Area chairs

Human Speech Production, Speech and Language Acquisition

Doug Whalen - Haskins Laboratories - New-Haven - Connecticut - USA.
Véronique Delvaux - Service de Métrologie et Sciences du Langage - Université de Mons-Hainaut - Mons - Belgium.

Human Speech Perception, Interaction Production-Perception and Face-to-Face Communication

Jeesun Kim - MARCS Institute - University of Western Sydney - Sydney - Australia.
Martin Cooke - Language and Speech Laboratory - Universidad de Pais Vasco - Vitoria - Spain.

Linguistic Systems, Language Description, Languages in Contact, Sound Changes

Marianne Pouplier - Institut für Phonetik und Sprachverarbeitung - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität - München - Germany.
Marija Tabain - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - La Trobe University - Melbourne - Australia.

Speech and Hearing Disorders

Peter Howell - Dept. Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences - University College London - London - UK.
Suzanne Boyce - College of Allied Health Sciences - University of Cincinnati - USA.

Analysis of Speech, Audio Signals, Speech Coding, Speech Enhancement

Gael Richard - LTCI-CNRS - Télécom ParisTech - Paris - France.
Maurizio Omologo - Center for Information Technology (CIT) - Fondazione Bruno Kessler   - Trento -  Italy.
Yannis Stylianou - Computer Science Department - University of Crete - Heraklion - Crete - Greece.

Speech Synthesis, Audiovisual Speech Synthesis, Spoken Language Generation

Petra Wagner - Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft - Universität Bielefeld - Bielefeld - Germany.
Yoshinori Sagisaka - Global Information and Telecommunication Institute - Waseda University - Tokyo - Japan.

Speech Recognition: Signal Processing, Acoustic Modeling, Pronunciation, Robustness, Adaptation

Bin Ma - Human Language Technology - Institute for Infocom Research - Singapore.
Denis Jouvet - LORIA - Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France.
Mark Gales - Machine Intelligence Laboratory - University of Cambridge - Cambridge - UK.
Ralf Schlueter - Human Language Technology and Pattern Recognition - RWTH Aachen University - Aachen - Germany.

Speech Recognition: System, Architecture, Lexical and Linguistic Components, Language Modeling, Search

Helen Meng - Department of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management - The Chinese University of Hong Kong – China.
Thomas Hain - Department of Computer Science – University of Sheffield - Sheffield - UK.

Speaker Characterization, Speaker and Language Recognition

Claude Barras - LIMSI-CNRS - Université de Paris-Sud – Orsay - France.
Michael Wagner - Faculty of Information Sciences & Engineering - University of Canberra - Canberra - Australia.
Patrick Kenny - CRIM - Montréal - Canada.
Sanjeev Khudanpur - Center for Language and Speech Processing - Johns Hopkins University - Baltimore - USA.

Spoken Language Understanding, Dialog Systems, Spoken Information Retrieval, and Other Applications

Dilek Hakkani-Tur - Microsoft Research - Mountain View - California - USA.
Olivier Pietquin - Information, Multimodalité & Signal - Supelec Campus de Metz - Metz - France.
Satoshi Nakamura - Nara Institute of Science and Technology - Nara - Japan.

Metadata, Evaluation and Resources, NLP including MT applied to spoken data

Murat Saraçlar - Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering - Boğaziçi University - Istanbul - Turkey.
Stephanie Strassel - LDC - University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - USA.