Scope: The IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing covers audio, speech and language processing and the sciences that support them. It includes practical areas of the design, development, and evaluation of speech- and text-processing systems along with their associated theory. It publishes application-oriented research, survey papers, and descriptions of novel applications. Audio processing topics include: transducers, room acoustics, active sound control, human audition, analysis/synthesis/coding of music, and consumer audio. Speech processing topics include: speech analysis, synthesis, coding, speech and speaker recognition, speech production and perception, and speech enhancement. Language processing topics include: speech and text analysis, understanding, generation, dialog management, translation, summarization, question answering and document indexing and retrieval, as well as general language modeling.

Machine learning and pattern analysis applied to any of the above areas is also welcome.