“ The Emergence of Oriental Spoken Language Corpora: Towards Innovative Strategy and Technology”.

Oriental COCOSDA workshop in Malaysia will help in boosting the research and development in the field of Speech Technology and will help in enthusing the interest towards Speech Technology in Southeast Asia.

The oriental chapter of COCOSDA (The International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques) is pleased to announce that the 9th Oriental COCOSDA Workshop will be held on Dec. 9-11, in Penang, Malaysia hosted by the Universiti Sains Malaysia. Oriental COCOSDA is an international workshop held annually by the oriental chapter of COCOSDA. The first preparatory meeting was held in Hong Kong in 1997 and then the past seven workshops were held in Japan, Taiwan, China, Korea, Thailand, Singapore, India and Indonesia.

Oriental COCOSDA workshop in Malaysia will help in boosting the research and development in the field of Speech Technology and will help in enthusing the interest towards Speech Technology in Southeast Asia. Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research on all aspects of speech databases, assessments and speech I/O, including, but not limited to:

Topics

Speech Databases and Text Corpora
Assessment of Speech Input and Output Technologies
Phonetic/Phonological Systems for Oriental Languages
Romanization of Non-Roman Characters
Segmentation and Labeling
Speech Prosody and Labeling
Speech Processing Models and Systems
Multilingual Speech Corpora
Speech Corpus Annotation Tools
Others

Paper Submission

Papers are invited on substantial, origin and unpublished research work. The paper should be completed rather than an intended work. Paper accepted for presentation at Oriental COCOSDA 2006 cannot be presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings.

Papers can be sent to: [email protected]

IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission of one page abstract Aug. 19, 2006
Notification of acceptance of paper Aug. 31 , 2006
Final Manuscript Sept. 30 , 2006
Early Registration for presenters Oct. 14, 2006
Early Bird Registration on or before Nov. 3, 2006
Normal Registration on or before Nov. 23, 2006
Late Registration (with late fee) Nov 24, 2006 onward
Workshop Dec. 9-11, 2006

From 09 Dec 2006
Until 11 Dec 2006
Penang, Malaysia
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