20th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2018)
Venue: Leipzig, Germany, September 18-22, 2018
WWW: www.specom2018.org

ORGANIZERS
The conference is organized by Leipzig University of Telecommunications (HfTL, Leipzig, Germany), in cooperation with St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Science (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia) and Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU, Moscow, Russia)

TOPICS
The SPECOM conference is devoted to issues of human-machine interaction, particularly:
Affective computing
Applications for human-computer interaction
Audio-visual speech processing
Automatic language identification
Corpus linguistics and linguistic processing
Forensic speech investigations and security systems
Multichannel signal processing
Multimedia processing
Multimodal analysis and synthesis
Signal processing and feature extraction
Speaker identification and diarization
Speaker verification systems
Speech and language resources
Speech analytics and audio mining
Speech dereverberation
Speech driving systems in robotics
Speech enhancement
Speech perception and speech disorders
Speech recognition and understanding
Speech translation automatic systems
Spoken dialogue systems
Spoken language processing
Text-to-speech and Speech-to-text systems
Virtual and augmented reality

SATELLITE EVENTS
3nd International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics ICR-2018
http://specom.nw.ru/icr2018.html

SPECOM-2018 CHAIRS
Oliver Jokisch, Leipzig University of Telecommunications, Germany
Alexey Karpov, SPIIRAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Rodmonga Potapova, MSLU, Moscow, Russia

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 papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 10 pages formatted in the LNCS style. Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision on the presentation format will be based upon the recommendation of three independent reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specom2018
Papers submitted to SPECOM-2018 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.

PROCEEDINGS
SPECOM Proceedings will be published by Springer as a book in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series listed in all major citation databases such as Web of Science, Scopus, DBLP, etc. SPECOM Proceedings are included in the list of forthcoming proceedings for September 2018.

IMPORTANT DATES
May 02, 2018 ............ Submission of full papers (final deadline!)
June 08, 2018 ............ Notification of acceptance (extended)
June 24, 2018 ............ Final papers (camera ready) and early registration (extended)
Sept. 18-22, 2018 ......... Conference dates

VENUE
The conference will be organized at the at the Leipzig University of Telecommunications.

CONTACTS
All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:
SPECOM-2018 Secretariat:
E-mails: specom@iias.spb.su; jokisch@hft-leipzig.de
SPECOM-2018 web-site: www.specom2018.org