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

Affective computing 

Applications for human-machine 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 analytics and audio mining 

Speech and language resources 

Speech dereverberation 

Speech disorders and voice pathologies 

Speech driving systems in robotics 

Speech enhancement 

Speech perception 

Speech recognition and understanding 

Speech translation automatic systems 

Spoken dialogue systems 

Spoken language processing 

Text-to-speech and speech-to-text systems 

Text mining and sentiment analysis 

Virtual and augmented reality