The Oriental Chapter of COCOSDA (International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques) / CASLRE (Conference on Asian Spoken Language Research and Evaluation) is pleased to announce that the 18th Oriental COCOSDA/CASLRE Conference will be held during October 28-30 2015 in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.

Oriental COCOSDA/CASLRE is an international conference held annually by the oriental chapter of COCOSDA/CASLRE. It aims at boosting the research and development in the field of speech databases and speech technology and enthusing the interests towards spoken language research in East and Southeast Asia. The past Oriental COCOSDA/CASLRE conferences were held in Tsukuba, Taipei, Beijing, Jeju, Huahin, Singapore, Delhi, Jakarta, Penang, Hanoi, Beijing, Kyoto, Katmandu, Hsinchu, Macau, Gurgaon, and Phuket.

The Oriental COCOSDA/CASLRE Conference in Shanghai will feature world-class plenary speakers, and interactive lecture and poster sessions. Conference proceedings have been indexed by IEEE Xplore in the past years, and we will continue to submit the accepted papers to the IEEE Xplore database with Engineering Index (EI) this year. Papers are invited to report substantial, original and unpublished research on all aspects of speech databases, assessments and speech input/output, including, but not limited to:

• Assessment of speech input and output technologies
• Multilingual speech corpora
• Phonetic/phonological systems for oriental languages
• Romanization of Non-Roman Characters
• Segmentation and labeling
• Speech databases and text corpora
• Speech processing and applications
• Speech prosody
• Standards in annotation and evaluation
• Any other relevant topics

 Prospective authors are invited to submit four-page papers at http://www.ococosda2015.org

 Important Dates:

•  Full Paper Submission June 15, 2015
•  Notification of AcceptanceAugust 15, 2015
•  Final Manuscript SubmissionAugust 30, 2015
•  Early Registration DeadlineSeptember 15, 2015

The conference venue is located in School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, which enjoys the beautiful campus along with the active, intellectual and intimate campus atmosphere.

Shanghai is regarded as the Paris of the east; it has a seamless blending of modern and traditional, east and west. Its famous attractions, such as the Bund, Yuyuan Garden, Shanghai World Financial Center, and Oriental Pearl TV Tower have never failed to amaze visitors. We welcome you to Shanghai to experience the culture, architecture, and cuisine of this amazing metropolis.

 For more information about the conference, please visit the conference website at http://www.ococosda2015.org