title: The SLT 2021 Children Speech Recognition Challenge: Open Datasets, Rules and Baselines
abstract: Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has been significantly advanced with the use of deep learning and big data. How-ever improving robustness, including achieving equally good performance on diverse speakers and accents, is still a challenging problem. In particular, the performance of children speech recognition (CSR) still lags behind due to 1) the speech and language characteristics of children's voice are substantially different from those of adults and 2) sizable open dataset for children sp