Call for Papers

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Scope

The 17th ITG conference on Speech Communication solicits contributions on theory, algorithms, and applications in the following areas of speech, audio, and spoken language processing:

• Speech production and perception
• Speech modeling, coding and transmission
• Representation learning, self-supervised learning and foundation models
• Generative models for speech and audio
• Speech and audio language models
• Speech enhancement, separation, dereverberation and echo control
• Source localization, tracking and sensor array processing
• Spatial audio, room acoustics and auralization
• Automatic speech recognition, speaker recognition and diarization
• Speech synthesis and voice conversion
• Spoken interaction, dialogue and retrieval systems
• Speech quality and intelligibility assessment
• Speech translation and multilingual/low-resource speech
• Paralinguistics, speech diagnostics and speech-related biosignals
• Privacy, security and forensics in speech and audio
• Audio-visual and multimodal speech processing
• Detection and classification of acoustic scenes and events
• Acoustic interfaces, assistive devices and hearing aids
• Speech in automotive, mobile and multimodal applications
• Efficient and on-device speech processing
• Datasets, benchmarks and evaluation methodology

Paper Submission and Deadlines

• Full paper submission: 9 June, 2027
• Notification of acceptane: TBD
• Submission of final print version: TBD

• Papers must be written in English and may not exceed 4 pages, plus an additional page for references.
• Accepted papers will be published by the VDE Verlag and will be made available on IEEE Xplore.
• Paper templates and submission instructions are available under paper submission.