Message from the Oriental-COCOSDA Convener

Welcome to Oriental-COCOSDA 2011 at Hsinchu, Taiwan. This is the 14^th annual conference of Oriental-COCOSDA, the Oriental chapter of the International Coordinating Committee on Speech Databases and Speech I/O Systems and Assessment. From 1998, annual meetings have been held at Tsukuba, Taipei, Beijing, Jeju, Huahin, Singapore, Delhi, Jakarta, Penang, Hanoi, Beijing, Kyoto, Katmandu and this year Hsinchu. I would like to thank the colleagues from Taiwan and headed by Conference Chair Professor Hsiao-Chuan Wang for making the event possible this time in Taiwan.