INTERSPEECH 2025
Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 17-22 August 2025
Chairs: Odette Scharenborg, Khiet Truong and Catha Oertel
26th INTERSPEECH event

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The Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association is honoured to have been selected to host INTERSPEECH 2026. Our theme of Diversity & Equity ? Speaking Together strongly reflects Sydney and our broader region. Sydney is Oceania?s largest city and is also its most linguistically diverse: more than 300 different languages are spoken and 40% of Sydneysiders speak a language other than English at home. Consistent with the goals of ISCA ?to promote, in an international world-wide context, activities and exchanges in all fields related to speech communication science and technology?, INTERSPEECH Sydney will highlight the diversity of research in our field with a firm focus on equity and inclusivity. Recognizing the importance of multi-dimensional approaches to speech, INTERSPEECH 2026 will foster greater interdisciplinarity to better inform current and future work on speech science and technology. We look forward to welcoming all to Sydney!

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Dear Speech Prosody SIG Members,

I'm pleased to announce that Speech Prosody 2026 will be in Philadelphia, organized by Jianjing Kuang and Mark Liberman.  (There were 80 votes for Shanghai, 128 for Philadelphia, and 15 had no preference.)

I’m also pleased to announce the resumption of our lecture series with a talk by Simon Roessig:

Syntagmatic prominence relations in prosodic focus marking

Lecturer: Simon Roessig (University of York, UK)

Host: Plinio A. Barbosa (Unicamp, Brazil)

Sept 24th at 1 pm (Brasilia time = UTC - 3)

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUE9pRbq9w0

Abstract: This talk is about the role of prenuclear prominences and their relation to nuclear accents in German and English. The production results (German) that I will present show that the realization of the prenuclear domain depends on whether it is focal or prefocal. The prenuclear noun is characterized by larger F0 excursions, higher F0 maxima, and longer durations when it is in broad focus than when it precedes a narrow focus. Furthermore, the realization of the prenuclear domain depends on the following focus type: The prenuclear noun is produced with smaller F0 excursions, lower F0 maxima and shorter durations before a corrective focus than before a non-corrective narrow focus. The findings suggest that the phonetic manifestation of information structure is distributed over larger prosodic domains with an inverse relationship in the syntagmatic dimension. In addition, the study contributes further evidence that continuous phonetic detail is used to encode information structural categories. An important question that arises from the production data is whether this phonetic detail can be used by listeners in perception. I will present first results from a series of perception experiments (German and English) to investigate this question.

Plan: 1. I will begin by outlining what we know about focus prosody in the nuclear and prenuclear domains. 2. I will then present findings from a production study that examines the prosody of the prenuclear domain in different types of focus. 3. These results show that there are interesting strength relations between prenuclear and nuclear prosody in the encoding of focus types. 4. I will present preliminary findings from perception experiments investigating the question whether listeners use prenuclear prominence modulations in identifying focus types. 5. Finally, I will conclude with a discussion of the results and future directions.

Nigel Ward, SProSIG Chair

nigel@utep.edu    https://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/  

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The ISCA Board has decided to award the organisation of Interspeech 2027 to São Paulo, Brazil. We are very excited to introduce researchers from all over the world to the South American continent for the first time.

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Now's the time of year that seminar programmes get fixed up.. please direct the attention of whoever organises your seminars to the ISCA INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL SEMINARS scheme (introduction below). There is now a good choice of speakers:  see

https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/distinguished-lecturers/online-seminars

ISCA INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL SEMINARS

A seminar programme is an important part of the life of a research lab, especially for its research students, but it's difficult for scientists to travel to give talks at the moment. However,  presentations may be given on line and, paradoxically, it is thus possible for labs to engage international speakers who they wouldn't normally be able to afford.

ISCA has set up a pool of speakers prepared to give on-line talks. In this way we can enhance the experience of students working in our field, often in difficult conditions. To find details of the speakers,

• visit isca-speech.org
• Click Distinguished Lecturers in the left panel
• Online Seminars then appears beneath Distinguished Lecturers: click that.

Speakers may pre-record their talks if they wish, but they don't have to. It is up to the host lab to contact speakers and make the arrangements. Talks can be state-of-the-art, or tutorials.

If you make use of this scheme and arrange a seminar, please send brief details (lab, speaker, date) to education@isca-speech.org

If you wish to join the scheme as a speaker, we need is a title, a short abstract, a 1 paragraph biopic and contact details. Please send them to education@isca-speech.org

PS. The online seminar scheme  is now up and running, with 7 speakers so far:

Jean-Luc Schwartz, Roger Moore, Martin Cooke, Sakriani Sakti, Thomas Hueber, John Hansen and Karen Livescu.

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Dear Speech Prosody SIG Members,

We would like to draw your attention to three upcoming short courses from the Luso-Brazilian Association of Speech Sciences:

- Prosody & Rhythm: applications to teaching rhythm,
  Donna Erickson (Haskins), March 16, 19, 23 and 26

- Prosody, variation and contact,
  Barbara Gili Fivela (University of Salento, Italy), April 19, 21, 23, 26 and 28

- Rhythmic analysis of languages: main challenges,
  Marisa Cruz (University of Lisbon), June 2, 3, 4, 7, 8 and 10

For details:
  http://www.letras.ufmg.br/padrao_cms/index.php?web=lbass&lang=2&page=3670&menu=&tipo=1
 
 
 
Plinio Barbosa and Nigel Ward

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FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS) 2025

March 30th - April 4th 2025

Aussois (French Alps)

We are pleased to announce the 5th edition of ALPS - the Advanced NLP School to be held in the French Alps from March 30th to April 4th 2025. 

This school targets advanced research students in Natural Language Processing and related fields and brings together world leading experts and motivated students. The programme comprises lectures, poster presentations, practical lab sessions and nature activities - the venue is located near a National Park.

Important Dates

• Oct 15th 2024: Application deadline

• Nov 15th 2024: acceptance notification

• Jan 15th 2025: registration deadline

• March 30th 2025: Start of School

Confirmed speakers so far:

• Kyunghyun Cho (New York University & Prescient Design)

• Titouan Parcollet (Cambridge University & Samsung AI Center)

• Barbara Plank (LMU Munich)

• François Yvon (ISIR CNRS)

Website and online application: https://alps.imag.fr/

Questions: alps@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr

The registration fees for the event encompass accommodation and full board at the conference venue, the Centre Paul Langevin. We will announce the fee amounts later, and they will vary depending on the participant's background: students, academia, and industry. Student fees will be set at or below €600, including twin room accommodation. We will have a limited amount of scholarships for the registration: if you are interested please mark this in the application form. The rates for academia and industry will be higher, as is customary, and will include accommodation in a single room.

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Call for Science: 2025 Voice AI Symposium

hosted by the Bridge2AI-Voice Consortium

Submit your innovative research and technology to shape the future of AI and voice biomarkers!

This year's theme is 'Translating AI Research into Reality: Implementing Voice Biomarkers for Transformative Healthcare'

CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT SCIENCE

Important Dates 

Submission Deadline for Abstracts: December 15th, 2024

Selection Notifications begin January 15th, 2025

Symposium + Hackathon Dates: April 22-24, 2025

We are welcoming submissions for the following categories

Podium or Poster Presentations

Panel Discussions

Voice AI Technology Fair

About: The Bridge 2AI Voice Symposium is more than a conference; it is an interactive and collaborative effort between three integral aspects which impact our understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML): people, ethics, and data. Submit your groundbreaking work for consideration to be a part of the 2024 Bridge 2AI Voice Symposium. Come join a global network of pioneers and collaborate with patients, scientists, clinicians, and industry. You play a pivotal role in shaping the future of AI and ML. We will see you in sunny Tampa Florida April 22-24.

CATEGORY 1: PODIUM AND POSTER PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS 

Abstracts will be accepted for the presentation of research. We will be accepting presentations in the format of (1) oral presentation (30 minute oral presentation), (2) poster, or (3) either format. Reviewers will evaluate the submission and determine the best fit for presentation.  

The goals of the podium and poster sessions are to:  

1. Promote collaborative efforts in the emerging field of AI in voice research. 
2. Provide a unique networking and discussion opportunity among academic and industry peers participating in the Voice AI Symposium.  
3. Encourage presenters to think outside the box and brainstorm innovative approaches to address major challenges in AI research. While prior experimentation is welcome, it is not mandatory.  

Topic Areas for Submission:  We invite proposals for topics including but not limited to: 

Topic Area 1: 

The reliability of Voice AI in clinical diagnostics and prediction.  

Subjects can include specific disorders, public health, health policy and organization, and accessibility. Proposals can target clinician workflow, home health, virtual screening etc. Focus on tangible solutions rather than broad ideas. Current projects or new projects/ideas can be included. 

Topic Area 2: 

Validation of Voice AI processes and demonstrations of robustness.  

Subjects can include optimizing machine learning for voice data or identification of explicit and implicit biases in current clinical practice that could be exacerbated by voice AI. Topics should address mitigation strategies or systematic approaches to overcome these challenges. 

Topic Area 3: 

How can we build trust and transparency in voice AI, ensuring that it is used in responsible and effective ways to improve health outcomes and transform healthcare? 

