Call For Papers

8th International Seminar on Speech Production – ISSP 2008

We are pleased to announce that the eighth International Seminar on Speech Production – ISSP 2008 will be held in Strasbourg, Alsace, France from the 8th to the 12th of December, 2008. We are looking forward to continuing the tradition established at previous ISSP meetings in Grenoble, Leeds, Old Saybrook, Autrans, Kloster Seeon, Sydney, and Ubatuba of providing a congenial forum for presentation and discussion of current research in all aspects of speech production.

Topics covered

Topics of interest for ISSP'2008 include, but are not restricted to the following:

• Articulatory-acoustic relations
• Perception-action control
• Intra- and inter-speaker variability
• Articulatory synthesis
• Acoustic to articulatory inversion
• Connected speech processes
• Coarticulation
• Prosody
• Biomechanical modeling
• Models of motor control
• Audiovisual synthesis
• Aerodynamic models and data
• Cerebral organization and neural correlates of speech
• Disorders of speech motor control
• Instrumental techniques
• Speech and language acquisition
• Audio-visual speech perception
• Plasticity of speech production and perception

In addition, the following special sessions are currently being planned:

• Speech inversion (Yves Laprie)
• Experimental techniques investigating speech (Susanne Fuchs)

Paper Submission

Prospective authors are invited to submit an abstract (Two pages maximum, Times font, 12 points) via the conference website by 4th April 2008. The online submission website will be made via this link . Authors need to create an account to be able to submit their papers.