Have you registered for ETSI STQ Conference: Communications for All, taking place face to face on 13-14 May 2025 in ETSI Headquarters, Sophia Antipolis, France?

The theme of this year’s edition is Supporting Diversity and Accessibility through Quality of End-to-end Network Transmission and Devices in Human-to-human and Human-to-machine Communication.  

Explore the detailed programme online.

The conference will address the following key topics:

• Accessibility:
  • Overview of accessibility topics, relations to and impacts on standards.
  • Role of User Information Systems (UIS) in improving Quality of Experience (QoE) and accessibility solutions for speech understanding.
  • Addressing the needs of individuals with hearing impairments and ensuring compliance with accessibility standards in emergency services and consumer devices.
• Gender and inclusiveness: Exploring gender-related factors in speech transmission and perception, with insights from real-world applications and implications for design of future speech communication systems.
• Measures of quality in communication technologies, with a focus on accessibility.
• Speech Communication Standards: Considering accessibility in methods of evaluating speech communication systems.

The ETSI STQ Conference provides a unique opportunity for communities and individuals to highlight the technical challenges and development areas for speech and multimedia standardization.

We encourage the active participation of diverse groups of attendees to share insights on open technical areas, that might help guide the future work of ETSI STQ. Standardization of measurement and evaluation methods for speech and multimedia devices and networks is crucial to ensure that all users receive high quality of service and high quality of experience. 

Join us to share and gain valuable insights, engage with industry experts, and network with like-minded peers. Register now.

Participation to the event is open to all and free of charge upon mandatory registration.

We look forward to welcoming you to ETSI for the ETSI STQ Conference.