Subject: [AUDITORY] CFP: 2024 Interspeech AVSEC-3 Challenge Workshop & IEEE JSTSP Special Issue From: "Hussain, Amir" <0000016168b2549a-dmarc-request@xxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 26 May 2024 20:05:06 +0000--_000_LO6P302MB001446A05B69700D670CBA32D3F72LO6P302MB0014GBRP_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Call for papers: 2024 Interspeech Satellite Workshop: Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement Challe= nge (AVSEC-3) & IEEE JSTSP Special Issue Dear all (with apologies for any cross-postings) We are running the third international edition of the audio-visual speech e= nhancement (AVSEC-3) as a Satellite Workshop of Interspeech 2024 in Kos, Gr= eece, on 1st September (http://challenge.cogmhear.org<http://challenge.cogm= hear.org/>) The Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement Challenge (AVSEC) sets the first benchm= ark in the field, providing a common framework for the evaluation of audio-= visual speech enhancement and separation systems. The evaluation protocol c= onsists of listening tests with human participants. Building upon two succe= ssful editions of the Challenge (IEEE SLT 2022 and ASRU 2023), we expect th= e third edition to further advance system performance. Additionally, AVSEC-= 3 will serve as a networking and collaborative platform for participants to= reflect on the scope, limitations, and challenges in designing and evaluat= ing audio-visual speech and hearing technologies. To register for the challenge please follow the guidelines on the website: https://challenge.cogmhear.org/#/getting-started/register Challenge datasets: https://challenge.cogmhear.org/#/challenge-data/data-sp= ec Important Dates: * 16th February 2024: Release of training and development data. * 22nd March 2024: Release of low-latency baseline system. * 6th of May: Evaluation data release. * 10th April 2024: Leaderboard open for submissions. * 10th of May: Leaderboard open for submissions. * 7th of June: Paper submission opens. * 20th June/2024: Deadline for challenge submissions. * 28th June 2024: Paper submission closes. * 12th July: Acceptance notification. * 26th July: early release of evaluation results. * 1st August 2024: camera-ready paper. AVSEC-3 Workshop proceedings<https://challenge.cogmhear.org/#/getting-start= ed/submission?id=3Davsec-3-challenge-proceedings-submission-and-workshop-re= gistration> We invite prospective authors to submit either 2-page extended abstracts or= full-length papers of 4-6 pages following the INTERSPEECH 2024 paper templ= ate. All accepted papers will be published in ISCA Proceedings. We welcome submissions from participants of both the second (AVSEC-2) and t= hird editions (AVSEC-3) of the Challenge and also invite submissions on rel= ated research topics, including but not limited to the following: - Low-latency approaches to audio-visual speech enhancement and separation. - Human auditory-inspired models of multi-modal speech perception and enhan= cement. - Energy-efficient audio-visual speech enhancement and separation methods. - Machine learning for diverse target listeners and diverse listening scena= rios. - Audio quality and intelligibility assessment of audio-visual speech enhan= cement systems. - Objective metrics to predict quality and intelligibility from audio-visua= l stimuli. - Understanding human speech perception in competing speaker scenarios. - Clinical applications and live demonstrators of audio-visual speech enhan= cement and separation, (e.g. multi-modal hearing assistive technologies for= hearing-impaired listeners; speech-enabled communication aids to support a= utistic people with speech disorders). - Accessibility and human-centric factors in the design and evaluation of i= nnovative multimodal technologies, including multi-modal corpus development= , public perceptions, ethics considerations, standards, societal, economic = and political impacts. IEEE JSTSP Special Issue Authors of selected AVSEC-3 Workshop papers (including winners and runner-u= ps of each Challenge Track) will be invited to submit significantly extende= d papers for consideration in a Special Issue of the IEEE Journal of Select= ed Topics in Signal Processing (JSTSP) on "Deep Multimodal Speech Enhanceme= nt and Separation" - CFP available below and here: https://signalprocessing= society.org/publications-resources/special-issue-deadlines/ieee-jstsp-speci= al-issue-deep-multimodal-speech-enhancement-and-separation - full manuscrip= t submission deadline: 30 Sep 2024) Workshop registration: Workshop registration costs: * Non-member registration: =8045 EUR * Non-member student registration: =8030 EUR * Member registration: =8040 EUR * Member student registration: =8025 EUR Further information about the workshop registration process will be made av= ailable soon through the Challenge website and mailing list. We look forward to seeing you in Kos. 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Find out more on the contactSCOTLAND website= . --_000_LO6P302MB001446A05B69700D670CBA32D3F72LO6P302MB0014GBRP_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html> <head> <meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3DWindows-1= 252"> <style type=3D"text/css" style=3D"display:none;"> P {margin-top:0;margin-bo= ttom:0;} </style> </head> <body dir=3D"ltr"> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"direction: ltr; text-align: center; = line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-family: Aptos,= Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; f= ont-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style=3D"font-weight: 700;">Call for papers:</span></div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"direction: ltr; text-align: center; = line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-family: Aptos,= Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; f= ont-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style=3D"font-weight: 700;">2024 Interspeech Satellite Workshop: Audi= o-Visual Speech Enhancement Challenge (AVSEC-3) & IEEE JSTSP Special Is= sue</span></div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFo= nt, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; c= olor: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> Dear all (with apologies for any cross-postings) &nb= sp; </div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; m= argin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont,= Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; colo= r: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; m= argin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont,= Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; colo= r: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> We are running the third international