Call for Papers

The Call for Papers is now closed. Authors will be notified of acceptance on 31 August 2016.

The Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association is pleased to announce the call for papers for the 16th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST2016). This conference will mark the 30-year anniversary of the first SST conference held in Canberra in 1986.

  • Location: Sydney, Australia
  • Dates: 6-9 December 2016
  • Host Institution: Western Sydney University

Submissions are invited in all areas of speech science and technology, including: 

  • Acoustic phonetics
  • Articulatory phonetics
  • Applications of speech science and technology
  • Audiology
  • Australasian Languages (phonetics/phonology)
  • Corpus management and speech tools
  • First language acquisition (perception/production)
  • Forensic phonetics
  • Hearing and hearing impairment
  • Pedagogical technologies for speech
  • Second language acquisition (perception/production)
  • Sociophonetics
  • Speaker recognition and classification
  • Speech engineering and modelling
  • Speech pathology
  • Speech perception
  • Speech production
  • Speech prosody, emotional speech, voice
  • Speech synthesis and speech recognition

Keynote Speakers:

  • Professor Harald Baayen (U. Tübingen)
  • Professor Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan (U. Southern California)
  • Associate Professor Leher Singh (National U. Singapore)

We are inviting two categories of submission, 4-page papers and 1-page abstracts. Papers will be considered for 20-minute oral presentations or posters, as well as publication in the proceedings. Abstracts will be considered for poster presentation only.

If you have any questions concerning the submission procedure or if you encounter any problems, please contact sst2016@westernsydney.edu.au.