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Acoustics and Speech Processing

17.-18. of October 2024, Bratislava, Slovakia

Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 845 07 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

The Acoustics and Speech Processing Conference, Bratislava, 2024, follows on from the series of international conferences of the same name. This year, it is focused on the use of acoustic and speech-derived symptoms for specialized tasks in the field of medicine, creating communication interfaces with high naturalness, as well as crisis management systems. The venue is on the premises of the conference organizer, the Institute of Informatics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. The co-organizers of the conference are Technical University of Košice and Slovak Acoustical Society.The conference will take place in a hybrid mode, with most of the participants attending in person. 15 minute time slot is reserved for one presentation plus additional 5 minutes for discussion. Abstracts and presentations will be published in an electronic Proceedings and the best of peer-revied papers will be considered for publication in Computing and Informatics – the journal indexed in Current Content.

  Major topics

  • Speech Analysis in Neurodegenerative Diseases Diagnosis (MCI, AD, PD)
  • Internet Gaming Disorder, Depression, Emotion and Stress Detection from Speech, and their use in diagnostics and rehabilitation.
  • Specialized Information Systems and Support Systems for Critical Situations.
  • Acoustic features (Prosody, Phonetic features, Temporal features, DNN embeddings, others), Technical approaches to acoustic features analysis.
  • Linguistic features derived from speech (Lexical Features, Syntactic Features, Semantic Features, Pragmatic Features, language models, BERT, GPT, AI, others), Technical approaches to speech-derived linguistic features analysis.
  • Psychiatric, Psychological and Speech Therapy aspects of diagnostics and rehabilitation using speech.
  • Diagnostic tools and practical applications using acoustics and speech.
  • Machine Learning Models, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Hybrid Models, Cross-Domain, Cross-Linguistic Applicability and Transfer Learning.
  • Applications and Clinical Use (Telehealth and Remote Monitoring, Mobile and Wearable Devices, Personalized Interventions), Human-Machine Interaction, Validation, Testing Apps with end-users.
  • Challenges and Considerations, Data Privacy, Ethical Concerns, Standardization, Speech Data Collection, Cross-Domain Collaboration.

 Parallel Sessions

In parallel to the scientific sessions, short (cca 1 hour) administrative meetings of the project managers of the projects 4ACEs – Visegrád, CRISIS – VEGA, ALOIS – APVV, and PARIS – Tubitak will take place.

   Important dates:

Materials to be sent to robert.sabo@savba.sk and copy to milan.rusko@savba.sk. Yo can download word temple here 13.9. 2024 Abstracts delivery deadline (both for peer-reviewed  and non-reviewed contributions) 18.9. 2024 Notification of acceptance/non-acceptance of the contribution to the conference 20.9. 2024 Delivery deadline of the peer-reviewed abstracts. 17.10. 2024 First day of the conference 18.10. 2024 Second day of the conference

  Social Program

17.10 2024 Evening walk through Bratislava and social evening.

  Scientific Commitee

Milan Rusko, Department of Speech Analysis and Synthesis, II SAS Bratislava Géza Németh, Department Of Telecommunications And Artificial Intelligence, Budapest University Of Technology And Economics  Branislav Gerazov, FEEIT, UCMS, Skopje, Macedonia  Artur Janicki Faculty of Electronics and Inf. Technologies, Warsaw University of Technology Štefan Beňuš, The Dep. of English and American Studies, FF UKF, Nitra Jozef Juhár, Department of Electronics and Multimedia Telecommunications, Faculty of Electroingeneering, Technical University Košice Petra Brandoburová, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Commenius University in Bratislava Ceren Cubukcu Cerasi, Management Information Systems Department, Gebze Technical University, Turkey Tim Stelkens-Kobsch, DLR Institute of Flight Guidance, Braunschweig, Germany Milos Cernak, Principal Engineer, Logitech, Technology Office, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland Matúš Pleva, Department of Electronics and Multimedia Telecommunications, Faculty of Electroingeneering, Technical University Košice

Eugen Ružický, Institute of Applied Informatics, Pan-European University, Bratisalava

 Accomodation sugestion

We recommend the hotel Maxinn that is within walking distance from the conference venue. For more demanding visitors we recommend the Carlton Hotel.

 Venue

Conference venue is located in the conference hall in the area of Slovak Academy of Sciences
Slovak research institute popular with students from Asia and Africa - spectator.sme.sk

Main entrance to the SAS area

Kongresové centrum SAV Academia

Conference room

Map of the area of conference venue.

Map of the area of conference venue.

Map of the area of conference venue.Google maps location of the Conference hall: https://maps.app.goo.gl/aNz6TerHiuAyTtst8

 Acknowledgements

This conference was supported by:  Visegrad fund (V4), whithin the project 22410426, AI Apps against Alzheimer in Central Europe (4ACEs)  Slovak Research and development agency, APVV-21-0373, Diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease from speech using artificial intelligence and social robotics (ALOIS)  Scientific Grant Agency, VEGA 2/0165/21, Automatic speech processing technologies for support in crisis situations  COST Project CA19102 – Language In The Human-Machine Era (LITHME) and project  MVTS project LITHME