edition of the audio-visual speech e= nhancement (AVSEC-3) as a Satellite Workshop of Interspeech 2024 in Kos, Gr= eece, on 1st September (<span style=3D"color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><a href= =3D"http://challenge.cogmhear.org/" id=3D"OWA3376f7a9-f483-02b3-9fc2-6a18bd= b4a60a" class=3D"x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth=3D"NotApplicable" data-loopstyle= =3D"linkonly" style=3D"color: rgb(70, 120, 134); text-decoration: none;">ht= tp://challenge.cogmhear.org</a></span>)</div> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bo= ttom: 0pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Cal= ibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bo= ttom: 0pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Cal= ibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> The Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement Challenge (AVSEC) sets the first benchm= ark in the field, providing a common framework for the evaluation of audio-= visual speech enhancement and separation systems. The evaluation protocol c= onsists of listening tests with human participants. Building upon two successful editions of the Challenge= (IEEE SLT 2022 and ASRU 2023), we expect the third edition to further adva= nce system performance. Additionally, AVSEC-3 will serve as a networking an= d collaborative platform for participants to reflect on the scope, limitations, and challenges in designing and eval= uating audio-visual speech and hearing technologies.</div> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bo= ttom: 0pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Cal= ibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bo= ttom: 0pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Cal= ibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> To register for the challenge please follow the guidelines on the website:<= /div> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bo= ttom: 0pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Cal= ibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style=3D"color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><a href=3D"https://challenge.cogm= hear.org/#/getting-started/register" id=3D"OWA605be440-b2c6-e458-a6ed-51ea4= e437e7a" class=3D"x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth=3D"NotApplicable" data-loopstyle= =3D"linkonly" style=3D"color: rgb(70, 120, 134); text-decoration: none;">ht= tps://challenge.cogmhear.org/#/getting-started/register</a></span> </d= iv> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; m= argin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont,= Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; colo= r: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Challenge datasets: <a href=3D"https://challenge.cogmhear.org/#/challenge-d= ata/data-spec" id=3D"OWA5e211a9f-24bb-ca55-15a3-fcde4cac00eb" class=3D"x_OW= AAutoLink" data-auth=3D"NotApplicable" data-loopstyle=3D"linkonly" style=3D= "color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;"> https://challenge.cogmhear.org/#/challenge-data/data-spec</a> </div> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bo= ttom: 0pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Cal= ibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; m= argin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont,= Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; colo= r: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style=3D"font-weight: 700;">Important Dates</span>:</div> <ul style=3D"direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> <li style=3D"font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, C= alibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direct= ion: ltr; margin-left: 18pt; list-style-type: disc;"> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bo= ttom: 0pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Cal= ibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> 16th February 2024: Release of training and development data. </div> </li><li style=3D"font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontServi= ce, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); d= irection: ltr; margin-left: 18pt; list-style-type: disc;"> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bo= ttom: 0pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Cal= ibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> 22nd March 2024: Release of low-latency baseline system.</div> </li><li style=3D"font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontServi= ce, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); d= irection: ltr; margin-left: 18pt; list-style-type: disc;"> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bo= ttom: 0pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Cal= ibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> 6th of May: Evaluation data release.</div> </li><li style=3D"font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontServi= ce, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); d= irection: ltr; margin-left: 18pt; list-style-type: disc;"> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bo= ttom: 0pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Cal= ibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> 10th April 2024: Leaderboard open for submissions. </div> </li><li style=3D"font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontServi= ce, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); d= irection: ltr; margin-left: 18pt; list-style-type: disc;"> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bo= ttom: 0pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Cal= ibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> 10th of May: Leaderboard open for submissions.</div> </li><li style=3D"font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontServi= ce, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); d= irection: ltr; margin-left: 18pt; list-style-type: disc;"> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bo= ttom: 0pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Cal= ibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> 7th of June: Paper submission opens.</div> </li><li style=3D"font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontServi= ce, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; colo= r: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr; margin-left: 18pt; list-style-type: disc;"= > <div style=3D"direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bo= ttom: 0pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Cal= ibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style=3D"font-weight: 700;">20th June/2024: Deadline for challenge su= bmissions.