INTRODUCTION

The International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques, COCOSDA, has been established to encourage and promote international interaction and cooperation in the foundation areas of Spoken Language Processing, especially for Speech Input/Output.

The importance of collaboration which transcends national boundaries is increasingly recognized. This is both because of the practical and scientific values attached to systematic work which encompasses a range of languages and analytic approaches and also because of the practical need to establish common methods of performance description and quantitative comparison.

The oriental chapter of COCOSDA (The International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques) is pleased to announce that the 10th Oriental COCOSDA Workshop will be held on December 4-6, in Hanoi hosted by the Institute of Information Technology (IOIT), Vietnamese Academy of Science (VAST). Oriental COCOSDA is an international workshop held annually by the oriental chapter of COCOSDA. The first preparatory meeting was held in Hong Kong in 1997and then the past nine workshops were held in Japan, Taiwan, China, Korea, Thailand, Singapore, India, Indonesia, Malaysia.

Oriental COCOSDA workshop in Hanoi, Vietnam will help in boosting the research and development in the field of Speech Technology and further enthuse interests towards Speech Technology in Southeast Asia.

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Dr. Alex Waibel, Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America.

Prof. Dr. Satoshi Nakamura, ATR Spoken Language Communication Research Labs, and National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan.
Dr. Haizhou Li, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore.
 
Important Dates 

Deadline Extension for abstract submission	Aug. 8, 2007
Submission of one page abstract	Aug. 1, 2007
Notification of acceptance of paper	Sep. 1, 2007
Final Manuscript	Oct. 5, 2007
Country Report	Oct. 15, 2007
Early Registration for authors	Oct. 15, 2007
Registration on or before	Nov. 5, 2007
Workshop	Dec. 4-6, 2007