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SPECOM-2022 – FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
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24th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2022)
November 14-16, 2022, KIIT Campus, Gurugram, India
Web: www.specom.co.in

ORGANIZER
The conference is organized by KIIT College of Engineering as a hybrid event in Gurugram/New Delhi, India and online.

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
Multichannel signal processing
Multimedia processing
Multimodal analysis and synthesis
Sign language processing
Speaker recognition
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 of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.

FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE
The conference program will include presentation of invited talks, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit full papers of 8-14 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. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specom2022

PROCEEDINGS
SPECOM Proceedings will be published by Springer as a book in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS) series listed in all major international citation databases.

IMPORTANT DATES
August 16, 2022 ............. Submission of full papers
September 13, 2022 .......... Notification of acceptance
September 20, 2022 .......... Camera-ready papers
September 27, 2022 .......... Author registration
November 14-16, 2022 ........ Conference dates

GENERAL CHAIR/CO-CHAIR
Shyam S Agrawal - KIIT, Gurugram
Amita Dev - IGDTUW, Delhi

TECHNICAL CHAIR/CO-CHAIRS
S.R. Mahadeva Prasanna - IIT Dharwad
Alexey Karpov - SPC RAS
Rodmonga Potapova - MSLU
K. Samudravijaya - KL University

CONTACTS
All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to SPECOM 2022 Secretariat
E-mail: specomkiit@kiitworld.in
Web: www.specom.co.in