Interspeech is the world's largest and most comprehensive conference on Speech Science and Speech Technology. We solicit original papers in any related area, including (but not limited to):

HUMAN SPEECH PRODUCTION, PERCEPTION AND COMMUNICATION

* Human speech production
* Human speech perception
* Phonology and phonetics
* Discourse and dialogue
* Prosody (production, perception, prosodic structure)
* Paralinguistic and nonlinguistic cues (e.g. emotion and expression)
* Physiology and pathology
* Spoken language acquisition, development and learning

SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY

* Speech analysis and representation
* Speech segmentation
* Audio segmentation and classifi cation
* Speaker turn detection
* Speech enhancement
* Speech coding and transmission
* Speech synthesis and spoken language generation
* Automatic speech recognition
* Spoken language understanding
* Accent and language identifi cation
* Cross-lingual and multi-lingual processing
* Multimodal/multimedia signal processing
* Speaker characterization and recognition

SPOKEN LANGUAGE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS

* Dialogue systems
* Systems for information retrieval
* Systems for translation
* Applications for aged and handicapped persons
* Applications for learning and education
* Other applications

RESOURCES, STANDARDIZATION AND EVALUATION

* Spoken language resources and annotation
* Evaluation and standardization

Paper Submission

Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, four-page papers (including figures and references) via the conference website by 7 April 2008. The online submission website will be made available in due time.

The paper preparation guidelines will be made available on this website in the near future. Authors will have to declare that their contribution is original and not being submitted for publication elsewhere (e.g. another conference, workshop, or journal).