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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