Alexa AI co-organizes special sessions at ICASSP, Interspeech

Alexa AI is co-organizing three special sessions -- themed sessions within the main conferences -- at two major 2022 conferences on speech-related technologies, and two of those sessions are currently seeking paper submissions. At the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), in May, Alexa AI is co-organizing a special session on federated learning, a machine learning paradigm in which distributed computers process privacy-protected data locally, but the results of the distributed computations are amalgamated into a single joint model. At Interspeech, in September, Alexa AI is co-organizing two special sessions, and both are still open for submissions. One session is on machine learning and signal processing in the context of multiple networked smart devices. This session will address topics such as synchronization, arbitration (deciding which device should respond to a query), and privacy.