Languages of the World, Doha, Qatar

9^th to 12^th January, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS IS ALREADY OPEN

The2022 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop(SLT2022) will be held on 9th - 12th January 2023 at Doha, Qatar. SLT 2022 will be the first speech conference to have visited the Middle East and the first speech conference to be held in an Arabic speaking nation.

The SLT Workshop is a flagship event of IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee. The workshop is held every two years and has a tradition of bringing together researchers from academia and industry in an intimate and collegial setting to discuss problems of common interest in automatic speech recognition and understanding.

MoreInformation:

https://slt2022.org

We invite papers in all areas of spoken language processing, with emphasis placed on the following topics:

Automatic speech recognition

Conversational/multispeaker ASR Far-field speech processing

Speaker and language recognition Spoken language understanding

Spoken dialog systems

Low resource/multilingual

Language processing

Spokendocumentretrieval

Speech-to-speech translation Text-to-speech systems Speech summarization

New applications of automatic speech recognition

Audio-visual/Multimodal speech processing

Emotion recognition from speech

SLT2022 will also feature Speech Hackathon to provide a hands-on

element for students and young professionals.

Important dates

Paper submission: July15,2022

Paper Update: July21,2022

Rebuttal period: August26-31,2022

Paper Notification: Sept30,2022

Early Registration Period:Oct,2022

Speech Hackathon: Jan8-9,2023

Arabic Speech Meeting: Jan13,2023

GeneralChair

Ahmed Ali(QCRI)

Bhuvana Ramabhadran(Google)

Technical chairs

Shinji Watanabe(CarnegieMellonUniversity)

Mona Diab(FaceBook)

Sanjeev Khudanpur(JohnsHopkinsUniversity)

Julia Hirschberg(ColumbiaUniversity)

Murat Saraclar(BogaziciUniversity)

Marc Delcroix(NTTCommunicationScienceLaboratories)

Regional publicity chairs

Sebastian Möller(TUBerlin)

Tomoki Toda (Nagoya University)

Finance chair

Jan Trmal(JohnsHopkinsUniversity)

Juan Rafael Orozco Arroyave(UdeA,Colombia)

Sponsorship chairs

Murat Akbacak(Apple)

Eman Fituri (QCRI)

Jimmy Kunzmann(Amazon)

SLTC Liaison

Kyu Jeong Han(ASAAP)

Publication chairs

Alberto Abad Gareta(INESC-ID/IST)

Erfan Loweimi(King'sCollegeLondon)

Invited speaker chair

Andrew Rosenberg(Google)

Nancy F.Chen(Institute for Infocomm Research(I2R)

Challenge&demonstrationchairs

Imed Zitouni(Google)

Jon Barker(University of Sheffield)

Seokhwan Kim(Amazon)

Peter Bell(University of Edinburgh)

SpeechHackathonOrganizingCommittee

Thomas Schaaf(3M|M*Modal)

Gianni DiCaro(Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar)

Shinji Watanabe - ESPNET (Carnegie Mellon University)

Paola Garcia-KALDI/K2(Johns Hopkins University)

Mirco Ravanelli - Speech Brain (Université de Montréal)

Alessandra Cervone(Amazon)

Mus'ab Husaini(QCRI)

Advisoryboard

Jim Glass (MIT)

Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie Mellon University - Qatar)

Helen Meng (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Haizhou Li (National University of Singapore)

Local Arrangements chairs

Shammur Chowdhury(QCRI)

Houda Bouamor(Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar)

Student coordinator

Berrak Sisman(Singapore University of  Technology and Design)