37.3634, Calls: 14th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop @ Interspeech 2027 (Brazil)

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Subject: 37.3634, Calls: 14th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop @ Interspeech 2027 (Brazil)

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Date: 03-Nov-2026
From: Sandra Maria Aluisio [sandra at icmc.usp.br]
Subject: 14th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop @ Interspeech 2027

Full Title: 14th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop @ Interspeech 2027
Short Title: SSW 2027
Theme: Speaking in sub-tongues: embracing culture, heritage and
diversity in Brazilian accents

Date: 06-Sep-2027 - 08-Sep-2027
Location: Maceió, Brazil
Contact Person: Sandra M Aluisio
Meeting Email: sandra at icmc.usp.br
Web Site: https://nilc-nlp.github.io/ssw-2027/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology
Subject Language(s): Portuguese (por, port1283)

Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2027

Call for Papers:
The Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW) is the main meeting place for
research and innovation in speech synthesis, i.e. predicting speech
signals from text input. Text-to-Speech (TTS) technology is a key
component of numerous applications: speech-to-speech translation,
digital assistants, conversational agents, social robots. While early
research focused on basic intelligibility, contemporary systems now
achieve remarkable naturalness. Current research frontiers include
emotional expression, speaking style control, and efficient deployment
for the world’s languages.
SSW welcomes contributions not only in the core TTS technology but
also gathers researchers from contributing sciences: from
phoneticians, phonologists, linguists, neuroscientists to experts of
multimodal human-machine interaction.
Since 1990, SSWs are held every three years under the auspices of
ISCA‘s special interest group SynSIG. In 2019, it was decided to have
an SSW every two years, since the technology is advancing faster these
days.
The 14th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop will be held in Maceió,
Brazil, 6 (Mon)- 8 (Wed) Sept 2027. The workshop is a satellite event
of the INTERSPEECH 2027 conference (São Paulo, Brazil).
Workshop Topics:
Papers in all areas of speech synthesis technology are encouraged to
be submitted, including but not limited to:
 - Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion for synthesis
 - Text processing for speech synthesis (text normalization, syntactic
and semantic analysis)
 - Segmental-level and/or concatenative synthesis
 - Signal processing/statistical model for synthesis
 - Speech synthesis paradigms and methods; articulatory synthesis,
parametric synthesis etc.
 - Prosody modeling and generation
 - Expression, emotion and personality generation
 - Voice conversion and modification, morphing
 - Concept-to-speech conversion speech synthesis in dialog systems
 - Avatars and talking faces
 - Cross-lingual and multilingual aspects for synthesis
 - Applications of synthesis technologies to communication disorders
 - TTS for embedded devices and computational issues
 - Tools and data for speech synthesis
 - Quality assessment/evaluation metrics in synthesis
 - Singing synthesis
 - Synthesis of non-human vocalisations
 - End-to-end text-to-speech synthesis
 - Direct speech waveform modelling and generation
 - Speech synthesis using non-ideal data (‘found’, user-contributed,
etc.)
 - Natural language generation for speech synthesis
Special Theme: Embracing culture, heritage and diversity in Brazilian
accents
Since the theme of this edition is Embracing culture, heritage and
diversity in Brazilian accents, the following key topics are also
proposed:
1. Preserving Regional Accent Markers: How to generate natural speech
that retains the phonetic and phonological identity of a specific
regional accent, including front end techniques such as accent aware
G2P conversion that reflects how words are articulated locally.
2. Accent Intensity Control: Modeling approaches that allow adjusting
the weight of an accent, from subtle to heavy, whether at the phrase
level, per phoneme, or as a continuous control parameter.
3. Prosody Control for Dialectal Variation: Dialects, going beyond
segmental features to capture the musicality of regional speech.
4. Low Resource Accent Modeling: Transfer learning, fine tuning, and
few shot strategies to create convincing regional accents when only
minutes or a handful of samples of labeled speech are available.
5. Evaluating Accented Speech: Naturalness, Identity, and Trade offs:
Analyses of the interplay between accent fidelity, overall
naturalness, and speaker identity preservation. What is gained or lost
when we prioritize one dimension over another.
Important Dates:
January 30, 2027        Paper Submission System Opens
April 01, 2027: Final paper submissio
June 21, 2027: Registration opens
June 21, 2027: Notification of acceptance
July 04, 2027   Camera-ready
Aug 29 - Sep 2, 2027: INTERSPEECH 2027, São Paulo, Brazil
September 6-8, 2027: SSW14, Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil
September 9, 2027: Blizzard Challenge 2027, Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil
Submission Instructions:
The workshop program will consist of a single track with three invited
talks, oral and poster presentations.
The deadline for submissions is April 1st, 2027, 23:59, Anywhere on
Earth. Make sure that your paper complies with all instructions and
specifications in the paper kit and with the ISCA Code of Ethics for
Authors.
Submission Guidelines:
1. Language: English
2. Paper Length:
Regular Papers: Up to 4 pages for the main content, plus up to 2
additional pages reserved exclusively for references, acknowledgments,
and disclosure of any generative AI tool use. Max 4+2 Pages
Long Papers: Up to 8 pages for the main content, plus up to 2
additional pages reserved exclusively for references, acknowledgments,
and disclosure of any generative AI tool use. Max 8+2 Pages
3. Abstract
A maximum of 1,000 characters, including spaces.
4. Double-Blind Review:
Interspeech 2027 uses a double-blind review process. Authors must
prepare an anonymized version for review and a camera-ready version
for final submission. Please follow all instructions in the Paper Kit,
which includes complying with the submission policy.
5. File Type:
Manuscripts must be submitted in PDF format only.
6. Layout and Templates:
Authors must use the Interspeech 2027 Paper Kit, available on the
conference website and through the Overleaf Template Gallery. Do not
reuse files from previous Interspeech templates, formatting and policy
updates have been made for 2027.
Note: For MS Word, both “review” and “camera ready” templates are
available in the Paper Kit. For LaTeX, there are different document
classes for “review” and “camera ready” documents. Please select the
appropriate one.
Submission Platform:
OpenReview Submission Portal
https://openreview.net/group?id=iscaconf.org/ISCA/2027/Workshop/SSW#tab-recent-activityhedule.
Double-blind reviews (authors and reviewers are anonymous) will be
performed. Please ensure that the author names and affiliations are
not visible in the submitted document and the submission does not
contain any information (references, repository addresses, etc.) that
could be used to identify the authors.
Please refrain from publishing the submissions on online platforms,
such as preprint repositories, during the review process.
Full papers will receive a DOI and be published in the ISCA online
archive.
Note: For complete information about SSW 2027, please visit the
website https://nilc-nlp.github.io/ssw-2027/

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