1. www.isca-speech.org ISCA GENERAL ASSEMBLY INTERSPEECH 2010 Makuhari, Japan

2. www.isca-speech.org Agenda 1.Opening remarks and approval of the Minutes of the 2009 General Assembly (Brighton) 2.President’s report 3.Treasurer’s report 4.Approval of the reports 5.Approval of proposed changes to ISCA Statutes A4.1 and A5.1 6.ISCA goals for 2010-2011 7.Comments, Suggestions and Questions from ISCA Members 8.Announcement of next ISCA General Assembly 9.Any other business

3. www.isca-speech.org Minutes of the 2009 General Assembly in Brighton, UK, 8 September 2009, 6.00 pm 1.Opening remarks and approval of the Minutes of the 2008 General Assembly (Brisbane) 2.President’s report 3.Treasurer’s report 4.Approval of the reports 5.Announcements of changes to the ISCA Board 6.ISCA goals for 2009-2010 7.Information on proposal to change ISCA Statute A4.1 which restricts Board membership to two members per country 8.Comments, Suggestions and Questions from ISCA Members 9.Announcement of next ISCA General Assembly 10.Any other business

4. www.isca-speech.org President’s Report The ISCA Board Recent Board Meetings Secretariat and Membership Membership Services ISCA Web The ISCA Online Archive Workshops SIGs ISCA Distinguished Lecturers Program Industry Liaison Liaison with other Organizations Journals Conferences Grants and Awards Student Liaison ISCA – Multimedia Educational Material Others Isabel Trancoso President

5. www.isca-speech.org ISCA Board J.François Bonastre Vice-President David House Secretary Bernd Möbius Treasurer Tanja Schultz Future Conferences Michael Picheny SIGs, Ind., Journals Yoshinori Sagisaka DL, SIGs (language) Alan Black Grants & Awards Helen Meng SAC Liaison Isabel Trancoso President Haizhou Li Web & Archive Yannis Stylianou Educ., Video Archive D. O‘Shaugnessy Conferences Nick Campbell Workshops Keikichi Hirose Fellows Wolfgang Hess Archive Chris Wellekens ISCApad Ex-officio

6. www.isca-speech.org Recent Board Meetings Sept.2006: Pittsburgh (2) Dec. 2006: Virtual Jan. 2007: Virtual April 2007: Virtual Aug. 2007:Antwerp (2) Dec. 2007:Virtual June 2008:Virtual Sept. 2008:Brisbane (2) Dec. 2008: Virtual April 2009: Taipei (at ICASSP) Sept. 2009: Brighton (2) Nov. 2009:Virtual Mar. 2010: Dallas (at ICASSP) Apr. 2010: Virtual Sept.2010:Virtual (informal) Sept.2010:Makuhari (1, +1 planned)

7. www.isca-speech.org 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. www.isca-speech.org Membership Development

9. www.isca-speech.org Membership by Category from 2001-2010

10. www.isca-speech.org Membership by country (june 2010) Japan26716,90%Norway191,20%Iran20,13% USA24515,51%Czech Republic181,14%Algeria10,06% France20012,66%India161,01%Argentina10,06% Germany1066,71%Singapore150,95%Bangladesh10,06% United Kingdom976,14%Greece140,89%Chile10,06% Korea644,05%Brasil120,76%Cuba10,06% China493,10%Denmark110,70%Egypt10,06% Spain442,78%Hong Kong110,70%Indonesia10,06% Netherlands402,53%Poland110,70%Latvia10,06% Australia372,34%Austria80,51%Lithuania10,06% Canada322,03%Russia80,51%Luxembourg10,06% Belgium291,84%Israel70,44%Malaysia10,06% Italy291,84%South Africa60,38%Malta10,06% Taiwan271,71%Hungary40,25%New Zealand10,06% Sweden261,65%Thailand40,25%Serbia10,06% Finland251,58%Estonia30,19%Slovakia10,06% Ireland251,58%Slovenia30,19%Ukraine10,06% Switzerland221,39%Turkey30,19%Zimbabwe10,06% Portugal211,33%Vietnam30,19% Total: 1580

