# Special Issue on IberSPEECH 2022: Speech and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages
## Contributions
### Albayzin Evaluations  
Following other similar evaluation initiatives to share and compare recent advances on speech technologies, the Albayzin evaluation campaign was launched in 2006 supported by the RTTH. The Albayzin evaluation series have become a well-known and established framework for the Iberian speech research community, especially for Spanish. As reported by [PERSON] et al. (contribution 6), the challenges considered for the 2022 edition were the following ones: speech-to-text transcription, speaker diarization and identity assignment, text and speech alignment, and search on speech. When compared to previous editions, it is to note that the IberSpeech2022 related edition included two main novelties. On the one hand, a text and speech alignment challenge was included in the Albayzin evaluation series. And, on the other, new and more challenging databases from broadcast media content were released for all the evaluation tasks, being some of them such as the RTVE (Radio Television Espanola) and the Basque Parliament databases specifically created for the corresponding challenges. The paper summarizes the main characteristics of the evaluation databases, as well as the evaluation tasks, detailing the metrics considered. Moreover, the paper describes the main features and discusses the results obtained by the approaches of the different research teams that participated in each one of the challenges and sub-challenges, improving the results obtained with respect to those reported in previous challenges. Writing--original draft preparation, J.L.P.-C., F.A.-P, Z.C. ; writing--review and editing, J.L.P.-C., F.A.-P., Z.C. ; visualization, J.L.P.-C., F.A.-P., Z.C. ; supervision, J.L.P.-C., F.A.-P., Z.C. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript. The authors declare no conflict of interest. The following abbreviations are used in this manuscript: \begin{tabular}{l l} ASR & Automatic Speech Recognition \\ EMG & Electromyography \\ GIF & Clottal Inverse Filtering \\ IAIF & Iterative Adaptive Inverse Filtering \\ ISCA & International Speech Communication Association \\ LDA & Linear Discriminant Analysis \\ MOS & Mean Opinion Score \\ NLP & Natural Language Processing \\ QCP & Quasi Closed Phase \\ RTTH & Red Tematica en Tecnologias del Habla \\ RTVE & Radio Television Espanola \\ SER & Speech Emotion Recognition \\ SIG-IL & Special Interest Group on Iberian Languages \\ SS & Self-Supervised \\ SSI & Silent Speech Interface \\ VSR & Visual Speech Recognition \\ WER & Word Error Rate \\ \end{tabular}   
List of Contributions
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