CFP: Sub-Saharan African languages : from speech fundamentals to applications

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Special Session at Interspeech 2016 
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Sub-Saharan African languages: from speech fundamentals to applications 
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SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 23rd 2016 
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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.