Subject: [AUDITORY] IEEE SLT 2021 Alpha-mini Speech Challenge (ASC) From: Weipeng HE <heweipeng@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 23:43:54 +0200*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