The 16^th ITG Conference on Speech Communication will explore the theme of Speech Communication in the Age of Foundation Models. We hope that you will find this an area of pertinent debates and great innovation potential. We are, however, soliciting contributions on all areas of theory, algorithms and applications related to speech, audio, and spoken language processing, comprising especially:

List of Topics

• Foundation Models for Speech Processing
• Speech Enhancement and Separation
• Source Localization and Tracking
• Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events
• Automatic Speech and Speaker Recognition
• Spoken Dialogue, Diarization, and Spoken Document Retrieval Systems
• Speech Synthesis
• Speech Modeling, Coding, and Transmission
• LLMs & Speech Interaction
• Privacy in Speech Technologies
• Speech Production and Perception
• Speech Quality and Intelligibility Assessment
• Paralinguistics, Speech Diagnostics, and Speech‐related Biosignals
• Speech in Automotive, Mobile, and Multimodal Applications
• Acoustic Interfaces, Assistive Devices, and Hearing Aids
• Hardware and Software Tools
• Emerging Topics and Applications
• Self-supervised learning (SSL) from foundation models

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.

Keynote Speakers

• Ivan Tashev
• Sarah Verhulst
• Emmanuel Vincent

Publication

ITGSpeCon2025 proceedings will be published by IEEE Xplore

Venue

The conference will be held in Berlin, Germany.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to  itg-sc-25(at)qu.tu-berlin.de.