MLC-SLM Workshop Set for Interspeech 2025

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, Aug. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of Interspeech 2025, Nexdata will host the MLC-SLM Workshop on August 22 at Dock 14, Rotterdam Ahoy Convention Centre.

This workshop is dedicated to advancing multilingual conversational speech AI by addressing a pressing challenge in the field: the lack of multilingual, context-rich dialogue data for training LLM-based spoken dialogue systems.

About the Workshop

At the heart of the workshop is the MLC-SLM Challenge, a global initiative launched to promote innovation in speech language models using a newly released multilingual conversational dataset. The workshop will feature:

• Announcement of challenge results and awards
• Keynotes and invited talks from leading experts in the field

Workshop Highlights:

Challenge Summary & Awards Ceremony
A recap of the challenge objectives, results, and outstanding submissions that advanced the state of multilingual spoken dialogue models.

Keynote Speakers
Shinji Watanabe, Associate Professor, "Carnegie Mellon University"
Hung-yi Lee, Professor, "National Taiwan University"

Invited Talks
Ming Li, Professor, "Duke Kunshan University"
Shuai Wang, Associate Professor, "Nanjing University"
Pan Pan, Director of AI Business, Nexdata

Purpose & Audience

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.

For more information and updates: https://www.nexdata.ai/competition/mlc-slm