DAU is organizing the 7th Edition of Summer School on Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) during July 05-09, 2025.The event is sponsored by DAU (formerly, DA-IICT).  ASR is a highly multidisciplinary field and it is a key component of commercially successful Voice Assistants, such as Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana, Google Assistant, Amazon's Echo/Alexa, Samsung's Bixby, IBM's Watson, etc.  The experts chosen for this event are Hervé Bourlard (EPFL and former Director, IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland), Akihiko K. Sugiyama (Founder, Damas.cus Corporation, Tokyo and Kansai University, Japan), Thomas Hain (ISCA Fellow, The University of Sheffield, UK), Yu Tsao (Academia Sinica, Taiwan),   B. Yegnanarayana (Fellow of IEEE,  ISCA, INAE, Retd. IIT Madras), Hema A. Murthy (ISCA Fellow, IIT Madras), S. Umesh (IIT Madras), Nancy F. Chen (I2R Singapore), Tatsuya Kawahara (IEEE Fellow, Kyoto University, Japan), Sriram Ganapthy (IISc Bengaluru), K. S. R. Murty (IIT Hyderabad), Anil Kumar Vuppala (IIIT Hyderabad), and Vinayak Abrol (IIIT Delhi).  This event is sponsored by ISCA, IndSCA, DAU Gandhinagar,  and technically co-sponsored by IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Gujarat Section.

URL:   https://sites.google.com/view/s4p2025/speakers

Note: The current version of the poster of this event is attached. The last date of early bird registration is March 31, 2025.

In addition, the Summer School will also have a special session on Industry Perspective Talks, where speakers are: Sunayana Sitaram (Microsoft Research, Bengaluru), Sri Garimella (Amazon, Bengaluru), Premjeet Singh (Samsung Research Institute, Bengaluru), K. Sunilkumar (TCS Innovation Labs, Mumbai), Debmalya Chakrabarty (Amazon, Bengaluru),  Bidisha Sharma (Uniphore, Bengaluru), Nirmesh J. Shah (Sony Research, India), Nagaraj Adiga (Krutrim, Bengaluru), and Dipesh K. Singh (Augnito, Mumbai).

The program committee of S4P 2025 includes internationally well-known experts from 10 countries across the world. The S4P 2025 also includes 6th 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, and 2^nd edition of Poster Presentation Contest (PPC).  Four best presentations by the scholars during 5MPT and PPC will be awarded cash prizes. Further, we are also providing the Student Travel Grants (including DAU Student Grants to 50 students) to student participants. We are enclosing a poster which describes the outline of the event and call for participation.

Please do help in giving wide publicity of this event and you may please encourage students working in relevant areas to register for this event and apply for IndSCA Student Travel Grants, please.

Thanks and best regards,

Prof. (Dr.) Hemant A. Patil, Professor and Placement Convenor, DAU (formerly DA-IICT) Gandhinagar, India.

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, S4P, July 05-09, 2025.

Associate Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine 2021-2023.

ISCA Distinguished Lecturer 2020-2022, and APSIPA Distinguished Lecturer 2018-2019

Speech Research Lab @ DAU Gandhinagar,   https://sites.google.com/site/speechlabdaiict/

PS: The closure report of the 6th edition of Summer School is available at  https://sites.google.com/view/s4p2025/past_events