Subject: SST-2010 Conference Deadline Extension From: David Grayden <grayden@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:53:54 +1000 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Due to technical problems with the ASSTA website, the organizing committee for SST 2010 has decided to extend the paper submission deadline to Friday, 23rd July. In addition, due to popular request, the organizing committee would like to invite abstract-only submissions for the conference. These should be up to 300 words, and should also be submitted via the Easychair website: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=sst2010 http://www.assta.org/sst/2010/SST2010-Final_Call_for_Papers.pdf SST2010 Thirteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology Melbourne, Australia 14-16 December 2010 http://www.assta.org/sst/2010/ Final Call for Papers - DEADLINE EXTENDED ASSTA and La Trobe University are pleased to announce the Thirteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST2010). The conference will be held at the La Trobe University City Campus, Melbourne. Paper submission guidelines and templates are now available from http://www.assta.org/?q=sst-2010 Conference Themes Submissions are invited for oral presentations. Submissions should describe original contributions to spoken language, speech science and/or technology that will be of interest to an audience including scientists, engineers, linguists, psychologists, speech and language therapists, audiologists and other professionals. Submissions are invited in all areas of speech science and technology, but particularly in the following areas: * Speech production * Acoustic phonetics * Acoustics of accent change * Phonetics and phonology of Australasian languages * Speech prosody, emotional speech, voice * Music and speech processing * Applications of speech science and technology * Speech processing for forensic applications * Speech recognition and understanding * Speaker recognition and classification * Speech enhancement and noise cancellation * Pedagogical technologies for speech and singing * Corpus management and speech tools * Contributions of speech science and technology to audiology and speech language therapy Plenary Speakers: Professor D.R. Ladd, Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh Professor Hugh McDermott, The Bionic Ear Institute and University of Melbourne Professor Michael Robb, Department of Communication Disorders, University of Canterbury Key dates: Paper submissions due Friday 23 July 2010 Notification of acceptance Friday 27 August 2010 Early-bird registration due Friday 1 October 2010 http://www.assta.org/sst/2010/SST2010-Final_Call_for_Papers.pdf