Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages (SLTU'16)5th
Workshop on Spoken Language
Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages (SLTU'16) will be held on 9-12 May 2016 in
Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

### Important dates ###
- Full paper submission: 25 January 2016
- Notification of acceptance: 07 March, 2016
- Submission of final papers: 21 March, 2016
- Early registration: 21 March, 2016
- Workshop dates: 9-12 May, 2016

The Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages
is the fifth in a series of even-year SLTU Workshops. Four previous Workshops were
organized: SLTU'14 in St. Petersburg (Russia), SLTU'12 in Cape Town (South Africa),
SLTU'10 in Penang (Malaysia), and SLTU'08 in Hanoi (Vietnam). SLTU?16 is held in
Yogyakarta (Indonesia), a centre of classical Javanese culture. There are more than
700 ethnic languages spoken in Indonesian archipelago, but 146 are endangered.
Therefore, SLTU?16 has special focus on under-resourced languages and endangered
languages, but other related topics are also encouraged.

SLTU?16 will continue the tradition of previous SLTUs that features a number of
distinguished keynote speaker, and this year, for the first time, SLTU will also offer
Kaldi Tutorial on Under-Resourced Language.

### Workshop Topics ###
Areas related to processing any under-resourced and
endangered  languages:
- Fast resources acquisition (text and speech corpora, parallel text, dictionary,
grammars, language model)
- Spoken language processing for language without dictionary or written forms
- Cross-lingual and multi-lingual spoken language processing including analysis
and synthesis
- Speech recognition and synthesis of low-resourced languages and dialects
- Machine translation and spoken dialogue systems
- Applications of spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages

### Paper submission ###
Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers up to 4 pages for
technical content (including figures, tables, etc) and possible references, plus
one additional (optional) page containing only references.

### Important dates ###
- Full paper submission: 25 January 2016
- Notification of acceptance: 07 March, 2016
- Submission of final papers: 21 March, 2016
- Early registration: 21 March, 2016
- Workshop dates: 9-12 May, 2016

### Organizing Committee Members ###
- Workshop Chair:
   Sakriani Sakti (NAIST, Japan)
- Workshop Co-chair:
   Pascal Nocera (LIA, France)
   Eric Castelli (MICA, Vietnam)
   Laurent Besacier (LIG, France)
- Local Co-chair:
   Mirna Adriani (UI, Indonesia)
   Ayu Purwarianti (ITB, Indonesia)

Web-site of the Workshop: http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2016

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  ODYSSEY 2016:

           THE SPEAKER AND LANGUAGE RECOGNITION WORKSHOP

                  June 21-24, 2016, Bilbao, Spain



                    http://www.odyssey2016.org



IMPORTANT DATES:



- Regular paper submissions:              January 24, 2016

- Industry track and demos:               February 15, 2016

- Notifications:                          March 15, 2016

- Final papers:                           April 1, 2016



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CONFERENCE TOPICS:



The general themes of the conference include speaker and

language recognition and characterization. The specific topics

include, but are not limited to, the following:



o Speaker and language recognition, verification, identification

o Speaker and language characterization

o Features for speaker and language recognition

o Speaker and language clustering

o Multispeaker segmentation, detection, and diarization

o Language, dialect, and accent recognition

o Robustness in channels and environment

o System calibration and fusion

o Speaker recognition with speech recognition

o Multimodal and multimedia speaker recognition

o Confidence estimation for speaker and language recognition

o Corpora and tools for system development and evaluation

o Low-resource (lightly supervised) speaker and language recognition

o Speaker synthesis and transformation

o Human and human-assisted recognition of speaker and language

o Analysis and countermeasures against spoofing and tampering attacks

o Forensic and investigative speaker recognition

o Systems and applications



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REGULAR PAPER SUBMISSIONS:



All regular submissions (max 8 pages) will be reviewed by at least

three members of the scientific review committee. The regular

submissions must include scientific or methodological novelty;

the paper has to review the relevant prior work and state clearly

the  novelty in the Introduction part. The accepted papers will appear

in electronic proceedings.



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INDUSTRY TRACK AND DEMOS:



The Odyssey Organizing Committee recognizes a large gap between

theoretical research results and real-world deployment of the methods.

