17th ITG Conference on Speech Communication

The 17th ITG Conference on Speech Communication will take place in Hamburg, Germany, from September 15 to 17, 2027, under the organization of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Timo Gerkmann from the University of Hamburg. The conference will bring together researchers, scientists, and practitioners to discuss recent advances, emerging challenges, and future perspectives in speech communication.

The conference aims to provide a stimulating forum for the exchange of innovative ideas, the presentation of cutting-edge research, and discussions that inspire new developments in this rapidly evolving field. While speech communication remains the central focus, we warmly invite contributions covering the full spectrum of theoretical foundations, algorithms, methods, and applications in speech, audio, and spoken language processing, including but not limited to the following topics:

  • Speech production and perception
  • Speech modeling, coding and transmission
  • Representation learning, self-supervised learning and foundation models
  • Generative models for speech and audio
  • Speech and audio language models
  • Speech enhancement, separation, dereverberation and echo control
  • Source localization, tracking and sensor array processing
  • Spatial audio, room acoustics and auralization
  • Automatic speech recognition, speaker recognition and diarization
  • Speech synthesis and voice conversion
  • Spoken interaction, dialogue and retrieval systems
  • Speech quality and intelligibility assessment
  • Speech translation and multilingual/low-resource speech
  • Paralinguistics, speech diagnostics and speech-related biosignals
  • Privacy, security and forensics in speech and audio
  • Audio-visual and multimodal speech processing
  • Detection and classification of acoustic scenes and events
  • Acoustic interfaces, assistive devices and hearing aids
  • Speech in automotive, mobile and multimodal applications
  • Efficient and on-device speech processing
  • Datasets, benchmarks and evaluation methodology

For further information about the conference, please visit the official conference website.