IberSPEECH 2020: Speech and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages

Dear Colleagues,

Following previous editions, IberSPEECH 2020 will be held in Valladolid, from 24 to 26 March 2021. The IberSPEECH event—the fifth of its kind under this name—brings together the XI Jornadas en Tecnologías del Habla and the VII Iberian SLTech Workshop events.  The conference provides a platform for scientific and industrial discussion and exchange around Iberian languages, with the following main topics of interest:

1. Speech technology and applications;
2. Human speech production, perception, and communication;
3. Natural language processing and applications;
4. Speech, language, and multimodality;
5. Resources, standardization, and evaluation.

The main goal of this Special Issue is to present the latest advances in research and novel applications of speech and language processing, paying special attention to those focused on Iberian languages. We invite researchers interested in these fields to contribute to this issue, which covers all fields of IberSPEECH 2020 https://iberspeech2020.eca-simm.uva.es/authors/call-for-papers/. For those papers selected from the conference, the authors are asked to fulfill what is indicated in the instructions for “Preprints and Conference Papers” of this journal: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/instructions#preprints

Prof. Dr. Francesc Alías
Prof. Dr. Valentin Cardeñoso-Payo
Dr. David Escudero-Mancebo
Dr. César González-Ferreras
Prof. Dr. António Joaquim da Silva Teixeira
Guest Editors

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