Practical solutions presented can cover: highlighting methods to promote data privacy and security while fostering data sharing for research innovation, respecting patients’ rights, addressing biases and unintended consequences, and establishing a clear and consistent legal framework for voice AI in healthcare.  

Abstract Guidelines 

Specifications and submission details:  

There is no submission fee.   

Abstracts will be reviewed by committee who will determine best presentation for research (either poster or podium)

Podiums will be 30-minute oral presentations that offer valuable insights into the field of voice AI. Submissions should focus on either research or clinical applications of AI in voice.

Research Presentations: Share recent findings or ongoing research that advances our understanding of voice AI]. 

Clinical Presentations: Highlight innovative approaches to diagnosis, treatment, or service delivery for voice AI. Discuss the practical implications and benefits of your methods. 

Abstracts should include: an introduction stating its relevance to improving human health, approach, preliminary findings (if available), conclusion, and future direction of your work.  

Maximum character count per abstract submission is 1,900 characters NOT including spaces. If you choose to add an image or table to your abstract submission, it will count as 600 characters towards the total 1,900 characters that are allowed. 

CATEGORY 2: PANEL PRESENTATION ABSTRACT

We invite abstracts for panel presentations that address the effective development and use of AI in healthcare. Each panel will consist of a moderator and 3-4 presenters who will address moderator questions or present brief papers related to a specific topic. The panel session length will be approximately 60 minutes, and should include interaction with the audience through live polling questions, which we will facilitate through the use of 'Aha Slides' at the day of the event. The topic should be addressed within the context of our 3 key pillars – people, data, and ethics. The organizer of the symposium is expected to be the chair. Diversity of background and expertise within the panel is encouraged.Presenters should represent different laboratories and an international mix of contributors is encouraged. 

Specifications and submission details: 

There is no submission fee.   

Panel presentation abstracts should include bullets that include: a title, name and affiliation of the moderator, a list of the panelists, and an abstract describing the intent of the panel presentation.  

The abstract should include a brief overview of the panel presentation, a description of the structure of the presentation, the purpose and the intended outcome(s). 

The abstract should include 5 questions relevant to your panel that will be used in interactive 'Aha slides' on the day of the event (e.g. 'How do you think voice biomarkers are most likely to be implemented in the next year?' plus four answers for the audience to choose from)

Maximum character count per panel submission is 1,900 characters NOT including spaces. If you choose to add an image or table to your abstract submission, it will count as 600 characters towards the total 1,900 characters that are allowed. 

CATEGORY 3: CALL FOR TECHNOLOGY - VOICE AI TECH FAIR

A technology fair will be hosted during the 2025 Bridge 2AI Voice Symposium. Eligible participants include startup companies, independent tech researchers and voice AI companies with relevant technology for demonstration. Technology should be relevant to applications of Voice AI or voice biomarkers in healthcare. Participants will have the opportunity to interact with clinicians, scientists, and patients to discuss and provide hands on interactions with their tech.  

Specifications and submission details:  

• Cost per submission is $300  (payment not required until application is accepted by symposium committee)
• Submit a one paragraph description of your company, startup and/or technology, describe how you would demonstrate it to attendees, and describe how it is relevant to voice AI in healthcare or voice biomarker research

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Nous avons le plaisir de vous informer que le prochain Congrès Français d’Acoustique (https://cfa2025.fr), organisé sous l’égide de la Société Française d’Acoustique (SFA), se tiendra sur le Campus Pierre et Marie Curie de Sorbonne Université du 27 au 30 Avril 2025. L'Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée (AFCP) est société partenaire pour l'organisation avec le Groupe d'Acoustique de la Parole (GAP-SFA) d'une session générale intitulée : acoustique de la voix, de la parole et du chant. Cette session a pour objectif de donner un aperçu des recherches scientifiques actuelles en sciences phonétiques et en acoustique : études expérimentales, travaux en modélisation et simulation, en phonétique expérimentale et clinique, analyse et synthèse, et histoire des sciences de la parole.

Nous vous sollicitons aujourd’hui pour soumettre un résumé pour une communication orale à ce congrès. Le format d'un résumé est entre 120 et 300 mots, en langue française de préférence. Le résumé et les différentes informations saisies restent modifiables jusqu’à la date limite de contribution fixée au 01 décembre 2024.  Nous espérons que vous pourrez y participer pour présenter vos derniers travaux.

Veuillez noter que vous devez effectuer une pré-inscription avant de soumettre votre résumé, vous engageant ainsi à payer ultérieurement les frais d’inscription. Après avoir pris connaissance des informations sur l’inscription et la soumission des résumés sur  https://cfa2025.fr/ , vous pourrez procéder à l’inscription en vous enregistrant sur la plateforme https://conforg.fr/bin/IA/reg_cfa2025_fr puis en utilisant les identifiants pour soumettre votre résumé sur https://conforg.fr/bin/usrlogin_cfa2025. À la première étape, choisissez 'GAP - Voix et Parole' dans le menu déroulant nommé 'Thème', puis 'Session générale d'acoustique de la voix, de la parole et du chant' dans le menu déroulant 'Session spéciale'.

En espérant que vous accepterez cette invitation à participer, nous vous remercions par avance pour votre contribution à la réussite de cette manifestation.

Bien cordialement,

Nathalie Henrich Bernardoni, Coriandre Vilain et Claire Pillot-Loiseau

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Call for Papers

3rd International Conference on Tone and Intonation - TAI 2025

Date: 16-May-2025 to 18-May-2025
Location: Herrsching (near Munich), Germany
Meeting Email: tai2025@phonetik.uni-muenchen.de
Web Site: https://tai2025.org/

Call Deadline: 09-Dec-2024

Meeting Description:

The TAI conference is the result of the merging the International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL) and the Conference on Tone and Intonation in Europe (TIE). The TAI 2025 conference aims to bring together distinguished researchers, experts, and practitioners from around the world to exchange ideas, insights, and the latest advancements in the field of tone and intonation. The TAI proceedings are archived by ISCA, the International Speech Communication Association.

Call for Papers:

We are delighted to announce that the Third International Conference on Tone and TAI 2025 will be held in Herrsching near Munich, Germany, from 16–18 May 2025. Jointly sponsored by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) and the International Phonetic Association (IPA), TAI 2025 will be hosted by the Institute for Phonetics and Speech Processing of the LMU Munich.

With the theme of 'Variation and change in tone and intonation systems across space and time', our aim at TAI 2025 is to foster a more diverse and comprehensive understanding of tone and intonation by exploring variation in geographical as well as physical space, along with the dynamic evolution of tone and intonation across various timescales. We invite submissions that explore phonetic and phonological aspects of tone and intonation, with a particular focus on the following topics:

1. Variation and Change in Space:
- Cross-linguistics comparison of tone and intonation in well- and under-studied languages.
- Documentation of tonal and intonational patterns in endangered languages.
- Analysis of geographic variation in tone and intonation.
- Tone and intonation in language contact.

2. Variation and Change in Time:
- Diachronic change of tone and intonation.
- Generational differences of tone and intonation.
- Sociolinguistic factors influencing tonal and intonational change.

3. Variation Beyond Space and Time:
- Psycholinguistic, cognitive, and neural correlates of tone and intonation.
- Physiological underpinnings of tone and intonation.
- Acquisition of tone and intonation in L1 and L2.
- Tone and intonation in neurodevelopmental disorders and impairments.
- Role of tone and intonation in multimodal communication.
- Computational modeling and applications of tone and intonation.

We welcome submissions on any aspect of tone and intonation in language, not limited to the aforementioned topics. We encourage contributions from a wide range of theoretical and methodological perspectives, including experimental, descriptive, and computational approaches. Contributions by junior researchers and/or with interdisciplinary research methods are strongly encouraged.

Submission information:

Abstracts should be written in English and no more than 2 A4-sized pages (1 page of text and 1 page for tables, figures, and references), including up to 5 keywords that best describe the paper. All submissions should be in PDF format. Abstracts will be subject to double-blind peer review; please ensure that all identifying information is removed from the abstract.

Abstract submission opens: 15 October 2024
Abstract submission deadline: 9 December 2024
Notification of acceptance: 3 February 2025

Abstract submission will be via CMT: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/TAI2025/

Sireemas Maspong

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28èmes Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs

Systèmes

2 et 3 juin 2025

à l’Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 (Maison de la Recherche) au 4, rue des Irlandais - 75005 PARIS.

 Le thème sélectionné cette année est le suivant : « Systèmes»

La date limite de soumission des propositions de communication aux 27èmes Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs de l’ED 622 est prolongée au 1er mars 2025. 

Soumission des propositions :

Toute personne souhaitant réaliser une communication est invitée à soumettre un abstract d’un maximum de 3000 caractères espaces comprises (hors figure(s) et bibliographie) en français jusqu’au 1er mars 2025 à 19h (heure de Paris). Les propositions de communication devront être déposées sur :https://rjc2025.sciencesconf.org/.En choisissant l’option “Nouveau dépôt” vous pourrez saisir vos données personnelles (nom, prénom, affiliation). La proposition de communication est anonyme, merci de ne pas mettre vos nom, prénom et affiliation universitaires dans le fichier PDF que vous allez joindre à votre proposition.

