Speech science in end user applications Special session at Interspeech 2013 Lyon, France, 25-29 August 2013 http://www.interspeech2013.org/ ________________________________ The successful injection of speech technology inventions produced by academic institutions into 

innovative industry projects is often difficult because of the fact that important constraints 

stemming from real world application scenarios are largely disregarded in laboratory settings. 

On the other hand, research in industry laboratories is often regarded as of a less 'scientific' 

nature due to time pressure and a pragmatism that is needed to get products on the road. 

To cast a balance between science and technology applications, this special session focuses

 on applications of speech technologies. Junior researchers in particular will appreciate getting 

an idea on how speech technology is used in industrial products designed with the end user 

in mind. We felt that a special session would be a good place to bring the academic and industrial

 world closer together, and exchange experiences in the overlapping areas of science and 

technology. 

 While industry is primarily interested in producing fail-safe products that serve the users in all 

applications, academia searches for merits by finding new algorithms that were not thought of

 before. We don't see a problem in this duality, but want to create an opportunity to meet and foster 

awareness between members of either community about topics of the other, exchange view 

points, and perhaps initiate common projects while raising appreciation. The focus of the session is on common problems in all technological fields of speech and 

language processing. Therefore, we encourage contributions all fields, e.g. recognition, 

synthesis, semantics, classification, etc., but with a focus on real world applications and 

the problems detected in user studies or extracted from real-use log files. We expect submissions from industry SMEs as well as from academia with experience in 

jointly developed projects, or open source projects with a big end-user community. We envision a poster session as this will allow for good individual exchange. This session 

shall begin with an introduction by the organizers followed by a short presentation to introduce 

the posters at display to all. A short panel discussion at the end will ensure a good forum of 

discussion for all. Please feel free to contact the organisers if you are interested in submitting a paper. Organisers: ________________________________ Felix Burkhardt Felix.Burkhardt@telekom.de Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany Juergen Schroeter jsh@research.att.com AT&T, USA Björn Schuller schuller@tum.de Technische Universität München, Germany