LISTEN Workshop / Summer School
July 17-19, 2018
Bonn, Germany

Description

The EU project LISTEN (http://www.listen-project.eu/) is concerned with various aspects of far-field large-vocabulary speech recognition. As part of this project, we will organize a three-day workshop in Bonn/Germany, 17-19 July 2018 (Tuesday-Thursday).

The workshop intends to bring together experts from academic and industrial research in this fast developing area of speech recognition. The workshop will include regular talks and keynote talks. In total, we expect an audience of about 50 researchers.

Organizers

	Hermann Ney, Volker Steinbiss, Ralf Schlüter RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
	Athanasios Mouchtaris Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Heraklion, Greece
	Volker Fischer EML, Heidelberg, Germany
	Emilio Giannotti Cedat85, Rome, Italy

Venue

The workshop will take place in the Ameron Hotel Königshof, Adenauerallee 9, 53111 Bonn, Germany, Tel.: +49 228 260 10, Email: info@hotel-koenigshof-bonn.de.
The hotel is located next to the Rhine river; 20 km distance from airport Cologne/Bonn; 1 km from train station Bonn; 30 km from train station Cologne.

Program

  - Tuesday, July 17:    08:50-18:40 technical session,
  - Wednesday, July 18:  08:50-12:45 technical session,
                         14:00-21:00 social event (*),
  - Thursday, July 19:   08:50-18:00 technical session.
  (*) Please note that the social event is a boat trip, so you cannot leave in between.

Detailed program

Keynotes

Confirmed keynote talks (45 minutes + questions/discussions):

Industry:

• Alex Acero, Apple, USA: Our work on HomePod.
• Jasha Droppo, Microsoft, USA: The Microsoft 2017 conversational speech recognition system.
• Erik McDermott, Google, USA: Next generation acoustic models for automatic speech recognition.
• Björn Hoffmeister, Amazon, USA: Building far-field speech recognition for Amazon Alexa: Challenges and solutions

Academia:

• Chin-Hui Lee, GeorgiaTech, USA: Two-stage enhancement of noisy and reverberant microphone array speech or automatic speech recognition systems already trained in clean conditions.
• Jon Barker, U Sheffield, UK: The CHiME-5 challenge for far-field conversational speech recognition in domestic environments.
• Satoshi Nakamura, NAIST, Japan:Toward Machine Speech Chain with Semi-supervised Learning by ASR-TTS coupling and Next Generation Speech-to-speech Translation.
• Reinhold Häb-Umbach, U Paderborn, Germany: Neural network supported acoustic beamforming and source separation for ASR.

Detailed program

Leisure activities

The Culture Trip (in English)
Kunstmuseum (art museum) Bonn (in English)
Museum overview on wikipedia (in English)
Traveling Tips of Bonn (in English)
German History Museum (in English)
Events calendar Bonn (in German)
Museumsmeile Bonn (information on the so called "museum mile", a conglomeration of several museums, in German)

Acknowledgements

		This workshop has received funding from the chair of computer science 6, Human Language Technology and Pattern Recognition, RWTH Aachen University, from the Verein zur Förderung des Lehrstuhls Informatik 6 der RWTH e.V. (registered charitable association) and from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 644283. Any work presented reflects only the authors' views and neither the Research Executive Agency (REA) nor the European Commission are responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.