Update on IEEE SLTC 2018 in Athens

The next IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT 2018) will be held in Athens, Greece, on Dec 18-21, 2018 (www.slt2018.org). 
The main theme of the workshop will be "Spoken Language Technology in the Era of Deep Learning: Challenges and Opportunities". SLT2018 will host the Microsoft Dialogue challenge as well as the panel on "Dialogue Models and Systems: from Research Labs, to the Cloud to Your Living Room" and a special session on Deep Learning based Speech Synthesis. SLT2018 will be honored by distinguished keynote (Alex Acero from Apple, Dimitra Vergyri from SRI and Spyros Raptis from Innoetics) and invited speakers (Petros Maragos from NTUA and Karen Livescu from TTIC). 
Opportunities for travel grants for students will be announced soon, so please keep visiting the workshop webpage for more information. For live updates follow us on our social media Twitter @SLT2018 using hashtag #SLT2018 and LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/ieee-slt-2018-conference.

We have indications that SLT2018 will have a record level of participation. Please join us in Athens, the emblematic city of democracy with the amazing history, for an unforgettable journey through the challenges and the opportunities that the modern machine learning is creating for the future spoken language technologies. 

Looking forward to welcoming you in Athens!