SLT 2016: San Juan

The IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop series focuses on promoting the progress made on the different fields of speech and language technologies and their impact on human life. The Speech and Language Technical Committee has the pleasure to announce San Juan, Puerto Rico as the venue for the next SLT 2016 from Dec 13-16. Puerto Rico, located in the Caribbean, is an amazing location and is easily accessible from the US and other parts of the world.

The theme for SLT 2016 will be “Machine learning: from signal to concepts”. The organizing committee is also trying to extend the SLT workshop focus to other areas beyond the core speech recognition and language understanding community. In particular, we are working very hard to partner with NIST or other possible satellite events such as evaluations or challenges.

The SLT 2016 committee includes the following people:

Co-chairs

• Najim Dehak (MIT)
• Pedro Torres-Carrasquillo (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)

Technical chairs

• Dilek Hakkani-Tur (Microsoft)
• Douglas Reynolds (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
• Frank Seide (Microsoft)
• Zheng Hua Tan (Aalborg University)
• Dan Povey (JHU)

Regional publicity chairs

• Nancy Chen (IIR A*Star)
• Reinhold Häb-Umbach (Paderborn University)
• Joseph P. Campbell, Jr. (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)

Finance chair

• Douglas O’Shaughnessy (INRS)

Sponsorship chairs

• Geoff Zweig (Microsoft)
• Erik McDermott (Google)

Publication chairs

• Patrick Cardinal (ETS)
• John H. L. Hansen (University of Texas at Dallas)

Tutorial, Panel and invited speaker co-chairs

• Roger K. Moore (Sheffield University)
• Tara Sainath (Google)

Demo chairs

• Chuck Wooters (Apple)
• Andreas Stocke (Microsoft)

Advisory board

• James R Glass (MIT)
• Julia Hirschberg (Columbia University)

For more information on the most recent workshops, please see:

• http://www.slt2014.org for information about SLT-2014 in South Lake Tahoe, Nevada
• http://www.slt2012.org for information about SLT-2012 in Miami, Florida
• http://www.slt2010.org for information about SLT-2010 in Berkeley, California
• http://www.slt2008.org for information about SLT-2008 in Goa, India

See you in San Juan!

The SLT 2016 General Chairs: Najim Dehak and Pedro Torres-Carrasquillo

Najim Dehak is with MIT. Pedro Torres-Carrasquillo is with MIT Lincoln Laboratory.