Calendrier

Date limite de soumission :22 février 2025  1er mars 2025

Notification aux participants : Avril 2025

Dates du colloque : 2 et 3 juin 2025

SYSTÈME(S)
Les 2 et 3 juin 2025 à Paris
Créées en 1998, les Rencontres Jeunes Chercheur-e-s (abrégées en RJC) de l’école
doctorale 622- Sciences du Langage composante de l’Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle (Paris 3)
affiliée à l’Université Paris Cité propose annuellement aux jeunes chercheur-e-s inscrit-e-s en
Doctorat ou en Master (mention : Recherche) de présenter leurs travaux de recherche sous
forme de communications orales. Le thème choisi dans le cadre de l’appel à communications
de cette 28e édition est « Système-s ».
À l’aube du 20ᵉ siècle, la linguistique fut profondément et durablement marquée par
l’intégration forte des notions de système et de systématicité, envisagées désormais comme
des concepts fondamentaux pour appréhender la cohérence interne de la langue. Des
linguistes tels que Ferdinand de Saussure, Gustave Guillaume et Antoine Meillet ont conçu
l’idée de système comme étant à la fois inhérente à l’objet théorisé, la langue, et un attribut
essentiel de la théorie qui l’étudie.
Pour Ferdinand de Saussure, la langue est un système de signes organisé et régulé par
des mécanismes de différenciation interne. Il accorde une place centrale au système
phonologique, qu’il considère comme le modèle de différenciation par excellence (Saussure,
1916). Parallèlement, Gustave Guillaume développe l’idée d’un système concentrique, où la
langue et ses usages sont perçus comme un objet plus vaste : un système de systèmes. Selon
lui, la langue constitue une structure complexe composée de sous-systèmes interconnectés –
ceux du morphème, du mot et de la phrase (Guillaume, 1964). Antoine Meillet, pour sa part,
conçoit la langue comme un système de règles et de régularités en perpétuelle évolution, qui
régissent la production et l’interprétation des énoncés. Sa vision systématique de la
linguistique met en lumière la cohérence interne des éléments, la langue étant perçue comme
un réseau de relations et de règles interdépendantes (Meillet, 1926, p. 52).
Malgré leurs différences, les travaux de Saussure, Guillaume et Meillet convergent vers
une compréhension renouvelée de la langue : non plus comme un simple ensemble
d’éléments isolés, mais comme une structure dynamique et organisée, régie par des principes
systémiques.
La thématique de la vingt-huitième édition des Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs laisse la
porte ouverte à différentes perspectives pour une approche systémique en sciences du
langage. L’objectif crucial est de permettre aux participant·e·s de présenter leurs approches
par le truchement des propositions de communication inscrites dans ce domaine disciplinaire
large, et ce, en leur appuyant sur les pistes proposées à titre indicatif et à la bibliographie
indicative à titre illustratif.
Six mots-clés :
interaction, globalité, organisation, complexité, dynamique, croisement
Axe n°1 : Description
Quels objets théoriques mobilise-t-on lorsque l’on évoque le système linguistique – qu’il soit
phonologique, morphologique, syntaxique – appréhendé selon une approche analytique
traditionnelle, une approche expérimentale ou par le biais du traitement automatisé de corpus
oraux et écrits (Blanche-Benveniste, 2010 ; Habert, 2000 ; Habert et al., 1997) ? Quelles en
sont les composantes ? Comment ces dernières interagissent-elles en fonction du niveau de
représentation : psycholinguistique (Garcia-Debanc et Fayol, 2002), neurolinguistique
(Locke, 1997) ou cognitif (Elffers, 2012) ?
Au-delà de la description des systèmes linguistiques, la sociolinguistique a aussi permis de
faire apparaître des discriminations liées à la langue. A la suite des travaux de William Labov
sur le Lower East Side à New York et le African American Vernacular English (1966), nous
pouvons compter, entre autres, des travaux comme ceux de Monica Heller sur les minorités
francophones au Canada (1994), ceux de Josiane Boutet sur la place du langage dans les lieux
de travail et « organisations taylorisées » (2005), ou encore ceux d’Abdellali Hajjat sur la
condition d’assimilation linguistique en vue d’une naturalisation, en France (2012), pour n’en
citer que quelques uns. Des travaux en analyse du discours ont pu interroger la
hiérarchisation produite par les rapports de genre, notamment dans le discours des sciences
sociales (Michard, 2001), ou encore plus récemment les échecs et réussites discursives
d’émancipation dans le rapport de genre (Trovato, 2023). Nous pourrions alors rapprocher les
phénomènes langagiers discriminatoires décrits dans les travaux en sociolinguistique de ceux
en sociologie sur les discriminations systémiques, décrites pour la première fois lors du
mouvement pour les droits civiques aux Etats-Unis dans l’ouvrage Black Power. The Politics
of Liberation (Carmichael, Hamilton, 1967).
Axe n°2 : Acquisition
Comment acquiert-on un système, comment celui-ci s’apprend-il, s’ancre-t-il graduellement
en tant que représentation (sociale, discursive, didactique), et par quel(s) moyen(s) le
processus de l’acquisition systémique (Yamaguchi, 2012) s’opère-t-il ? Dans ce deuxième
axe, peuvent s’inclure la mécanique de l’acquisition des systèmes de sons et des structures
supérieures du langage (Giacobbe, 1992) ainsi que celle du cadre institutionnel encadrant
cette acquisition : contexte didactique institutionnel et idéologies linguistiques
institutionnelles, tels que proposé dans les travaux d’Alby et Léglise (2016). On y inclut
également l’étude des dysfonctionnements ou des défaillances apparentes du système,
elles-mêmes systématiques ou systématisables, par exemple à travers l’étude des pathologies
de la parole (Quemart, Macleod et Maillart, 2015), à travers différentes composantes de la
grammaire en dé-re-construction (van der Lely, 2004).
Axe n°3 : Modélisation
Comment les chercheur·euse·s conçoivent-ils(elles) et représentent-ils(elles) les systèmes
qu’ils(elles) mobilisent dans leurs travaux ? Quels outils méthodologiques et théoriques
rendent possible la construction de ces modèles, de leur conception initiale jusqu’à leur
application pratique, que ce soit pour l’analyse du discours, l’étude des réseaux
d’interconnaissance ou le traitement automatique du langage ? Cet axe vise à explorer les
stratégies de modélisation qui traversent différents domaines de la linguistique et des sciences
du langage, comme le traitement automatique des langues – TAL (Poibeau, 2019 ; El
Maarouf, 2011), la sociolinguistique (Agresti, 2023) ou encore la psycholinguistique
(Garcia-Debanc et Fayol, 2002).
Axe n°4 : Applications ~ mise en perspective
Une fois le seuil de la recherche fondamentale franchi, quelles applications peuvent émerger
des théories, modèles et descriptions en sciences du langage ? Par quels moyens ces systèmes
peuvent-ils intégrer des applications concrètes, et quels défis théoriques surgissent lors de
leur mise en œuvre ? Ce questionnement ouvre un champ d’investigation concernant
l’implication concrète des approches linguistiques dans des domaines appliqués tels que la
synthèse de la parole, la reconnaissance vocale ou encore le traitement automatique du
langage (Damnati et Inkpen, 2021). Qu’il s’agisse de l’analyse des interactions sur les
réseaux sociaux, de la structuration des conversations ou de la compréhension des attitudes
conversationnelles des locuteurs, cet axe invite à interroger les défis, les enjeux et les
avancées les plus récentes en matière d’applications linguistiques. De plus, cet axe entend
explorer comment les théories pédagogiques peuvent s’adapter à des contextes
d’enseignement diversifiés, en fonction des publics et des objectifs spécifiques (Mariscalchi,
2023). Quelles méthodes, inspirées par les théories pragmatiques et les modèles d’acquisition
du langage, sous-tendent la conception des manuels et des programmes d’enseignement ?
Une autre dimension de cet axe consisterait à examiner l’application du dialogisme
(Bakhtine, 1929, 1978 ; Bres, 2019) et de la polyphonie (Ducrot, 1984 ; Nølke et al., 2004)
en linguistique de l’écrit. Ces deux facettes de l’hétérogénéité énonciative, appliquées à un
corpus littéraire, permettent d’explorer la multiplicité des voix et des perspectives dans le
texte écrit.
Les expériences pratiques recueillies dans ces domaines nous offrent également
l’opportunité de réévaluer les théories et modèles en sciences du langage. Quels ajustements
ou révisions ces retours d’expérience apportent-ils aux fondements théoriques ? Ce cadre vise
ainsi à articuler les retombées des recherches en linguistique théorique avec leurs
implications concrètes, tant dans le domaine technologique que pédagogique.
Axe n°5 : Théories ~ histoire des idées
Comment la notion de système en est-elle venue, historiquement, à s’imposer au cœur de la
réflexion métalinguistique ? Par quelles transformations conceptuelles les descriptions
antérieures, affinées au fil des époques, ont-elles permis de rendre systématique la réflexion
sur la nature du langage (Koerner, 1978 ; Harris et Talbot, 1997) ?
Ce cinquième axe vise ainsi à honorer la vision incrémentale de l’histoire des idées
linguistiques, et ce, en retraçant plus en amont le flux continu des théories et des modèles
descriptifs (Swiggers, 1997). Peut-on légitimement attribuer à la notion de système le fait
d’occuper la pensée linguistique du XXe siècle (Begioni, 2018) ? Ou bien cette place
n’est-elle qu’une construction rétrospective issue d’une approche qui privilégie certains
courants, au détriment d’autres perspectives possibles (Mounin, 1966) ?
En effet, les approches sociales du langage proposent une perspective critique sur la
notion de système linguistique. Le terme de pratique langagière s’est notamment largement
répandu depuis l’article de Boutet, Fiala et Simonin-Grumbach en 1976. L’idée est
fondamentalement d’étudier la pratique communicative dans son ensemble, et ce sans essayer
de les faire rentrer dans un système qui ne serait pas en mesure de rendre compte de sa
complexité. Le courant francophone de la sociolinguistique n’est cependant pas le seul
à remettre en cause la notion. Les études portant sur le multilinguisme sont elles aussi face
à l’hétérogénéité des pratiques linguistiques (Auer, 1999), certaines approches proposent de
ne pas séparer les langues et de considérer la pratique langagière dans son ensemble, à l’aide
notamment des notions de répertoire (Busch, 2012) et de translanguaging (Wei, 2018). Les
études adoptant une perspective postcoloniales, voire décoloniales, soulèvent l’ancrage
géographique et historique de la notion de langue en tant que système linguistique fermé
(Veronelli, 2015). En effet, l’étude descriptive de systèmes et le « sauvetage » des langues se
fait souvent aux dépens des droits citoyens des personnes étudiées (Léglise, 2017) ou comme
une façon de patrimonialiser les langues, cultures et peuples dans la continuité des pratiques
coloniales (Cameron, 2007).
Pour cette édition des RJC, nous envisageons que l’Axe n°5 constitue un méta-axe
destiné à accueillir des communications aussi vastes que variées, donnant de l’espace autant
aux approches critiques que pluridisciplinaires. Linguistes et chercheurs issus de disciplines
connexes ou complémentaires à la linguistique (philosophie, philologie, informatique,
cybernétique, mathématiques,mécanique) sont invités à y participer afin de proposer un cadre
de réflexion structurant et externe, permettant de systématiser les perspectives offertes par les
autres axes.
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10^e Journées de Phonétique Clinique

