Interspeech 2006 will cover all aspects of speech science and technology. The conference will include plenary talks by world-class experts, tutorials, exhibits, special sessions covering interdisciplinary topics and important new emerging areas of interest, and parallel oral and poster sessions.

See the online Call For Papers.

Topics of interest for paper submissions include:

Linguistics, Phonology and Phonetics Prosody Paralinguistic & Nonlinguistic Information in Speech Discourse & Dialogue Speech Production Speech Perception Physiology & Pathology Language Acquisition, Development, & Learning Signal Analysis & Processing Acoustic Signal Segmentation & Classification Single- & Multi-channel Speech Enhancement Speech Coding & Transmission Spoken Language Generation & Synthesis Language/Dialect Identification

Speech Recognition & Understanding Speaker Characterization & Recognition Multi-modal Processing Multi-lingual Processing Spoken Language Information Retrieval Spoken Language Translation Spoken Dialogue Systems Resources & Annotation Assessment & Standards Education Technologies for Language Learning Technologies for the (Aged and) Challenged Applications Interdisciplinary Topics in Speech and Language