Speech prosody is central in speech synthesis, language skill assessment, interactive systems, and other applications, and recent technical advances have enabled the creation of systems with amazing prosody-related abilities. This panel will give the Speech Prosody research community a broad sense of the state of the art and current concerns in prosody in the speech technology community. 

Topics: Different perceptions of the scope of “prosody” and the associated value propositions; methods and models found most useful in practice; changes in the prosody landscape over the past five years; priority wishlists for new knowledge, methods, and tools; reflections on career paths and strategies; trends and future projections; audience-suggested topics. 

Format: Introductions, position statements, discussions of suggested topics, audience questions, small-group break-out discussions, further plenary discussion, and closing thoughts.