Chairperson: Vicente Garcerán Hernández. Co-chair: Pedro Gómez-Vilda

This special session is focused in bio-inspired applications for speaker and speech recognition. To bring together researchers from multiple areas of knowledge, interested in studying and using models and techniques inspired from or applied to biological auditory system. How human can process voice and recognize speaker and speech is a challenge today. The aim of this session is to provide a forum to discuss about theoretical or application works based on bio-inspired systems and techniques, according to the following topics: