CALL FOR PAPERS
7th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW7)
Kyoto, Japan - September 22-24, 2010
http://www.ssw7.org/

The Seventh ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop (ITRW) on Speech
Synthesis will take place at ATR, Kyoto, Japan, September 22-24, 2010.
It is co-sponsored by the International Speech Communication
Association (ISCA), the ISCA Special Interest Group on Speech
Synthesis (SynSIG), the National Institute of Information and
Communications Technology (NICT), and the Effective Multilingual
Interaction in Mobile Environments (EMIME) project.  The workshop will
be held as a satellite workshop of Interspeech 2010 (Chiba, Japan,
September 26-30, 2010).  This workshop follows on from the previous
workshops, Autrans 1990, Mohonk 1994, Jenolan Caves 1998, Pitlochry
2001, Pittsburgh 2004, Bonn 2007, which aim to promote research and
development of all aspects of speech synthesis.

Workshop topics Papers in all areas of speech synthesis technology are
encouraged to be submitted, with emphasis placed on:

* Spontaneous/expressive speech synthesis
* Speech synthesis in dialog systems
* Voice conversion/speaker adaptation
* Multilingual/crosslingual speech synthesis
* Automated methods for speech synthesis
* TTS for embedded devices
* Talking heads with animated conversational agents
* Applications of synthesis technologies to communication disorders
* Evaluation methods

Submissions for the technical program:

The workshop program will consist of invited lectures, oral and poster
presentations, and panel discussions.  Prospective authors are invited
to submit full-length, 4-6 page papers, including figures and
references.  All papers will be handled and reviewed electronically.
The SSW7 website http://www.ssw7.org/ will provide you with further
details.

Important dates:

* May 7, 2010: Paper submission deadline
* June 30, 2010: Acceptance/rejection notice
* June 30, 2010: Registration begins
* July 9, 2010: Revised paper due
* September 22-24, 2010: Workshop at ATR in Kyoto