SPECOM-2025
We invite you to participate in the 27th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2025).
The conference is organized by the University of Szeged (Hungary) with support from Springer (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, LNCS/LNAI) and ISCA.
The International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM) was founded in St. Petersburg in 1996. Each year it brings together researchers and engineers working in speech science and technology, natural language processing, and human–computer interaction. SPECOM is included in the “Best Conferences in Computer Science” list on Research.com.
Conference dates: October 13–14, 2025, Szeged, Hungary. Format: hybrid (on-site and remote presentations), with on-site attendance encouraged.
Main Topics
- Affective computing
- Applications for human–machine interaction
- Audio-visual speech processing
- Automatic language identification
- Computational paralinguistics
- Corpus linguistics and linguistic processing
- Deep learning for sound and speech processing
- Feature extraction
- Forensic speech investigations and security systems
- Language identification
- Large language models
- Multichannel signal processing
- Multilingual speech technology
- Multimedia processing
- Multimodal analysis and synthesis
- Natural language generation
- Natural language understanding
- Sign language processing
- Signal processing and feature extraction
- Speaker diarization
- Speaker identification and verification
- Speech analytics and audio mining
- Speech and language resources
- Speech dereverberation
- Speech and voice disorders
- Speech driving systems in robotics
- Speech enhancement
- Speech perception
- Speech recognition and understanding
- Speech synthesis
- Speech translation systems
- Speech-based applications
- Spoken dialogue systems
- Spoken language processing
- Text mining and sentiment analysis
- Text-to-speech and speech-to-text systems
- Virtual and augmented reality
- Voice assistants
Paper Submission
Authors are invited to submit full papers in English of 10–16 pages, formatted according to the Springer LNCS style. Review is single-blind with at least three independent reviews. Submission is via EasyChair. Proceedings are published in the LNCS/LNAI series (Springer).
Important Dates
- July 7, 2025 — Submission of full papers (extended; 23:59 AoE)
- July 31, 2025 — Notification of acceptance
- August 10, 2025 — Final (camera-ready) papers
- August 15, 2025 — Author / early registration
- October 13–14, 2025 — Conference dates
Keynotes
- Éva Székely (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden) — “From Conversation to Conversational: Speech Synthesis and the Communicative Power of the Human Voice”
- Heysem Kaya (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) — “Towards Responsible Multimodal Modeling for Mental Healthcare”
Venue
Novotel Hotel Szeged, on the bank of the Tisza river and about 800 meters’ walking distance from Széchenyi tér (Szeged’s main square). The conference is hybrid: on-site participation is encouraged; remote presentations are also possible.
Proceedings of previous SPECOM conferences are available on Springer.
