Call for Papers SSW10 - The 10th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop 20-22 September 2019 Vienna, Austria The 10th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop will be held in Vienna, Austria, 20-22 September 2019. The workshop is a satellite event of the INTERSPEECH 2019 conference in Graz, Austria. Confirmed invited speakers Aäron van den Oord (Google DeepMind, UK) Claire Gardent (CNRS, France) Workshop topics Papers in all areas of speech synthesis technology are encouraged to be submitted, including but not limited to: Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion for synthesis Text processing for speech synthesis (text normalization, syntactic and semantic analysis) Segmental-level and/or concatenative synthesis Signal processing/statistical model for synthesis Speech synthesis paradigms and methods; articulatory synthesis, parametric synthesis etc. Prosody modeling and generation _expression_, emotion and personality generation Voice conversion and modification, morphing Concept-to-speech conversion speech synthesis in dialog systems Avatars and talking faces Cross-lingual and multilingual aspects for synthesis Applications of synthesis technologies to communication disorders TTS for embedded devices and computational issues Tools and data for speech synthesis Quality assessment/evaluation metrics in synthesis Singing synthesis Synthesis of non-human vocalisations End-to-end text-to-speech synthesis Direct speech waveform modelling and generation Speech synthesis using non-ideal data (‘found’, user-contributed, etc.) Natural language generation for speech synthesis Special topic: Synthesis of non-standard language varieties (sociolects, dialects, second language varieties) Call for Demos We are planning to have a demo session to showcase new developments in speech synthesis. If you have some demonstrations of your work that does not really fit in a regular oral or poster presentation, please let us know. The workshop program will consist of a single track with invited talks, oral and poster presentations. Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, 4-6 page papers, including figures and references. Papers can be submitted via the website http://ssw10.oeaw.ac.at. Important dates: Deadline for paper submission: May 10th, 2019 Final deadline for paper submission: May 17th, 2019 Notification of acceptance: July 1st, 2019 Camera-ready final versions: July 19th, 2019 Workshop: 20-22 September 2019 Blizzard Challenge Workshop 2019: 23. September We are looking forward to seeing you in Vienna. Sincerely, The SSW organising committee (Michael Pucher, Junichi Yamagishi, Sebastian Le Maguer, Christian Kaseß, Friedrich Neubarth) |