Call for papers Third Workshop on Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments (in conjunction with ACM MobileHCI '08) Amsterdam, The Netherlands September 2, 2008 http://research.ihost.com/SiMPE

In the past, voice-based applications have been accessed using unintelligent telephone devices through Voice Browsers that reside on the server. The proliferation of pervasive devices and the increase in their processing capabilities, client-side speech processing has been emerging as a viable alternative. In SiMPE 2008, the third in the series, we will continue to explore the various possibilities and issues that arise while enabling speech processing on resource-constrained, possibly mobile devices.

Topics of Interest:

All areas that enable, optimise or enhance Speech in mobile and pervasive environments and devices. Possible areas include, but are not restricted to: * Robust Speech Recognition in Noisy and Resource-constrained Environments * Memory/Energy Efficient Algorithms * Multimodal User Interfaces for Mobile Devices * Protocols and Standards for Speech Applications * Distributed Speech Processing * Mobile Application Adaptation and Learning * Prototypical System Architectures * User Modelling * HCI issues in SiMPE applications * Design and cultural issues in SiMPE * Speech interfaces/applications for Developing Regions

Submissions:

We seek original, unpublished papers in the following three categories: (a) Position papers that describe novel ideas that can lead to interesting research directions, (b) Early results or work-in-progress that has significant promise, or, (c) Full papers. Papers should be of 4-8 pages in length in the MobileHCI publication format. The LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates are available at the workshop website. All submissions should be in the PDF format and should be submitted electronically through the workshop submission web site, http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=simpe08. Since the submission deadlines are dependent on the MobileHCI conference, we will not be able to grant any extensions in any circumstances.

For any comments regarding submissions and participation, contact: simpe08@easychair.org

Key Dates:

* Paper Submission Deadline: May 05, 2008 (11:59 PM CET) * Notification of Acceptance: May 19, 2008 * Early Registration Deadline: June 02, 2008 * Workshop: September 02, 2008.

Organising Committee:

Amit A. Nanavati, IBM India Research Laboratory. Nitendra Rajput, IBM India Research Laboratory. Alexander I. Rudnicky, Carnegie Mellon University. Markku Turunen, University of Tampere, Finland.

Programme Committee:

Lou Boves, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands Matt Jones, Swansea University, UK Yoon Kim, Novauris Technologies, USA Lars Bo Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark Gary Marsden, University of Cape Town, South Africa Michael McTear, University of Ulster, Ireland Shrikanth S. Narayanan, University of Southern California, USA Tim Paek, Microsoft, USA David Pearce, Motorola, UK. Mike Phillips, Vlingo, USA Markku Turunen, University of Tampere, Finland Yaxin Zhang, Motorola, China (More to be updated)

Websites:

* SiMPE Workshop: http://research.ihost.com/SiMPE * ACM MobileHCI '08: http://www.mobilehci.org/ * SiMPE 2007: http://research.ihost.com/SiMPE/2007 * SiMPE 2006: http://research.ihost.com/SiMPE/2006

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