The Second DISPLACE 2024 Challenge

Inspired by the previous session of DISPLACE 2023 challenge, we have launched the DISPLACE 2024 challenge (https://displace2024.github.io/). Compared to the first DISPLACE challenge, the current challenge includes an additional track on automatic speech recognition (ASR) in code-switched multi-accent conversational scenarios along with speaker and language diarization tracks. We plan to release both supervised and unsupervised domain matched data for participants to use in model adaptation. To the best of our knowledge, no publicly available dataset matches the diverse characteristics observed in the DISPLACE dataset, including code-mixing/switching, natural overlaps, reverberation, and noise. For this challenge, a natural multi-lingual, multi-speaker conversational dataset will be distributed for development and evaluation purposes. There will be no training data given and the participants will be free to use any resource for training the models. The challenge reflects the theme of Interspeech 2024 - "Speech and Beyond" in its true sense.