Dr Aidana Karibayeva
Al-Farabi Kazakh National University
Kazakhstan
a.s.karibayeva@gmail.com

Prof. Ualsher Tukeyev
Al-Farabi Kazakh National University
Kazakhstan
ualsher.tukeyev@gmail.com

Promote interdisciplinary dialogue between researchers in artificial intelligence and speech communication.
Highlight recent advances in AI-driven speech technologies, including synthesis, recognition, and evaluation.
Encourage collaboration across linguistics, computer science, and engineering to address challenges in low-resource languages.
Provide a platform for presenting innovative methods, applications, and case studies in speech communication.
Foster methodological transparency and reproducibility in AI and speech-related research.
Support young researchers by offering opportunities to share work and receive constructive feedback.

The scope of the session includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:

• Artificial Intelligence in Speech Processing
• Speech Synthesis and Voice Generation
• Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
• Dialogue Systems and Conversational AI
• Multimodal Communication (speech, text, vision)
• Evaluation Protocols for Speech Technologies
• Low-resource and endangered language applications
• Ethical and societal impacts of AI in speech
• Human–computer interaction through speech
• Cross-lingual and multilingual speech communication
• Large Language Models for Speech and Dialogue