Announcing the PASCAL 'CHiME' Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge (jon )


Subject: Announcing the PASCAL 'CHiME' Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge
From:    jon  <J.Barker@xxxxxxxx>
Date:    Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:28:34 +0100
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--Apple-Mail-301--751930726 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Apologies for cross posting: THE PASCAL CHIME SPEECH SEPARATION AND RECOGNITION CHALLENGE ---------------------------------------------------------- We are pleased to announce the PASCAL 'CHiME' Speech Separation and = Recognition Challenge.=20 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.=20= 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.=20 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.=20 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: 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@xxxxxxxx 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) --=20 Dr. Jon Barker, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S1 4DP, UK Phone: +44-(0)114-22 21824 FAX: +44-(0)114-222 1810 Email: j.barker@xxxxxxxx http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~jon --Apple-Mail-301--751930726 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <html><head></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; = "><div>Apologies for cross posting:</div><div><br></div><div>THE PASCAL = CHIME SPEECH SEPARATION AND RECOGNITION = CHALLENGE</div><div><div>-------------------------------------------------= ---------</div></div><div><br></div><div>We are pleased to announce the = PASCAL 'CHiME' Speech Separation and Recognition = Challenge.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>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.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>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.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>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.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><a = href=3D"http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/spandh/chime/challenge.html">http://www.= dcs.shef.ac.uk/spandh/chime/challenge.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Re= sults 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. &nbsp;Participants will be invited to submit abstracts or full = papers for presentation at this = event.</div><div><br></div><div>Schedule:</div><div><br></div><div>Septemb= er 2010: Training and development data are available for = download</div><div>October 2010: Additional tools are = available</div><div>February 2011: Test data are released</div><div>31st = March 2011: Submission deadline for the CHiME 2011 = workshop.</div><div><br></div><div>If you have any questions please do = not hesitate to contact the organisers, <a = href=3D"mailto:chime@xxxxxxxx">chime@xxxxxxxx</a></div><div><b= r></div><div>Best Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Jon Barker, &nbsp; = (University of Sheffield, UK)</div><div>Emmanuel Vincent, (INRIA Rennes, = France)</div><div>Ning Ma, &nbsp;(University of Sheffield, = UK)</div><div>Heidi Christensen, (University of Sheffield, = UK)</div><div>Phil Green, (University of Sheffield, = UK)</div><div><br></div><div><div style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; = "><div><br></div></div></div><div> <span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; = color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; = font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; = letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: = auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; = widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: = Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; = font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; = orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; = widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style=3D"word-wrap: = break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: = after-white-space; "><div>--&nbsp;<br>Dr. Jon Barker, Department of = Computer Science,<br>University of Sheffield, Sheffield, &nbsp;S1 4DP, = UK<br>Phone: +44-(0)114-22 21824 FAX: +44-(0)114-222 1810<br>Email: <a = href=3D"mailto:j.barker@xxxxxxxx">j.barker@xxxxxxxx</a> = &nbsp;<a = href=3D"http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~jon">http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~jon</a>= <br></div></div></span></span> </div> <br></body></html>= --Apple-Mail-301--751930726--


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