语音领域里的顶级旗舰国际会议INTERSPEECH继2000年在北京成功举办后再次回归中国。原计划于2020年10月25日-30日在上海举办的第21届INTERSPEECH2020国际会议（会议网址：http://www.interspeech2020.org/），受新冠疫情影响，将转为线上会议同期举行，面向全球直播（直播网址：https://interspeech2020.baai.ac.cn/）。大会注册用户，可通过点击加入zoom房间参与会议讨论，非注册用户可全程观看会议直播视频，期待大家的到来！
作为语音领域里的顶级国际会议，INTERSPEECH历来都是学术界和工业界关注的焦点，会议涵盖了语音语言处理和应用的各个方面，以及语音相关领域的各类前沿进展。即将到来的大会有许多精彩的亮点，让我们先一睹为快吧！
- 大会亮点 -
4场精彩keynote报告
INTERSPEECH2020共邀请到4位重磅嘉宾发表主题演讲：分别是牛津大学的Janet B. Pierrehumbert教授，卡内基梅隆大学的BarbaraShinn-Cunningham教授，国立台湾大学的Lin-shan Lee教授和亚马逊的技术主管Shehzad Mevawalla。他们将分别在语言建模、语音听觉感知、口语技术和面向会话应用的底层语音交互技术四个方面发表精彩演讲。
8场高质量的线上Tutorials
本次大会为大家准备了8场涵盖语音识别、机器翻译、口语对话、自然语言处理、神经网络、语言辅助学习等方面的线上Tutorials，将于10月25日在线直播，届时可以免费观看，欢迎大家踊跃参加。
6场Workshops
本次大会共组织了6个语音语言处理与应用领域的Workshops，涵盖了音频检测、口语交互、带口音英语语音识别挑战赛、VoxCeleb 说话人识别挑战赛、声音转换挑战赛以及多语言编码转换语音技术。
①Speech, Music and Mind Workshop 2020: Detecting and Influencing Mental States with Audio
Date: 23, October, 2020
Webpage:http://www.csmcw-csmt.cn/SMM20/index.html
②Spoken Language Interaction for Mobile Transportation System
Date: 24, October, 2020
Webpage: https://outreach.didichuxing.com/internationalconference/interspeech2020/
③2020 Accented English Speech Recognition Challenge Workshop (2020 AESRC Workshop)
Date: 25, October, 2020
Webpage:https://www.datatang.ai/interspeech2020
④The VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge 2020 (VoxSRC-2020)
Date: 30, October, 2020
Webpage:http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/data/voxceleb/interspeech2020.html
⑤Joint Workshop for the Blizzard Challenge and Voice Conversion Challenge 2020
Date: 30, October, 2020
Webpage: http://www.vc-challenge.org
https://synsig.org/index.php/Blizzard_Challenge_2020
⑥First Workshop on Speech Technologies for code-switching in Multilingual Communities 2020
Date: 31, October, 2020
Webpage:https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/event/workshop-on-speech-technologies-for-code-switching-2020
13个研究主题，155个sessions
本次会议涵盖了语音语言处理和应用的多个研究领域，包括：
Speech Perception, Production and Acquisition
Phonetics, Phonology and Prosody
Analysis of Paralinguistics in Speech and Language
Speaker and Language Identification
Analysis of Speech and Audio Signals
Speech Coding and Enhancement
Speech Synthesis and Spoken Language Generation
Speech Recognition – Signal Processing, Acoustic Modeling Robustness and Adaptation
Speech Recognition – Architecture Search, and Linguistic Components
Speech Recognition – Technologies and Systems for New Applications
Spoken Language Processing – Dialog, Summarization and Understanding
Spoken Language Processing – Translation, Information Retrieval and Resources
Special Sessions
会议日程：https://interspeech2020.baai.ac.cn/
