2022 國際語音學會科學成就獎章得獎致詞

1. From Semantics to Self-supervised Learning
for Speech and Beyond
Lin-shan Lee
National Taiwan University

2. A Story for
ISCA Medal for
Scientific Achievement

3. there has been a city
called 酒泉(Wine Spring) ever since thousands of years ago.
In the central area of Asia (or West of China),

4. 酒泉(Wine Spring) is beautiful.
Why is it called Wine Spring?

5. and then moved to this place.
Thousands years ago, a general and his army achieved a victory,

6. The emperor was very happy with the victory. He decided to
grant a bucket of fine wine as his gift to the general, and sent
someone to ride a fast horse to bring it to this place.

7. “I didn’t achieve this victory by myself alone.
The general opened the fine wine.
My soldiers fought so hard jointly with me.
It smelled so good!A thought
came to his mind:
I wish to share the fine
wine with my soldiers.” How to share only a bucket of fine wine to
so many soldiers? He saw the spring in front of him.

8. He ordered all soldiers to come around the spring,
bucket, and poured all the fine wine into the spring.
soldiers: “All water in this spring is now the emperor’s fine wine
Every one of you come to have a drink. Let’s
opened the
He told his
granted to all of us.
celebrate together.”

9. Having tasted the water in the spring, all soldiers were very happy!

10. This place was called 酒泉(Wine Spring) since
then, and became a beautiful city later on…

11. not easy to be
shared,
is not a bucket of fine wine,
ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement
but I do have my soldiers in the past 43
years (1979-2022).

12. 2017

13. 2020

14. My soldiers did all the work.
The honor belongs to them.
I wish to share the honor with all of them. I already told them:
“The honor is yours. I am proud of all of you.”

15. I ask the very few of my soldiers who are here in this conference:
conference, and take the drinks
as the spring water in Wine Spring(酒泉).
please make sure to have some drink in the coffee break of this