Welcome to FONETIK 2025 – Växjö – May 21–23, 2025: Please pre-register now! It’s (still) about time, isn’t it? Dear all, This is a gentle, two-fold reminder: 1. First, for us, the organizing committee, to set-up a conference website, and provide a paper template and other relevant information! 2. Second, for all who are likely to attend, with or without a contribution, to pre-register! If possible, until February 14, 2025 (because our first love will always be phonetics…) As we haven’t provided any information whatsoever on how to pre-register, and the website is apparently not available yet, we now kindly ask you pre-register by writing to this e-mail: Gilbert.Ambrazaitis@lnu.se<mailto:Gilbert.Ambrazaitis@lnu.se> The conference website is ordered and will hopefully be available very soon. We will send out a new, short notice, when this is the case. You might also want to start planning potential paper/abstract contributions. Themes and submissions The conference covers any aspect of phonetics and speech science. Scientific areas include, but are not limited to: phonetics, phonology, linguistics, computational linguistics, gesture studies, speech and language pathology, pronunciation teaching, voice research, music and singing, conversation analysis, psychology, cognitive science, speech and language technology, signal processing, machine learning... Submissions by junior researchers, bachelor or master students, and/or researchers who have not yet been introduced to the FONETIK meeting are strongly encouraged! Two types of submissions are possible: Abstract-only submissions (300 words) and papers (up to 6 pages). As usual, there will be no peer review (enabling a rather late submission deadline), although we will request revisions of formal issues in case of significant deviations from the template. Important dates (again): * Pre-register for the conference: February 14, 2025 (Because our first love will always be phonetics) * Final registration and submission deadline (300-word abstract or 6-page paper): April 21, 2025 (Easter Monday) We look forward to seeing you in May! Gilbert Ambrazaitis, Federica Raschellà, Nathan Young (Organizing Committee for FONETIK 2025)