ISCA SALTMIL SIG: speech and language technology for minority languages
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This paper presents International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) Special Interest Group (SIG, http://www.isca-speech.org/sig.html) on Speech And Language Technology for MInority Languages (SALTMIL). The paper gives an overview of the group's mission and discusses its past and present activities.
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