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 12th Oriental COCOSDA Workshop will be held on Aug. 10-12, in Urumqi, China hosted by the School of Information Science and Engineering of Xinjiang University. Oriental COCOSDA is an international workshop held annually by the oriental chapter of COCOSDA. The first preparatory meeting was held in Hong Kong in 1997 and then the past eleven workshops were held in the following countries or regions: Japan, Taiwan, China, Korea, Thailand, Singapore, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and Japan.