Call for papers
The Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association is pleased to call for papers for the 19th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST2024).
Submissions are invited in all areas of speech science and technology, including:
- Acoustic phonetics
- Paralinguistics in speech and language
- Applications of speech science and technology
- Audiology
- Computer assisted language learning
- Corpus management and speech tools
- First language acquisition
- Forensic phonetics
- Hearing and hearing impairment
- Languages of Australia and Asia-Pacific (phonetics/phonology)
- Low-resource languages
- Pedagogical technologies for speech Second language acquisition
- Sociophonetics
- Speech signal processing, analysis, modelling and enhancement
- Speech pathology
- Speech perception
- Speech production
- Speech prosody, emotional speech, voice quality
- Speech synthesis and speech recognition
- Spoken language processing, translation, information retrieval and summarisation
- Speaker and language recognition
- Spoken dialog systems and analysis of conversation
- Voice mechanisms, source-filter interactions
We are inviting two categories of submission: 4-page papers (for oral or poster presentation, and publication in the proceedings), and 1-page detailed abstracts (for poster presentation only).
Paper submission guidelines and access to EasyChair portal will be available 15 March 2024.
Tutorials and Special Sessions
We also invite proposals for tutorials, as 3-hour intensive instructional sessions to be held on the first day of the conference. In addition, we welcome proposals for special sessions, as thematic groupings of papers exploring specific topics or challenges. Interdisciplinary special sessions are particularly encouraged.
SST2024 will incorporate SocioPhonAus as a special themed session, covering various aspects of work on sociophonetic variability in English spoken in Australia, New Zealand, and beyond. Contributions are welcome in any of the following areas:
- Accent variation as a function of location, age, gender, SES, and/or speech style
- The role of ethnicity as a factor in sociophonetic research within an Australian context
- Static vs dynamic approaches to capturing variability, including quantitative modelling/tools
- Listener processing of sociophonetic variability
- Discussion of the trajectories of phonological change
- Forensic and clinical applications of sociophonetic research in Aus/NZ
Special session and tutorial proposals guidelines
Special session (and tutorial) proposals should not exceed 1 page, and should contain the following information:
1) Title and abstract for inclusion on the SST2024 website (200 words maximum).
2) Special session description:
- importance of the topic, and relevance to SST2024;
- overall goal of the session (e.g. to foster debate, offer new perspectives, draw together discussions across speech science disciplines, introduce methodological innovations);
- target participants (as presenters in the session – in terms of disciplines, methods, specific interests and expertise);
3) Name, email address, affiliation and brief biography (80 words) of the special session/tutorial organiser(s), indicating any previous relevant experience.
Proposals should be submitted to [email protected] by 8 April, 2024.
Responsibilities
Organisers of accepted special sessions are responsible for selecting which papers will be included in their session, and for planning productive discussions across the papers and related to the session topic. The SST2024 Organising Committee will provide publicity for the special sessions as part of the conference publicity activities, and on-site logistical support to the session organisers and attendees as part of the main conference programme. It is expected that special session organisers will also promote their session among their networks.
Evaluation criteria
All proposals will be reviewed by the SST2024 Organising Committee, according to:
- ability of the session to contribute to strengthening the foundations of SST-related research;
- clarity of the goals/significance of the topic;
- potential of the session to generate engagement and discussion among SST2024 attendees;
- background/experience of session organiser(s) in relation to the session topic.
