SST2022: CALL FOR PAPERS

The Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association is pleased to call for papers for the 18th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST2022). SST is an international interdisciplinary conference designed to foster collaboration among speech scientists, engineers, psycholinguists, audiologists, linguists, speech/language pathologists and industrial partners.

? Location: Canberra, Australia (remote participation options will also be available)
? Dates: 13-16 December 2022
? Host Institution: Australian National University
? Deadline for tutorial and special session proposals: 8 April 2022
? Deadline for submissions: 17 June 2022
? Notification of acceptance: 31 August 2022
? Deadline for upload of revised submissions: 16 September 2022
? Website: www.sst2022.com

Submissions are invited in all areas of speech science and technology, including:

? Acoustic phonetics
? Analysis of paralinguistics in speech and language
? Applications of speech science and technology
? Audiology
? Computer assisted language learning
? Corpus management and speech tools
? First language acquisition
? Forensic phonetics
? Hearing and hearing impairment
? Languages of Australia and Asia-Pacific (phonetics/phonology)
? Low-resource languages
? Pedagogical technologies for speech
? Second language acquisition
? Sociophonetics
? Speech signal processing, analysis, modelling and enhancement
? Speech pathology
? Speech perception
? Speech production
? Speech prosody, emotional speech, voice quality
? Speech synthesis and speech recognition
? Spoken language processing, translation, information retrieval and summarization
? Speaker and language recognition
? Spoken dialog systems and analysis of conversation
? Voice mechanisms, source-filter interactions

We are inviting two categories of submission: 4-page papers (for oral or poster presentation, and publication in the proceedings), and 1-page detailed abstracts (for poster presentation only). Please follow the author instructions in preparing your submission.

We also invite proposals for tutorials, as 3-hour intensive instructional sessions to be held on the first day of the conference. In addition, we welcome proposals for special sessions, as thematic groupings of papers exploring specific topics or challenges. Interdisciplinary special sessions are particularly encouraged.

For any queries, please contact sst2022conf@gmail.com.