Dear Speech Scientist:

IARPA and NIST are pleased to announce a new speech recognition challenge: OpenASR. Registration is still open.
The goal of the OpenASR (Open Automatic Speech Recognition) evaluation is to develop methods to quickly develop speech recognition systems in a variety of genres from low-resource languages, with minimal amounts of training data. Training data for ten languages will be released to aspirants, with two evaluations conditions: constrained and unconstrained.
The OpenASR challenge was developed out of IARPA's MATERIAL program
< https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/material>, but only evaluates WER for ASR.

For more information on the OpenASR timeline and participation details,  please refer to the OpenASR webpage:
https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/openasr-challenge

For the registration page, please visit: https://sat.nist.gov/openasr20
Participation is open to Everyone. Feel free to spread the word to interested participants.

Thanks,

The OpenASR Team at IARPA and NIST