| 3-3-1 | (2024-11-11) IberSPEECH'2024 ALBAYZÍN, Aveiro, Portugal
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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IberSPEECH 2024. Aveiro, 11-13 November 2024
XIII Jornadas en Tecnologías del Habla and the IX Iberian SLTech Workshop.
https://iberspeech.tech/
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| 3-3-2 | (2024-11-21) CfP 2nd Automatic Assessment of Parkinsonian Speech Workshop ( AAPS’24) @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA
2nd Automatic Assessment of Parkinsonian Speech Workshop ( AAPS’24)
Nov 21-22, 2024
MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
We cordially invite you to contribute to AAPS’24, a Research Workshop on Automatic
Assessment of Parkinsonian Speech that will be held at the main campus of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Despite of the amount of research in the field, there is still room for developing new
knowledge, not only about the characteristics of the speech of people affected with
Parkinson’s disease, but also about its correlation with the extent of the disease. Automatic
systems to evaluate and assess the disease will take advantage of the new knowledge
generated in the field to make more accurate and robust systems.
The aim of this workshop is to put together speech professionals with different backgrounds
to discuss and advance in the field of the automatic assessment of parkinsonian speech. The
long-term goal is to gain new knowledge about the influence of Parkinson’s disease on
speech, which could be used for diagnosis, assessment, and prognosis, especially in the early
stages.
Attenders will be asked to prepare a presentation about their current research to open
discussions about different aspects and to define the new trends in the field. The workshop is
expected to establish new synergies among the attenders, being an opportunity for future
collaborations.
Being conscious of this, the Speech Communication Group of the Massachussetts Institute
of Technology in collaboration with the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid has the honor
and pleasure to invite the whole scientific community to the event to be held in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, USA, on November 21 st -22 nd , 2024 and hosted by the Massachussetts
Institute of Technology.
Feature Tracks and Topics
The workshop provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of current scientific
research on speech of parkinsonian patients. Topics or interest include, but are not limited
to: automatic detection of Parkinson's Disease from the voice and speech; automatic
stratification of Parkinson's Disease from the speech; automatic assessment & rating of
voice and speech quality for parkinsonian patients; prognosis for Parkinson's Disease from
the speech; new strategies for parameterization and modeling parkinsonian speech; corpora
of parkinsonian speech; speech enhancement for parkinsonian voices; multi-modal analysis
of parkinsonian speech; diagnosis and evaluation protocols; automatic evaluation of clinical
treatments from the speech
Paper Submission
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers written in English. Papers will be submitted
via the AAPS2024 web site at https://www.byo.upm.es/AAPS24. The document style,
templates, and submission form can be downloaded from the web site. The tentative
contributions will be reviewed about their suitability. At least one author of each paper is
required to register. The workshop proceedings will be published in a book a book in
the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series with Springer.
Schedule
Proposal due September 20 th , 2024
Notification of acceptance October 1 st , 2024
Final papers due October 25 th , 2024
Preliminary program October 30 th , 2024
Workshop November 21 st – 22 nd , 2024
Registration and Information
Registration will be handled via the AAPS2024 web site
(https://www.byo.upm.es/AAPS24). Please contact the organizers (gi.byo@upm.es)
Program Committee
Program Chairs
Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel,
Massachussets Institute of
Technology (MIT)
Juan Ignacio Godino-Llorente,
Universidad Politécnica de
Madrid (UPM)
Scientific Secretariat
Jeung-Yoon Choi, (MIT)
Julián D. Arias Londoño, (UPM)
Local Organizing Committee
Alejandro Guerrero-López, (UPM)
Carlos Hoyos-Barceló, (UPM)
Mateo Cámara Lago, (UPM)
Juan Camilo Puerta Acevedo, (UPM)
Scientific Committee
Alberto Abad
Ascensión Gallardo Antolín
Daryush Metha
Germán Castellanos-Domínguez
Jeung-Yoon Choi
Jiri Mekyska
Jorge A. Gómez-García
Jose L. Blanco Murillo
Juan I. Godino-Llorente
Julián David Arias Londoño
Laureano Moro-Velazquez
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
Matías Zañartu
Nicholas Cummins
Philipp Aichinger
Saturnino Luz
Stefan Goetze
Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel
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| 3-3-3 | (2024-11-25) Last call for Papers, 26th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2024), Belgrade, Serbia
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SPECOM-2024 – LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
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26th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2024)
November 25-28, 2024
Crowne Plaza hotel, Belgrade, Serbia
Web: https://specom2024.ftn.uns.ac.rs/
ORGANIZERS
The conference SPECOM-2024 is organized by the Faculty of Technical Sciences University of Novi Sad and the School of Electrical Engineering University of Belgrade in cooperation with the Telecommunications Society of Serbia
FOUNDERS
SPECOM series was founded by St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS) of the St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPC RAS)
CONFERENCE TOPICS
SPECOM attracts researchers, linguists and engineers working in the following areas of speech science, speech technology, natural language processing, human-computer interaction:
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Affective computing
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Audio-visual speech processing
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Corpus linguistics
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Computational paralinguistics
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Deep learning for audio processing
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Feature extraction
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Forensic speech investigations
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Human-machine interaction
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Language identification
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Large language models
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Multichannel signal processing
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Multilingual speech technology
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Multimedia processing
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Multimodal analysis and synthesis
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Natural language generation
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Natural language understanding
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Sign language processing
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Speaker diarization
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Speaker identification and verification
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Speech and language resources
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Speech analytics and audio mining
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Speech and voice disorders
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Speech-based applications
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Speech driving systems in robotics
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Speech enhancement
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Speech perception
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Speech recognition and understanding
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Speech synthesis
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Speech translation systems
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Spoken dialogue systems
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Spoken language processing
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Text mining and sentiment analysis
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Virtual and augmented reality
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Voice assistants
SATELLITE EVENTS
26th International Conference SPECOM will be organized together with the 32nd Telecommunications Forum TELFOR-2024: https://www.telfor.rs/en/
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language of the event is English. However, papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.
FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE
The conference program will include presentation of invited talks, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit full papers of 10-15 pages formatted in the Springer LNCS style. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers (single-blind), and accepted papers will be presented either orally or as posters. Papers submitted to SPECOM must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the SPECOM review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. The authors are invited to submit their papers using the on-line submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specom2024
DEADLINES
July 15, 2024 (23:59 AoE) ... Submission of full papers (EXTENDED!)
September 03, 2024 ........... Notification of acceptance/rejection
September 15, 2024 ........... Camera-ready papers
October 01, 2024 ................ Early registration
PROCEEDINGS
SPECOM Proceedings will be published by Springer as a book in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS, Scopus Q2) series listed in all major international citation databases.
GENERAL CHAIRS
Vlado DELIĆ – Faculty of Technical Sciences University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia
Alexey KARPOV – SPIIRAS, SPC RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia
CONTACTS
All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to SPECOM-2024 Secretariat
E-mail: specom2024@uns.ac.rs
Web: https://specom2024.ftn.uns.ac.rs
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| 3-3-4 | (2024-11-26) The 2nd International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM2024), Dubai, UAE
The 2nd International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM2024)
Hybrid Event
https://fllm2024.fllm-conference.org/index.php
26-29 November, 2024 | Dubai, UAE
Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UAE Section
FLLM 2024 CFP:
With the emergence of foundation models (FMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) that are trained on large amounts of data at scale and adaptable to a wide range of downstream applications, Artificial intelligence is experiencing a paradigm revolution. BERT, T5, ChatGPT, GPT-4, Falcon 180B, Codex, DALL-E, Whisper, and CLIP are now the foundation for new applications ranging from computer vision to protein sequence study and from speech recognition to coding. Earlier models had a reputation of starting from scratch with each new challenge. The capacity to experiment with, examine, and comprehend the capabilities and potentials of next-generation FMs is critical to undertaking this research and guiding its path. Nevertheless, these models are currently inaccessible as the resources required to train these models are highly concentrated in industry, and even the assets (data, code) required to replicate their training are frequently not released due to their demand in the real-time industry. At the moment, mostly large tech companies such as OpenAI, Google, Facebook, and Baidu can afford to construct FMs and LLMS. Despite the expected widely publicized use of FMs and LLMS, we still lack a comprehensive knowledge of how they operate, why they underperform, and what they are even capable of because of their emerging global qualities. To deal with these problems, we believe that much critical research on FMs and LLMS would necessitate extensive multidisciplinary collaboration, given their essentially social and technical structure.
The International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM) addresses the architectures, applications, challenges, approaches, and future directions. We invite the submission of original papers on all topics related to FLLMs, with special interest in but not limited to:
- Architectures and Systems
- Transformers and Attention
- Bidirectional Encoding
- Autoregressive Models
- Massive GPU Systems
- Prompt Engineering
- Multimodal LLMs
- Fine-tuning
- Challenges
- Hallucination
- Cost of Creation and Training
- Energy and Sustainability Issues
- Integration
- Safety and Trustworthiness
- Interpretability
- Fairness
- Social Impact
- Future Directions
- Generative AI
- Explainability and EXplainable AI
- Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Federated Learning for FLLM
- Large Language Models Fine-Tuning on Graphs
- Data Augmentation
- Natural Language Processing Applications
- Generation
- Summarization
- Rewrite
- Search
- Question Answering
- Language Comprehension and Complex Reasoning
- Clustering and Classification
- Applications
- Natural Language Processing
- Communication Systems
- Security and Privacy
- Image Processing and Computer Vision
- Life Sciences
- Financial Systems
Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings
Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5' x 11' two-column format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper can be up to 8 pages (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. All submissions are peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the FLLM Proceeding, and be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Submission of regular papers up to 8 pages and must follow the IEEE paper format. Please include up to 7 keywords, complete postal and email address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. Submitted papers that are deemed of good quality but that could not be accepted as regular papers will be accepted as short papers.
Important Dates:
- Paper submission deadline: June 30, 2024
- Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2024
- Camera-ready Submission: October 10, 2024
Contact:
Please send any inquiry on FLLM to: info@fllm-conference.org
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| 3-3-5 | (2024-12-05) Journée Accès interactif à l’information (JAII2024), Paris, France
JAII2024 - PARIS - 5 Décembre - Journée Accès interactif à l’information
https://jaii2024.sciencesconf.org
L’AFIA (Association française pour l'intelligence artificielle), au travers de son collège Technologies du Langage Humain (TLH), l'ARIA (Association de Recherche d’Information et Applications) et le GDR TAL (Groupement de Recherche - Traitement automatique des langues), avec le soutien du projet ANR-GUIDANCE, organisent la deuxième journée commune sur le thème de l’'Accès interactif à l’information' le 5 décembre 2024 à Paris (Jussieu).
L'objectif de cette journée est de réunir chercheurs-euses en Intelligence Artificielle, en Traitement Automatique des Langues et en Recherche d’Information travaillant sur les aspects interactifs de l’accès à l’information. Cette journée sera alors l’occasion de confronter les expériences de la recherche interactive dans différents domaines d’applications, tant du côté avancé de la recherche que du côté des applications industrielles.
La journée sera composée de deux présentations invitées, de sessions avec présentations courtes suivie de posters et démonstrations pour susciter les discussions, et se terminera par une table ronde.
Nous sollicitons des communications pouvant porter sur tous les thèmes de l'accès interactif à l'information, en particulier sur les thématiques autour des grands modèles de langage, incluant, de façon non limitative :
- Agents conversationnels (ex : chatbots, incarnation/avatars, génération de dialogues, génération augmenté par la recherche d‘information) ;
- Annotation et construction de corpus de grand taille ;
- Apprentissage actif ;
- Apprentissage par renforcement ;
- Construction de ressources (en particulier Francophones ou multilingues) ;
- Evaluation de systèmes interactifs et de grands modèles de langage ;
- Explicabilité (ex: du choix des informations proposées par un chatbot, transparence des systèmes) ;
- Influence de la qualité des ressources, biais, équité/impartialité ;
- Interaction multimodale et/ou géolocalisé ;
- Interface et interaction humain-machine-robot ;
- Modélisation de l’utilisateur ;
- Personnalisation (persona et côté utilisateurs) ;
- Recherche d’information immersive ;
- Résumé automatique abstractif et/ou interactif ;
- Retour de pertinence (relevance feedback) ;
- Système questions / réponses extractives et génératives ;
- Vérification/véracité du contenu ;
- Recherche d’information générative ;
Les propositions de communications orales sont attendues avant le *** 1 novembre 2024 *** sous la forme d'un résumé d’une à deux pages comprenant un titre, une liste d'auteur.e.s, une liste de mots-clés et un résumé du contenu de la présentation proposée en respectant la feuille de style (latex) ci-dessous :
https://www.overleaf.com/read/kfkfhffywfyj#b7b890
Les soumissions seront effectuées via scienceconf : https://jaii2024.sciencesconf.org/submission/submit
Dates importantes
Soumission des résumés : 01/11/2024
Notification aux auteurs : 22/11/2024
Journée : 05/12/2024
Programme prévisionnel de la journée :
08h30-09h00 - Accueil des participants
09h00-09h30 - Ouverture de la journée
09h30-10h30 - Présentation Invitée 1
10h30-11h00 - Pause café
11h00-13h00 - Session Orale
13h00-14h30 - Buffet et session Poster
14h30-15h30 - Présentation Invitée 2
15h30-16h00 - Pause café
16h00-17h30 - Table ronde : 'Accès interactif à l’information'
17h30 - Fin de la journée
Accès
Lieu : Salle de conférence 106 / Barre 44-45 du Campus Pierre et Marie Curie, 4 place Jussieu 75005 Paris
Accès : Métro jussieu, après l'entrée, à gauche de la tour centrale (entrée par la tour 44).
Cette journée est co-organisée par Benjamin Piwowarski, Florian Boudin et José G. Moreno.
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| 3-3-6 | (2025-03-25) Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS) 2025, Aussois (French Alps), France
FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS) 2025
March 30th - April 4th 2025
Aussois (French Alps)
We are pleased to announce the 5th edition of ALPS - the Advanced NLP School to be held in the French Alps from March 30th to April 4th 2025.
This school targets advanced research students in Natural Language Processing and related fields and brings together world leading experts and motivated students. The programme comprises lectures, poster presentations, practical lab sessions and nature activities - the venue is located near a National Park.
Important Dates
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Oct 15th 2024: Application deadline
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Nov 15th 2024: acceptance notification
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Jan 15th 2025: registration deadline
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March 30th 2025: Start of School
Confirmed speakers so far:
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Kyunghyun Cho (New York University & Prescient Design)
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Titouan Parcollet (Cambridge University & Samsung AI Center)
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Barbara Plank (LMU Munich)
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François Yvon (ISIR CNRS)
Website and online application: https://alps.imag.fr/
Questions: alps@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
The registration fees for the event encompass accommodation and full board at the conference venue, the Centre Paul Langevin. We will announce the fee amounts later, and they will vary depending on the participant's background: students, academia, and industry. Student fees will be set at or below €600, including twin room accommodation. We will have a limited amount of scholarships for the registration: if you are interested please mark this in the application form. The rates for academia and industry will be higher, as is customary, and will include accommodation in a single room.
