1.0. Getting involved
This section talks about ways you can get involved in the voice community right now, following the chapter__10_gettinginvolved folder.
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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 @ js@neurolex.co.
^^ click to see a previous TRIBE demo day (TRIBE 2) ^^
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 |
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 |
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:
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! ^
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.
If I can help you with anything, let me know. I’m always around. You can reach me @ js@neurolex.co