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| Sunday, May 12, 2019 by Chris Wellekens | 
Call for Papers 
SSW10 - The 10th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop 
20-22 September 2019 
Vienna, Austria 
The 10th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop will be held in Vienna, Austria, 20-22 September 2019. The workshop is a satellite event of the INTERSPEECH 2019 conference in Graz, Austria. 
Confirmed invited speakers 
Aäron van den Oord (Google DeepMind, UK) 
Claire Gardent (CNRS, France) 
Workshop topics 
Papers in all areas of speech synthesis technology are encouraged to be submitted, including but not limited to: 
Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion for synthesis 
Text processing for speech synthesis (text normalization, syntactic and semantic analysis) 
Segmental-level and/or concatenative synthesis 
Signal processing/statistical model for synthesis 
Speech synthesis paradigms and methods; articulatory synthesis, parametric synthesis etc. 
Prosody modeling and generation 
Expression, emotion and personality generation 
Voice conversion and modification, morphing 
Concept-to-speech conversion speech synthesis in dialog systems 
Avatars and talking faces 
Cross-lingual and multilingual aspects for synthesis 
Applications of synthesis technologies to communication disorders 
TTS for embedded devices and computational issues 
Tools and data for speech synthesis 
Quality assessment/evaluation metrics in synthesis 
Singing synthesis 
Synthesis of non-human vocalisations 
End-to-end text-to-speech synthesis 
Direct speech waveform modelling and generation 
Speech synthesis using non-ideal data (?found?, user-contributed, etc.) 
Natural language generation for speech synthesis 
Special topic: Synthesis of non-standard language varieties (sociolects, dialects, second language varieties) 
Call for Demos 
We are planning to have a demo session to showcase new developments in speech synthesis. If you have some demonstrations of your work that does not really fit in a regular oral or poster presentation, please let us know. 
The workshop program will consist of a single track with invited talks, oral and poster presentations. Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, 4-6 page papers, including figures and references. Papers can be submitted via the website http://ssw10.oeaw.ac.at. 
Important dates: 
Deadline for paper submission: May 10th, 2019 
Final deadline for paper submission: May 17th, 2019 
Notification of acceptance: July 1st, 2019 
Camera-ready final versions: July 19th, 2019 
Workshop: 20-22 September 2019 
Blizzard Challenge Workshop 2019: 23. September 
We are looking forward to seeing you in Vienna. 
Sincerely, 
The SSW organising committee (Michael Pucher, Junichi Yamagishi, Sebastian Le Maguer, Christian Kaseß, Friedrich Neubarth) 
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