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        SPECOM-2021 – FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS 
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23rd International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2021) 
September 27-30, 2021, St. Petersburg, Russia 
Web: http://www.specom.nw.ru/2021 

ORGANIZERS 
The conference is organized by the St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of 

Sciences (SPC RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia) in cooperation with the Moscow State Linguistic

 University (MSLU, Moscow, Russia). 

CONFERENCE TOPICS 
SPECOM attracts researchers, linguists and engineers working in the following areas of speech science, 

speech technology, natural language processing, human-computer interaction: 
Affective computing 
Audio-visual speech processing 
Corpus linguistics 
Computational paralinguistics 
Deep learning for audio processing 
Feature extraction 
Forensic speech investigations 
Human-machine interaction 
Language identification 
Multichannel signal processing 
Multimedia processing 
Multimodal analysis and synthesis 
Sign language processing 
Speaker recognition 
Speech and language resources 
Speech analytics and audio mining 
Speech and voice disorders 
Speech-based applications 
Speech driving systems in robotics 
Speech enhancement 
Speech perception 
Speech recognition and understanding 
Speech synthesis 
Speech translation systems 
Spoken dialogue systems 
Spoken language processing 
Text mining and sentiment analysis 
Virtual and augmented reality 
Voice assistants 

SATELLITE EVENTS 
6th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics ICR-2021: http://www.specom.nw.ru/icr2021 

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE 
The official language of the event is English. However, papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly 

encouraged. 

FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE 
The conference program will include presentation of invited talks, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. 

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS 
Authors are invited to submit full papers of 8-12 pages formatted in the Springer LNCS style. Each paper will be reviewed by

 at least three independent reviewers (single-blind), and accepted papers will be presented either orally or as posters. 

Papers submitted to SPECOM must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the SPECOM review

 cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. The authors are asked to submit 

their papers using the on-line submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specom2021 

PROCEEDINGS 
SPECOM Proceedings will be published by Springer as a book in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS)

 series listed in all major international citation databases. 

IMPORTANT DATES 
May 31, 2021 ............ Submission of full papers 
July 12, 2021 ........... Notification of acceptance 
July 25, 2021 ........... Camera-ready papers 
July 30, 2021 ........... Early registration 
Sept 27-30, 2021 ........ Conference dates 

GENERAL CHAIRS 
Alexey Karpov - SPIIRAS, SPC RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia 
Rodmonga Potapova - MSLU, Moscow, Russia 

CONTACTS 
All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to SPECOM-2021 Secretariat 
E-mail: specom@iias.spb.su 
Web: http://www.specom.nw.ru/2021