Frequently Asked Questions

Ans) Enroll yourself by registering on this link: Register Here!!!

 2. Whom to contact with any doubts regarding dataset/ tracks/ submission?

Ans) For any queries, you can email us at challenge.syspin@iisc.ac.in

3. How to access the challenge database? 

Ans) Click here to download the data. 

4. How to submit the challenge results?

Ans) Please refer to the Challenge submission tab 

5. Are there any eligibility criteria for applying? 

Ans) No, anyone can apply. 

6. What would be the selection criteria for judging the entries? 

Ans) On or before January 20, 2023, each team has to submit a trial version of the API link (for at least one track) with a readme file to ensure that the link is executable or not. After the final submission, first, there will be an objective evaluation based on shortlisting. Later top 10 entries from each track will be forwarded to further intense subjective evaluation. 

7. Who are the judges? 

Ans) For subjective evaluation, we have a bunch of native language speakers from each language. 

8. When would the official date of the results announcement be? 

Ans) February 10 2023 

9. Who are eligible to submit a 2-page paper and present it at ICASSP-2023?

Ans) The challenge organizers will invite the top 5 ranked team from their leaderboard to submit the 2-page paper.

10. What is the format of the paper? 

Ans) As per ICASSP 2023 template 

11. If I register as a single individual, can I change to a team later? 

Ans) No 

12. Can we add more team members later? 

Ans) Yes, you have to register again afresh with all your team members.

13. Any limit on the number of team members?

Ans) No 

14. Can participants use external data to train the model? 

Ans) No

15. Can participants use the data provided, outside the challenge? 

Ans) Yes, but cite the challenge paper. 

16. Are the 240 hours of training data transcription noisy? 

Ans) No

17. How many teams are allowed from an Organization? 

Ans) No limit, but a single person should not be part of two teams 

18. How many time I/we can update the submission? 

Ans) Any number of times till 23:59:00 Jan 27, 2023 (any time zone across the world) 

19. Can we participate only for a single track? 

Ans) Sure, you can participate for any number of tracks- 1/2/3 tracks. 

21. Which are the expected valid characters?

Ans) The expected characters in eval set is available at the challenge github repository. 

22. 'The challenge organizers will invite the top 5 ranked teams to submit a 2-page paper at ICASSP-2023', is that 2-page paper is regular paper or not? 

Ans) The top-5 ranked teams of each challenge will be invited to write a 2-page proceedings paper and present their work at ICASSP 2023 during a special session dedicated to the challenge. Furthermore, the teams that present their work at the conference are also invited to submit a full paper about their work to a special issue in the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing in which all challenges are covered. (for more details: https://2023.ieeeicassp.org/signal-processing-grand-challenges/) 

23. Can we use our own vocoder in Track 1? 

Ans) Yes, you can. But train it only on the challenge data - 40hrs per speaker data can be used. Or you can use the vocoder provided by organizers. 

22. Can we use use own vocoders in all tracks? 

Ans) No. Only in track 1 you can use. But participants can fine tune the vocoder(s) with all the shared data.  

24. Can we use any online available external tool for the text processing? 

Ans) Yes, you are free to use any text preprocessing tool.  

25. How many times each sentence is evaluated during subjective evaluation?  

Ans) Each sentence will be evaluated only once by a single evaluator at the end of the evaluation stage. 

20. How long the data will be available in the online repositories? 

Ans) It will be open till the end of the challenge