Automatic Speech Recognition

06-10 July 2024

Organized by

Dhirubhai Ambani
Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India.

About the Summer School
Summer School on Speech Signal Processing (S4P) is being organized as a
part of summer school activities at Speech Research Lab, DA-IICT,
Gandhinagar. It will provide opportunities to students, researchers, and
professionals to enhance their fundamentals and get exposed to research areas
in the field of speech signal processing. The school constitutes of a theme
topic and tutorials surrounding it. S4P 2024 is the sixth summer school at
DA-IICT following the very successful earlier five summer schools, focusing
on different topics in the broad area of speech signal processing.
FOCUS: Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
ASR system is now a key component of commercially successful Intelligent
Personal Assistants (IPAs), such as Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana, Google
Assistant, etc. Design of ASR system depends upon various factors, such as
near-field vs. far-field speech, recording and transmission channel conditions,
acoustic model, language model, signal degradation conditions (acoustic
noise), etc. Understanding these technological challenges is the major goal of
S4P 2024.
Invited Speakers
Hynek Hermansky is the professor emeritus at the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns
Hopkins University, USA. He is a member of the editorial
board of Speech Communication. He is Life Fellow of
IEEE and Fellow of ISCA and he was awarded ISCA
Medal.
Bhuvana Ramabhadran is a Speech Recognition
. Recently, he is selected as ISCA Distinguished Lecturer
Researcher at Google Research, USA. She serves on the
ISCA board in her capacity as International Speech
Communication Association (ISCA) Vice President
(2023-25). She is a Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of ISCA.
Mathew Magimai Doss is a Senior Researcher at the
Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland. He is also
a Lecturer at EPFL, where he teaches courses on speech
and audio processing. He is a Senior Area Editor of the
IEEE Signal Processing Letters.
Chng Eng Siong is currently an Associate Professor in the
SCSE at NTU in Singapore. He served as the publication
chair for Human Agent Interaction 2016, INTERSPEECH
2014, APSIPA 2010, APSIPA 2011, and ISCSLP 2006.
Bayya Yegnanarayana is currently INSA Senior Scientist
at IIIT Hyderabad. He is Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of
ISCA. He served in various capacities at IISc Bengaluru,
IIIT Hyderabad, CMU USA, and BITS Pillani.
C. V. Jawahar is a Professor and Head of CVIT, at IIIT
Hyderabad. He is interested in large-scale multimedia
systems with a special focus on assistive technology
solutions. Prof. Jawahar is an elected Fellow of the INAE
and Fellow of the International Association of Pattern
Recognition (IAPR).
Confirmed Sponsors
Invited Speakers Industry Perspective Talks 5 Minute Ph.D. Thesis (5MPT) Contest Committees
Sriram Ganapathy is currently an Associate Professor Nirmesh J. Shah is working as a senior research scientist at About 5MPT: The summer school at DA-IICT announces the 5th edition of 5 Patron:
with the EE, IISc Bengaluru, where he heads LEAP Lab. Sony Research India since 2020. He is primarily leading speech minute Ph.D. thesis (5MPT) contest after four such successful events in India Tathagata Bandyopadhyay, Director, DA-IICT Gandhinagar
He is also associated with the Google Research India, related activities at Sony Research India. He has been serving as during S4P 2019, S4P 2018, S4P 2017, and S4P 2016, Based on the reviews of
Bangalore. He was a Research Staff Member with the IBM a reviewer for many IEEE Journals and top conferences, the presentations by a panel of international experts, four scholars will be Organizing Committee:
Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA. He namely, ICASSP and INTERSPEECH. awarded cash prizes. • Hemant A. Patil, DA-IICT Gandhinagar
is the Subject Editor of the Speech Communications • Preethi Jyothi, IIT Bombay
Sunil Kumar Kopparapu is Principal Scientist at TCS First prize: Rs. 15,000 /-, • Vipul Arora, IIT Kanpur
Journal.
Research & Innovations Labs - Mumbai, he focuses on speech, • Priyankoo Sarmah, IIT Guwahati
Second prize: Rs. 10,000 /-,
script, and natural language processing, aiming to create
Preethi Jyothi is an Associate Professor in the CSE Third prize: Rs. 5,000 /-, • A.D. Dileep, IIT Dharwad
practical solutions for Indian conditions.
department, IIT Bombay. She has received Best Student Fourth prize: Rs. 3,000 /-. • Sumil Kumar Kopparapu, TCS Innovation Labs, Mumbai
Paper at INTERSPEECH, 2012, Speeach and Language • Suryakanth Gangashettey, KL University, Vijayawada
Dipesh K. Singh is a Speech Recognition Engineer at Augnito,
Processing Student Paper Award at ICASSP 2016, Google • Pranaw Kumar, C-DAC Mumbai
Mumbai, India, specializing in healthcare. His team achieved
Faculty Research Award 2017. She is a member of the top performance in language diarization task as part of the
Contact Details International Program Committee:
Editorial Board of Computer Speech and Language, DISPLACE challenge during INTERSPEECH 2023.
Speech Research Lab, DAIICT, ● Yu Tsao, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Elsevier.
Tel: +91-79-30510-587 ● Shrikanth Narayanan, University of Southern California, USA
Vikram C. Mathad was Research Scientist with Zapr Media
Aparna Walanj received MBBS, DCH, PGDCR, and Email: s4p.daiict@gmail.com
