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Currently this board member is Associate Professor Beena Ahmed, University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia. The purpose of the GO committee is to extend the services of ISCA to different parts of the world, especially those regions where many speech researchers may not be able to attend Interspeech conferences and participate in many ISCA-related activities easily.</font></font></font></p><p style="line-height: 20px;"><font face="Helvetica"> Currently the work of the GO committee is focused on four regions where the speech researchers are under-represented in most ISCA programs, and the major goal is to have a sub-committee for each region to make region-specific efforts. These sub-committees are:<br> <br> <span><font>(a) Sub-committee on Eastern Europe<br> (b) Sub-committee on West Asia and North Africa<br> (c) Sub-committee on South Asia<br> (d) Sub-committee on Sub-Saharan Africa</font></span></font></p> <p style="line-height: 20px;"><font face="Helvetica">During every interspeech conference, the GO committee has an annual meeting where the coordinators of each sub-committee report their recent activities and show future directions.</font></p><p style="line-height: 20px;"><font face="Helvetica">In addition to the GO committee, another important channel for ISCA to extend its services to different parts of the world is via <a href="/Special-Interest-Groups"><font>Special Interest Groups (SIGs)</font></a> focused on some specific languages. Currently there are seven <strong>Language SIGs</strong> with such functionalities as listed below.</font></p> <ul style="line-height: 20px;"> <li style="line-height: 22px;"><font face="Helvetica">SIG on Under-resourced Languages (SIGUL)</font></li> <li style="line-height: 22px;"><font face="Helvetica">SIG on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (SIG-CSLP)</font></li> <li style="line-height: 22px;"><font face="Helvetica">Association Francophone de la Communication Parlee (AFCP)</font></li> <li style="line-height: 22px;"><font face="Helvetica">Associazione Italiana di Scienze della Voce (AISV)</font></li> <li style="line-height: 22px;"><font face="Helvetica">SIG on Iberian Languages (SIG-IL)</font></li> <li style="line-height: 22px;"><font face="Helvetica">Indian Language Speech Processing (SIG-ILSP)</font></li> <li style="line-height: 22px;"><font face="Helvetica">ISCA SIG on Russian Speech Analysis (SIGRU)</font></li> </ul> <p style="line-height: 20px;"><font face="Helvetica">More 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15px;"><span><font>Prof. Alexey Karpov, Professor, SPC RAS, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg (Russia)</font></span></font></li></ul><font face="Helvetica"><strong><font style="font-size: 15px;">Coordinator of sub-committee on West Asia and North Africa</font></strong></font> <ul> <li><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 15px;"><span><font>Prof. Chafic Mokbel,</font></span> University of Balamand, Balamand (Lebanon)</font></li></ul><p><strong style="font-family: Helvetica;">Coordinator of sub-committee on South Asia</strong><br></p><ul><li><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 15px;"><font>Prof. Chandrasekhar Seelamantula, Indian Institute of Science (India)</font></font></li></ul><font face="Helvetica"><font style="font-size: 15px;"><strong>Coordinator of sub-committee on Sub-Saharan Africa</strong></font><br></font> <ul> <li><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 15px;"><font>Prof. Febe de Wet</font>, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch (South Africa)</font></li></ul> <p align="left" style="line-height: 20px;"><strong><font style="font-size: 15px;">Archive of slides and documents presented at annual meetings</font></strong></p> <ul style="line-height: 20px;"> <li style="line-height: 23px;"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 15px;">Slides and documents presented at the annual meeting of <a href="/resources/Documents/GO/2023.zip" target="_blank"><strong>2023</strong></a></font></li><li style="line-height: 23px;"><font face="Helvetica">Slides and documents presented at the annual meeting of <a href="/resources/Documents/GO/2022.zip" target="_blank"><strong>2022</strong></a></font></li><li style="line-height: 23px;"><font face="Helvetica">Slides and documents presented at the annual meeting of <a href="/resources/Documents/GO/2021.zip" target="_blank"><strong>2021</strong></a></font></li></ul><strong>What can Geographical Outreach (GO) committee do for you?</strong><br> <p style="line-height: 20px;"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 15px;">Below are possible initial actions which may be taken by the sub-committees of the GO committee to extend ISCA services to the specific regions.<br> <br> <strong>(1)</strong> If in the regions there are any regional, national or local associations (or similar organizations) of speech researchers (or on related areas), it is possible to develop some sister association relationship between such associations and ISCA, such that members of such organizations can become members of ISCA at reduced membership fees, and vice versa, and possibly something more.</font></p> <p style="line-height: 20px;"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 15px;"><strong>(2)</strong> If in the regions there are some regional, national or local workshops, courses, meetings, conferences or events on speech related areas, it is possible to have them partially sponsored by ISCA, and invite via ISCA speakers and participants from other parts of the world to attend such events. It is also possible to hold some currently exisiting ISCA workshops or events in the regions in order to promote the activities in the regions.</font></p> <p style="line-height: 20px;"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 15px;"><strong>(3)</strong>The sub-committees may recommend students or young researchers in the regions to apply for grants to attend conferences, workshops and events held worldwide sponsored by ISCA.</font></p> <p style="line-height: 20px;"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 15px;"><strong>(4)</strong> The sub-committees may help to distribute relevant information about ISCA services to speech researchers in the regions, such as the ISCA Archive, the membership fee structure, grants, ISCApads, etc., especially those not limited to ISCA members, for example the abstracts of all papers in the ISCA Archive which are openly accessible from the Internet, the web-based services, and the many special interest groups on different areas which can be participated on-line without ISCA membership, and so on.</font></p> <p style="line-height: 20px;"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 15px;"><strong>(5)</strong> The sub-committees may help to promote and disseminate to the global research communities information regarding the research activities in the regions via ISCA channels, to increase international knowledge about the activities. For example, ISCA can help to distribute the journals or reports published in the regions, the call for papers of conferences and events held in the regions, information regarding major research projects in the regions, important research accomplishments in the regions and distinguished scientists and researchers in the regions, and so on.</font></p> <p style="line-height: 20px;"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 15px;"><strong>(6)</strong> The sub-committees may consider to establish one or more Language Special Interest Groups (SIGs) for research activities on the specific languages used in the region. Such Language SIGs can become more direct channels through which the ISCA services can be obtained. The Italian Language and the Chinese Spoken Language Processing are good examples. <br> <strong><br> (7)</strong> ISCA has a distinguished lecturers program, through which the sub-committees and others may invite lecturers to travel to their regions to give lectures to promote research activities in the regions at ISCA's expenses. <br> <strong><br> (8)</strong> The sub-committees may recommend distinguished researchers in the regions to participate in various research related activities, for example to review papers, to serve as journal editors or scientific committee members, session chairs or invited speakers of conferences and workshops, and so on.</font></p> <p style="line-height: 20px;"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 15px;"><strong>(9)</strong> The sub-committees may consider the special situation of their region and propose to ISCA any other possible actions which may be taken to help the researchers in the regions. 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