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LISTEN Workshop 2018 in Bonn, Germany
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 (more details see end of this email). In total, we expect an audience of about 50 researchers.
Venue and time
Venue: Ameron Hotel Koenigshof Bonn, Germany (directly located on the river Rhine; 20 km distance from airport Cologne/Bonn; 1 km from train station Bonn; 30 km from train station Cologne)
(Tentative) Program
- Tuesday, July 17: 09:00-18:00 technical session, - Wednesday, July 18: 09:00-13:00 technical session, 14:00-18:00 social event, - Thursday, July 19: 09:00-17:00 technical session.
Keynotes
Confirmed keynote talks with (tentative) titles (45 minutes + questions/discussions):
Industry:
- Alex Acero, Apple US: Our work on HomePod.
- Jasha Droppo, Microsoft US: The Microsoft 2017 Conversational Speech Recognition System.
- Erik McDermott, Google US: Next generation acoustic models for automatic speech recognition.
- Bjoern Hoffmeister, Amazon US: tba
Academia:
- Chin-Hui Lee, Georgia Tech, US: Two-Stage Enhancement of Noisy and Reverberant Microphone Array Speech for 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: TOWARDS LISTENING WHILE SPEAKING: SPEECH CHAIN BY DEEP LEARNING.
- Reinhold Häb-Umbach, U Paderborn, Germany: Neural Network Supported Acoustic Beamforming and Source Separation for ASR.
Travel
We encourage the workshop participants to arrive on Monday and to leave after the end of the last session.
Several airports can be used to travel to Bonn:
- Cologne/Bonn (Köln/Bonn, CGN): 23 km to the venue by car, 25 minutes with bus SB60 from CGN to Bonn main station (4 stops) then 1 km walking or taxi
- Dusseldorf (Düsseldorf, DUS): 83 km by car, about 1h50 with public transport
- Frankfurt (FRA): 154 km by car, about 1h15 - 2h00 with public transport
if you need help with your travel planning, our secretariat will be happy helping you (+49 241 80-21601, [sek@i6.informatik.rwth-aachen.de]).
Watch out: there are two airports which, obviously for marketing reasons, have names similar to some of the above but lie badly remote in the countryside, notably Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN) and Düsseldorf Weeze (NRN; also Airport Weeze, Verkehrsflughafen Niederrhein). If you end up there, we will have a good laugh at the workshop.
Booking a hotel room
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