To foster a closer collaboration across industry and academia,

an industry track was introduced in Odyssey 2014 and will be

continued in Odyssey 2016.



Submissions to this track may include a description of your target

application, a product, a demonstrator or any combination of them.

In addition to voice biometrics providers, we encourage submissions

from companies who are in need for speaker or language recognition

technology. The industry paper submissions do NOT have to present

methodological novelty, but MUST address one or all of the following

aspects:



- Description of the application, role of speaker/language recognition

- Research results and methods that worked well in your application

- Negative research results that have NOT worked in practice

- Unsolved problems 'out-in-the-wild' that deserve attention



The industry submissions will NOT undergo full peer review nor will be

included in the proceedings. A poster session will be allocated for the

industry track presentations and demos, with auxiliary equipment (tables,

plugs, etc.) available if requested. The organizing committee may select

the most interesting submissions for oral presentation.



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AWARDS:



Odyssey 2016 will feature two awards:



- A best paper award

- A best student paper award



All regular papers and all special session papers (if any is scheduled)

are candidates for the awards. The awards are given based on the review

reports AND the presentation at the conference. For the best student

paper award, the first author must be a student (meaning that she/he

does not yet hold a PhD degree) at the time of paper submission.



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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:



Luis J. Rodríguez-Fuentes, chair  University of the Basque Country, Spain

Eduardo Lleida, co-chair          University of Zaragoza, Spain

Jean-Francois Bonastre            University of Avignon, France

Niko Brümmer                      Agnitio, South Africa

Lukáš Burget                      Brno University of Technology, Czech
Republic

Joseph Campbell                   MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA

Jan 'Honza' ÄŒernocký              Brno University of Technology, Czech
Republic

Tomi Kinnunen                     University of Eastern Finland, Finland

Haizhou Li                        Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

Alvin Martin                      NIST, USA

Douglas Reynolds                  MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA



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VENUE AND TRAVEL:



Odyssey 2016 will be hosted by two Spanish groups: GTTS
(http://gtts.ehu.es),

from the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of the Basque
Country,

and ViVoLab (http://vivolab.unizar.es/), from the School of Engineering and

Architecture of the University of Zaragoza.



The workshop will be held in Bilbao, a medium-size city in the north of
Spain,

with about 350,000 inhabitants. The venue, Bizkaia Aretoa, is located in the
heart

of the city. The building, designed by the Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza,

hosts all kind of social, cultural, academic and scientific events, most of
them

organized by the University of the Basque Country.



Bilbao is the commercial and administrative head of a large area of about

one million people living by the Ibaizabal-Nervion estuary. After centuries

of trading and iron industry, in the last decades Bilbao has become a
service town,

supported by a huge investment in infrastructure and urban renewal, that
started

with the construction of an underground network (Metro Bilbao) in 1995 and

the opening of the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum in 1997.



The Bilbao airport can be easily reached from several European airports,

including international hubs such as Frankfurt, London, Paris, Amsterdam or
Madrid,

which provide worldwide connectivity. The city is connected to the European

road network by the AP-8 toll motorway, to the north of Spain by the A-8
motorway

and to the rest of Spain by the AP-68 toll motorway.



Located in a hilly countryside, Bilbao offers many outdoor activities.

Hiking is very popular as well as rock climbing in the nearby mountains.

Mount Artxanda, easily accessible from the town centre by a funicular
railway,

features a recreational area at the summit, with restaurants, a sports
complex

and a balcony with panoramic views. In the south, the natural wonders of

Mount Pagasarri receive hundreds of hikers every weekend.



A few minutes away by public transport, the Bizkaia Bridge, declared World
Heritage

in 2006, connects Portugalete and Las Arenas at the left and right banks of
the estuary.

In the coast, old fishing villages like Plentzia, Mundaka or Lekeitio have
become

touristic spots due to the nearby beaches, where watersports, especially
surfing,

are practiced. Just an hour away by car, the beautiful city of San
Sebastian,

as well as the vineyards and wineries of La Rioja, are worth a visit.



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For more details:



Website (under construction): http://www.odyssey2016.org

Email: info@odyssey2016.org



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