Call for papers

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, intent detection)
• Signal processing/statistical model for synthesis
• Prosody modeling, transfer and generation
• Expression, emotion and personality generation
• Voice conversion and modification, morphing (parallel and non-parallel)
• Concept-to-speech conversion speech synthesis in dialog systems
• Avatars and talking faces
• Cross-lingual and multilingual aspects for synthesis (e.g. automatic language switching)
• Applications of synthesis technologies to communication disorders
• TTS for embedded devices and computational issues
• Tools and data for speech synthesis
• Non conventional speech synthesis paradigms and methods; articulatory synthesis, articulation-to-speech synthesis, singing synthesis, etc.
• Quality assessment/evaluation metrics in synthesis
• End-to-end text-to-speech synthesis
• Direct speech waveform modelling and generation
• Neural vocoding for speech synthesis
• Speech synthesis using non-ideal data (‘found’, user-contributed, etc.)
• Concept-to-speech, natural language generation for speech synthesis
• Special topics:
  • Incremental processing
  • Multimodal synthesis of coverbal behaviors
  • Human in the loop: modeling and evaluation of mutual adaptation (alignment, chameleon effect, etc)
  • Evaluation issues: beyond MOS

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