11. www.isca-speech.org Membership Services An institutional member is a group membership for an (unique) institution Main idea: –The IM institution could benefit from the ISCA members’ special prices for different people depending on the ISCA event –A simpler administrative procedure Not very popular so far: –Has been limited to 5 grouped subscriptions –The members were not identified and and could not participate individually in association activities (elections) Institutional Members: Jean-François Bonastre

12. www.isca-speech.org Institutional Members - renewed For each IM, some people can be identified at the subscription time as individual ISCA members Remaining members of the pack benefit also from the ISCA reduced fees and can change on event to another Four packs: – 5members, 3 identified, fees = 240 euros – 10members, 6 identified, fees = 480 euros – 15members, 9 identified, fees = 720 euros – 20members, 12 identified, fees = 960 euros (1 IM could subscribe for several packs) The IM are ISCA partners and benefit from: –Logo in the ISCA website –A DVD copy of the archive each year

13. www.isca-speech.org Web New service provider (InCampus) since July 2009 –Hosting ISCA Web and ISCA student portal in one location New ISCA Web was launched in December 2009 –Supported by a content management system for the first time –New layout and ISCA Archive (IS & Workshop proceedings) New facelift of ISCApad since August 2010 –Online ISCApad publication –New editorial facility –Seamless integration with ISCA Web To come –New ISCA membership portal ready in October 2010 Haizhou Li Chris Wellekens ISCApad

14. www.isca-speech.org Contains all former INTERSPEECH (EUROSPEECH and ICSLP) conferences and all ITRWs and ETRWs from 1987 to 2009 in machine-readable form > 100 events 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 (password assistance on the web page) Since 2007 linked to Google Scholar, thanks to David Gelbart and the Student Committee Wolfgang Hess The ISCA Online Archive

15. www.isca-speech.org ISCA Workshops (ITRWs and supported events) 2010 19 wrk/conf. sponsored (2 ITRW) Contact ISCA for new event proposals workshops@isca-speech.org ISCA support for workshops –Web and ISCAPAD announcements –Grants for students –Archive Nick Campbell Additional services –Secretariat support –Online banking service –Online registration –Monetary advance –Web/Mail announcement

16. www.isca-speech.org ISCA Workshops (ITRWs and supported events) SSW7, Sept 2010, Kyoto SAPA2010, September 2010, Tokyo Blizzard Challenge, September, Kyoto SIGDIAL, September 2010, Tokyo DiSS-LPSS, September 2010 Tokyo TSD, September 2010, Brno Exling, August 2010, Athens ENTERFACE'10, Aqugust 2010, Amsterdam ACL, July 2010, Uppsala Odyssey, June 2010, Brno QoMEX, June 2010, Trondheim JEP, May 2010, Mons LREC, May 2010, Malta Speech Prosody, May 2010, Chicago SLTU, May 2010, Penang PROPOR, April 2010, Porto Alegre ASRU, December 2009, Merano MAVEBA, December 2009 (Italy) eaSDS, December 2009 (Germany) And 5 more in the next few months… (see our new web page for details :- )

17. www.isca-speech.org Special Interest Groups (SIGs) Michael Picheny SynSIG AVISA SIGdial SLaTE TOPICS Yoshinori Sagisaka Chinese SLP SaLTMIL SIG-IL SIG-ILSP AFCP AISV SIGRU LANGUAGES

18. www.isca-speech.org Special Interest Groups (SIGs) Representative SIG Activities: Annual meetings - regularly by several SIGs International Conferences –INTERSPEECH 2011 co-organized by AISV, –INTERSPEECH 2013 co-organized by AFCP Workshops - e.g., AVSP 2010 (AVISA), Oriental –COSCODA (SIG-CSLP), PROPOR 2010 (SIG-IL) SIGDIAL (in conjunction with Interspeech 2010), Second Language Studies (Sept 2010),, Odyssey (SPLC, 2010), SSW7 (SYNSIG, Sept. 2010), Speech Prosody 2010 (SPROSIG) Young researcher roundtable (SIGDIAL, Sept 2010) Thesis prizes - AFCP, 2009 and SIG-IL, 2010 Contributions to ISCApad Thanks to the SIGs for their help in recruiting reviewers!!

