SST2024 is the 19th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, to be hosted by the Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association and the University of Melbourne in Melbourne, Victoria from December 3rd-5th, 2024.

Please see the conference website for all details: https://assta.org/sst-2024/

Submission Guidelines

Submissions are invited in all areas of speech science and technology. We are inviting two categories of submission: 4-page papers (for oral or poster presentation, and publication in the proceedings), and 1-page detailed abstracts (for poster presentation only).

Please see the full call for papers for more information and consult the author instructions in preparing your submission. See also details of three exciting special sessions to be held as part of the main conference programme.

List of Topics

• Acoustic phonetics
• Paralinguistics in speech and language
• Applications of speech science and technology
• Audiology
• Computer assisted language learning
• Corpus management and speech tools
• First language acquisition
• Forensic phonetics
• Hearing and hearing impairment
• Languages of Australia and Asia-Pacific (phonetics/phonology)
• Low-resource languages
• Pedagogical technologies for speech Second language acquisition
• Sociophonetics
• Speech signal processing, analysis, modelling and enhancement
• Speech pathology
• Speech perception
• Speech production
• Speech prosody, emotional speech, voice quality
• Speech synthesis and speech recognition
• Spoken language processing, translation, information retrieval and summarisation
• Speaker and language recognition
• Spoken dialog systems and analysis of conversation
• Voice mechanisms, source-filter interactions

Keynote Speakers

• Prof. Marija Tabain (La Trobe University)
• Dr. Rosey Billington (Australian National University)  
• Associate Prof. Sasha Calhoun (Victoria University of Wellington)

Publication

Authors of accepted submissions are expected to revise their papers and abstracts on the basis of reviewer comments, and resubmit final deanonymised versions of their submissions. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, and accepted abstracts will be made available via the conference website.

Venue

SST2024 will be held on the University of Melbourne's Parkville campus, in the heart of Melbourne, Victoria. SST2024 will be held as an in-person event.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to sst2024conf@gmail.com

Hosted by

Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association

School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne