The 23rd Conference of Oriental COCOSDA will be hosted by the University of Computer Studies, Yangon, Myanmar. The purpose of Oriental COCOSDA is to exchange ideas, share information and discusses regional matters on creation, utilization, dissemination of spoken language corpora of oriental languages and also on the assessment methods of speech recognition/synthesis systems as well as to promote speech research on oriental languages. Hosting Oriental COCOSDA for the first time in Myanmar will continue to help boost the research and development in the field of speech technology and for further enthusiasm towards speech technology in East and Southeast Asia.

We invite papers describing substantial, original and unpublished research covering aspects of speech databases, assessments and speech I/O, including, but not limited to:

• Assessment of speech input and output technologies
• Multilingual speech corpora
• Phonetic/phonological systems for Oriental languages
• Romanization of Non-Roman characters
• Segmentation and labeling
• Special topics on speech databases and assessments
• Speech databases and text corpora
• Speech processing models and systems
• Speech prosody and labeling
• Standardization