37.2673, FYI: Call for Participation: Shared Task on ASR and Language Resources for Indigenous Languages of South America

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Subject: 37.2673, FYI: Call for Participation: Shared Task on ASR and Language Resources for Indigenous Languages of South America

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Date: 13-Aug-2026
From: Elwin Huaman [elh97 at cam.ac.uk]
Subject: Call for Participation: Shared Task on ASR and Language Resources for Indigenous Languages of South America


Call for participation: Shared Task: ASR and Language Resources for
Indigenous Languages of South America (SIMBig 2026, Arequipa, Peru)
https://simbig.org/SIMBig2026/en/sharedtask.html
Deadline: 21 September 2026 to participate in the shared task
(Register: https://forms.gle/112jyHYPq9SVMmvs5)
We invite submissions for the SIMBig 2026 Shared Task on ASR and
Language Resources for Indigenous Languages of South America, a unique
opportunity to contribute to low resource language preservation while
competing for publication in Springer CCIS.
South America is home to a breathtaking linguistic tapestry, where
hundreds of Indigenous languages are spoken, each carrying unique
worldviews, ancestral knowledge, and cultural identities. Yet, this
rich heritage is at a risk of being left behind. As the world becomes
increasingly digital, the survival of these languages faces a new
challenge: a deep technological gap.
Why participate? We have prepared three tasks to accommodate different
interests:
Task 1: Puno Quechua ASR baseline (we provide a 66-hour speech corpus)
Task 2: ASR for any Indigenous South American language without an
existing ASR
Task 3: Educational/literacy resource based on language datasets
(websites, tutorials, notebooks, etc.) for any Indigenous South
American language(s).
Publication opportunity: Winning teams receive cash prizes, free
registration to SIMBig 2026, and per-review publication in the
Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS)
series.
Important dates (all AoE):
24 August 2026 - Release of datasets (Scripted Speech, Spontaneous
Speech).
16 September 2026 - Open orientation hour (Register:
https://forms.gle/FnL2Xp8X5j3zCsHZ9)
21 September 2026 - Registration deadline
30 September 2026 - Release of test dataset for Task 1
18 October 2026 - Submission deadline for final results and system
description paper
28-30 October 2026 - Results announcement during SIMBig 2026
For any inquiries, please contact the organiser, Elwin Huaman
(elh97 at cam.ac.uk)

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Computational Linguistics
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Arequipa-La Unión Quechua (qxu, areq1237)
                     Ayacucho Quechua (quy, ayac1239)
                     Cajamarca Quechua (qvc, caja1238)
                     Puno Quechua (qxp, puno1238)
                     Quechua (que)

Language Family(ies): Aymaran (ayma1253)
                      Guaraní
                      Quechua II
                      Quechua II C



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