AISV 2018: Speech in the Natural Context. Models and Methods for the Analysis of Speech Under Real Communicative Conditions - XIV National Conference of the Italian Association for Speech Sciences Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Bolzano, Italy, January 25-27, 2018 |
Conference website | https://aisv2018.events.unibz.it |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aisv2018 |
Abstract registration deadline | October 15, 2017 |
Submission deadline | October 15, 2017 |
Overview
Speech data collected from real communicative contexts is characterized by numerous factors such as the dialogic organization of interaction, simultaneity of information sources, dynamic nature of the signal, and noisiness of environments in which they are produced, just to name a few. These conditions underlie all natural communicative speech events and they are part of both speakers and listeners' everyday experiences. As such, they constitute an essential aspect of human-to-human and human-to-machine communication, while contributing significantly to signal interpretation.
The aim of the conference is to offer an opportunity to discuss how to integrate all the different components of the speech signal as produced under real communicative conditions, and the many dimensions of the communicative situation.
Invited Speakers
Khalil Iskarous, University of Southern California
Tanja Schultz, University of Bremen
Call for papers
We invite contributions that discuss the influence of real communicative conditions on the production and perception of speech, on the (re)elaboration of theories of speech communication, on the implementation of applications for situated interaction, and on the resolution of real-world problems. In this respect, dimensions of particular concern are:
- Dialogical interaction: humans speak with others to communicate linguistic meanings and influence behaviors, opinions and emotional states within the boundaries of the conversational structure
- Signal plurality: the acoustic signal is only one of many in a complex modular semiotic system aimed at transmitting information
- Dynamicity of signals: acoustic and physiological signals are organized and coordinated with each other in both time and space
- Physical environment: the communication takes place in physical settings that influence transmission quality.
In order to encourage discussion on these topics, the conference promotes a very broad approach integrating the phonetic, linguistic, psycholinguistic, cognitive, artificial intelligence, machine learning and signal analysis perspectives. Therefore, possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- The phonetic dimension of spoken interaction and its effects on communication
- The environmental dimension of spoken interaction and its effects on communication (e.g. co-presence of speakers and visual accessibility, noise, temperature, humidity, etc.)
- The dynamical dimension of the signal (e.g. dynamic models of speech analysis, speech recognition models, etc.)
- Integration of acoustic and physiological signals in human and non-human communication for the interpretation of human and non-human communication
- Integration and interpretation of phonetic and non-phonetic signals for the profiling of the speaker
- Integration and interpretation of phonetic and non-phonetic signals for the automatic speech synthesis and recognition
- Integration of signals in the interfaces for vocal interaction.
Abstracts should be written in English or Italian, and should be restricted to 4000 characters (including spaces) and two pages in A4 format, including graphs and references.
Find detailed instruction for submission on the conference website (https://aisv2018.events.unibz.it/)