so i think that we can start
let me officially invite you walmart's czech republic
for i don't know how many times you already had use asr you know there
was nineteen eighty five
the first say
let me think
ieee speech comedy for allowing us
not to have the workshop
in place like this
not to have a
workshop place like this
but rather to have a workshop
in the place like this
because we actually wanted to see who is coming
for science
who is coming for each is mostly
so those of you why you're seriously we take very seriously and we take the
finance and you remember these spaces
because we know that you are here because of speech
recognition
so this is this is very good
at the same time we want to remind you that even that almost doesn't have
beaches
or ski slopes it is that which they recognise not in the score is one
of the unique styles in europe
it's very or more at and i will
actually i'm coming from but nobody to admit that normalcy number base is nicer
and if it wasn't forced me this trends doing a bit more senior up
would have probably you know capital for more at a they were unlikely because they
got right out by over by sweets and they're not even so the balloon inside
growing somehow
routine to more important in spite of that there is still a big university on
a lot of nice houses and all classes and you see some of them even
i mean in a sequential possible for
wednesday insulin so please take that it sometime i'm not encouraging you to skip the
technical program but if you to choose so if you choose to do so you
made what we is not five about ten minute walk to two thousand so
so that
i would still like to take a possibility to remind to a friend and colleague
a tragedy like you would be totally the idea to see that to asr you
eventually maybe the czech republic
you know there is one of activities in speech and czech republic and i believe
that large the actually maybe also because of right
because he was always helping people here trying to encourage people to get into speech
so as i said i mean i would be i'm sure that you would be
very happy to be among cost which unfortunately didn't happen or so we take this
opportunity to be mean to remind us
how the asr start it was in i believe nineteen eighty five are at the
house in these days the workshop was very different from conference
where was the place where we discuss
current state-of-the-art future of the i beam and very heated discussions that mike and eighty
five i remember that was when
stochastic approach is what they came over and the knowledge based approaches where somehow going
to be to but in background that words and basically dispense pdas discussing the right
way to go
we would scale like to see the asr you to do this rather than be
yet another meeting where we present latest and greatest we still do that because we
have a posters and so you can always bring the only is the greatest but
as far as discussion satisfies talks are concerned
what we try to do is to bring up something issues which are important as
we speak about the technical committee what a lot topics in speech recognition and you
will be discussing i think mozart chernotsky will tell you more about the details of
the technical program and everything so i will pass
the microphone to be
okay thank you can actually i will try to do with the other microphone well
just the about the program that the are gonna see the this P
so the core of the program us it is usual are talks
we have the combination of you know and invited talks
organized in three topical there is so we are very happy that the organ and
the right and the accepted the that organise the first one or neural networks which
is gonna take place today then we will have low resource is my gym class
and the rnn johnson
and then applications done by lies by better maureen on the you on the sharp
peak
then well
we try to ask you guys
what should be presented on the on the fourth day so we add at the
question ari for the do we within the paper submission and we look the at
the on source of all sorts of the accepted once and actually the topic that
was requested the most was the fragility
for the robustness of asr so rather than the classical topics
we a so that would be it would be appropriate to invite our icsi colleagues
jordan cohen and steve ekman to talk about the old
project which is an and even investigation of why the asr systems fail so that's
what we will see the last day
and sure they are the regular papers so just a little statistics we had the
one seventy two
regular papers submit it at very accepted which with us with us to forty six
and something
acceptance rate and the i would like to think our technical chairs for great work
in organising correlating these reviews so then what we
or was the main guy and look out where get jason williams sound you could
on would i'm not sure and the any stereo no we're working it's technical chairs
well of course papers need to be reviewed so i think that many of you
guys served as review or something you deserve our great the things
then the process was done technically by C M S
and the everything that this the printed material whatever if the proceedings or the conference
book
they were checked by on the high each and i thomas hain
whom i would like to thank as well
and that well we
for the organisation of the posters
i got many questions like when is my session
i actually the answer is no nowhere
never and ever
because if we tried to do a little change in this it's are you
reacting opened the usual complaints that we year in every conference like
it's too crowded i can see anything
and the to other one so we tried to launch something but with maybe a
be more pleasant for people
and that is that the all the posters are training all the time so we
had just
three half an hour slots or the authors are really requested to be at their
posters
and then otherwise they can plan their talks and discussions the for any time during
the munchies coffee breaks in the middle of the night if you if you wish
so we hope that the this arrangement will make it more presents and of course
you naked myself are ready to receive criticism and Q tips if you like it
and we have a demo and the toolkit session one thursday that was organised by
using to guide by young the knows that we didn't have as many submissions as
last time in have i
so we are open to receive also ad hoc you mode so actually if you
have a product if you have a toolkit or anything that using would be versus
the presenting to the slu public just
well
stand up talk to us before in case there are many arrangements you need to
do and this possible to show it on a thursday morning
well no conference
would make it without sponsors
so i would like to thank our industrial oblique publicity chars that was my cribbage
any the at which parts
actually and patrick when for great help actually getting a is sponsorship
so we had to do but you know my sponsors in our office of naval
research and the and google
