The IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2023) will be held from 16– 20 December 2023 in Taipei, Taiwan. This year, ASRU 2023 will feature sessions for Demo demonstration, along with regular and special sessions. Participants will take the opportunity to demonstrate their most recent progress of developments, and interact with the attendees in an informal way.

Important Dates

• 16th October 2023

  Demo Submission Due

• 1st November 2023

  Demo Notifications

• 16th - 20th December 2023

  Workshop

Topics

Demos related to aspects of spoken language technology are welcome with emphasis on the topics listed below. We particularly welcome submissions related to the theme of ASRU 2023, “Speech and Language Processing for Wellbeing”

• Automatic speech recognition
• ASR in adverse enviroments
• New applications of ASR
• Speech-to-speech translation
• Spoken language understanding
• Spoken document retrieval
• Spoken dialog systems
• Speaker/Language recognition
• Text-to-speech systems
• Paralinguistic Speech Procesing
• Speech and Language for Health
• Other topics in speech and language processing

Submission Procedure

Authors may submit demo presentation abstracts of up to 2 pages based on the ASRU regular paper template. Abstracts can be submitted up until 16th October 2023 at 23:59:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth).

Abstracts should briefly outline the demonstration, including application and system design, and appropriate references. Additionally, information should be provided on equipment requirements. Demo applications may optionally include a single video file that exemplifies the results of the work.

The submitted abstracts will be reviewed by Demo chairs and will be accepted/rejected for presentation. Note, demo abstracts will NOT be reviewed based on the double-blind policy. Demo abstracts will be included in the IEEE ASRU proceedings but not in the IEEE Xplore

Please note: A table, a poster board and power will be provided. There are no fees for demos, but all demo presenters will have to register to ASRU 2023.

Please submit your abstract via email to Challenge and Demonstration chairs:

• Kyu Jeong, Han (Amazon, USA), kjhan@ieee.org
• Amir Hussain (Edinburgh Napier University, UK), A.Hussain@napier.ac.uk
• Naveen Kumar (Disney Research, USA), Naveen.Kumar@disney.com
• Richard Tzong-Han, Tsai (NCU, Taiwan), thtsai@g.ncu.edu.tw
• Chia-Ching Wang (NCU, Taiwan), jcw@csie.ncu.edu.tw

Schedule

The deadline for Demo submission 16th October 2023 at 23:59:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth). After this date, no new submissions will be accepted.