Speech Prosody is the study of intonation and related phenomena, including pitch, loudness, timing, speech rate, and voicing properties. Central topics include the melody and rhythm of speech and how these contribute to meaning at the word, utterance and discourse levels. Prosody is important in phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics and speech signal processing, and models of prosody are being applied to problems in speech synthesis, speech therapy, language teaching, dialog systems and many other fields.
The Speech Prosody Special Interest Group has approximately 1100 members from over 30 countries. The SIG is dedicated to advancing the scientific study of speech prosody and its applications. It does this through
- The SProSIG mailing list, with typically one or two announcements a month. To join, send mail to list at-sign sprosig.org to be added to the list and our membership roster.
- The Speech Prosody conference, the interdisciplinary conference on all aspects of speech prosody: linguistic, paralinguistic, technical, psycholinguistic, applications, and so on. SP meets in even-numbered years, typically attracts around 300 participants, and is indexed by EI.
- The SProSIG virtual lecture series, featuring an hour of lecture and discussion most months. Lecturers alternate between distinguished and rising researchers.
- Liaison with other events and groupings, including the Tone and Intonation conference series, which, with typically around 200 attendees, meets odd-numbered years.
Upcoming Events
Speech Prosody, 2028
We have two candidate locations for the 2028 conference:
The selection will be made by the members; voting will start around June 12 and run through June 30.SProSIG Lecture Series
- Xiaoming Jiang, September 4th, 1pm Campinas time
- Peggy Mok, October 21st, 8am Campinas time
- Sacha Calhoun, November 17th, 5pm Campinas time