2006

December

• On December 24, 2006, “3rd Symposium of Chinese Speech Interactive Technology Standard Group (CSITSG) and Voiceprint Recognition Standard Approval Meeting” was held in Room 1-315, Information Science & Technology Building, Tsinghua University. Government officials from the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) of China were present. Dr. Thomas Fang Zheng, the chairman of d-Ear Technology and the leader of Voiceprint Recognition Special Topic Group gave a report titled “Statement on the constituting of Voiceprint Recognition Technology Standard”. After a full and deep discussion, this standard has been approved by both the Standard Working Group and the Expert Group, and a new name “Automatic Voiceprint Recognition (Speaker Recognition) Technology Standard” was suggested to be used instead. After being perfectly and then submitted soon, the Standard text will be announced by MII.
  
  The proposal of this Standard was originally approved by CSITSG on January 5, 2005 and then approved by the Electronic Industrial Standard research project S06014-T on February 7, 2006. d-Ear Technologies and Tsinghua University State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and Systems were in charge of drafting the Standard. It includes three parts, the terminologies and definitions, the data exchange format, and application programming interface (API) functions of Voiceprint Recognition (Speaker Recognition). This will be the first standard on voiceprint recognition (speaker recognition) in China, and the approval of this Standard will well push and standardize the voiceprint recognition industries in China.

• Dr. Thomas Fang Zheng, CCC Council Chair, attended Oriental-COCOSDAheld in Penang, Malaysia, December 9-11, 2006, and gave a country/regional report on behalf of China.

• Dr. Thomas Fang Zheng, CCC Council Chair, attended the 5th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP'2006) held in Singapore during December 12-17, 2006, and chaired a special session on speaker recognition. This session was for CCC Speaker Evaluation Recognition (SRE), the purpose of which was to invite researchers in this field to present their state-of-art technical achievements and to provide a platform for developers in this field to evaluate their speaker recognition systems using the same database provided by CCC. Eight (8) sites from 7 counties/regions participated in this CCC SRE 2006. On behalf of CCC, Dr. Zheng expressed the willing that CCC would like to continuously support, improve and develop SRE into a series one in the near future. Messages with regard to CCC SRE 2008 will be available on the CCC official site http://www.CCCForum.org.

November

• CCC has added 6 more databases, regarding affective speech recognition, effect/emotion recognition and so on. So far, CCC has more than 30 databases covering several aspects of speech and language processing.

October

• The council approved the appointment of Dr. Yi LIU as the Standing Secretary.

May

• The CCC has added a USD 30 fee for corpora shipment and handling, to help cover costs. This fee is charged per order, regardless of the number of corpora purchased.

January

• The Chinese Corpus Consortium (CCC) held its annual meeting at Tsinghua University on January 14. Over 100 people attended the meeting, including goverment and school officials, domain experts, business representatives, investors, and members of the media. The meeting included a report by CCC Council Chair Dr. Thomas Fang Zheng detailing the activities and accomplishments of the CCC since its founding, as well as considerations for the future direction for the CCC. Additional talks were given by Qin Wenhua (Tsinghua-DearSeven Laboratory), Li Aijun (CASS), Wang Xiaochuan (Sohu), Michael Brasser (d-Ear), and Chen Shihong (China.com). The meeting ended with a short but lively question and answer time.
  

2005

December

• The 2005 CCC Council Meeting was held in Jakarta, Indonesia, with CCC Council Chair Dr. Thomas Fang Zheng presiding. Dr. Zheng began with a report on the activities of the CCC since its founding, including information on CCC members and corpora development and sales. The council members reiterated their commitment to promoting the CCC, and went on to discuss the CCC issues on the agenda, including finances, member resources, the website, and corpora citations.

October

• Seven new VPR corpora were added to the Corpora page, and CCC-VPR2C2005-1000 was added to the Resources page.

August

• The CCC-VPR3C2005 corpus was added to the Corpora and Resources pages.

June

• Five new corpora from the Beijing Institute of Technology were added to the Corpora page.

January

• O-COCOSDA conference proceedings for 1998-2002 were added to the Resource page.

2004

December

• The Chinese Language Resource Branch of the Zhongguancun High Tech Enterprise Association was formally established (approved by the Beijing Bureau of Civil Affairs). The Chinese Language Resource Branch will oversee the CCC, with Dr. Thomas Fang Zheng concurrently holding posts as Council Chair of both organizations. On December 7 2004, Meng Han, Secretary General of the Zhongguancun High Tech Enterprise Association visited d-Ear to listen to reports from CCC Council Chair Dr. Thomas Fang Zheng and CCC Standing Secretary Michael Brasser. Meng Han gave a high appraisal of the CCC's accomplishments and expressed the Association's continued support of CCC activities.

November

• The WDCS Corpus was added to the Corpora page.
• Free and Member Resources were added to the Resources page.
• The Links page was added.

June

• The founding meeting for the Chinese Corpus Consortium was held at the Tsinghua National Laboratory of Information Science and Technology (jointly held with a two year celebration for d-Ear Technologies). See d-Ear's News Release for more information.

May

• The first Call for Members was issued for membership years 2004 and 2005.

March

• The CCC was officially established, and the CCC Consititution was signed by the following co-founders: d-Ear, CST, CASS, HCI&MM, COLIPS, ATR, JHU, and CUHK.
• According to the CCC Constitution, Dr. Thomas Fang Zheng was elected as the Council Chair for the first term, and Dr. Satoshi Nakamura was elected as the Vice Chair. With the agreement of the Council, Thomas appointed Michael Brasser as the Standing Secretary and Kaihong Huang as the Treasurer for this term.

The "pre-founding" history of the CCC can be accessed here.