Interspeech 2006 will include Special Sessions on:

• The Speech Separation Challenge. Martin Cooke, Sheffield, and Te-Won Lee, UCSD.
  • Website: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~martin/SpeechSeparationChallenge.htm
• Speech Summarization. Jean Carletta, Edinburgh, Julia Hirschberg, Columbia, and Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology.
  • Website: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/jeanc/SpeechSummarization06.html
• Articulatory Modeling. Eric Bateson, British Columbia.
• Spoken Dialog Technology R&D. Roberto Pieraccini, Tell-Eureka.
  • Website:http://www.interspeech2006.org/SpecialSessions/SpecialSessionOnDialog.html
• The Prosody of Turn-Taking and Dialog Acts. Nigel Ward, UT El Paso, and Elizabeth Shriberg, SRI and ICSI.
  • Website:http://www.cs.utep.edu/prosody/
• Speech and Language in Education. Patti Price, pprice.com, and Abeer Alwan, UCLA.
  • Website:http://www.interspeech2006.org/SpecialSessions/SpecialSessionEducation.html
• From Ideas to Companies. Janet Baker, formerly of Dragon.

See the technical program for information about when these sessions are scheduled.