</span></div> </li><li style=3D"font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontServi= ce, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; colo= r: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr; margin-left: 18pt; list-style-type: disc;"= > <div style=3D"direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bo= ttom: 0pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Cal= ibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style=3D"font-weight: 700;">28th June 2024: Paper submission closes.&= nbsp;</span></div> </li><li style=3D"font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontServi= ce, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); d= irection: ltr; margin-left: 18pt; list-style-type: disc;"> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bo= ttom: 0pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Cal= ibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> 12th July: Acceptance notification. </div> </li><li style=3D"font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontServi= ce, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); d= irection: ltr; margin-left: 18pt; list-style-type: disc;"> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bo= ttom: 0pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Cal= ibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> 26th July: early release of evaluation results.</div> </li><li style=3D"font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontServi= ce, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); d= irection: ltr; margin-left: 18pt; list-style-type: disc;"> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bo= ttom: 0pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Cal= ibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> 1st August 2024: camera-ready paper. </div> </li></ul> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bo= ttom: 0pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Cal= ibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; m= argin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 8pt; font-family: Apto= s, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;= font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style=3D"font-weight: 700;"><a href=3D"https://challenge.cogmhear.org= /#/getting-started/submission?id=3Davsec-3-challenge-proceedings-submission= -and-workshop-registration" id=3D"OWAa20c5fff-3e21-5675-51b0-fccb8c1775b2" = class=3D"x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth=3D"NotApplicable" data-loopstyle=3D"linko= nly" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">AVSEC-3 Workshop proceedings</a></span></div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; m= argin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 8pt; font-family: Apto= s, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;= font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> We invite prospective authors to submit either 2-page extended abstracts or= full-length papers of 4-6 pages following the INTERSPEECH 2024 paper templ= ate. All accepted papers will be published in ISCA Proceedings. </div> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bo= ttom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 8pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Ap= tos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: = rgb(0, 0, 0);"> We welcome submissions from participants of both the second (AVSEC-2) and t= hird editions (AVSEC-3) of the Challenge and also invite submissions o= n related research topics, including but not limited to the following:</div= > <div style=3D"direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bo= ttom: 0pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Cal= ibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> - Low-latency approaches to audio-visual speech enhancement and separation.= </div> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bo= ttom: 0pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Cal= ibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> - Human auditory-inspired models of multi-modal speech perception and enhan= cement.</div> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bo= ttom: 0pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Cal= ibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> - Energy-efficient audio-visual speech enhancement and separation methods.<= /div> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bo= ttom: 0pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Cal= ibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> - Machine learning for diverse target listeners and diverse listening scena= rios.</div> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bo= ttom: 0pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Cal= ibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> - Audio quality and intelligibility assessment of audio-visual speech enhan= cement systems.</div> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bo= ttom: 0pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Cal= ibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> - Objective metrics to predict quality and intelligibility from audio-visua= l stimuli.</div> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bo= ttom: 0pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Cal= ibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> - Understanding human speech perception in competing speaker scenarios.</di= v> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bo= ttom: 0pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Cal= ibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> - Clinical applications and live demonstrators of audio-visual speech enhan= cement and separation, (e.g. multi-modal hearing assistive technologies for= hearing-impaired listeners; speech-enabled communication aids to support a= utistic people with speech disorders).</div> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bo= ttom: 0pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Cal= ibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> - Accessibility and human-centric factors in the design and evaluation of i= nnovative multimodal technologies, including multi-modal corpus development= , public perceptions, ethics considerations, standards, societal, economic = and political impacts. </div> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bo= ttom: 0pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Cal= ibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bo= ttom: 0pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Cal= ibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style=3D"font-weight: 700;">IEEE JSTSP Special Issue</span></div> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; 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