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ASRU 2013

IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition
and Understanding Workshop
December 8-12 2013
Olomouc, Czech Republic
Committee
General Chairs
Honza Cernocky, BUT, Czech
Republic
Hynek Hermansky, JHU and BUT,
USA and Czech Republic
Industry Chairs
Michael Picheny, IBM, USA
Petr Schwarz, Phonexia, Czech
Republic
Technical Chairs
Lukas Burget, BUT, Czech Republic
Dan Povey, JHU, USA
Jason Williams, Microsoft, USA
Sanjeev Khudanphur, JHU, USA
Tanja Schultz, KIT, Germany
Yannis Stylianou, ICS Forth, Greece
Demo chairs
Jan Nouza, TUL, Czech Republic
Josef Psutka, UWB, Czech Republic
Publications Chairs
Jan Hajic, CUNI, Czech Republic
Thomas Hain, U. Sheffield, UK
Billene Mercer, CMS, USA
Publicity chairs
Patrick Nguyen, Google, USA
Haizhou Li, IIR, Singapore
Finance chairs
Alexander Cimbalnik, ALCI events,
Czech Republic
Sylva Otahalova, BUT, Czech
Republic
Local organizing committee
Karel Vesely, BUT
Renata Kohlova, BUT
BUT Speech@FIT staff and students

The ASRU workshop meets every two years and has a tradition of bringing
together researchers from academia and industry in an intimate and collegial
setting to discuss problems of common interest in automatic speech
recognition and understanding.
Topics and focus
Submission of papers in all areas of human language technology is
encouraged, with emphasis placed on: ASR / LVCSR Systems, Language
Modeling, Acoustic Modeling, Decoder Search, Spoken Language
Understanding, Spoken Dialog Systems, Multilingual Speech & Language
Processing, Robustness in ASR, Spoken Document Retrieval, Speech-toSpeech Translation, Text-to-Speech Systems, Speech Summarization, New
Applications of ASR and Speech Signal Processing. The workshop will
especially focus on Multilingual approaches, Efficient use of resources to
train systems and Rapid development of ASR systems for new languages.
Format
According to the ASRU tradition, the workshop will feature one keynote and
one or two invited talks a day. Regular papers will be presented as posters.
ASRU 2013 will also include panel discussions and a Demo&Toolkit session.
Paper Submission
Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, 4-6 page papers,
including figures and references, to the ASRU 2013 website
www.asru2013.org All papers will be handled and reviewed electronically.
The website will provide you with further details.
Schedule
Paper submission due
Paper notification of acceptance
Camera ready paper due
Demonstration/toolkit proposal due
Author and early registration due
Workshop

July 1, 2013
August 20, 2013
September 18, 2013
September 30, 2013
October 15, 2013
December 8-12, 2013

Venue, Information and Registration
ASRU is organized by Brno University of Technology BUT Speech@FIT
group. It will take place in Olomouc - a city with more than 900 years history
in Central Moravia, 70km North-East from Brno. The city is easily accessible
by train and bus connections from Prague and Vienna international airports.
ASRU will be held in nH Olomouc Congress Hotel, awarded by Czech
"Building of the year 2010" prize for its innovative functionalist architecture
and green friendliness. The hotel is walking distance from the historical center
of Olomouc. Registration and further information will be available from
workshop's web-site www.asru2013.org

Supported by

www.signalprocessingsociety.org

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