The special session invites original research on all aspects of singing synthesis. Authors are strongly encouraged to address the Fill-in the gap challenge. Topics includes:

• Analysis of singing
• Grapheme to phoneme conversion and linguistic aspects lyrics synthesis
• Prosodic aspects of singing synthesis
• Voice quality in singing
• Signal processing for singing
• Voice transformation for singing
• Voice quality in singing
• Voice personality in singing
• Evaluation and assessment of synthetic singing quality
• Singing instruments
• Text-to-chant systems
• Multimodal singing synthesis
• Multilingual singing synthesis
• Social aspects of singing synthesis