Conference Announcement

"Dante Alighieri"........ was back in Makuhari for the INTERSPEECH 2010 Closing Ceremony

Dante (1265-1321) was born in Florence. Dante is famous for "The Divine Comedy" and other works. He was active in the politics of his time. He lived in exile for the last years of his life.Dante Alighieri, known simply as "Dante," is often considered the finest poet of the Middle Ages and is best known for his epic La divina commedia ("The Divine Comedy"). He was also a philosopher and political thinker. He wrote most of his poetry in the Italian vernacular instead of Latin, a choice that would influence the entire course of western literary development. In other words Dante is the father of our wonderful Italian language and that was the reason why we have chosen his image in our INTERSPEECH 2011 poster and flier and also for this, I hope funny, camouflage at the closing ceremony of INTERSPEECH 2010 in Makuhari. ........ by the way..... the hat is a copy of an original 13th century florentine hat which was usually weared by Dante ...and it was kindly home-made by my wife!

Thanks to INTERSPEECH 2010 Organizers, we hosted a booth in Makuhari announcing INTERSPEECH 2011 in Florence

Dear speech Researcher

It is our great pleasure to announce that the Italian speech communication community will host Interspeech 2011 under the sponsorship of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA).

Interspeech 2011 will be the 12th conference in the annual series of Interspeech events. It will be held in Florence, Italy, 27-31 August 2011, under the sponsorship of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), of the Italian Regional SIG - AISV (Italian Speech Communication Association), of the National Research Council and of the University of Florence.

The Theme of Interspeech 2011 will be: “Speech science and technology for real life” and under this theme the conference will cover all aspects of speech science and technology. The venue of Interspeech 2011 will be the “Firenze Fiera Congress and Exhibition Center”.

Villa Castelletti will host the Conference Dinner and Party

INTERSPEECH 2011 will cover all the scientific and technological aspects of speech and language. We are expecting more than 1000 participants from all over the world and more than 800 papers presented in oral and poster sessions.

A number of satellite workshops will take place immediately before and after the conference. Follow details of these and other news at our website www.interspeech2011.org.

We look forward to welcoming you to INTERSPEECH 2011 in Florence!

Dr. Piero Cosi and Professor Renato De Mori, Chairs, INTERSPEECH 2011.