Subject: 4th CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge and Workshop From: Emmanuel Vincent <emmanuel.vincent@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 00:55:59 +0200 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>--------------------------------------------- 4th CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge and Workshop Launch: April 18, 2016 Deadline: August 19, 2016 Workshop: Google, CA, Sep 13, 2016 http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/chime_challenge/ ---------------------------------------------- Dear colleague, Following the success of the CHiME-3 challenge which attracted 25 international teams, it gives us great pleasure to announce the CHiME-4 Challenge and Workshop. CHiME-4 will revisit the CHiME-3 data, i.e., Wall Street Journal sentences spoken by talkers in challenging noisy environments recorded using a 6-microphone tablet device. It will increase the difficulty by reducing the number of microphones and introducing mismatches between training and testing microphone configurations. Participants will be able to rely on updated baselines for speech enhancement and ASR, which would now score among the best techniques in CHiME-3. The results will be presented at a dedicated workshop to be held on September 13th at Google's offices in conjunction with Interspeech 2016. STATEMENT OF INTEREST If you are considering participating, please email chimechallenge@xxxxxxxx with the subject CHiME-4 and you will be added to the email list for receiving further updates. IMPORTANT DATES 18th April, 2016 — Launch - Training/dev data + baselines released 27th June, 2016 — Test data released 19th Aug, 2016 — Challenge abstract/paper submission deadline 24th Aug, 2016 — Paper notification & registration open 13th Sept, 2016 — CHiME-4 Workshop 14th Oct, 2016 — Final paper (2 to 6 pages) CHALLENGE ORGANISERS Emmanuel Vincent, Inria Shinji Watanabe, MERL Jon Barker & Ricard Marxer, University of Sheffield LOCAL ORGANISER Kean Chin, Google SPONSORS Google Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs