17–19 March 2027 · Sønderborg, Denmark
The 38th Annual Electronic Speech Signal Processing Conference at the University of Southern Denmark.
Welcome to Sønderborg
The 38th ESSV will take place from 17 to 19 March 2027 at the University of Southern Denmark in Sønderborg. The conference venue is the award-winning Alsion building, situated directly on the waterfront and only a few steps from the railway station, the harbour, hotels, cafés and the historic town centre.
ESSV brings together researchers, students, developers and practitioners working on spoken language, speech technology, acoustics, phonetics and intelligent communication systems. Alongside established research, we warmly welcome work in progress, Show & Tell demonstrations, theoretical discussions and contributions from industry and public institutions.
A little Danish warm-up
Paragraph 38 of the Danish Constitution has, in different versions, dealt with the right of the Folketing to meet and organise its own affairs: a rather fitting association for a scientific community coming together.
In a playful piece of Danish urban folklore, 38 is the age at which the Copenhagen city dweller finally leaves the compact apartment behind, discovers suburban hygge, a cargo bike and a serious barbecue. We cannot promise the barbecue, but we can promise the hygge.
Call for Abstracts and Papers
The conference spans a wide range of topics in speech processing. We therefore invite contributions in the following areas:
Phonetic, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic aspects in technical applications.
Studies and applications of paralinguistics, voice, affect, speaker states and speaking styles.
Acoustic and visual communication pattern recognition.
Human–robot interaction concepts, actions and communicative behaviour.
Voice interfaces for intelligent, mobile, industrial and everyday systems.
Speech–haptics interfaces and multimodal feedback concepts.
Speech-signal enhancement and speech communication under adverse conditions.
Applications and processing of music, biological and technical signals.
Speech synthesis, speech generation and expressive artificial voices.
Spoken and multimodal dialogue systems, conversational agents and interaction design.
Quality assessment of spoken language, speech technology and communication systems.
Measurement, processing and modelling of articulation and speech production.
Cognitive modelling, neural systems and interdisciplinary approaches to communication.
Speech technology for industrial, domestic and public-service applications.
Speech recognition, natural-language understanding and robust spoken-language processing.
All accepted contributions will be published in the conference proceedings in the Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation series by TUDpress and in the public ESSV online archive. A Best Student Paper Award will also be presented.
Important Dates
The timeline below follows the established ESSV rhythm and will be confirmed officially with the full call for papers.
Submission of a short abstract in accordance with the ESSV guidelines.
Authors will be informed about the reviewing decision.
Submission of the final paper, up to eight pages.
Deadline for the reduced early-registration fee.
Three days of talks, posters, demonstrations and exchange in Sønderborg.
Exact submission and registration deadlines will be published here as soon as they are final.
Why Sønderborg?
Alsion combines modern lecture rooms, open networking areas and waterfront views in one compact conference venue.
Railway station, university, hotels, harbour, restaurants and the historic centre are all close together.
Sønderborg sits in the Danish–German border region and the campus brings together engineering, acoustics, phonetics and international collaboration.
Hosted by SDU
ESSV 2027 is hosted by the CIE Acoustics Lab at the University of Southern Denmark. Further information on the programme, registration, submission guidelines, accommodation and travel will be added continuously.
ESSV 2027 Conference Office
CIE Acoustics Lab · University of Southern Denmark
Alsion 2 · DK-6400 Sønderborg · Denmark