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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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)

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