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res:
  bibo_abstract:
  - "This paper presents the CHiME-8 DASR challenge which carries on from the\r\nprevious
    edition CHiME-7 DASR (C7DASR) and the past CHiME-6 challenge. It\r\nfocuses on
    joint multi-channel distant speech recognition (DASR) and\r\ndiarization with
    one or more, possibly heterogeneous, devices. The main goal is\r\nto spur research
    towards meeting transcription approaches that can generalize\r\nacross arbitrary
    number of speakers, diverse settings (formal vs. informal\r\nconversations), meeting
    duration, wide-variety of acoustic scenarios and\r\ndifferent recording configurations.
    Novelties with respect to C7DASR include:\r\ni) the addition of NOTSOFAR-1, an
    additional office/corporate meeting scenario,\r\nii) a manually corrected Mixer
    6 development set, iii) a new track in which we\r\nallow the use of large-language
    models (LLM) iv) a jury award mechanism to\r\nencourage participants to explore
    also more practical and innovative solutions.\r\nTo lower the entry barrier for
    participants, we provide a standalone toolkit\r\nfor downloading and preparing
    such datasets as well as performing text\r\nnormalization and scoring their submissions.
    Furthermore, this year we also\r\nprovide two baseline systems, one directly inherited
    from C7DASR and based on\r\nESPnet and another one developed on NeMo and based
    on NeMo team submission in\r\nlast year C7DASR. Baseline system results suggest
    that the addition of the\r\nNOTSOFAR-1 scenario significantly increases the task's
    difficulty due to its\r\nhigh number of speakers and very short duration.@eng"
  bibo_authorlist:
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Samuele
      foaf_name: Cornell, Samuele
      foaf_surname: Cornell
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Taejin
      foaf_name: Park, Taejin
      foaf_surname: Park
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Steve
      foaf_name: Huang, Steve
      foaf_surname: Huang
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Christoph
      foaf_name: Boeddeker, Christoph
      foaf_surname: Boeddeker
      foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=40767
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Xuankai
      foaf_name: Chang, Xuankai
      foaf_surname: Chang
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Matthew
      foaf_name: Maciejewski, Matthew
      foaf_surname: Maciejewski
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Matthew
      foaf_name: Wiesner, Matthew
      foaf_surname: Wiesner
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Paola
      foaf_name: Garcia, Paola
      foaf_surname: Garcia
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Shinji
      foaf_name: Watanabe, Shinji
      foaf_surname: Watanabe
  dct_date: 2024^xs_gYear
  dct_language: eng
  dct_title: The CHiME-8 DASR Challenge for Generalizable and Array Agnostic Distant  Automatic
    Speech Recognition and Diarization@
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