1. GENERAL ASSEMBLY INTERSPEECH 2008 Brisbane, Australia

2. Agenda 1.Opening Remarks and approval of the Minutes of the 2007 General Assembly (Antwerp) 2.President's Report 3.Treasurer's Report 4.Approval of Reports 5.ISCA: Goals for 2008-2009 6.Comments, Suggestions and Questions from ISCA Members 7.Announcement of Next ISCA General Assembly 8.Any Other Business

3. 1.Opening Remarks and approval of the Minutes of the 2006 General Assembly (Pittsburgh) 2.President's Report 3.Treasurer's Report 4.Approval of Reports 5.Announcements of Changes to the ISCA Board 6.ISCA: Goals for 2007-8 7.Announcement of Next ISCA General Assembly 8.Any Other Business 9.Handover to the New President Minutes of the 2007 General Assembly in Antwerp, Belgium, 29 August 2007, 6:15 pm

4. President’s Report The ISCA Board Recent Board Meetings Secretariat and Membership Membership Services and Web The ISCA Online Archive Workshops International Affairs Industry Liaison Liaison with other Organizations Conferences Grants and Awards Student Liaison Publications SIGs Others Isabel Trancoso President

5. ISCA Board Ex officio President:: Isabel Trancoso Vice-Pres. / ITWRs: Jean-François Bonastre Secretary: David House Treasurer: Bernd Möbius Conferences: Tanja Schultz Membership Services: Eva Hajicova International Affairs: Lin-shan Lee SIGs: Michael Picheny Liaison w/ other orgs: Yoshinori Sagisaka Grants & Awards: Alan Black Education / Website: Helen Meng Ex-President:: Julia Hirschberg Archive Wolfgang Hess ISCApad:: Chris Wellekens

6. Recent Board Meetings Mar. 2006: Virtual Jun. 2006: Virtual Sept.2006: Pittsburgh (2) Dec. 2006: Virtual Jan. 2007: Virtual April 2007: Virtual Aug. 2007:Antwerp (2) Dec. 2007:Virtual June 2008:Virtual

7. Secretariat and Membership Direct contact with members Membership database Financial transactions and administration –Support for ITRWs –Membership dues Web content coordination Documentation of ISCA board meetings Elections to the Board and Advisory Council ISCA Statutes and Bylaws Please give us input and suggestions either this week at the ISCA Booth or later: secretariat@isca-speech.org David House ISCA Secretary Manu Foxonet Administrative Assistant

8. Membership Development

9. Membership by Category

10. Membership

11. Membership Services and Web Support for applications, updates, renewals and password requests Eva Hajicova Helen Meng

12. Membership Services and Web Member survey online Eva Hajicova

13. Web: Maintenance and Updates Ongoing revamp including –Membership services support –Online forms –Facilities for webpage updates –Undertaken by Matt Bridger (Mdb Web & Data Solutions) Information updates – Emmanuelle Foxonet, ISCA administrator Helen Meng

14. The ISCA Online Archive Contains all former INTERSPEECH (EUROSPEECH and ICSLP) conferences and all ITRWs and ETRWs from 1987 to 2008 in machine-readable form 100 events (currently more than 10 per year) Available on website since August 2003 http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/index.html http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/index.html –Abstracts accessible for everybody –Full papers accessible for members only – Use your individual ISCA password to access Since 2007 linked to Google Scholar, thanks to David Gelbart and the Student Committee Wolfgang Hess

15. Main Page Event Page Abstract/Paper Archive Structure

16. ISCA Tutorial & Research Workshops (ITRWs) 2008 5 ITRWs 11 other wrk/conf. co-sponsored Contact ISCA for new event proposals workshops@isca-speech.org New service package (soon to be available) –Secretariat support –Online banking service –Online registration –Small monetary advance –Web/Mail announcement –(Archive) -> Charge per participant per workshop day Jean-François Bonastre

17. 2008 Odyssey, January 2008, South Africa – SPLC Workshop on Speech Analysis and Processing for Knowledge Discovery, June 2008, Denmark Workshop on Experimental Linguistics, August 2008, Greece SAPA (ITRW on Statistical And Perceptual Audition), September 2008, Australia AVSP (Auditory-Visual Speech Processing), September 2008, Australia 2009 SLATE (Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education ), September 2009, UK Jean-François Bonastre ISCA organized events

18. SLTU'08, May 2008 (Vietnam) - SALTMILSLTU'08SALTMIL HSCMA 2008, May 2008 (Italy)HSCMA 2008 Speech Prosody 2008 – May 2008, (Brazil) - SPROSIGSpeech Prosody 2008SPROSIG LREC 2008 - May, 2008, (Morocco) - SALTMILLREC 2008SALTMIL JEP-TALN-RECITAL'08, June 2008 (France) - AFCPJEP-TALN-RECITAL'08 YRRSDS 2008, June, 2008 (SAC)YRRSDS 2008 PROPOR 2008, September 2008 (Portugal) - SIGILPROPOR 2008SIGIL WOCCI2008, October 2008 (CRETE/GREECE) Workshop/Summer school dedicated to the memory of Christian Benoît, October 2008 (France)Workshop/Summer Christian Benoît VJTH’2008, November 2008 (Spain) - SIGILVJTH’2008SIGIL SLT 2008, December 2008 (India) – ILSPSLT 2008ILSP NOLISP 09 - June 2009, SpainNOLISP 09 Jean-François Bonastre ISCA supported events