Labs, Bengaluru, India. Presently, he is with Samsung ● Tatsuya Kawahara, School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan
PGDBA. Presently, she is Senior Manager at Medical Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/s4p2024
Research Department, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani
Research Institute Bengalore. His research interests include
Refund Policy Request for refund of registration fee must be made before 16th ● Petros Maragos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
speech signal processing, biomedical signal processing, and
Hospitals and Research Center, Mumbai. She is also machine learning. June, 2024 by writing an e-mail to s4p.daiict@gmail.com ● Douglas O'Shaughnessy, Énergie Matériaux, Télécommunications
visiting faculty for several clinical research institutes in Research, Centre, Canada
Mumbai. IndSCA Travel Grants ● Dilek Hakkani-Tur, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Google Travel Grants
● Mark Allan Hasegawa-Johnson, University of Illinois
Hemant A. Patil is a Professor at DA-IICT Gandhinagar. IndSCA Travel Grant for 25 students participating in Summer School will Urbana-Champaign, USA
Google Travel Grant for 50 students participating in Summer School will
His research areas include speech processing, pattern be selected on a first come first serve basis. The grant includes travel support be selected on a first come first serve basis. The grant includes travel ● Lori Lamel, French National Centre for Scientific Research,
recognition, voice biometrics. He has been selected as up to Rs. 1,000/- . France
APSIPA Distinguished Lecturer (DL) for 2018-2019. support up to Rs. 1,000/-
Note:- A student can be awarded only one of these two grants. ● Yannis Stylianou, University of Crete, Greece
(DL) for 2020-2021. ● Odette Scharenborg, Delft University of Technology, The
Focused Areas Netherlands
Industry Perspective Talks ● Torbjørn Svendsen, Norwegian University of Science and
Tara N. Sainath is currently a Principal Research Scientist Technology, Norway
at Google, USA working on applications of deep neural
Automatic Speech Recognition
● Kong Aik Lee, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
networks for automatic speech recognition. She is a Fellow
● Saikat Chatterjee, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
of IEEE and a Fellow of the ISCA. She has worked at the
Speech and Language Algorithms group at IBM T. J. ● Thomas Fang Zheng, Tsinghua University, China
Watson Research Center. Acoustic-Model ● Nancy Zlatintsi, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
● Heidiki Kawahara, Wakayama University, Japan
Sunayana Sitaram is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft
Research India. Her current area of research is on Acoustic Hypothesized ● Hynek Hermansky, John Hopkins University, USA
Decoder
measuring and improving the performance of Large Front-end Word/phoneme ● Nancy F. Chen, Institute of Infocom Research (I2R), Singapore
Language Models on non-English languages. Sunayana also ● Hardik B. Sailor, Institute of Infocom Research (I2R), Singapore
serves as the director of the MSR India Research Fellow Language-Model Lexicon
program. ● Dong Yu, Tencent AI Lab, USA
● Rodrigo Capobianco Guido, São Paulo State University, Brazil
Harish Arsikere is a Principal Applied Scientist at Amazon Monojit Chaudhary, Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI, UAE
●
and an Alexa Speech Recognition team member in Rita Singh, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
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Bangalore. His research interests includes acoustic
● Tiago H. Falk, University of Quebec, Canada
modelling and adaptation for speech recognition,
multilingual modelling, prosody, and human-computer ● Kai Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
interaction, and end-to-end/all-neural systems. Registration Details ● Jan (Honza) Cernocky, Brno University of Technology, Czech
Republic
Eliathamby Ambikairajah, University of New South Wales
Amitabh Nag is the CEO of Digital India's Bhashini Early Bird Standard/Regular Late On the Spot
●
(UNSW), Australia
Division, spearheads the implementation of the National Isabel Trancoso, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Category Until May 15, 2024 From May 16 – June 15, 2024 From June 16 – July 5, 2024 July 6 - 10 2024 ●
Language Translation Mission (NLTM). He is a seasoned
Rs. USD Rs USD Rs. USD Rs. USD ● Elmar Nöth, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg,
business leader with expertise in Business Management,
Germany
Sales, and Marketing, and Project Execution within the IT ISCA (Student) 2600 170 2900 180 3200 190 3500 200 Rohit Prabhavalkar, Google Research, USA
sector. Non-ISCA (Student) 2900 180 3200 190 3500 200 3800 210
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● Jean-François Bonastre, INRIA, France

ISCA (Faculty/Others) 4800 350 5300 370 5800 390 6300 410
Hardik B. Sailor is currently working as a Senior Research ● Hervé Bourlard, IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland
Non-ISCA (Faculty/Others) 5300 380 5800 400 6300 420 6800 440
Scientist at I2R, A*STAR, Singapore since May 2022. His Ma Bin, Alibaba Inc., Singapore
ISCA (Industry Personnel) 11500 600 12500 630 13500 660 14500 690 ●
research area includes ASR, representation learning,
Non-ISCA (Industry Personnel) 13000 700 14000 730 15000 760 16000 790 ● Nicholas Evans, EURECOM, France
auditory processing, and sound classification.