We are pleased to announce that the meeting on “Data, Technologies and Benchmarks for the Spoken Languages of the World” will be co-located with the 2022 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (IEEE SLT 2022). The half-day, hybrid meeting will focus on building and growing speech and language communities around the world. An initial set of language families we plan to discuss include: South African, Arabic and Indic Languages. We are reaching out to expand this language set to a larger set of low resource languages.

🚧 QCRI is about a 20-minute car ride from the hotel venue in Marsa Malaz Kempinski, The pearl. For those of you who have registered to attend in-person, please come to building B1 in the research complex. For thoses staying in Marsa Malaz Kempinski or nearby please meet us at the lobby of Kempinski by 8:30 am.

📢 Online-Meeting Details
Topic: Data and Technologies for All Spoken Languages of the World Time: Jan 13, 2023 01:30 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Please register for this webinar Here. You will receive a passcode/direct URL immediately to join the meeting when you register

The goal of this meeting is to align our communities around data, tools, models and benchmarks and create a Special Interest Group (SIG) around this effort (Few examples here). There have been several efforts around low resource languages , such as BABEL, MGB Challenge, BULB. We would like to bring them together under an umbrella such as SUPERB (or a similar focussed effort) and encourage joint research in this field.

Please share the invitation with colleagues who may be interested in participating in this working group.

Please register your interest here so we may share logistical information regarding the meeting.