Asian Workshop on Speech Science and Technology
Tokyo, Japan
Mar 20, 2008

http://www.ieice.org/iss/sp/eng/workshop/sp-h-asian.htm

WORKSHOP THEME

The objective of this workshop is to facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration among Asian researchers and students working on speech science and technology. With the rapid growth of this research field in Asia, it is meaningful to have opportunities where neighbors know research activities of each other and discuss the new directions. This Asian workshop is expected to inspire speech scientists and engineers of the world with new ideas. Sessions in the one-day workshop focus on issues around the following topics by invited speakers and contributed presenters:

• analysis and modeling of auditory system,
• cognitive, linguistic and phonological processing,
• speech motor control mechanism,
• speech pathology, - vocal fold and vocal tract acoustics,
• speech signal processing,
• speech coding,
• speech recognition,
• speech synthesis,
• spoken language processing,

and so on.

SESSION PROGRAM

http://www.ieice.org/iss/sp/eng/workshop/sp-h-asian-program.htm

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR PRESENTATIONS

Individuals interested in giving an oral/poster presentation should electronically submit a 200-word abstract no later than Jan 15, 2008. The abstracts will be reviewed and a decision provided by Jan 21, 2008. A six-page, camera-ready paper is due by Feb 25, 2008. Papers will be published as part of the IEICE's monthly technical report.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

• 200-word abstract. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jan 18, 2008
• Notification of Acceptance/Rejection . . . . . . . Jan 21, 2008
• Six-page, camera-ready paper . . . . . . . . . . . . Feb 25, 2008

Note: The abstract should be sent to sp-h-asian@mail.ieice.org along with title and author information.

INVITED SPEAKERS

• Dr. Qiang Huo (Microsoft Research Asia)
• Prof. Lin-shan Lee (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
• Prof. Yung-Hwan Oh (KAIST, Korea)
• Prof. Hideki Kawahara (Wakayama University, Japan)

REGISTRATION FEE

There is no registration fee for this workshop. The conference proceedings as part of the IEICE's monthly technical report will be distributed with charge.

WORKSHOP LOCATION

The workshop will be held at Sanjo Conference Hall, Hongo Campus, the University of Tokyo (7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan).

• Web site of the University Tokyo: http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index_e.html
  
• Hongo Campus Access Map: http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/map01_02_e.html
• Location of Sanjo Conference Hall: http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam01_00_02_e.html

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

• Technical Committee of Speech, IEICE (Chair: Takao Kobayashi)
• Technical Committee of Psychological and Physiological Acoustics, ASJ (Chair: Kenzo Itoh)

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

Workshop Secretariat

• Takaaki Hori (NTT, hori [at] cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp)
• Shigeto Furukawa (NTT, shig-asj-h [at] jaburo.brl.ntt.co.jp)

Co-organized by

• the Speech Committee of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) / the Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ),
• the Psychological and Physiological Acoustics Committee of the Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ),

Co-sponsored by

• the IEEE Signal Processing Society Japan Chapter