19. ISCA International Affairs Committee Lin-shan Lee ISCA decided to become an international organization in 1999 in Budapest –Events and participants in them should not be confined to limited number of countries –ISCA International Affairs Committee tries to fulfill that mandate Targets regions currently under-represented in ISCA programs Subcommittees for these regions initiate region-specific efforts –Sub-committee on Eastern Europe –Sub-committee on West Asia and North Africa –Sub-committee on South Asia –Sub-committee on Sub-Saharan Africa

20. ISCA International Affairs Committee Lin-shan Lee Sample Action Items for the International Affairs Committee –Arranging Distinguished Lecturers Tours to give lectures in far away regions –Disseminating information about regional research activities to the global research community through ISCA channels –Distributing ISCA event and service information to researchers in their region –Initiating ISCA-organized or co-sponsored events in their region –Recommending that students and young researchers in their region apply for ISCA grants to attend events sponsored by ISCA –Establishing Regional Branches or Special Interest Groups –Developing ISCA relationships with relevant sister associations in their regions

21. ISCA Distinguished Lecturers Program Sending Distinguished Lecturers to different parts of the world when invited by a Regional Subcommittee Selection Committee chaired by Sadaoki Furui Two Distinguished Lecturers selected Dec 2006 for 2007-08 –Chin-Hui Lee, Georgia Institute of Technologies, USA  South Asia in Nov 2007 and Latin America in Oct 2008 –Marc Swerts, Tilburg University, the Netherlands  Brazil in June 2007 and Southern Africa in July 2008 One Distinguished Lecturer Selected Dec 2007 for 2008-2009 –Richard M. Stern, Carnegie Mellon University, USA  India in Dec 2008 Call for Nominations for new DLs by 15 Nov 2008 Sadaoki Furui Lin-shan Lee

22. Industry Liaison Maintains a List of Speech R&D Companies and Speech Technology Vendors –multinational, national and regional companies –provides job advertising service ISCA-Industry Roundtable with Senior R&D Managers of Multinational Speech R&D Companies –September 2006 at INTERSPEECH in Pittsburgh –September 2008 at INTERSPEECH in Brisbane Development of the ISCA-Industry Dialog –job market facilitation through ISCA publications, website, and conference session sponsorships –emerging issues of evaluation, quality and standard –Dissemination of educational materials and open software Michael Picheny

23. Liaison with other Organizations Liaison with organizations in speech and language –ACL, ACLCLP, AFCP, AISV and ASJ –Encouragement of joint activities –Representation in NAACL&HLT –Agreements for discounts on membership fees New partnership –ASSTA (Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association) Yoshinori Sagisaka

24. International Conferences Upcoming INTERSPEECH Conferences –2009, Brighton, UK –2010, Makuhari, Japan –2011, Florence, Italy –Call for Proposals and guidelines available http://www.isca-speech.org/conferences.html (deadline: November 15th 2008) http://www.isca-speech.org/conferences.html Call for volunteers reviewers Tanja Schultz

26. INTERSPEECH 2009 Brighton, UK 6-10 Sept. “Speech and Intelligence”

27. “Towards spoken language processing for all – regardless of age, health conditions, languages, environment, etc.”

29. Grants September 2007-08 Alan W Black Total expenditure by ISCA: ~16242 E IS08: ~12000 E Total: ~26242 E Grants:54 9 events (on 6 continents) 37 for IS08 17 other ISCA events Countries: 21 By Country : (by institution of awardees) USA 13, India 6, UK 6, China 4, Canada 3 NL 3, Aus 3, Finland 2, Germany 2, France 2 Iran, Malaya, Japan, Korea, Turkey, Thailand, Belgium, Argentina, Brazil, Dijbouti, Portugal By Continent : NA: 16, Europe 17, Africa 1, SA 2, Asia 14, ANZ 2

30. Applications 106, awarded 54, award rate 51% Awardees are: Students First time presentation ISCA support event One grant per Institution (Exceptions sometimes made) Please apply early through Online Application Website

31. Awards ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement 2008 Recipient: Hiroya Fujisaki ISCA Award for the best paper published in the Speech Communication Journal 2005-2007 To be announced at closing ceremony 3 ISCA Awards for the Best Student Paper of INTERSPEECH 2008 Short list of 9: Georg Heigold, Mitchell McLaren, Yen-Liang Shue, Peter Bell,Dongho Kim, Luciana Ferrer, Chi-Chun Lee, Michael James Carne, Elizabeth Beach 3 winners will be announced at closing ceremony Alan W Black

