Area Chairs

 

1. Speech Perception, Production and Acquisition

Olov Engwall KTH, Sweden
Shrikanth Narayanan University of Southern California, United States
Martin Cooke University of the Basque Country, Spain
Odette Scharenborg Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Netherlands
Bernd Möbius Saarland University, Germany

2. Phonetics, Phonology, and Prosody

Petra Wagner Bielefeld University, Germany
Keikichi Hirose University of Tokyo, Japan
Julia Hirschberg Columbia University, United States
Mary Beckman Ohio State University, United States

3. Analysis of Paralinguistics in Speech and Language

Elmar Nöth University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Khiet Truong University of Twente, Netherlands
Björn W. Schuller University of Passau, Germany
Nigel Ward The University of Texas at El Paso, United States
Panayiotis Georgiou University of Southern California, United States

4. Speaker and Language Identification

Haizhou Li National University of Singapore, Singapore
Jean-Francois Bonastre University Avignon, France
Kornel Laskowski Voci Technologies, United States
Michael Wagner TU Berlin, Germany

5. Analysis of Speech and Audio Signals

Jonas Beskow KTH, Sweden
Martti Vainio University of Helsinki, Finland
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
Paavo Alku Aalto University, Finland

6. Speech Coding and Enhancement

Tom Bäckström Aalto University, Finland
Sebastian Möller TU Berlin, Germany
John Hansen University of Taxes at Dallas, United States
Preeti Rao IIT Bombay, Powai, India

7. Speech Synthesis and Spoken Language Generation

Hema A Murthy IIT Madras, India
Mirjam Wester University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Ingmar Steiner Saarland University, Germany
Alan Black Carnegie Mellon University, United States

8. Speech Recognition — Signal Processing, Acoustic Modeling, Robustness and Adaptation

Douglas O’Shaughnessy Université du Québec, Canada
Kate Knill University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Giampiero Salvi KTH, Sweden
Børge Lindberg Aalborg University, Denmark
Jean-Luc Gauvain LIMSI, France

9. Speech Recognition — Architecture, Search, and Linguistic Components

Lori Lamel LIMSI, France
Helen Meng Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Geoff Zweig Microsoft, United States
Michiel Bacchiani Google, United States

10. Speech Recognition — Technologies and Systems for New Applications

Torbjørn Svendsen Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Roger Moore University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Florian Metze Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Nikko Ström Amazon, United States

11. Spoken Dialog Systems and Analysis of Conversation

Gabriel Skantze KTH, Sweden
Kristiina Jokinen University of Helsinki, Finland
Agustin Gravano Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentine
Amanda Stent Bloomberg LP, United States
Rolf Carlson KTH, Sweden

12. Spoken Language Processing: Translation, Information Retrieval, Summarization, Resources and Evaluation

*Arne Jönsson Linköping University, Sweden
Tanja Schultz Universität Bremen, Germany
Isabel Trancoso INESC-ID, Portugal
Roland Kuhn National Research Council, Canada

13. Special Sessions

Jens Edlund KTH, Sweden