| We are glad to announce that the registration to the IberSPEECH'2024 ALBAYZÍN evaluations is open. This year, the ALBAYZÍN evaluations focus on evaluating five different speech technologies:
- Speech to Text Challenge (S2TC), organized by RTVE and Universidad de Zaragoza, consists of automatically transcribe different types of TV shows. This year will be an optional subset with bilingual content of Spanish and any of the co-official languages (Catalan, Valencian, Galician and Basque).
- Speaker Diarization and Identity Assignment (SDIAC), organized by RTVE and Universidad de Zaragoza, consists of segmenting broadcast audio documents according to different speakers, linking those segments which originate from the same speaker and, optionally, identify a closed set of speakers.
- Search on Speech Challenge (SoSC), organized by Universidad San Pablo-CEU and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, consists of finding a list of terms/queries in Spanish audio archives and is divided into two different tasks: Spoken Term Detection (STD) and Query-by-Example Spoken Term Detection (QbE-STD). Data will cover conference/workshop domain, TV shows and a novel domain that consists of a corpus of interviews with people from rural areas covering different dialectal varieties in Spain.
- Bilingual Basque-Spanish Speech to Text Challenge (BBS-S2TC), organized by the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), the proposed task consists of automatically transcribing short segments of speech (ranging from 3 to 10 seconds) extracted from Basque Parliament sessions. Segments may be monolingual (Basque or Spanish) or bilingual (Basque and Spanish, including a code switching event).
- Wake-Up Word Detection Challenge (WUWDC), organized by Telefónica Innovación Digital, this challenge aims to assess the performance of State-of-The-Art Keyword Spotting systems in addressing various industrial needs such as accuracy, inference delay, computational load, and energy efficiency.
There are two ways to participate in the Albayzín evaluations according with the submission type:
- The first way relies on editing the system description paper following the IberSpeech 2024 paper submission template so that the submitted paper (describing the system/s and the results) will appear in the IberSpeech 2024 proceedings. Moreover, participants will also have the chance to submit an extended version of this paper to a journal. This submission way implies sending one or more representatives to the evaluation workshop, to be held in Aveiro, Portugal, as part of IberSpeech 2024 (November 2024).
- The second way demands a free-format document in which participants describe the submitted system/s along with the results, but this will not appear in the IberSpeech 2024 proceedings. In this case, participants are allowed to present on-line their system/s without physically attending the conference, or send a video to the evaluation organizers explaining their submitted system/s, which will be shown during the evaluation workshop.
More information about the different challenges, databases and online registration can be found at https://iberspeech.tech/albayzin-evaluation-challenge
More information about IberSpeech 2024 at https://iberspeech.tech/
The calendar for the Albayzín evaluations is:
May 20th, 2024: Opening of registration for the evaluations June 3rd, 2024: Release of training and development data July 31st, 2024: Registration deadline for the evaluation September 2nd, 2024: Release of evaluation data October 18th, 2024: Deadline for the submission of system outputs October 31th, 2024: System results distributed to participants November 12th, 2024: Official results presented publicly and published November 12th, 2024: Iberspeech 2024 Albayzín Evaluations special session in Aveiro
For any additional information, please contact the organizers of the calls.
Thanks in advance for your time an interest in IBERSPEECH'2024 Conference and ALBAYZIN evaluations.
Best regards, The ALBAYZIN 2024 Evaluations Organizing Committee
Eduardo Lleida Solano, lleida@unizar.es ViVoLab, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Alfonso Ortega Giménez, ortega@unizar.es ViVoLab, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Javier Tejedor Noguerales, javier.tejedornoguerales@ceu.es BIOLAB, Universidad San Pablo CEU, Spain Luis Javier Rodríguez Fuentes, luisjavier.rodriguez@ehu.es GTTS, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain Doroteo Torre Toledano, doroteo.torre@uam.es AUDIAS, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
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