Technical Program



Time Slots (IST) 12th Aug 13th Aug
10.00-10.30 Inauguration Title: Speech Processing - Handcrafted features to Deep Representations
Speaker: Mahadeva Prasanna, IIT Dharwad
Slides  Video
10.30-11.00 Title: Overview of Speech Recognition Technology in Conversational Agents
Speaker: Sri Garimella, Amazon
11.00-11.30
11.30-12.00 Title: Spoken Language Understanding for the Indic Region
Speaker: Anurag Dwarakanath, Amazon
Slides  Video
12.00-12.30
12.30-12.45 Sponsor Talk - IndSCA Break
12.45-13.00 Sponsor Talk - Gnani.ai
13.00-13.15 Sponsor Talk - NavanaTech Title: Automatic Speech Recognition using Models from GMM-HMM to Transformers to wav2vec2.0
Speaker: S Umesh, IIT Madras
Video
13.15-13.30 Sponsor Talk - MSR India
13.30-14.00 BREAK
14.00-14.30 Panel Discussion: Multilingual and code-switching ASR in Indian Language - Present & Future
14.30-15.00
15:00-15:15 Introduction to Challenge by Chiranjeevi Yarra, IIIT Hyderabad
Slides  Video
15:15-15:30
15:30-15:45 Team: CSTR
Slides  Video
Break
15:45-16:00 Team: Bytedance-SA
Slides  Video
16:00-16:15 Team: Ekstep
Slides  Video
Title: Recent advances in transfer learning and multilingual methods for streaming end-to-end ASR systems
Speaker: Vikas Joshi, Microsoft
Slides  Video
16:15-16:30 Team: GOT-HIM
Slides  Video
16:30-16:45 Team: GoVivace
Slides  Video
16:45-17:00 Team: Sayint
Slides  Video
17:00-17:15 Team: Dialpad
Slides  Video
Title: Introduction of ESPnet, End-to-End Speech Processing Toolkit
Speaker: Shinji Watanabe, Carnegie Mellon University & Pengcheng Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University & Sathvik Udupa, IIsc Bangalore
Slides  Video
17:15-17:30 Team: JHU-CLSP/GoVivace
Slides  Video
17:30-17:45 Team: IITM-SMT-Lab
Slides  Video
17:45-18:00 Conclusion to the Challenge
18:00-18:15 Winner Announcement
18:15-18:30 Break
18.30-19.00 Title: What next after ASR in Indian Languages? We speak in order to be understood!
Speaker: Samuel Thomas, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, New York
Slides  Video
19.00-19.30
19.30-20.00 Closing session and Vote of Thanks