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Abstract Book Errata

We apologize for errors that we were not able to correct anymore in the printed and web version:

Correction to ISCA BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD (page 25)

The following nominee is missing:
Anuj Diwan and Preethi Jyothi: Reduce and Reconstruct: ASR for Low-Resource Phonetic Languages
Thu-A-V-2 Thursday, September 2, 16:00-18:00 Virtual: Multi- and cross-lingual ASR, other topics in ASR

and the following nominee should be removed from the list (non-student paper mistakenly considered as a student one):
Yuya Chiba and Ryuichiro Higashinaka: Dialogue Situation Recognition for Everyday Conversation Using Multimodal Information
Tue-M-V-4 Tuesday, August 31, 09:30-11:30 Virtual: Spoken Dialogue Systems I

Corrections to the program

We had to change the scheduling of two oral sessions to "fill the holes" generated by authors switching from physical to virtual sessions. The updated program is (the program web page and the platform contain correct information):

Wed-A-O-1 Wednesday, September 1, 16:00-18:00 In-person Oral: Language Modeling and Text-based Innovations for ASR (page 138)

  • 16:00 Wed-A-O-1-1 313 BERT-Based Semantic Model for Rescoring N-Best Speech Recognition List, Dominique Fohr (Loria (UMR 7503), France) and Irina Illina (Loria (UMR 7503), France)
  • 16:20 Wed-A-O-1-5 1191 Fast Text-Only Domain Adaptation of RNN-Transducer Prediction Network, Janne Pylkkönen (Speechly, Finland), Antti Ukkonen (Speechly, Finland), Juho Kilpikoski (Speechly, Finland), Samu Tamminen (Speechly, Finland) and Hannes Heikinheimo (Speechly, Finland)
  • 16:40 Wed-A-O-1-3 627 Text Augmentation for Language Models in High Error Recognition Scenario, Karel Beneš (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic) and Lukáš Burget (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic)
  • 17:00 Wed-A-O-1-4 1067 On Sampling-Based Training Criteria for Neural Language Modeling, Yingbo Gao (RWTH Aachen University, Germany), David Thulke (RWTH Aachen University, Germany), Alexander Gerstenberger (RWTH Aachen University, Germany), Khoa Viet Tran (RWTH Aachen University, Germany), Ralf Schlüter (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) and Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

Wed-A-O-2 Wednesday, September 1, 16:00-18:00 In-person Oral: Speaker, Language, and Privacy (page 138 and 139)

  • 16:00 Wed-A-O-2-6 1712 Adversarial Disentanglement of Speaker Representation for Attribute-Driven Privacy Preservation, Paul-Gauthier Noé (LIA (EA 4128), France), Mohammad Mohammadamini (LIA (EA 4128), France), Driss Matrouf (LIA (EA 4128), France), Titouan Parcollet (LIA (EA 4128), France), Andreas Nautsch (EURECOM, France) and Jean-François Bonastre (LIA (EA 4128), France)
  • 16:20 Wed-A-O-2-2 1611 Using Games to Augment Corpora for Language Recognition and Confusability, Christopher Cieri (University of Pennsylvania, USA), James Fiumara (University of Pennsylvania, USA) and Jonathan Wright (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
  • 16:40 Wed-A-O-2-3 1857 Fair Voice Biometrics: Impact of Demographic Imbalance on Group Fairness in Speaker Recognition, Gianni Fenu (Università di Cagliari, Italy), Mirko Marras (EPFL, Switzerland), Giacomo Medda (Università di Cagliari, Italy) and Giacomo Meloni (Università di Cagliari, Italy)
  • 17:00 Wed-A-O-2-4 2119 Knowledge Distillation from Multi-Modality to Single-Modality for Person Verification, Leying Zhang (SJTU, China), Zhengyang Chen (SJTU, China) and Yanmin Qian (SJTU, China)

The session chairs for the following sessions have changed (new chairs are in red color):

Tue-M-V-4: Spoken Dialogue Systems I
09:30-11:30, Tuesday 31 August 2021
Chairs: Sakriani Sakti and Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Tue-E-V-1: Robust Speaker Recognition
19:00-21:00, Tuesday 31 August 2021
Chairs: Jason Pelecanos and Ladislav Mošner

Wed-M-O-1: Miscellanous topics in ASR
11:00-13:00, Wednesday 1 September 2021
Chairs: Peter Bell and Mathew Magimai Doss

Wed-E-V-3: Neural network training methods for ASR
19:00-21:00, Wednesday 1 September 2021
Chairs: Martin Karafiat and Suyoun Kim

Thu-M-V-4: Speaker Diarization I
11:00-13:00, Thursday 2 September 2021
Chairs: Alicia Lozano-Diez and Massimiliano Todisco

Thu-M-V-7: Spoken Dialogue Systems II
11:00-13:00, Thursday 2 September 2021
Chairs: Ilya Oparin and Evelyne Tzoukermann

Fri-M-V-7: Voice Anti-Spoofing and Countermeasure
11:00-13:00, Friday 3 September 2021
Chairs: Anna Silnova and Jose Patino