Dear Speech Prosody SIG Members,

While we're all looking forward to Speech Prosody 2024 in Leiden …

… it's also time to start planning Speech Prosody 2026.  Accordingly, members of SProSIG with a history of attendance at Speech Prosody conferences are encouraged to submit bids to host Speech Prosody 13.  Bids submitted by May 31 will garner a presentation spot during Speech Prosody in Leiden.  The final deadline is August 9, 2024, 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 Martine Grice martine.grice@uni-koeln.de and Aoju Chen aoju.chen@uu.nl with a cc to Nigel Ward  nigelward@acm.org .

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

(Speech Prosody SIG Officers)