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| 3-3-7 | (2025-04-06) Call for ICASSP 2025 Grand Challenge, Hyberabad, India
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| 3-3-8 | (2025-04-06) CfP ICASSP 2025, Hyderabad, India
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| 3-3-9 | (2025-04-06) CfShort courses/ ICASSP2025, Hyderabad, India
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| 3-3-10 | (2025-04-06) CfW ICASSP 2025, Hyderabad, India
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| 3-3-11 | (2025-04-06) Deadlines for ICASSP 2025, Hyderabad, India
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| 3-3-12 | (2025-04-06)Cf Tutorials, IEEE ISCASSP 2025, Hyderabad, India
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| 3-3-13 | (2025-04-22) Call for Science: 2025 Voice AI Symposium, Tampa, FL, USA
Call for Science: 2025 Voice AI Symposium
hosted by the Bridge2AI-Voice Consortium
Submit your innovative research and technology to shape the future of AI and voice biomarkers!
This year's theme is 'Translating AI Research into Reality: Implementing Voice Biomarkers for Transformative Healthcare'
CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT SCIENCE
Important Dates
Submission Deadline for Abstracts: December 15th, 2024
Selection Notifications begin January 15th, 2025
Symposium + Hackathon Dates: April 22-24, 2025
We are welcoming submissions for the following categories
Podium or Poster Presentations
Panel Discussions
Voice AI Technology Fair
About: The Bridge 2AI Voice Symposium is more than a conference; it is an interactive and collaborative effort between three integral aspects which impact our understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML): people, ethics, and data. Submit your groundbreaking work for consideration to be a part of the 2024 Bridge 2AI Voice Symposium. Come join a global network of pioneers and collaborate with patients, scientists, clinicians, and industry. You play a pivotal role in shaping the future of AI and ML. We will see you in sunny Tampa Florida April 22-24.
CATEGORY 1: PODIUM AND POSTER PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS
Abstracts will be accepted for the presentation of research. We will be accepting presentations in the format of (1) oral presentation (30 minute oral presentation), (2) poster, or (3) either format. Reviewers will evaluate the submission and determine the best fit for presentation.
The goals of the podium and poster sessions are to:
- Promote collaborative efforts in the emerging field of AI in voice research.
- Provide a unique networking and discussion opportunity among academic and industry peers participating in the Voice AI Symposium.
- Encourage presenters to think outside the box and brainstorm innovative approaches to address major challenges in AI research. While prior experimentation is welcome, it is not mandatory.
Topic Areas for Submission: We invite proposals for topics including but not limited to:
Topic Area 1:
The reliability of Voice AI in clinical diagnostics and prediction.
Subjects can include specific disorders, public health, health policy and organization, and accessibility. Proposals can target clinician workflow, home health, virtual screening etc. Focus on tangible solutions rather than broad ideas. Current projects or new projects/ideas can be included.
Topic Area 2:
Validation of Voice AI processes and demonstrations of robustness.
Subjects can include optimizing machine learning for voice data or identification of explicit and implicit biases in current clinical practice that could be exacerbated by voice AI. Topics should address mitigation strategies or systematic approaches to overcome these challenges.
Topic Area 3:
How can we build trust and transparency in voice AI, ensuring that it is used in responsible and effective ways to improve health outcomes and transform healthcare?
Practical solutions presented can cover: highlighting methods to promote data privacy and security while fostering data sharing for research innovation, respecting patients’ rights, addressing biases and unintended consequences, and establishing a clear and consistent legal framework for voice AI in healthcare.
Abstract Guidelines
Specifications and submission details:
There is no submission fee.
Abstracts will be reviewed by committee who will determine best presentation for research (either poster or podium)
Podiums will be 30-minute oral presentations that offer valuable insights into the field of voice AI. Submissions should focus on either research or clinical applications of AI in voice.
Research Presentations: Share recent findings or ongoing research that advances our understanding of voice AI].
Clinical Presentations: Highlight innovative approaches to diagnosis, treatment, or service delivery for voice AI. Discuss the practical implications and benefits of your methods.
Abstracts should include: an introduction stating its relevance to improving human health, approach, preliminary findings (if available), conclusion, and future direction of your work.
Maximum character count per abstract submission is 1,900 characters NOT including spaces. If you choose to add an image or table to your abstract submission, it will count as 600 characters towards the total 1,900 characters that are allowed.
CATEGORY 2: PANEL PRESENTATION ABSTRACT
We invite abstracts for panel presentations that address the effective development and use of AI in healthcare. Each panel will consist of a moderator and 3-4 presenters who will address moderator questions or present brief papers related to a specific topic. The panel session length will be approximately 60 minutes, and should include interaction with the audience through live polling questions, which we will facilitate through the use of 'Aha Slides' at the day of the event. The topic should be addressed within the context of our 3 key pillars – people, data, and ethics. The organizer of the symposium is expected to be the chair. Diversity of background and expertise within the panel is encouraged.Presenters should represent different laboratories and an international mix of contributors is encouraged.
