Dear Speech Prosody SIG Members,

First, a brief note about SP 2020 in Tokyo: it will likely be a few more days before the  registration page is open and the schedule posted, as the organizers are working out how best to deal with the travel disruptions the virus is causing.  As information becomes available we’ll send it to this list.

In any case, looking ahead to 2022, members of SProSIG with a history of attendance at Speech Prosody conferences are encouraged to submit bids to host Speech Prosody 11.  Bids submitted by April 21 will garner a presentation spot during Speech Prosody in Tokyo.  The final deadline is June 30, 2020, and written bids received by that date will be posted at http://sprosig.org.   The SProSIG membership will then be invited to consider the bids and to vote their preferences.  Bids may include any information that you believe is likely to sway the members, but should contain at least:

- City and Country

- General Chair

- Organizing Committee Members

- Proposed conference dates

- Expected registration fee

- Sponsoring Organization (university, company, or agency; may be tentative)

- Venue (may be tentative)

- Access from the closest major airport

- Accommodation options

Further information and the bid template are available at http://sprosig.org/about.html.  Please submit bids to Hongwei Ding (hwding@sjtu.edu.cn ) with a cc to Nigel Ward (nigelward@acm.org ).

Martine Grice, Plinio Barbosa, Aoju Chen, Hongwei Ding, Nigel Ward

Speech Prosody SIG Officers

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The 10th Speech Prosody Conference will be held from May
24 to 28, 2020 at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

http://sp2020.jpn.org

The conference theme is 'Communicative and Interactive Prosody', but we invite papers
addressing any aspect of the science and technology of speech prosody.

Speech Prosody, the biennial meeting of the Speech Prosody Special Interest Group (SProSIG)
of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), is the only recurring
international conference covering all aspects of prosody in spoken language: social,
psychological, linguistic, and technological and so on. Past conferences have been
attended by 300-400 international experts representing a range of disciplines including
linguistics, acoustics, speech synthesis and recognition, cognitive psychology, neuroscience,
speech therapy, language teaching, computer science, electrical engineering, speech and
hearing science and psychology.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Sep. 15 Deadline for proposals for workshops, tutorials, and special sessions
Oct. 01 Opening of online paper submission
Oct. 15 Notification of acceptance/rejection for proposals for workshops, tutorials, and special sessions
Dec. 20 Full paper submission deadline
Feb. 21 Notification of paper acceptance/rejection
Mar. 06 Deadline to upload camera-ready papers
Mar. 20 Early bird registration deadline
Apr. 30 Standard registration deadline

TOPICS INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:
Phonology and phonetics of prosody
Rhythm and timing
Tone and intonation
Cognitive processing and modeling of prosody
Interaction between segmental and suprasegmental features
Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics
Prosody in language and music
Acquisition of first, second and third language prosody
Prosody in Computer Language Learning systems
Speaking style and personality
Speaking style and communication settings
Prosody in speech recognition and understanding
Prosody in speaker characterization and recognition
Identification & description of prosody for multilingual dialogue systems
Measurements of prosodic parameters
Prosody in audiology and phoniatrics
Forensic voice and language investigation
Prosody of sign language

FOR MORE DETAILS:
Please visit SP10 conference website: http://sp2020.jpn.org
We are seeking proposals for workshops, tutorials, and special sessions.