10 May 2019: Deadline for initial paper submission
17 May 2019: Extended deadline for initial paper submission
17 May 2019: Deadline for final paper submission
24 May 2019: Extended deadline for final paper submission
24 June 2019: Registration opens
  1 July 2019: Notification of acceptance
19 July 2019: Camera-ready final versions
20-22 September 2019: Workshop
23 September 2019: Blizzard Challenge Workshop

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.

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)

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.

Blizzard challenge