19. www.isca-speech.org 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 One Distinguished Lecturer Selected Dec 2007 for 2008-2009 –Richard M. Stern, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Latin America in Aug 2009 India in Dec 2009 Two Distinguished Lecturers Selected Dec 2008 for 2009-2010 –Abeer Alwan, University of California at Los Angeles, USA Brazil in June 2010 –James R. Glass, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Planning the trip to Nepal in Nov 2010 Two Distinguished Lecturers Selected Dec 2009 for 2010-2011 –Li Deng, Microsoft Research at Redmond, USA Lecture Trips under planning –Thierry DUTOIT, Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium Lecture Trips under planning Call for Nominations for new DLs by 15 Nov 2010 Sadaoki Furui Yoshinori Sagisaka

20. www.isca-speech.org Industry Liaison Established set of 20 Industry affiliates to ISCA –Listed on ISCA website by logo with short descriptions –Yearly ISCA-Industry Roundtable with affiliates September 2009 at INTERSPEECH In Brighton September 2010 at INTERSPEECH in Makuhari –Monthly ISCApad affiliate research focus Leverages student resume service (in conjunction with SAC and Education Coordinator) to help match students with jobs, as well as ISCA webpage “JOBS“ section Michael Picheny

21. www.isca-speech.org Liaison with other organizations Liaison with organizations in speech and language –ACL, ACLCLP, AFCP, AISV, ASJ and ASSTA –Encouragement of joint activities –Representation in NAACL&HLT Yoshinori Sagisaka

22. www.isca-speech.org Journals ISCA has two journals: SPECOM and CSL (SPECOM is a shared journal with EURASIP) Have decided to revive yearly paper awards, merge award processes across journals and coordinate with EURASIP Even years (2010, 2012...) ISCA will solely present paper awards Odd years (2011, 2013) ISCA and EURASIP will collaborate on SPECOM, and ISCA will solely present awards for CSL Michael Picheny Jean-Francois Bonastre Yoshinori Sagisaka

23. www.isca-speech.org Upcoming INTERSPEECH Conferences INTERSPEECH 2011: Florence, Italy, August 27-31, 2011 INTERSPEECH 2012: Portland, Oregon, USA, September 09-13, 2012 INTERSPEECH 2013: Lyon, France, August 25-29, 2013 Call for proposals and guidelines for Interspeech-2014 (Nov. 1st. 2010 deadline) www.isca-speech.org (click on: events, then on guidelines) Call for volunteer reviewers Douglas O‘Shaugnessy Tanja Schultz

24. www.isca-speech.org INTERSPEECH statistics

25. www.isca-speech.org

28. Alan W Black Total expenditure by ISCA: ~20800 € IS10: ~13000 € Total: ~33800 € 52 Grants 9 events 25 Countries By Country : (by institution of awardees) USA 7, UK 5, France 4, India 4, plus others By Continent : NA: 8, Europe 23, Africa 1, SA 1, Asia 10, ANZ 5 Including extra support from IS2006 organizers Grants September 2009-10

29. www.isca-speech.org 2010: Applications 101, awarded 52, award rate 51% 2009: Applications 63, awarded 52, award rate 83% 2008: Applications 106, awarded 54, award rate 51% Awardees are: Students, First time presentation SAC contributors ISCA supported event, One grant per Institution Exceptions sometimes made Rejections are due to : Applications from the same group, too many for event (Interspeech) Please apply early through Online Application Website (yes, it works again!)

