The ASRU Workshop is a flagship event of the IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee. The workshop is held every two years and has a tradition of bringing together researchers from academia and industry in an intimate and collegial setting to discuss problems of common interest in automatic speech recognition and understanding. Topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following.

• Automatic speech recognition
• ASR in adverse environments
• New applications of ASR
• Speech-to-speech translation
• Spoken document retrieval
• Speaker/Language recognition
• Speech emotion recognition
• Methods and models leveraging multi-lingual resources
• Spoken language understanding
• Spoken dialog systems
• Text-to-speech system