Papers in all areas of distant-talking human/human and human/machine interaction are encouraged, including:

• Multi-channel and single-channel approaches for speech acquisition, noise suppression, source localization and separation, dereverberation, echo cancellation, and acoustic event detection

• Speech and speaker recognition technology for hands-free scenarios, including robust acoustic modeling, novel features, feature enhancement, dereverberation, and model adaptation

• Microphone array technology and architectures, especially for distant-talking speech recognition and acoustic scene analysis

• Multi-channel rendering, including spatial audio for immersive environments, improvements to intelligibility in noisy environments, and privacy of speech communications

• Speech corpora for training and evaluation of distant-talking speech systems

• Applications based on microphone arrays and hands-free speech systems.