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SPECOM-2024 – FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
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26th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2024)
November 25-28, 2024, Crowne Plaza hotel, Belgrade, Serbia
Web: https://specom2024.ftn.uns.ac.rs/

ORGANIZERS
The conference SPECOM-2024 is organized by the Faculty of Technical Sciences University of Novi Sad and the School of Electrical Engineering University of Belgrade in cooperation with the Telecommunications Society of Serbia

FOUNDERS
SPECOM series was founded by St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS) of the St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPC RAS)

CONFERENCE TOPICS
SPECOM attracts researchers, linguists and engineers working in the following areas of speech science, speech technology, natural language processing, human-computer interaction:
• Affective computing
• Audio-visual speech processing
• Corpus linguistics
• Computational paralinguistics
• Deep learning for audio processing
• Feature extraction
• Forensic speech investigations
• Human-machine interaction
• Language identification
• Large language models
• Multichannel signal processing
• Multilingual speech technology
• Multimedia processing
• Multimodal analysis and synthesis
• Natural language generation
• Natural language understanding
• Sign language processing
• Speaker diarization
• Speaker identification and verification
• Speech and language resources
• Speech analytics and audio mining
• Speech and voice disorders
• Speech-based applications
• Speech driving systems in robotics
• Speech enhancement
• Speech perception
• Speech recognition and understanding
• Speech synthesis
• Speech translation systems
• Spoken dialogue systems
• Spoken language processing
• Text mining and sentiment analysis
• Virtual and augmented reality
• Voice assistants


SATELLITE EVENTS
26th International Conference SPECOM will be organized together with the 32nd Telecommunications Forum TELFOR-2024: https://www.telfor.rs/en/

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 talks, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit full papers of 10-15 pages formatted in the Springer LNCS style. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers (single-blind), and accepted papers will be presented either orally or as posters. Papers submitted to SPECOM 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. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specom2024


https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specom2024

DEADLINES
July 26, 2024 ................ Submission of full papers (final deadline!)
September 10, 2024 ........... Notification of acceptance/rejection
September 15, 2024 ........... Camera-ready papers
October 01, 2024 ............. Early registration

PROCEEDINGS
SPECOM Proceedings will be published by Springer as a book in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS) series listed in all major international citation databases.

GENERAL CHAIRS
Vlado DELIĆ – Faculty of Technical Sciences University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia
Alexey KARPOV – SPIIRAS, SPC RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia

CONTACTS
All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to SPECOM-2024 Secretariat
E-mail: specom2024@uns.ac.rs
Web: https://specom2024.ftn.uns.ac.rs