Connectionists: Reminder: PASCAL CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge

[Emmanuel Vincent]

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  PASCAL CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge

                  Deadline: April 14, 2011
        Workshop: September 1, 2011, Florence, Italy

   http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/spandh/chime/challenge.html

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News:

* Postponed deadlines: The deadlines for papers and results have been 
postponed to April 14 and April 21, 2011, respectively.

* Special Issue:  The Elsevier Journal Computer Speech and Language has 
agreed to publish a Special Issue on the theme of Speech Separation and 
Recognition in Multisource Environments. CHiME challenge participants 
will be invited to submit extended versions of their workshop papers.

* CHiME Workshop: The workshop will take place at the Interspeech venue 
on the day after the main conference has finished, 1st September. The 
workshop will feature a session on the PASCAL CHiME speech separation 
challenge but will also be accepting papers on the general theme of 
source separation and recognition. A call for papers providing full 
details and a link to the Workshop website will be issued shortly.

* Human listener data: We are currently running listening tests with the 
CHiME data and will be making the human data available for human speech 
recognition versus automatic speech recognition comparisons.

If you require any support with the challenge or if there is anything 
about the evaluation procedure that is unclear then please do not 
hesitate to contact us at chime at dcs.shef.ac.uk.

Best regards,

Jon Barker (University of Sheffield, UK)
Emmanuel Vincent (INRIA Rennes, France)
Ning Ma (University of Sheffield, UK)
Heidi Christensen (University of Sheffield, UK)
Phil Green, (University of Sheffield, UK)


On 10/12/2010 09:18 AM, Emmanuel Vincent wrote:
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> PASCAL CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge
>
> Deadline: March 31, 2011
> Workshop: September 1, 2011, Florence, Italy
>
> http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/spandh/chime/challenge.html
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> In 2006 the EU PASCAL Network funded the first speech separation
> challenge, addressing the problem of separating and recognising speech
> artificially mixed with other speech. The best system was able to
> achieve super-human performance! We are now turning to a more realistic
> - but more difficult - scenario: recognising speech in the reverberant
> multisource mixtures that are typical of everyday listening conditions.
> Specifically, the challenge will employ binaural, distant-microphone
> recordings made over a period of several weeks in a real family house.
>
> The challenge will be to separate and recognise simple command
> utterances which have been convolved with a binaural room impulse
> response and embedded in this continuous background. The challenge is
> motivated by the demands of real distant-microphone speech recognition
> applications and has been designed to draw participation from multiple
> disciplines including signal processing, computational hearing, machine
> learning and speech recognition. Evaluation will be through speech
> recognition results but participants will be allowed to submit either
> separated signals, robust speech features or the outputs of complete
> recognition systems. We are interested in measuring the performance of
> both emerging techniques and established approaches.
>
> A full description of the challenge, including details of the source
> separation and recognition tasks, the noisy speech data sets, and the
> rules for participation can be found on the Challenge web site.
>
> http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/spandh/chime/challenge.html
>
> Results of the Challenge will be presented at a dedicated one-day
> workshop that will be held as a satellite event of Interspeech 2011 in
> Florence, Italy. Participants will be invited to submit abstracts or
> full papers for presentation at this event.
>
>
> SCHEDULE
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> September 2010: Training and development data are available for download
> October 2010: Additional tools are available
> February 2011: Test data are released
> 31st March 2011: Submission deadline for the CHiME 2011 workshop.
>
> If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact the
> organisers, chime at dcs.shef.ac.uk
>
>
> Looking forward to your participation,
>
> Jon Barker, (University of Sheffield, UK)
> Emmanuel Vincent, (INRIA Rennes, France)
> Ning Ma, (University of Sheffield, UK)
> Heidi Christensen, (University of Sheffield, UK)
> Phil Green, (University of Sheffield, UK)