News

February 5, 2021. SLT 2021 is completed! Certificates of attendance have been sent to all registrants via emails. Thank everyone again for making this virtual SLT possible. Looking forward to next opportunity to seeing you!
February 1, 2021. Recorded videos for the opening and closing ceremonies, keynote and invited talks, panel, papers, demos, and industry forums, will be available for SLT registrants to watch through the Online Conference portal until February 22. Afterwards the videos will be transferred to IEEE SPS Resource Center, which can be freely accessed by SPS members.
January 25, 2021. SLT announced best paper awards at the closing ceremony.
Best Paper Award: Gregory Senay, Badr Youbi Idrissi and Marine Haziza, "VIRAAL: Virtual Adversarial Active Learning For NLU".
Best Student Paper Award: Qiujia Li, Florian Kreyssig, Chao Zhang and Phil Woodland, "Discriminative Neural Clustering For Speaker Diarisation".
Best Paper Finalists selected by SLT Award Committee are:
Student Title Authors
Y Enhancing Low-Quality Voice Recordings Using Disentangled Channel Factor And Neural Waveform Model Haoyu Li, Yang Ai, Junichi Yamagishi
Y Efficient Neural Architecture Search For End-To-End Speech Recognition Via Straight-Through Gradients Huahuan Zheng, Keyu An, Zhijian Ou
N VIRAAL: Virtual Adversarial Active Learning For NLU Gregory Senay, Badr Youbi Idrissi, Marine Haziza
Y Controllable Emphatic Speech Synthesis based on Forward Attention for Expressive Speech Synthesis Liangqi Liu, Jiankun Hu, Zhiyong Wu, Song Yang, Songfan Yang, Jia Jia, Helen Meng
N Look Who's Not Talking Youngki Kwon, Hee Soo Heo, Jaesung Huh, Bong-Jin Lee, Joon Son Chung
N Alignment Restricted Streaming Recurrent Neural Network Transducer Jay Mahadeokar, Yuan Shangguan, Duc Le, Gil Keren, Hang Su, Thong Le, Ching-feng Yeh, Christian Fuegen, Michael L Seltzer
Y Discriminative Neural Clustering For Speaker Diarisation Qiujia Li, Florian Kreyssig, Chao Zhang, Phil Woodland
Y Acoustic Span Embeddings For Multilingual Query-By-Example Search Yushi Hu, Shane Settle, Karen Livescu

About the conference

The SLT Workshop is a biennial flagship event of IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee. The 8th IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT 2021) will be held on January 19-22, 2021 in Shenzhen, China.

Deep learning has witnessed great success in spoken language technologies over the last decade. We continue welcoming research work from this area. The main theme for SLT 2021 will be around "Spoken language technologies: deep learning and beyond". Besides deep learning, we also encourage explorative efforts on new paradigms and forward-looking approaches for the advancement of spoken language technologies.

Program

The workshop program will keep the successful format of previous SLTs and will feature invited talks/keynotes, regular papers and special sessions. All papers will be presented as posters. A full social program will provide ample opportunities for discussion, including welcome reception, banquet, lunches, etc.

Topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following,

  • Speech recognition and synthesis
  • Spoken language understanding
  • Spoken document retrieval
  • Question answering from speech
  • Assistive technologies
  • Natural language processing
  • Multimodal processing
  • Human/computer interaction
  • Spoken dialog systems
  • Speech data mining
  • Emotion recognition from speech
  • Spoken document summarization
  • Spoken language corpora
  • Speaker/language recognition
  • Evaluation methodologies

Important Dates (AoE)

May 22, 2020Challenge session submission
May 29, 2020Challenge session notification
June 12, 2020Special session proposal due
July 13, 2020Special session notification
August 14, 2020Paper submission due
August 21, 2020Paper revision due
Oct 8-14, 2020Author response period
Nov 2, 2020Paper notification
Nov 23, 2020Paper camera ready version due
Dec 6, 2020Demo submission due (extended)
Dec 11, 2020Author registration due
Dec 13, 2020Demo selection notification
Jan 19-22, 2021Workshop Date

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Contact

General Chairs:

Zhijian Ou (ozj@tsinghua.edu.cn), Lei Xie (lxie@nwpu.edu.cn)

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