Specifications and submission details:
There is no submission fee.
Panel presentation abstracts should include bullets that include: a title, name and affiliation of the moderator, a list of the panelists, and an abstract describing the intent of the panel presentation.
The abstract should include a brief overview of the panel presentation, a description of the structure of the presentation, the purpose and the intended outcome(s).
The abstract should include 5 questions relevant to your panel that will be used in interactive 'Aha slides' on the day of the event (e.g. 'How do you think voice biomarkers are most likely to be implemented in the next year?' plus four answers for the audience to choose from)
Maximum character count per panel submission is 1,900 characters NOT including spaces. If you choose to add an image or table to your abstract submission, it will count as 600 characters towards the total 1,900 characters that are allowed.
CATEGORY 3: CALL FOR TECHNOLOGY - VOICE AI TECH FAIR
A technology fair will be hosted during the 2025 Bridge 2AI Voice Symposium. Eligible participants include startup companies, independent tech researchers and voice AI companies with relevant technology for demonstration. Technology should be relevant to applications of Voice AI or voice biomarkers in healthcare. Participants will have the opportunity to interact with clinicians, scientists, and patients to discuss and provide hands on interactions with their tech.
Specifications and submission details:
- Cost per submission is $300 (payment not required until application is accepted by symposium committee)
- Submit a one paragraph description of your company, startup and/or technology, describe how you would demonstrate it to attendees, and describe how it is relevant to voice AI in healthcare or voice biomarker research
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| 3-3-14 | (2025-05-16) CfP 3rd International Conference on Tone and Intonation - TAI 2025, Herrsching, Germany
Call for Papers
3rd International Conference on Tone and Intonation - TAI 2025
Date: 16-May-2025 to 18-May-2025
Location: Herrsching (near Munich), Germany
Meeting Email: tai2025@phonetik.uni-muenchen.de
Web Site: https://tai2025.org/
Call Deadline: 09-Dec-2024
Meeting Description:
The TAI conference is the result of the merging the International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL) and the Conference on Tone and Intonation in Europe (TIE). The TAI 2025 conference aims to bring together distinguished researchers, experts, and practitioners from around the world to exchange ideas, insights, and the latest advancements in the field of tone and intonation. The TAI proceedings are archived by ISCA, the International Speech Communication Association.
Call for Papers:
We are delighted to announce that the Third International Conference on Tone and TAI 2025 will be held in Herrsching near Munich, Germany, from 16–18 May 2025. Jointly sponsored by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) and the International Phonetic Association (IPA), TAI 2025 will be hosted by the Institute for Phonetics and Speech Processing of the LMU Munich.
With the theme of 'Variation and change in tone and intonation systems across space and time', our aim at TAI 2025 is to foster a more diverse and comprehensive understanding of tone and intonation by exploring variation in geographical as well as physical space, along with the dynamic evolution of tone and intonation across various timescales. We invite submissions that explore phonetic and phonological aspects of tone and intonation, with a particular focus on the following topics:
1. Variation and Change in Space:
- Cross-linguistics comparison of tone and intonation in well- and under-studied languages.
- Documentation of tonal and intonational patterns in endangered languages.
- Analysis of geographic variation in tone and intonation.
- Tone and intonation in language contact.
2. Variation and Change in Time:
- Diachronic change of tone and intonation.
- Generational differences of tone and intonation.
- Sociolinguistic factors influencing tonal and intonational change.
3. Variation Beyond Space and Time:
- Psycholinguistic, cognitive, and neural correlates of tone and intonation.
- Physiological underpinnings of tone and intonation.
- Acquisition of tone and intonation in L1 and L2.
- Tone and intonation in neurodevelopmental disorders and impairments.
- Role of tone and intonation in multimodal communication.
- Computational modeling and applications of tone and intonation.
We welcome submissions on any aspect of tone and intonation in language, not limited to the aforementioned topics. We encourage contributions from a wide range of theoretical and methodological perspectives, including experimental, descriptive, and computational approaches. Contributions by junior researchers and/or with interdisciplinary research methods are strongly encouraged.
Submission information:
Abstracts should be written in English and no more than 2 A4-sized pages (1 page of text and 1 page for tables, figures, and references), including up to 5 keywords that best describe the paper. All submissions should be in PDF format. Abstracts will be subject to double-blind peer review; please ensure that all identifying information is removed from the abstract.
Abstract submission opens: 15 October 2024
Abstract submission deadline: 9 December 2024
Notification of acceptance: 3 February 2025
Abstract submission will be via CMT: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/TAI2025/
Sireemas Maspong
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| 3-3-15 | (2025-06-09?) Cf research proposals: 2025 Jelinek Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies (JSALT), Brno, Czech Republic
2025 Jelinek Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies
We are pleased to invite one page research proposals for an
Eight Week Residential Summer Research Workshop
at Brno University of Technology in Brno, Czech Republic,
from June 9 to August 1, 2025 (Tentative)
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Deadline: Tuesday, October 15, 2024.
