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The Seventh ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop (ITRW) on Speech Synthesis will take place at NICT/ATR, Kyoto, Japan, September 22-24, 2010. It is co-sponsored by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), the ISCA Special Interest Group on Speech Synthesis (SynSIG), the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), and the Effective Multilingual Interaction in Mobile Environments (EMIME) project. The workshop will be held as a satellite workshop of Interspeech 2010 (Chiba, Japan, September 26-30, 2010). This workshop follows on from the previous workshops, Autrans 1990, Mohonk 1994, Jenolan Caves 1998, Pitlochry 2001, Pittsburgh 2004, Bonn 2007, which aim to promote research and development of all aspects of speech synthesis.

Workshop topics

• Spontaneous/expressive speech synthesis
• Speech synthesis in dialog systems
• Voice conversion/speaker adaptation
• Multilingual/crosslingual speech synthesis
• Automated methods for speech synthesis
• TTS for embedded devices
• Talking heads with animated conversational agents
• Applications of synthesis technologies to communication disorders
• Evaluation methods

Important dates

• May 7, 2010 May 27, 2010: Paper submission deadline
• June 30, 2010 July 9, 2010: Acceptance/rejection notice
• June 30, 2010 July 9, 2010: Registration begins
• July 9, 2010 July 23, 2010: Revised paper due
• September 22-24, 2010: Workshop at the ATR building in Kyoto