En 2025, les 10^e JPC auront lieu dans la proche région de Montpellier, à Sète du 10 au 12 Juin 2025.

Elles seront organisées conjointement par l’équipe d’Anthropologie Évolutive de l’ISEM UMR5554 (CNRS & Université de Montpellier), le laboratoire Praxiling UMR5267 (CNRS & Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), le CHU Gui de Chauliac (Service Voix Parole Déglutition), le Laboratoire Audiocampus (Faculté de Pharmacie) et le Département Universitaire d’Orthophonie (Faculté de Médecine). 

 Ces journées pluridisciplinaires sont principalement destinées à rassembler et à favoriser les échanges entre chercheurs, cliniciens et phonéticiens et avec tout autre professionnel s’intéressant aux mécanismes de production et de perception de la parole. Les JPC accueillent autant les experts que les jeunes chercheurs et les étudiants, des domaines cliniques (médecine, orthophonie, audiologie), psychologique, et des sciences du langage. Elles concernent tout ce qui a trait au langage, à la parole et à la voix de l’enfant et de l’adulte, sain ou atteint d’une pathologie. Ces aspects y sont abordés selon des points de vue variés, permettant le partage des savoirs et l’ouverture de nouvelles pistes de réflexion, de recherche et de collaboration.  Les Journées de Phonétique Clinique offrent aux jeunes chercheurs une plateforme d'échange et de formation en contact direct avec des experts du domaine. Ils peuvent y présenter leurs travaux, recevoir des retours critiques, et assister à des conférences spécialisées, ce qui favorise l'acquisition de nouvelles compétences méthodologiques et théoriques. Cette immersion dans un cadre scientifique et collaboratif enrichit leur parcours académique, soutient leur développement professionnel en recherche clinique et linguistique et leur ouvre des perspectives d’avenir pour la suite de leur parcours universitaire (post-docs).

Lors de cette 10^e édition, les femmes, grandes oubliées de la recherche, seront mises à l’honneur. En effet, la recherche biomédicale vise à comprendre le fonctionnement, normal ou pathologique, du corps humain, afin d’améliorer la santé et la qualité de vie des individus. Que ce soit dans son volet clinique ou dans le domaine fondamental, elle s’est souvent cantonnée à des études sur des individus masculins sans tenir compte du fait que la prévalence de certaines maladies diffère selon le genre (Baggio et al. 2013). Ainsi, à l’heure actuelle, 60% des études publiées ne font aucunement mention du genre. La communauté scientifique a aujourd’hui pris conscience de l’importance d’inclure suffisamment de femmes dans les études et d’analyser ces données en fonction du genre.

 Les propositions de communication porteront sur les problématiques suivantes (liste non exhaustive) :

• Parole et perturbations des systèmes perceptifs, auditifs et visuels

   

• Modélisation de la parole et de la voix pathologiques

   

• Perturbations du système oro-pharyngo-laryngé

   

• Perception de la parole (notamment en milieu bruité)

   

• Interaction audio-visuelle chez les malentendants

   

• Évaluation fonctionnelle de la parole, du langage et de la voix

   

• Évaluation fonctionnelle de l'audition

   

• Troubles de la fluence

   

• Perception de la parole chez le malentendant

   

• Réhabilitation prothétique de la surdité

   

• Diagnostic et traitement des troubles de la parole et de la voix parlée et chantée

   

• Instrumentation et ressources en phonétique clinique

   

• Troubles cognitifs et moteurs de la parole et du langage

   

• Méthodes d’analyses / de mesures

   NB : Une attention particulière sera portée aux propositions en lien avec la santé des femmes, les méthodes de mesure spécifiquement adaptées aux voix féminines, les analyses comparatives en fonction du genre, etc…

 Dates importantes (site internet de soumission à venir)

 Date d’appel à communication : 12/11/2024

 ***Date limite de réception des soumissions (abstracts de 500 mots) : 31/01/2025

 Date de notification aux auteurs : 17/03/2025

 Dates d’inscription (early-bird) : 17/03/2025 au 14/04/2025 inclus

 Date d’inscription (tarif normal) : 15/04/2025 au 02/06/2025 inclus 

 Version finale des résumés : 16/05/2025

10^e Journées de Phonétique Clinique : 10-12 juin 2025

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Objectifs

Pour encourager les échanges entre cliniciens et chercheurs, le comité d’organisation des JPC 2025 lance un appel à propositions pour des ateliers transversaux (co-organisés par un chercheur et un clinicien) autour de thématiques liées soit à la production altérée de la voix/parole soit à la perception pathologique de la parole. Ces ateliers prendront des formes ouvertes et participatives (table ronde, débat, tutoriel, démonstration, séminaire, etc.).

Deux ateliers sont prévus le matin du mardi 10 juin 2025, lors de la première journée des 10ᵉ Journées de Phonétique Clinique. Chaque atelier disposera d’un créneau de 1 heure maximum.

Les organisateurs des ateliers sélectionnés seront responsables de :

• Solliciter les intervenants ou lancer un appel à contributions.
• Définir le programme scientifique.
• Communiquer avec les participants.
• Gérer les inscriptions des participants, qu’ils soient inscrits ou non aux JPC.

Le comité des JPC prendra en charge la logistique : gestion des salles, pauses café, et inclusion des résumés dans le livret de la conférence. Les frais d’invitation ne seront pas couverts.

Calendrier

• Date des ateliers : 10 juin 2025
• Date limite de soumission des propositions : 15 février 2025
• Réponse du comité : 20 février 2025

Modalités de soumission

Les propositions (maximum 2 pages) doivent inclure :

• Titre de l’atelier.
• Nom, prénom, affiliation, et contact des responsables (si possible, un clinicien et un chercheur).
• Nom et coordonnées de la personne de contact principale.
• Description synthétique de la thématique.
• Format envisagé (table ronde, débat, tutoriel, démonstration, séminaire, etc.).
• Comité scientifique.
• Participants ciblés (nombre, profils : enseignants, chercheurs, cliniciens, étudiants, etc.).

Les propositions doivent être envoyées en format PDF à fabrice.hirsch@univ-montp3.fr et seront évaluées par le comité de programme des JPC 2025.

Publication dans le livret des résumés

Les résumés doivent respecter les recommandations des JPC 2025 : maximum 400 mots en français (hors titre, auteurs et bibliographie).

Contact et informations

Pour toute question, contactez-nous à fabrice.hirsch@univ-montp3.fr.

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Call for Submissions:

Special Session on Speaker Characterization: Speaker Recognition, Diarization, Speech Emotion Recognition

We are pleased to invite you to submit your work to the Special Session on Speaker Recognition, Diarization, and Speech Emotion Recognition at the upcoming Forum Acusticum Euronoise 2025, to be held from 23rd to 26th of June 2025 in Malaga. This session will focus on cutting-edge research in the fields of speech analysis, with particular emphasis on speaker recognition, diarization, and the recognition of speech-based emotions.

