Welcome to Austria! Willkommen in Graz!
In 1791 the first comprehensive book on the core scientific areas
of Speech Communication (from linguistic theory and speech
physiology, articulatory and acoustic phonetics to speech modeling
and simulation as well as applied speech technology) was
published in Austria, the
Mechanism of Human Speech next to the Description of his Speaking Machine
by Wolfgang von Kempelen,
a true crossroads citizen born into the trilingual and back
then Austro-Hungarian city of Bratislava-Pressburg-Pozsony.
Over 200 years later, the 20th Annual Conference of the
International Speech Communication Association INTERSPEECH 2019
will be held in Graz, Austria, from Sep. 15-19, 2019. Interspeech
is the world‘s largest and most comprehensive conference on
the science and technology of spoken language processing. The
conference features world-class speakers, tutorials, oral and poster
sessions, challenges, exhibitions and satellite events, and will
gather around 2000 participants from all over the world.
GENERAL CHAIRS: Gernot Kubin, Graz | Zdravko Kačič, Maribor
