Technical Program Committee

1. Speech Perception, Production and Acquisition

• Odette Scharenborg, Delft University of Technology
• Martin Cooke, University of the Basque Country
• Yi Xu, University College London
• Tara McAllister Byun, New York University

2. Phonetics, Phonology, and Prosody

• Petra Wagner, Bielefeld University
• Oliver Niebuhr, University of Southern Denmark
• Jennifer Cole, Northwestern University

3. Analysis of Paralinguistics in Speech and Language

• Chi-Chun Lee, National Tsing Hua University
• Carlos Busso, The University of Texas at Dallas
• Felix Burkhardt, audEERING

4. Speaker and Language Identification

• Haizhou Li, National University of Singapore
• Lukas Burget, Brno University of Technology
• Kong Aik Lee, NEC

5. Analysis of Speech and Audio Signals

• Elmar Noeth, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
• Koichi Shinoda, Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Tuomas Virtanen, Tampere University of Technology

6. Speech Coding and Enhancement

• Tom Bäckström, Aalto University
• Bastiaan Kleijn, Victoria University of Wellington
• Rainer Martin, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

7. Speech Synthesis and Spoken Language Generation

• Simon King, University of Edinburgh
• Eva Navas, University of the Basque Country
• Raul Fernandez, IBM Research AI

8. Speech Recognition – Signal Processing, Acoustic Modeling, Robustness, and Adaptation

• Kai Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• Jean-Luc Gauvain, French National Center for Scientific Research
• Tara Sainath, Google
• Thomas Niesler, University of Stellenbosch

9. Speech Recognition – Architecture, Search, and Linguistic Components

• Hsin-Min Wang, Academia Sinica
• Murat Saraclar, Bosphorus University
• S. Umesh, Indian Institute of Technology Madras

10. Speech Recognition – Technologies and Systems for New Applications

• Helen Meng, Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Pengyuan Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Torbjørn Svendsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

11. Spoken dialog systems and analysis of conversation

• Isabel Trancoso, Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science, Portugal
• Joakim Gustafson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
• Alexandros Potamianos, National Technical University of Athens

12. Spoken Language Processing: Translation, Information Retrieval, Summarization, Resources and Evaluation

• Lori Lamel, French National Center for Scientific Research
• Tanja Schultz, University of Bremen
• Lucia Specia, University of Sheffield

13. Special Sessions

• Tim Fingscheidt, Technical University of Braunschweig
• Franz Pernkopf, Graz University of Technology
• Mariapaola D’Imperio, Rutgers University