CHiME 2016
              4th International Workshop on
        Speech Processing in Everyday Environments

           Google, San Francisco, Sep 13, 2016

        Extended abstract submission: Aug 19, 2016
           Registration deadline: Sept 8, 2016

       http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/chime_workshop/
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NEWS

Registration has opened on June 13. Seats are filling up fast. If you plan to attend we
recommend registering as early as possible!

Thanks to the generosity of our sponsor Google, we will provide 7 travel grants of US$
200 each. Grants will be provided on a first come first served basis.

To register, see http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/chime_workshop/registration.html.


ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

CHiME 2016 will bring together researchers from the fields of computational hearing,
speech enhancement, acoustic modelling and machine learning to discuss the robustness of
speech processing in everyday environments.

As a focus for discussion, the workshop will host the CHiME-4 Speech Separation and
Recognition Challenge. To find out more about the challenge, see
http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/chime_challenge/.


PAPER SUBMISSION

Relevant research topics include (but are not limited to):
- training schemes: data augmentation, semi-supervised training,
- speaker localization and beamforming,
- single- or multi-microphone enhancement and separation,
- robust features and feature transforms,
- robust acoustic and language modeling,
- robust speech recognition,
- robust speaker and language recognition,
- robust paralinguistics,
- cross-environment or cross-dataset performance analysis,
- environmental background noise modelling.

Papers reporting evaluation results on the CHiME-4 dataset or on other datasets are both
welcome.


IMPORTANT DATES

19th Aug, 2016    ?  Extended abstract submission (2 pages)
24th Aug, 2016    ?  Paper notification
13th Sept, 2016   ?  CHiME-4 Workshop
14th Oct, 2016    ?  Final paper (2 to 6 pages)


ORGANISERS

Emmanuel Vincent, Inria
Shinji Watanabe, MERL
Jon Barker & Ricard Marxer, University of Sheffield


LOCAL ORGANISER

Kean Chin, Google


SPONSORS

Google
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL)


SUPPORTED BY

International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
ISCA Robust Speech Processing SIG