We welcome two types of submissions:

1. Oral Presentation of Published Work: Authors of previously published journal articles related to the session’s theme are invited to submit an abstract for an oral presentation of their work. This is an excellent opportunity to showcase your research to an interdisciplinary audience and engage in discussions.

2. Full Paper Submissions for Review: Authors with unpublished research are invited to submit their full papers for review. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and will also be eligible for oral presentation during the special session. Important Dates: - Abstract Submission Deadline: January 19th - Full Paper Submission Deadline: March 23rd - Notification of Acceptance: April 10th - Conference Dates: 23rd to 26th of June Submission Guidelines: - Abstracts for oral presentations of published work should be no more than 200 words. - Full paper submissions should be 2-4 pages for short papers, and up to 8 pages for long papers. - Detailed instructions can be found on the conference website https://www.fa-euronoise2025.org/ We look forward to your contributions and hope to see you at Forum Acusticum Euronoise 2025!

For more information, please contact:

Thomas Thebaud,

PhD Assistant Research Scientist,

Center for Language and Speech Processing Johns Hopkins University

tthebau1@jhu.edu

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Call for Papers: Prosody in Languages of the Middle East

Date: 25-Jun-2025
Location: Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Contact Person: Niamh Kelly

Meeting Email: papeprosodyworkshop@gmail.com  ; niamh.kelly@newcastle.ac.uk

Webpage: https://agenda.uib.es/120122/section/53647/6th-phonetics-and-phonology-in-europe-pape-2025.html  
Call Deadline: 01-Feb-2025 

Organisers

• Dr Niamh Kelly (Newcastle University, UK)
• Dr Cong Zhang (Newcastle University, UK) 
• Dr Vahid Sadeghi (Imam Khomeini International University, Iran)
   

Meeting Description:
This is a half-day satellite workshop for the 6th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE) conference.

Speech prosody refers to the suprasegmental aspects of speech, including intonation, tone, rhythm, stress, and so on. Prosody can be used, for example, for information structure, lexical contrasts, or to express questions vs statements. 
Languages of the Middle East are traditionally understudied when it comes to prosody. Research on the languages of the region has shown some interesting patterns relating to stress and prosodic focus (Egyptian Arabic (Hellmuth 2011), Jordanian Arabic (de Jong & Zawaydeh 1999)) and the interaction of tonal alignment with syllable structure (Persian (Sadeghi 2019), Lebanese Arabic (Kelly 2024)).
In this workshop on the prosody of languages of the Middle East (including Arabic, Persian, Kurdish languages, Turkic languages, etc), we intend to contribute to the discussion of word-level and sentence-level prosody in these languages, as well as create a space to make connections among researchers working on it. We particularly encourage submissions on lesser studied languages of the region, including work in progress. We also welcome submissions on the multilingual aspect of the region and how that may influence prosody. 

Submission information:
Deadline: February 1st 2025; notification of acceptance February 28th.

Abstract guidelines: Max. 1 page for the body of the abstract (font size 11-12) and max. 1 page for figures/references. Please submit your abstracts to: papeprosodyworkshop@gmail.com 

Oral sessions: 10 min talk, 5 mins for Q&A. There will also be a poster session.
This workshop will be held in a hybrid format so we can accept online talks. Participation at the workshop requires registration for the PaPE conference

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Appel à ateliers - CORIA TALN 2025

Dans le cadre de la conférence conjointe CORIA-TALN 2025 qui aura lieu à Marseille du 30 juin au 4 juillet 2025, nous invitons la communauté scientifique à soumettre des propositions d’ateliers. Ces ateliers doivent aborder une thématique spécifique en lien avec la Recherche d'Information ou le Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel. L'objectif est de permettre des échanges approfondis et ciblés, complémentaires aux sessions plénières de la conférence principale.

Chaque atelier disposera de son propre président ou présidente et de son propre comité de programme. Les responsables de l'atelier auront en charge la coordination des activités, incluant la communication autour de l’atelier, la publication de l’appel à contributions, ainsi que la gestion du processus de soumission et d’évaluation des articles.

Les organisateurs et organisatrices de CORIA-TALN 2025 prendront en charge les aspects logistiques (par exemple : gestion des salles, pauses café).

Les ateliers se tiendront en parallèle sur une journée complète ou une demi-journée le lundi 30 juin 2025 sur le campus Saint-Charles d’Aix-Marseille Université, à Marseille.

Dates importantes

• Date limite pour la soumission des propositions d’ateliers :
  31 Janvier 2025
• Notification d’acceptation :
  14 Février 2025

Modalités de proposition

Les propositions d’ateliers (1 à 2 pages au format PDF) devront inclure :

• Le titre et l’acronyme de l’atelier.
• Une description synthétique de la thématique.
• La liste des organisateurs et organisatrices (responsable(s) et équipe).
• Un comité scientifique provisoire ou pressenti.
• L’adresse du site web de l’atelier, si disponible.
• Besoins spécifiques (audiovisuel, posters, etc.).
• La durée souhaitée (1 journée ou ½ journée) et une estimation du public cible.

Les propositions doivent être envoyées par courriel à coria-taln-25-ateliers@lis-lab.fr, avec pour objet : [Atelier CORIA-TALN 2025].

Modalités de sélection

Les propositions seront évaluées par des membres du comité d’organisation avec l’aide d’experts issus de la communauté CORIA et TALN, et validées par l’ATALA et l’ARIA. Les critères suivants seront pris en compte :

• L’adéquation aux thématiques de CORIA et/ou TALN.
• L’originalité et la pertinence de la proposition.

Format

Les ateliers pourront se dérouler en français ou en anglais (notamment pour les participants non-francophones). Les articles soumis devront respecter le format de CORIA-TALN 2025. Le calendrier de soumission des versions finales devra suivre celui de la conférence principale.

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International Forensics Summer School (IFOSS) - Sicily, IT 13-19 July 2025

Forensic Horizons: Investigating Truth in the Digital and AI Era 

Challenges and Opportunities in Digital Forensics, Cybersecurity, and AI-Driven Investigations

The fourth edition of IFOSS will aim to provide both an objective and clear overview and an in-depth analysis of the state-of-the-art research as well as the professional best practices in Forensics and related fields. The courses will be delivered by world renowned experts, from either academia, law enforcement and industry, and will cover both theoretical and practical aspects of real Forensics problems. Leading scientists from the different fields involved will introduce the topics. A typical course is broad enough to provide a general introduction to the chosen topic, whilst one can learn the most relevant contributions in depthThe school will aim to provide a stimulating opportunity for professionals and young researchers, as well as Ph.D. students.

After the big success of the first two editions with about 75 attendees from all over the world,

also this year we will focus on Digital Forensics and Law with specific emphasis on the AI revolution.

In the following the related recap videos:

IFOSS 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a35Wjkygx0&ab_channel=IFOSS

IFOSS 2023: https://youtu.be/lfRZ8LyfYYs?si=MJ_7g3BORdZH-sNo

IFOSS 2024: https://youtu.be/525Krq0ZGF4?si=1a6VlSdO1PWr9VJt

The underlying theme of the current edition is:

 Forensic Horizons: Investigating Truth in the Digital and AI Era Challenges and Opportunities in Digital Forensics, Cybersecurity, and AI-Driven Investigations

Why Attend?

• Esteemed Experts: Gain insights from luminaries who will enrich your understanding with their profound knowledge and experience.

• Diverse Perspectives: Join a global cohort of around 75 like-minded professionals, researchers, and academicians, fostering an environment ripe for learning and networking.

• A Blend of Theory and Practice: Engage in comprehensive sessions that balance academic rigor with practical applications in forensic science.

LIST OF SPEAKERS (almost confirmed)

Fernando-Perez Gonzalez, University of Vigo, ES

Didier Meuwly - University of Twente, NL

Jacopo Della Torre - University of Genova, IT

Luisa Verdoliva - University of Naples, IT

Fabio Bruno, Interpol, Singapore

Gianluca Foresti, University of Udine, IT

Stefano Mele - ICT Authority, San Marino
Marcello Albergoni - ACN, IT

..others coming soon.

DIRECTORS

Sebastiano Battiato - University of Catania, Italy

Donatella Curtotti -  University of Foggia, Italy

Giovanni Ziccardi, University of Milan, Italy

PhD FORUM

A special session is organized for participants who intend to take advantage of the audience for presenting their current research/tool in the covered areas. A Special Issue to follow up on the themes covered in the School will be published in some indexed high-impact journals (to be announced early). Applicants are particularly encouraged to submit their original research to the SI (the usual refereeing procedure applies to guarantee the highest scientific standards).

APPLICATION

The school will be open to about 75 qualified, motivated and pre-selected candidates. Ph. D. students, post-docs, young researchers (both academic and industrial), senior researchers (both academic and industrial) or academic/industrial professionals are encouraged to apply at: www.ifoss.it

The expected school fee will be in the order of 550 euros for Master and Phd students granted by academia, € 600 for other academic positions and € 700 for industrial. Reduced Fee will be reserved to LEAs, private lawyers and practitioners 400 Euros. The fee will include all course materials, coffee breaks, bus service from Catania Airport to School Location and return, WiFi Internet Connection, a guided tour, a social dinner and all the events scheduled in the programme.

