Welcome to INTERSPEECH 2019 ? Willkommen in Graz, Austria, Sept 15-19, 2019
http://www.interspeech2019.org

Important Dates Coming Up Soon

• Paper submission portal is open, sumbission deadline Friday, March 29, 2019
  Please go to https://www.interspeech2019.org/authors/paper_submission/

• Proposals due for Show& Tell: April 26, 2019
  See Call for Show Tell Demonstrations at https://www.interspeech2019.org/calls/show_and_tell/

• Proposals due for Survey Presentations: May 3, 2019
  See Call for Survey Presentations at https://www.interspeech2019.org/calls/surveys/

• Proposals due for Satellite Workshops: to be submitted to ISCA as soon as possible!
  See Call for Satellite Workshops at https://www.interspeech2019.org/calls/satellite_events!

• Sponsoring and Exhibition opportunities: see http://www.interspeech2019.org/sponsorship_and_exhibition/letter_to_our_partnersWhat is new?

For our Show & Tell Demonstrations we have evolved the submission format, next to a two-page description we will require the upload of a simple video of your demonstration that will help deciding which demonstrations will raise the highest interest at the conference. For more details see https://www.interspeech2019.org/calls/show_and_tell/.

INTERSPEECH 2019 is the 20^th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association ISCA and this anniversary edition will introduce several innovative features. These innovations will certainly contribute to raise the attractiveness of the conference beyond the high levels developed already over the past two decades:

Survey presentations have been evolved from the perspective talks at INTERSPEECH 2018 in Hyderabad. The presentations will be scheduled at the start of suitable oral presentation sessions, and will be allocated a 40-minute time slot for presentation and discussion. Presentations should aim to give an overview of the state-of-the-art for a specific topic covered by one or more of the main technical areas of the conference. The presenters will also be invited to submit survey papers to the ISCA supported journals of Computer, Speech and Language and Speech Communication. For further details, see our Call for Survey Presentations [please add link!] further below.

Childcare – the INTERSPEECH Kids: Bring your family along to Graz, Austria! Childcare will be provided free of charge for conference participants. For terms and conditions, see the conference webpage http://www.interspeech2019.org/venue_and_travel/childcare.  Furthermore, an INTERSPEECH parenting community will be set up on the collaboration platform Slack. To secure a place for your kids, we recommend to apply for either service at your earliest convenience by sending email to childcare@interspeech2019.org

Hackathons will set a stimulating atmosphere for the most creative developers in our community and beyond: through jams and challenges, we will bring together some of our brightest minds, students who are speech science and technology aficionados and who come to Graz as conference participants, as well as students who are representing the highly interdisciplinary community of several partner universities in Graz and beyond. Watch out for details to appear soon on our website http://www.interspeech2019.org or contact directly our hackathon chairs Elmar Nöth (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) and Johanna Pirker (TU Graz) at hackathon@interspeech2019.org.