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<body bgcolor="#f0f0f0" style="margin:0; padding:0;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:12px; color:#000000;"><div>Dear colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>please find below the call for papers for Interspeech, the world's leading conference on speech science and speech technology. This year it will take place in Hyderabad, India from 2-6 September.  </div><div><br></div><div>The theme of this year's conference is "Speech Research for Emerging Markets in Multilingual Societies", a highly relevant and timely topic.</div><div><br></div><div>More information on deadlines can be found below.</div><div><br></div><div>I hope to see many of you there,</div><div>Odette</div><br>------- Forwarded message -------<br>From: "Publicity, Interspeech 2018" <publicity@interspeech2018.org><br>To: o.scharenborg@let.ru.nl<br>Cc:<br>Subject: Interspeech 2018 Call for Papers<br>Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 20:01:48 +0100<br><br>
        
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