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[edit] 2008

• September 22-26, 2008 : INTERSPEECH 08, in Brisbane, Australia.

[edit] 2009

• September 6-10, 2009 : INTERSPEECH 09, in Brighton, UK.
  • September 6th 2009: the Loebner Prize in Artificial Intelligence, and the Interspeech Speech & Intelligence Competition Call for Participation

[edit] Topics in speech synthesis

(for use in calls for papers)

• Text processing for speech synthesis
• Prosody Generation for speech synthesis
• Speech modeling for speech synthesis applications
• Signal processing for speech synthesis
• Concatenative speech synthesis (diphones, polypohones, unit-selection)
• Articulatory synthesis
• Statistical parametric speech synthesis
• Voice transformation/conversion/adaptation for speech synthesis
• Expressive speech synthesis
• Multilingual and/or Multimodal Speech Synthesis
• Text-to-Speech and Content-to-Speech
• Singing speech synthesis
• Systems and Applications involving speech synthesis
• Techniques for assessing synthetic speech quality