Satellite Workshops

This is the list of satellite workshops linked to Interspeech 2009.

ACORNS Workshop on Computational Models of Language Evolution, Acquisition and Processing

11 September 2009, Brighton, UK (mail Els den Os for more information).

The workshop brings together up to 50 scientists to discuss future research in language acquisition, processing and evolution. Deb Roy, Friedemann Pulvermüller, Rochelle Newman and Lou Boves will provide an overview of the state-of-art, a number of discussants from different disciplines will widen the perspective, and all participants can contribute to a roadmap.

AVSP 2009 - Audio-Visual Speech Processing

10-13 Sept 2009, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.

The International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP) attracts an interdisciplinary audience of psychologists, engineers, scientists and linguists, and considers a range of topics related to speech perception, production, recognition and synthesis. Recently the scope of AVSP has broadened to also include discussion on more general issues related to audiovisual communication. For example, the interplay between speech and the expressions of emotion, and the relationship between speech and manual gestures.

Blizzard Challenge Workshop

4 September, University of Edinburgh, U.K.

In order to better understand and compare research techniques in building corpus-based speech synthesizers on the same data, the Blizzard Challenge was devised. The basic challenge is to take the released speech database, build a synthetic voice from the data and synthesize a prescribed set of test sentences which are evaluated through listening tests. The results are presented at this workshop. Attendance at the 2009 workshop for the 5th Blizzard Challenge is open to all, not just participants in the challenge. Registration closes on 14th August 2009.

SIGDIAL - Special Interest Group on Dialogue

11-12 Sept 2009, Queen Mary University, London, U.K.

The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in discourse and dialogue to both academic and industry researchers. The conference is sponsored by the SIGDIAL organization, which serves as the Special Interest Group in discourse and dialogue for both the Association for Computational Linguistics and theInternational Speech Communication Association.

SLaTE Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE)

3-5 September 2009, Wroxall, Warwickshire, U.K.

SLaTE 2009 follows SLaTE 2007, held in Farmington, Pennsylvania, USA, and the STiLL meeting organized by KTH in Marholmen, Sweden, in 1998. The workshop will address all topics which concern speech and language technology for education. Papers will discuss theories, applications, evaluation, limitations, persistent difficulties, general research tools and techniques. Papers that critically evaluate approaches or processing strategies will be especially welcome, as will prototype demonstrations of real-world applications.

Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems

13-14 September 2009, Queen Mary, University of London, U.K.

The Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems is an annual workshop designed for students, post docs, and junior researchers working in research related to spoken dialogue systems in both academia and industry. The roundtable provides an open forum where participants can discuss their research interests, current work and future plans. The workshop is meant to provide an interdisciplinary forum for creative thinking about current issues in spoken dialogue systems research, and help create a stronger international network of young researchers working in the field.

Organising a Workshop?

If you are interested in organising a satellite workshop, or would like an existing event you are planning to be listed as an official satellite workshop, please contact Simon King.