30. www.isca-speech.org ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement 2010 Recipient: Steve Young 6 new ISCA Fellows ISCA Award for the best paper published in the Speech Communication Journal 2007-2009 ISCA Award for the best paper published in the Computer and Language Journal 2005-2009 3 ISCA Awards for the Best Student Paper of INTERSPEECH 2010 TBA Thursday at the Interspeech 2010 closing ceremony Alan W Black Awards

31. www.isca-speech.org Keikichi Hirose ISCA Fellows, 2010 Chair: Sadaoki Furui 9 nominations 6 awarded Alex ACERO Janet BAKER John HANSEN Lin-Shan LEE Nelson MORGAN Philip WOODLAND

32. www.isca-speech.org ISCA Student Advisory Committee Helen Meng Samer Al Moubayed General Coordinator KTH, Sweden Marco A. Piccolino-Boniforti Educational Series Coordinator University of Cambridge, UK Antonio Roque Transition Coordinator University of Southern California, USA Sylvie Saget General Coordinator Telecom Bretagne, LUSSI, France Sunayana Sitaram Volunteers Coordinator National Institute of Tech. India Marcel Wältermann Web Coordinator Deutsche Telekom Labs, TU Berlin, Germany Catherine Lai Volunteers Coordinator University of Pennsylvania, USA Matt Speed Content and Publicity Coordinator University of York, United Kingdom Current Members Members completing their term Student liaison

33. www.isca-speech.org Student liaison Migration and complete renewal of the ISCA-SAC website –www.isca-students.orgwww.isca-students.org –Now hosted in Singapore –(thanks to Dr. Haizhou Li and Tse Min Lua from InCampus) –State-of-the-Art Content Management Platform (Drupal 6) –New design and extended functionality –Central part: Blog for increased interactivity between ISCA-SAC and students –Re-implementation of the ISCA Grant Application System –Forum –Ongoing migration of all the functionality of the old website (e.g., books, theses, job listings) Membership drive! –Visit our social networking sites at Facebook and Twitter! –Meet us at the ISCA booth everyday between 12:00– 14:00! Maintenance of Google indexing of ISCA publications

34. www.isca-speech.org Student liaison YRRSDS'10 (Young Researchers Roundtable at the Spoken Dialog Systems Workshop 2010) –www.yrrsds.orgwww.yrrsds.org –An annual workshop designed for students, post docs, and junior researchers working in research related to spoken dialogue systems in both academia and industry –YRRSDS'10 kindly hosted by Waseda Unviersity on September 22-23, 2010 –Sponsors: Orange Labs (awaiting confirmation), Honda Research Institute, Microsoft Research, AT&T, Aldebaran Robotics, Dialonics

35. www.isca-speech.org ISCA-SAC Student Panel Session Speech Technology in the Next Decade 2010-2020 Visions from Academia and Industry –Objective: Dialog between invited researchers and students! – Prof. Alan Black: CMU (Carnegie Mellon University) – Prof. Nick Campbell : Trinity College Dublin – Dr. Ciprian Chelba: Google – Dr. Bowen Zhou: IBM Research –Organizer: ISCA-SAC –Sponsors: ISCA –Date: Wednesday (Sep 29, 13:30-15:30, Room 301) All Are Welcome! ISCA-SAC @ Interspeech 2010

36. www.isca-speech.org Student liaison Interspeech 2010 Student Reception! –Tuesday 28 September, from 19:15 –Venue: MTG (Makuhari Techno Garden) building, a 12- minute walk northeast and inland from the conference site –Bring your tickets!

37. www.isca-speech.org ISCA – Multimedia Educational Material We plan to create Multimedia educational material from: 1.Keynote speeches and tutorials at ISCA conferences and workshops 2.ISCA Distinguished Lectures 3.Researchers who are willing to provide short courses on selected topics (by invitation at the beginning) For this purpose: An ISCA Consent and Release Form was compiled (first time will be used at Interspeech2010) Convenient material dissemination practices are under consideration (formats, server etc.) Yannis Stylianou

38. www.isca-speech.org Treasurer’s Report Positive result (income over expenditure) for 2009 Expenditure for the benefit of members –major overhaul of ISCA website and move to new web hosting service –continuous and increased grant support Solid financial base for continued Interspeech and ITRW seed funding Consistent savings thanks to Student Committee initiatives Bernd MÖBIUS Highlights

