Call for Papers

Interspeech is the world's largest and most comprehensive conference on Speech Science and Speech Technology. Interspeech 2009 will be held in Brighton, UK, and its theme is Speech and Intelligence. We invite you to submit original papers in any related area, including (but not limited to):

Human Speech Production, Perception And Communication

• Human speech production
• Human speech perception
• Phonology and phonetics
• Discourse and dialogue
• Prosody (production, perception, prosodic structure)
• Emotion and Expression
• Paralinguistic and nonlinguistic cues (e.g. emotion and expression)
• Physiology and pathology
• Spoken language acquisition, development and learning

Speech And Language Technology

• Automatic Speech recognition
• Speech analysis and representation
• Audio segmentation and classification
• Speech enhancement
• Speech coding and transmission
• Speech synthesis and spoken language generation
• Spoken language understanding
• Accent and language identification
• Cross-lingual and multi-lingual processing
• Multimodal/multimedia signal processing
• Speaker characterisation and recognition

Spoken Language Systems And Applications

• Speech Dialogue systems
• Systems for information retrieval from spoken documents
• Systems for speech translation
• Applications for aged and handicapped persons
• Applications for learning and education
• Hearing prostheses
• Other applications

Resources, Standardisation And Evaluation

• Spoken language resources and annotation
• Evaluation and standardisation

Paper Submission

Papers for the Interspeech 2009 proceedings are up to four pages in length and should conform to the format given in the paper preparation guidelines and author kits, which are now available.

Optionally, authors may submit additional files, such as multimedia files, to be included on the Proceedings CD-ROM.

Authors will be asked to categorize their submitted papers as being either:

N: Completed empirical studies reporting novel research findings

In this category we encourage submissions where a body of findings has been accumulated based on precisely articulated research questions. Such studies are expected to employ a particular experimental framework and use quantitative evaluation techniques. Findings of such studies should provide novel insights.

E: Exploratory studies

Exploratory studies are often necessary to pilot and fine-tune the methodological approach, procedures and measures. Exploratory studies are also required to derive a set of concrete research questions, especially in areas where there is little related theoretical and experimental work.

Although care must be taken in the interpretation of findings from such studies, they may highlight issues of great interest and relevance to peers.

P: Position papers

While categories N and E require reporting on experiments, position papers can be conceptual or theoretical, providing new interpretations of known results. Also, in this category we consider papers that present new ideas without having a complete study to report on. Papers in this category will be judged on the soundness of the argument presented, the significance of the ideas and the interest to the community.

Authors will also have to declare that their contribution is original and not being submitted for publication elsewhere (e.g. another conference, workshop, or journal).

Papers must be submitted via the on-line paper submission system, which will open shortly. The deadline for submitting a paper is 17th April 2009. This date will not be extended.

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