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1.0. Getting involved

Jim Schwoebel edited this page Aug 17, 2018 · 33 revisions

This section talks about ways you can get involved in the voice community right now, following the chapter__10_gettinginvolved folder.

NeuroLex’s story

NeuroLex intro video ^^ click picture above for video ^^

The Innovation Fellows Program

We created the TRIBE model to work with outstanding individuals to help accomplish our mission to build a universal voice test to refer patients to specialists faster. Fellows come from many different backgrounds - undergraduates, graduate students, faculty members, physicians, engineers, computer scientists, and other professionals.

Fellows contribute to NeuroLex by pursuing a data science project to model existing datasets or a research-related project to collect more data around an existing or new use case. Research demos are important for us since many of our datasets have a very small number of samples, we're very focused on curating a larger dataset and have it open-sourced to advance this work into the world.

If you're interested, definitely apply to the next TRIBE here by October 27th, 2018. You can read this FAQ and watch a previous demo day (TRIBE 2) below to get a better feel for the program. If you have any additional questions, please reach out to Jim Schwoebel @ [email protected].

TRIBE 2 Demo Day ^^ click to see a previous TRIBE demo day (TRIBE 2) ^^

Conferences

Here is a list of some common conferences you can attend:

Conference Location Dates
Smart Voice Summit Paris February 1–2, 2018
Conversational Interaction Conference San Jose, California February 5–6, 2018
Bottish Your Computer – free! February 22 and April 26, 2018
Superbot San Francisco April 3, 2018
SpeechTEK Washington, D.C. April 9–11, 2018
Voice & Beyond Berlin Spring 2018
Conversational Commerce Conference London May 8–9, 2018
Business of Bots San Francisco May 15–17, 2018
Voicecon New York City May 22, 2018
Connections: Connected Home Conference San Francisco May 22–24, 2018
Voice Summit Newark July 24–26, 2018
ML Conf Atlanta, SF, NYC, Seattle November 14th, 2018
The Voice of Healthcare Summit Boston August 7, 2018
Conversational Commerce Conference San Francisco September 1, 2018
VoiceCon Canada Toronto September 2018
All About Voice Munich October 12, 2018
AWS re:INVENT Las Vegas November 26–30, 2018
Voice Conference Berlin December 5–7, 2018
CES Las Vegas January 8–11, 2019
The Alexa Conference Chattanooga, Tennessee January 15–17, 2019
Lingofest Ogden, Utah 2019

Research conferences

Here is a list of voice-related research conferences where you can publish/present research papers in voice computing.

Event date Event name Location Deadline Camera Ready
Apr 22-27, 2018 ICASSP2018 Int'l Conf. on Acoustics Seoul Oct/27/2017 Feb 09, 2018
Aug 20-24, 2018 ICPR2018 24rd Int'l Conf. on Pattern Recognition Beijing Nov/05/2017 May 20, 2018
Sep 02-06, 2018 Interspeech2018 19th Int'l Conf. on Speech Communication and Technology Hyderabad Mar/23/2018 Jun 17, 2018
Oct 22-26, 2018 AVEC2018 8th Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop Seoul Jun/30/2018 Aug 14, 2018
Nov 05 - Dec 08, 2018 IVA2018 18th Int'l Conf. on Intelligent Virtual Agents Sydney May/15/2018 Aug 00, 2018
May 12-17, 2019 ICASSP2019 Int'l Conf. on Acoustics Brighton Nov/26/2018 Mar 18, 2019
May 14-18, 2019 FG2019 14th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition Lille Sep/21/2018 Feb 15, 2019
Aug 04-10, 2019 ICPhS2019 9th Int'l Congress of Phonetic Sciences Melbourne Feb/00/2019 May 00, 2019
Sep 00-00, 2019 ACII2019 The 8th Int'l Conf. on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Cambridge May/00/2019 Aug 00, 2019
Sep 15-19, 2019 Interspeech2019 20th Int'l Conf. on Speech Communication and Technology Graz Mar/00/2019 May 00, 2019
Sep 22-25, 2019 ICDAR2019 15th Int'l Conf. on Document Analysys and Recognition Brisbane Mar/15/2019
Apr 04-09, 2020 ICASSP2020 Int'l Conf. on Acoustics Barcelona Nov/00/2019 Mar 00, 2019
May 25-29, 2020 Eurographics 2020 The 41th annual Conf. of the European Association for Computer Graphics Norrköping Oct/00/2019 Feb 00, 2020
Sep 08-10, 2020 ICFHR-2020 17th Int'l Conf. on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition Dortmund Mar/00/2020 Jun 00, 2020
Sep 14-18, 2020 Interspeech2020 21st Int'l Conf. on Speech Communication and Technology Shanghai Mar/00/2020 May 00, 2020
Apr 25-30, 2021 ICASSP2021 Int'l Conf. on Acoustics Toronto Nov/00/2020 Mar 00, 2020
Apr 24-28, 2022 ICASSP2022 Int'l Conf. on Acoustics Singapore Nov/00/2021 Mar 00, 2022

Finding a job

It's helpful to look at the voice tech landscape below to choose a company you'd like to join:

If you're looking for a more corporate job, check out:

Launch a startup

If you’ve built something cool, there is no better time to start a company. Here are some early-stage accelerator funds that can help get you off the ground.

Accelerator Fund Description
Y-Combinator The most well-known accelerator that has funded over 900 startups. In the request for startups YC has stated they are excited about the voice computing space.
Techstars Various accelerators across the USA. Have a strong interest in machine learning and voice computing startups.
Betaworks Betaworks is a great leader in the voice computing space. They were one of the first VCs to explicitly host a voice-based accelerator program called VoiceCamp (NYC, NY).
Alexa Accelerator Also, the Amazon Alexa Fund (Accelerator) exists to seed voice-based startups out of Seattle, WA.

If you're an individual angel investor and/or accelerator fund looking to make angel-type investments in voice computing, let me know on GitHub issues and I can include you on the list above! ^

Teaching voice computing

We don’t have enough teachers of voice computing! You can definitely use this book to teach others about your craft and get them up-to-speed on the technology. I find teaching is the best way to learn something. You always learn something new from others learning as well because they provide a fresh perspective and look on problems you are currently facing.

Other

If I can help you with anything, let me know. I’m always around. You can reach me @ [email protected]