We’ve been pre-selected to host a special session for the Interspeech 2023 Conference in August! 📣📣📣

The inaugural MERLIon CCS Challenge focuses on developing robust language identification and language diarization systems that are reliable for non-standard, accented, spontaneous code-switched, child-directed speech collected via Zoom

MERLIon CCS Challenge stands for Multilingual Everyday Recordings Language Identification on Code-switched Child-directed Speech (MERLIon CCS) Challenge.

Aligning closely with Interspeech 2023’s theme, ‘Inclusive Spoken Language Science and Technology – Breaking Down Barriers’, we present the challenge of developing robust language identification and language diarization systems that are reliable for non-standard accented, bilingual, child-directed speech collected via a videocall platform.

The MERLIon CCS Challenge will tackle automatic language identification and language diarization in a subset of audio recordings from the Talk Together Study, where parents narrated an onscreen wordless picturebook to their child.

Find out more about the challenge here: https://sites.google.com/view/merlion-ccs-challenge/home