Computer Speech and Language

An official publication of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)

Computer Speech & Language publishes reports of original research related to the analysis, recognition, understanding, production, synthesis, coding and mining of speech and spoken language, including spoken language dialogue systems and speech-based interaction with ‘intelligent’ artefacts, and their wide-ranging applications.

The journal provides a focus for this work, and encourages an interdisciplinary approach to speech and spoken language research and technology. Thus contributions from all of the related fields are welcomed in the form of reports of theoretical or experimental studies, reviews, and pertaining to models and their implementation, or reports of fundamental research leading to the improvement of such models.

Research Areas Include

• Algorithms and models for speech recognition and synthesis

• Natural language processing for speech understanding and generation

• Computational models of spoken language discourse and dialogue

• Speech and spoken-language inclusive multimodal approaches and systems

• Information retrieval, extraction and summarization of spoken language media

• Speaker and spoken language recognition

• Computational models of speech production and perception

• Signal processing for speech analysis, enhancement and transformation

• Evaluation of speech-based interactive systems

• Applications of speech and spoken language technologies

Note that we are no longer accepting submissions devoted to pure Natural Language Processing NLP (i.e. all new manuscripts must address some aspect of spoken language processing).