Important dates
All deadlines are intended to be 11:59pm anywhere on earth (AoE).
Schedule for CHiME-8
| 1 Feb 2024 | Challenge opening |
| 20 March 2024 | Deadline for proposing new external datasets and models for Tasks 1 and 2 |
| 1 June 2024 | NOTSOFAR1 Development set ground truth release (must use the leaderboard in the meantime) |
| 28 June 2024 | Regular (non-challenge) paper submission deadline |
| 1 July 2024 | Evaluation data release for Tasks 1 and 2 |
| 17 July 2024 | Challenge submission deadline (all tasks) |
| 30 Jul 2024 | Author notifications |
| 6 Sep 2024 | CHiME 2024, an Interspeech satellite workshop, Kipriotis Hotels & Conference Center |
| 2 Oct 2024 | Camera-ready submissions of accepted papers |
Schedule for CHiME-9
| 6 Sept 2024 | Pitching session at the CHiME 2024 workshop to refine ideas and gather support |
| 25 Oct 2024 | Submission of task proposals |
| 8 Nov 2024 | Feedback from Steering Group |
| 22 Nov 2024 | Resubmission of conditionally accepted proposals |
| 4 Dec 2024 | Notification of acceptance |
| Dec-July | Challenge preparation (Data collection, baseline, and rules preparation, etc.) |
| 1 July 2025 | Challenge opening |
| 7 Feb 2026 | Challenge submission deadline (date and details TBC) |
| 3 May 2026 | CHiME 2026, an ICASSP satellite workshop (date and details TBC) |