A certain number of scholarships will be available soon depending on sponsorship income.

Applications to attend IFOSS 2025 should be received before 04/05/2025.

Applicants will receive notification of acceptance by mid of May.

Late registration can be done with an extra payment of € 100.

ACCOMODATIONS

IFOSS participants will be hosted at Hotel Village Baia Samuele (school location) at very special rates. There are no other accommodation options. IFOSS 2025 participants must make reservations for accommodation, using the accommodation reservation form (available soon) to be sent directly to Baia Samuele reception.

After a certain date there is no guarantee for reservations in Hotel Village Baia Samuele. More information will be announced as soon as possible on the web site. Depending on chosens settings (Single, Double or Triple Room) the overall cost enclosing Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner should span in the range (650-1000 euros) in the period 13(in) to 19 (out) July 2025.

LOCATION 

IFOSS 2025 will be hosted by Hotel Village Baia Samuele in Punta Sampieri - Scicli (Ragusa), Sicily from 13-19 July 2025.

Sicily is one of the most beautiful islands of the Mediterranean. The island is very rich in archeological sites from various Ancient Civilizations. The sea, weather, food and the wine are excellent. In particular Punta Sampieri - Scicli (RG) is located in the south east of Sicily in a late Baroque area called Val di Noto. The Val di Noto area is included in the Unesco World Heritage List and includes eight nearby towns: Caltagirone, Militello Val di Catania, Catania, Modica, Noto, Palazzolo, Ragusa and Scicli. The location of the school rises in the middle of an ample bay delimited on the west from Sampieri and on the east from a cliff, on which is found an ancient furnace, rare example of industrial archaeology. The Hotel Village Baia Samuele stretches in a gentle slant to the beach: 120 thousand square meters delimited from rows of secular cypresses. An ultramodern village with an original architecture, pleasant design and all the comforts you can imagine. The frame of plants and flowers, typical of this angle of Sicily, in front of the island of Malta, completes this gilded dream of the Mediterranean.

MORE INFORMATION

Website: www.ifoss.it

 info@ifoss.it 

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This is the second call for papers for the 13th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW13).

Submission website: <https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SSW2025/Track/1/Submission/Create>
Submission deadline: April 1, 2025 - initial submission; April 14, 2025 - paper update

= General information =

13th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW13) - 24-26 August 2025 in Leeuwarden, NL - <https://blogs.helsinki.fi/ssw13-2025/>

We are delighted to announce the 13th edition of the Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW) which will take place in Leeuwarden (the Netherlands),
from Sunday the 24th till Wednesday the 26th of August 2025. The workshop is a satellite event of the Interspeech 2025 conference (held in
Rotterdam, the Netherlands).

The SSW is the main meeting place for research and innovation in speech synthesis, i.e. predicting speech signals from text input.
Text-to-Speech (TTS) technology is a key component of numerous applications: speech-to-speech translation, digital assistants, conversational
agents, social robots. While early research focused on basic intelligibility, contemporary systems now achieve remarkable naturalness. Current
research frontiers include emotional expression, speaking style control, and efficient deployment for the world's languages.

**Theme: Scaling down: Sustainable synthesis for language diversity**

SSW13 focuses on making speech synthesis more accessible for the world's languages. We encourage submissions addressing:

- Data-efficient methods for low-resource languages
- Computationally sustainable approaches
- Cross-lingual transfer learning
- Language-specific challenges in TTS

= Key Information =

- Paper Format: Up to 6 pages including references using the Interspeech 2025 template
- Review Process: Double-blind peer review
- Presentation format: Oral and poster sessions
- Virtual Participation:  None, in-person only

= Important Dates =

- **April 1, 2025: Initial submission deadline (title/authors)**
- April 14, 2025: Full paper deadline
- June 14, 2025: Notification of acceptance
- June 28, 2025: Camera-ready deadline
- August 17-22, 2025: Interspeech (Rotterdam)
- August 24-26, 2025: SSW13 (Leeuwarden)

= Topics =

SSW welcomes contributions not only in the core TTS technology but also includes researchers from related science -- from phoneticians,
phonologists, and neuroscientists to experts of multimodal human-machine interaction.

Core tech
- End-to-end text-to-speech synthesis
- Direct waveform generation
- Voice conversion and modification
- Multilingual/cross-lingual synthesis
- Low-resource TTS methods

Linguistic aspects
- Text normalization and preprocessing
- Prosody modeling
- Expression and emotion
- Natural language generation for TTS
- G2P conversion

Applications & eval
- Speech synthesis for accessibility
- Embedded/edge deployment
- Quality assessment metrics
- Privacy and security
- Ethical considerations

Special applications
- Singing synthesis
- Non-human vocalization
- Talking faces/avatars
- Clinical applications

We look forward to welcoming you in Leeuwarden!

The SSW13 Organising committee

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The 26th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and
Dialogue (SIGDIAL) will be held in Avignon, France on August 25-27, 2025.

The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of
cutting edge research in dialogue and discourse to both academic and
industry researchers, continuing a series of 25 successful previous
meetings. The conference is sponsored by the SIGDIAL organization -
the Special Interest Group in discourse and dialogue for ACL and ISCA.


# Topics of Interest

SIGDIAL 2025 invites submissions of original research on all aspects
of discourse and dialogue. We encourage formal, corpus-based,
experimental, or analytical work, as well as work on implementations
and applications, including but not limited to the following areas:

-   Discourse Processing: Research on rhetorical and coherence
    relations, discourse parsing, discourse connectives, reference
    resolution, event representation, and causality in narrative. This
    also includes work on argument mining, text quality and style,
    cross-lingual discourse analysis, and discourse considerations in
    applications like machine translation, text summarization, essay
    grading, question answering, and information retrieval. We
    particularly encourage submissions that explore discourse issues in
    text generated by large language models.

-   Pragmatic and Semantic Modeling: Investigations into the pragmatics
    and semantics of conversations, going beyond the single sentence
    level. This includes research on rational speech acts, conversation
    acts, intentions, conversational implicature, and presuppositions.

-   Dialogue Systems: Contributions related to task-oriented and
    open-domain dialogue systems, whether spoken, multimodal, embedded,
    situated, or text-based. This includes research on system components,
    evaluation, and applications. Specific areas of interest include
    knowledge representation and extraction for dialogue, state
    representation and tracking, policy learning, social and emotional
    intelligence, dialogue in virtual reality and human-robot
    interaction, entrainment, alignment, and priming. We also welcome
    work on generation for dialogue, style, voice, personality, and
    safety and ethics in dialogue systems.

-   LLM-Based Dialogue Technologies: Research on the use of Large
    Language Models (LLMs) in dialogue systems, including but not
    limited to areas like prompt engineering, fine-tuning for dialogue,
    data synthesis and augmentation for dialogue tasks, safety and
    ethics of LLMs in conversation, and evaluation of LLM-generated
    dialogue.

-   Corpora, Tools, and Methodology: Submissions focused on corpus-based
    and experimental work on discourse and dialogue. We encourage
    submissions related to annotation tools and schemes, crowdsourcing,
    evaluation methodologies, and corpora development.

-   Applications of Dialogue and Discourse Processing Technology: We
    welcome submissions showcasing innovative applications of dialogue
    and discourse processing technology in various domains.


# Submission Types

The following submission types are expected:

-   Long Papers: 8 pages max, excluding references and appendices;
    +1 page in the final version. Long papers should describe
    substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Include
    concrete evaluation and analysis where appropriate.

-   Short Papers: 4 pages max, excluding references and appendices;
    +1 page in the final version. Short papers should present focused
    contributions, such as concise descriptions of novel ideas, negative
    results, or interesting application notes.

-   Demo Descriptions: 4 pages max, including references. Also a
    separate 1-page document for equipment requirements. Demo
    descriptions should clearly outline the system to be demonstrated,
    its functionality, and its relevance to the SIGDIAL community.

# Submission Guidelines

-   Content Essential for Review: All content crucial for understanding
    your contribution or assessing its technical correctness should be
    included in the main paper, not solely in appendices. Reviewers are
    not obligated to review appendices.

-   Supplementary Materials: Authors are encouraged to submit
    supplementary materials like corpora, code, videos, or sound files
    to ensure reproducibility and/or enhance their submissions.

-   Multiple Submissions Policy: SIGDIAL 2025 cannot accept work that is
    currently under review, or has been published elsewhere, including
    other conferences or journals with overlapping review periods.

-   Blind Review: Long and short papers will undergo double-blind
    review, following ACL policies

(https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Author_Guidelines).
    Demo descriptions will NOT be anonymous.

-   Submission Format: All submissions must adhere to the two-column
    ACL format (Overleaf template (https://www.overleaf.com/project/5f64f1fb97c4c50001b60549)
    and downloadable LaTeX/Word templates
    (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files) available).
    Submit electronically in PDF format.


# Submission Deadlines

SIGDIAL accepts both regular submissions via the Softconf/START system
(https://www.softconf.com/n/sigdial2025/) and commitments of papers
previously reviewed through ACL Rolling Review (ARR)
(https://aclrollingreview.org/).

