February 5, 2021.
SLT 2021 is completed! Certificates of attendance have been sent to all registrants via emails. Thank everyone again for making this virtual SLT possible. Looking forward to next opportunity to seeing you!
February 1, 2021.
Recorded videos for the opening and closing ceremonies, keynote and invited talks, panel, papers, demos, and industry forums, will be available for SLT registrants to watch through the Online Conference portal until February 22. Afterwards the videos will be transferred to IEEE SPS Resource Center, which can be freely accessed by SPS members.
January 25, 2021.
SLT announced best paper awards at the closing ceremony.
Best Paper Award: Gregory Senay, Badr Youbi Idrissi and Marine Haziza, "VIRAAL: Virtual Adversarial Active Learning For NLU".
Best Student Paper Award: Qiujia Li, Florian Kreyssig, Chao Zhang and Phil Woodland, "Discriminative Neural Clustering For Speaker Diarisation".
Best Paper Finalists selected by SLT Award Committee are:
Best Paper Award: Gregory Senay, Badr Youbi Idrissi and Marine Haziza, "VIRAAL: Virtual Adversarial Active Learning For NLU".
Best Student Paper Award: Qiujia Li, Florian Kreyssig, Chao Zhang and Phil Woodland, "Discriminative Neural Clustering For Speaker Diarisation".
Best Paper Finalists selected by SLT Award Committee are:
| Student | Title | Authors |
| Y | Enhancing Low-Quality Voice Recordings Using Disentangled Channel Factor And Neural Waveform Model | Haoyu Li, Yang Ai, Junichi Yamagishi |
| Y | Efficient Neural Architecture Search For End-To-End Speech Recognition Via Straight-Through Gradients | Huahuan Zheng, Keyu An, Zhijian Ou |
| N | VIRAAL: Virtual Adversarial Active Learning For NLU | Gregory Senay, Badr Youbi Idrissi, Marine Haziza |
| Y | Controllable Emphatic Speech Synthesis based on Forward Attention for Expressive Speech Synthesis | Liangqi Liu, Jiankun Hu, Zhiyong Wu, Song Yang, Songfan Yang, Jia Jia, Helen Meng |
| N | Look Who's Not Talking | Youngki Kwon, Hee Soo Heo, Jaesung Huh, Bong-Jin Lee, Joon Son Chung |
| N | Alignment Restricted Streaming Recurrent Neural Network Transducer | Jay Mahadeokar, Yuan Shangguan, Duc Le, Gil Keren, Hang Su, Thong Le, Ching-feng Yeh, Christian Fuegen, Michael L Seltzer |
| Y | Discriminative Neural Clustering For Speaker Diarisation | Qiujia Li, Florian Kreyssig, Chao Zhang, Phil Woodland |
| Y | Acoustic Span Embeddings For Multilingual Query-By-Example Search | Yushi Hu, Shane Settle, Karen Livescu |
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