CALL FOR PAPERS

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• 2nd Symposium on Security and Privacy in Speech Communication joint with 2nd VoicePrivacy Challenge Workshop (INTERSPEECH 2022 satellite event)

• https://symposium2022.spsc-sig.org/

• May 18 – Long paper submission deadline 
• June 15 – VoicePrivacy Challenge and short paper submission deadline
• September 23-24 – Workshop

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The second edition of the Symposium on Security & Privacy in Speech Communication (SPSC), this year combined with the 2nd VoicePrivacy Challenge workshop, focuses on speech and voice through which we express ourselves. As speech communication can be used to command virtual assistants to transport emotion or to identify oneself, the symposium tries to give answers to the question on how we can strengthen security and privacy for speech representation types in user-centric human/machine interaction? The symposium therefore sees that interdisciplinary exchange is in high demand and aims to bring together researchers and practitioners across multiple disciplines including signal processing, cryptography, security, human-computer interaction, law, and anthropology. The SPSC Symposium addresses interdisciplinary topics.

For more details, see https://symposium2022.spsc-sig.org/home/_cfp/CFP_SPSC-Symposium-2022.pdf

=== Important dates

• May 18 – Long paper submission deadline 
• June 15 – VoicePrivacy Challenge paper submission deadline 
• June 15 – Short paper submission deadline 
• July 1 – Author notification
• July 31 – VoicePrivacy Challenge results and system description submission deadline
• September 5 – Final paper submission
• September 23-24 – SPSC Symposium at the Incheon National University, Korea

===  Topics of interest

Topics regarding the technical perspective include:

• Privacy-preserving speech communication
• speech recognition and spoken language processing
• speech perception, production and acquisition
• speech synthesis and spoken language generation
• speech coding and enhancement
• speaker and language identification
• phonetics, phonology and prosody
• paralinguistics in speech and language
• Cybersecurity
• privacy engineering and secure computation
• network security and adversarial robustness
• mobile security
• cryptography
• biometrics
• Machine learning
• federated learning
• disentangled representations
• differential privacy
• Natural language processing
• web as corpus, resources and evaluation
• tagging, summarization, syntax and parsing
• question answering, discourse and pragmatics
• machine translation and document analysis
• linguistic theories and psycholinguistics
• inference of semantics and information extraction

Topics regarding the humanities’ view include:

• Human-computer interfaces (speech as medium)
• usable security and privacy
• ubiquitous computing
• pervasive computing and communication
• cognitive science
• Ethics and law
• privacy and data protection
• media and communication
• identity management
• electronic mobile commerce
• data in digital media
• Digital humanities
• acceptance and trust studies
• user experience research on practice
• co-development across disciplines
• data-citizenship
• situated ethics
• STS perspectives

We welcome contributions on related topics, as well as progress reports, project disseminations, theoretical discussions, and “work in progress”. There is also a dedicated PhD track. In addition, participants from academia, industry, and public institutions, as well as interested students are welcome to attend the conference without having to make their own contribution. All accepted submissions will appear in the conference proceedings published in ISCA Archive. The workshop will take place mainly in person at the Incheon National University (Korea) with additional support of participants willing to join virtually.

===  Submission

Papers intended for the SPSC Symposium should be up to eight pages of text. The length should be chosen appropriately to present the topic to an interdisciplinary community. Paper submissions must conform to the format defined in the paper preparation guidelines and as detailed in the author’s kit. Papers must be submitted via the online paper submission system. The working language of the conference is English, and papers must be written in English.

===  Reviews

At least three single-blind reviews will be provided, and we aim to obtain feedback from interdisciplinary experts for each submission. The review criteria applied to regular papers will be adapted for VoicePrivacy Challenge papers to be more in keeping with systems descriptions and results.