SANE 2014 - Speech and Audio in the Northeast

SANE 2014, a one-day event gathering researchers and students in speech
and audio from the Northeast of the American continent, will be held on
Thursday October 23, 2014 at MIT, in Cambridge, MA.
It is a follow-up to SANE 2012, held at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL),
and SANE 2013, held at Columbia University, which each gathered around
70 researchers and students.
SANE 2014 will feature invited talks by leading researchers from the Northeast.
It will also feature a lively poster session during lunch time, open to both
students and researchers.
http://www.saneworkshop.org/
-- Confirmed Speakers --
Najim Dehak (MIT) ? TBD
Hakan Erdogan (MERL - Sabanci University) ? "Using deep neural networks for single channel source separation"
George Saon (IBM Research) ? "Speaker adaptation and sequence discriminative training for DNN acoustic models"
Andrew Senior (Google Research, NYC) ? "LVCSR with Long-Short-Term Memory Recurrent Neural Networks"
Stavros Tsakalidis (BBN - Raytheon) ? "Keyword spotting for low resource languages"
David Wingate (Lyrics Labs) ? TBD
-- Poster Session --
If you would like to submit a poster, please send an email to poster-AT-saneworkshop.org
with a brief abstract describing what you plan to present.
Poster submission deadline is September 30.
-- Registration --
Registration is free but required.
We can only accommodate a limited number of participants, so we encourage those
interested in attending this event to register as soon as possible by sending an email
to rsvp-AT-saneworkshop.org with your name and affiliation.
-- Directions --
The workshop will be hosted in the Stata Center of MIT, in Cambridge, MA.
The Stata Center is a short (5 min) walk from the Kendall/MIT station on the T Red Line.
Lecture sessions, as well as the breakfast and coffee break, will take place on the 4th floor,
in the Kiva room (32-G449). The lunch and poster session will take place on the 8th floor,
in the Hewlett room (32-G882).
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We look forward to seeing you there!
The organizers,
Jonathan Le Roux (MERL)
Jim Glass (MIT)
John R. Hershey (MERL)