Baseline system + leaderboards are up for #MerlionChallenge untangling complex code-mixed speech. Which #ML #DeepLearning #SpeechProc system will do the best job on complex language use in the wild? 👀

TWO TEAMS have already beaten the baseline for Language ID:
🎉Lingua_Lumos (Closed)
🎉UNSW_Signal_Processing (Open)

There’s still time to join the challenge and prep your paper for our special session at #Interspeech2023

https://toot.community/@suzyjstyles/109793982337809507

Have you ever seen auto-generated subtitles turn to mush because they couldn’t handle a speaker’s accent or figure out what language they’re speaking after a switch?

The #MerlionChallenge for #Interspeech23 tests how well teams can build a language detection system for Code-Switching in >300 Zoom recordings.

Help build robust systems for multilingualism by joining the challenge or sharing with #ML #DeepLearning #SpeechProc friends 💪🏼💪🏽💪🏿

https://toot.community/@suzyjstyles/109713790862725145

Most AI speech processing systems are developed using samples of monolingual speech between adults. #WEIRDbias

We hope the #MerlionChallenge at @Interspeech 2023 pushes the frontiers of how automated systems handle the diverse kinds of #translanguaging we see in the world 🌍

If you want to see better tools for #LangDev #Multilingualism #DiverseVoices and #GlobalLanguages then help us ✨boost✨ these posts can reach all the lovely #SpeechProc and #CognitiveScience folks!

For the #MerlionChallenge at #Interspeech we’ll be asking teams to train a #SpeechProc / #AI system that can guess which language is which (Task 1: Language ID) and when (Task 2: Language Diarization)!

👉Challenge audio is Zoom recordings with English and/or Mandarin Chinese
👉Audio for development matches audio for evaluation 😗👌

I’m sure I have a bunch of #Multilingual #LangDev, #SpeechProc #NLP and #CogSci friends over here 🦣

We’ve prepped >30hrs of our English/Mandarin code-switched child directed speech for the #MerlionChallenge at this year’s INTERSPEECH
>300 files, >100 voices 🙀 (+ training data)

We’re looking for speech systems that can figure out which language is spoken when!

The #MerlionChallenge will see whose system does the best job 💪🏼

Join or help us boost the message: https://sites.google.com/view/merlion-ccs-challenge/

#Introduction Hello! I am a PhD candidate @jhuclsp working on speech recognition, but I am interested in anything #SpeechProc and #NLProc.

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