---------------------------------------------- First International Workshop on Machine Listening in Multisource Environments (CHiME 2011) in conjunction with Interspeech 2011 September 1st, 2011, Florence, Italy http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/spandh/chime/workshop ---------------------------------------------- ** LAST CALL ** The venue is almost full but there is space for a few more people. Registration will be closing on *22nd July*. ** *PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME AND REGISTRATION* http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/projects/chime/workshop/programme.html http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/projects/chime/workshop/registration.html *OVERVIEW* CHiME 2011 is an ISCA-approved satellite workshop of Interspeech 2011 that will consider the challenge of developing machine listening applications for operation in real-world multisource environments. CHiME will bring together researchers from a broad range of disciplines (computational hearing, blind source separation, speech recognition, machine learning) to discuss novel and established approaches to this problem. The cross-fertilisation of ideas will foster fresh approaches that efficiently combine the complementary strengths of each research field. As a focus for discussion during the day, the workshop will act as host to the PASCAL CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge. This real-world challenge attracted 13 submissions from different research groups spanning all of the above disciplines. Many of these submissions achieved impressive keyword error rate reduction up to 80% compared to the baseline with the best system performing close to the human performance level. Details of the technical programme can be found here: http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/projects/chime/workshop/programme.html *REGISTRATION* To register, please visit http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/projects/chime/workshop/registration.html The registration fee is 45 UK pounds (roughly 50 euros) and includes admission to the sessions, electronic proceedings, buffet lunch, and tee and coffee breaks. Registration must be made online by credit-card payment (there will be no onsite registration). *VENUE* The workshop is taking place at the Interspeech 2011 venue on the day after Interspeech finishes, Thursday 1st September. Information about accommodation and how to get to and from the venue can be found on the main Interspeech website http://www.interspeech2011.org/conference/visitorinfo.php http://www.interspeech2011.org/conference/accomodation.php See you in Florence. Best regards, CHiME Organising Committee Dr Jon Barker, University of Sheffield, UK Dr Emmanuel Vincent, INRIA Rennes, France Prof. Dan Ellis, Columbia University, USA Prof. Phil Green, University of Sheffield, UK Dr. John Hershey, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA Prof. Walter Kellermann, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Prof. Hiroshi Okuno, Kyoto University, Japan -- |