This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Text 
Speech  and Dialogue  TSD 2016  held in Brno  CzechRepublic  in September 2016. The 62 papers
presented together with 3 abstracts of invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from
127 submissions. They focus on topics such as corpora and language resources  speech
recognition  tagging  classification and parsing of text and speech  speech and spoken language
generation  semantic processing of text and speech  integrating applications of text and speech
processing  automatic dialogue systems  as well as multimodal techniques and modelling.