Speech Signal Improvement Challenge – ICASSP 2024

Region: Global

Program timeline

This challenge is to benchmark the performance of real-time algorithms with a real (not simulated) test set. Participants will evaluate their acoustic echo canceller on a test set and submit the results (audio clips) for evaluation. The requirements for each acoustic echo canceller used for submission are:

  • October 15, 2023: Release of the datasets and scripts for training and testing
  • December 5, 2023: Blind test set released to participants.
  • December 10, 2023: Deadline for participants to submit their results
  • December 17, 2023: Subjective and objective results released
  • January 2, 2024: Grand Challenge 2-page Papers Due (by invitation only)
  • January 16, 2024: Grand Challenge 2-page Paper Acceptance Notification
  • January 23, 2024: Camera-ready Grand Challenge 2-page Papers Due
  • June 19, 2024: Grand Challenge OJ-SP Papers Due (by invitation only)