We are happy to inform you that we are organizing ISCA supported Summer School on Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) during July 06-10, 2024. This event provides a forum for students, researchers, and industry professionals to enhance their background and get exposed to evolving focused research areas in the field of ASR. The event is sponsored by ISCA, Google, DA-IICT, IndSCA, and BHASHINI.

URL: https://sites.google.com/view/s4p2024/speakers

ASR is a highly multidisciplinary field and it deals with recognizing the linguistic context from speech or converting speech into text with the help of machines-a key component of commercially successful Voice Assistants, such as Apple Siri, Microsoft Cortana, Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, Samsung Bixby, IBMs Watson, etc. The design of the ASR system depends upon various factors, such as near-field vs. far-field speech, recording and transmission channel conditions, acoustic model, language model, signal degradation conditions (acoustic noise), etc. Understanding these technological challenges is the major goal of S4P 2024. The event will have four experts from abroad and six experts from India to present recent developments in their respective research topics that are related to the theme of Summer School. The experts chosen are Hynek Hermansky (Johns Hopkins University, USA), Bhuvana Ramabhadran (Google, USA), Mathew Magimal Doss (IDIAP, Switzerland), Chng Eng Siong (NTU Singapore), B. Yegnanarayana (Retd. IIT Madras), C. V. Jawahar (IIIT Hyderabad), Sriram Ganapathy (IISc , Bengaluru), Preethi Jyothi (IIT Bombay), and Aparna Walanj (KDAH-MRI, Mumbai).

In addition, the Summer School will also have a special session on Industry Perspective Talks, where speakers are: Tara N. Sainath (Google USA), Sunayana Sitaram (Microsoft Research, Bengaluru), Harish Arsikere (Amazon, Bengaluru), Vikram C. M. (Samsung Research Institute, Bengaluru), Hardik B. Sailor (I2R, Singapore), K. Sunilkumar (TCS Innovation Labs, Mumbai), Nirmesh J. Shah (Sony Research, India), Amitabh Nag (BHASHINI, MeitY, New Delhi), and Dipesh K. Singh (Augnito, Mumbai). The program committee
of S4P 2024 includes internationally well-known experts from 18 countries across the world. The S4P 2024 also includes 5th edition of 5 minute Ph.D. thesis (5MPT) contest, which provides doctoral scholars an opportunity to showcase their research work before eminent researchers both from academia and industry. Four best presentations by the scholars during 5MPT will be awarded Google-endorsed cash prizes. Further, we are also providing the Google Travel Grants and IndSCA Travel Grants to 50 and 25 student participants, respectively. We are enclosing a poster that describes the outline of the event and call for participation. 

 

I am writing this letter anticipating that you will participate in this event and I am sure, your participation will make the event enriching. I
would also request you to encourage your Post-Doctoral Fellows, PhD Scholars, M.Tech./BTech. Students, Research Associates, and
Faculty Colleagues to submit their application for participation. We will appreciate it very much if you can arrange to place the poster on
the notice board of your Department / Institution / University / R&D Laboratory.  

I look forward to hearing from you.

With best regards,

Prof. (Dr.) Hemant A. Patil, Professor and Placement Convenor, DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India.
On behalf of the Organizing Committee, Summer School on Automatic Speech Recognition, July 06-10, 2024.
Associate Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine 2021-2023.
ISCA Distinguished Lecturer 2020-2022 and APSIPA Distinguished Lecturer 2018-2019
Speech Research Lab @ DA-IICT Gandhinagar https://sites.google.com/site/speechlabdaiict/