ASR-events-OC16

Call for Papers for Special Session “Mixlingual Speech Processing”

Introduction

• The modern society demonstrates clear mutual influence among languages, e.g., Mandarin to language minor languages in China, and English to other languages in the world. This leads to a clear mixlingual phenomenon, i.e., some words of a foreign (or target, embedded) language are embedded in a host (or source, matrix) language. This mixlingual effect causes significant problems in various speech processing tasks. This special session invites papers on but not limited to the following topics:

•  Mixlingual phonetic and phonological analysis
•  Mixlingual speech recognition
•  Mixlingual speech synthesis
•  Language turn detection
•  Mixlingual language understanding

• To assist the research on mixlingual speech processing, the special session offers a large Chinese-English mixlingual speech database OC16-CE80 (provided by Speechocean) that involves 80h of speech data and the associated resources. Participants to the special session can apply for OC16-CE80 for free if they need data to evaluate their research.

Important date

•  June 01 OC16-CE80 training/dev data release
•  July 31 Paper submission deadline
•  Aug. 15 Paper acceptance notification

Call for Submissions to the OC16 Chinese-English MixASR (OC16 MixASR-CHEN) Challenge

Introduction

The OC16-CE80 database involves 80h of Chinese-English mixlingual data, where English words are embedded in the host Chinese sentences. This special session calls for a Chinese-English MixASR challenge based on this database. The participants to the challenge are encouraged to submit the system design and results to the special session “mix lingual speech processing”, although they don’t have to. More details is in http://cslt.org/

Important date

•  June 01 OC16-CE80 training/dev data release
•  July 15 OC16-CE80 test data release
•  July 29 Paper submission deadline
•  OC2016: challenge result release