Newsletter – Vol. 34, December 2023

Nominations are invited for the position of Editor-in-Chief for the Speech Communication journal for a three–year term starting Apr 1, 2024. The term is renewable for at least one more term.

Speech Communication is a joint publication of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) and the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA).

Speech Communication journal is an international reputable journal publishing articles relating to all speech processing related areas (such as: speech modeling and processing, recognition and identification, synthesis, oral dialogue, human computer interface, semantics and pragmatics of speech communication, models and tools for language learning, forensic speech science, etc). Speech Communication is an interdisciplinary journal whose primary objective is to fulfil the need for the rapid dissemination and thorough discussion of basic and applied research results.

For more information about the journal, the Aims & Scope, the current Editorial Board, etc., please consult https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/speech-communication


The new Editor-in-Chief will lead the journal, in close collaboration with the Publisher (Elsevier), the Editorial Board and the affiliated societies (i.e., EURASIP and ISCA).

Interested applicants should submit their nomination to EURASIP Director-for-Publications until 15th January 2024. Their application should include a short CV and a link to a complete CV, as well as a brief statement (max 1000 words) about the applicant's vision for the journal.

contributed by Kostas Berberidis, EURASIP Director for Publications

The EURASIP BoD welcomes proposals from prospective organizers of webinars. For more information, click here.

Below the list of upcoming webinars. Please check our webinar website for details.

Sound field analysis and reconstruction: recent developments, challenges, and outlook
Speaker: Efren Fernandez Grande
DATE and TIME: 30 January 2023 at 2pm CET
Abstract: Sound field reconstruction consists of estimating sound field properties from a set of spatio-temporal observations of an acoustic field. Such type of estimation is valuable in applications like spatial audio, active control of sound, VR/AR/XR, audio signal enhancement and transducer design – to name a few. There are however intrinsic challenges associated with measuring sound across space. Audible wavelengths span three orders of magnitude (17 m to 17 mm) and involve spatial sampling in three dimensions, resulting in a demanding problem. In this context, the talk focuses on the sensing, analysis, and reconstruction of sound fields over large spatial domains. We address the measurement of sound fields with microphone arrays, distributed sensors and remote acousto-optic sensing. We also discuss recent advances in signal processing and deep learning for sound field reconstruction, and demonstrate how models that capture generalizable physical properties of a sound field lead to better estimates than classical techniques that do not account for specific physical structure. As an outlook, we discuss how sound field analysis is approached in various domains of audio and acoustics and highlight some of the most promising avenues of current research in the field.
Link to the webinar

contributed by Steve McLaughlin, EURASIP Director for Technical Programs and Membership

contributed by Steve McLaughlin, EURASIP Director for Technical Programs and Membership

contributed by Steve McLaughlin, EURASIP Director for Technical Programs and Membership

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contributed by Kostas Berberidis, EURASIP Director for Publications

contributed by Filip Elvander, EURASIP Newsletter editor

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