19TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SPEECH AND COMPUTER (SPECOM 2017)

THE CONFERENCE

The International Conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM, is a regular event organized since 1996 and attracts researchers in the area of computer speech processing, multimodal interfaces and applied systems for telecommunication, robotics, intelligent and cyberphysical environments.

ORGANISERS

The conference is organized by
- the University of Hertfordshire, UK
in cooperation with
- the Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU, Moscow, Russia)
- the St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Science (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia) and
- St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia)

VENUE

The conference will be organized at the College Lane Campus of the University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK (http://www.herts.ac.uk). Hatfield is located at the North part of Greater London, just 20 minutes by train from Central London. It is easily accessible from the Kings Cross/St. Pancras London stations as well as from several airports (Heathrow, Stansted, Luton).

Topics

• Applications for human-machine interaction 
• Audio-visual speech processing
• Automatic language identification
• Corpus linguistics and linguistic processing 
• Forensic speech investigations and security systems 
• Multichannel signal processing
• Multimedia processing
• Multimodal analysis and synthesis 
• Signal processing and feature extraction 
• Speaker identification and diarization 
• Speaker verification systems
• Speech and language resources 
• Speech analytics and audio mining
• Speech dereverberation
• Speech driving systems in robotics 
• Speech enhancement
• Speech perception
• Speech disorders and voice pathologies 
• Speech recognition and understanding 
• Speech translation automatic systems 
• Spoken dialogue systems
• Spoken language processing 
• Text-to-speech and Speech-to-text systems 
• Virtual and augmented reality
• Text mining and sentiment analysis 
• Affective computing 

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 10 pages formatted in the LNCS style (see below). The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission system. 
Papers submitted to SPECOM 2017 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 paper format for the review has to be the PDF file with all required fonts included (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). 

IMPORTANT DATES

March 12, 2017 ............ Submission of final papers

May 15, 2017 ............... Notification of acceptance

May 26, 2017 ............... Final papers (camera ready) and registration

Sept. 12-16, 2017 ........ Conference date 

SPECOM Proceedings are included in the Springer list of forthcoming proceedings for September 2017.
The proceedings will be available to participants at the time of the conference.