32. ISCA Fellows Rolf Carlson Paul Dalsgaard Fred Jelinek Hiroya Fujisaki Sadaoki Furui Björn Granström Julia Hirschberg Roger Moore Mari Ostendorf Louis Pols Steve Young Victor Zue Alan W Black Eva Hajikova

33. Student liaison ISCA Student Advisory Committee Board members: Helen Meng

34. Helen Meng Student Liaison: Interspeech 2008 Round Table and Lunch Event –Organizers: ISCA SAC –Sponsors: ISCA, IS2008, IBM TJ Watson Research Center –Dates: Tue (Sep 23) and Thur (Sep 25) Co-organization –YRRSDS 2008YRRSDS 2008 Student Room Share Service –Help students find room-mates for the IS2008 conference –http://www.isca- students.org/forums/forums/interspeech/interspeech_2008_roo m_share_service

35. Helen Meng Web: Online Grant Application System (OGAS) Thanks to the ISCA-SAC –Especially Ebru Arisoy and Marco Piccolino-Boniforti Online at ISCA website Online at ISCA website –http://www.isca-students.org/grantshttp://www.isca-students.org/grants –First trial run for INTERSPEECH 2008

36. Publications ISCA Pad on the website –Edited by Christian Wellekens Authoring tool: ISCAPad Maker –By Laurence Liu and Helen Meng –Converts text to structured hyperlinks for easy access Chris Wellekens Helen Meng

37. Special Interest Groups (SIGs) SynSIG Chinese SLP AVISA SaLTMIL SIGdial Michael Picheny SIG-IL ISCA SIG-ILSP AFCP AISV SLaTE SIGRU

38. Some special activities of SIGs Annual meetings - regularly by several SIGs Special issue of Speech Communication (2009) – AVISA International Conferences and Workshops - e.g. ISCLSP 2008 co-organized by SIG-CSLP, JEP- TALN-RECITAL 2008 – AFCP, PROPOR 2008 (SIG-IL), XXXVII International Philological Conference (SIG-RU) Summer Schools – WISSAP 2008 (SIG-ILSP) Thanks to the SIGs for their help in recruiting reviewers!!

39. Treasurer’s Report Positive result for 2008 (more income but more expenditure due to new initiatives) Solid financial base for continued Interspeech and ITRW seed funding Emphasis on Internationalization Grant support increasing Consistent saving thanks to student Group initiatives More services on the website Bernd MÖBIUS

40. Income20062007 INTERSPEECH DONATIONS 36,505 Pittsburgh ITRW SHARES 900 SALE PROCEEDINGS 762 MEMBERSHIP 40,130 INTEREST ON SAVINGS 242 TOTAL (€)78,539 Note: Loan payments/repayments are not included in the income and expenditure tables 36,090 Antwerp 0 483 73,159 2092 111,824

41. Expenditure (1)20062007 Salaries 35,80337,100 Board Meetings 4,5043,749 Secretariat 3,5903,054 Grants 13,92512,752 Special Interest Groups SIGs 02000 WEB maintenance 5,8519,019 carried forward 63,67367,674

42. Expenditure (2)20062007 brought forward 63,67367,674 Distinguish Lecturers -3,373 Workshop support 1,000 Students 2,0000 Other 00 Bank Costs 1,2801,283 TOTAL (€)67,95373,330

43. INCOME OVER EXPENDITURE 20062007 Income78,539 Expenditure67,953 Income over Expenditure 10,586 111,824 73,330 38,494

44. Assets 31.12.200631.12.2007 BANK BALANCE 90,11496,085 RECEIVABLES 35,000 TOTAL ASSETS (€) 90,11496,085 Liabilities & Equity PAYABLES -- EQUITY (€) 125,114131,085 For several months each year, ISCA has loans to 1 or 2 Interspeech conferences and 1 or 2 workshops outstanding. Assets >€82k are required to maintain a positive cash balance.

45. Conclusions ISCA is financially sound - assets slightly growing. ISCA will continue to provide loans for Interspeech conferences and ITRW workshops. ISCA is in a position to gradually enhance its support for grants, international actions and groups, and new initiatives. New ideas are most welcome!

46. Approval of Reports President‘s Report Treasurer‘s Report

47. Goals for 2008-9  To stimulate international participation in ISCA  Distinguished Lecturers program  Remote access to lectures  Regional sub-committees  To stimulate interdisciplinary collaboration in new areas of research  To promote high standards in ISCA’s conferences and workshops  To understand members’ needs better and increase community involvement, namely by creating sub-committees  To support student-centered activities  To improve current ISCA web-based services and create new ones

48. Comments, Suggestions and Questions from ISCA Members

49. Next ISCA General Assembly INTERSPEECH 2009 Brighton, UK, September 6-10, 2009

50. Any Other Business?