39. www.isca-speech.org Income20082009 Membership fees*95,219 43,292 Interspeech donation*73,095 40,520 ITRW shares1,836 0 Proceedings0 0 Interest on Savings3,254 3,422 TOTAL (€)173,405 87,234 * Two Interspeech conferences: Antwerp (2007) and Brisbane (2008) Treasurer’s Report

40. www.isca-speech.org Expenditure (1)20082009 Salaries*26,61535,356 Board/Committee meetings**8,727**6,923 Secretariat2,5834,263 Grants & Awards12,49018,911 Special Interest Groups00 Website Administration5,5086,841 subtotal55,92372,294 * Lower because of maternity leave ** Includes room rent for committee meetings Treasurer’s Report

41. www.isca-speech.org Expenditure (2)20082009 55,92372,294 Distinguished Lecturers4,395*0 Workshop support1,0001,200 Training & Education00 Archive738455 Bank Costs1,1891,193 TOTAL (€)63,24575,142 * To incur in 2010 Treasurer’s Report

42. www.isca-speech.org Assets 31/12/200831/12/2009 BANK BALANCE 161,244208,434 RECEIVABLES 39,0000 TOTAL ASSETS (€) 200,244208,434 Liabilities & Equity PAYABLES 00 EQUITY (€) 200,244208,434 Each year ISCA gives seed money to 1-2 Interspeech conferences and 1-2 workshops. Assets >€82k are required to maintain a positive cash balance. Treasurer’s Report

43. www.isca-speech.org Treasurer’s Report - Conclusion ISCA is financially sound ISCA will continue to provide seed money for Interspeech conferences and ITRW workshops: –assets sufficient to support 1-2 Interspeech conferences and workshops at any time –reserves enable ISCA to reduce financial risks to conference organizers, which potentially reduces registration fees ISCA is strengthening its support for grants, international actions and groups, and new initiatives. New ideas are most welcome!

44. www.isca-speech.org Approval of Reports Report –President –Treasurer

45. www.isca-speech.org Changes to the ISCA Statutes A4.1 Statute A4.1 restricts ISCA Board membership to no more than two members per country. Possible changes to this restriction were discussed at the General Assembly held last year in Brighton, and now the Board is officially proposing increasing the limit to three members per country: Current: “No more than two members of the Board are permitted from one country” Proposed: “No more than three members of the Board are permitted from one country”

46. www.isca-speech.org Changes to the ISCA Statutes A5.1 Statute A5.1 specifies the frequency of General Assembly meetings to once every two years. In practice, the General Assembly now meets at each Interspeech Conference and therefore the Board proposes the following change: Current: “The General Assembly meets every two years” Proposed: “The General Assembly meets at least every two years”

47. www.isca-speech.org Goals for 2010-11 To enhance ISCA’s world position –To promote high standards in ISCA’s conferences and workshops To expand ISCA’s international aspects –To support student-centered activities –Regional sub-committees –Remote access to lectures (DL program) –Improve the representation of underrepresented countries/regions in the membership To enhance the ISCA community –To raise the impact factor of ISCA members’ publications –To expand the ISCA video archive and virtual conferencing –To understand members’ needs better and increase community involvement –To stimulate interdisciplinary collaboration in new areas of research –To improve current ISCA web-based services and create new ones

48. www.isca-speech.org Comments, Suggestions and Questions from ISCA Members

49. www.isca-speech.org INTERSPEECH 2011 Florence, Italy, August 27-31, 2011 Next ISCA General Assembly

50. www.isca-speech.org Any Other Business?

51. www.isca-speech.org Changes to the ISCA Statute A4.1 Alternatives considered: A.Keep current restriction (max 2 per country) B.Increase limit to max 3 per country C.Include regional restrictions max 3-6 per region Regions: Europe +Africa, America, Asia+Oceania D.Make restrictions proportional to membership representation need a concrete proposal for this, but it will be logistically very difficult E.Remove restriction Problem: None of the above options encourages diversity in field The Board unanimously decided for option B: In view of extension to 14 members Goal: getting both regional and scientific variation This was presented to the General Assembly in 2009, but needs to be approved now, in time for the next Board elections in April-May 2011