Selected Papers from 16th National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communication (NCMMSC2021)

Dear Colleagues,

The 16th National Conference on Man–Machine Speech Communication (NCMMSC), the largest and most influential event on speech signal processing in China, will be hosted by the Chinese Information Processing Society of China and China Computer Federation, jointly co-organized by the language, hearing, and music acoustics branch of the Acoustical Society of China, the Phonetic Association of China, and the signal processing branch of the Chinese Institute of Electronics, jointly undertaken by Jiangsu Normal University and Beijing University of technology. NCMMSC is an important stage for experts, scholars, and researchers in this field to exchange the latest research results and promote the continuous progress of the field and development work.

Papers published in the Special Issue on “National Conference on Man–Machine Speech Communication (NCMMSC2021)” will be focused on the topics of speech recognition, synthesis, enhancement, and coding, as well as experimental phonetics, speech prosody analysis, pathological speech analysis, speech analysis, acoustic scene classification, and human–computer dialogue understanding.

Prof. Dr. Changchun Bao
Dr. Yong Ma
Guest Editors

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