The purpose of Oriental COCOSDA (the oriental chapter of COCOSDA) is to exchange ideas, to share information and to discuss regional matters on creation, utilization, dissemination of spoken language corpora of oriental languages and also on the assessment methods of speech recognition/synthesis systems as well as promote speech research on oriental languages.

The annual Oriental COCOSDA international conference is the flag conference of Oriental COCOSDA. The first preparatory meeting was held in Hong Kong in 1997 and then the past 19 conferences were held in Japan, Taiwan, China, Korea, Thailand, Singapore, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Malaysia and Nepal. The 20th Oriental COCOSDA Conference will be held on Nov. 1-3, in Seoul, Korea hosted by the The Korean Society of Speech Sciences (KSSS)