Afeka 2013 - The 3rd Annual Afeka Speech Processing Conference

Welcome to the 2013 Afeka Speech Processing Conference!
Organized by the Afeka Center for Language Processing (ACLP), the 2013 Afeka Speech Processing Conference will be held at the Afeka Academic College of Engineering in Tel Aviv on July 1-2, 2013.
The conference offers the academic and industrial speech communities a unique forum for coming together, raising relevant issues, sharing accomplishments and establishing collaborations. The annual Speech Processing Conference attracts a growing number of researchers, technology and application developers, platform providers, system integrators and end customers both from the academia and the industry.
The main theme of the 2013 conference will be short and long term research and development directions in speech processing technologies for multi-modal natural user interfaces and speech analytics applications that support the growing needs of the market.
All interested parties are invited to submit an abstract in a general call for papers for the third annual Speech Processing Conference at Afeka. Authors of selected abstracts will submit a full paper to be presented during the main conference, on Wednesday, July 1, 2013.
The main theme of the 2013 conference will be short and long term research and development directions in speech processing technologies for multi-modal natural user interfaces and speech analytics applications that support the growing needs of the market. Paper proposals from researchers, vendors, developers and providers of speech processing technologies can cover, but are not limited to, any of the following topics:
? Speech Recognition
? Speaker Identification/Verification/Diarization
? Speech Transcription
? Speech Analytics
? Keyword Spotting
? Speech Enhancement
? Voice-User Interface
? Human-Machine Interaction
? Multimodal Interaction
? Text-to-Speech
? Speech Technology Integration with other technologies such as NLP and AI
? Other... (if no appropriate category)