[AUDITORY] IEEE SLT 2021 Alpha-mini Speech Challenge (ASC)

[Weipeng HE <heweipeng@xxxxxxxxx>]

*Alpha-mini Speech Challenge (ASC)*
http://asc.ubtrobot.com/


Dear Colleague,

It is a great pleasure to announce the Alpha-mini Speech Challenge (ASC).

ASC provides a benchmark for *key word spotting*, *sound source 
localization* and related tasks. Alpha-mini is an excellent robot 
produced by UBTECH, equipped with intelligent speech interaction module 
based on a 4-microphone array. As a flagship challenge event of the 2021 
IEEE Spoken Language Technology (SLT) Workshop , ASC will provide the 
participants with labelled audio data recorded from Alpha-mini in real 
acoustic environments, covering abundant indoor noise, echo and 
reverberation. It aims to promote research in actual human robot speech 
interaction scenarios.

Follow this link to learn more about the challenge: http://asc.ubtrobot.com/


*Important Dates*

September 27th, 2020	Registration due
September 30th, 2020	Release of the training and development set
November 22nd, 2020	Deadline for participants to submit docker mirror
December 6th, 2020	Organizers will notify the participants about the results
December 27th, 2020 	Working note report deadline
January 19th-22nd, 2021 	2021 IEEE SLT Workshop date


*Organizing Committee*

* Youjun Xiong, UBTECH Technology Co., Ltd.
* Lei Xie, Northwestern Polytechnical University
* Huan Tan, UBTECH Technology Co., Ltd.
* Dongyan Huang, UBTECH Technology Co., Ltd.
* Jean-Marc Odobez, Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland
* Petr Motlicek, Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland
* Weipeng He, Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland
* Yuexian Zou, Peking University
* Hui Bu, AISHELL Foundation
* Jian Wu, Northwestern Polytechnical University