Formosa Speech Recognition Challenge 2020 - Taiwanese ASR

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TRACKs

• Build an automatic Taiwanese speech recognizer (ASR) that could output either (至少選一個Track):

1. Traditional Chinese characters (繁體中文字)，i.e., Taiwanese Speech to Chinese Characters (translation)

2. Taiwanese Southern Min Recommended Characters by Ministry of Education of Taiwan (台文漢字，依據教育部部定 臺灣閩南語推薦用字，漢字優先)

3. Taiwan Minnanyu Luomazi Pinyin (依據教育部部定 臺灣閩南語羅馬字拼音方案之『台羅拼音數字調』，以本調為準)

For example：

1. Track1 - 現在是晚上八點(同義字會由我們轉成統一格式再行評分，像:臺&台，除CER外，並計算翻譯分數)

2. Track2 - 這馬是暗時八點（除外來語外，都用漢字表示，另外，同義字也會先處理)

3. Track3 - tsit4 ma2 si7 am3 si5 peh4 tiam2 （本調為準）

繳交格式說明：

檔名：請以“單位＋隊名＋參賽者”為檔名，以避免誤判（之前沒寫的沒關係，會檢查email位置）。

答案格式：ID 答案（同Kaldi, 一欄為音檔ID，一欄為語音辨認器輸出）

以下範例

• Track1：

1 現在是晚上八點

2 今天是六月十九

3 你還不承認

• Track2：

1 這馬是暗時八點

2 今仔日是六月十九

3 你閣毋承認

• Track3：

1 tsit4 ma2 si7 am3 si5 peh4 tiam2

2 kin1 a2 git8 si7 lak8 gueh8 tsap8 kau2

3 li2 koh4 m7 sing5 jin7

Database

• This challenge is based on the "TAT-Vol1" corpus.

• "TAT-Vol1" consists about 100 speakers recruited across Taiwan, in total about 50 hours (Training + Eval + Test sets).

• This data is released here for FREE under a Non-Commercial Use Only license. Please read and accept the License.

• Baseline Scripts: Kaldi-based baseline recipes are provided in Github for students to develop their own systems easily and quickly. --> https://github.com/t108368084/Taiwanese-Speech-Recognition-Recipe

Rules

Registration

Important Dates

• 2020/06/01 --- Registration Open

• 2020/07/01 --- Training Data Release

• 2020/09/01 --- Pilot-Test (dry-run only) Data Release

• 2020/09/21 --- Pilot-Test (dry-run only) Result Submission

• 2020/09/30 --- Pilot-Test (dry-run only) Performance Notification

• 2020/12/01 --- Registration Close

• 2021/01/01 --- Final-Test Data Release

• 2021/01/08 --- Final-Test Result Submission

• 2021/01/15 --- Final-Test Performance Notification (released)

• 2021/1/22 2021/02/28--- Paper Submission

• 2021/01/31 2021/03/19 --- Result/Award Announcement and Workshop (T.B.D.)

PS: Pilot-Test (dry-run) is only used to make sure everything for the final-test is fine, not for scoring!

Contact

• Yuan-Fu Liao (廖元甫)

• Associate Professor, Department of electronic Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology

• yfliao@ntut.edu.tw, http://www.ntut.edu.tw/~yfliao

Organizers

• National Taipei University of Technology (NTUT)

• National Chiao Tung University (NCTU)

• The Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP)

• The Science & Technology Policy Research and Information Center (STPI)

Sponsors

• National Education Radio (NER)

• Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST)