The SPECOM conference is devoted to issues of human-machine interaction, particularly:

• Applications for human-computer interaction

• Audio-visual speech processing

• Automatic language identification

• Corpus linguistics and linguistic processing

• Forensic speech investigations and security systems

• Multichannel signal processing

• Multimedia processing

• Multimodal analysis and synthesis

• Signal processing and feature extraction

• Speaker identification and diarization

• Speaker verification systems

• Speech and language resources     Speech analytics and audio mining

• Speech dereverberation

• Speech driving systems in robotics

• Speech enhancement

• Speech perception and speech disorders

• Speech recognition and understanding

• Speech translation automatic systems

• Spoken dialogue systems

• Spoken language processing

• Text-to-speech and Speech-to-text systems

• Virtual and augmented reality