assoc. (see above)

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA)

Contact: Published by Acoustical Society of America (see above)

International Journal of Speech Technology (was the AVIOS Journal)

Description: Focuses on speech technology and its applications, and promotes research and description of all aspects of speech input and output: applications, base technology, theory, approach, experiment, and testing.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
101 Philip Drive, Norwell, MA 02061, USA
Ph: +1-617-871-6300, Fax: +1-617-871-0449
Submissions to: International Journal of Speech Technology
Journals Editorial Office, Ms. Kelly Riddle
Kluwer Academic Publishers
(Address, phone, fax as above)
Email: krkluwer@world.std.com

Conferences

ICSLP: Intl. Conference on Spoken Language Processing: Next: 30 Nov to 4 Dec, 1998, Sydney, Australia
Held in even years.
ICASSP - Intl. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
Eurospeech
Computational Linguistics (COLING), held bi-annually
International Voice Input/Output Applications Conference
SST: Australian Speech Science and Technology Conference

Also see the following lists on the WWW:

Shikano's WWW site on Speech and Acoustics: http://www.aist-nara.ac.jp/IS/Shikano-lab/database/internet-resource/e-www-site.html
Institute of Phonetic Sciences WWW list: http://fonsg3.let.uva.nl/Other_pages.html#Meetings

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