the gold level sponsorship
we're
i shouldn't say sponsorship this is for beaten by ieee because actually the chief sponsor
of the conferences the signal processing so cyclic so support sorry this should be support
well you dance microsoft and the newton technologies from chick group from the czech republic
and silver support
was done by phonics see a and the idea of research
and you have a five runs the supporters so calypso from singapore
linger are ready a that our local companies a well and the ubm
well there was the local organizing team so i would like to think of the
guys from
i L C I or out see even agency
these guys are responsible for the local arrangements and
sasha combining should be somewhere around so i would like to thank him
and his team and of course there are some people from but that were helping
so but each got over there at the khmer
of great help with the vet web page then the silver how about what you
can you counts
an article are all doing all possible little things that the tell the success of
the conference and among over our students
i would like to thank you don't necessarily that was the most helpful but of
course all the other guys that were rescored veggies so if you spot someone with
the yellow strips of the badge don't hesitate to ask them about some very practical
things like for example the longest one or less check word
and the and so on
then well i come to these practical things about eating and drinking so you know
this is czech republic globals is somewhere to the east so definitely there is here
everywhere but it would like to critically remind you that we have also examined when
they are in some more area
so we specially dry
white wines excellent
but in the north
of more area with have also many people this delighting pretty much anything that's a
contains sugar
so if you if you ask a for anything that is ending with the I
C E this is not to be pronounced the size but it's a
next remove it simmering curve it's dictionary so whatever the you won't be disappointed but
you very much stronger than any are probably used to
then well one
eating and drinking there will be location
the exercise this activity in the in the bank at of course so we will
have it in a very historical place are should bishop's palace so for all of
old
as unix said this place was established when no one ever heard about but also
actually of the time or not was kind of
small which in the middle of nowhere
and we will have a music entertainment by a group that is centered the long
symbol on word symbol a local music instrument
so actually i won't say more about this will have the opportunity to listen to
these guys
and try out if they can play something more than four or tunes
then still pretty much around the food and drinks
well not the first one you have your tools that are organised
so the first tourists a guided walk through the city of all modes
which takes place today tomorrow and the day after tomorrow lasts for two hours and
actually if you are interested in these just the let the guys know at the
at the reception
then for the day there is some here tasting in the bigger brew very smart
the vast lusty the U R
and for use the
there is actually a two are organized to the wine cellars in community
it's seventy kilometres from here some the price includes way that the travel wine
some food
and the well you probably won't be able to see all these beautiful gardens because
gram usage is known for their gardens but i think what is gonna happen in
the source can compensate for the for the beauty of the gardens
okay so that was the bunk at the two Rs now i'm at the very
important point and then this is the prices so we had three of them
that's the student paper and word
that was sponsored the by microsoft
you have best paper award sponsored by I B M and best poster word that
is actually our own thing
so let's begin with the best the student paper
and
well the normally would be just why it with and this over which unfortunately cannot
be years so i would ask hynek maybe two
and these places these prices over
so the papers were selected by the technical committee and the third
the student paper those the hierarchical system for word discovery exploiting dtw based initialization why
all over water be more courthouse and hold it will but
weeks not around
any of you guys here
very nice
so maybe guys we can pose for the for the for the graphic so
so that you have a nice photo
okay
so the
second prize
knows the fixed-dimensional acoustic
embeddings of variable-length segments in low resource settings like these live in
get are in an array
and jensen
currently the school that's it
right
as you
actually things
and the first one so the best student paper those two unsupervised induction and filling
of semantic slots for spoken dialogue systems using phrase semantic parsing you mention ubm younger
on alex we need to P
okay very nice
okay so that was the student papers
for best papers that was sponsored by id and we had to that a site
not
here that is organized the thing and that and over the prices
so there is a staircase somewhere over there data or you can jump actually is
not
if you use the unit it's only the point one
so the third one goes the convolutional neural network based triangular crf for joint intent
detection and slot filling
we are two we study carry out
and we like any of you you're right
anyone else from microsoft that they are
for these yes
okay
very nice the second price that all of atwv probing the mysteries of keyword search
performance is my steve big men out of area atoms in can be neon how
much and the mortgage
right
and the first one acoustic data driven pronunciation lexicon for large vocabulary speech recognition by
the anglo are not what shall steve renals from anymore
okay in regard still sleepy no is T Vs there
thank you very much think about
so it should it ever there are some the amounts of money on this and
the so far enough just the checks
so the one that's very important we stopped at the reception very many real money
for
well then we had the best post reward
which should be selected by you guys so everyone that got the attention there is
about
on the black arrow the badge
so just the latent cost it's to develop what it is the registration please no
later than and then there is they i am so that we can so that
you can do the scrutiny
and we will announce the best based the best poster
the closing the thursday before lunch
well i'm almost that the end
so in case
you have questions ideas suggestions
there are basically three points so there is the registration desk
with the all C stuff
that is gonna help you with all the practical the matters
then that hynek the and myself would be around
and if you need anything and you are not able to find any of us
just speak to anyone with this
yellow strip
batch this is you default so usually they know where to work to find us
and does the variance so i've issue
gerbils they you normals
and the well
have a nice week thank you