The SiMPE workshop series started in 2006 with the goal of enabling speech processing on mobile and embedded devices to meet the challenges of pervasive environments (such as noise) and leveraging the context they offer (such as location). SiMPE 2010 and 2011 brought together researchers from the speech and the HCI communities. Multimodality got more attention in SiMPE 2008 than it had received in the previous years. In SiMPE 2007, the focus was on developing regions. Speech User interaction in cars was a focus area in 2009. We are also planning to launch a book on this topic at the SiMPE workshop this year.
With SiMPE 2012, the 7th in the series, we hope to explore the area of speech along with sound. When using the mobile in an eyes-free manner, it is natural and convenient to hear about notifications and events. The technologies underlying speech processing and sound processing are quite different and these communities have been working mostly independent of each other. And yet, for multimodal interactions on the mobile, it is perhaps natural to ask whether and how speech and sound can be mixed and used more effectively and naturally.
Goals of SiMPE
SiMPE has only two ambitious goals:
To provide a platform that brings together researchers
from speech processing, sound design, algorithm design, application
development and UI design to fuel faster growth of this
multi-disciplinary area.
To pose interesting problems to this community that
will foster cross-pollination of ideas and hopefully de-fine
the course that SiMPE research should take over
the coming years.
Intended Audience
This multi-disciplinary burgeoning area invites researchers interested in any aspect of the intersection of -- Speech processing, Sound interaction and Mobile computing, speech recognition, speech synthesis, multimodal interfaces, mobile HCI, mobile applications, voice user interface design, memory/energy efficient algorithms, UI design -- to meet and pave the way forward. We anticipate a good mix of international industrial and academic participation which should lead to lively discussions.
