SAPA-SCALE Conference 2012 Salon Ballroom, Hilton Portland 7-8 September 2012, Portland, OR, USA 

http://www.sapaworkshops.org/2012/ 

SAPA-SCALE 2012, the ISCA and SCALE supported conference on Statistical and Perceptual 

Audition will be held in the Salon Ballroom, Hilton Portland (Interspeech Venue) on 7-8 September. 

This is the latest in the SAPA series of workshops on Statistical and Perceptual Audition (previous 

editions were SAPA 2004, 06, 08, 10). This year the event this year is organized jointly with the 

Speech Communication with Adaptive Learning (SCALE) consortium. The principal objective of the 

conference is to bring together researchers addressing perceptually motivated speech and audio 

processing tasks with the tools of statistical signal processing and machine learning. This will be a

 two-day, single-track conference with an informal atmosphere structured to promote discussion. 

There will be keynotes from leading researchers in addition to a limited number of oral 

presentations chosen for breadth and provocation. Papers at the workshop cover the following 

topics: 

* Generalized audio and speech analysis 

* Audio scene analysis and classification 

* Music analysis * Signal separation 

* Automatic and Human speech recognition * Speech synthesis 

* Multi-channel analysis 

The technical program for the workshop is on the conference website 

(http://www.sapaworkshops.org/2012/). 

On-site registration costs $50. All INTERSPEECH attendees (as well as any others who 

may be interested in these topics) are invited to attend. 

Organizers: 

Paris Smaragdis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

Bhiksha Raj, Carnegie Mellon University 

Dan Ellis, Columbia University 

Steve Renals, University of Edinburgh 

Simon King, University of Edinburgh 

Dietrich Klakow, Universitat des Saarlandes 

Herve Bourlard, IDIAP