CHiME-5

The 5th CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge

News - 10th September

Results of the CHiME-5 challenge are now available.

Following the success of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th CHiME challenges we are pleased to announce the 5th CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge (CHiME-5). The new challenge will consider the problem of distant multi-microphone conversational speech recognition in everyday home environments. Speech material was elicited using a dinner party scenario with efforts taken to capture data that is representative of natural conversational speech.

All approaches are welcome, whether they are emerging or established, and whether they rely on speech processing, signal separation or machine learning.

THE CHiME-5 WORKSHOP

The results of CHiME-5 will be presented at a dedicated workshop that will take place on September 7th in Hyderabad following Interspeech 2018. Further details are available on the workshop website.

The workshop will be held at the Microsoft Campus close to the Interspeech conference centre.

MATERIALS

CHiME-5 features two tracks depending on the number of microphone arrays available for testing:

single-array track
multiple-array track

Participants are encouraged to submit results for all tracks. Submitting results for one track is also allowed.

On this web site you will soon find everything you need to get started, including,

a task overview providing details of the motivation and recording set up,
a description of the training, development and evaluation datasets,
baseline recognition and evaluation tools,
a detailed description of the challenge rules,
instructions on how to submit your results,
a download center with links to all tools and data packages.

CHALLENGE DATES

5th March, 2018 — Training and development set data release
12th March, 2018 — Baseline recognition system release
~~9th July~~ Soon!, 2018 — Test data release
3rd August, 2018 — System submission
7th Sept, 2018 — CHiME-5 Workshop (satellite of Interspeech 2018) and release of results

ORGANISERS

Jon Barker, University of Sheffield, UK
Shinji Watanabe, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Emmanuel Vincent, Inria, France

If you are interested...

If you are considering participating or just want to learn more then please sign up to the CHiME-5 google group. We will be using this group to send emails that will keep prospective participants updated as the challenge progresses.