Scientific Committee

The conference organisers are indebted to the following people who made such a large contribution to the creation of the technical programme.

Technical Program Chairs

• Roberto Pieraccini ( Speechcycle, New York, US )
• Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio ( AT&T; Labs, Florham Park, NJ, US )

Special Sessions Chairs

• Amanda Stent ( AT&T; Labs, Florham Park, NJ, US )
• Mauro Falcone ( FUB, Rome, Italy)

Keynote/Plenary Sessions Chair

• Giuseppe Riccardi ( Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Trento, Italy )

Tutorials Chair

• Maurizio Omologo ( FBK-IRST, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy )

Area Coordinators

• Speech Perception and Production
  • Catia Cucchiarini - ( Language and Speech unit, Faculty of Arts, Radboud University Nijmegen , Nijmegen, The Netherlands )
  • Francesco Cutugno - ( Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Facoltà di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali, Napoli, Italy )
• Phonology, Phonetics
  • Patrizia Bonaventura - ( Department of Psychological Sciences & Cognitive Science Departements, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, US )
  • Cinzia Avesani ( Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies CNR, UOS Padova, Padova, Italy )
• Para-/Non- linguistic Information
  • Julia B. Hirschberg ( Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY, US )
  • Maria Gabriella Dibenedetto ( University of Rome "La Sapienza", Roma, Italy )
• Language Processing
  • Pascale Fung ( Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong )
  • Giuseppe Riccardi (Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Trento, Italy )
• Analysis, Enhancement and Coding of Speech and Audio Signals
  • Dirk Van Compernolle (Department of Electrical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium )
  • Fabio Tesser ( Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies CNR, UOS Padova, Padova, Italy )
• Enhancement and Coding
  • Timothy J. Hazen ( Information Systems Technology Group, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, Massachusetts, US )
    
  • Marco Matassoni ( FBK-IRST, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy )
• Speaker and Language Identification
  • Larry Heck ( Microsoft Research, Microsoft, San Francisco , US )
  • Luciano Romito ( Department of Linguistics, University of Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy )
• Speech & Spoken Language Generation, Speech Synthesis
  • Yannis Stylianou* ( Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece)
  • Enrico Zovato ( Loquendo, Torino, Italy)
• ASR - signal processing & acoustic modeling
  • Li Deng ( Microsoft Research, Microsoft, Redmond, WA, US )
  • Fabio Brugnara ( FBK-IRST, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy )
• ASR - architecture, search & linguistic components
  • Enrico Bocchieri ( AT&T Labs, Florham Park, NJ, US)
  • Murat Saraclar ( Bogaziçi University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Bebek, Istanbul, Turkiye)
• ASR - robustness and adaptation
  • Pietro Laface ( Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy)
  • Maurizio Omologo ( FBK-IRST, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy )
• LVCSR and its applications
  • Douglas O’Shaughnessy* ( Université du Québec, Canada )
    
  • Diego Giuliani ( FBK-IRST, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy )
• Technologies and Systems for New Applications
  • Tanja Schultz* ( Universität Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany )
    
  • Roberto Gretter ( FBK-IRST, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy )
• Spoken Dialogue System, Spoken Language Understanding, Speech Translation, and Information Retrieval
  • Imed Zitouni ( IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, US )
  • Marcello Federico ( FBK-IRST, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy )
• Application, Evaluation, Standardization, SL Resources
  • Lin-shan Lee ( Department of Electrical Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. )
  • Paolo Baggia ( Loquendo, Torino, Italy)
• Special Session
  • Amanda Stent (AT&T Labs, Florham Park, NJ, US)
  • Mauro Falcone ( FUB, Rome, Italy)

Special Session Organisers

• Srinivas Bangalore (AT&T Labs, Florham Park, NJ, US)
• Etienne Barnard (North-West University, SA)
• Laurent Besacier (Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble, FR)
• Tobias Bocklet (University of Erlangen, DE)
• Agnes Delaborde (LIMSI-CNRS, FR)
• Laurence Devillers (LIMSI-CNRS, FR)
• Jasha Droppo (Microsoft Research, US)
• Maxine Eskenazi (Carnegie Mellon University, US)
• Junlan Feng (AT&T Labs, Florham Park, NJ, US)
• Julia Hirschberg (Columbia University, NY, US)
• Maryam Kamvar (Google, Boston, MA, US)
• Alexey Karpov (St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation, RU)
• Gina Levow, (University of Washington, US)
• Yang Liu (University of Texas at Dallas, US)
• Helen Meng (Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK)
• Chafic Mokbel (University of Balamand, LE)
• Pedro J. Moreno (Google Research, US)
• Shrikanth Narayanan (Univ. SC, US)
• Elmar Nöth (University of Erlangen, DE)
• Alexander Rudnicky (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, US)
• Yoshinori Sagisaka (Waseda University, Tokyo, JP)
• Thippur Sreenivas (Indian Institute of Science, IN)
• David Suendermann (SpeechCycle, Inc., US)
• Yun-Hsuan Sung (Google Research, US)
• Dilek Hakkani-Tur (Microsoft Speech Labs, US)
• Gokhan Tur (Microsoft Research, US)

Special Event Organisers

• Toomas Altosaar (Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Helsinki University of Technology, SF)
• Etienne Barnard (North-West University, SA)
• Anton Batliner (Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg, DE)
• Christoph Draxler (Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing, Munich, DE)
• Sadaoki Furui (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, JP)
• Jarek Krajewski (Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, DE)
• Mark Liberman (Linguistic Data Consortium, Philadelphia, US)
• Florian Schiel (University of Munich / Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals Services, Munich, DE)
• Björn Schuller (Technische Universität München, Munich, DE)

Tutorial Organisers

• Najim Dehak ( Spoken Language Systems - SLS Group at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory - CSAIL, US)
• Gregory Druck(University of Massachusetts Amherst, Computer Science, US)
• Kuzman Ganchev(Google Research, US)
• Maëva Garnier (GIPSA-lab Grenoble, FR)
• Joao Graca(University of Pennsylvania, US)
• Mads Grasboll Christensen (Aalborg University, NL)
• Michele Gubian ( Centre for Language and Speech Technology in Nijmegen, NL)
• Stefan Hahn (RWTH Aachen University, DE)
• Xiao Li (Microsoft Research, US)
• Yang Liu(Univ. of Texas at Dallas, US)
• Shoji Makino(University of Tsukuba, JP)
• Sameer Maskey(IBM Research, US)
• Ani Nenkova(Univ. of Pennsylvania, US)
• Andrew Rosenberg (Computer Science at Queens College, CUNY, UK)
• David Rybach (RWTH Aachen University,Computer Science Department, DE)
• Hiroshi Sawada(NTT Communication Science Laboratories, JP)
• Stephen Shum (MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory - CSAIL, US)
• John Smith (University of of New South Wales, AU)
• Gokhan Tur (Microsoft Research, US)
• Joe Wolfe (University of of New South Wales, AU)