IEEE-MLSP Non-native Children’s Automatic Speech Assessment Challenge (NOCASA)
Participate in the IEEE-MLSP Non-native Children’s Automatic Speech Assessment Challenge (NOCASA) to develop new Speech Assessment tools for young language learners.
Participate in the IEEE-MLSP Non-native Children’s Automatic Speech Assessment Challenge (NOCASA), an open challenge aiming to develop new Speech Assessment tools for young language learners.
The challenge provides recordings of children repeating words in Norwegian, along with expected word orthographic transcriptions and speech accuracy assessment scores. Participants must develop an automatic speech assessment system to predict scores for given test data.
Visit https://teflon.aalto.fi/nocasa-2025/ for more details.
Results will be presented at the IEEE MLSP 2025 conference in Istanbul.
To participate, email the organisers: Mikko Kurimo (mikko.kurimo@aalto.fi), Tamas Grosz (tamas.grosz@aalto.fi), and Giampiero Salvi (giampiero.salvi@ntnu.no).
Important dates:
- Team registration starts: March 19
- Training and test data released: March 19
- Evaluation system opens: April 2
- Baseline paper (and code) released: April 27
- Paper submission deadline: May 20
- Evaluation system closes, and the leaderboard is public: May 20
- Post-Challenge evaluation phase: from May 20 until July 15
- Notification of paper acceptance: June 24
- Camera-ready upload July 15
Tags: IEEE-MLSP, NOCASA, Speech Assessment, Language Learning, Automatic Speech Recognition, Challenge, Conference