Topics

• Speech Analysis, Representations and Models
• Spoken Language Recognition and Understanding
• Text-to-Speech Synthesis
• Prosody Models and Generation
• Speech-to-Speech Translation
• Emotions and Expressive Speech Analysis and Synthesis
• Speaker Identification and Verification in Biometric Systems and Security
• Spoken Language Processing in the World Wide Web
• Voice-Based Human-Computer Interfaces
• Speech Interface Design and Human Factors Engineering
• Speech Interface Implementation for Embedded / Network-Based Applications
• Natural Language Processing
• Data Mining and Search in Spoken Documents
• Spoken Dialogue Systems, Applications and Standards
• Dialogue Management
• Language Resources and Knowledge Representation in Spoken Dialogue Systems

    Important Dates

• Notification of participation and brief proposal submission (title, authors, short abstract, contact information for the presenter): January 10, 2009.
• Submission of camera-ready papers (information for authors will be provided on the Conference site): February 22, 2009.
• Notification of acceptance and observations of the reviewers: April 1, 2009.
• Submission of final papers: April 15, 2009.
• Conference: June 18-21, 2009.