We invite one-page research proposals for the annual Frederick Jelinek Memorial Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies (JSALT). Proposals should advance human language technologies (HLT) or related areas of artificial intelligence (AI) including computer vision and robotics, or enable their applications, e.g. in healthcare or education. Proposals may address emerging or long-standing challenges. Areas of interest in 2025 include but are not limited to
TEXT UNDERSTANDING: Challenges of large language models (LLMs), including auditability of training data, high cost of pretraining & fine-tuning, interpretability, explainability, prompt-brittleness, hallucinations & misaligned behavior; Machine translation for informal, dialectal and low-resource languages.
SPEECH UNDERSTANDING: Robust models for understanding challenging audio, including dialectal, code-mixed and far-field speech; Speaker identity, voice anonymization, deep-fake generation and detection; Synthesizing spoken conversations for model training in new languages, domains and acoustic conditions.
MULTIMODAL UNDERSTANDING: Multimodal foundation models (including LLMs) for audio, text, images, handwriting and machine-print; Application of multimodal models in education, scientific discovery, health monitoring and healthcare delivery; Embodied AI.
RESPONSIBLE AI: Privacy-preserving model training and inference for HLT/AI; Designing HLT/AI systems to be equitable/fair to all demographics; Preventing/Mitigating harmful behavior of HLT/AI models; Securing HLT/AI models against adversarial actors and operating conditions.
All received proposals will be screened for basic feasibility, and results of this screening will be communicated by October 18, 2024. Authors of feasible proposals will be invited to an interactive peer-review meeting in Baltimore on November 15-17, 2024. At this meeting, proposals will be peer-reviewed in depth, revised iteratively and interactively to address any concerns and to incorporate new ideas from the floor, and 3-4 topics will eventually be selected for pursuit in Summer 2025.
These workshops aim to bring together “dream teams” to collaboratively pursue research on the selected topics: teams that are interdisciplinary and diverse in many ways including institutionally, demographically, and seniority of researchers. Authors of successful proposals typically lead these teams, and another 3-5 senior researchers from academia, industry and government join each team. 3-5 PhD students familiar with the topic are then selected, based on their demonstrated research performance, in consultation with the senior researchers. Finally, a few outstanding undergraduates, typically rising-seniors from a variety of majors, are selected via a nationwide search.
If you are interested in leading a dream team in JSALT 2025, please submit a one-page research proposal for consideration, detailing the problem to be addressed. If your proposal (or a modified version of it) is chosen for pursuit next summer, we expect you to be resident at the workshop for 6+ weeks. We are not asking for an ironclad commitment at this juncture, just a good faith assertion that if a topic advocated by you is chosen, you will actively pursue it with us. We in turn will make a good faith effort to accommodate any personal/logistical needs to enable your travel to, residence at and participation in the workshop, including airfare, housing, meals and incidentals.
The peer-review meeting and summer workshop will be in-person events.
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| 3-3-16 | (2025-06-18) PAC 2025 - Spoken English Varieties - Perception and Representations, Aix-en-Provence,France
Deuxième appel à communications pour la conférence internationale PAC 2025 (phonologie de l’anglais contemporain) - Spoken English Varieties - Perception and Representations, qui se tiendra à Aix-en-Provence du 18 au 20 juin 2025.
La conférence sera suivie le 20 juin après-midi d’un atelier sur le dépôt et le partage des données.
Conférence : 18-20 juin 2025, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence.
Date de soumission des résumés: 20 novembre 2024
Le comité d’organisation PAC 2025.
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| 3-3-17 | (2025-07-20) CfP 61st IEEE Professional Communication Conference (ProComm), University of Southern Denmark, Sonderborg, Denmark
Call for Papers for the 61st IEEE Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)
20-23 July 2025 at the University of Southern Denmark, Sonderborg, Denmark.
ProComm is the flagship conference of the IEEE Professional Communication Society.
The conference takes place under the theme: “Digital Solutions and Multimodal Challenges”
Modern communication calls for more than traditional methods today. Digital solutions play a crucial role as they expand the efficiency and reach of communication. Multimodal communication, an evolution of this trend, is about the challenge of seamlessly integrating various media forms, from messaging apps to video calls – and it is also about the challenge of understanding how the different type and layers of communication, text and images, speech and body language, interact and interfere in the creation of attractive and effective messages. In an increasingly interconnected world, the integration of digital solutions and multimodal communication is crucial for effective exchange and collaboration. While, of course, inviting papers from all areas of professional communication, the conference will put a focus on building such inter-disciplinary bridges, using our Acoustics Lab’s international network to invite (foreign) language teachers, public-speaking coaches, researchers from the speech sciences, and speech-communication engineers to the event.
The 2025 issue of the conference is hosted by the CIE Acoustics Lab at the University of Southern Denmark in Sonderborg, Denmark.
Please note that the website for the 2025 conference is constantly updated. Information about keynotes, important dates etc. follow in autumn 2024.
