CHiME 2024
September 6, 2024, Kos International Convention Centre (KICC), Kos Island, Greece
Important Dates | Programme | Registration | Submission | Organisers | Sponsors
The CHiME 2024 workshop will be a one day event held on September 6, 2024 as a satellite even of Interspeech 2024 at the same venue as the conference, the Kos International Convention Centre on Kos Island, Greece in the AKESO (ΑΚΕΣΩ) room on the ground floor.
It will bring together researchers from the fields of speech enhancement, speech and speaker recognition, computational hearing, and machine learning to discuss the robustness of speech processing in everyday environments, i.e., real-world conditions with acoustic clutter, where the number and nature of the sound sources is unknown and changing over time. Relevant research topics include (but are not limited to)
- training schemes: data simulation and augmentation, semi-supervised training,
- speaker identification and diarization,
- speaker localization and beamforming,
- single- or multi-microphone enhancement and separation,
- multimodal speech recognition systems,
- robust features and feature transforms,
- robust acoustic and language modeling,
- traditional or end-to-end robust speech recognition,
- robust speaker and language recognition,
- robust paralinguistics,
- cross-environment or cross-dataset performance analysis,
- environmental background noise modelling,
- system descriptions, tools, and datasets for speech processing in everyday environments.
Papers reporting evaluation results on the CHiME-8 datasets or on other datasets are equally welcome.
Important Dates
| 28 Jun 2024 | Regular paper submission deadline |
| 17 Jul 2024 | Challenge results and extended abstract submission deadline |
| 30 Jul 2024 | Author notifications |
| 06 Sep 2024 | Interspeech satellite workshop, Kipriotis Hotels & Conference Center |
| 02 Oct 2024 | Camera-ready submissions of abstracts and papers |
The CHiME-8 Challenges
As a focus for discussion, the workshop will host the 8th CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge (CHiME-8) made up of three tasks:
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The first task (CHiME-8 DASR) focuses on distant automatic speech transcription and diarization of meetings with a strong focus on generalization across many scenarios.
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The second task (CHiME-8 NOTSOFAR-1) focuses on distant (far-field) speaker diarization and automatic speech recognition using a single recording device, emphasizing realistic conversational scenarios.
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The third task (CHiME-8 MMCSG) focuses on natural conversations between two people recorded with smart Aria glasses. The goal is to obtain speaker-attributed transcriptions in streaming fashion, using audio, video, and IMU input modalities.
Keynote Speakers
- Hung-yi Lee, Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Department of Computer Science & Information Engineering of National Taiwan University
For details please see the programme.
Venue
The workshop will be held at the same venue as Interspeech, the Kipriotis Hotel & Conference Center on Kos Island, Greece in the AKESO (ΑΚΕΣΩ) room on the ground floor. More details will be available soon.
Organisers
- Jon Barker Univ. of Sheffield, UK
- Shinji Watanabe Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Michael Mandel CUNY/Meta, USA
- Marc Delcroix NTT, Japan
- Leibny Paola Garcia Perera Johns Hopkins University, USA
Sponsors
We are grateful to our sponsors for their support.
