Conference Theme

Crossroads of Speech and Language

The theme of the conference comprises three key elements important in speech research today: language diversity, diversity of applications, and diversity of representation.

• Graz lies at the unique crossroads in the heart of Europe where the large Romance, Slavonic, and Germanic language families meet. In a globalized world, the regional varieties of pluricentric languages are becoming ever more important to shape our linguistic identities.
• Speech and Language are active research topics of all four universities in Graz. Through special sessions, we will explore crossroads of Speech and Language with science and technology, with the humanities and language teaching, with medical diagnosis and therapy, and with singing and artistic performance.
• Speech and Language by themselves span a wide range of representation layers in the ‘stacks’ of human-human, or human-machine communication, extending from the bits of the acoustic waveform to pragmatics at discourse level. We will put special emphasis on the deep interaction among and across these representation layers by soliciting invited talks around these issues.

Important Dates

November 30, 2018	Special session/challenges proposals due
February 25, 2019	Tutorial proposals due
February 15, 2019	Submission portal opens
February 28, 2019	Satellite workshops/events proposals due
March 29, 2019	Paper submission deadline
April 5, 2019	Paper update deadline
April 26, 2019	Show & Tell proposals due
May 12, 2019	Survey proposals due
June 17, 2019	Paper acceptance/rejection notification
June 24, 2019	Registration portal opens
July 1, 2019	Final paper upload with covering registration due
July 3, 2019	Notification about ISCA Travel Grants
July 15, 2019	Early-bird registration deadline
August 15, 2019	Standard registration deadline
September 15, 2019	INTERSPEECH 2019 Tutorial Day
September 16, 2019	Opening of INTERSPEECH 2019
September 19, 2019	Closing of INTERSPEECH 2019