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Graz, Austria, September 15-19, 2019
https://www.interspeech2019.org/program/special_sessions_and_challenges/
By now there is a large body of research showing that humans continuously accommodate their vocal characteristics during communication to each other or to particular communicative situations (e.g., clear speech in adverse listening situations or infant-directed speech). It is unclear to what degree such vocal accommodation occurs when humans communicate with machines (e.g., when speech, or the speaker, is not recognized correctly by the machine) and the effects it may have on recognition performance. Accommodation of human voices to each other can also affect speaker verification applications in civil or forensic contexts. Speech synthesis systems are increasingly able to accommodate to individual human voices, which opens opportunities with respect to the degree to which humans trust machine voices or to therapeutic effects that machine voices can have. But it also poses threats reaching from vocal fake news over personality theft to spoofing of voice verification access systems. By applying knowledge about human-human accommodation to machines, it will be possible to make speech synthesis more natural and speech recognition more effective. The overall aim of this special session is thus to gain a better understanding of an emerging field of related problem sets that will be important to understand speech communication in a world in which human-machine interaction is becoming ubiquitous.
With this special session we aim to bring together a cross-disciplinary array of scientists who study the phenomenon of vocal accommodation with respect to the human-computer interface from different points of views, such as:
(a) how human vocal behavior accommodates to machines;
(b) how machines cope with vocal plasticity as an effect of such accommodation behavior;
(c) how accommodation of machines to human voices can influence human voice processing;
(d) how knowledge about human-human accommodation can enhance machine performance.
This Special Session is promoted by the Research Group Accommodation and Social Categorization within the Zurich University Research Priority Program Language and Space.
The objectives are centered around but limited to the following:
The session will be primarily an oral session followed by a round table discussion but depending on the number of high-quality submissions, a poster session may take place. Demos of technological applications that fall under the topic would also be highly desirable. If you would like to do so and need non-standard equipments, please inform the special organizers via e-mail by July 1.
Papers must be submitted through the Interspeech electronic paper submission system. Guidelines for paper submissions and paper presentation can be found on the Interspeech web site: https://interspeech2019.org/authors/author_resources/ During submission, please indicate that you wish to submit your paper to the special session on: Vocal Accommodation in Human-Computer Interaction.
