Speech Communication is an interdisciplinary journal whose primary objective is to fulfil the need for the rapid dissemination and thorough discussion of basic and applied research results. In order to establish frameworks to inter-relate results from the various areas of the field, emphasis will be placed on viewpoints and topics of a transdisciplinary nature. The editorial policy and the technical content of the Journal are the responsibility of the Editors and the Institutional Representatives. The Institutional Representatives assist the Editors in the definition and the control of editorial policy as well as in maintaining connections with scientific associations, international congresses and regional events. The Editorial Board contributes towards the gathering of material for publication and assists the Editors in the editorial process.
Editorial Policy:
The journal's primary objectives are: 
• to present a forum for the advancement of human and human-machine speech communication science; 
• to stimulate cross-fertilization between different fields of this domain; 
• to contribute towards the rapid and wide diffusion of scientifically sound contributions in this domain. 
Subject Coverage:
Subject areas covered in this journal include: 
• Basics of oral communication and dialogue: modelling of production and perception processes; phonetics and phonology; syntax; semantics and pragmatics of speech communication; cognitive aspects.
• Models and tools for language learning: functional organisation and developmental models of human language capabilities; acquisition and rehabilitation of spoken language; speech & hearing defects and aids.
• Speech signal processing: analysis, coding, transmission, enhancement, robustness to noise.
• Models for automatic speech communication: speech recognition; language identification; speaker recognition; speech synthesis; oral dialogue.
• Development and evaluation tools: monolingual and multilingual databases; assessment methodologies; specialised hardware and software packages; field experiments; market development.
• Multimodal human computer interface: using speech I/O in combination with other modalities, e.g., gesture and handwriting.
• Forensic speech science: forensic voice comparison; forensic analysis of disputed utterances; speaker identification by earwitnesses.

Original Full-length Research and Review articles

Editor-in-Chief
F. Bimbot
National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris, France
Subject Editors
M. Bacchiani
Google, Inc., Mountain View, California, United States
V. Dellwo
University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
V. Delvaux
University of Mons, Mons, Belgium
S. Ganapathy
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
M.T. Johnson
Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
J. Li
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
A. Rosenberg
Queens College, Flushing, New York, United States
J. Tao
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
S. Watanabe
Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Institutional Representatives
S. Furui
Tokyo Institute of Technology School of Computing Department of Computer Science, Tokyo, Japan
J.-L. Gauvain
Paris-Sud University, Orsay, France
J. Hirschberg
Columbia University, New York, New York, United States
J.J. Ohala
University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States
Editorial Board
A. Alwan
University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
M. Beckman
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, Columbus, Ohio, United States
J. Bellegarda
Apple Inc, Cupertino, California, United States
A.W. Black
Carnegie Mellon University Language Technologies Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
L. Boves
Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
K. Choukri
European Language Resources Association, Paris, France
A. Cutler
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands
T. Dutoit
University of Mons, Mons, Belgium
J. Flege
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
S. Furui
Tokyo Institute of Technology School of Computing Department of Computer Science, Tokyo, Japan
P.N. Garner
Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland
J. Gustafson
KTH Royal Institute of Technology Department of Speech Music and Hearing, Stockholm, Sweden
J.P. Haton
Inria Research Centre Nancy Grand Est, Villers les Nancy, France
H. Hermansky
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
K. Hirose
The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, Japan
M.J. Hunt
Novauris Laboratories UK Ltd, Bishops Cleeve, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
D. Jouvet
Inria Research Centre Nancy Grand Est, Villers les Nancy, France
K. Kirchhoff
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
L.F. Lamel
K. Maekawa
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tachikawa, Japan
B. Mak
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Kowloon, Hong Kong
J.B. Millar
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
B. Möbius
Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany
J.D. Moore
The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
R.K. Moore
The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
R. de Mori
Avignon University, Avignon, France
G.S. Morrison
Aston University, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
E. Nöth
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
M. Picheny
IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, United States
R. Rose
Google Inc, Mountain View, California, United States
T. Schultz
Carnegie Mellon University Language Technologies Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
S. Seneff
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
E. Shriberg
University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States
T. Svendsen
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
C. Wellekens
EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France
P. Woodland
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Th.F. Zheng
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China