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Microsoft is pleased to organize the ICASSP 2024 Speech Signal Improvement Challenge, which is intended to stimulate research in the area of improving the speech signal quality in communication systems. The speech signal quality can be
measured with SIG in ITU-T P.835 and is still a top issue in audio communication and conferencing systems. To improve SIG the following speech impairment areas should be addressed: coloration, discontinuity, loudness, and reverberation. This is the second
Speech Signal Improvement challenge, with the first held at ICASSP 2023. We improve on that challenge by providing a dataset synthesizer to allow all teams to start at a higher baseline, an objective metric for our extended P.804 tests, and we add Word Accuracy
(WAcc) as a metric. We provide a real test set for this challenge, and the winners will be determined by subjective test (using an extended crowdsourced implementation of ITU-T P.804) and WAcc. More details of the challenge are at:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/374263303_ICASSP_2024_SPEECH_SIGNAL_IMPROVEMENT_CHALLENGE Registration details are at:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/speech-signal-improvement-challenge-icassp-2024/ Thanks, Ross |