LINGUIST List: Vol-27-2371. Fri May 27 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.
Subject: 27.2371, FYI: Speech Prosody 2016 Live Stream and Video Archive
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Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 12:30:41
From: Jonathan Barnes [speechprosody2016 at gmail.com]
Subject: Speech Prosody 2016 Live Stream and Video Archive
Over 300 people will be in attendance at Speech Prosody 2016 in Boston next
week, from May 31 to June 3 (http://sites.bu.edu/speechprosody2016/), But many
more than that, we suspect, would like to attend, or at least would like to
hear a few of the talks, but for any number of reasons, are unable to be here
in person. To such would-be attendees, we are pleased to announce the
following range of options for remote participation in this year’s Speech
Prosody:
1. Conference Live Stream!
All of the oral presentations at Speech Prosody 2016, including keynotes and
special sessions, will be streamed live on our conference website. The cost of
access to the live stream will be $75 for an individual, with a discounted
rate of $40 for students. Remote viewers of the live stream will have the
opportunity to pose questions after talks via Twitter.
Note that costs are the same for a group wanting access to the live stream!
Why not purchase access for your whole department, lab, or research cluster,
and throw a Speech Prosody viewing party? A special prize will be awarded to
the group providing photographic evidence of the largest such viewing party
during the conference. (Not to spoil the surprise, but I heard a rumor about
some really flashy prosody-themed temporary tattoos...)
2. Video archive!
Perhaps you’d prefer to binge-watch the entire conference in one sitting (not
recommended), or watch just the keynotes one after the other, or just watch a
talk or two here and there at your leisure, without being bound by the
conference schedule? We are creating a conference archive that will contain
not just the four-page papers for all talks and posters, but individually
linked videos of all oral presentations at the conference, as well as, in many
cases, slides from the talks, and for posters, not just the posters
themselves, but where authors are so inclined, short pre-recorded poster
“spiels” as well.
All registered conference participants, and anyone purchasing access to the
conference live stream, will automatically receive access to this archive. For
access just to the archive, which will come into being progressively, during
the conference, as the talks themselves unfold, the cost will be $25, with a
discounted rate of $10 for students.
Registration: To register for either of the above options, just go to the
following page, and select the remote participation option that best suits
your needs: http://www.bu.edu/casit/speechproreg/ . You will then receive
instructions as to how to proceed. (This notification will not be
instantaneous, but will take place in a timely fashion!)
(Note that all of the four-page papers included in the Speech Prosody
Proceedings will be made freely available to the public online independently,
by ISCA: http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/sp2016/)
3. Robotic access to poster sessions!
Poster sessions, for obvious reasons, don’t lend themselves to live-streaming.
Instead, we will be deploying two mobile telepresence robots at all poster
sessions. Each robot accommodates one remote “driver”, and multiple remote
“passengers”. Using a simple web interface, you will be able to maneuver your
robot through the poster session (accompanied, of course, by vigilant human
chaperones), choose which posters to view, interact by audio/video with
presenters, even stop to chat with other attendees (human or robot).
Because we have just two robots, spaces are limited. Driving or riding on our
robots will be completely free of charge, but time slots will be apportioned
on a first-come, first-served basis. To sign up for robotic embodiment, please
first visit our conference program to select the poster session or sessions
you are most interested in attending
(http://sites.bu.edu/speechprosody2016/schedule/detailed-program/), and then
visit the following site to sign up for a spot:
http://goo.gl/forms/Z5uOcb1cbQrGJnev1 . Once you have signed up, we will
contact you with instructions for how to proceed.
For more information about our remote participation project in general see the
following pages:
http://sites.bu.edu/speechprosody2016/remote-participation/
http://sites.bu.edu/speechprosody2016/remote-participation-faq/
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Phonetics
Phonology
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