PASCAL CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge (jon )


Subject: PASCAL CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge
From:    jon  <j.barker@xxxxxxxx>
Date:    Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:21:32 +0000
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--Apple-Mail-104-334512352 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii PASCAL CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge 2011 Part of the EU Network of Excellence PASCAL Challenge Program with = support from EPSRC project CHiME. Participation is open to all. http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/spandh/chime/challenge.html The object of the challenge is to separate and recognise spoken command = utterances appearing in background recordings made in a noisy domestic = living room using binaural microphones. The challenge is motivated by = the demands of real distant-microphone speech recognition applications = and in particular the need to deal with multiple and highly varied = interfering sound sources. The challenge 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 PASCAL CHiME 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, "Machine Listening in Multisource Environments" to 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.=20 A Special Issue of the journal Computer Speech and Language on the theme = of Speech Separation and Recognition in Multisource Environments will be = published as an outlet for extended workshop papers. Schedule: Now: Data and evaluation tools are available for download 30 March: Final test data are released 14th April: Submission deadline for Challenge workshop abstracts/papers. 21st April: Submission deadline for Challenge results. 1st September: CHiME Workshop, Florence, Italy Organisers: Jon Barker, University of Sheffield, UK Emmanuel Vincent, INRIA Rennes, France --Apple-Mail-104-334512352 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; = ">PASCAL CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge = 2011<br><br>Part of the EU Network of Excellence PASCAL Challenge = Program with support from EPSRC project CHiME. Participation is open to = all.<br><br><a = href=3D"http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/spandh/chime/challenge.html">http://www.= dcs.shef.ac.uk/spandh/chime/challenge.html</a><br><br>The object of the = challenge is to separate and recognise spoken command utterances = appearing in background recordings made in a noisy domestic living room = using binaural microphones. The challenge is motivated by the demands of = real distant-microphone speech recognition applications and in = particular the need to deal with multiple and highly varied interfering = sound sources. The challenge 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.<br><br>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 PASCAL = CHiME Challenge web site.&nbsp;<br><br><a = href=3D"http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/spandh/chime/challenge.html">http://www.= dcs.shef.ac.uk/spandh/chime/challenge.html</a><br><br>Results of the = Challenge will be presented at a dedicated one-day workshop, "Machine = Listening in Multisource Environments" to 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.&nbsp;<br><br>A Special Issue of the journal Computer Speech and = Language on the theme of Speech Separation and Recognition in = Multisource Environments will be published as an outlet for extended = workshop papers.<br><br>Schedule:<br><br>Now: &nbsp;Data and evaluation = tools are available for download<br>30 March: Final test data are = released<br>14th April: Submission deadline for Challenge workshop = abstracts/papers.<br>21st April: Submission deadline for Challenge = results.<br>1st September: CHiME Workshop, Florence, = Italy<br><br><div>Organisers:</div><div><br></div><div>Jon Barker, = University of Sheffield, UK</div><div>Emmanuel Vincent, INRIA Rennes, = France<br><div><br class=3D"webkit-block-placeholder"></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><br></div></div></span></span></div></div></body></html>= --Apple-Mail-104-334512352--


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