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Thursday, September 08, 2022 by Chris Wellekens |
3-2-1 | (2023-01-07) SLT-CODE Hackathon Announcement , Doha, Qatar SLT-CODE Hackathon Announcement
Have you ever asked yourself how your smartphone recognizes what you say and who you are?
Have you ever thought about how machines recognize different languages?
If that is your case, join us for a two-day speech and language technology hackathon. We will answer these questions and build fantastic systems with the guidance of top language and speech scientists in a collaborative environment.
The two-day speech and language technology hackathon will take place during the IEEE Spoken Language Technology (SLT) Workshop in Doha, Qatar, on January 7th and 8th, 2023. This year's Hackathon will be inspiring, momentous, and fun. The goal is to build a diverse community of people who want to explore and envision how machines understand the world's spoken languages.
During the Hackathon, you will be exposed (but not limited) to speech and language toolkits like ESPNet, SpeechBrain, K2/Kaldi, Huggingface, TorchAudio, or commercial APIs like Amazon Lex, etc., and you will be hands-on using this technology.
At the end of the Hackathon, every team will share their findings with the rest of the participants. Selected projects will have the opportunity to be presented at the SLT workshop.
The Hackathon will be at the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) in Doha, Qatar (GMT+3). In-person participation is preferred; however, remote participation is possible by joining a team with at least one person being local.
More information on how to apply and important dates are available at our website https://slt2022.org/hackathon.php.
Interested? Apply here: https://forms.gle/a2droYbD4qset8ii9 The deadline for registration is September 30th, 2022.
If you have immediate questions, don't hesitate to contact our hackathon chairs directly at hackathon.slt2022@gmail.com.
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3-2-2 | (2023-01-09 )IEEE SLT, Doha, Qatar Languages of the World, Doha, Qatar 9th to 12th January, 2023
CALL FOR PAPERS IS ALREADY OPENThe2022 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
GeneralChairAhmed Ali(QCRI) Bhuvana Ramabhadran(Google) Technical chairsShinji 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 chairJan Trmal(JohnsHopkinsUniversity) Juan Rafael Orozco Arroyave(UdeA,Colombia)
Sponsorship chairs Murat Akbacak(Apple) Eman Fituri (QCRI) Jimmy Kunzmann(Amazon) SLTC LiaisonKyu Jeong Han(ASAAP) Publication chairsAlberto Abad Gareta(INESC-ID/IST) Erfan Loweimi(King'sCollegeLondon)
Invited speaker chairAndrew Rosenberg(Google) Nancy F.Chen(Institute for Infocomm Research(I2R)
Challenge&demonstrationchairsImed Zitouni(Google) Jon Barker(University of Sheffield) Seokhwan Kim(Amazon) Peter Bell(University of Edinburgh)
SpeechHackathonOrganizingCommitteeThomas 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)
AdvisoryboardJim Glass (MIT) Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie Mellon University - Qatar) Helen Meng (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Haizhou Li (National University of Singapore) Local Arrangements chairsShammur Chowdhury(QCRI) Houda Bouamor(Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar) Student coordinatorBerrak Sisman(Singapore University of Technology and Design)
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