Check out SLT2021
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 |
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
Regarding the uncertain situation of COVID-19, SLT2021 will be organized in a virtual format, which can only be attended online rather than in Shenzhen, China, as previously announced. The safety and well-being of all conference participants is our priority. Hopefully, with the help of IEEE, we can draw from the experiences established in other conferences that have been held or to be held this year. We will post further information as it becomes ready.
We want to encourage you to continue supporting the workshop by submitting your excellent research work to the open calls and letting us know if you have any questions and suggestions.
Please take care and stay healthy!
Zhijian Ou, Tsinghua University (ozj@tsinghua.edu.cn)
Lei Xie, Northwestern Polytechnical University (lxie@nwpu.edu.cn)
IEEE SLT 2021 General Chairs
For memorial, the pictures at the website still show the beautiful seascapes of Shenzhen and the modern venue - Mountain View Theatre, Shenzhen Sea World Culture and Arts Center.
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
IEEE has been monitoring the developing COVID-19 pandemic (Coronavirus). The safety and well-being of all conference participants is our priority. After studying and evaluating the announcements, guidance, and news released by relevant national departments, we are sorry to announce that The 8th IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT) is postponed to be held on January 19-22, 2021 in Shenzhen, China. The important dates are postponed accordingly, as updated in the website.
Together with the IEEE SPS Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee and the IEEE Signal Processing Society leadership, we will continue to follow the latest updates carefully and take proper actions. Meanwhile, we want to encourage you to continue supporting the workshop by submitting your excellent research work to the open calls and maintaining active communication. We are constantly aimed at conducting and publicizing the outstanding research we do to advance technology for humanity.
Please take care and stay healthy!
Zhijian Ou, Tsinghua University (ozj@tsinghua.edu.cn)
Lei Xie, Northwestern Polytechnical University (lxie@nwpu.edu.cn)
IEEE SLT 2021 General Chairs