All interested parties are invited to submit an abstract in a general call for papers for the third annual Speech Processing Conference at Afeka. Authors of selected abstracts will submit a full paper to be presented during the main conference, on Wednesday, July 1, 2013.
The main theme of the 2013 conference will be short and long term research and development directions in speech processing technologies for multi-modal natural user interfaces and speech analytics applications that support the growing needs of the market. Paper proposals from researchers, vendors, developers and providers of speech processing technologies can cover, but are not limited to, any of the following topics:

- Speech Recognition
- Speaker Identification/Verification/Diarization
- Speech Transcription
- Speech Analytics
- Keyword Spotting
- Speech Enhancement
- Voice-User Interface
- Human-Machine Interaction/Human-Computer Interaction
- Multimodal Interaction
- Text-to-Speech
- Speech Technology Integration with other technologies such as NLP and AI

Abstracts can describe research, products, services and/or case studies relevant to any of the speech processing related topics listed above.