--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Session at Interspeech 2016 ------------------------------------- Sub-Saharan African languages: from speech fundamentals to applications ------------------- Call for Papers ------------------- SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 23rd 2016 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This special session aims at gathering researchers in speech technology and researchers in linguistics (working in language documentation and fundamentals of speech science). Such a partnership is particularly important for Sub-Saharan African languages which tend to remain under-resourced, under-documented and often also unwritten. Prospective authors are invited to submit original papers in the following areas: - ASR and TTS for Sub-Saharan African languages and dialects - Cross-lingual and multi-lingual acoustic and lexical modeling - Applications of spoken language technologies for the African continent - Phonetic and linguistic studies in Sub-Saharan African languages - Zero resource speech technologies: unsupervised discovery of linguistic units - Language documentation for endangered languages of Africa - Machine-assisted annotation of speech and laboratory phonology - Resource / Corpora production in African languages Submission deadline: Same as regular Interspeech 2016 papers: March 23, 2016
Special session web site For more details on this special session: http://alffa.imag.fr/interspeech-2016-special-session-proposal/
Interspeech 2016 conference website: http://www.interspeech2016.org/
Organizers: - Martine Adda-Decker (madda@limsi.fr) – CNRS – LPP and LIMSI, France. - Laurent Besacier (laurent.besacier@imag.fr) - Univ. Grenoble-Alpes, France - LIG laboratory. - Marelie Davel (marelie.davel@nwu.ac.za) – North-West University, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa. - Larry Hyman (hyman@berkeley.edu) - Department of Linguistics University of California, Berkeley. - Martin Jansche (mjansche@google.com) – Google, London, UK. - Francois Pellegrino (francois.pellegrino@univ-lyon2.fr) – CNRS – DDL Lyon, France. - Olivier Rosec (olivier.rosec@voxygen.fr) – Voxygen SAS,- Pleumeur-Bodou, France. - Sebastian Stüker (sebastian.stueker@kit.edu) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. - Martha Tachbelie Yifiru (martha.yifiru@aau.edu.et) – School of Information Science Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