Regular Submission (Softconf/START): Submission deadline is April 21,
2025 (23:59 GMT-11). The authors are allowed to update ONLY the PDF
until April 28, 2024 (23:59 GMT-11).

ACL Rolling Review (ARR): Commitment: before June 6, 2024 (23:59 GMT-11)


# Mentoring Program

SIGDIAL 2025 offers a mentoring program to assist authors whose
submissions show promise but require improvement in language or
organization. Accepted papers flagged for mentoring will receive
guidance from experienced SIGDIAL members to prepare their work for
publication.


# Best Paper Awards

SIGDIAL 2025 will recognize outstanding contributions with Best Paper
Awards. All accepted papers are eligible.


# Presentation Format

All accepted papers must be presented in person at the conference
venue in either oral or poster sessions. Remote presentations will
only be considered in exceptional circumstances (e.g., visa or health
issues) with prior approval from the organizers.


# Student Travel Grant

To broaden participation, SIGdial plans to support a number of
selected students for paper presentations at SIGdial. Details of
application for the grant will be announced soon.


SIGDIAL 2025 General Chair and Program Committee
Conference Website: https://2025.sigdial.org

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                     TSD 2025 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
**************************************************************************

The twenty-eighth International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2025)
	       Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, 25-28 August 2025
		       http://www.tsdconference.org/

TSD 2025 will be organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University
of West Bohemia, and the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, in
cooperation with Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. This
event continues the tradition of the TSD series, which started in 1998 and
has become a prime forum for interaction between researchers in computer
processing of both spoken and written language from all over the world.


IMPORTANT DATES

* >>> 30 May 2025 <<< ..... Deadline for submission of contributions
* 20 June 2025 ............ Notification of acceptance or rejection
* 27 June 2025 ............ Deadline for submission of camera-ready papers
* 25-28 August 2025 ....... Conference dates

For the review, a full paper must be submitted by the above deadline.


TSD SERIES

Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer in their Lecture Notes
in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. The TSD proceedings are regularly
indexed by major citation databases such as Thomson Reuters Conference
Proceedings Citation Index, DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, or COMPENDEX.


TOPICS

Topics include (but are not limited to):

* Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, new
  acoustic/language models)
* Corpora and Language Resources (large language models, text and spoken
  corpora, lexicons, disambiguation)
* Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual speech synthesis,
  expressive speech)
* Tagging, Classification, and Parsing (sentiment analysis, credibility
  analysis, summarization)
* Semantic Processing (information extraction, retrieval, data mining,
  ontologies)
* Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine translation,
  question-answering, assistive tech)
* Automatic Dialogue Systems (multilingual, self-learning,
  question-answering)
* Multimodal Techniques (visual speech synthesis, emotion and personality
  modeling)


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Elmar Nöth, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany (General Chairman)
Rodrigo Agerri, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Vladimír Benko, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Archna Bhatia, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Jan Černocký, Brno University of Technology, Czechia
Simon Dobrišek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Kamil Ekštein, University of West Bohemia, Czechia
Karina Evgrafova, Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia
Yevhen Fedorov, Cherkasy State Technological University, Ukraine
Volker Fischer, EML Speech Technology GmbH, Germany
Darja Fišer, Institute of Contemporary History, Slovenia
Lucie Flek, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
Björn Gambäck, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Radovan Garabík, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Alexander Gelbukh, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
Louise Guthrie, University of Texas at El Paso, United States
Jan Hajič, Charles University, Czechia
Eva Hajičová, Charles University, Czechia
Yannis  Haralambous, IMT Atlantique, France
Hynek Hermansky, Johns Hopkins University, United States
Daniel Hládek, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia
Aleš Horák, Masaryk University, Czechia
Eduard  Hovy, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Maria Khokhlova, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
Aidar Khusainov, Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, Russia
Daniil Kocharov, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
Miloslav Konopík, University of West Bohemia, Czechia
Valia Kordoni, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Evgeny Kotelnikov, Vyatka State University, Russia
Pavel Král, University of West Bohemia, Czechia
Siegfried Kunzmann, Amazon Alexa Machine Learning, United States
Nikola Ljubešić, Jožef Stefan Institute, Croatia
Oier Lopez de Lacalle, Universtity of the Basque Country, Spain
Natalija Loukachevitch, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Bernardo Magnini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
David Mareček, Charles University, Czechia
Václav Matoušek, University of West Bohemia, Czechia
Roman Mouček, University of West Bohemia, Czechia
Daša Munková, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia
Agnieszka  Mykowiecka, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University, Sweden
Juan Rafael  Orozco-Arroyave, University of Antioquia, Colombia
Maciej Piasecki, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
Josef Psutka, University of West Bohemia, Czechia
James  Pustejovsky, Brandeis University, United States
German Rigau, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Leon  Rothkrantz, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Anna  Rumshisky, University of Massachusetts Lowell, United States
Milan  Rusko, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Pavel Rychlý, Masaryk University, Czechia
Mykola  Sazhok, International Research and Training Center for Information Technologies and Systems, Ukraine
Pavel  Skrelin, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
Pavel Smrž, Brno University of Technology, Czechia
Petr Sojka, Masaryk University, Czechia
Ján Staš, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia
Georg Stemmer, Intel Corp., Germany
Marko Robnik Šikonja, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Marko Tadić, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Jan Trmal, Johns Hopkins University, Czechia
Tamas Varadi, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Zygmunt Vetulani, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Aleksander Wawer, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Pascal Wiggers, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
Alina Wróblewska, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Jerneja Žganec Gros, Alpineon, Slovenia


FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference program will include:

* Invited Papers
* Oral Presentations
* Poster/Demonstration Sessions

Papers will be presented in topic-oriented sessions. The official language
of TSD 2025 is English. However, papers dealing with text and speech
processing in linguistic environments other than English are strongly
encouraged (as long as they are written in English).


The conference is planned as an on-site event. The conference will offer
a rich social programme.


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 12 pages (including
references) in the LNCS format. Authors are also encouraged to present
practical demonstrations of software, projects, or interesting material
relevant to the conference topics. Demonstration abstracts of up to one
page will not appear in the proceedings.

Papers must not be under review by any other conference or publication
during the TSD review cycle, and they must not be previously published or
accepted for publication elsewhere.


VENUE

Erlangen-Nürnberg is home to Friedrich-Alexander-Universität
Erlangen-Nürnberg. The city offers a rich cultural heritage and convenient
transport links within Germany and throughout Europe.


CONTACT INFORMATION

All correspondence related to the conference, including paper submissions
and general inquiries, should be directed to:

TSD 2025 Organizing Committee
E-mail: tsd2025@tsdconference.org
We look forward to your submissions and to seeing you in Erlangen-Nürnberg
for TSD 2025

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1. the traditional hub which this year consists of creating a synthetic voice for Bildts using the data
2. a Zeroshot TTS for Bildts for different speakers with reference audio files provided during the release of the test set

• Feb 032025 - challenge announcement and registration open
• Feb 03 2025 - training dataset released
• Mar 07 2025 - team registration closes
• Mar 28 2025 - test sentences released to participants
• Apr 04 2025 - deadline for participants to submit synthetic speech (23:59 AoE)
• Apr 07 2025 - last date for payment of the entry fee (more details in February)
• Apr 24 2025 - evaluation systems go live
• Jun 20 2025 - end of the evaluation period
• Jun 27 2025 - release of results
• Jul 18 2025 - deadline to submit workshop papers (23:59 AoE)
• Aug 01 2025 - notification of acceptance
• Aug 08 2025 - camera ready
• Aug 17-21 2025 - INTERSPEECH 2025, Rotterdam, Netherlands
• Aug 24-26 2025 - SSW13, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
• Aug 27 2025 - Blizzard Challenge 2025 Workshop, same location as SSW

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Call for Papers

7th Workshop on the history of speech communication research (HSCR)

Paris, September 10-12, 2025

*Manuscript submission deadline*: May 15, 2025

We are pleased to announce the 7th Workshop on the history of speech communication research (HSCR), which will take place in Paris, France from 10th to 12th September 2025.

After the launch in 2015 in Dresden, followed by Helsinki (2017), Vienna (2019), Prague (2021), Porto (2022), and Budapest (2024), this 7th edition of the workshop will be organized by members of the Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie (CNRS & Sorbonne Nouvelle) et CLESTHIA Laboratory (Sorbonne Nouvelle).

HSCR provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers working on all aspects of the history of research on speech and speech communication. A special focus of this edition will be on geographical and disciplinary exchanges within and beyond the field of speech research. 

Advances in our field have, from its beginning, been stimulated by intensive exchanges within the community through international exchanges between scholars and students, the development of international societies, congresses and journals, but also through fruitful transfers of knowledge, approaches, technology and instrumentation between disciplines. 

Contributions on any such topic will be welcome, as well as on any topics related to the historical aspects of speech communication research.

Contributions must not be longer than 10 pages and follow the guidelines provided. The papers will be published in the book series Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation at TUDpress (Technical University Dresden and also stored electronically in the ISCA archive. 

More information on https://iwhscr2025.sciencesconf.org

contact: hscr2025@gmail.com

Key dates: 

Manuscript submission: May 15, 2025

Notification of acceptance: June 02, 2025

Revised manuscript submission: July 05, 2025

We are very much looking forward to receiving your submissions.

