CONFERENCE
The International Conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM, is a regular event organized since 1996 and attracts researchers in the area of computer speech processing, multimodal interfaces and applied systems for telecommunication, robotics, intelligent and cyberphysical environments.

ORGANIZERS
- Bogazici University (BU, Istanbul, Turkey)
in cooperation with
- St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Science SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia)
- Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU, Moscow, Russia)

IMPORTANT DATES
April 15, 2019 ............ Submission of full papers
May 15, 2019 …......... Notification of acceptance
June 01, 2019 …......... Final papers (camera ready) and early registration
August 20-25, 2019 …............ Conference dates

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 10 pages formatted in the Springer 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 form accessible from the conference web site. Papers submitted to SPECOM 2019 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.

VENUE
Bogazici University Albert Long Hall, South Campus
34342 Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey.

CONTACTS
E-mail: specom2019@easychair.org
Web: http://specom.nw.ru/2019/

TOPICS
Affective computing
Applications for human-computer interaction
Audio-visual speech processing
Automatic language identification
Corpus linguistics and linguistic processing
Deep learning for sound and speech 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

CHAIRS
Albert Ali Salah, Bogazici University, Turkey
Alexey Karpov, SPIIRAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Rodmonga Potapova, Moscow State Linguistic University, Russia