Call for Papers

Special Issue on Speech and Audio Technology and Applications

Journal of “Computación y Sistemas”
ISSN: 1405-5546


Important Dates:
· Deadline for Paper Submission June 1, 2010
· Deadline for Notification of Acceptance/Rejection October 1, 2010
· Deadline for Submission of Camera Ready Copy November 1, 2010
· Expected date for publication: January 2011


Computación y Sistemas (CyS) is a quarterly published journal devoted to disseminate original scientific and technological contributions in the field of Computer Science.

The aim of this special issue is to gather together a representative, prolific sample of the current research in Speech Technology and Applications undertaken in Ibero-America. It seeks for original manuscripts in English reporting results in areas such as:

· Speech analysis and representation
· Speech segmentation
· Audio segmentation and classification
· Speaker turn detection
· Speech enhancement
· Speech coding and transmission
· Speech synthesis and spoken language generation
· Automatic speech recognition
· Language and dialect identification
· Cross-lingual and multi-lingual speech processing
· Speaker characterization and recognition
· Speaker Verification
· Signal processing for music and song
· Spoken language technology for prosthesis, rehabilitation, wellness and welfare
· Applications for aged and handicapped persons
· Applications for learning and education


All the contributions should present a relevant scientific contribution, according to the usual standards of the journal, and will be peer-reviewed. Submissions must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references. The length of the submission should be at most 10 pages (using a font no smaller than 10 pts and reasonable sized margins) including figures, bibliography and appendices. For formatting details, the general guidelines for authors must be followed, as indicated in http://speech.mty.itesm.mx/CyS.


Papers must be submitted in PDF format to any of the three guest editors:

Juan A. Nolazco Flores
jnolazco@itesm.mx
Tecnológico de Monterrey
Campus Monterrey
México

Richard Stern
rms@cs.cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon University
USA

Eduardo Lleida
lleida@unizar.es
Universidad de Zaragoza
España


Program Committee

Néstor Becerra-Yoma (Universidad de Chile, Chile)
Evandro Guovêa (MERL –Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, USA)
Juan Huerta (IBM, Watson Research Center, USA)
Ingrid Kirschning (Universidad de las Américas Puebla, México)
Antonio Moreno-Daniel (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Climent Nadeu (Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, España)
Bhiksha Raj (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Antonio Rubio (Universidad de Granada, España)
Luis Ricardo Salgado (Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey, México)
Edgar Sánchez C. (Universidad Michoacana and CICESE, México)
Ruben San-Segundo (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, España)
Rita Singh (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)