The Student Advisory Committee of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) in collaboration with the Interspeech 2008 Local Organising Committee will host a Round Table Research Discussion and Lunch event during Interspeech 2008 in Brisbane, Australia. The event will give students the opportunity to discuss different research topics with senior researchers from industry and/or academia.
The event will take place on Tuesday, Sept. 23 and Thursday, Sept. 25 from 12:00-1:00pm (room TBD). Registration is on a first-come-first-serve basis and a nominal fee (TBD) will be charged to cover part of the lunch costs.
The topics that will be discussed during the event include:
- Speech coding & enhancement
- Auditory spectro-temporal features for speech processing
- Spoken dialogue systems
- Human speech perception
- Automatic speech recognition (new approaches and techniques)
- Spoken language understanding
- Language modeling for automatic speech recognition
- Speech analysis and synthesis
- Speaker modeling: automatic accent, language, emotion, state of health, and/or gender classification
- Assistive speech technology: applications for hearing impaired, education and learning
If you would like to nominate a senior researcher to lead a specific table, please fill in the form below and submit it before June 30th.
Hoping to see you in Interspeech 2008,
The ISCA Student Advisory Committee.