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SPECOM-2021 - FINAL 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

IMPORTANT INFO (!)

Due to the COVID pandemic in the world, SPECOM-2021 conference with satellite events may be partially or fully organized as a teleconference via Zoom service within the announced dates. In the case of a teleconference, essentially reduced registration fees are provided for authors, as well as a free registration for participants. The proceedings will be prepared in time and published by Springer in LNCS/LNAI book series, the on-line proceedings will be available before the conference start.

EXTENDED DEADLINES (!)

June 14, 2021 .......... Submission of full papers (final date)

July 14, 2021 ........... Notification of acceptance/rejection

July 25, 2021 ........... Camera-ready papers

July 30, 2021 ........... Early registration

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Prof. Junichi YAMAGISHI, National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan – Automatic detection of generated voices and faces – ASVspoof and deepfake detection.

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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.

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