Speech communication integrated with other modalities

This brief paper is an editorial for the special issue on “Speech communication integrated with other modalities”. This special issue contains extended versions of selected topical papers from the 19th International Conference on Speech and Computer SPECOM-2017, organized on 12–16 September 2017 in Hatfield, UK. Five extended articles were selected for this special issue, all of which deal with speech-based human–computer communication jointly with visual, textual and/or other interaction modalities. The first three papers study various aspects of multimodal human–computer interaction, and in the remaining two papers, the authors study the video components of audio-visual speech recognition systems. In this editorial, we present an overview of the accepted articles and the selection process.