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SPECOM-2023 – FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
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25th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2023)
29th November – 2nd December 2023, Dharwad, India
Web: https://www.iitdh.ac.in/specom-2023
ABOUT SPECOM
The International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM) is an interdisciplinary scientific event with a long tradition, the first SPECOM was held in St. Petersburg in 1996 organized by SPC RAS (SPIIRAS). The 25th (Silver Jubilee) edition of SPECOM will be held from 29th November- 1st December 2023 at Hubli-Dharwad, India. This flagship conference offers a comprehensive technical program presenting all the latest developments in research and technology for speech processing and its applications. Featuring world-class oral and poster sessions, plenaries and perspective exhibitions, demonstrations, tutorials, and satellite workshops, it is expected to attract leading researchers and global industry figures, providing a great networking opportunity.
ORGANIZERS
SPECOM-2023 is organized by IIT Dharwad, IIIT Dharwad, NIT Goa, KLE Tech, and KIIT Gurugram.
TECHNICAL SCOPE
We invite submissions of original unpublished technical papers on topics including but not limited to:
– Affective computing
– Audio-visual speech processing
– Corpus linguistics
– Computational paralinguistics
– Deep learning for audio processing
– Feature extraction
– Forensic speech investigations
– Human-machine interaction
– Language identification
– Multichannel signal processing
– Multimedia processing
– Multimodal analysis and synthesis
– Sign language processing
– Speaker recognition
– Speech and language resources
– Speech analytics and audio mining
– Speech and voice disorders
– Speech-based applications
– Speech driving systems in robotics
– Speech enhancement
– Speech perception
– Speech recognition and understanding
– Speech synthesis
– Speech translation systems
– Spoken dialogue systems
– Spoken language processing
– Text mining and sentiment analysis
– Virtual and augmented reality
– Voice assistants
SPECIAL EVENTS
– Students Special Session
– Special Session on Speech Processing for Under-Resourced Languages
– Special Session on Industrial Speech and Language Technology
– Satellite Workshop on Speaker and Language Identification, Verification, and Diarization at Goa
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit full papers of 8-14 pages formatted in the Springer LNCS style. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers (single-blind), and accepted papers will be presented either orally or as posters. Papers submitted to SPECOM must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the SPECOM review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specom2023
PROCEEDINGS
SPECOM Proceedings will be published by Springer as a book in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS) series listed in all major international citation databases.
IMPORTANT DATES
May 15, 2023 ……………. Paper Submission Starts
July 31, 2023 ……………. Paper Submission Deadline (Final!)
Sep 08, 2023 ……………. Paper Acceptance Notification
Sep 24, 2023 ……………. Camera-ready Paper Submission
Oct 01, 2023 ……………. Early Bird Registration Deadline
Nov 29 – Dec 01, 2023 ……….. Main Conference Dates
Dec 02, 2023 …………….. Satellite Workshop
SPECOM-2023 ORGANIZERS
GENERAL CHAIRS
Prof. Yegnanarayana Bayya – IIIT Hyderabad
Prof. Shyam S. Agrawal – KIIT Gurugram
TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Prof. Alexey Karpov – SPC RAS, St. Petersburg
Prof. Rajesh M. Hegde – IIT Dharwad
Prof. K. Samudravijaya – KL University
Dr. K. T. Deepak – IIIT Dharwad
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Prof. S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna – IIT Dharwad
Prof. Suryakanth V. Gangashetty – KL University
CONTACTS
All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to SPECOM Secretariat
E-mail: specom2023@gmail.com
Web: https://www.iitdh.ac.in/specom-2023