The Oriental Chapter of COCOSDA (International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques) is pleased to announce that the 15th Oriental COCOSDA Conference will be held during December 9-12, 2012 at the University of Macau, Macau, China. It will be jointly organized by the University of Macau and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Oriental COCOSDA is an international conference held annually by the oriental chapter of COCOSDA. It aims at boosting the research and development in the field of speech databases and speech technology and enthusing the interests towards spoken language research in East and Southeast Asia. The past Oriental COCOSDA Conferences were held in Japan, Taiwan, China, Korea, Thailand, Singapore, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Japan, China, Nepal and Taiwan.

The Oriental COCOSDA Conference in Macau will feature world-class plenary speakers, and interactive lecture and poster sessions. Papers are invited to report substantial, original and unpublished research on all aspects of speech databases, assessments and speech input/output, including, but not limited to: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