{"id":38888,"date":"2025-08-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prnasia.com\/story\/archive\/4747234_CN47234_0"},"modified":"2025-08-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T12:00:00","slug":"multilingual-conversational-speech-language-model-mlc-slm-workshop-at-interspeech-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transmediavictoria.net.au\/?p=38888","title":{"rendered":"Multilingual Conversational Speech Language Model (MLC-SLM) workshop at Interspeech 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dvContent\" readability=\"88.187919463087\">\n<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-location\">ROTTERDAM, Netherlands<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">Aug. 10, 2025<\/span><\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; As part of&nbsp;<b>Interspeech 2025<\/b>,&nbsp;<b>Nexdata<\/b>&nbsp;will host the&nbsp;<b>MLC-SLM Workshop<\/b>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<b><span class=\"xn-chron\">August 22<\/span><\/b>&nbsp;at&nbsp;<b>Dock 14, Rotterdam Ahoy Convention Centre<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"prntal\">This workshop is dedicated to advancing <b>multilingual conversational speech AI<\/b>&nbsp;by addressing a pressing challenge in the field: the lack of multilingual, context-rich dialogue data for training LLM-based&nbsp;spoken dialogue systems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"prntaj\"><b>About the Workshop<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"prntal\">At the heart of the workshop is the <b>MLC-SLM&nbsp;Challenge<\/b>, a global initiative launched to promote innovation in speech language models using a newly released multilingual conversational dataset. The workshop will feature:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><b>Announcement of challenge results and awards<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Keynotes and invited talks from leading experts in the field<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Workshop Highlights:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Challenge Summary &amp; Awards Ceremony<br \/><\/b>A recap of the challenge objectives, results, and outstanding submissions that advanced the state of multilingual spoken dialogue models.<\/p>\n<p><b>Keynote Speakers<br \/><\/b><i><span class=\"xn-person\">Shinji Watanabe<\/span>, Associate Professor, &#8220;<span class=\"xn-org\">Carnegie Mellon University<\/span>&#8220;<br \/><\/i><i>Hung-yi Lee, Professor, &#8220;National Taiwan University&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Invited Talks<br \/><\/b><i><span class=\"xn-person\">Ming Li<\/span>, Professor, &#8220;Duke Kunshan University&#8221;<br \/><\/i><i><span class=\"xn-person\">Shuai Wang<\/span>, Associate Professor, &#8220;<span class=\"xn-location\">Nanjing<\/span> University&#8221;<br \/><\/i><i>Pan Pan, Director of AI Business, Nexdata<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Purpose &amp; Audience<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This full-day event will bring together leading academic researchers, industry practitioners, and data providers to discuss the future of multilingual spoken dialogue systems. The workshop will also serve as a platform to explore the challenges and opportunities in building scalable, multilingual, and context-aware speech models.<\/p>\n<p><b>About Nexdata<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"prntal\">As the host of the MLC-SLM&nbsp;Workshop, Nexdata provides high-quality training data solutions for AI development. With a broad portfolio of off-the-shelf datasets and flexible data collection and annotation services, Nexdata is committed to enabling breakthrough innovation across the AI industry.<\/p>\n<p><b>Workshop Details:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Date: <span class=\"xn-chron\">August 22, 2025<\/span><br \/>Venue: Dock 14, Rotterdam Ahoy Convention Centre, <span class=\"xn-location\">Netherlands<\/span><br \/>For more information and updates: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexdata.ai\/competition\/mlc-slm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.nexdata.ai\/competition\/mlc-slm<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source: Nexdata Technology Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, Aug. 10, 2025 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; As part of&nbsp;Interspeech 2025,&nbsp;Nexdata&nbsp;will host the&nbsp;MLC-SLM Workshop&nbsp;on&nbsp;August 22&nbsp;at&nbsp;Dock 14, Rotterdam Ahoy Convention Centre. This workshop is dedicated to advancing multilingual conversational speech AI&nbsp;by addressing a pressing challenge in the field: the lack of multilingual, context-rich dialogue data for training LLM-based&nbsp;spoken dialogue systems. 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