Invited Paper -- Analysing Speech for Clinical Applications -- Speech Synthesis and Spoken Language Generation -- DNN-based Speech Synthesis for Arabic: Modelling and Evaluation -- Phone-Level Embeddings for Unit Selection Speech Synthesis -- Disuency Insertion for Spontaneous TTS: Formalization and Proof of Concept -- Speech Recognition and Post-Processing -- Forced Alignment of the Phonologie du Français Contemporain Corpus -- A Syllable Structure Approach to Spoken Language Recognition -- Investigating a Hybrid Learning Approach for Robust Automatic Speech Recognition -- A Comparison of Adaptation Techniques and Recurrent Neural Network Architectures -- Restoring Punctuation and Capitalization Using Transformer Models -- Natural Language Processing and Understanding -- Arabic Name Entity Recognition Using Deep Learning -- Movie Genre Detection using Topological Data Analysis -- Low-Resource Text Classification using Domain-Adversarial Learning -- Handling Ellipsis in a Spoken Medical Phraselator -- Text Processing and Analysis -- Knowledge Transfer for Active Learning in Textual Anonymisation.