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| 3-3-18 | (2025-09-06) Labs @CLEF2025, Madrid, Spain
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CLEF 2025
Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum
Madrid, Spain, September 9-12, 2025
http://clef2025.clef-initiative.eu
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Call for Lab Proposals
At its 26th edition, the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF) is a continuation of the very successful series of evaluation campaigns of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) -- which ran between 2000 and 2009 -- and established a framework of systematic evaluation of information access systems, primarily through experimentation on shared tasks. As a leading annual international conference, CLEF uniquely combines evaluation laboratories and workshops with research presentations, panels, posters and demo sessions. In 2025, CLEF takes place in September, 9-12 in Madrid, Spain.
Researchers and practitioners from all areas of information access and related communities are invited to submit proposals for running evaluation labs as part of CLEF 2025. Proposals will be reviewed by a lab selection committee, composed of researchers with extensive experience in evaluating information access, retrieval, and extraction systems. Organisers of selected proposals will be invited to include their lab in the CLEF 2025 labs programme, possibly subject to suggested modifications to their proposal to better suit the CLEF lab workflow or timeline.
Background
The CLEF Initiative (http://www.clef-initiative.eu/) is a self-organised body whose main mission is to promote research, innovation, and development of information access systems with an emphasis on multilingual information in different modalities - including text and multimedia - with various levels of structure. CLEF promotes research and development by providing an infrastructure for:
1. independent evaluation of information access systems;
2. investigation of the use of unstructured, semi-structured, highly-structured, and semantically enriched data in information access;
3. creation of reusable test collections for benchmarking;
4. exploration of new evaluation methodologies and innovative ways of using experimental data;
5. discussion of results, comparison of approaches, exchange of ideas, and transfer of knowledge.
Scope of CLEF Labs
We invite submission of proposals for two types of labs:
1. “Campaign-style” Evaluation Labs for specific information access problems (during the twelve months period preceding the conference), similar in nature to the traditional CLEF campaign “tracks”. Topics covered by campaign-style labs can be inspired by any information access-related domain or task.
2. Labs that follow a more classical “workshop” style, exploring evaluation methodologies, metrics, processes, etc. in information access and closely related fields, such as natural language processing, machine learning, and human-computer interaction.
We highly recommend organisers new to the CLEF format of shared task evaluation campaigns to first consider organising a lab workshop to discuss the format of their proposed task, the problem space and practicalities of the shared task. The CLEF 2025 programme will reserve about half of the conference schedule for lab sessions. During the conference, the lab organisers will present their overall results in overview presentations during the plenary scientific paper sessions to give non-participants insights into where the research frontiers are moving. During the conference, lab organisers are expected to organise separate sessions for their lab with ample time for general discussion and engagement with all participants -- not just those presenting campaign results and papers. Organisers should plan time in their sessions for activities such as panels, demos, poster sessions, etc. as appropriate. CLEF is always interested in receiving and facilitating innovative lab proposals.
Potential task proposers unsure of the suitability of their task proposal or its format for inclusion at CLEF are encouraged to contact the CLEF 2025 Lab Organising Committee Chairs to discuss its suitability or design at an early stage.
Proposal Submission
Lab proposals must provide sufficient information to judge the relevance, timeliness, scientific quality, benefits for the research community, and the competence of the proposers to coordinate the lab. Each lab proposal should identify one or more organisers as responsible for ensuring the timely execution of the lab.
Proposals should be 3 to 4 pages long and should provide the following information:
1. Title of the proposed lab.
2. A brief description of the lab topic and goals, its relevance to CLEF and the significance for the field.
3. A brief and clear statement on usage scenarios and domain to which the activity is intended to contribute, including the evaluation setup and metrics.
4. Details on the lab organiser(s), including identifying the task chair(s) responsible for ensuring the running of the task. This should include details of any previous involvement in organising or participating in evaluation tasks at CLEF or similar campaigns.
5. The planned format of the lab, i.e., campaign-style (“track”) or workshop.
6. Is the lab a continuation of an activity from previous year(s) or a new activity?
a) For activities continued from previous year(s): Statistics from previous years (number of participants/runs for each task), a clear statement on why another edition is needed, an explicit listing of the changes proposed, and a discussion of lessons to be learned or insights to be made.
b) For new activities: A statement on why a new evaluation campaign is needed and how the community would benefit from the activity.
7. Details of the expected target audience, i.e., who do you expect to participate in the task(s), and how do you propose to reach them.
8. Brief details of tasks to be carried out in the lab. The proposal should clearly motivate the need for each of the proposed tasks and provide evidence of its capability of attracting enough participation. The dataset which will be adopted by the Lab needs to be described and motivated in the perspective of the goals of the Labs; also indications on how the dataset will be shared are useful. It is fine for a lab to have a single task, but labs often contain multiple closely related tasks, needing a strong motivation for more than 3 tasks, to avoid useless fragmentation.
9. Expected length of the lab session at the conference: half-day, one day, two days. This should include high-level details of planned structure of the session, e.g. participant presentations, invited speaker(s), panels, etc., to justify the requested session length.
