The oriental chapter of COCOSDA (The International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques) is pleased to announce that the 14th Oriental COCOSDA Conference will be held on Oct. 26-28, in Hsinchu, Taiwan hosted by the National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. Oriental COCOSDA is an international conference held annually by the oriental chapter of COCOSDA. The first preparatory meeting was held in Hong Kong in 1997 and then the past thirteen workshops were held in Japan, Taiwan, China, Korea, Thailand, Singapore, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Japan, China and Nepal.

Oriental COCOSDA conference in Taiwan will help in boosting the research and development in the field of Speech Technology and will help in enthusing the interest towards Speech Technology in East and Southeast Asia.

Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research on all aspects of speech databases, assessments and speech I/O, including, but not limited to:

Speech databases and text corpora
Assessment of speech input and output technologies
Phonetic/phonological systems for Oriental languages
Romanization of Non-Roman Characters
Segmentation and labeling
Speech Prosody and Labeling
Speech processing models and systems
Multilingual speech corpora
Special topics on speech databases and assessments
Standardization
Any other relevant topics