The organizing committee,Annie Rialland & Cécile Fougeron (chairs)together with Juliusz Cecelewski, Christelle Dodane, Jiayin Gao, Claire Pillot-Loiseau, Bowei Shao.

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SPECOM-2025 – FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

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27th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2025)

October 08-10, 2025

Szeged, Hungary

Web: https://specom.inf.u-szeged.hu

ORGANIZER

SPECOM-2025 conference is organized by the University of Szeged.

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

• Large language models

• Multichannel signal processing

• Multilingual speech technology

• Multimedia processing

• Multimodal analysis and synthesis

• Natural language generation

• Natural language understanding

• Sign language processing

• Speaker diarization

• Speaker identification and verification

• 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

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

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

FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference program will include presentation of invited talks, oral sessions, and poster/demonstration sessions.

SUBMISSION OF FULL PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit full papers of 10-15 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. Authors should submit their papers using the on-line submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specom2025

DEADLINES

June 15, 2025 ………. Submission of full papers (23:59 AoE)

July 31, 2025 ........... Notification of acceptance/rejection

August 10, 2025 ...... Camera-ready papers

August 15, 2025 ...... Early registration

PROCEEDINGS

SPECOM Proceedings will be published by Springer Nature as books in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS / LNAI, Scopus Q2) series listed in all major international citation databases.

GENERAL CHAIRS

Gábor Gosztolya – University of Szeged, Hungary

Alexey Karpov – SPC RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia

CONTACTS

All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to SPECOM-2025 Secretariat

E-mail: specom@inf.u-szeged.hu

Web: https://specom.inf.u-szeged.hu

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21st International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing, CBMI 2025

Dublin, Ireland, October 22-24, 2025

https://www.cbmi2025.org/

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Important Dates

Regular and Special Session Papers

• Paper deadline: April 23, 2025 (AoE)

• Paper notification: July 1, 2025 (AoE)

• Camera-ready and registration due: August 1, 2025 (AoE)

Demonstration Papers

• Paper deadline: June 1, 2025 (AoE)

• Paper notification: July 1, 2025 (AoE)

• Camera-ready due: August 1, 2025 (AoE)

Special Session Proposals

• Special Session proposal deadline: February 17, 2025 (AoE)

Call for Special Sessions Proposals

CBMI aims at bringing together the various communities involved in all aspects of content-based multimedia indexing for retrieval, browsing, management, visualization and analytics. At this time we invite you to propose special sessions for CBMI 2025. Special sessions are dedicated conference sessions, each focusing on one state-of-the-art research direction within the content-based multimedia indexing field. Special session papers, which can be invited or submitted, will supplement the regular research papers and be included in the proceedings of CBMI 2025. All special session papers will be subject to the standard rigorous review process for CBMI.

Special session proposals must be submitted by email to the special session chairs (submissions@cbmi2025.org) using subject “CBMI 2025 Special Session Proposal” by 10 February 2025. Proposals will be evaluated based on the relevance to CBMI, qualifications of the organiser(s), and the quality and community interest of the topic/proposed potential papers. Required details for proposals are described below.

Usually, each special session should consist of four to six full-papers. In order to ensure the high quality of all conference papers, all papers submitted to special sessions at CBMI 2025 will be peer-reviewed through a standard review process. If a special session has many high-quality submissions, some of the submissions may potentially be moved to some regular sessions. 

The review process will be coordinated with the regular technical program review process, as coordinated by the TPC chairs. The organisers of each special session must 2 reviews per submitted/invited paper, while the regular program committee will provide 1-2 additional reviews. Final decision on acceptance/rejection will be made in collaboration between the special session chairs and the CBMI 2025 TPC chairs.

Please include the following information in your proposal:

• Title of the proposed special session.

• Name, affiliation, brief biography and contact information for each of the organisers.

• A session abstract including significance justification and a brief overview of the state-of-the-art of the proposed special session topic.Note: The session abstract should be in a format that can be copied directly to the conference website to advertise the session.

• List of potential papers if available, including for each paper: tentative title, author list, and preferably a short abstract.

• Proposal for arrangement of the reviews from session organizers (e.g., list of members of mini-PC for the special session).

• Description of the session format (e.g., conventional technical talks, short talks & panel discussion, etc..).

Call for Regular Papers

CBMI aims at bringing together the various communities involved in all aspects of content-based multimedia indexing for retrieval, browsing, management, visualization and analytics. 

The organisers of CBMI 2025 call for novel and original research papers that are addressing the various topics of interest related to the conference. We encourage contributions both on theoretical aspects and applications of CBMI in the new era of Artificial Intelligence and foundation/language-backed-backed models for multimedia for multimedia. Authors are invited to submit previously unpublished research papers highlighting significant contributions addressing these topics.

Authors can submit full papers (6 pages + references) or short papers (4 pages + references).

Submissions to CBMI are peer reviewed in a double blind process and the language of the conference is English. For full details on the submission process see the submission guidelines.

Authors of high-quality papers accepted to the conference may be invited to submit extended versions of their contributions to a special journal issue.

Call for Demonstrations

CBMI aims at bringing together the various communities involved in all aspects of content-based multimedia indexing for retrieval, browsing, management, visualization and analytics.  We invite authors to report on novel and compelling demonstrations in all topic areas of CBMI. Demonstration papers are subject to peer review according to criteria such as novelty, interestingness, applications of or enhancements to state-of-the-art, and potential impact.

The length of the papers should be up to 4 pages. An additional 1-2 pages should be appended to the paper that illustrate how the demo will be conducted on-site at CBMI 2025. This additional content will not be published in the conference proceedings, should the submission be accepted. Including a link to a video showing the demo in action is highly encouraged. The submissions are peer-reviewed in a single-blind process. For full details on the submission process see the submission guidelines.

Presenters are expected to bring the necessary equipment (computers, etc.) themselves. The conference will provide a table, power outlet, screen, wireless (shared) internet and a poster board. If you have special needs (e.g., more space), please include a related note in your demo submission.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest to the CBMI community include (but are not limited to) the following:

Multimedia Content Analysis and Indexing:

• Media content analysis and mining

• AI/ML approaches for content understanding

• Multimodal and cross-modal indexing

• Activity recognition and event-based multimedia indexing and retrieval 

• Multimedia information retrieval (image, audio, video, text)

• Conversational search and question-answering systems

• Multimedia recommendation

• Multimodal analytics, summarization, visualization, organization and browsing of multimedia content

• Multimedia verification (e.g., multimodal fact-checking, deep fake analysis)

• Foundation models, large multimedia models, large language models and vision language models

• Explainability in multimedia learning

• Large scale multimedia database management

• Evaluation and benchmarking of multimedia retrieval systems

Multimedia User Experiences:

• Extended reality (AR/VR/MR) interfaces

• Mobile interfaces and user interaction

• Presentation and visualization tools

• Affective adaptation and personalization

• Relevance feedback and interactive learning

Applications of Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval:

• Multimedia and sustainability

• Healthcare and medical applications

• Cultural heritage and entertainment applications

• Educational and social applications

• Egocentric, wearable and personal multimedia

• Applications to forensics, surveillance and security

• Environmental and urban multimedia applications

• Earth observation and astrophysics

• Physical and industrial processes

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The First VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge 

• https://www.voiceprivacychallenge.org/attacker/

• Task: develop attacker systems against voice anonymization

• Deadline for participants to submit a list of training data and models: 13th October 2024

• Publication of the full final list of training data and models: 15th October 2024

• Deadline for participants to submit scores, evaluation results and system descriptions: 5th December 2024

• Deadline for participants to submit 2-page papers to ICASSP-2015 (by invitation only): 9th December 2024

• Paper acceptance notification: 30th December 2024

• Camera-ready 2-page papers due: 13th January  2025

• Special session at ICASSP 2025 (Hyderabad, India): 6-11 April 2025

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Dear colleagues,

Registration for The First VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge is now open!

The First VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge is supported by ICASSP 2025 as the SP Grand Challenge (https://2025.ieeeicassp.org/sp-grand-challenges/#gc7). It focuses on developing attacker systems against voice anonymization, which will be evaluated against a set of anonymization systems submitted to the VoicePrivacy 2024 Challenge. Training, development, and evaluation datasets are provided along with a baseline attacker system. Participants shall develop their attacker systems in the form of automatic speaker verification systems and submit their scores on the development and evaluation data to the organizers. To do so, they can use any additional training data and models, provided that they are openly available and declared before the specified deadline. The metric for evaluation is equal error rate (EER). Results will be presented at the ICASSP 2025 special session to which 5 selected top-ranked participants will be invited to submit and present their challenge systems.

Please find more information in The First VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge Evaluation Plan: https://www.voiceprivacychallenge.org/attacker/docs/Attacker_Challenge_Eval_Plan.pdf

Registration: https://t.co/pPEXxHEtP6

Contact: attacker.challenge@inria.fr

The VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge Organizers:

Xiaoxiao Miao - Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore

Natalia Tomashenko - Inria, France

Emmanuel Vincent - Inria, France

Junichi Yamagishi - NII, Japan

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