10. Arrangements for the organisation of the lab campaign: who will be responsible for activities within the task; how will data be acquired or created, what tools or methods will be used, e.g., how will necessary queries be created or relevance assessment carried out; any other information which is relevant to the conduct of your lab.
11. If the lab proposes to set up a steering committee to oversee and advise its activities, include names, addresses, and homepage links of people you propose to be involved.
Lab proposals must be submitted via EasyChair at the following address:
choosing the “CLEF 2025 Lab Proposals” track.
Reviewing Process
Each proposal submitted by 7 July 2024 will be reviewed by the CLEF 2025 Lab Organising Committee. The acceptance decision will be sent by email to the responsible organiser by 5 Aug 2024. The final length of the lab session at the conference will be determined based on the overall organisation of the conference and the number of participant submissions received by a lab.
Advertising Labs at CLEF 2024 and ECIR 2025
Organisers of accepted labs are expected to advertise their labs at both CLEF 2024 (September 9-12, 2024, Grenoble, France) and ECIR 2025 (April 6-10, Lucca, Italy). So, at least one lab representative should attend these events.
Advertising at CLEF 2024 will consist of displaying a poster describing the new lab, running a break-out session to discuss the lab with prospective participants, and advertising/announcing it during the closing session.
Advertising at ECIR 2025 will consist of submitting a lab description (due on early October 2024) to be included in ECIR 2025 proceedings and advertising the lab in a booster session during ECIR 2025.
Lab Proposals from Newcomers
If you have not organised a lab before, do not panic! The CLEF 2025 Lab Organising Committee Lab is willing to mentor you by offering help, guidance, and feedback on the writing of your draft lab proposal.
If you are a newcomer interested in receiving guidance, please send an e-mail with the following tag in the subject “[Mentorship CLEF 2025 Lab Proposals]” to: clef2025-lab-proposals@easychair.org.
We also encourage newcomers to refer to Friedberg et al. (2015) for initial guidance on preparing their proposal:
Friedberg I, Wass MN, Mooney SD, Radivojac P. Ten simple rules for a community computational challenge. PLoS Comput Biol. 2015 Apr 23;11(4):e1004150.
Important Dates
- 7 July 2024: Lab proposals submission
- 5 August 2024: Notification of lab acceptance
- 9-12 Sep 2024: Advertising Accepted Labs at CLEF 2024, Grenoble, France
- October 2024 (TBA by ECIR): Submission of short lab description for ECIR 2025 (https://ecir2025.eu/key-dates/)
- 6-10 April 2025: Advertising labs at ECIR 2025, Lucca, Italy
- April-May: Lab evaluation cycle
- May-June: Review process of participant papers
- June 2025: Review of the condensed labs overviews
- July 2025: CEUR-WS Working Notes Preview for Checking by Authors and Lab Organisers
- 6-12 Sep 2025: Labs at CLEF 2025, Madrid, Spain
CLEF 2025 Lab Chairs
- Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Valencia, Spain
- Damiano Spina, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
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| 3-3-19 | (2025-11-06) The First VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge, ICASSP 2025, Hyderabad, India
The First VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge
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https://www.voiceprivacychallenge.org/attacker/
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Task: develop attacker systems against voice anonymization
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Deadline for participants to submit a list of training data and models: 13th October 2024
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Publication of the full final list of training data and models: 15th October 2024
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Deadline for participants to submit scores, evaluation results and system descriptions: 5th December 2024
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Deadline for participants to submit 2-page papers to ICASSP-2015 (by invitation only): 9th December 2024
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Paper acceptance notification: 30th December 2024
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Camera-ready 2-page papers due: 13th January 2025
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Special session at ICASSP 2025 (Hyderabad, India): 6-11 April 2025
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Dear colleagues,
Registration for The First VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge is now open!
The First VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge is supported by ICASSP 2025 as the SP Grand Challenge (https://2025.ieeeicassp.org/sp-grand-challenges/#gc7). It focuses on developing attacker systems against voice anonymization, which will be evaluated against a set of anonymization systems submitted to the VoicePrivacy 2024 Challenge. Training, development, and evaluation datasets are provided along with a baseline attacker system. Participants shall develop their attacker systems in the form of automatic speaker verification systems and submit their scores on the development and evaluation data to the organizers. To do so, they can use any additional training data and models, provided that they are openly available and declared before the specified deadline. The metric for evaluation is equal error rate (EER). Results will be presented at the ICASSP 2025 special session to which 5 selected top-ranked participants will be invited to submit and present their challenge systems.
Please find more information in The First VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge Evaluation Plan: https://www.voiceprivacychallenge.org/attacker/docs/Attacker_Challenge_Eval_Plan.pdf
Registration: https://t.co/pPEXxHEtP6
Contact: attacker.challenge@inria.fr
The VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge Organizers:
Xiaoxiao Miao - Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore
Natalia Tomashenko - Inria, France
Emmanuel Vincent - Inria, France
Junichi Yamagishi - NII, Japan
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