Event

Interspeech 2008

Dates

September 23 — 26, 2008

Venue

Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Center, Australia

Plenary speakers

* Hiroya Fujisaki, professor of speech science, University of Tokyo, Japan

* Abeer Alwan, professor of speech processing, University of California, Los Angeles, US

* Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez, associate professor, Computer Science Department, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain

* Justine Cassell, professor of communication and computer science, Northwestern University, US

Topic areas

* Human speech production

* Human speech perception

* Phonology and phonetics

* Discourse and dialogue

* Prosody (production, perception, prosodic structure)

* Paralinguistic and nonlinguistic cues

* Physiology and pathology

* Spoken language acquisition, development and learning

* Speech analysis and representation

* Audio segmentation and classification

* Spoken language understanding

* Cross-lingual and multi-lingual processing

* Multimodal/multimedia signal processing

* Speaker characterization and recognition

* Spoken language resources and annotation

Speech sessions

* Human-machine comparisons of consonant recognition in noise

* Cross-linguistic and developmental issues in the perception and production of lexical tone

* Talking heads and pronunciation training

* Forensic speaker recognition — traditional and automatic approaches

* The prosody of spontaneous speech

About Interspeech 2008

Interspeech 2008 is the ninth conference in the annual series of Interspeech events. It will be held under the sponsorship of the Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA) and the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA).

Contact

Tel: +61 (0)7 3368 2644

Fax: +61 (0)7 3369 3731

E-mail: interspeech2008@ccm.com.au

For more information, go to www.interspeech2008.org