8th International Seminar on Speech Production - ISSP 2008
We are pleased to announce that the eighth International Seminar on Speech
Production - ISSP 2008 will be held in Strasbourg, Alsace, France from the
8th to the 12th of December, 2008. We are looking forward to continuing the
tradition established at previous ISSP meetings in Grenoble, Leeds, Old
Saybrook, Autrans, Kloster Seeon, Sydney, and Ubatuba of providing a
congenial forum for presentation and discussion of current research in all
aspects of speech production.

The following invited speakers have accepted to present their ongoing
research works:
Vincent Gracco
Sadao Hiroya
Alexis Michaud
Marianne Pouplier
Gregor Schoener

Topics covered Topics of interest for ISSP'2008 include, but are not 
restricted to the following: · Articulatory-acoustic relations · 
Perception-action control · Intra- and inter-speaker variability · 
Articulatory synthesis · Acoustic to articulatory inversion · Connected 
speech processes · Coarticulation · Prosody · Biomechanical modeling · 
Models of motor control · Audiovisual synthesis · Aerodynamic models and 
data · Cerebral organization and neural correlates of speech · Disorders of 
speech motor control · Instrumental techniques · Speech and language 
acquisition · Audio-visual speech perception · Plasticity of speech 
production and perception In addition, the following special sessions are 
currently being planned: 1. Speech inversion (Yves Laprie) 2. Experimental 
techniques investigating speech (Susanne Fuchs and Pascal Perrier) For 
abstract submission, please include: 1) the name(s) of the author(s); 2) 
affiliations, a contact e-mail address; 3) whether you prefer an oral or a 
poster presentation in the first lines of the body of the message. All 
abstracts should be no longer than 2 pages (font 12 points, Times) and 
written in English. Deadline for abstract submission is the 28th of March 
2008. All details can be viewed at http://issp2008.loria.fr/ Notification 
of acceptance will be given on the 21st of April, 2008.

The organizers:
Rudolph Sock
Susanne Fuchs
Yves Laprie