Atypical Speech
Call for Papers
Research in speech processing (e.g., speech coding, speech enhancement, speech recognition, speaker recognition, etc.) tends to concentrate on speech samples collected from normal adult talkers. Focusing only on these “typical speakers” limits the practical applications of automatic speech processing significantly. For instance, a spoken dialogue system should be able to understand any user, even if he or she is under stress or belongs to the elderly population. While there is some research effort in language and gender issues, there remains a critical need for exploring issues related to “atypical speech”. We broadly define atypical speech as speech from speakers with disabilities, children's speech, speech from the elderly, speech with emotional content, speech in a musical context, and speech recorded through unique, nontraditional transducers. The focus of the issue is on voice quality issues rather than unusual talking styles.
In this call for papers, we aim to concentrate on issues related to processing of atypical speech, issues that are commonly ignored by the mainstream speech processing research. In particular, we solicit original, previously unpublished research on:
- Identification of vocal effort, stress, and emotion in speech
- Identification and classification of speech and voice disorders
- Effects of ill health on speech
- Enhancement of disordered speech
- Processing of children's speech
- Processing of speech from elderly speakers
- Song and singer identification
- Whispered, screamed, and masked speech
- Novel transduction mechanisms for speech processing
- Computer-based diagnostic and training systems for speech dysfunctions
- Practical applications
Authors should follow the EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/journals/asmp/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable:
| Manuscript Due | April 1, 2009 |
| First Round of Reviews | July 1, 2009 |
| Publication Date | October 1, 2009 |
Guest Editors
- Georg Stemmer, Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, 80333 Munich, Germany
- Elmar Nöth, Department of Pattern Recognition, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
- Vijay Parsa, National Centre for Audiology, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada N6G 1H1