Welcome Messages

• Message from the ISCA President
• Message from the General Chairs
• Message from the Technical Chairs
• Message from the Plenary/Keynote Chairs

Dear Speech Researcher,

It is our great pleasure to announce that the Italian spoken language processing 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). and the Italian Regional SIG - AISV (Italian Speech Communication Association).

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�.

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.

INTERSPEECH Proceedings have been indexed in ISI Web of Science,
Engineering Index, Scopus and DBLP.

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

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