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CCF Task Force on
Speech Dialogue
and Auditory Processing
SHAANXI PROVINCIAL KEY LABORATORY
OF SPEECH & LMAGE
INFORMATION PROCESSING
xi'an software park
Shanxi Kunpeng
Ecological
Innovation Center
Speech Lab, Shanghai Jiao
Tong University, China
School of Computer Science and
Engineering, Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore
Center for Language and Speech
Processing, John Hopkins
University, United States
Datatang (Beijing) Techn
ology Co., Ltd.
INTERSPEECH has grown into the world's largest technical conference focused on speech processing and application with over 1000 attendees and over 600 papers. The conferences emphasize interdisciplinary approaches addressing all aspects of speech science and technology, ranging from basic theories to advanced applications.
As the flagship technical activity, the Accented English Automatic Speech Recognition Workshop will be held On October 25, 2020 in Shanghai. Our award ceremony will be held during the workshop. In this workshop, Datatang will join hands with CCF Task Force on Speech Dialogue and Auditory Processing and the Northwestern Polytechnical University Audio Speech and Language Processing Research Group ([email protected]) to apply for organizing an Accent English Speech Recognition Workshop as well as launch an Accent English Speech Recognition Challenge. The workshop also receives strong support from the Software Park Development Center of Xi'an High-tech Industrial Technology Development Zone.
English is the most influential universal language in the world. English speech recognition is also one of the most concerned areas in both academia and industry. At present, advanced ASR systems have achieved good effect and meet most requirements for standard English. In accent English field, however, recognizing English speech with accents still remains a challenging task. The difficulties in building an accent English ASR system mainly arise from the diversity of pronunciation accuracy, intonation speed and pronunciation of some syllables. On the other hand, the shortage of accent speech data limits the relevant research.
The Interspeech 2020 Accented English Speech Recognition Challenge (AESRC) will open 8 sets of accented English data from different countries to the participants, covering various pronunciation characteristics and accents, aiming to promote the discussion and exchange on English language research and accent speech recognition. It is expected that all researchers from academia and industry can learn from each other and truly gain by participating our challenge & workshop.
Computing resources will be provided by Huawei
Accents Recognition
To use the official various accents English training data to train language classification models. To submit the language recognition results on the test set
Note: There are no restrictions on the models and training techniques used, but any other official datasets will be banned. The accuracy rate of language recognition is the only criterion.English Speech Recognition With Different Accents.
To use the official various accents English training data to train language classification models. To submit the language recognition results on the test set. There will be some accents data not included in the training datasets to test the generalization performance of the models.
Note: The use of model fusion techniques, including ROVER, will be prohibited, and audio training data is limited to the 160 hours of official accented English speech data. Don’t use the textual information not belong to the corresponding transcripts of the audio data for the language models training. And the speech data augmentation can only be based on the restricted data.20 hours labelled speech data for each accent (Russia, Korea, US, Portugal, Japan, India, UK, China), 160 hours in total, officially provided by DataTang, to the participants.
Duration |
20 hours ×8 |
| Language & Accent |
Accented English from Russia, Korea, US, Portugal, Japan, India, UK, China |
| Speaker |
40 – 110 speakers per accent |
| Audio Format |
16kHz, 16bit, single channel wav |
| Recording environment |
Indoor, mobile phone |
| Speech content |
Daily communication, interaction with smart devices, etc |
FIELD |
DESCRIPTION |
| SEX |
Speaker gender |
| AGE |
Speaker age |
| ACT |
Accent type |
| MIT |
Recording device |
| SCC |
Recording environment |
| LBR |
Utterance duration |
| ORS |
Raw text |
Registration for the
Challenge
Aug 20, 2020Publish training
data
2Publish testing
data
Sep 22, 2020Submit test
results
4Announces evaluation
results
Sep 30, 2020Submit proposal
presentations
6Award
ceremony
Oct 25, 20201 First Prize - ¥ 10,000
2 Second Prizes - ¥ 5,000 each
3 Third Prizes - ¥ 2,000 each
1 First Prize - ¥ 10,000
2 Second Prizes - ¥ 5,000 each
3 Third Prizes - ¥ 2,000 each
Note:All the prize amounts include the tax.
(Names listed in no particular order)
Lei Xie |
Professor |
Northwestern Polytechnical University, China |
Yanmin Qian |
Associate Professor |
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China |
ShinjiWatanabe |
Associate Research Professor |
John Hopkins University, United States |
ChngEngSiong |
Associate Professor |
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
Qiangze Feng |
CTO |
Datatang（Beijing）Technology Co.,Ltd, China |
Open to the whole society such as colleges, scientific research institutes, Internet companies and other personnel can register for the challenge.
Note: The challenge organizers and technical support units such as the employees who have the access to the business, products and data about the challenge will automatically withdraw from the challenge and give up the qualifications.Participants are forbidden to submit multiple applications, and the results will be cancelled.
Participants are prohibited from using any other ways that outside of the designated assessment such as loopholes in the rules or technical loopholes, additional data or other undesirable ways to improve the ranking of results. Once found, the results will be cancelled.
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